Battlefield 2042's first season delayed to focus on addressing player criticism

pcgamer.com:

Battlefield 2042 players have had a lot of gripes with the military FPS since it launched, and developer DICE has responded with balance tweaks, bug fixes, and the promise that it's listening. Here's the part where all that listening becomes listendoing: Battlefield 2042's first season has been pushed back from spring to early summer while the studio incorporates player feedback on the UI, squad dynamics, specialists, and the stuff coming in the upcoming season itself.

In a blog post today, BF2042 senior producer Ryan McArthur said that DICE will use the extra few months to make «extensive fixes» and add new features. Three of those features, which are coming «as soon as possible,» are voice chat, player profiles, and a redesigned scoreboard.

The new scoreboard won't look exactly like the prototype we were shown recently, which some players criticized for not fully emulating the classic style. DICE plans to separate the teams into their own columns for the version releasing in the next update, and a later version will include death counts and an end-of-round report. It's going back to how it was in previous Battlefields, in other words.

That's been the general request from most Battlefield 2042 critics: Make it more like Battlefield 5. I personally like Battlefield 2042's big 128-player maps, sparse as they can be, but they've been accused of being too big, and the addition of specialist characters has been maligned as well. DICE says that every grievance is being looked at.

The studio's plan is to tackle topics one at a time, explaining what it's thinking of changing and why, observing the player response, and then presenting a revised plan (the scoreboard was perhaps a test run of that process). A team is currently