There'll be sliders for headshot damage, bodyshot damage, projectile speed, as well as an option to determine whether a player will drop their weapons and ammo on death. You'll be able to choose rulesets and modifiers, decide on whether you want extreme weather, friendly fire, aim assist or more. The list of map layouts for Battlefield Portal. Then you'll pick one of 33 map layouts (from 2042 and the old Battlefields), before getting into the nitty-gritty stuff. First, you'll choose from a selection of game modes, including Conquest Large, Conquest, Rush, Free-For-All and Team Deathmatch. Here you can browse that pre-made stuff, or go straight in and start designing from scratch. To start making your Battlefield Portal mode, you'll need to head to its dedicated website (once the game is out). You can choose to play these as-is, tweak them further to your personal tastes, or add in some wacky rules (like making goading messages pop up on-screen when one team is losing). Like, so, so much.įor starters, Dice say when the game launches, they'll have a bunch of pre-made classic maps ready and waiting for you. In his Battlefield Portal preview, Brendy already saw some of the fun you can have with Portal - such as taking tiny maps and throwing 128 players on them, handing everyone RPGs, or changing player run speed to have everyone zooming around. Every map could be improved by a grappling hook. I'm personally hoping to see plenty of oldies with 2042's sweet new grappling hook thrown in.
It will present you with some of your fave maps from the likes of Bad Company 2 and the Battlefields of old, then let you tweak them as much as you please by adding various vehicles, rules and more. Dice have detailed some of the options players will get to mess around with in Battlefield 2042's map customisation tool, Battlefield Portal, and there's just so much.