Developer Dice today confirmed that it will no longer be actively developing new content for Battlefield 2042’s Hazard Zone mode. A smaller PvPvE experience that supports up to 32 players, it hasn’t gained the desired traction, according to Creative Director Lars Gustavsson.
The team behind the game will, instead, shift the resources dedicated to Hazard Zone towards Battlefield 2042’s All-Out Warfare experience, which has proven more popular with players.
“Hazard Zone will stay as part of the experience, we’re not switching it off, but beyond addressing critical errors and odd behaviors that may appear in the future, we’re no longer actively developing new experiences or content for the mode, and you’ll find that maps that we release across our seasons will not be supported in Hazard Zone,” reads a recent post detailing the game’s future direction.
The mode had an interesting concept behind it, seeing multiple squads of players racing across smaller versions of BF2042’s launch maps to retrieve data drives before doing their best to extract. Opportunities to do so were limited and the maps were patrolled by hostile AI on top of other competing squads.
Hazard Zone even had a self-contained economy but failed to deliver on the promise of a compelling Tarkov-lite experience, feeling at times a little pointless to play.
While this is undoubtedly disappointing to anyone still enjoying the mode, Season 1 is confirmed to arrive next month, adding 32-player Rush to the All-Out Warfare rotation alongside a slate of currently unannounced new content.
Hopefully, this will prove to be a necessary step towards putting Battlefield 2042’s live service back on track after its troubled launch.
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