Battlefield 2042

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2.1

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 4864 Ratings

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  1. makalope
    Apr 23, 2022
    0
    Update 4/24/22: Game was free for me and I am still bothered by it wasting space on my drive. This game's player base has dropped to laughably low numbers, the only people that still play this are too good at this game for it to be fun for any casual player as the casual player base has left to go play literally anything else. Complete lack of games modes or any real substance that makesUpdate 4/24/22: Game was free for me and I am still bothered by it wasting space on my drive. This game's player base has dropped to laughably low numbers, the only people that still play this are too good at this game for it to be fun for any casual player as the casual player base has left to go play literally anything else. Complete lack of games modes or any real substance that makes you want to come back to play this game. Only positive I can come up with is that it is much easier to run now than at launch. I am deleting this game after this review update. I hate it. F**k you EA for making this.

    This game was free for me and I feel ripped off.

    My friend gave me a code for this game that came with a part for his pc so I got this game completely for free.

    Wow this game is just horrible. Not even going to touch on the lack of features since that seems to be the #1 complaint. This game runs absolutely horrible on a 2070s and 3700x. Had to drop the settings hard to get a stable frame rate. Servers are terrible, hit detection is non existent, and lots of game breaking bugs.

    This just feels like another soul-less EA cash grab, I can't even say this game is fun or worth my time even if it were free. No amount of patches will save this awful mess. I am deleting this and going back to BF4/5 or Vanguard.    … Expand
  2. angel369
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad
  3. Mustafaiq
    Nov 19, 2021
    0
    the game need to fix and bring basic features asap , the graphics is like a Cartoonic game for **** sake just use the same graphics as bf1
  4. Agrail
    Nov 27, 2021
    0
    Все кто предзаказал этот кал получили что заслуживают, пока есть такие дурачки игры ни когда не будут делать качественно.
  5. Bluduck
    Nov 25, 2021
    0
    Buggy, poorly optimized, interface sucks, balance is way off, operators suck, character models seem to be weirdly short, it's just a pile of trash at the moment.
  6. TheNebeskyMuz
    Nov 16, 2021
    0
    Battelfield 2042 is a mixed bag. The operatives are interesting, but the oversized maps do not allow you to feel the full power of the battle. The portal is very good, I think thanks to the portal this game will not die. Hazard zones are not fish, not meat.
    It is very annoying to have a bad ttk, bugs, extremely mediocre optimization, as well as cheaters of which there are already a lot.
  7. Borshch5000
    Nov 16, 2021
    0
    Destructibility bad, sounds bad, but good graphics. This Battlefield is not Battlefield. This is CoD, and this is very bad. And also this game have censorship in chat. This is better than BF5, but worst than other parts
  8. Zuddybear
    Nov 16, 2021
    0
    Complete and utter garbage. Ridden with bugs and lacking basic features. Unbelievable. Had my pre order refunded.
  9. ErATOme51
    Nov 16, 2021
    0
    J'ai creer un compte metacritic juste pour noter ce jeu. Fidèle FAN de la série, joueur depuis Battlefield 1942, je n'ai loupé aucun épisode (BF1942 Mod DC, BF Vietnam, BF2, BF2 SP, BF2 AF, BF3, BF4, BF1, BF5)

    C'est n'est pas un Battlefield, on ne peu pas appeler cela un AAA. Graphismes décevants, une très mauvaise optimisation ! (Entre 70 e 90FPS avec une RTX3080 - Intel Core i9 10900F    J'ai creer un compte metacritic juste pour noter ce jeu. Fidèle FAN de la série, joueur depuis Battlefield 1942, je n'ai loupé aucun épisode (BF1942 Mod DC, BF Vietnam, BF2, BF2 SP, BF2 AF, BF3, BF4, BF1, BF5)

    C'est n'est pas un Battlefield, on ne peu pas appeler cela un AAA. Graphismes décevants, une très mauvaise optimisation ! (Entre 70 e 90FPS avec une RTX3080 - Intel Core i9 10900F - 32Go RAM) -

    Des cartes plus que vident, un level design honteux, une hitbox, netcode complètement foireux - Des équilibrages armes, véhicules, codés au hasard (4 roquettes pour un aéroglisseur, qui oneshot tout ce qui passe, sérieux ?). Pas de scoreboard, Pas de classes, pas de destruction, des serveurs à la ramassent (rollback fréquents), pas de stats, pas de chat pour discuter avec les joueurs adverses ? La dispersions des balles des armes complètement arrachés... Développeurs, rendez-nous notre opus Battlefield.

