Battlefield 2042 Battlefield 2042 tips

General Info

If you ever join a squad and feel lost, remember: play the objective.

On the Deploy Screen, check where your squadmates are heading to ensure a successful strategy.

When spawning in a match, you can click on the names of your squadmates to join them in vehicles.

Check the minimap to spot friendlies and ensure you stay close and play as a unit.

Check the minimap to spot enemies and anticipate them.

Ziplines can be grabbed from mid-air when freefalling or parachuting.

You can enable Damage Numbers in the Options Menu > Display > HUD General to get a clear understanding of how much damage you've dealt to an enemy.

Weapons And Gadgets

Armor-Piercing Ammunition will deal a small amount of damage even to heavily armored vehicles.

Your position will be briefly revealed on an enemy's minimap when you fire your weapon unless your weapon is equiped with a suppressor.

A Suppressor will greatly reduce the size of your weapon's muzzleflash, making it harder to detect where your shots are coming from.

Subsonic Ammunition doesn't have tracers, making you harder to detect.

You can toggle weapon mounted laser sights and flashlights on and off if you need to hide your presense to enemies.

High Magnification Scopes will show a scope glint if you aim directly at someone, potentially revealing your position.

Grenades, gadgets and rockets can be resupplied by ammo crates and supply drops.

Smoke Grenades can provide good concealment if you need to revive teammates in an exposed location.

Smoke Grenades work great at denying enemies long sight ranges and can hamper an assault.

Smoke Grenades will put out fires from Incendiary Grenades.

You can use the display on the Recoilless M5 to accurately measure the distance to the point you're aiming at.

The Javelin can attack any target including soldiers and airplanes, once it's designated with a Tracerdart.

Laser Designating a vehicle will allow the Javelin missile launcher to perform a critical top-down attack.

You can shoot other players' explosives like C5 and Anti-Tank Mines to make them explode and deal damage to enemies.

Some gadgets can light up in the configured team colors (EIDOS example).

Vehicles

Anti-Tank weapons deal more damage to the rear of Armored Vehicles where armor is thinner.

Consider equipping HE shells when fighting infantry and light vehicles.

Passengers in vehicles' open seats take less explosive damage from weapons.

Using a Repair Tool from the inside of a vehicle will repair at a slower rate than from the outside.

Active Protection System does not protect you against EMKV90-TOR cannons.

The Cav-Brawler's unique materials allows it to take less damage from explosives such as C5 and Grenades.

MAV has the strongest front armor among vehicles, use it to push your objectives.

EMKV90-TOR and Stealth Helicopter passenger seats are equipped with EMP, use it against other vehicles before engaging.

A Gunships Vehicle cockpit is the weakest part of the vehicle.

Damaging a stealth helicopter enough will disengage its stealth mechanics.

Flying close to the ground (below 30m) will prevent enemy vehicles from aquiring missile lock.

Specialists

If you hear a loud screeching rocket noise, there's a TV missile on it's way towards you!

You can shoot down Lis' TV missile with any weapon.

The EMP Grenade is ignored by Irish's Shootdown Sentinel and works great as a counter to it.

AI Behaviour

AI will attempt to give you supplies when requesting Health/Ammo via Commo Rose.

Downed AI will not bleed out as quickly when pinged for revive.

AI in any ground vehicle will drive near you or stop and beep when requesting a ride via Commo Rose.

You can always take over a vehicle seat from AI on your team.

Button Promts

Open the large map M to see how your team is doing at other flags, in case you have to support them.

Double-tap L SHIFT to activate traversal sprint.

Press B to call in vehicles anywhere on the map with your military call-in tablet.

On certain weapon scopes you can press F to switch to a canted sight or change the scope's magnification.

If you equip an underbarrel grenade launcher or shotgun to your weapon, you can press X to swap to it.

Most enemy grenades can be thrown back. Press E on them before they explode.

While playing as Irish, press 3 again to cycle between his Deployable Cover and Shootdown Sentinel.

While not recommended in combat by tacticians around the world, pressing B while in some vehicles will turn on the radio.

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Battlefield 2042 tips