
See EA's open beta page for more info.Īpparently the game's near-future war is set against a backdrop of cataclysmic climate change, climate refugees, and satellites being wiped out by all the crud in orbit? Maybe games were more comforting when when you just had to shoot demons because they intended to wear your bum as a jaunty little hat.

The whole thing wraps up at 8am on Sunday the 10th. Open beta starts at 8am UK time (midnight Pacific) on Friday the 8th, following the "early access" period for billionaires which starts at 8am on Wednesday the 6th. Update: We've now played a bit - check out our Battlefield 2042 beta impressions. And oh yes, it'll have four of the game's characters/classes. It's a shame that EA have stopped using the marketing portmanteau "levelution" because the daftness always made me laugh. Along with the threat of blast-off, it can have a tornado roll through. The beta offers Conquest mode on one map, Orbital, the rocket launch site seen in the first trailer. And it's on Xbox and PlayStation too, obvs.

The download size, for me on Steam, is 19GB. You can now preload the Battlefield 2042 open beta client on Steam (you'll need to click the Request Access button, but it'll be granted instantly), Origin (click the Try It First button then look for the beta client in your library), and the Epic Games Store.
