EA’s gambit to have a Battlefield 2042 free weekend as Trendy Warfare 3 bought its multiplayer beta appears to have paid off. First famous by PCGamesN, the multiplayer FPS, which was lambasted by followers when it launched in 2021, practically matched its all-time peak participant rely on Steam—102,009 in keeping with SteamDB, simply shy of that 2021 excessive of 105,397.
It is a formidable displaying from a shooter many had all however written off, however there’s so much to advocate 2042 at this late date other than it having been quickly free. Again in March, PCG’s resident FPS aficionado, Morgan Park, discovered 2042 to be a redeemed shooter. The reintroduction of the Battlefield collection’ lessons, new maps, and contemporary Specialist roles all contributed to a vastly improved recreation.
It additionally does not harm that Battlefield and BattleBit Remastered’s type of excessive participant rely, much less rabidly aggressive shooter is fairly singular in at the moment’s sea of comp queue esports and battle royales. Battlefield and BattleBit are, god forbid, multiplayer shooters you possibly can load up on the weekend with a couple of mates and simply have enjoyable with.
And, lest we overlook, it wasn’t even all doom and gloom again at 2042’s rocky launch. PC Gamer govt editor Tyler Wilde awarded it an 80% in our evaluate, declaring that “It is a bolder Battlefield than we have had in a very long time, and I am having way more enjoyable working by means of what’s good and dangerous about its intensive modifications than I ever did arguing about what Battlefield 5’s common time-to-kill ought to be.”
So, although the free weekend is coming to an in depth, it does not look like a half-bad time to leap again into Battlefield 2042. Steam participant counts aren’t the be-all and end-all, however this weekend’s little triumph looks like a notable milestone on this shooter’s redemption arc.
