No-Pats,

Update #3 will be available on December 2. We’ve enjoyed seeing you join us on the Battlefield since launch, and would like to thank you for your continued feedback.

With this update we’re addressing further bugs and feedback areas which we’ve observed through your gameplay since November 12. This means you can expect a large amount of fixes, balance changes and quality of life enhancements to come your way. And lastly, as we’ve kicked off the Preseason there are some new things to look forward to as well!

While the full update contains hundreds of changes, here’s a summary of what to expect.

What’s new?

In the week following Update #3, Weekly Missions will make their way onto the Battlefield. There will be a total of 3 varying missions each week which you can track via the main menu. Completing a mission will reward you with player XP. Finish all of the available missions that week, and you’ll receive a unique cosmetic reward!

In Battlefield Portal we’re adding new game mode layouts for Rush on all All-Out Warfare maps. We’re also adding several new templates to the Builder, and a new custom mode called Vehicle Team Deathmatch, which allows you to utilize combat vehicles in custom experiences. It will also support logic created in the Rules Editor, allowing players to spawn at team HQ and adding more options when creating custom games.

Lastly, we’re adding a new logic option to the Rules Editor that checks the source of fatal damage to a player; e.g. maybe from a melee weapon or rifle. This opens up a ton of new possibilities, and we’re looking forward to seeing what cool modes you’ll build with this!

Quality of Life

We’re introducing several improvements within the Collection screen menus to make customizing your loadout and Plus Menu easier. In short, less clicking around. It’s now also easier to understand which attachments are locked, in use, equippable, or newly unlocked within your Collection.

UI elements during gameplay have also received enhancements. You’ll notice increased visibility and reduced clutter through for example player world icons now scaling with distance. We also added IFF (Identify Friend or Foe) marker improvements, and indicators for nearby players who you can revive or be revived by, or who is low on ammo or health.

Lastly, you’ll notice smoother transitioning between game menus, the Options menu, and matchmaking.

Gameplay

Throughout several areas of the game we’ve introduced improvements to make your experience while interacting within maps feel smoother.

This includes over 150 individual fixes, small changes, and improvements across all of our Maps where we noticed they were detracting from gameplay, such as spawning, visual glitching or collision issues. Audio, rendering and interaction improvements and fixes for weapons, vehicles and Specialists are also included.

What’s next?

In early December you can expect one more small update focused on further balance changes, and general bug fixes to further enhance your gameplay experience.

The full update notes are available below. We’ll keep you updated on the roll out of the update and what's next over on the @BattlefieldComm Twitter account. Here you can also follow along with our tracking of Known Issues, and changes that we’re able to make in real time.

We’re looking forward to getting this update into your hands, and we appreciate your continued feedback as we journey onwards from launch, together.

Thank you for playing,

The Battlefield team

Update 0.3.0

Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

General

The Recent Players screen now include everyone from previous matches to allow for easier user reporting
Made improvements to the “Interaction” system by switching the default "INTERACT" text on multiple interactions to reflect the action you are about to do, i.e. "OPEN CONTAINER", "CALL ELEVATOR"
Resolved Kaleidoscope server room lighting issue
Resolved an issue related to the velocity / trajectory while spawning in jets
Improved helicopter animation in level fly-bys during insertion
Improvements to address an issue where players killed in vehicles would fall beneath level geometry
Improvements to streaming assets in deploy screen presentation
Player no longer gets stuck in a zipline/rope after exiting a vehicle after entering it too close to a zipline or rope
Exiting an open seat early in the enter animation no longer causes your aim pitch to lock up
Correct field of view is applied immediately following insertion sequences

User Interface

Improved the Collection screens, making them easier to use and clear as to what you’re interacting with
Improved the ways in which you’re able to manage your attachments via the Collection screen to reduce the number of interactions you need to have when building your loadouts
Enhancements to our Player Card screen and End of Round (EOR) to provide additional polish
Added new markers to make your newly unlocked items easier to find
Improved screen transitions when entering and returning to the Main Menu
Improved Report a Player flows, specifically around toxicity and cheating reports
The in-game scoreboard now properly scales to match screen safe-zone settings
Fixed instances where the scroll function didn’t work in the Options screens
Implemented Focus restoration for screens so the focused button is remembered when re-entering a screen
Fixed visual effects remain on screen during End of Round
CommoRose

