DICE will hold Battlefield 2042’s technical playtests next week.
Six playtest sessions will be available between August 12 and August 15, five lasting for three hours and the other one for nine hours, according to email invites distributed byEAand viewed by VGC.
The technical playtests were originally scheduled to take place in July but were delayed to giveDICEthe opportunity to test the game’srecently announced cross-play functionality.
Testing will accommodate “a few thousand participants” ahead of wider testing in anopen beta scheduled for September.
Players interested in taking part in the technical tests, which will only be available onPC,PS5andXbox Series X/S, are advised to register forEA Playtesting, although this will not guarantee access.
The minimum and recommended PC system requirements for next week’s Battlefield 2042 playtests have also been revealed.
Minimum specs:
Recommended specs:OS: 64-bit Windows 10Processor (AMD): AMD Ryzen 5 3600Processor (Intel): Intel Core i7 4790Memory: 16GBVideo Memory: 8GBGraphics card (AMD): Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060Graphics card (NVIDIA): AMD Radeon RX 5600 XTDirectX: 12
Further reading
The standard edition of Battlefield 2042 isset to release on October 22, 2021priced at $59.99 forXbox One,PS4and PC, and $69.99 for Xbox Series X/S and PS5.
However, players who choose to pre-order the Battlefield 2042 Gold Edition for $89.99 on PC and $99.99 on consoles, or the Battlefield 2042 Ultimate Edition for $109.99 on PC and $119.99 on consoles, will receive early access to the game beginning on October 15.
