Battlefield 2042 season 2 adds a new map and a man with an insane gun

Battlefield 2042 DICE has gone through the motions, and after drastic scaling back of scope, ambition, DICE developers are ready to return to the business of the multiplayer shooter. The game’s forthcoming season 2, titled Master of Arms, moves the focus away from game-wide shakeups in the interest of a good old-fashioned content drop.

Master of Arms will launch the Stranded map on August 30, three months following the end of season 1. Maybe inspired by the real-life Suez Canal blockage in Cairo. Charlie Crawford (an ex-arms dealer) is another specialist joining the fray. As far as characters in military shooters go, Charlie seems pretty basic, but he’s got a giant freaking gun and he talks like low-budget action legend Scott Adkins, so that’s kind of endearing.

Master of Arms, in addition to the new vehicles and weapons, will add a host of other new features. Battlefield 2042This is a tool that allows players to access season 1 content and expand their game. Battlefield Portal. These include Assignments, which DICE says are “a way to unlock weapons in All-Out Warfare which were previously only available within Battlefield Portal: Starting with M60E4’s iconic M16A3 and M16A3, there will be more updates in the future. Players will also be able to use Assignments to unlock season 1’s vehicles, weapons, and Specialist if they missed out the first time.”

Overall, it looks like an adequate, though not overtly seasonal, update for multiplayer shooters. Maybe that’s not necessarily enough to lure new or lapsed players in, but for the stalwart Battlefield 2042 Trustworthy, perhaps some stable running-of-the mill stability would be welcome at this time.