While Battlefield 2042 hasn’t had the best of important or business reception, EA and DICE aren’t giving up on the sport. The recreation has been receiving main content material updates in hopes of reinvigorating participant curiosity, and its newest Update 4.1 isn’t any completely different.
The greatest change is most positively the removing of the 128-player Breakthrough mode, which was eliminated as a result of it wasn’t functioning as DICE meant it to. Other adjustments embrace a nerf for Angel, higher weapon dealing with for all weapons in inventory configuration, and many extra. There are additionally bug fixes to essential mechanics reminiscent of intention help amongst a slew of different minor adjustments as properly.
In response to the removing of the Breakthrough mode, DICE needed to say:
“In Breakthrough’s 128 participant mode, we really feel that the worth and impression of a person participant, and squad is decreased as a result of elevated depth and chaos of the fight,” DICE mentioned.
“Reducing our participant rely right here helps to take away among the chaos from the expertise, and together with the reductions that we have now made to the variety of accessible fight autos, it means gamers are higher in a position to maintain frontlines extra successfully,” DICE mentioned. “Players can even discover more room to work collectively and fulfill their particular person roles.”
“We consider that the transfer to 64 gamers will convey again the pacing that helps rejoice these moments of teamwork and PTFOing, and will likely be maintaining a detailed eye on how our adjustments assist to enhance the expertise forward of the beginning of Season 1,” DICE added.
You can check out the total patch notes down under. In associated information, the shop pages for Battlefield 2042 and FIFA 22 are suggesting that the 2 video games will likely be becoming a member of Xbox Game Pass fairly quickly – learn extra on that by right here.
Patch Notes:
Update 0.4.1
Fixes, Changes, and Improvements
General
- Vehicle Aim Sensitivity and Transport Vehicle Freelook Sensitivity Controller settings now all the time accurately apply their results
- Aim Assist has been improved whereas aiming at shifting targets
- Aim Assist ought to not incorrectly purchase targets by skinny obstacles
- When not rating up, you must not see the “You have been promoted display” throughout End of Round
- Delivered enhancements that assist to scale back enter lag
- Adjusted Trigger Weight to make sure that inputs really feel extra responsive when making use of successive inputs
Audio
- The Announcer Voice Over for Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield 3 experiences has been remastered, and now contains new radio sound results
Battlefield Portal
- Specialists will now accurately show animations in the course of the End of Round display whereas in Battlefield Portal modes
- Made the next adjustments to Hardcore Templates inside the Battlefield Builder to align them with our Featured Experience choices.
- Enabled HUD in Hardcore Templates
- Disabled Mini-map and Compass in Hardcore Templates
Gadgets
- Hitting enemies with EMP results now accurately triggers Player Disrupted XP
- Removed placement delay for deployable devices so that they now seem immediately
- Deployable devices are actually simpler to deploy
Insertion Beacon
- The dimension of the Insertion Beacon has been elevated so it’s simpler to see
- The Insertion Beacon is now seen from additional away
Modes
In this replace, we’re making a number of updates to the All-Out Warfare rotations. Our main change is the removing of the 128 participant model of Breakthrough. When reviewing the accessible experiences in All-Out Warfare, we felt that the 128 participant modes are higher suited to Conquest the place gameplay areas are bigger, and the place you will have a extra pure match for sandbox gameplay.
In Breakthrough’s 128 participant mode, we really feel that the worth and impression of a person participant, and squad is decreased as a result of elevated depth and chaos of the fight.
When reviewing Breakthrough, we famous that the 64 participant model represented a extra tactical expertise. Reducing our participant rely right here helps to take away among the chaos from the expertise, and together with the reductions that we have now made to the variety of accessible fight autos, it means gamers are higher in a position to maintain frontlines extra successfully. Players can even discover more room to work collectively and fulfill their particular person roles
As a end result, squads in Breakthrough 64 have a greater alternative to work collectively, to flank the enemy, place a spawn beacon, use their plus menu to connect suppressors, then clear, and maintain a degree – one squad serving to flip the tide for example. We consider that the transfer to 64 gamers will convey again the pacing that helps rejoice these moments of teamwork and PTFOing, and will likely be maintaining a detailed eye on how our adjustments assist to enhance the expertise forward of the beginning of Season 1.