Improved responsiveness of CommoRose opening
Fixed inactive objectives showing in the CommoRose for defenders in Rush & Breakthrough
Fixed objectives not showing in the CommoRose for attackers in Rush

Matchmaking & Friends

Improved the experience between EOR and the Main Menu
Improved Matchmaking reliability and reduced instances of Matchmaking failed
Improved Crossplay invite flows
Fixed Rich presence update issues, ensuring that your friends are better able to track where you are in Game
Addressed servers getting stuck in unresponsive game states, where rounds fail to properly start
Fixes to Friend Invitations for players on PC
Fixed an issue where the friends list was sometimes not fully up to date

Progression and Unlocks

Introduction of weekly missions, providing set challenges that reward cosmetic unlocks
Added 1st match bonus of 1000 Dark Market Credits for Hazard Zone
Improved overall XP/Rank tracking and reliability
Improved Mastery rank tracking
Improved reliability of Player card tracking
The required level to unlock an item is no longer visible once the item is unlocked
Fixed a bug where Mastery Badges weren’t displaying within the Portal Collection menu
Fixed an issue that was not properly awarding XP for Angel resupplies
3D preview of vehicles now displays the correct customizations in the Collection menu
Added a notification when reaching a new Player Card Badge tier
Added a notification when reaching a new Mastery tier

Rendering

Addressed a variety of visual flickering and stuttering issues
Improvements to water rendering when Aiming Down Sight (ADS)
Added sight definition for iron sights to allow correct ADS for the VCAR
Leaving ADS is now smoother than before on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 consoles
Addressed multiple graphical issues affecting water reflections
Addressed an issue with character rendering for players joining a match in progress
Made improvements to artifacts affecting DLSS implementation
Fixed flickering in the oasis water in El Alamein on deploy
Fixed animations sometimes glitching when picking up a weapon from the ground
Fixed Aircrafts sometimes showing up with wrong landing gear visuals
Fixed issue that would cause incorrect bullet impact effects when shooting near water
Fixed Ju-87 Stuka Gunner Seat firing visual effects not aligning properly with the airplane
Shifted PSO-1 Scope forward on AN94 to prevent clipping into screen while idle
Fixed skinning issues for several PP-29 Weapon Skins

Maps

Over 150 individual fixes, small changes, and improvements across all of our Maps
Improved level geometry issues across all levels addressing issues such players getting snagged or trapped
Resolved multiple spawning issues
Resolved visual glitches such as lens flare, visible seams in skydome
Resolved a large number of collision and placement issues
Addressed issues affecting local audio placement in multiple Maps

Battlefield Hazard Zone

Made improvements to visual presentation of Dark Market Credits
Modified the Squad and Player Screen to remove enemy squad names
Modified the Scoreboard to no longer show connected enemy players
Added additional flares to Extraction Zone, offering players better visibility of extraction area, as well as providing additional cover
Added new spawn locations for initial Data Capsules
Increased the amount of Data Drives initial Data Capsules can contain
Made improvements to the Data Drive Scanner’s accuracy and enemy identification
Resolved an issue where two teams could extract simultaneously
Resolved warnings to alert players they’re being scanned sometimes not appearing
Made it easier to interact with Data Drive pick-ups
Added a distance read-out for the next available Extraction Point
Improved the end-of-round camera placement
The "Modify" button in the lobby now takes you back to the Perk tab
Initial Data Capsules now only spawn a maximum of 4-6 Opposing Forces
Drones inside the extraction Condor will now be destroyed upon leaving
Added XP for completely eliminating an enemy squad
The Redeploy icon is now part of the soldier and vehicle world icon
Fixed players sometimes being able to pick up more than their max capacity of Data Drives
Fixed instances where the Round Bonus XP was inaccurate and the End of Round was not triggering correctly
Fixed an issue where the countdown in the lobby would not start if the player was tabbed out
Reduced width of lobby summary information
Added an animation and audio cue when the player's Remaining Balance changes in the lobby
Combined Tactical Items tab into a single tab in the lobby
Made lock icon visuals more clear while in the lobby
Added an option to Quit from the waiting for players to join and pre-round lobby menu
Fixed an issue in the lobby that made it difficult to understand what Tactical Items are being selected
Fixed an issue where voice over would get cut off too early at the end of round
Fixed issues with voice over heard by extracting players
Fixed issues with random audio triggers for the Data Drive Scanner
Fixed missing music when squad gets eliminated

