Will Battlefield 2042 be playable with a mouse and keyboard on Box series S

What you said is incorrect, as mouse and keyboard lobbies are separated. Also historically there are no battlefield games to make a comparison.

I don’t see this happening unless the game becomes crossplay.

using a mouse and keyboard on console is classed as cheating on pretty much every game and is actually a permanent ban for some games. This is due to the skill imbalance created by using a mouse and keyboard compared to controller. For example, aiming dead zones and speed are significantly slower on controller. And fluidity of movement is significantly slower on controller again due to the joysticks dead zone and speed.

if you want to use mouse and keyboard, play pc. There is no reason to be using mouse and keyboard on console. Plus if you already have a mouse and keyboard then you already have a pc I’m guessing. 

I do not see what the problem is. COD has been a success! Today there is a community that accepts playing with friends of different controllers, whether you are keyboard or hand controller. I would think that this should already be evaluated by former COD director Bryan Beede !. 🙌

@SrMaybe2042I think many people who use a controller when playing on console are worried that if DICE allows the use of M&K for Battlefield, then the game will become unfair as the M&K players will be much better able to control their character than the players using a controller.

No, look, I don't see it like that! Today, if I compare it with the gameplay in COD, the hand controllers have native aiming assistance from the game, which balances the game between the players. there are even communities in DISCORD between the two M&K and command controls. Even today we see that many play on PC with a hand controller, because they feel comfortable! and the great competitive players mostly play with handheld controllers. At least that's what I see from my perspective towards the new experiences that COD has offered, and it's not even a problem today.😉

If it can be done in a fair way, I personally would be ok with it 🙂

Btw. perhaps many people who use a controller are worried that if M&K becomes allowed in Battlefield, the next step will be to introduce crossplay with people playing on PC.

There should be crossplay with pc. But eith input based lobbies.

It´s not only COD that has M and K support on the Xbox you also have Halo, Roblox, Warframe, Sea of Thieves, Gears, Ark and Fortnite to mention some of the multiplayer games. And also a lot of Sp games. And as many say it works well there. Controlers have aim assist so it evens out, you even have some PC players using controllers instead of keyboards, then why not have mouse and keyboard support on consoles?

Then the matchmaking works a bit different in these games I think, Jackfrags recently made a video about using controllers in COD Warzone, if you matchmake with controller u meet 80% controller users, and if u matchmake with M&K you mett 30% controllers or something like that. He said he also seems to win a lot more games using controller while playing on PC.

And in Halo you can choose to only matchmake with people with the same input or all inputs, and you can´t change inputs during a match to cheat the matchmaking. If you start a match with controller you have to play the entire match with controller until you back out to the menus, the keyboard wont respond to input during gameplay.

And lets not forgett that PC players using controllers are the ones that get the advantage. If you use controller on PC and matchmake with other players using controllers, like console players. You both get aim assist, but the PC player also get more graphical options to get better visibilty, FOW slider wich most console games still dont have, he can also have an ultrawide monitor for even wider FOW, ability to get even higher FPS.