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Daily Briefing: Thursday 10th June
🕑 Added 2021-06-10 13:01:03 +0000 UTCBattlefield 2042 launches this October
After much fanfare EA finally showed off their new Battlefield title yesterday. Officially called Battlefield 2042, the game ditches the usual campaign and battle royale modes in favour of going all in on traditional multiplayer. It'll support 128 simultaneous players on PC and next-gen consoles, while last-gen will cap at 64 players to ensure everything runs smoothly.
- The lack of campaign is an odd one, but EA's presentation also confirmed that DICE will deliver the game's narrative over time using liveservice and seasonal content. With the game being built for next-gen, everything seems bigger this time around. The increased player count will fight it out across massive maps with a variety of weapons and playable classes. Battlefield 2042 releases October 22nd, and we'll be seeing it in action again at EA Play Live on July 22nd.
Overwatch is (finally) getting cross-play
The much-requested functionality was confirmed in a new developer update from Overwatch game director Aaron Keller. Cross-play will be launching in beta "soon" and will come to PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch - though console and PC players will remain separate during competitive play.
- It's good to see Blizzard finally opening up the Overwatch playerbase a bit - it only took them five years after all. The downside of all this is that cross-progression won't be available alongside cross-play at launch, though Keller outlined that it's something the team are "excited to work on in the future."
Call of Duty: Vanguard is skipping E3
It looks like Activision won't be unveiling their new premium Call of Duty title at E3. The official reveal will instead come later on this summer, possibly as an in-game event for Warzone - something that happened last year for Black Ops Cold War.
- Vanguard's release could mean some interesting things for Warzone, as well. Last year's integration with Black Ops Cold War was a post-launch scramble that caused a lot of balance issues, whereas Sledgehammer Games have had a lot more time to work on things. The plans include a new map - Warzone's biggest yet - which will launch alongside Vanguard.
New PS5 update is now live
Software version 21.01-03.20.00 (catchy) carries a suite of general system performance improvements, but also has a couple of specific updates and fixes for the DualSense controller. The update fixes an issue whereby the controller's battery light would constantly blink red regardless of whether it needed charge - so that's a nice fix.
- The rest of the update includes fixes for the PS5's screen reader functionality and games not being hidden on PS5 when they were on PS4. The update also makes it easier and more stable to copy games from external USB storage to the main console storage, which is another solid quality-of-life improvement.
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Im glad its going away from campaign and BR....neither of which made Battlefield...well..Battlefield...I put in tons of hours into BF2142 back in the day and had a blast. Im seriously looking forward to this one...if i have the time that is. I do dislike these battle pass systems that have literally moved in to ANY mmo game no matter the genre however. I havdnt heard anything about loot boxes and i hope those garbage things stay away.