Further adjustments
- Breakthrough 64 for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S now have set map sizes for particular maps:
- Discarded, Manifest, Orbital, Kaleidoscope will play the 128 participant model
- Hourglass, Breakaway, Renewal will play the 64 participant model
Soldier
- The Compass now expands whereas in ADS to enhance its readability
Specialists
Angel
- Angel will not have the ability to grant Armor Plates by way of his Supply Bag
Boris
- Spotting by way of the SG-36 Sentry Gun now highlights noticed gamers by way of a crimson dot, and noticed enemies are actually additionally seen for friendlies
- The SG-36 Sentry Gun will not observe gamers behind partitions
- Overall harm and well being for the SG-36 Sentry Gun has been lowered
- RPM decreased from 450 -> 250
- Start Damage 16 -> 10
- End Damage 10 -> 7
- (*128*) Off Damage Range 50 -> 40
- Projectile Speed 960 m/s -> 500 m/s
- Health 200 -> 150
- Lock-on time elevated by 0.3 seconds
- Target Forget Time 2 -> 1.5 seconds
- Target lock-on vary 65 -> 50m
- Reload Speed 5.2 -> 4.2 seconds
Dozer
- Bashing with the SOB-8 Ballistic Shield whereas inside smoke ought to now all the time deal harm
Irish
- Fortification System recharge charge decreased from 25 -> 20 seconds
Weapons
- Update 0.4.0 launched an unintended change to the conduct of some weapons by way of incorrect values on their harm tables. In this replace we’re restoring efficiency to its meant design and you must really feel an general enchancment to weapon efficiency
- The impression of recoil affecting attachments has been lowered, whereas base weapon recoil has been improved to compensate. This means weapons with out attachments now deal with higher
- Bolt Action Sniper breath management now lasts a max of 5 seconds, with an added 5 second penalty if used fully
- Underbarrel Attachments not have an effect on weapon deploy velocity
- Overall horizontal recoil for DMR’s has been decreased
- Sidearms are actually quicker to deploy
AC42
- Increased the AC42 distance harm dropoff at greater ranges
AK24
- Removed the AK24 Semi Auto fireplace mode
- Increased AK-24 Burst Mode charge of fireside to 900RPM
NTW-50
- Improved the NTW-50 effectiveness in opposition to autos
- Added an extra harm a number of versus tank tracks
PKP-BP
- Increased PKP-BP vertical recoil, and added a brand new horizontal recoil profile
SFAR-M GL
- Improved the SFAR-M GL harm at brief to medium vary
- Taking down an enemy now requires 5, as a substitute of 4 bullets whereas at 20m
- Decreased the SFAR-GL distance harm dropoff
SVK
- Reduced SVK’s Horizontal recoil to make it simpler to land follow-up photographs
- Increased the SVK distance harm dropoff previous 40m
- SVK’s High-Power Rounds harm lowered previous 150m
- Taking down an enemy now requires 3, as a substitute of two bullets
Vehicles
- Fixed a bug for no XP being rewarded when capturing an goal in a automobile that wasn’t spawned by way of the Deploy Menu
Following the discharge of Update 0.4.0, we’re persevering with to make stability changes to automobile gameplay by updating the overall variety of autos that may be energetic at any time throughout maps in Conquest and Breakthrough.
Conquest 128:
- Kaleidoscope – Reduced every groups gentle floor automobile allocation by 1
- Manifest – Reduced every groups gentle floor automobile allocation by 1
Breakthrough 64:
- Breakaway
- Adjusted Sector 4 to scale back the Attackers variety of Transport Air Vehicles by 1, and decreased the variety of Heavy Ground Vehicles for Attackers and Defenders to 1
- Manifest
- Adjusted Sector 3 to take away the Defenders allocation of Transport Air Vehicles, and additionally decreased the variety of Heavy Ground Vehicles for Attackers and Defenders by 1
- Hourglass
- Adjusted Sector 4 to scale back the Attackers and Defenders allocation of Heavy Ground Vehicles to 1, eliminated the Defending groups allocation of Transport and Combat Air Vehicles
- Renewal:
- Adjusted Sector 4 to scale back the Attackers and Defenders allocation of Heavy Ground Vehicles to 1
- Orbital
- Adjusted Sector 4 to scale back the Defenders allocation of Heavy Vehicles to 1
MAV
- The MAV is now a part of the Transport automobile class
M5C Bolte
- The M5C Bolte’s Missile Launcher not offers unintentional elevated harm to air autos
- The M5C Bolte is now a part of the Armored automobile class