Battlefield 2042 is now losing content as well as players
Battlefield 2042 has not been in a good state since it launched late last year. Among a host of technical bugs and game-spoiling glitches, players have fled from DICE’s competitive multiplayer shooter, which at one point dipped below the player count of its nine-year-old predecessor Battlefield 4. But it won’t just be series fans leaving the game any longer, as content has started to be rolled back, too.
Announced in a tweet, the game’s Featured Experiences – a selection of rotating game modes created using Battlefield 2042’s mechanic-tweaking Portal feature – have been changed. The number of Featured Experiences active at any time has been reduced from five to three, meaning players will have fewer of the special game modes to pick from.
As players were quick to point out on Twitter and Reddit, that reduction in the number of active game modes looks to accommodate the game’s ailing player count. With fewer players booting up the game, matches are slow to fill and queue times are noticeably long. By reducing the number of available game modes, DICE can concentrate the game’s smaller playerbase into a handful of matches, ensuring servers are kept close, or closer, to full capacity.
On Thursday, March 24, we’re changing how we’re rotating Featured Experiences within #BattlefieldPortalHere's a
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