DICE has rolled out Battlefield 2042 update 0.3.1, which comes with major improvements to hit registration, multiple audio improvements, and balance changes. This is the the game’s final update of the year. Upon return from the holidays, DICE will detail further improvements, updates, and road to Season One.

Patch notes for 0.3.1 are as follows:

Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

General

Players that are not the Party Leader can now cancel while waiting in a queue
Xbox – Cross-Play can now be enabled/disabled in the Options menu on Xbox
Your Sort settings will now be correctly remembered when refreshing the Battlefield: Portal Server Browser
Fixed an issue where loadouts would sometimes be empty on the spawn screen after joining a server, preventing weapon selection
Made improvements to ensure Aim Assist is more consistent during console gameplay
Ranger’s effective combat range and overall health has been decreased

Audio

Made various tweaks to the overall audio experience to improve clarity, distance, and directional perception
Fixed an issue where soldiers would not always play indoor specific footsteps

Weapons

Removed bounce from Underbarrel Grenades when firing at short distances
40mm AP Grenades now properly damage vehicles
Fixed some weapons displaying wrong ammo counts for specific magazines
DXR-1 and NTW-50 Bolt Action rifles reload animation increased by 0.2 seconds
Adjusted dispersion values for most weapons, which results in a faster dispersion decrease when tap firing or doing short bursts
Adjusted dispersion increases for most weapons. It now takes slightly longer for weapons to become overly inaccurate in sustained fire
Adjusted the recoil values to prevent over aggressive recoil jumps for the AK24, LCMG, PKP-BP, SFAR-M GL, and PP-29
Improved hip fire accuracy for all SMGs to make them better stand-out from other automatic weapon archetypes
LMG dispersion and recoil lowered to improve performance in sustained fire
Additional improvements to recoil control for all weapons, more specifically automatic weapons.
Increased close range damage and consistency of the MCS-880 when using Buckshot Shell or Flechette Shells
Fixed a bug that caused bullets to be fired below the player’s aims for the SFAR-M GL and the K30

Vehicles

Fixed a bug where vehicle weapons sometimes did not deal blast damage on a direct hit

We’re reducing the Ground Vehicle 30mm Cannon effectiveness versus infantry. It now overheats faster, has a slightly reduced rate of fire and blast damage, and increased fall off damage at distance

Rate of Fire 350 -> 330
Heat Per Bullet 0.13 -> 0.14
Heat Drop Per Second 0.5 -> 0.475
Blast Damage 20 -> 18

LCAA Hovercraft – 40mm GPL Grenade Launcher

Blast Damage lowered from 55 -> 35

The 40mm Utility Pod upwards firing angle is now easier to use
EBAA Wildcat – 57mm Cannon

Removed dispersion
Ammo 12 -> 8
Impact Damage 85 -> 75
Blast Damage 70 -> 35

Gadgets

Frag Grenade

Increased the time to detonate a Frag Grenade from 1.1s -> 1.4s after first bounce on a hard collision
Increased damage of Frag Grenades across game modes to deal 120 damage and guarantee a kill on armored players too
Reduced Frag and Incendiary Grenade max ammo count from 2 -> 1

Prox Sensor

Lowered spotting radius from 30m -> 20m
Lowered uptime from 30s -> 14s
Lowered amount of Prox Sensor a player can carry and deploy from 2 -> 1

Battlefield Hazard Zone

Fixed an issue that caused the roaming Occupying Forces LATV4 Recon to spawn at the wrong times or not at all

Breakthrough

Kaleidoscope – Rooftop Capture Objective has been removed. There are now two Capture Objective at the bottom in BT large and one at the bottom in BT small
Orbital – Rooftop Capture Objective has been removed. There is now a single Capture Objective at the bottom in BT large and BT small
Hourglass – Rooftop Capture Objective has been removed. There is now a single Capture Objective at the bottom in BT large and BT small. Also fixed an issue where players were spawning out of bounds

Soldier

Improvements on back pedaling into objects when being in prone position
Fixed a rare issue where players could turn invisible when spawning on a full/destroyed vehicle

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