    Le mode Battlefield portal n'est pas une excuse, même dans se mode, on ressent tous les problème causé par le moteur de BF2042.

    Il est grand tant, d'arreter de payer des influenceurs, créateurs de contenus qui arrivent à noter ce jeu 16/20 ?!!!! A ce niveau c'est de l'amateurisme pour mettre une telle note..

    Battlefield 2 à pour moi été le plus magique des Battlefield. Il suffisait de faire un merveilleux remaster, retravaillé completement, l'affaire été close et tout le monde aurait été Fan.

    @Dice, @EA, si vous avez besoin de conseils pour refaire un vrai Battlefield, appelez-moi, volontier, je vous aide à faire un vrai BF, vous n'employez plus les bonnes personnes pour continuer cette licence.    … Expand
  10. geme9999
    Nov 20, 2021
    0
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  11. Kassikotka
    Nov 16, 2021
    0
    DICE have created a disaster. And no not a tornado, an actual disaster. DON'T BUY.

    MAIN PROBLEMS WAY too big (and open, barren) maps, negates the point of 128 players in Conquest. Conquest 64 in old games was far more intense. What moron thought this up? 128 could have been great, such wasted potential No classes, really? Classes, destruction, vehicles, that's the 3 key pillars of    DICE have created a disaster. And no not a tornado, an actual disaster. DON'T BUY.

    MAIN PROBLEMS

    WAY too big (and open, barren) maps, negates the point of 128 players in Conquest. Conquest 64 in old games was far more intense. What moron thought this up? 128 could have been great, such wasted potential

    No classes, really? Classes, destruction, vehicles, that's the 3 key pillars of what makes Battlefield Battlefield. You can't just take one pillar out, and replace it with system that is designed to sell cosmetic MTX. Voice acting and design of Specialists is cringe AF. Actually BOTS have the best looking uniforms, you envy bots in this game.

    Even if they fix all the bugs and terrible hitreg, those will never be fixed.

    KILLED FEATURES

    No scoreboard
    No stats
    No destruction (compared to any past BF game)
    No locked squads
    No voice chat
    No all chat (in M rated game... for your protection)
    No platoons
    No server browser (except Portal)
    No emblems
    No BFV movement system like promised, you can't even lean

    TERRIBLE GUNS

    Worst random spread in franchise history. It was fine in Beta, they made changes....
    22 guns, including pistols
    All guns feel the same
    Pathetic customization, the barrel attachments for example are mostly COSMETIC

    TERRIBLE FLIGHT MODEL AIR VEHICLES

    Flight model of air vehicles is a joke (just like Beta). Any noob can dominate in heli
    Skill it took to fly helis in Battlefield 4 is GONE.
    Jets on the other hand are useless. They did no changes from Beta, seriously
    Tanks, pretty much useless against a decent heli pilot
    Hovercraft, better than any tank (and can climb walls)
    Glitchy turrets

    HAZARD ZONE aka HAHA ZONE

    Boring and will be dead after 2 weeks. I can see why there wasn't much trailers. No stakes into the games

    PORTAL

    Portal could be great, but it has inherited crap from the main game, like the air vehicle physics. The air vehicles are not original, they are reskins of the 2042 vehicles! Same terrible 2042 flight model.

    People use Portal to farm 1HP bots for XP mainly... and DICE didn't see this coming?

