Battlefield 2042 "Winding Down" Hazard Zone Mode
As DICE looks ahead to all the improvements and new content coming to Battlefield 2042 as part of the game's first season, the developer has announced that support for the game's Escape from Tarkov-inspired mode, Hazard Zone, is «winding down.»
Hazard Zone will still remain playable, DICE says, and the team will address «critical errors or odd behaviors» in the mode should they appear in the future. However, the mode won't receive any new content.
«All of us on the team had great ambition and high hopes for this new Battlefield experience throughout development, but we're the first to hold our hands up and acknowledge that it hasn't found the right home in Battlefield 2042 and that we'll benefit greatly from letting our focus and energy stay on the modes we see you engaging most with,» Battlefield community lead Adam Freeman writes in a lengthy blog post outlining changes and updates coming to the game in the near future.
The news comes as DICE outlines what the team has learned since Battlefield 2042's rocky launch and what the teams are currently focusing on ahead of the launch of Season 1, set to release in June. Improvements are coming to nearly every aspect of the game, ranging from map updates that will add more cover to adjustments to how Specialists are portrayed. Some of those changes will be to make Specialists «feel grittier, and closer to the more serious tone that we want to come across in our narrative» while also toning down their more immersion-breaking voice lines and ensuring future cosmetics for Specialists are «more grounded» and military-themed.
DICE recently removed the game's 128-player Breakthrough mode, instead choosing to focus on the 64-player Breakthrough experience, which DICE says helps the
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