Last night, DICE and EA turned the switch on the latest Battlefield 1 update, which delivers a new map and the introduction of the Premium Trials program.
The centerpiece of the update is the Prise De Tahure map, a night skirmish set in a French countryside town that focuses on close-quarters combat. The map is now available to Premium subscribers as well as owners of the They Shall Not Pass map pack.
The update also kicks off the Premium Trials program. From now until July 27, all Battlefield 1 owners can play all the Premium Pass maps for free. This new access comes with a price – you don't accrue XP and can't spawn in vehicles unless you're a Premium member.
The 4GB patch also has several fixes outlined below:
Maps and modes
- Soissons: Adjusted Flag D capture area in Frontlines to improve map balance.
- Nivelle Nights: Fixed a bug where the Out of Bounds grayscale screen-effect would sometimes fail to enable.
- Nivelle Nights: Fixed an issue where field kits in sector five in a Rush game could be used before the sector was active.
- Fort de Vaux: Players should no longer be able to get on top of the fort around the courtyard area.
Other fixes
- Updated the Map Voting system to exclude the previous map (as well as the current map) from the random selection pool to prevent the possible A-B-A-B map play pattern.
- Game will now cancel matchmaking whenever backing out of the Operations globe screen. This to prevent a lingering blur state of the globe.
- Synchronized damage taken effect to the actual shooter networked state. Previously it lead to out of sync effects where the shooter was not yet visible.
- Fixed a rare client crash that could occur when a player joined late and a player just dropped/picked up a weapon.
- Fixed a disconnect issue that could occur when loading a map.
Premium
- Premium Friends – Non-Premium players’ score will now show 0 throughout the match on all Scoreboards and End-of-Round screens.
Rent a Server Program
- Added new setting to allow for limited number of specific kits.
- Added setting for round time limit multiplier.
- Added setting for Unlimited Magazines.
- Countdown stops if players drop: Lowered the required player count for countdown to start game round to the minimum number of players required to finish a game if pre-round is enabled. The player count is unchanged if pre-round is disabled.
- Implemented a latency soft lock option where players with a ping higher than 100ms higher get kicked automatically.
UI
- Fixed issue where the “Player-Created Content” option was grayed-out, unusable, and set to “Hide” after booting the title without a network connection.
- Fixed the wrong transport driver chase camera caption in the controls UI.
- The networking issues icons will not show up in Spectator Mode anymore.