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With all the military shooters I’ve played in my lifetime, I’ve been in more virtual warzones than I can count on my fingers and toes. For anyone who’s seen them all come and go, it can be exhausting. Yet Battlefield 2042, with its Battlefield Portal, represents a new attitude that’s exciting and genuinely fresh. It almost makes the case for dropping the campaign mode on its own. We look at Battlefield Portal as we speak with Ripple Effect Studios (p50). The developer’s dedication to putting easy-to-use scripting tools in the hands of players is quite simply delightful – not only because it’ll lead to creative game modes we’ve never seen before, but because it’ll help inspire a new generation of programmers to code. “BATTLEFIELD PORTAL REPRESENTS A NEW ATTITUDE THAT’S EXCITING AND…