22 July 2021

Battlefield 2042 Portal revealed during EA Play 2021, sandbox-like mode lets you create your own battlefield



Battlefield Portal is the third, previously redacted, game mode in Battlefield 2042. Electronic Arts and Ripple Effect Studios (formerly DICE LA) revealed the community-driven experience during the EA Play Live Showcase today.

Battlefield Portal lets players create their own battlefield. It is essentially a sandbox that allows you to customize the game's settings. The integrated logic editor makes it possible to share your creation with the community. Portal is available to everyone with an EA account. You don't need a copy of Battlefield 2042 to create a custom Portal experience.

“Battlefield Portal is truly a love letter to our passionate and long-time fans,” said Justin Wiebe, senior design director at Ripple Effect Studios. “We’ve created a set of tools that really gives the community the chance to create their own signature Battlefield experiences, while also bringing back these iconic Battlefield classics for our veteran players to revel in and our new players to experience for the first time.”

Here are some examples of what is possible with Battlefield Portal. You can reduce or increase the player size, you can choose maps, vehicles, and loadouts, you can pit soldiers from 1942 against soldiers from 2042 or you can even equip one team with just defibrillators while the other team only has knifes. Or all players are only allowed to use sniper rifles. Or you have to fight against 20 EOD bots as a tank and much more... Almost everything is possible with this new game mode.

All maps will support Battlefield 2042's larger player count, namely128 players, on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC while 64 players are still the maximum on PS4 and Xbox One. Portal also supports Battlefield 2042's cross-platform play.

Battlefield Portal therefore also offers elements of previous games. This is an overview of the assets that will be available at launch. More content will be added with each new season of the battle pass. 

Game Modes:
Conquest
Rush
Classic Battlefield game modes
custom game modes created by players and developers

Maps:
all of the maps from Battlefield 2042
Battle Of The Bulge (Battlefield 1942) 
El Alamein (Battlefield 1942) 
Arica Harbor (Battlefield: Bad Company 2) 
Valparaiso (Battlefield: Bad Company 2) 
Caspian Border (Battlefield 3) 
Noshahr Canals (Battlefield 3) 

Weapons: 
40+ Weapons from 3 Theaters of War 
M1 Garand, Panzerschreck, G3, M416, and more 
Battlefield 2042’s All-Out Warfare arsenal 

Vehicles: 
40+ Vehicles from 3 Theaters of War 
Spitfire, B17 Bomber, Quad Bike, Little Bird, and more
Battlefield 2042’s All-Out Warfare vehicles 

Gadgets: 
30+ Gadgets from 3 Theaters of War 
MAV, Radio Beacon, Defibrillator, EOD Bot, and more
Battlefield 2042’s Gadgets 

Armies: 
Classic Factions return, mix and match between 7 different armies from the Classic titles as well as Battlefield 2042’s Specialists is possible
Battlefield 1942’s UK, US, and Germany armies
Bad Company 2’s US and Russia armies

Soldiers:
Classic Factions return, like Battlefield 3’s Assault, Engineer, Support and Recon


Here is the official trailer as well as new screenshots for Battlefield Portal. Also check out this blog post which answers a lot of fan questions. In addition, DICE confirmed last month that Battlefield 2042 will include cross-play, cross-progression, and cross-commerce.