Leveling can take a long time in Battlefield 2042. You need both experience points (“XP”) for your level and kills for your weapons. MeinMMO reveals how to farm easily and quickly.
Why do I need XP? In Battlefield 2042, you need to gather experience points (“XP”) to level up. With higher levels, you unlock more weapons and gadgets that you can use in matches.
With the weapons themselves, you still need to get kills to unlock attachments. You can then take the attachments into a loadout for matches and switch them ad hoc during rounds.
How do I get XP? Basically, you gain experience points by playing. Achieving objectives, reviving teammates, and killing enemies grants XP. You always level up by playing – if the servers let you.
However, kills are the most efficient since they simultaneously unlock attachments. And there is a trick that works particularly well for this.
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Easily farm XP in “Breakthrough”
How to farm XP: Choose the Breakthrough mode in “All-Out Warfare”. Breakthrough is one of the 4 modes of Battlefield 2042 and a variation of the well-known Conquest. The map you play on doesn’t matter.
Pick a loadout that you want to play and then choose the specialist Sundance. Sundance has a special ability: a wingsuit, which allows you to cover long distances on the map. You can find out more about this in our guide:
Choose a high point on the map to start – like a skyscraper or a gunship if your team has one. Jump off and glide over the map, around the enemy line and behind them.
If you land in the flank, you can start mowing down enemies easily. This probably won’t work for long, but it’s good enough for a short time to get you some kills.
The YouTuber Average Ol’ Gaming shows how it looks:
Why does this only work in Breakthrough? Unlike Conquest, you have a more concrete front in Breakthrough. This means: more enemies are in one spot and holding the position against your team.
This allows you to flank them without having immediate enemies behind you spawning elsewhere. Since snipers and DMRs are among the strongest weapons, it’s likely that you will find a bunch of campers that you can take out.
You also help your team because snipers are really good at stopping an advance. By taking them out, you get closer to victory.
XP farming with lobbies in Portal – But there’s a catch
What are XP farm lobbies? The currently most popular method for farming XP is bot lobbies. These are specific modes that are offered in the new Portal mode of Battlefield 2042. They look like this:
- a small team of about 6 players plays together
- the opponents are all bots
- the bots have no weapons and only one health point
Players then gather and mow down the bots. Such lobbies flood the Portal browser. The game is virtually overwhelmed with them.
Here’s why you should be careful: Most of these lobbies are already “full”. If you join, it’s likely that you spawn on the bot side – without weapons and without health points.
Many players then desperately try to switch teams, for example with the command /swapteam, which does not exist. They are at the mercy of the situation and die repeatedly. It’s a lucky draw if you catch a lobby where you can join the “winners”.
However, there are two more problems. First, the developers have already adjusted the XP for these farm lobbies. At the moment, they are even completely disabled. When they return, it’s pretty certain they will be in a weaker form.
Secondly, these lobbies block the creative modes for which Portal is intended. Portal is already the most popular feature of Battlefield 2042 because players can do all sorts of things here. However, it lacks capacity because everyone is only creating bot lobbies. The developers are already working on creating more space:
Tip: Play solo against bots
If you still want to farm XP easily, just open a private game alone or in co-op. Here you can also play against easy bots and easily gather experience and kills without dying constantly.
The XP here has also been nerfed, but especially the kills needed for weapons can sometimes be gathered more quickly. And if you are just focused on leveling, mindlessly killing bots could turn out to be a good alternative.
After this feature was temporarily deactivated, solo and co-op play against bots can now be used again to farm XP.
XP farming through “PTFO”
What is PTFO? The abbreviation stands for “play the fucking objective”, roughly: Play the damn objective! It refers to the necessity to fulfill objectives for victory in Battlefield.
In the standard mode Conquest, this means capturing and holding areas and flags. As a reward for fulfilling these objectives, you earn experience, and it can be quite rewarding.
In our video, you can see everything you need to know about Battlefield 2042 in 2 minutes:
How do I get XP? The easiest way is at the beginning of a match. Get yourself a fast vehicle like an airboat and quickly drive to the neutral areas. Capture them, and a big chunk of experience is guaranteed.
You can then continue speeding around the map and safely capture or defend more points with your vehicle. In “normal” playing, this is the best way to level up. However, you won’t get kills with weapons this way.
If you want to get even better, you should definitely pay attention to optimizing your performance. There are several tricks and settings that you should adjust:
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