Clusters are points within the sectors that naturally encourage players to swarm, resulting in big ol’ firefights. Sure, the map has scaled with the player size, but we never struggled to find an enemy or a teammate when on foot, and there are so many players that the action never stops - though this is more true of Breakthrough than Conquest.īut it’s in Battlefield 2042’s “clusters,” as developer EA Dice calls them, that the real fun happens. While you won’t constantly run into a plethora of enemies, you will nearly always come across someone wherever you are. Perhaps the biggest benefit of Battlefield 2042’s increased player size in All-Out Warfare is that there’s just no letting up. We found that this gradual sector unlocking in Breakthrough allowed for better pacing, as well as more focus, while Conquest felt like a bit more of a free-for-all. While Breakthrough sees each control point being gradually unlocked, preventing players from simply pushing forward, Conquest opens up the whole map, allowing you to travel pretty much anywhere you please. Hazard Zone still sees two teams going head-to-head in the same maps as Breakthrough, but, instead of capturing individual control points, the action centers around sectors consisting of several flags. You’re each part of a bigger push, with the squad dynamic allowing you to feel like part of a team. Breakthrough feels very much teamwork-focused. But rather than setting everyone loose on some sort of free-for-all, the map is captured by securing sectors until one team secures the majority of the map.īreakthrough offers a focused battle experience, that had us feeling like cogs in a well-oiled machine as our squad did its part in securing each sector. This mode sees teams of 64 players (or 32 on PS4 and Xbox One) broken down into teams of four, going head-to-head as one aims to attack and capture the map as the other tries to defend. If you want the full effect of the scale of battles in Battlefield 2042 then Breakthrough is probably the best showcase of that. Let’s start with our personal favorite, Breakthrough mode. Made up of two revamped fan-favorite modes, Conquest and Breakthrough, All-Out Warfare offers a multiplayer experience that will be familiar to those who have played first-person shooters before and will likely be the best experience for newbies to the series. The bread and butter of Battlefield 2042 is the All-Out Warfare experience. RAM: 8GB (3,200Mhz) Corsair Vengeance LPX The specs of the PC provided are detailed below:

We played Battlefield 2042 on a PC setup provided by EA DICE. Whether these seasonal content drops significantly shake up the game will likely determine the longevity of Battlefield 2042 and, with little in the way of a road map, the path ahead for players is still quite dark. But it’s unlikely that all its multiplayer experiences will be for everyone and we expect that players will likely gravitate to one over the others, potentially resulting in repetition until new content arrives.

All impressions here come from the PC version of the game.Īt launch, Battlefield 2042, looks to offer plenty for players to get their hands on, with seven All-Out War/Hazard Zone maps, six classic Battlefield Portal maps to jump into and 10 Specialists to play with, and more promised in future seasons. It’s easily the best-looking FPS we’ve seen and it ran smoothly on our PC setup, though we are interested to see how it runs on consoles – something we weren’t given access to during the pre-release review period. That said, Battlefield 2042 truly feels like the next generation of the series, with stunningly detailed environments, 128-player epic battles played out on huge maps, and Specialists that sound somewhat like human beings.

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