Battlefield 2042 will also not feature a battle royale mode, following the series’ abortive experiments with the pervasive battle royale with Battlefield 5’s Firestorm – a mode that showed promise but lacked the ongoing support necessary to make it a success.
In a break from other recent traditions, it’ll also do away with a single-player campaign, and there are no plans for an accompanying battle royale mode.
Battlefield 2042 comes to PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series S and X on 22nd October.
“I think that’s just something that enables us to really lean into what we are best at,” Battlefield 2042 design director Daniel Berlin told Eurogamer about the lack of a single-player campaign – something that’s been a series mainstay since Battlefield 3.