Beleaguered multiplayer shooter Battlefield 2042, which has not precisely been the success EA would have been hoping for, will take one other step in direction of being an precise online game this week with the discharge of its subsequent replace.

Whereas the sport has been justifiably lambasted by followers (and non-fans) alike, I’ve at all times had a gentle spot for it, partly as a result of the stuff I like in a Battlefield sport has been there since launch, but in addition as a result of this sport—developed partly throughout the worst months of the pandemic—was clearly nowhere close to being finished when publishers EA rushed it out the door.

Builders DICE have thus principally needed to spend the months since launch…ending the sport, including issues like scoreboards and further UI that underneath much less hellish circumstances would simply have made up a part of the common improvement course of and been with Battlefield 2042 at launch.

The sport’s Season One replace made a number of gamers blissful as a result of it merely dragged the sport a lot nearer to what they might have anticipated in October 2021, and the 1.2 replace—out tomorrow, August 2—inches even nearer.

It introduces some fixes for the sport’s weakest map (Kaleidoscope), lastly offers gamers a lifetime statistics web page (letting you observe stuff like your Okay:D ratio, video games performed, and so on) and maybe most noitceable, makes the primary of various deliberate “Model and Tone” modifications for the sport’s Specialists.

Battlefield 2042’s Specialists, characters much like these you’d decide in different shooters like, say, Apex Legends, are a primary for the collection, and have been fairly poorly obtained, not just for the modifications they’ve made to the sport’s construction (changing conventional lessons like Medic), however for the way in which their cocky swagger and corny one-liners have been at odds with the sport’s grim, local weather apocalypse setting.

Cube’s first transfer to repair this was to easily shut them up, in order that the characters not shouted catchphrases throughout the end-of-game roundups, however the subsequent step right here shall be to make all of them look a bit extra acceptable for the setting. This implies making all of them simply typically look extra drained, soiled and haggard, and within the case of the male Specialists, giving them beards. And in the event that they already had a beard, giving them extra beard, and a few further wrinkles as well. Right here’s a take a look at the modifications:

I prefer it, everybody does certainly look a bit extra acceptable for the setting. I’ll say although, as somebody who mains Mackay—for gameplay causes, not aesthetic—I hoped for a bit extra of an enchancment contemplating his authentic look (Man Who Stans Elon Musk Underneath Tesla Automobile Opinions On YouTube) has now been was Man Who Thinks Wrestling Is Too Woke Now.

The replace can even introduce another smaller nerfs and modifications to gameplay, and you’ll learn all about it right here.