    El Alamein map is just a flat desert... yeah it looks good, but 20 year old map design shows...
    PC PERFORMANCE Performance is abysmal. Not everyone can afford a RTX 3090, and even with that you will be lucky to hit 100 frames. OTHER PROBLEMS 2042 maps are filled with copypaste buildings and cargo containers. CONTAINERS everywhere. Sound design is a downgrade, directional audio is terrible. Graphics don't actually even look good. BF1 from 2016 looks far better. Portal is the only thing showing promise, but you can just go play the real BF3 right now? The experience of Portal is not pure, it's some sort of weird bastard child of 2042 and the old game. It inherits some of the bad mechanics from the main game, like air physics. Gunplay isn't original either. Three years of development, 4 studios working on it, no campaign, "ahead of schedule" and "love letter to fans" and this is what they come up with??? Battlefield is dead I'm sad to say. DO NOT BUY.    … Expand
  12. Excmer
    Nov 13, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Такое чувство что мне продали гнилой огрызок В серии BATTLEFIELD это часть игры даунгрейдилась настолько сильно что слов нет Графика отстой готов так 2012 Звук просто отличный Интерфейс ужасный и не удобный мини карта на столько мала что нужно играть с лупой почему не сделают чтобы его можно было настроить под себя Оптимизация игры ужамна просадк фпс каждые 5 минут
    Оружие слишком мало также касается и карт 7 карт которые придумали и 6 карт из старых серий игры    … Expand
  13. baazaar13
    Nov 13, 2021
    0
    Another game released that shouldn't be released. Hopefully this does not become a further trend, because this is not right. Beta tests should not cost full price. Take a look at the critics tho, WOW are they full of **** or what ?!? Fake NEWS lol Fake NEWS
  14. alex8642
    Nov 13, 2021
    0
    Utter and complete unplayable buggy mess. I'm contemplating a refund. This is worse than Cyberpunk was at launch.
  15. nisic1
    Nov 13, 2021
    0
    game is trash. removed everything that made battlefield battlefield and added random elements from titles like call of duty modern ware fare but decided to pick the worst parts of that game and bring them over. This is the worst title they have ever produced hands down.
  16. Dragoninja
    Nov 13, 2021
    0
    Game is terrible. On ultra settings, 4k I get about 70FPS. In 1920x1080 low settings, I get about 90 FPS. Can someone explain this to me? Unoptimized trash. You get killed every 10 seconds because there are TOO many damn people running around. Everything interesting is locked behind progression but there is not enough in the game to warrant this. You have 5 guns to choose from when youGame is terrible. On ultra settings, 4k I get about 70FPS. In 1920x1080 low settings, I get about 90 FPS. Can someone explain this to me? Unoptimized trash. You get killed every 10 seconds because there are TOO many damn people running around. Everything interesting is locked behind progression but there is not enough in the game to warrant this. You have 5 guns to choose from when you first start... FIVE.

    Screw the lack of content, the optimization or lack thereof makes the game completely unplayable.

    DO NOT BUY.    … Expand
  17. Zloty232
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    THIS GAME S*CSK... IT's THE WORST LAUNCHE I EVER SEEN!! THIS GAME OFFICIAL S*CKS! IT'S LOOK LIKE PRE-ALPHA! Just few guns to unlock... and only few boring maps..
    BF-Portal? -better play classic BF3 or 1942/BFBC2 xD
    Again... THIS GAME S*CKS, DONT WASTE YOU MONEY FOR THIS! :)
  18. Kacke123
    Nov 13, 2021
    0
    I am so glad, that I only bought the trial for 1€ with Xbox gamepass. After 2 hours of playing the game I am bored to death. TTK is so bad. Trash Specialists. Doesn't feel like Battlefield at all, just another abomination made by DICE.

    Thanks for nothing! Back to BF4 I guess...
  19. Gradedend
    Nov 13, 2021
    0
    No scoreboard, no VOIP at launch in a mass multiplayer only fps, unbalanced specialists, no server browser. This is not the battlefield we all know, this is a cheap knock off
  20. Taserwolf
    Nov 13, 2021
    0
    Missing half the features. Soulless game that lost the spirit of Battlefield, all for the sake of micro transactions and marketing bullet points. Terrible UI, barren maps, 1/4th the weapons BF4 had, no communications. but LOOK! WE HAVE COOL HERO CHARACTERS
  21. Prypiat54
    Nov 17, 2021
    0
    HOrrible Gunplay And soundesign. No teamplay. This game is under all others Battlefield.
  22. Fordo197
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Dreadful buggy mess. Probably be great in 12 months but right now it's embarrassingly bad.
  23. Dugi
    Nov 13, 2021
    0
    everyone wanted a BF4/BF3 like game but nah... Dice wants to cash in the Sheep's that play Call of Duty while they turn of their brain just to enjoy the game.
  24. forthtun
    Nov 13, 2021
    0
    Only the 2nd game that i refunded on steam.

