The second update for Battlefield 2042 will be launching on November 25.
DICEhas provided details on what will be added in Update 2, along with its plans for future improvements to the game.
On Tuesday the game’s development team noted that there were some “critical issues” with the servers that the team is “keen to resolve quickly”.
UPDATE 25/11/21:DICE has released thesecond major update for Battlefield 2042.
ORIGINAL STORY CONTINUES:“In very rare instances we’re seeing that our servers aren’t correctly registering hitmarkers,” it explained.
“While hard to reproduce (thank you to everyone for sending in clips and screenshots), we’re actively working hard to identify what could be causing this issue, and to develop fixes.”
The team also confessed that aiming isn’t working the way they want it to on eitherPCor console. “Shortly after launch, many of you who play on PC helped to highlight an odd inconsistency with the behaviour of aiming, relative to your mouse sensitivity settings,” it said.
“We have done a great deal of investigation around this and have been able to validate that some settings are not properly applying. We have developed a fix for this and we’re targeting the third upcoming Update for this.
“On console, we’ve been performing similar investigations around the consistency of Aim Assist. We’re aware of the issues that you’ve helped to raise on this front, and wanted to volunteer that it’s not consistently behaving in line with our designs. We’re on it, and will keep you updated.”
Update 2 will also apply a number of changes to fix the ‘spread’ on some weapons, which is the angle by which a bullet may deviate from what’s being aimed at. The team says this is too high, especially on assault rifles, so it’s making the following changes:
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The other main changes being made to Update 2 are as follows:
Following Update 2, DICE will be releasing Update 3 in early December, which is planned to be a significantly larger update that will fix a number of issues.
The game’s first update rolled out on November 18, and was designed to fix several “critical issues” ahead of the game’s official release on November 19.
Despite this, the game launched to widespread condemnation by players, and is nowone of the worst-reviewed games on PC platform Steamwith over 17,000 “mostly negative” reviews.
