It appears writing off Battlefield 2042, even this a few years after its launch, wouldn’t be clever. After the discharge of Season 6, nobody anticipated any extra seasons within the recreation’s future, however DICE clearly had different concepts.
The developer introduced that Battlefield 2042 shall be getting a seventh season, and even confirmed it will likely be kicking off in March, 2024.
The information is clearly fairly stunning; 2024 could be Battlefield 2042’s third 12 months, which is past the standard Battlefield assist cycle. What’s extra fascinating, nevertheless, is that within the announcement, DICE mentioned that the “large” season will embrace maps – plural.
Each earlier Battlefield 2042 season launched with a single new map, in addition to one or two reworks to the sport’s launch maps the place viable. If we’re studying this accurately, it implies that Season 7 will introduce two or extra.
It is clearly not clear whether or not mentioned maps shall be fully new or remakes from earlier video games. From the way in which DICE is teasing this one (calling it “full of an entire load of recent content material,” and so on.) it does not sound like a Season 7 shall be a small, end-of-life kind affair.
So sure, Season 7 for #Battlefield 2042 shall be in your arms in March! 🗓️
It’ll be a large Season full of an entire load of recent content material…together with maps!
Benefit from the Vacation Protocol occasion and we are going to see you within the New Yr 🫡 pic.twitter.com/tGKF1Y47VS
— Battlefield (@Battlefield) December 14, 2023
That is particularly noteworthy as a result of everybody assumed Season 5 would be the recreation’s final. Then Season 6 was launched, and gamers additionally felt that was going to be the extent of DICE’s assist for the sport.
Maybe the large rise in reputation Battlefield 2042 achieved, breaking its all-time Steam concurrent information – and even managing to maintain gamers past the gross sales/free weekends – has aided within the making of this resolution.
It’s value noting, nevertheless, that Battlefield 2042’s participant numbers have fallen, and so they’re now again to their standard, pre-Season 6 state. On the time of writing, Battlefield 5 is the most well-liked recreation within the sequence on Steam.
As we head into the vacations, Battlefield 2042 is internet hosting its personal in-game occasion with Vacation Protocol. The occasion consists of 4 modes that unlock over 4 weeks: Fast Strike, Assault of the Elves, Infantry Conquest Chaos, and Pondhawk Superiority. Every week additionally has distinctive rewards for gamers to earn.