    Really had high hopes for it to be good after playing the beta even though it has alot of bugs and felt like it was a early game that wasn't near finnished. The devs told it was a old build and everything would be good on release. However playing the release, its terrible actually. The game feels like it is atleast a year away from being a    Only the 2nd game that i refunded on steam.

    Really had high hopes for it to be good after playing the beta even though it has alot of bugs and felt like it was a early game that wasn't near finnished. The devs told it was a old build and everything would be good on release.

    However playing the release, its terrible actually. The game feels like it is atleast a year away from being a good release. Everythign feels like it just stressed through, just like a cheap game. Its sad. Terrible performance also with a 9900k and a 3080. Dropping down closer to 50 fps on some maps making it completly unplayable. Often its around 70-90 fps which is also horrible but some might still be able to play fps with that low fps. This is with 1440p. Changing graphics down to medium didn't help either. Graphics and cpu is only around 50-70% which shows the game is hugely unoptimized. And well, with all missing features and half done game, i think optimization is the last thing they're thinking about now.

    Don't buy it yet. Its a unfinnished game.    … Expand
  25. Fawbus
    Nov 13, 2021
    0
    Years in the making and it’s worse than the last one in every way. Don’t waist your $$ I got the gold package for the cross play on ps4. Should’ve saved my $$$.
  26. ZeB10
    Nov 13, 2021
    0
    This game is nothing more than a COD/Warzone with Battlefields name on it, its shameful what EA and Dice have done to this franchise. If you want to play a real BF game go get BF3 and BF4.
  27. AnAngryJelly
    Nov 13, 2021
    0
    Couldn't respawn when I died. Bullets wouldn't register. The game looks worse than BFV. No server browser. What the hell did DICE do for the last 3 years......
  28. oofski
    Nov 13, 2021
    0
    bad performance, confusing UI. no global chat, this game feels like its still in alpha.
  29. laith328
    Nov 13, 2021
    0
    dont even bother, terrible performance devs should be ashamed. Guns feel weird, its one big buggy cluster ****
  30. TeckDoesGaming
    Nov 16, 2021
    0
    Its not Battlefield

    No scoreboards.
    No classes.
    No destruction.
    No servers.
    No stats.
    No chat.
  31. Fictional_Adam
    Nov 13, 2021
    0
    Thankfully I only played this game via EA game pass, and thus haven't funneled anything towards what is clearly a haphazard, lifeless, buggy, and broken alpha build that was released as early for premium preorders (and those with EA Play (game pass). 128 players is a needless increase that isn't functionally utilized. The maps are way to big and bland. Vehicles are limited and yet criticalThankfully I only played this game via EA game pass, and thus haven't funneled anything towards what is clearly a haphazard, lifeless, buggy, and broken alpha build that was released as early for premium preorders (and those with EA Play (game pass). 128 players is a needless increase that isn't functionally utilized. The maps are way to big and bland. Vehicles are limited and yet critical due to the maps. The game isn't properly optimized for anyone. The physics are bad, hit registration is bad, bloom is bad, the limited weapon selection is bad, the lack of voip is bad, the lack of stat and scoreboard is bad, the spotting is weak, the UI/UX is horrid, Hazard Zone is NOT for solo players, and they are a number of regressions made.

    Portal is the only redeeming feature of this game, and that's just a shiny turd despite a lack of polish. It's plagued by balancing issues that were addressed in the originals and forgotten in this iteration. The only server browser in the game (which is exclusive to Portal for no good reason) is unsurprisingly flooded with xp farms.