Battlefield Portal

Added Server Info for the Pause Menu
Added support for reporting a server from the Pause Menu
Added support for server admins to write periodic server messages
Simplified the Server Settings screen design
Fixed an issue where bullet spread would be too high when trying to fire while zoomed right after sprinting for some Portal weapons
Fixed maximum human players displaying incorrectly in the Modifiers Tab for FFA game modes
Added different loading music based on which Portal map is loading
Setting a low Max Health multiplier for vehicles will no longer cause them to spawn in on fire
Aircraft within Portal now display their equipped missiles and bombs correctly
Added a UI indicator for Rush to show when the next sector will start
Fixed a visual issue while reloading several Launchers (RPG-7, SMAW, Bazooka, Panzerschreck)

Builder additions

Rush game mode layouts for all 2042 All-Out Warfare maps (through Portal)
New official Vehicle Team Deathmatch game mode
New official Team & FFA Gun Master templates
New official Infection template

Rules Editor

Added the ability to detect what players were killed with in order to apply additional Logic
Enable the portal SetTeamId block to be usable with AI

Battlefield 1942

Fixed spotting issues for the Binoculars
Fixed an issue that caused the M3 Halftrack and Sd. Kfz 251 Halftrack to sometimes dip into the terrain
Fixed an issue that caused the 9K22 Tunguska-M to take too much damage from some vehicle MG’s

Battlefield: Bad Company 2

Improved the M416 reload animation
The Tracer Dart now locks successfully on tagged vehicle
Mortar Strike can no longer be fired while not zoomed
Additional tuning to the UAV-1

Battlefield 3

Fixed a bug that could cause the M3A3 Bradley primary and APFSDS-T Shells to continue firing uninterrupted
Fixed a bug that prevented the SOFLAM and MAV gadgets maintaining their previous aim direction when a player re-entered them
Fixed a bug that caused the MAV, EOD Bot and SOFLAM gadgets to show a preview model after it had already been placed
Added new and classic voice over lines for damaging/killing an enemy with a Defibrillator using BF3 Assault characters
The Mi-28 Havoc and AH-64 Apache Rocket Pods now have the same reload time
EOD Bot now has a Vehicle Status Icon to assist with driver orientation
Rebalanced the Su-35BM Flanker-E to match the health of other jets
The FGM-148 Javelin now has two distinct firing types
Balancing pass on C-RAM and Pantsir stationary
Increased the reload time for Guided Rocket
Fixed passive spotting issues for the MAV

UX Improvements

Made a series of visual, audio, and gameplay improvements to weapons, vehicles, and gadgets
Improved the Plus Menu customization experience
Fixed navigational issues on the Player Card Collection screen
Added a new Options to select damage the indicator color for soldiers and vehicles
Added a new crosshair option to change damage indicator shape thickness between: Thin - Medium - Thick'
Replaced the "Accessibility" button in the Experience Selection with "Accessibility & Options"
Fixed the color picker preview in Options menu often showing black, instead of the actual color
Pinged objects now remain visible when occluded

Conquest

Tuned information spamming in Conquest, reducing the amount of messages that appear in the world log. In particular we reduced messages about flag state changes so that they’re not as distracting

Breakthrough

Tuned capture times for Breakthrough
Improved out of bounds defender spawning in Breakthrough to ensure easier safe spawning
Made improvements to the Breakthrough UI to enable you to better track round progress in the form of a Game Mode Widget
The Game Mode Widget inside the Scoreboard has been updated to put emphasis on sectors and attackers reinforcements. Note that it only displays while playing Breakthrough and Rush
Elapsed time is now added and trackable in both the Scoreboard & Deploy Screen.
Added a pulsating effect on the Team 1 (attacker) score and progress bar when their tickets are =< 25% of their initial tickets. This is also present in the GMW in the HUD, Scoreboard and Deploy Screen for both Rush and Breakthrough
Made UI improvements to indicate when the attacking team has reached the last sector
Made UI improvements to indicate when the defending team loses a sector
Fixed an issue that could cause the End of Round screen to display inaccurate scores for the attacking team

This announcement may change as we listen to community feedback and continue developing and evolving our Live Service & Content. We will always strive to keep our community as informed as possible.

Note further changes are listed in the following post.

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Battlefield 2042 - Update #3