EA introduced the second regime Battlefield 2042 – Battlefield Portal… As it turned out, the leaks diminished the scope of the project, because it is a deep and flexible mode editor authored Ripper Effect (formerly DICE LA).
To begin with, the “Portal” is built on the basis of four games: Battlefield 1942, Bad company 2, Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 2042… Six were recreated from the classic maps, introducing the features of modern editions of the series, such as destruction and left-liberty.
Cards:
- Operation Ardennes from Battlefield 1942
- El Alamein from Battlefield 1942
- Port Arica from Battlefield: Bad Company 2
- Valparaiso from Battlefield: Bad Company 2
- “Caspian border” from Battlefield 3
- The Knowshehr Channels from Battlefield 3.
It is much more interesting that weapons, equipment and gadgets will be returned from the aforementioned games, and with the values as close as possible to the originals. That is, old rifles from 1942 will not be averaged with weapons from Bad Company 2. Along with this, the traditional class system will be available.
In general, players can customize absolutely everything – map rotation, victory conditions, team balance, the total number of players on the server, the capacity of teams (asymmetric can be made – for example, 25 versus 75), team features (what weapons, gadgets and vehicles will be available) etc.
That is why the developers are not particularly worried about the balance, because creating their own modes, users can easily make their own balance – for example, by increasing the damage from old rifles.
Another interesting feature of the “Portal” will be the ability to customize teams in such a way that some take on the role of Russians from Battlefield 3, while others – axes from Battlefield 1942. And so you can mix almost anything.
For example, you can make “Capture” on a small map with a team of 100 snipers from BF 1942 against 24 fighters with shotguns from BF 3. In this case, fighters with shotguns fully restore health upon killing, while snipers cannot replenish their health reserves at all.
The local editor allows you to implement completely crazy ideas. You can even make a cooperative “zombie mode” with the shooting of waves of enemies under the control of artificial intelligence. AI behavior logic can also be customized.
More examples of modes:
- 1 Tank from Battlefield 2042 vs. 20 Engineer Bots from Battlefield 3
- 4 soldiers from 2042 with a helicopter against 32 German soldiers from 1942 with 50% health.
This is how deep platform settings look like – logic parameters and the like.
Even more interesting, Battlefield Portal modes can be created literally in the browser – even from the phone. It doesn’t even require a copy of Battlefield 2042 itself. You just need to go to the website, connect to your EA account and create.
All modes run on dedicated EA servers, no direct connection to host players. If desired, at the time of publication, you can set a password so that only acquaintances can enter.
DICE will personally oversee the most interesting and popular modes in a dedicated Portal tab, but the developers will provide the opportunity to play your favorite modes from Battlefield 1942, Bad Company 2 and Battlefield 3 in their original form.
There will be two main playlists in total: “Official” and “Community Pick”. At the same time, it seems that EA is not yet sure of the great success of Portal, so they are in no hurry to talk about plans to further support the regime with other classic content after the release.
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