First-person shooter Battlefield 2042 will join Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and EA Play with the start of Season 3.
Battlefield 2042 will launch alongside Season 3 of the game on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and EA Play, as was revealed in a development update. As DICE and other EA developers continue to support Battlefield 2042’s live service, a major player injection is on its way to the multiplayer shooter. DICE confirmed in its most recent development update that with the release of the game’s Season 3, Escalation, they would join the EA Play and Xbox Game Pass subscription systems.
With this update, the game will be available through the EA Play basic subscription on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation platforms. Members of Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass subscription services, which feature EA Play as an added perk, now have free access to Battlefield 2042.
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Season 3 has no set release date, but it will mark a year of Battlefield 2042 updates. The development team is also promising major things for the game’s future, even revealing that material for the game after Season 4’s release in 2023 is already in the works.
Season 3 will include new weaponry for the modern shooter from past Battlefield games through Portal mode, a specialist rework to return them as a part of a Class system, and updates to current maps. New Portal content, a new map, a brand-new Specialist, as well as other widely desired updates to the shooter, are also on the way.
Battlefield 2042 free-to-play events are starting in December on all platforms to make sure everyone has an opportunity to test out the updated shooter.
The game is completely free to check out for Xbox users from December 1 until December 4. On the other hand, Steam users may try it out from December 1 through December 5. PlayStations owners may test it out from December 16 to December 23.
