Hazard Zone is a new mode for Battlefield 2042.
Hazard Zone is a new mode for Battlefield 2042.
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Battlefield 2042’s Hazard Zone mode is a twist on multiplayer squad combat

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 4 min

DICE and Electronic Arts showed off Battlefield 2042‘s third multiplayer mode, dubbed Hazard Zone, where players can engage in a new kind of squad combat.

In this mode, up to 32 players in squads of four each will compete to recover intel from crashed satellites. The players can choose to escape about halfway through the match or stay until the end when everyone has to converge on the same location to escape. The twist is that the squad with the most kills isn’t necessarily the winner. Rather, those who escape with the most intel win. And if you’re killed at the last minute before your team gets any intel out, then you lose.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.