{"id":182341,"date":"2022-01-24T15:18:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T14:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=182341"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:58:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:58:44","slug":"battlefield-2042-releases-removes-zombie-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/battlefield-2042-releases-removes-zombie-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Battlefield 2042 releases and then removes Zombie Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DICE had so many first-person shooter gamers excited when it launched <strong>Zombie Survival<\/strong> for <a href=\"https:\/\/battlefield-2042.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Battlefield 2042<\/strong><\/a> last week. Human players faced off against the undead in much the same way as we\u2019ve seen for Call of Duty Black Ops games. One day later, the publisher and developer removed the new mode just as quickly when they realized they\u2019d made a mistake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Justin Wiebe, Ripple Effect Studios\u2019 senior design director, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JA_Wiebe\/status\/1484417597789458432\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">took to Twitter<\/a> to explain what happened. Gamers that completed Zombie Survival games enjoyed <strong>XP progression<\/strong> that was much faster than usual. While we\u2019re sure many players love it, there were other gamers that weren\u2019t impressed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m not going to lie, this one shouldn\u2019t have gotten through our review process. I think our desire to create a fun zombies mode clouded our ability to see such a simple thing like the impact it would have on progression. I\u2019m very sorry for the hardship this has caused. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/01MXOdWGN5\">https:\/\/t.co\/01MXOdWGN5<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Justin Wiebe (@JA_Wiebe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JA_Wiebe\/status\/1484417597789458432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 21, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Wiebe puts it down to the team\u2019s desire to develop <strong>exciting zombie games<\/strong>. In some way, we understand their situation. With <a href=\"https:\/\/cod-black-ops-cold-war.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Call of Duty Cold War<\/a> raking it in as far as the FPS survival horror multiplayer genre is concerned, it\u2019s no surprise that DICE wanted to push for Zombie Survival in Battlefield 2042 as soon as possible.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, now we see what happens when you don\u2019t make sure all the right boxes are ticked before you <strong>release a game mode<\/strong>. Not even Wiebe fully knows how this issue managed to bypass the review team.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It doesn\u2019t mean that Zombie Survival is completely gone from Battlefield 2042, though. We just have to wait a bit longer before we can continue beheading the undead for our own enjoyment with proper progression. Until then, you can enjoy the <strong>new Gun Game<\/strong> that they\u2019ve placed in the online arena instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DICE had so many first-person shooter gamers excited when it launched Zombie Survival for Battlefield 2042 last week. Human players faced off against the undead in much the same way as we\u2019ve seen for Call of Duty Black Ops games. One day later, the publisher and developer removed the new mode just as quickly when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/battlefield-2042-releases-removes-zombie-mode\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Battlefield 2042 releases and then removes Zombie Mode&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9205,"featured_media":182342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[1018,1015],"tags":[3199],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-182341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionbattlefield-2042"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324504,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182341\/revisions\/324504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182341"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=182341"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=182341"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=182341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}