{"id":32241,"date":"2022-06-07T03:38:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T03:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/battlefield-2042-season-1-smaller-maps"},"modified":"2024-07-19T13:40:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T13:40:21","slug":"battlefield-2042-season-1-smaller-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/battlefield\/battlefield-2042-season-1-smaller-maps","title":{"rendered":"Battlefield 2042 Season 1 – Future Maps Will Have Smaller Scales"},"content":{"rendered":"

Season 1 of Battlefield 2042<\/a> is promising to bring new content such as weapons and a map to spice up the existing game, but it’s the change to the base ideas that could mean more than anything else. Adding a huge player count with massive maps was a selling point for 2042, but that could change going forward.<\/p>\n

With the release of the latest Battlefield in November of 2021, the default player count was set to 128 players, effectively doubling what was possible in the past. This makes battles seem much more epic on the surface, but it made each map flow in a way that the player base disliked. Zero Hour aims to change that with future maps rather than player count entirely.<\/p>\n

Smaller maps will get priority in Battlefield 2042 Season 1 and onward<\/h2>\n
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In the update outline from the Battlefield 2042 playtest, DICE developers went over some of the biggest changes making way to Season 1 Zero Hour. The new content is welcome, and it may seem small for how long the update has taken, but DICE made it clear that the older content in the game is getting some fixes.<\/p>\n

One of the first steps in that regard is changing the philosophy of Battlefield 2042 back to a 64-player mindset for Breakthrough, while Conquest will get smaller maps for the 128-player modes. 64-player games won’t become the priority going forward, but all future maps will be designed with much faster battles in mind.<\/p>\n