New updates are being added at the bottom of this story…….

Original story (published on November 23, 2021) follows:

Battlefield 2042 launched this month as the latest version of the popular FPS series. First, the game was in beta for a few weeks. But, it seems that there are still some bugs that need to be fixed.

Some Battlefield 2042 players would be suffering from an annoying deploy bug. Basically, they reportedly can’t deploy at the start of some matches, so they just get stuck.

Battlefield 2042 Breakthrough mode deploy bug

Some Battlefield 2042 players are reporting the issue with Breakthrough mode. Apparently they cannot get past the deployment section at the beginning of a match (1, 2, 3, 4, 5).

Normally, during the deployment, the game offers some locations where the player can land. But, the bug causes that no location is available for deployment (1, 2, 3, 4, 5).

Anyone else having this repeat issue?

Go through the motions, load into the game and there’s no deploy location?

It’s happening for me maybe 9/10 games and it’s so frustrating. Only seems to happen when I jump on with my friend.

We’re both on PS4. Been playing since early access with no issues but the games practically unplayable as a result.

We’ve been trying for the past 25 minutes and 0 gaming actually done so far.
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What happens when the bug occurs?: Trying to load into a new game of Battlefiield and we get stuck at the initial “deploy screen” with nothing to select and hitting deploy does nothing. The screen looks like the spawn screen but it won’t let us get past the first part to get into the actual game.
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How to identify ‘bugged’ rounds and a potential workaround

According to some reports, there is a way to identify a round affected by the bug from the beginning. This can be done by taking a look at the ticket counter:

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There is also a potential workaround that could help mitigate the issue:

Press Escape

Select squad and players

Click your own name

Select change squad (Does not really change your squad for some reason)

Go back and you can now deploy again

Edit: Worked last 3 times when posting this in same and different match on PC, not happened to me again yet, but will update if i get to test again. (Hopefully not tho)
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EA is already aware of the bug

The EA team officially confirmed that they are already aware of the deploy bug on Battlefield 2042 Breakthrough mode. Currently, it is under investigation, with no ETA for a fix.

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For now, the company only recommends users affected by the issue to restart the match. If there is any new development in this regard, we will update this article, so stay tuned.

Update 1 (November 23)

IST 1:53 pm: Battlefield 2042 developers have since come out to note that they’re aware of this issue and are working on it. This has also been updated to the official ‘Known issues tracker’.

ONGOING 11/20 @ 13:42 PM UTC – We’re aware some matches are not successfully starting and players are not seeing spawn points to deploy onto. The team is investigating this issue.
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