    These plethora of positive reviews critics are clearly bought and paid for. They are dishonest and inaccurate. This game is objectively the worst addition to the franchise and could be what kills it. The community clearly is opposed to this mess. Need more reasons to refund or not to buy? Check reddit.    … Expand
  32. Toshikipra
    Nov 13, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Totally a piece of ****
    I played bf since my high school for every generation each of them I spent more than 400hr to play and still have fun with them, but 2042 is totally a piece of **** make feel boring on the first day to play it.    … Expand
  33. onlysy66
    Nov 15, 2021
    0
    Bugs after bugs in 30fps, only have 4 ar, 3 pistol. Nothing but a waste of money
  34. Bassmark
    Nov 13, 2021
    0
    Not fun, doesn't run well on PC, there are bugs that freeze your character in place for 30+ seconds, my loadoats randomly disappear in some matches, bullet spread is a joke, operators make it hard to distinguish friend from foe, maps are barren wastelands with no cover for infantry players, vehicles are way too overpowered, and the list goes on.... Do not buy this game in its currentNot fun, doesn't run well on PC, there are bugs that freeze your character in place for 30+ seconds, my loadoats randomly disappear in some matches, bullet spread is a joke, operators make it hard to distinguish friend from foe, maps are barren wastelands with no cover for infantry players, vehicles are way too overpowered, and the list goes on.... Do not buy this game in its current state. Unless major changes are made to bring the game to be somewhat enjoyable, there really is no point in forking over the purchase amount. There is absolutely no justification for the price point of this game, would make more sense if priced $30 or less.... DO NOT BUY, you will regret it... I know i do.… Expand
  35. Lawrypope
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Made an account just to leave my little review, was super excited the moment the game was announced, and pre ordered ultimate edition, from what I played with the early access the game is a buggy mess. The removal of the class system and making battlefield a Hero shooter. Which is fine if you like hero shooters, but to me that's not what makes a battlefield experience. For me personallyMade an account just to leave my little review, was super excited the moment the game was announced, and pre ordered ultimate edition, from what I played with the early access the game is a buggy mess. The removal of the class system and making battlefield a Hero shooter. Which is fine if you like hero shooters, but to me that's not what makes a battlefield experience. For me personally it's like they stripped it right back guns, gadgets, all limited. It's all a bridge for them to encapsulate the fan base into microtransactions. Luckily for me I was able to refund my copy, of the game and I'll just be sticking to BFV and BF4. Which I recommend to anyone looking for a traditional battlefield experience. "Old man yells out cloud".… Expand
  36. Wrenheven
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Это ужасный Батлфилд. Ждал эту игру больше всех этой осенью, а в итоге разочаровался так, что и словами не описать. Огромные пустые карты и их мало. Минимум оружия. Невнятные специалисты. Остальные режимы, кроме захвата и прорыва задвинули так, что и не найти сразу, кроме того, официальной поддержки они не имеют, оставили на откуп игрокам. Постоянные проблемы с соединением. В общем, этоЭто ужасный Батлфилд. Ждал эту игру больше всех этой осенью, а в итоге разочаровался так, что и словами не описать. Огромные пустые карты и их мало. Минимум оружия. Невнятные специалисты. Остальные режимы, кроме захвата и прорыва задвинули так, что и не найти сразу, кроме того, официальной поддержки они не имеют, оставили на откуп игрокам. Постоянные проблемы с соединением. В общем, это наихудший Батлфилд, тот же 5 играется значительно приятнее.… Expand
  37. MrVicious
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    SBMM. No scoreboard. No server browser. Addition of specialist system. Wall hack. Poor graphics. Ai in multiplayer. Stupid storyline. Removal of fortifications. Removal of crouch run ads lean and back pedal.. Removal of traditional classes and factions. Generally bad uninteresting maps. Scaled back destruction. BF1 and BFV look 100 times better than this trash! No buy for me.
  38. Wizlon67
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Played the technical playtest, forums full of same issues as now, response from EA/DICE "Don't worry this is an old build and wait until the Beta to see the "real" game... Pre ordered the Ultimate Edition on the strength of their assurances, dumb I know but I'm usually the glass half full type.

    Played the beta, forums full of same issues as now, response from EA/DICE "Don't worry this    Played the technical playtest, forums full of same issues as now, response from EA/DICE "Don't worry this is an old build and wait until the Beta to see the "real" game... Pre ordered the Ultimate Edition on the strength of their assurances, dumb I know but I'm usually the glass half full type.

    Played the beta, forums full of same issues as now, response from EA/DICE "Don't worry this is an old build and wait until the Early Access to see the "real" game... Lost a little faith over this, started to remember earlier EA/DICE responses to community concerns, false promises etc. Cancelled my pre order.

    Played/ing Early Access... Whole weekend free, no connection issues. Played total 6 hours, more than 4 times that on the forums and social media just looking to see if EA/DICE have anything constructive to say...

    Looking forward to going to work tomorrow.

