Hands-on capture for Battlefield 2042 Season 6: Dark Creations

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Electronic Arts announced yesterday that Battlefield 2042 Season 6: Dark Creations will debut on October 10 on the PC and consoles. And I managed to gets some hands-on gameplay with the game.

I played on the map called Redacted, which is a long map as far as Battlefield goes. It’s all indoors, but the map has both main pathways and narrow side corridors that you can use to outflank your enemies. You can see gameplay from one of my matches embedded in this story.

The latest update for Battlefield 2042 — from developers Dice and Ripple Effect Studios — will pit two sides against each other in a hidden laboratory in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.

Players have to find missing soldiers and uncover other secrets in the darkness while keeping their sanity, EA said. They find, as you can see in the trailer, a bunch of captured soldiers have been experimented upon and turned into zombie-like warriors.

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I played the map in a demo event. The fighting was mostly indoors, though there is a faux outdoor area under a clear dome with the sky above. It focuses on close-quarters combat where both sides are investigating an “incident,” which has revealed the hidden tech-research facility performing classified experiments.

There are trees and some outdoor-like parts of the facility, but the dome means it qualifies as the first map in the Battlefield franchise that offers no outdoor environment. I started out using a sniper rifle. It was nice to get some kills lying on the top of the stairs, staring out into the open area.

But I quickly