Battlefield 2042: Update 3.1 comes today and brings balancing improvements

On By Garmin Philip

Battlefield 2042 is getting a new update today.
Battlefield 2042 is getting a new update today.

Battlefield 2042 had a more than bumpy launch in November. In addition to technical problems, the unbalanced weapons and specialists caused displeasure among critics and fans. Just recently, Dice unveiled a roadmap of patches to address the game’s key problem areas.

And today one of the patches from this roadmap will be released, namely Update 3.1. The main focus is on adjustments to the balance, which are the most important improvements of the patch on the official Battlefield blog to find:

Patch 3.1 takes care of these elements

  • Hit registration
  • Adjustments to the balance between projectile dispersion and recoil
  • Balancing adjustments to the on-board cannons of ground vehicles that make them less effective against infantry
  • Problems with grenades and rocket launchers are to be fixed
  • Bug where players become invisible to others should also be fixed

Crossplay Facilitation: Anyone who wants to deactivate crossplay on the Xbox consoles should be able to do this much more easily after patch 3.1 than before, where this option was sometimes not even available and you had to go through the Xbox system menu.

In addition, the developers have taken another look at the sound and promise an “intensification” in this area with Update 3.1.

At what time does Update 3.1 go live?

Dice has already revealed the time from which the update should be rolled out on Twitter. Accordingly, it should be from 09:00 German time, a downtime is not expected by the studio.

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The complete patch notes of Update 3.1 at a glance

Here are the complete German patch notes of the current update for Battlefield 2042 at a glance (via ea.com):

General

  • Even if you are not the party leader, you can now cancel while waiting in the queue
  • Xbox – Crossplay can now be enabled / disabled on Xbox in the Options menu
  • Your sorting settings are now correctly recalled when you update the Battlefield Portal server browser
  • Fixed an issue where equipments would sometimes go blank in the spawn screen after joining a server, making weapon selection impossible
  • Aiming aid is now more consistent with console gameplay
  • The ranger’s effective combat range and overall health have been reduced

Audio

  • Various changes to the overall audio experience improve clarity, distance, and directional awareness
  • Fixed an issue where Soldier: Indoors indoors would not always have the correct footstep sounds

weapons

  • Removed ricochet when firing underflow grenades at close range
  • 40mm AP shells now properly damage vehicles
  • Fixed incorrect ammunition display for certain magazines for some weapons
  • The animation when reloading the cylinder lock rifle DXR-1 and NTW-50 has been extended by 0.2 seconds
  • The dispersion values ​​of most weapons have been adjusted so that they decrease faster with quick single shots and short volleys
  • The increase in dispersion has been adjusted for most weapons. It now takes a little longer until they become too imprecise with continuous fire
  • The recoil values ​​have been adjusted to prevent too aggressive impacts on the AK-24, LCMG, PKP-BP, SFAR-M GL and PP-29
  • Hipfire precision has been increased for all MPs to make them stand out from other automatic weapon archetypes
  • The dispersion and recoil of the LMGs have been reduced to improve sustained-fire performance
  • Further improvements to recoil control for all weapons, especially automatic ones.
  • Increased close range damage and consistency of the MCS-880 for shotshells and Flechette ammo
  • Fixed a bug that caused the SFAR-M GL and K30 projectiles to hit below the targeted target point

vehicles

  • Fixed a bug where vehicle weapons sometimes did not deal explosive damage when hit directly
  • We have reduced the effectiveness of the 30mm gun for ground vehicles against infantry. It now overheats faster, cadence and explosion damage have been reduced slightly, and damage falloff at range has been increased.
    • Kadenz 350 -> 330
    • Heat generation per ball 0.13 -> 0.14
    • Hitzakbfall pro Seconds 0.5 -> 0.475
    • Explosionsschaden 20 -> 18
  • LCAA Hovercraft – 40-mm-GPL-Granatwerfer
    • Explosion damage decreased: 55 -> 35
  • The firing angle of the utility pod for 40mm shells is now easier to use
  • EBAA Wildcat – 57mm cannon
    • Scatter removed
    • Munition 12 –> 8
    • Impact Damage 85 -> 75
    • Explosionsschaden 70 -> 35

Gadgets

Splittergranate

  • The time until a frag grenade detonates after the first ricochet in a hard collision has been increased from 1.1 seconds to 1.4 seconds
  • Frag grenades cause 120 damage in all game modes and guarantee a kill even with armored game ends
  • Maximum ammunition for fragmentation and incendiary grenades reduced from 2 to 1

Environmental sensor

  • Sighting radius reduced from 30 to 20 yards
  • Operating time reduced from 30 seconds to 14 seconds
  • The end of the game can only wear and use one environmental sensor (previously 2)

Battlefield Hazard Zone

  • Fixed an issue where the Occupation Forces patrolling LATV4 Recon spawned at the wrong time or not at all

breakthrough

  • Kaleidoscope – Roof Capture Objective has been removed. There are now two Conquest Objectives down in BT (large) and one down in BT (small)
  • Orbital – Roof Capture Target has been removed. There is now a conquest target below in BT (large) and in BT (small)
  • Hourglass – Roof Capture Objective has been removed. There is now a capture target below in BT (large) and in BT (small). We also fixed an issue that could cause game ends to spawn outside of the game area

Soldier

  • Improvements when colliding with objects when moving backwards in the prone position
  • Fixed a rare issue where the end of the game could become invisible when spawning in a full / destroyed vehicle

Next battlefield a hero shooter?

In addition to the continuous adjustments to the current Battlefield game, EA and Dice are apparently also working on the future of the shooter series. And apparently there are considerations to publish the next part as a classic hero shooter. At least that’s what the well-connected insider Tom Henderson wants to know.

How do you like the adjustments?

Reference-www.gamepro.de