Next Week's Battlefield 2042 Beta Confirmed

Next Week's Battlefield 2042 Beta Confirmed
[Sep 28, 2021, 11:27 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments

Here's a quick turnaround on the rumor below: Electronic Arts and DICE officially confirm the schedule for open beta testing of Battlefield 2042. As was speculated, those who've preordered the military shooter can access the beta on October 6th, and everyone else gets to join in two days after that:

Electronic Arts and DICE today revealed that the Battlefield 2042 Open Beta* will be available on October 8 for Xbox® One, Xbox® Series X and S, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®5 and PC. EA Play members and individuals who pre-order the game can gain access two days early on October 6. All players can preload starting on October 5th**

The Battlefield 2042 Open Beta will feature the iconic Conquest experience on the Orbital map, previously showcased in the game’s reveal trailer. PC and next-gen console players will receive first-hand experience of playing the new, epic 128-player battles (64 players on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One) through Conquest’s large-scale game mode, and will fight for control of key objective points on the map.

During the Beta, participants will have a chance to jump into the franchise’s signature brand of All-Out Warfare as one of four unique Specialists each equipped with their own individual styles, specialties and traits. Players can step into the shoes of Boris, a Russian engineer who comes with a SG-36; Casper, a South African camouflage and long-ranged attacks expert; Falck, a skilled German medic who specializes in Support; and Mackay, a Canadian outdoorsman and nomad who is equipped with a Grapple Gun.

Set in Kourou, French Guiana, the Battlefield 2042 Orbital map lets players experience a race against time in hostile conditions as they battle around the site of an imminent rocket launch. Sectors found in this map include the Assembly Building, the Launch Platform and the Crawlerway connecting the two. During a Conquest match, players will experience Battlefield’s signature dynamic maps featuring an automated rocket launch sequence, zipline traversal between lightning towers, vehicular combat in adverse weather, including an unexpected tornado event altering the flow of battle, and much more.

**Battlefield 2042 Open Beta Duration

Duration: October 5-10, 2021

Oct 5: Downloads enabled for all players

Oct 6-9: Early Access window (triggers Oct 6 at 9am CEST)

Oct 8-9: Open Availability (triggers Oct 8 at 9am CEST)

Oct 10, 9am CEST: Sunset

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Re: Next Week's Battlefield 2042 Beta Confirmed
Sep 28, 2021, 13:24

Xero

Re: Next Week's Battlefield 2042 Beta Confirmed Sep 28, 2021, 13:24

Sep 28, 2021, 13:24

Xero

I really wish I could get excitement back for this franchise. I was one of the original who bought BF1942 in 2002 and thought it was one of the best multiplayer experiences back then. It was so grand scale in comparison to everything out at that time.

Since then, I obviously picked up BF2, BF3, heard Vietnam was trash, skipped it. Skipped 2142 and basically everything else that has come out since. I've tried Bad Company single player briefly. It was Okay but at times felt too arcadey with unlimited respawning guys. I then tried BF One online briefly. It felt a tad too deathmatchey to me. In that guys were everywhere, nearly at respawn and you're dead.

In the original BF series, I felt it ran a tad slower pace which in turn gave it a more realistic feel. You can move for a bit prior to seeing someone, so the feeling of an encounter was greater. I guess there is the pro and cons to that. If they wanted to compete with COD, they had to be more deathmatch style with less waiting on encounters, but then that reduces any chance of realism. Oh well, just my Battlefield rant, lol.