On Jan. 20, DICE and EA released Zombie Survival Mode for Battlefield 2042. The game mode has now been removed after only a day of it going live. It turns out players discovered an exploit to turn the mode into another bot farming server, causing a lot of criticism from fans and critics.
DICE didn’t catch the exploit before release and didn’t limit the amount of XP that players can gain in the mode. Ripple Effect Studios takes the brunt of the criticism, as the company is in charge of the modes in the Battlefield Portal portion of 2042. Ripple Effect Senior Design Director Justin Wiebe has responded to the controversy, agreeing with frustrated fans that “this shouldn’t have gotten through our review process.” Wiebe claims that the team’s desire to release a fun zombie mode “clouded” the company’s ability to realize how the mode could affect progression.
We have removed Zombie Survival as this weeks featured#BattlefieldPortal experience and replaced it with Gun Master 2042These changes are now live across all platformspic.twitter.com/zn4zv7KTOz
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I’m not going to lie, this one shouldn’t have gotten through our review process. I think our desire to create a fun zombies mode clouded our ability to see such a simple thing like the impact it would have on progression. I’m very sorry for the hardship this has caused.https://t.co/01MXOdWGN5
Since the game launched, battlefield 2042 has been suffering from backlash, with several criticisms aimed at the game’s allegedly incomplete state. There have been rumors thatEA is planning to make the game free-to-playto salvage the title.
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