Battlefield 2042’s launch didn’t precisely go based on plan, with complaints about bugs, stability points, and a common lack of polish being widespread. Battlefield developer DICE have tried to place a cheerful face on issues and outlined quite a few fixes and enhancements they plan to implement over the approaching months, however new reviews point out issues aren’t going easily behind the scenes.
According to insider Tom Henderson, DICE’s head of design Fawzi Mesmar is straight away leaping ship following the discharge of Battlefield 2042. Mesmar labored at cellular developer King, earlier than taking on the 80-dev-strong DICE design group in 2019. In line with an e mail despatched to group members, Mesmar was planning his departure for some time, however stayed on to get 2042 out the door. Apparently, he received’t be sticking round to really end it…
It was an absolute pleasure to serve on the very best design groups within the galaxy. The unbelievable design work that you just do continues to encourage me every single day. Thanks for placing some religion in me, I hope I didn’t disappoint. I’ve been made a proposal I couldn’t refuse at one other firm that has been form sufficient to attend for me till we’ve got shipped [Battlefield 2042]. It was tremendous essential to me to be right here with the group as we obtain this historic milestone.
Whereas Oskar [Gabrielson, DICE GM] and myself have been discussing my succession plans for a while – and will probably be introduced sooner or later – we opted to delay this communication until after launch to maintain the main target – rightfully so – on the sport we’ve been placing a monumental quantity of effort on.
Separately on Twitter, Henderson indicated DICE is presently affected by heavy turnover, basically necessitating the hiring of a brand new studio’s value of expertise.
DICE are basically hiring a brand new studio.
Count on departures and so on. To begin being introduced this week. #BATTLEFIELD2042
— Tom Henderson (@_Tom_Henderson_) November 24, 2023
To make clear – They’re hiring lots of new folks underneath DICE and never making one other DICE studio.
— Tom Henderson (@_Tom_Henderson_) November 24, 2023
Hopefully this behind-the-scenes turmoil doesn’t set again efforts to get Battlefield 2042 again on monitor, however I’m guessing it’ll have some impact. It’s one factor to scrub up your individual mess, it’s altogether harder to scrub up a large number left to you by any individual else.
Battlefield 2042 is obtainable now on PC, Xbox One, Xbox Sequence X/S, PS4, and PS5. The sport’s newest replace dropped right now (you will get particulars on its contents right here).
