Battlefield™ is a rich series that has taken you to many eras of warfare over the past 19 years. And now we’re including an exciting way for you to experience and celebrate that lineage.

Battlefield™ Portal is a community-driven platform within Battlefield™ 2042 that will let you create and find fantastic experiences made by the series’ creative and passionate community. The creation suite includes Settings, custom modes, and a Logic Editor so you can build your own signature spin on Battlefield’s sandbox; you’ll be able to change team ratios, tweak victory conditions, restrict weapons, and even put different factions from different eras in Battlefield’s history against one another. Those who want to focus on discovering what others have created will have easy access to an entire world of unexpected battles featuring some of the series’ most famous eras mashed together in distinct, exciting experiences.

On top of the content available in Battlefield 2042, Battlefield Portal also lets you play with maps, weapons, vehicles, and more from some of Battlefield’s greatest experiences, all reimagined at modern visuals. We’re excited for you to be able to relive content from Battlefield™ 1942, Battlefield™: Bad Company 2 and Battlefield™ 3.

BizSAR
There are a LOT of unanswered questions here. 
Things like admin/moderation control (outside of the game) and server-side configuration and location. Will the servers be local (not likely), hosted/rented, or provided for free? Will they be available 24/7 or only when the admin/person configuring the server is present? ...and many more.
One thing I've always thought DICE could improve upon is their admin communication, when there were actual admins and we could fully configure servers on our own, of course.
I hope at least most of the questions are answered before launch.

ManBearPig
Did I just see atfrico shoot a tracer dart onto my plane?!

Battlefield 2042‘s design director has revealed that the game’s AI bots will prove difficult to tell apart from human players, which is good to know considering the feature can’t be switched off.

Speaking with VG247, Justin Wiebte noted that the team at Ripple Effect Studios and DICE Sweden are putting a lot of effort into making the AI behave realistically, so that players will have a hard time telling if they’re just bots or real players.

We’ve tried to put a lot of effort into making them play just like a player would. So it would be really hard for people to tell the difference between an AI and a real human player because they will run around, they will drive vehicles, they will pick each other up, they will drop [each other] off at objective locations and things like that – it’s a very intelligent system.

And then you can tweak and tune some of the things they are and aren’t allowed to do, including how difficult they are to play against.

Senior Game Designer Rob Donovan spoke with The Loadout about Battlefield Portal. He made it clear that banned players will not return automatically after a server restart.

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“We know that in past community games, you would ban someone, then the server goes down, and you’d have to ban them all over again,” said Donovan. “So we were able to reconfigure our banned list [for Portal] to be on the player themselves.”

The only way that banned players will be able to enter your server is if you decide to unban them yourself at some point.

Battlefield Portal will allow players more freedom in creating custom game modes, and the devs have reassured fans that this will also maintain server bans persistently.

Dice revealed that Battlefield 2042 will not have a battle royale mode at launch. Instead, you’ll get to enjoy Battlefield Portal, which will let you create your own game modes with classic maps, weapons, vehicles, and more.

However, giving players this much control over their Battlefield experience may result in a few not following the rules or making things difficult for teammates. Luckily, Battlefield Portal will feature consistent server bans.

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Senior Game Designer Rob Donovan spoke with The Loadout about Battlefield Portal. He made it clear that banned players will not return automatically after a server restart.

Read more: Is Battlefield 2042 cross-platform? Current cross-play status
“We know that in past community games, you would ban someone, then the server goes down, and you’d have to ban them all over again,” said Donovan. “So we were able to reconfigure our banned list [for Portal] to be on the player themselves.”

The only way that banned players will be able to enter your server is if you decide to unban them yourself at some point.


This is reassuring since the return of banned players is an issue that’s been plaguing content creators who want to enjoy playing in their own custom game modes. In previous Battlefield titles, the ban would end with the server.

Now, players will no longer have to worry about troublesome players causing trouble for them again as soon as they start a new server. Hopefully, this will add up to a more pleasant playing experience.

These persistent player bans will also help server admins stop repeat offenders when it comes to hacking from being able to ever get back in their servers. With hacking being a major issue in games like Warzone, this will undoubtedly be a beneficial tool in making sure Battlefield 2042 is as cheat-free as possible.