Battlefield™ 2042 News

We are releasing Update 8.6.1 on Tuesday, April 1st (no, we are not kidding!), which will enable the King of the Hill mode for Battlefield 2042, as part of the War Machine time-limited event!

War Machine has been underway since March 18th and will continue to run through to April 15!

//The Battlefield Team

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[h2]King of the Hill[/h2]
King of the Hill is a new mode coming on April 1st as part of the War Machine time-limited event. Two teams rush to capture a single objective on the map while also trying to repel the enemy team!

Combined Arms
In King of the Hill, you’ll fight 20 versus 20 in an all-out battle for control over the objective! Both Infantry close quarter combat and Vehicle skills are going to be required to win over your enemy.

Vehicles will become unlocked as a team loses tickets, so don’t count your chickens just yet and keep your eyes open for a counterattack by enemy forces. King of the Hill features a single objective that moves to a new location after a set amount of time, opening avenues and opportunities to take back control or further dominate the opponent.

How to grab the crown and become King!
Vehicles can turn the tide quickly, so make sure you check the vehicle menu for newly unlocked vehicles and track progress when they unlock at the top of the deploy screen!

The losing team unlocks new vehicle categories before their enemy, so use this advantage to take back control over the objective.

Controlling chokepoints can be more impactful than throwing bodies at the objective.

Control, control, control.
Using Spawn Beacons, Irish’s EIDOS system, and other gadgets can swing the match in your favor; use them wisely.

Know your objective and how it rotates.
The rotation will pick from two to three different points, so learning which those can be and rotating quickly will give you an advantage over the enemy team.

King of the Hill is available on:

• Kaleidoscope
  
• Flashpoint
  
• Renewal
  
• Valparaiso
  

Missed out on War Machine so far? Catch up with all changes, new modes, the Event Pass, and more in our Patch 8.6.0 blog.

And what’s a wrap for this Update Note, but as one final reminder - hold the objective, deplete the enemy score and win!


This announcement may change as we listen to community feedback and continue developing and evolving our Live Service & Content. We will always strive to keep our community as informed as possible.

We are on the verge of total annihilation. Resources have dwindled, AI has taken control, and death is the only hand being dealt.


Welcome to the end of the world as we know it. This is the War Machine Event. You’ll need to conquer three modes and save humanity from extinction.



Take back control of precious resources by holding a majority of capture points in Domination.

Take up arms against the rogue AOS AI who started this fight and wipe out her relentless horde of AI robots in Override.

Fight and take charge of a single capture point as hell rains down on you – if your squad can handle the onslaught – in King of the Hill, coming in a future update.

The world needs you, No-Pat. Does your squad have what it takes to take down the War Machine?

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[h2]Arkangel Archives: Hybridization[/h2]



There’s nothing like seeing the dead come back to life, especially when she’s the leader of your new squad.

I remember 8838—she goes by Eight now, since it’s easier— in the Boreas killing fields, taking out Geists like she was born to do it. Except it was Arkangel tech keeping her up and running; reinforced bones, synthetic eyes, dampened pain tolerance. When the lab was breached, I assumed Eight had been slaughtered in the crossfire. Everyone I worked with certainly was.

But she found her way back to the No-Pats, somehow. Her and the remnants of Unit 86 have a new mission: taking out the CENTRAL army created by A.O.S. through any means necessary. The Anti-Automaton Assault squadron takes anyone who is willing to become a saboteur and die for the cause, even if they used to be the enemy. EMPs, hacked drones, even frying entire power grids if it means destroying one of those bot printers so they can’t get back up.

I’m not a captain anymore. But I’m something better, I think.

–Campbell, A3 “Crash” Squad


[h2]Rogue Agents: The Most Dangerous Game[/h2]



TO: Kimble “Irish” Graves
FROM: Navin Rao

Hey Irish,

I know you wanted my analysis of the new automatons we’ve encountered under A.O.S.’s control. This is a quick and dirty summary—I’m having to process so much tactical data that the servers need an ice pack and a raise, so I’ll deliver the hard numbers in a later report.

We know the Geists. Each variant printed out of the lab in Scotland ran off a similar blueprint, and they had limits on how much their behavior could adapt. They were slow, simple, not much different than Rangers assigned to guard a perimeter.

These CENTRAL units… think. They learn. It happens in microseconds, almost too fast to read, but between unloading one clip and the next, their behavior can change, zeroing in on a weakness in the enemy like—

Like us, Irish. They move in teams. They change weapons, they drive, they hack. The only difference is they don’t care if a limb gets blown off the bot next to them. These relentless chimera bastards will give up a hundred bodies, a thousand, if it can force a victory.

Because there’s always more of them. We have to reach the source and stop A.O.S., or eventually we’re going to be overrun.

I wish I had better news. Let’s do a deck walk on the Exodus next time I’m on the ship, yeah? It might almost be like old times.

Best,
Rao

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The world needs you now more than ever, No-Pat. Take power back with the War Machine Accelerated Event Pass and access:

• All Premium content
  
• 15 instant Tier Skips
  
• Exclusive Legendary Skin for Angel
  

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Secure the goods and take down the big bad – before humanity is history.



[h2]Get the War Machine Accelerated Event Pass. Available from Mar 18 - Apr 15.[/h2]

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