Where are the Game Modes for 2042?

Well, that's not exactly what I'm looking for. I understand you may be able to create custom servers with the short list of Conquest Large, Conquest, Rush, FFA, and TDM, but I honestly have low hope for Custom Games from a console perspective. Custom Games have a much better life in the PC ecosystem than they do with consoles. 

I'm looking for standard, balanced, DICE generated playlists for these other game modes. It seems like the only DICE generated playlists will be Conquest and Breakthrough in All Out Warfare, and then some unknown number of Remastered experiences within Portal. 

Will the only DICE generated TDM playlist in BF 2042 be a rotating default playlist for 1942, BFBC2, or BF3?

No you are actually right @LithosMike ,

Because those modes that you listed for BF2042 core are the only ones so far they have promised us!

Conquest and Breakthrough in the All Out Warfare section and then the Hazard Zone mode separately.

I understand that we in the Portal area can select the 2042 maps and the specialists etc also, and here you can then also select to play on a smaller map.  But there have been no mentioning so far on alternative and more different game modes.

Aka Rush, Obliteration, Domination and Death matches for both squad or team, were all great popular game modes in past BF games!

@LithosMikeI had the same concern with DICE designed HC modes

Jackfrags explains portal nicely, in which he touches on this.

Apparently, DICE is going to include presets in portal from the get go. These include default maps and classes from older BFs and some ‘experiences’ that were designed by DICE themselves.

If DICE didn’t include the game modes your looking for in 2042, their is a great chance that some of them might be set in the portal at its launch.

@LithosMikeBattlefield 2042 “All-out Warfare” includes two game modes: Conquest and Brealthrough.

https://www.ea.com/games/battlefield/battlefield-2042/game-overview/modes

I would expect more popular game modes to come later or (what I think is coming) as limited-time, seasonal offerings.

EA DICE did this with Battlefield 1 (and/or Battlefield V, can’t remember…) and I suspect they will do it again.

Hi @carsono311 and @TrasteTh ,

In the Portal Creator area we already here from get-go have these options for game modes:

So quite great that we already now have both the classic "Large Conquest" and also "Conquest" on the smaller map size for intense gameplay.  Next to this we also have the all-time-great "Rush" mode! 

I would think that the "Custom" mode probably refer to all the server designs that are with custom game parameters that we can 'program' in the portal game logic editor, so they do not match any of the default game modes we know from previous BF games.  So it makes sense to put them in a separate bucket.

So game modes 'missing in action' are so far classic modes like: Obliteration, Domination and Death matches for both squad or team.

Fingers crossed that these also will be added as we move forward, as don't see big hurdles for tech team to enable those based on what we already have.  👍

Like others have mentioned, we'll possibly see more gamemodes added after launch. 

Considering so many modes fell by the wayside on BFV (Rush, Domination, Frontlines, Fortress and Grind to name a few) I think it's a reasonable assumption that Dice will want to try to focus on modes which in their eyes draw in the most players.

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@TrasteTh wrote:
@CyberDymeWas perhaps "Custom" renamed to "Free-for-all"?
Is that a recent screenshot?

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The screenshot is from yesterday's Portal reveal from EA.

(but maybe that is then from a branched off "build", that was made many many months ago? 😀)