Battlefield 2042 season 4 launch date, new Specialist and map announced

Season 4 of Battlefield 2042 — the season that will include the game’s final new Specialist — launches on Feb. 28, and will include a new map, new weapons and gadgets, and new vault weapons pulled from Battlefield 3 for the game’s Battlefield Portal mode. In a gameplay preview video released Friday, developer DICE shows what the new Recon-class Specialist Camila Blasco is capable of and where players will shoot each other up in season 4, titled “Eleventh Hour.”

Blasco will be included in the Recon class Battlefield 2042DICE reports that Blasco has introduced a new gadget, the X6Infiltration Device. It allows team members to move and not alert motion-based technology. Blasco’s gadget also prevents lock-ons from hostile devices, interferes with active spotting technology, and creates communication dead zones within its range until destroyed or deactivated. The X6 detects enemy technology and reveals it.

She’s the last Specialist for Battlefield 2042, but DICE says it will continue to add skins and cosmetics — and other content — for a planned season 5.

Season 4 will feature a brand new Battleground for Flashpoint players. The map, set in South Africa, was a “once-thriving biodiversity hotspot, now an abandoned development complex doomed for failure,” DICE says. Flashpoint will feature close-quarters combat, with weapons and vehicles supporting those intimate battle encounters.

Coming soon: New weaponry Battlefield 2042Season 4:

• The Super 500 shotgun sidearm, which DICE describes as high risk and high reward, and “perfect for breaching and close quarters combat situations,” due to its short range;
• DICE calls the RM68 assault rifle versatile with built-in silencers.
• AC9 SMG: A lightweight submachine weapon for rapid fire exchanges
• RPT-31 LMG and its low fire rate is offset by heavy-hitting, fast-traveling rounds.

Battlefield Portal’s new vault weapons include the Type 88 LMG (SVD) and Type 88 LMG (both from Battlefield 3.

Through the Season 4 Battle Pass, players can unlock the CAV’Brawler, an armored vehicle that has a detection pulse to locate enemy troops, as well the SPH explosive rocketer. These bombs attach directly to the target and explode shortly after the delay. Battlefield 2042.

Reworked DICE Battlefield 2042’s Specialists into more traditional Battlefield-style classes (Assault, Recon, Support, and Engineer) in a recent patch. With 14 Specialists in total (following Blasco’s release), DICE says its focus going forward “is to continue to listen to your feedback and bring design and balance changes to our return to the class system.”