    I refunded my Ultimate Edition Pre-order after the Beta, no regrets. Having Origin Play anyway meant I got to give it a chance, so far I am extremely disappointed, this is making BFV look good!

    I'll keep an eye out for patches and updates, but for now it's just using up valuable SSD space.

    Quite happy playing BF4 and BF1 tonight, less hackers than usual.    … Expand
  39. boys4jesus
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    the game runs butter smooth on my 5700xt and ryzen 3700x. the maps, gameplay modes, 128 player count all makes this game absolutely amazing, the first 2 days i sunk over 30 hours into it. All of these people review bombing the game are the worst reviews I've ever seen in my life. "oh the game is just copying call of duty" "the game has a worse launch than cyberpunk" we need to stop reviewthe game runs butter smooth on my 5700xt and ryzen 3700x. the maps, gameplay modes, 128 player count all makes this game absolutely amazing, the first 2 days i sunk over 30 hours into it. All of these people review bombing the game are the worst reviews I've ever seen in my life. "oh the game is just copying call of duty" "the game has a worse launch than cyberpunk" we need to stop review bombing good games cause you have some vendetta against the developers, grow up… Expand
  40. SpuddiesNZ
    Nov 15, 2021
    0
    Game at it's core is just not Battlefield, even if the massive amounts of technical issues at launch that are now the norm with DICE were to be fixed the game itself is just a shell of what Battlefield used to be. You can tell the people who created the franchise don't work on these games anymore
  41. Freedomm
    Nov 17, 2021
    0
    i do not understand what happened at DICE since Battlefield 4. Why is that they refuse to give us what we actually want which is simply BF4 with advanced graphics, physics, new maps, new guns, new modes. That's it. No need to kill your formula with a hero shooter model, with a tarkov-like garbo mode that nobody will play, no need to make us pay $60 and battlepasses to have all the contenti do not understand what happened at DICE since Battlefield 4. Why is that they refuse to give us what we actually want which is simply BF4 with advanced graphics, physics, new maps, new guns, new modes. That's it. No need to kill your formula with a hero shooter model, with a tarkov-like garbo mode that nobody will play, no need to make us pay $60 and battlepasses to have all the content (you either go f2p battlepass or full content with 0 MTX).
    The game is bugged, uglier than BFV, has almost no weapons (only 22, they gave us 4 ARs, 1 revolver lmao). The maps are way too big, almost no action and the game runs like garbo on a GTX 1660 super + i5 10400f.    … Expand
  42. DolphLundgren5
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    This game is riddled with bugs, performance issues and astonishing amounts of poor game design elements, simply put i am extremely disappointed.

    Even with the double amount of players (from 64 up to 128) i have never felt this lonely in a Battlefield game. There is no (yes, really, NO!) interaction with your fellow team/squad mates which is just crazy considering the series past    This game is riddled with bugs, performance issues and astonishing amounts of poor game design elements, simply put i am extremely disappointed.

    Even with the double amount of players (from 64 up to 128) i have never felt this lonely in a Battlefield game. There is no (yes, really, NO!) interaction with your fellow team/squad mates which is just crazy considering the series past emphasis on teamwork and squadplay.

    The bugs are game breaking (Stuck in revive mode, not being able to spawn, joining games that end within seconds, and so on).

    The weapons all feel "off" when fighting over distances beyond 25 meters (In other words 99% of all firefights) and the guns simply don't hit where you are aiming.

    The UI is impressive in its lack of intuition and just navigation around your loadouts is a challenge in itself. Want to have a clear and precise understanding of the battlefield through the UI? Well, your not getting it here, it is all kinds of cluttered and simply put awfully designed.

    Lastly the crazy focus on "operators" and their cringy one-liners is just too much for me to handle. Hearing my character laughing and being "sassy" following a major battle with thousands of people dead is so stupid it hurts me physically.

    There are so much more that i could say about my negative experience with this game but frankly i don't feel like wasting any more time on it. For more insight and guidance regarding the state of this game head over to reddit where all the games faults are brought into the light.

    From a (former) die hard Battlefield fan, i really do NOT recommend anyone to buy this game in its current state. It is simply horrible and i encourage you to not repeat my mistake and buy this game, it is not worth your money or time, trust me.

