Battlefield 2042

[CoopR_26]

Funny thing. There is classic class system already in the game. Only bots use it:

ugh, news like this is just frustrating at this point. They had the recipe for something brilliant, they had the following, the hype. So sad that DICE let us down like this. There's still hope though. Remember how Call of Duty WWII changed their class system? BF2042 could do the same if they really wanted to.

 

[Veinz]

I assumed they excluded the scoreboard because they ran out of time for launch but it seems it’s actually so people don’t get their feelings hurt. Things like this shouldn’t be taken out just because some people have weak minds.

 

[MroczMR]

Big updates are coming:

Battlefield Briefing - Launch Update & The Road Ahead

An Update on our Focus for the Weeks and Months Ahead

www.ea.com

 

[David]

I assumed they excluded the scoreboard because they ran out of time for launch but it seems it’s actually so people don’t get their feelings hurt. Things like this shouldn’t be taken out just because some people have weak minds.

Pretending like a scoreboard, a core component of FPS games since the beginning, was just a victim of the crunch is so unreal. It's crazy that DICE has implied that from what I can tell. It was obviously a design decision. Their whole user agreement "I pledge to be nice to everyone" thing and the censorship of chat and removal of all-chat is all about that. I don't necessarily condone telling others about your sexual escapades with their mother or slinging racial epithets at others in a video game, but what I dislike far more is a corporation trying to be a moral arbiter and deciding for me what I am allowed to say, and see/hear others say... especially when said corporation is profiting off of making the concept of "all out warfare" fun. I don't actually have a problem with playing a video game about war but GTFO with the hypocrisy. How the hell is smack-talking opponents in what should be an M rated game not allowed?

Anyway, philosophizing aside, I don't think the game is nearly as bad as some of the user reviews are making out. The servers are much improved since the early access week and as others have posted, they are already making their intentions known with regards to balance adjustments and other fixes coming tomorrow and the beginning of December. I don't really care about the classes vs specialists thing, but my biggest gripe would just be most of the new maps don't seem very good so far. Even with 128 players I don't think the maps needed to be made nearly this big, especially since there is so much wasted space. Breakthrough mode is much better than conquest since it gets everyone fighting for 2 control points at a time.

 

[Earth]

This is now by Far the most disappointing video game I have ever regretted to buy at launch, eclipsing Gran Turismo 5.

 

[CoopR_26]

This is now by Far the most disappointing video game I have ever regretted to buy at launch, eclipsing Gran Turismo 5.

and so it begins....

Can't believe they even have the odacity to release this instead of focussing that attention to fixing the game. Dice is a joke.

 

[SestoScudo]

What a trainwreck of a game.

They threw out BF's indentity so it can become another Cod Warzone, Apex Legends and Fornite.

What a shame. I thought BFV was bad but nah Bf 2042 takes the cake as one of the worst BF games in history.

I want play a ******* military shooter with combined arms. I want to see soldiers in different classes fighting each other with tanks, jet fighters, apcs, ifvs, mraps, gunships, helicopters, bombers all on the map while at the same time in awesome maps with huge amounts of destruction.

I want my soldiers to look like this not stupid clowns!!

 

[SestoScudo]

This is now by Far the most disappointing video game I have ever regretted to buy at launch, eclipsing Gran Turismo 5.

What we expected and what we got in the end.

 

[MroczMR]

Fortunatly this skins won’t be in main mode just as a seasonal fun skin in dedicated portal mode.

 

[SestoScudo]

Fortunatly this skins won’t be in main mode just as a seasonal fun skin in dedicated portal mode.

Such a thing should not be tolerated in a military shooter at all.

 

[ImaRobot]

Such a thing should not be tolerated in a military shooter at all.

I feel the trailers themselves showed well enough that they aren't taking it 100% serious.

 

[TypeRDC5]

Although I am by no means excusing the state of the game at launch I don't think it is half as bad as a game as most people are saying. Having great fun.

Personal opinion of course but I think this has a bright future.

 

[Veinz]

I cannot believe how badly they ****ed this game up, all they needed was a modern BF4 and it would have been a slam dunk. The bugs don’t really bother me, my main gripes are from fundamental design decisions that just cannot be patched out, like butchering the class system, specialists, and map design.

Don’t even get me started on lack of features. Things like a scoreboard, in game voice chat, server browser are considered “legacy features” by the devs. I would call them basic features for a BF game at least. It’s sad to say since I started with 1942, but Battlefield is dead to me.

 

[SestoScudo]

I cannot believe how badly they ****ed this game up, all they needed was a modern BF4 and it would have been a slam dunk. The bugs don’t really bother me, my main gripes are from fundamental design decisions that just cannot be patched out, like butchering the class system, specialists, and map design.

Don’t even get me started on lack of features. Things like a scoreboard, in game voice chat, server browser are considered “legacy features” by the devs. I would call them basic features for a BF game at least. It’s sad to say since I started with 1942, but Battlefield is dead to me.

Cod vanguard is just as garbage. Our military shooters are becoming clown shooters.

I want a military shooter not overwatch or fornite garbage.

Thats why im not holding my breath for cod mw2 2022 because I know deep down in my heart its going to be another clown shooter.

 

[Veinz]

Apparently Infinity Ward is working on some kind of Escape From Tarkov knock-off for the next game. I’m not getting my hopes up either though, I think I just may give up on shooters all together. I only enjoy Warzone but that is also a never ending **** show of a game.

 

[SestoScudo]

Apparently Infinity Ward is working on some kind of Escape From Tarkov knock-off for the next game. I’m not getting my hopes up either though, I think I just may give up on shooters all together. I only enjoy Warzone but that is also a never ending **** show of a game.

Warzone was great in its first seasons after that it became more of a clown show. Warzone had to be done separately especially its maps.

