Battlefield 2042 Season 1 Will Only Feature 1 New Map; BF Portal Weapons to Be Added in Core Modes

Battlefield 2042 will only feature one new map confirmed! BF Portal weapons planned to be added in All-Out Warfare core game modes.

[porkChop]

Only 1 map this long after release?

[Tacoboto]

It's Halo's fault this time as well; "We'd have more but they released two maps on Season 2"

[FGHFGHFGH]

well the maps are like 10x bigger than halo maps

[excaliburps]

Sadly, yes.

[1nsomniac]

absolute incompetence! Devs should be blacklisted within the industry.

[ClayRules2012]

I agree, absolute incompetence! Devs that claim to be “Gamers” and say they love it/have loved it since they were kids, yet they produce garbage, and unfinished, broke games to their fellow gamers/the public. It’s really disgusting!

[Eonjay]

I'm sorry but this falls back on management. Not specific devs. Teams are only as good as the leaders and the overarching project management. When you look at someone like Insomniac who productivity is off the charts, you may be tempted to say that this is because they have better devs. I would bet, however, that Insomiac's edge is the actually leadership and how it channels and focuses the efforts of those talanted devs.

[1nsomniac]

No, this is clearly not just management that’s a crazy thing to say. You can’t not hold developers accountable for the poor development of the game. Management don’t develop games. Although management are equally to blame.

[ClayRules2012]

@Eonjay

Yes, you’re not wrong, it does fall back on management. I shoulda went more in detail with my explanation and I’m glad you’ve commented and said this. You referenced Insomniac, and I agree with what you’ve said there. And I’ll add Naughty Dog to the conversation. Most fans who’ve followed and supported them from the PS2 days to now know and have a fair understanding of how things are run within the studio (thanks to their dev diary videos on games such as Uncharted 4) and yes, they do have management and a certain structure to follow within the studio. However, they’re all allowed to speak freely/criticize each other’s work, not because it’s bad, but because all opinions are valid, from different members on the team, from different departments, who’re trying their best to make each area of the game the best it can possibly be. Now, I know, and it’s not a surprise that it’s probably few and far between that studios are allowed to operate to the lengths that the ND team does, but again, everyone has a voice, everyone is heard, because their voice matters. It’s from the top down. And seeing the results of their teamwork, individual talents, and just the overall amazing talented team, the end results for their games being high quality AAA games continues to show.

I do agree, if you don’t have someone leading the team with clear direction, things won’t turn out so well (in many cases) with certain areas of development/work on the game not coming out to the quality it could, since the managers (quite possibly) don’t care and just know they can cash in on said name of the game (because of the iP or the studios name alone, which will sell.

So yeah, I do agree, the leadership at Insomniac clearly know what they’re doing, not just them, they’re invested in their team, their games and all areas of development (as much as humanly possible, I assume they look at each area themselves) to make sure things are running smoothly, the team members all have what they need, the team can express concerns and the leaders can provide a fix/work around or encourage someone else from a different department to come in and help said team member(s) with the problem they can’t seem to fix. Knowing Insomniac seems to be not only in the ball with their consistent game releases, but also being able to keep up the quality of each new game to their standard, while also moving forward in improvements to not only their games, but raising the bar for the industry in aspects, that absolutely says something about Insomniac as a whole team, their talent, and Sony’s support behind them.

So yeah, management/product management can be the real problem, I see that. I’d still argue tho that because of the way Insomniac and Naughty Dog, amongst other Sony first party studios continue to operate in the different but similar ways that they do, does show them to have better devs them many out there in the industry. Not having to conform to the same ole formula of game design like many devs do, isn’t helping their talents, where as with Sony’s dev they continue to work on their talent, improve it, and prepare ready and better than they were previously for the next game, because they’re being challenged, creatively etc. which many devs don’t have that opportunity in the same way.

That was a lot, and I don’t know if I covered everything I wanted to... but yeah.

[adaminoregon]

They really should have taken another year on this game.maybe now these companies will start to understand that we are done with incomplete cash grabs. But they wont.

[Nitrowolf2]

Yep, should have just said F it, delay it a full year

[porkChop]

Every BF game since BF4 has released broken and unfinished. They've gotten worse over time as well, not better. They didn't even make a campaign this time so they had more people working on 2042's multiplayer content than previous games.

[frostypants]

It wasn't just time. The core design was a blunder that ignored everything that made BF special. No amount of time would have fixed it.

[aaronaton]

I own bf2042 on PS5 (standard edition) does anyone know if i have to pay for this shit or not?

[Majin-vegeta]

No its all free.

[annoyedgamer]

they already got your money for an early access service game.

[just_looken]

Yes you half to pay for season one its under the top bf2042 bundle and in the game dlc section.

I own the pass on pc and it tells me i have access to this map just like other titles were you will be paired separately when searching this game will only give you the new stuff if you give them some $$$

That also includes the operators.

[just_looken]

other half?

[TimmyTesticles]

Hot garbage

[The-Matrix-has-you]

What a joke.

[badboyz09]

We love you EA😘😘😘

[Pudge102888]

I cannot believe i spent 100 on this Amber of a game including season 1 and you’re only going to release 1 map and be lazy enough to just port the guns from portal instead of adding new ones? F U EA, Never again

[MetroidFREAK21]

What a joke

[frostypants]

Already forgot about this giant mistake. Can't believe they're wasting any time on it. Hardly any gamers are.

[PapaBop]

If season one is only just starting, does that mean the game is finally coming out of early access?