This week's Battlefield 2042 update adds voice chat, hundreds of fixes and tweaks

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Battlefield 2042 is finally getting voice chat this week, as well as somewhere around 400 tweaks, bug fixes, and balance changes. The VOIP update will be downloadable at 8 am UTC on Tuesday, which is 1 am Pacific, 4 am Eastern, and 9 am in the UK. There is no server downtime planned.

Back in February, DICE announced that Battlefield 2042's first season, which will include a new map, specialist, and a battle pass, would be delayed from spring to summer while the developer makes «extensive fixes» and adds new features, such as the voice chat system being added this week. 

The season one delay was a response to Battlefield 2042's woeful reception—its Steam user reviews remain «Mostly Negative»—but adding built-in VOIP was actually part of the plan even before Battlefield 2042's launch. The publisher told me in November of last year that voice chat would be added «ASAP» after launch.

One change that wasn't planned before launch was a redesign of the scoreboard. Rather than ranking every player in the server, Battlefield 2042's original scoreboard focused on squad stats. The team-focused angle was a nice try from DICE, but we are vain and want to know who has the best K/D ratio—a lot of players hated it. In early March, DICE replaced that new-style scoreboard with a more traditional one, and this week's update will make that full scoreboard viewable at the end of a round, another much-requested change.

The Battlefield 2042 4.0 Update notes contain more than 250 bullet points, and according to DICE community manager Kevin Johnson, there are over 400 individual fixes and quality of life improvements in the patch. A few more standouts:

According to DICE designer Florian Le Bihan, the patch notes don't mention everything,