{"id":406425,"date":"2025-11-01T16:17:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T16:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/battlefield-2042-early-access-leaks"},"modified":"2025-11-01T16:17:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T16:17:53","slug":"someone-gets-early-access-to-battlefield-2042-leaks-a-few-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/someone-gets-early-access-to-battlefield-2042-leaks-a-few-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone gets early access to Battlefield 2042, leaks a few things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/someone-gets-early-access-to-battlefield-2042-leaks-a-few-things.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Battlefield 2042<\/strong>&#8216;s early access launch is only a few short days away, and one player has already managed to slip in ahead of everyone else. Reddit user <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Aaronfrogger\/\">Aaronfrogger<\/a> said they pre-loaded the Xbox version, but were somehow able to get the pre-load unlocked, giving them full access.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of how believable this particular story is, Aaronfrogger did manage to snap a few screenshots of various areas of the game, including maps not seen in the beta, Portal mode, the game&#8217;s menus, as well as what looks to be the full set of weapons available at launch.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming that what we&#8217;re looking at won&#8217;t be expanded with a day one patch, the list of weapons is particularly slim. With only four assault rifles, four SMGs, two LMGs, three DMRs, three shotguns, three sniper rifles, and three secondaries &#8211; it&#8217;s not a big list.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/battlefield-2042-early-access-leaks\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/battlefield-2042-early-access-leaks\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battlefield 2042&#8216;s early access launch is only a few short days away, and one player has already managed to slip in ahead of everyone else. Reddit user Aaronfrogger said they pre-loaded the Xbox version, but were somehow able to get the pre-load unlocked, giving them full access. Regardless of how believable this particular story is, Aaronfrogger did manage to snap a few screenshots of various areas of the game, including maps not seen in the beta, Portal mode, the game&#8217;s menus, as well as what looks to be the full set of weapons available at launch. Assuming that what we&#8217;re looking at won&#8217;t be expanded with a day one patch, the list of weapons is particularly slim. With only four assault rifles, four SMGs, two&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/someone-gets-early-access-to-battlefield-2042-leaks-a-few-things\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":406426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2240,4530,57,5634,91,59,52,44,45,99,60,4616],"class_list":["post-406425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vg24-7","tag-battlefield","tag-battlefield-2042","tag-ea","tag-ea-dice","tag-fps","tag-pc","tag-playstation","tag-ps4","tag-ps5","tag-xbox","tag-xbox-one","tag-xbox-series-x-s"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Someone gets early access to Battlefield 2042, leaks a few things | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Battlefield 2042&#039;s early access launch is only a few short days away, and one player has already managed to slip in ahead of everyone else. 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