Battlefield 2042

DICE will be unveiling gameplay for Battlefield 2042’s Season 1: Zero Hour later today. In the meantime, it’s released patch notes for update 1.0.0, which goes live today. Some highlights include improvements to the soldier gameplay with “overall smoother animations and movement”; updated netcode for improved bullet hit registration; new XP events; increased vehicles for Conquest; and much more.

Other changes include online IDs being displayed in the rewards screen when VoIP is on and a fix for players being switched out of a team or squad if they’re in a party. Some of the new XP events can also occur with Takedown kills, claiming a control panel, providing smoke for teammates or reviving them and so on. Reviving, healing, repairing and resupplying squadmates also gives more XP.

Check out some of the patch notes below. The next update is currently slated for early July and will provide various fixes and changes. Battlefield 2042 – Season 1: Zero Hour reportedly goes live on June 9th (as per insider Tom Henderson). We should learn more about the new content – which is currently confirmed to include one new map – soon so stay tuned.

BATTLEFIELD 2042 UPDATE #1.0

Changelog

General

Voice Chat Channel is now greyed out in the Social Menu when Voice Chat is turned On, but you are unable to switch channels
Online IDs are now displayed in the rewards screen after End of Round when VoIP is enabled
Resolved instances where players could be Squad or Team switched outside of their Party
Quitting an ongoing match no longer automatically puts you back into the matchmaking queue
Resolved Mouse Raw Input Settings sometimes reverting
Resolved instances where switching to Fullscreen would cause the Borderless Window setting to not work on a second monitor
Added missing Voice indicators on Xbox Series X|S when unplugging/plugging in a headset to the controller
Closing the Pause menu no longer briefly shows the hangar lobby background
When disabling Social Communication options via Console, Text-to-speech and Speech-to-text options will now automatically be greyed out in-game
Resolved a flickering microphone indicator when clicking on the VoIP:Party button in the Social screen
Resolved instances where keyboard input was lost and the game window couldn’t be focused after alt+tabbing out of game
Resolved instances where in-game QR codes could not be scanned due to resolution issues
Resolved instances where players couldn’t be revived at the base of ziplines
Fixed an issue that caused Kill Cards to no longer display attachment names and icons after the first kill
Player nametags are no longer visible before the player models itself becomes visible to other players
Takedown kills now trigger an XP event
Claiming a control panel (ex. sliding doors) now triggers an XP event
Killing an enemy who recently wounded or killed a squadmate now triggers an XP event
Providing smoke cover in which teammates are healed or revived now triggers an XP event
Reviving, healing, repairing or resupplying a squadmate now provides more XP
Damaging an enemy vehicle now triggers an XP event
Providing smoke cover for squadmates who kill enemies or covering enemies who are killed now triggers an assist XP event
Getting a triple kill now triggers an XP event
When an enemy vehicle you recently damaged is destroyed by a teammate, and this kills occupants it will now trigger an assist XP event
Killing an enemy with a headshot now triggers an XP event
Always Traversal Sprint has been added as an option under the Controller tab
A Chat Log Visibility option has been added to allow setting the default visibility mode of the chat log (SHOW, WHEN ACTIVE or HIDE). This option is available under Display > Hud General

Battlefield Portal

Resolved instances where users could become stuck in an infinite sliding animation after exiting a moving Quad Bike
Fixed instances where the ESC button failed to bring up the Pause menu
Resolved instances of crashes when joining an in-progress match in Battlefield Portal
Fixed an issue on Valparaiso where vehicles could spawn underground in the lower US HQ
Fixed an issue on Caspian Border where the T-90 at Capture Point E1 would repeatedly respawn
Fixed an issue on Caspian Border where the player spawned Out of Bounds when deploying in a tank at the US HQ
Fixed an issue on El-Alamein and Arica Harbor where it wasn’t possible to vault through certain windows
Resolved instances where AI-driven tanks were getting stuck on cover assets
We’ve fixed further locations across all Classic era maps where players could get stuck
We’ve fixed further instances of floating assets and misaligned rocks/cliffs across all Classic era maps
Fixed an issue that would cause vehicles to sometimes stutter on Arica Harbour while driving at high speeds

AI Soldiers

Made further balance changes to AI difficulty and behavior
Fixed an issue where AI Soldiers only targeted the Recon Drone using the Recoilless M5
Fixed an issue where AI Soldiers were shooting above the target when using the Recoilless M5
Fixed an issue where AI using Barrage Missiles weapons from a vehicle are too accurate versus air vehicles
Fixed an issue where AI teams were sometimes uneven in Solo/Coop
Fixed an issue where AI got stuck in helicopters. AI will now bail out of helicopters when the vehicle gets stuck
Fixed an issue where AI soldiers were crouching too frequently
Added new AI Helicopter behaviors, including helicopter strafe runs
It’s now possible to be in a squad with AI in Solo/Coop
Fixed a mismatch for AI between their bullet traces and hit positions in high-rate shooting