Battlefield 2042 has had a really tough journey because the multiplayer shooter first launched in October 2021. However regardless of decrease than anticipated gross sales and participant counts, Digital Arts continues to be plowing forward with the sport’s improvement with the beginning of the sport’s first-ever season, Season One: Zero Hour.

The season was initially scheduled to kick off in early 2022 however was delayed to summer season and is now stay with a brand new map, a brand new specialist, and a bunch of different new content material.

Season One: Zero Hour comes with a mountainous new map known as Publicity. Primarily based on the Canadian Rockies, the brand new map options excessive vertical terrain with a number of factors of curiosity together with a army command heart nestled inside a rocky mountain cliff. Gamers additionally get entry to a brand new vehicle-killing knowledgeable specialist named Ewelina Lis, new stealth helicopters, and a season battle move with each a free and premium reward observe.

The size of time wanted to kick off the Battlefield 2042’s first season has led to hypothesis that the sport is now being run by a skeleton crew whereas the remainder of the staff works on the brand new Battlefield recreation. EA beforehand admitted that the sport didn’t meet expectations however vehemently denies the rumors that they’ve deserted its improvement.

“There’s a important staff throughout studios centered on evolving and enhancing the Battlefield 2042 expertise for our gamers, and on the coronary heart of that’s our staff at DICE,” EA instructed GamesBeat’s Jeff Grubb. “We’re dedicated to the way forward for Battlefield 2042 and our areas of focus for the sport, based mostly on what now we have heard from our gamers, was specified by our current improvement replace.”

It’s additionally value noting that the playerbase has seen a large spike with the launch of Season 1 with over 14,700 gamers presently on-line as of this writing in comparison with the three,500 participant common that the sport was logging previous to its launch earlier this week.