Battlefield 2042 developer DICE promised yet one more replace for the beleaguered shooter in 2023, and now we all know what it should supply. Whereas not almost as huge because the final replace, model 3.1 continues to work on numerous vexing issues, together with weapons unfold and bullet hit registration, whereas bettering the sport’s audio and fixing a myriad of bugs and different points. You will get the complete rundown on update 3.1, beneath.
Gameplay Fixes, Adjustments, and Enhancements
Normal
- Gamers that aren’t the Occasion Chief can now cancel whereas ready in a queue
- Xbox – Cross-Play can now be enabled/disabled within the Choices menu on Xbox
- Your Type settings will now be accurately remembered when refreshing the Battlefield: Portal Server Browser
- Fastened a difficulty the place loadouts would generally be empty on the spawn display after becoming a member of a server, stopping weapon choice
- Made enhancements to make sure Goal Help is extra constant throughout console gameplay
- Ranger’s efficient fight vary and general well being has been decreased
Audio
- Made numerous tweaks to the general audio expertise to enhance readability, distance, and directional notion
- Fastened a difficulty the place troopers wouldn’t at all times play indoor particular footsteps
Weapons
- Eliminated bounce from Underbarrel Grenades when firing at quick distances
- 40mm AP Grenades now correctly injury autos
- Fastened some weapons displaying incorrect ammo counts for particular magazines
- DXR-1 and NTW-50 Bolt Motion rifles reload animation elevated by 0.2 seconds
- Adjusted dispersion values for many weapons, which ends up in a sooner dispersion lower when faucet firing or doing quick bursts
- Adjusted dispersion will increase for many weapons. It now takes barely longer for weapons to turn out to be overly inaccurate in sustained fireplace
- Adjusted the recoil values to forestall over aggressive recoil jumps for the AK24, LCMG, PKP-BP, SFAR-M GL, and PP-29
- Improved hip fireplace accuracy for all SMGs to make them higher stand-out from different computerized weapon archetypes
- LMG dispersion and recoil lowered to enhance efficiency in sustained fireplace
- Further enhancements to recoil management for all weapons, extra particularly computerized weapons.
- Elevated shut vary injury and consistency of the MCS-880 when utilizing Buckshot Shell or Flechette Shells
- Fastened a bug that precipitated bullets to be fired beneath the participant’s goals for the SFAR-M GL and the K30
Automobiles
- Fastened a bug the place automobile weapons generally didn’t deal blast injury on a direct hit
- We’re decreasing the Floor Automobile 30mm Cannon effectiveness versus infantry. It now overheats sooner, has a barely diminished price of fireside and blast injury, and elevated fall off injury at distance
- Charge of Fireplace 350 -> 330
- Warmth Per Bullet 0.13 -> 0.14
- Warmth Drop Per Second 0.5 -> 0.475
- Blast Injury 20 -> 18
- LCAA Hovercraft – 40mm GPL Grenade Launcher
- Blast Injury lowered from 55 -> 35
- The 40mm Utility Pod upwards firing angle is now simpler to make use of
- EBAA Wildcat – 57mm Cannon
- Eliminated dispersion
- Ammo 12 -> 8
- Impression Injury 85 -> 75
- Blast Injury 70 -> 35
Devices
Frag Grenade
- Elevated the time to detonate a Frag Grenade from 1.1s -> 1.4s after first bounce on a tough collision
- Elevated injury of Frag Grenades throughout recreation modes to deal 120 injury and assure a kill on armored gamers too
- Lowered Frag & Incendiary Grenade max ammo account from 2 -> 1
Prox Sensor
- Lowered recognizing radius from 30m -> 20m
- Lowered uptime from 30s -> 14s
- Lowered quantity of Prox Sensor a participant can carry and deploy from 2 -> 1
Battlefield Hazard Zone
- Fastened a difficulty that precipitated the roaming Occupying Forces LATV4 Recon to spawn on the incorrect instances or in no way
Breakthrough
- Kaleidoscope – Rooftop Seize Goal has been eliminated. There at the moment are two Seize Goal on the backside in BT massive and one on the backside in BT small
- Orbital – Rooftop Seize Goal has been eliminated. There may be now a single Seize Goal on the backside in BT massive and BT small
- Hourglass – Rooftop Seize Goal has been eliminated. There may be now a single Seize Goal on the backside in BT massive and BT small. Additionally fastened a difficulty the place gamers had been spawning out of bounds
Soldier
- Enhancements on backpedaling into objects when being in inclined place
- Fastened a uncommon situation the place gamers might flip invisible when spawning on a full/destroyed automobile
DICE builders will likely be taking a break over the vacations, so don’t anticipate additional updates for some time. Details about additional patches and Season 1 content material is promised for early 2023.
Battlefield 2042 is obtainable now on PC, Xbox One, Xbox Sequence X/S, PS4, and PS5. Replace 3.1 drops tomorrow (December 9).
