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Battlefield 2042's limited-time Dead Space crossover is now underway


If the absence of any positive Dead Space 2 remake news has been getting you down, there's at least one new way to get …

Outbreak, described as a "high-intensity survival mode", pits up to four players against hordes of Augmented Targets (which regrettably look more like slightly fleshy crash test dummies than Necromorphs) as they travel across the Redacted map toward their extraction point. It arrives as part of Battlefield 2024's 7.40 update, which also brings a number of quality of life improvements, as per developer DICE's latest patch notes. There's some small sliver of hope for Dead Space fans, hoewver, in that EA took the unusual step of commenting on the report, insisting, "There is no validity to this story".

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