DICE deployed a new patch for Battlefield 2042 and is now available on all platforms. Update 5.1.0 brought some nice improvements, like All-Out Warfare attachments for a couple of Vault Weapons, and some squad spawning changes.
In Update 5.1.0, both M39 EMR and the SVD marksman rifles can now use weapon attachments to make them even better, including sights, barrels, and extended magazines. This is part of the company's ongoing efforts to improve Vault Weapons in Battlefield 2042, which started with the release of Season 5: New Dawn last month.
Aside from that, some squad spawning improvements have been implemented. For one, there is now a "Low Vehicle Health" prompt when attempting to spawn on vehicles from the deployment screen. With this change, players can see the state of the vehicle before heading out. Besides that, the company restricted the ability to spawn on foot with the CAV-Brawler if the said vehicle is at full capacity or is currently in combat. The company said that this helps prevent players from meeting their untimely demise upon spawning on the battlefield.
In terms of bug fixes, the issue that prevented players from being able to cancel a Danger Ping has been resolved. Furthermore, the bug that caused players to stutter while freefalling at high speeds has been fixed.
Changelog
Audio
- Fixed an issue where grenades play the pin-out twice if you wait a long time to throw
- Fixed an issue where silencers were affecting underbarrel shotgun & launcher firing sounds
- Updated when the game thinks the player is on the Exodus to catch edge cases where the mix of the game would be wrong.
- Fixed visual and audio sync for countdown timer in End of Round.
- Fixed bug where the Main menu character animations would sometimes not play because of audio being culled.
- Added fallback to loading music when going to a level in case the normal loading music trigger doesn't get hit.
- Expanding the season 5 main menu to be more alive and engaging with sounds of soldiers working, PA announcements and alarms when joining a level.
General/Gameplay Improvements
- Fixed an issue that caused damage numbers to appear in the skulltrain when the crosshair placed damage numbers option was enabled.
- Fixed an issue that would cause a pinged objective or vehicle to no longer be pinged if another squad member also pinged it.
- Fixed an issue that would cause the confirm counter to count incorrectly if the Squad Leader canceled a previous ping.
- Fixed an issue that prevented players from being able to spot vehicles when inside of a vehicle.
- Fixed an issue that prevented players from being able to spot nearby enemies when inside of a vehicle.
- Fixed an issue that was causing vehicle icons on the minimap to stutter/jitter as they moved.
- Fixed so Chat position respects Horizontal HUD padding.
- You'll now be able to separately alter the scaling of Vehicle Seating and Game Hints within the HUD Options
- Added a preview window to the Options setting for the Minimap Orientation.
- This preview window now also displays the aforementioned updates.
Battlefield 2042 Update 5.1.0 is available on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.
