This Tuesday marks the arrival of the UH-60 to Battlefield 2042. Coupled with a new repair system, and Cyberwarfare Protection functionality, this new vehicle Vault Drop will allow you to transport your squad across the map with ease and power.
Play between September 10-24, on two new game modes: Breakthrough UH-60 Chaos and Control Unlocked, and earn ribbons to permanently add the UH-60 to your arsenal.
Update 8.1.0 also includes a variety of improvements to vehicles, which you can read via the changelog below!
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New Vault Drop - UH-60
Pilot the UH-60, the iconic Utility Tactical Transport Aircraft System, and transport your squad across the map with ease. Featuring plenty of seating and gunpower, this transporter will allow you to tactically reposition and take objectives through coordination and style.
As part of the transition from Battlefield Portal to Battlefield 2042, the UH-60 will also bring a new Repair System and Cyberwarfare Protection System to the All-Out Warfare variant, alongside improvements to its camera and flying characteristics.
During this period, Breakthrough UH-60 Chaos and Control Unlocked will also result in all Specialists, Weapons, Gadgets, and Vehicles being available for use - including the UH-60. You’ll also earn ribbons twice as fast as you play Breakthrough UH-60 Chaos and Control Unlocked during this time.
If you’re unable to acquire the UH-60 in this timeframe, the vehicle will become available via an unlock assignment on September 24th.
Changelog
General Changes
- Improved the Conquest stat tab to show the correct amount of defensive kills.
- Fixed the mastery level that’s displayed on highlighted weaponry not correctly updating within the classes screen whilst deployed.
- Time spent on Objective added to the Scoreboard in the Strike Team mode.
- Fixed an issue where ribbons were not displayed correctly on the Shutdown game mode at the end of the round.
- Tentative fix for an issue in Strike Team where equipment dropped in-world during a round wasn’t correctly removed in the next.
- Fixed an issue where AI soldiers would sometimes stop moving when the AI max health was lowered through Battlefield Portal.
- Fixed an issue where AI soldiers would take cover waiting for their health to regenerate even when health regeneration was disabled, causing them to wait there indefinitely. You know, sometimes AI doesn’t have intelligence.
- Fixed an issue where the player option to "Always Use Traversal Sprint" would override gamemodes that have disabled the feature.
Vehicles
- Vehicle seats without weapons will no longer display an ammo count UI indicator.
- Active Protection System now available for the EBAA Wildcat
Dev Comment: A few updates ago we removed the ability of Irish's APS-36 Shootdown Sentinel to intercept anti-vehicle weapons to stop exploitative behaviors that it allowed between the gadget and vehicles, with that change now live we are giving the EBAA Wildcat its own Active Protection System to allow for dynamic engagements between this vehicle and aircraft.
MV-38 Condor
- Reduced the transition of flight to vertical and vice versa for the MV-38 Condor.
- The MV-38 Condor and Mi-240 Super Hind will no longer be available in Breakthrough, replaced with the UH-60.
UH-60
As part of the transition to All-Out Warfare as a Vault Drop, the UH-60 has also received a few changes below;
- Fixed an issue with the UH-60 where systemic damage was not being applied properly to each part.
- Fixed an issue with the UH-60 where certain EMP effects were active even if the vehicle was not under EMP situations.
- The UH-60 is now available on all Conquest maps.
- The UH-60 will now have two new utilities available within the Battlefield 2042 variant with the Repair System and Cyberwarfare Protection System. These utilities will not be available within the Battlefield Portal variant of the UH-60.
- Proximity Scan range increased to 40m for the UH-60.
- Fixed an issue with the UH-60 not showing tooltips when in first-person view.
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