EA confirms Battlefield 2042 will use bots to fill servers

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EA has announced that the technical playtest for Battlefield 2042 – which will be players’ first chance to try the game – can now be signed up for now, and it launches later this summer.The news comes as part of a recent EA blog post called the ‘Battlefield Briefing’, which aims to answer the most burning questions about the upcoming first-person shooter. EA wrote in the post: “One of your most frequently asked questions is about cross-play.

Battlefield 2042 is still a few months from release, but one feature may need re-balancing before it launches – how often it throws players into the literal eye of the storm via the new tornadoes feature.That’s according to noted leaker Tom Henderson, who tweeted that early testers found the extreme weather feature “fun and cool to see for the first few times, but they become very repetitive and ruin the classic [Battlefield] experience and flow of the map”Early feedback of the tornadoes in

Ripple Effect – the re-branded EA studio DICE LA – general manager Christian Glass has confirmed that Battlefield 2042 will have a game mode that uses classic Battlefield maps.Glass provided some level of confirmation to the rumours that one of Battlefield 2042’s game modes would feature classic series maps in this new game’s engine.

EA has confirmed that Battlefield 2042’s wingsuit can be used with the tornado to fling yourself across the map.During today’s EA Play Live 2021 Spotlight event, EA DICE manager Oskar Gabrielson revealed that the tornados aren’t just devastating – they can be used to your advantage.“We added a lot of really cool gear to the game – things like grappling hooks and wingsuits,” he explained.“And then for some really cool reason, we said: ‘What about a real-time tornado?’ Real-time tornados are cool,

EA’s DICE LA studio, the co-developer of Battlefield 2042, has been renamed Ripple Effect, and reinforces that it is working on an unannounced project.In a blog post, the developer stated: “We’re currently working on a player-inspired experience for Battlefield 2042 and starting work on a yet-to-be announced project.”The unannounced game mode for Battlefield 2042 that Ripple Effect is working on is going to be revealed at EA Play Live on July 22.

American Horror Stories, Hulu’s American Horror Story spinoff anthology series, will welcome some fresh and returning faces. AHS alums Matt Bomer, Billie Lourd and John Carroll Lynch are set to return to the wicked world of Ryan Murphy’s horror franchise as they round out the cast.

Machine Gun Kelly has confirmed that he’s got some new music on the way set to arrive sometime in August.Speaking yesterday (July 5) during an Instagram Live, the rapper updated fans on what he’s been up to, including the recording of a follow-up to his 2020 album ‘Tickets To My Downfall’.“I’ve been filming a movie this month and getting ready for the next album rollout and this tour,” he told Kerrang, referring to his upcoming US tour which kicks off on September 9 in Minneapolis.“I’m excited

DICE has offered a gamer on Twitter a free copy of Battlefield 2042, if they can complete the BF V challenge on a one-inch screen.Mp1st, spotted the unusual interaction which took place on Twitter earlier this week.

Delia Fiallo was a Cuban-American romance novelist and screenwriter who wrote dozens of popular telenovelas for Latin American television.Born in Cuba, Fiallo began writing radionovelas for Cuban radio in the 1940s. As television became more widely available in the 1950s, she made the switch to writing telenovelas, finding a large audience with her melodramas.

Ellise Shafer administratorDelia Fiallo, an author and screenwriter known as the “mother of the Latin American telenovela,” has died, according to the Associated Press. She was 96.Fiallo’s caregiver told the AP that she died Tuesday at her home in Coral Gables, Fla., just five days before her 97th birthday.

Delia Fiallo, the beloved Cuban writer known as the “mother of the Latin American soap opera,” died on Tuesday, a source close to the scribe tells CNN. She was 96.

Love Productions USA (The Great American Baking Show) is set to produce Rhino Reboot, a series following the rebuilding of perennial underdog soccer team, The Rochester Rhinos, after sealing a deal with newly announced co-owners Jamie Vardy and David and Wendy Dworkin.

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Battlefield 2042 may be getting a cool new sandbox mode as its mysterious third mode has reportedly been uncovered.After EA Dice revealed the new Battlefield 2042 at E3, gamers were promised a mysterious new game mode in addition to All-Out Warfare and Hazard Zone.Now, Battlefield leaker Tom Henderson (via VG247) thinks he knows what it is.“Battlefield Hub is going to contain remasters of maps from old Battlefield titles,” he claims.“It’s going to be [these maps] on the Battlefield 2042 engine.

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Battlefield 4 player base, EA has increased server capacity for the game.In a recent forum post spotted by PC Gamer, an EA community manager has announced that server capacity for the US West region has been increased as “queue times in the US West region were far longer than in other regions.”The changes have already been made, meaning players “can expect less waiting, and more playing.”The manager attributes an increase in demand to the recent reveal of Battlefield 2042, which was announced

EA Dice‘s Battlefield 2042 Game Designer Daniel Berlin talks about how extreme weather affects the game’s combat.Daniel Berlin joined the Xbox Games Showcase Extended to talk about how the weather effects added to 2042 will affect matches.Using the new map Hourglass as an example, Berlin discussed how the sandstorm is a massive map-wide wall of sand that sweeps from one side of the map to the other.