Battlefield 2042 Removes Zombies Mode and Replaces It With Gun Game

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Battlefield 2042 is currently going through a very tumultuous period. Not only are Battlefield fans frustrated with the game's design and technical issues, but changes are being made to XP progression in the Portal mode in response to feedback. There are going to be growing pains, as a result, and the first casualty is Battlefield's recently-released Zombie Survival Mode. Ripple Effect Studios confirmed that Zombie Survival has been disabled in Battlefield 2042's Portal, replaced with Gun Game.

The issue with Zombie Survival unfortunately has to do with XP and the changes made just prior to Zombie Survival's release. Battlefield 2042 players were using Zombie Survival to quickly earn XP, using an exploit where zombies were unable to reach them. Given that the exploit had to do with the design of the mode, necessary changes couldn't be made quickly enough to justify keeping Zombie Survival up. As such, it made more sense to take it down and replace it.

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Ripple Effect's senior design director Justin Wiebe confirmed the mode's removal, promising that in doing so it had helped the development team's approach to future Portal mode releases. Wiebe explains that as a result of Zombie Survival, the team tightened its review process in order to ensure that similar events don't happen again. Wiebe also acknowledged that the Zombie Survival mode needed additional time in the "workshop" and that it wasn't fully cooked and ready for release even without the XP issue.

That said, Wiebe does say that Ripple Effect is hoping to bring back a more polished Zombie Survival game mode in the future. The priority, for the time being,