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Assault_Lemming's avatar
3 years ago

I just started playing 2042 today, is there a hardcore mode?

I am sorry but I just cannot play this noob mode. I can see people through cover and smoke with some cheese outline, and it shows me where people are who kill me? It's just cheese and not fun. I could not find a server browser to find a hardcore server. Can anyone tell me if there is hardcore please? I hate this noob mode. 

edit: oh lord I heal when I am standing still. This is some serious noob mode.

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  • Anaghya's avatar
    Anaghya
    Seasoned Veteran
    3 years ago

    Yes, there are some hardcore servers in Portal (accessible via main menu).

  • Hi @Assault_Lemming,

    Unfortunately then EA do not host any hardcore servers in this game.  Matter of fact, the very low remaining number of players makes it even hard for EA to properly populate servers running in standard softcore game mode and as result not even all geographic regions have anymore servers available even for this.

    The only way you can play in hardcore mode in the BF2042 environment is within the Portal mode, where players on your own can setup all the rules/parameters you want your own game server to follow.  Aka:  Soldier health starts at 60% and no health regeneration.   No mini-map and no enemy soldier tagging. 

    It is however very challenging these days to get build up a server community of dedicated gamers, because the server that you set up in the portal disappears the instance when you and the last player may leave the server.  Hence, nobody else can then go back in again to start it up again and keep it alive for others to join and have fun on it while you and your assigned admins may take a break away from it.

    Best of luck with it, as we are many that miss the hardcore gaming in BF these days...

  • Noodlesocks's avatar
    Noodlesocks
    3 years ago

    @X-Sunslayer-X wrote:
    @Assault_Lemmingare you sure you want to play BF and not something like Squad, ARMA, Insurgency????

    Hardcore mode has been a popular part of Battlefield games since Battlefield 3 and is generally closer to what Battlefield used to be before the franchise went multiplatform.

  • mickey921's avatar
    mickey921
    3 years ago

    There is usually hard core modes in the portal What does noob mode mean I thought noob means new to something.

  • NazT55's avatar
    NazT55
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago
    @mickey921 he just means that he needs to get gud before trying to play core modes.
  • ElliotLH's avatar
    ElliotLH
    Hero+
    3 years ago

    There's not an official hardcore mode but, as the others have mentioned already, you should be able to find quite a few in Portal.

  • @CyberDyme I believe Portal servers now stay live for 7 days and the owner (or any player?) can join the server during those 7 days to reset the 7 day timer.

    They added this feature in a previous portal update unless I totally misunderstood the update?
  • CyberDyme's avatar
    CyberDyme
    3 years ago

    @Tank2042Man wrote:
    @CyberDymeI believe Portal servers now stay live for 7 days and the owner (or any player?) can join the server during those 7 days to reset the 7 day timer.

    They added this feature in a previous portal update unless I totally misunderstood the update?

    Thanks, great to hear @Tank2042Man ,

    As that is a good generous move from EA then, making it more practical to build up our server communities as we used to do also in the good old 'legacy' days!  ;o)

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