Battlefield games have long held the tradition of setting players loose on otherwise unusually large maps for the FPS genre, which combatants would then spend matches blowing up, destroying and zipping across with the help of various vehicles. In Battlefield 2042, the scale has only gone up to match the huge player count, and DICE has revealed just how much bigger the maps will be.
that Battlefield 2042 will ship with seven maps at launch, and DICE is packing a whole lot more content into those maps than ever before thanks to the expanded opportunities afforded the developers by the new hardware in the current generation of consoles. More destructible scenery, more vehicles, more props and more set pieces - hell, they even fit natural disasters in them!
Just how much bigger are these maps than previous ones, really? Luckily, this isn't something DICE is leaving up for speculation - the developers shared a chart showing off the size of all seven maps in comparison to various popular maps from the history of the franchise, and in each case the 2042 map is significantly larger. Even the smallest map will offer players a large playing field to shoot and bomb to their heart's content.
On the larger end of the scale, we have Hourglass which looks to be 4 times as large as Hamada was in Battlefield V, whereas the biggest map, Irreversible, is over double the size of El Alamein from Battlefield 1942. In every case, we're seeing momentous size differences compared to what previous titles offered, and we're sure that the maps of Battlefield 2042 would put those of other series to shame as well.