You have people who still want to play the Mw version.

 

[dacc10]

What's funny to me, is that a remastered/improved BF4 would've been a much better game. World War 3 kinda tries to be that, by looking kinda similar to what BF4 offered, with modern graphics, and is now getting a ton of praise for it. Meanwhile, no one plays BF2042.

Getting rid of classes, to replace them with a few characters was so dumb. Just for the sake of (paid) cosmetics? If they wanted to sell "skins", they could just keep the 4 classes, and if they really want to push cosmetics as an extra way to make money instead of paid DLCs, then just add camos from different countries, both from past and present for a small fee (0.50 to 1$ each set). Although ideally we shouldn't pay for anything else but the game. Other games that rely on cosmetics, are F2P, a BF main title is not.

Seeing how bad newer Battlefield games have become, I can only apreciate how good and fun BF4 ended up being, even though it wasn't perfect.

 

[TypeRDC5]

The 2 games I have been looking forward to the most this generation we're BF2042 and GT7. Both have been a bit of a let down.

Between GT Sport and BF4 on PS4 we had games I put hundreds of hours in and kept coming back to over and over again. Great games (BF4 more so than Sport)

I feel 2042 will be dead by the time they release some new maps and guns. The player numbers are shockingly low for a AAA multiplayer game released only last November.

 

[wheelhp]

Pretending like a scoreboard, a core component of FPS games since the beginning, was just a victim of the crunch is so unreal. It's crazy that DICE has implied that from what I can tell. It was obviously a design decision. Their whole user agreement "I pledge to be nice to everyone" thing and the censorship of chat and removal of all-chat is all about that. I don't necessarily condone telling others about your sexual escapades with their mother or slinging racial epithets at others in a video game, but what I dislike far more is a corporation trying to be a moral arbiter and deciding for me what I am allowed to say, and see/hear others say... especially when said corporation is profiting off of making the concept of "all out warfare" fun. I don't actually have a problem with playing a video game about war but GTFO with the hypocrisy. How the hell is smack-talking opponents in what should be an M rated game not allowed?

Anyway, philosophizing aside, I don't think the game is nearly as bad as some of the user reviews are making out. The servers are much improved since the early access week and as others have posted, they are already making their intentions known with regards to balance adjustments and other fixes coming tomorrow and the beginning of December. I don't really care about the classes vs specialists thing, but my biggest gripe would just be most of the new maps don't seem very good so far. Even with 128 players I don't think the maps needed to be made nearly this big, especially since there is so much wasted space. Breakthrough mode is much better than conquest since it gets everyone fighting for 2 control points at a time.

Entire business models be shifting. Now they appeal to the lowest common denominator..... The eternal whiners

 

[Veinz]

GT7 doesn’t deserve a lower metacritic score than this abomination.

 

[wheelhp]

GT7 doesn’t deserve a lower metacritic score than this abomination.

GT7 deserves a worse score than 2042

 

[TypeRDC5]

GT7 deserves a worse score than 2042

I don't think so, GT7 only needs a few games to be a great game. A lot of these are already being introduced in early April.

2042 is fundamentally flawed hence why Dice are rebuilding the maps, as for the specialists I'm not sure how or if they can even fix that.

 

[Veinz]

Valuable lessons learned, yeah right. Dice has proven they are one of the most incompetent developers around.

Next Battlefield Enters Pre-Production, 'Valuable Lessons' Were Learned From Battlefield 2042

Where will Dice’s next all-out warfare title take us?

www.gameinformer.com

 

[dacc10]

We will see. They make decisions based on whatever is popular at the time they develop new games, like battle royale games a few years ago for example, which makes them not focusing on what matters on a Battlefield game.

 

[Gerarghini]

Unless the next Battlefield is Bad Company 3, it's already dead on arrival

And as much as I want it, I'm skeptical that this DICE has the talent to pull it off. What ever happened to DICE LA, Danger Close Studios? I want a new Medal of Honor that isn't pure garbage like the VR one they tried. (for the record, Warfighter is damn near my favourite FPS. I finished at Rank 100 or so once the player count went to practically 0)

 

[MroczMR]

I came back after a big pause in playing this game. Tries Season 1 and... I finally have huge fun! Offcourse content isn't big yet, but this game really started to play well. Now I have tons of fun while doing it. If you didn't sell it already I can recommend you to come back, if you did sell well try it again after finding bargain

 

[TypeRDC5]

I came back after a big pause in playing this game. Tries Season 1 and... I finally have huge fun! Offcourse content isn't big yet, but this game really started to play well. Now I have tons of fun while doing it. If you didn't sell it already I can recommend you to come back, if you did sell well try it again after finding bargain

Season 2 starts tomorrow too, I have been playing it on an off since launch, nowhere near the best bf game but still the best newish shooter on ps5 for me.

 

[MroczMR]

Season 2 starts tomorrow too, I have been playing it on an off since launch, nowhere near the best bf game but still the best newish shooter on ps5 for me.

Exactly this. Actually BF3 and BF4 remake would be the best in my opinion, but we have what we have. Most importat thing I keep having fun with it

 

[TypeRDC5]

Exactly this. Actually BF3 and BF4 remake would be the best in my opinion, but we have what we have. Most importat thing I keep having fun with it

I don't want to defend them as they released a buggy incomplete game when it needed another 6 months of development at least, but after a few patches I think it's an enjoyable game.

A BF 3/4 remake would be amazing! Best battlefield era 😝

 

[MroczMR]

I don't want to defend them as they released a buggy incomplete game when it needed another 6 months of development at least, but after a few patches I think it's an enjoyable game.

A BF 3/4 remake would be amazing! Best battlefield era 😝

Yeah. It is fun now.

They could atleast bring more BF4/BF3 (and Bad Company 2) maps to Portal.