    (PS: I will not even give the game a break for having such good graphics as the game engine's potential is wasted due to poor design choices and lack of map detail. DS)    … Expand
  43. Honestopinioner
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    The absolute disrespect, the biggest pile of dog **** to ever come out of these shameless money hungry EA dogs. It’s confirmed that big gaming news/review company’s are taking bribes to give high scores on these triple A pyramid scheme games. If you like this game, you are lying to yourself as a comping mechanism to deal with the money you lost to buy it..
  44. Makca
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    A pathetic parody of two games in a terrible state. Worse than the previous parts in almost everything. The release version is worse than the beta. I'm very sorry that I made a pre-order for myself and my friend
  45. Funkster73
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    EA are just whale hunters. No care for fans or unable to have the decency to postpone a game that is clearly unfinished. Seems their just using the battlefield name to dupe players. Can't find anything stable in this game, from game design to game play.
  46. Keksiq
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Это самая худшая часть серии Battlefield, В игре напрочь отсутствует оптимизация, у меня RTX 3060 и i9 10850 игра выдают на самым минимальных настройках графики от 60-100 фпс. Причем в этой игре напрочь отсутствует какая-либо графика, все текстуры зданий глиняные и пустые, техника выглядит ужасно, модели персонажей смотрятся неправдоподобно они совсем не смогли в пропорции человека,Это самая худшая часть серии Battlefield, В игре напрочь отсутствует оптимизация, у меня RTX 3060 и i9 10850 игра выдают на самым минимальных настройках графики от 60-100 фпс. Причем в этой игре напрочь отсутствует какая-либо графика, все текстуры зданий глиняные и пустые, техника выглядит ужасно, модели персонажей смотрятся неправдоподобно они совсем не смогли в пропорции человека, персонажи выглядят как спички.
    Теперь про геймплей: В это просто невозможно играть, оружие стреляет куда угодно, но только не в точку в прицеле, ттк сломано полностью, все бегают с дмрками, просто потому что она убивает за 0.5 секунды, когда любая ar убивает за 2 секунды и это только в том случае если вы мастер аим. Танки и машинки - физика вождения в этой игре в миллион раз хуже чем в киберпанке 2077, в иной раз лучше бежать пешком, чем садиться за руль. Ах да, камера от 3 лица внутри техники, кто это делал - его надо уволить и запретить создавать игры, более неудобной камеры не было ни в 1 игре в которую я когда-либо играл.
    Оружие в этой игре создавал какой-то клоун, некоторые оружие настолько сломаны в плане геймлпея и ттк, что с остальным бегать даже не захочется (это я про дмр).
    Карты: Как можно было сделать настолько плохие карты, они полностью пустые, у тебя есть огромные опен-филды и точки захвата, по сути все, никаких объектов помогающие пехоте хоть как-то передвигаться ничего этого нет ни на одной из карт, ты просто бежишь по пустому полю до точки, потом снова от точки до точки через огромное пустое пространство. Это прям очень плохо, я играл в бф3, бф4, бф хардлайн, бф1 и таких плохих карт никогда не было, к тому же как я и сказал ранее все текстуры в игре просто ужасны.
    Регистрация попаданий - работает сама по себе, ты можешь убить выпустив 5 пуль, а можешь и не убить за все 30 стоячего человека.
    Режимы игры:
    Портал лично мне абсолютно не зашел, бф 1942 вообще не играбельный режим как по мне, бф bad company туда же и bf 3 с картой граница каспия, из-за плохой регистрации попаданий, из-за плохой физики игры, из-за ужасно сделаной физики броска чего-либо (гранат, патрон и т.д.)
    играть в эти режимы даже не хочется.
    Hazard zone - режим игры полностью копирующий игру The division 2, мы с друзьями сыграли 10 матчей сделали стрик из 6 побед и больше в него заходить не хотим. Он сделан очень плохо: во-первых количество реальных игроков удручает, 32 человека это оооооочень мало, если вам повезет то вы встретите 3 отряда людей за игру, но в большинстве случаев, вы находите 1-2 и на этом все, вы просто убиваете ботов десятками.
    Режим совсем не заставляет тебя искать данные, вы можете победить так и не подобрав ни 1 флешки, денег вы получите все равно много.
    Игра совершенно не стоит своих денег, все кто говорят обратное, наверное сами-то и не играли.

