The Battlefield 2042 Season 3 new map, Spearhead, arrives November 22, and whereas it’s a extra muted and constrained area than lots of the bombastic launch maps, it advantages from having a clearer focus and a yr’s value of trial and error underpinning it. We had an opportunity to go hands-on with Spearhead and a number of the new Season 3 package in EA/DICE’s navy FPS recreation throughout a closed press occasion this week, and listed below are just a few of our takeaways.
Spearhead is about within the Swedish countryside, with 5 seize zones organized in sequence alongside a stream. The rocky terrain offers pure dips and rises for vantage factors and canopy, and the stream itself channels the motion into pathways alongside both facet. Within the central and easternmost zones are giant weapons manufacturing amenities whose bay doorways fold open as you method them.
It’s a map that’s purpose-built for smaller rounds of Breakthrough and Conquest. With the zones all organized in a line alongside the river, you’re all the time both pushing ahead or falling again, with the choice to seize and maintain one of many weapons amenities in zone C or E. These buildings supply loads of cowl and corridors for close-quarters fight (the perfect atmosphere for the brand new NVK-22 sensible shotgun), and as pure focal factors, there’s often a battle popping off in at the least one among them.
Outdoors, I discovered the slender format of the map inspired extra pure staff cohesion, notably whereas enjoying within the assault position. As a recon specialist, I attempted utilizing the brand new Rorsch Mk-4 railgun to take out enemy troops I noticed working alongside the other financial institution of the stream. Outbuildings close to the factories and on the western facet of the map present pure areas for pitched defences and intense firefights in Breakthrough.
Spearhead will enchantment to gamers who’ve felt a bit misplaced in a few of Battlefield 2042’s extra expansive maps like Renewal, Hourglass, or Kaleidoscope – in all of these, it may usually really feel as if the motion is miles away out of your place. Spearhead is no-nonsense, smaller and fewer vertical than Season 1’s Publicity, and it’s the primary Battlefield 2042 map that lacks any over-the-top spectacle, be it an excessive climate occasion or dramatic action-movie transformation.
That’s not a foul factor, although – particularly should you’re a fan of easy meat-and-potatoes Battlefield motion.
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