Released in 2021, Battlefield 2042 did not score all too well with players or critics due to a vast amount of technical issues as well as polarizing design choices like the discarding of the series’ traditional class system in favor of individual operators. Longtime fans of Battlefield saw this as a step towards the Call-of-Duty-fication of their beloved franchise – a shortsighted chase after trends mandated by some upper-level analysts who’ve never actually touched video games. Well, it turns out that the fans were right – who could have seen that coming? After repeatedly failing to turn the ship around update after update, Battlefield 2042 finally brings back the class system from older games, or at least something like it. EA and DICE had to bring together a whole investigative committee to come to that conclusion, something they could’ve saved themselves from doing if they had listened to what the alpha testers had been saying all along, but let’s not belabor the point. Update 3.2, which is due to arrive