Battlefield 2042 Season 2 Master of Arms official patch notes: New Battle Pass, Operator, weapons, and more

Battlefield 2042 is finally getting its next major update in the form of Master of Arms, which will host a plethora of new features and gameplay updates.

The update will go live later today and will introduce a new Battle Pass for the shooter, along with a new Operator, vehicles, weapons, and more.

The Season 2 update is one of the most highly anticipated patches among Battlefield 2042 players. It will be interesting to see just how well Master of Arms plays out when the update finally drops.

Battlefield 2042 fans looking for a detailed description of the Season 2 patch notes can look up DICE’s official website. However, for a brief overview, here are all the major highlights.

---

Battlefield 2042 Season 2 Master of Arms official patch notes

1) General

• You told us that you want to experience Breakthrough and Rush as both an Attacker and Defender while playing. We have made a change where after EoR you now automatically switch teams and play the same map on the opposing side before switching maps.
• Improved text readability in the Breakthrough gamemode widget and added text icons to help explain objectives, such as "Capture."
• Fixed a bug when preview a rank locked weapon, Locked by Battlepass is displayed.
• New Player Card Backgrounds are available for Crawford, AM-40,Avancys, PF51, EBLC-Ram, and Stranded.
• New Player Card Tags are now available to earn unlock and earn.
• New Assignments are available to unlock 2 Battlefield Portal Weapons in All-Out Warfare, to gain access to Season 1 content in case you missed it, and new weapons for use in Battlefield Portal.
• Enemy Disrupted event XP has been reduced from 20 -> 5.

2) Battlefield Portal

• All 1942 weapons now have optic attachment options.
• All Portal soldiers now have access to Smoke Grenades via Loadout -> Throwable.
• Custom Conquest has been added to the Battlefield Portal Builder as a new Conquest game mode with added customizable options for capture points and extra logic options for Battlefield Portal’s Rules Editor.
• Multiple improvements have been made across Classic Era maps, such as removing and moving props, and resolving collision and terrain issues.
• Players were sometimes unable to spawn on spawn beacons. It's fixed now.
• Voice lines have been updated for 1942 British army non-squad soldiers, German army non-squad soldiers, and US army non-squad soldiers.
• Visuals of weapon scopes within Portal have been improved by removing lens dirt on several scopes and adding edge tint to most lenses.

3) Rules Editor

• Added EnableCapturePointDeploying block to Rules Editor
• Added GetPlayersAtPoint block to Rules Editor
• Added Lis, Mackay, and Paik to the Player Soldiers block in Rules Editor
• Added Season 1 vehicles to Vehicle block in Rules Editor

4) Gadgets

• Fixed an issue where the Motion Sensor changed teams, but not Icon, when thrown back by an enemy
• Fixed issues with Ammo Bags on top of vehicle wrecks not despawning after a wreck disappears
• Incendiary fire can now damage both your own and enemy deployables
• Smoke Grenades can now put out incendiary grenades
• CG Recoilless M5
• Fixed clipping issues when reloading with the CG Recoilless M5
• Fixed issues with CG Recoilless M5 status screen flickering
• Smoke Grenade Launcher
• Fixed a bug where the Smoke Grenade Launcher did not drop on death in Hazard Zone

5) Maps

• Fixed an issue where interaction with the Metal doors around the Oil Rig would sometimes not trigger and were slow overall
• Fixed an issue were players could trigger clipping through skyscraper on the Hourglass rooftops
• Fixed an issue with an invisible wall near a ledge close to the B1 sector on Breakaway.
• Fixed an issue where you encounter difficulties when traversing the last step of the stairs while prone on Exposure
• Fixed an issue on Exposure where you would be deployed onto a different objective than what was selected
• Fixed broken smoke VFX on Orbital
• Fixed and issue where the thunder VFX on Manifest was too intense

Battlefield 2042 Season 2 Master of Arms has a 1pm BST UK launch time (12pm UTC and 8am EST) on August 30.