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  47. Kokubunji
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Специально зарегистрировался ради этого отзыва. Настолько бомбит.
    Обожаю BF 3 и 4. А это просто кусок забагованного г...на.
    1) Прокачка перков - просто п..дец. Со 100 киллов вообще ни одного может не засчитать. Я играл всегда только на хардмодах, но качать перки можно лишь в нормалах. 2) Кратниками целиться просто невозможно. Пострелял, перезарядился и все.. красность пропала. Вместо    Специально зарегистрировался ради этого отзыва. Настолько бомбит.
    Обожаю BF 3 и 4. А это просто кусок забагованного г...на.

    1) Прокачка перков - просто п..дец. Со 100 киллов вообще ни одного может не засчитать.
    Я играл всегда только на хардмодах, но качать перки можно лишь в нормалах.
    2) Кратниками целиться просто невозможно. Пострелял, перезарядился и все.. красность пропала. Вместо 4, 6, 8, 10.. - нихера.
    3) Снайперские винтовки не пробивают доски деревянные. Заборы сетки и т.п.
    4) Про глючные тени авиации - и так все знают.
    5) Пол игры ты тратишь на то, чтоб от одной точки добежать до другой. Карты огромные и пустые. Даже в 120 тел никакой динамики.
    6) С отличным пингом попадания просто не регистрируются. Видишь, как пуля влетает, а противник урона не получает.

    Единственный кайф игры - режим портал. Где ты можешь подтянуть карты из других серий, оружие и технику. Но там не качаются перки. Только вот в BF3 я и так поиграть могу. Для этого не нужно покупать BF2042.

    Игра один большой минус... Поиграл 2 дня и вернул деньги за предзаказ Ultimate. После беты них..ра не улучшилось.    … Expand
  48. satkiba
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    FPS is very bad. Poor optimization for PC. Not enough content!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  49. 2Salty
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    How can you have teamwork with NO VOICE CHAT!! It’s great they removed the scoreboard so we can focus more on teamwork and telepathic communication.
  50. Kreicliff
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    No, just no.
    Its just a Battlefield in an identity crisis, and its not seems to get better in the next time.
    Stuff missing/ got worse in this game (i can tell sofar): No VoIP No real scoreboard No leaning 22 guns total !! UI is clunky No all chat No server browser outside of Portal No private/rented servers Doesn't just roll into the next map after a game in AoW, back to    No, just no.
    Its just a Battlefield in an identity crisis, and its not seems to get better in the next time.

    Stuff missing/ got worse in this game (i can tell sofar):
    No VoIP
    No real scoreboard
    No leaning
    22 guns total !!
    UI is clunky
    No all chat
    No server browser outside of Portal
    No private/rented servers
    Doesn't just roll into the next map after a game in AoW, back to matchmaking peasant
    Cannot join friends already in a match (pretty sure I could do this in beta??)
    No enemy footsteps
    Enemies look the same as friendlies
    Have to opt out of revive every death, no idea who can actually revive me anyway
    Have to re-select spawn location every spawn
    Poor hardware optimization
    Cutscenes all over the place
    Stupid ass 'look at me' after a match
    Bullet spread / weapon inaccuracy outside of rock throwing range
    Lack of game modes
    No hardcore
    Cannot join, create, or lock a squad
    No military ranks associated with numerical ranks
    No resizable minimap
    No stats page
    No commander
    No squad points for issuing orders or following them
    Revive is glitched when downed teammate's head is too close to something.
    Cannot tell if there is room to enter a friendly vehicle without trying to get in it.
    Cannot dive underwater
    Damage dealt numbers, e.g. "VEHICLE HIT 28" after hitting a tank with a rocket, have been removed. This applies to both infantry and vehicles.
    Non-removable profanity filter
    Repairing vehicles does not give XP
    Faction locked weapons and gadgets in Portal
    No rule editor support for objective based game modes
    Grappling Hook is afraid of smoke
    Bullets are afraid of power lines
    Zoom issues with sniper scopes
    Inability to switch teams
    Vehicle entry and exit animations have been removed
    Lack of destruction/levelution
    ADS required to change weapon fire mode
    Cannot move while prone and ADS
    'Assist Counts as Kill' has been removed
    No fixed heavy weapons
    No zeroing sniper scopes, starting scope (not sure about the others) has no hash marks on reticle for references
    AA rocket damage appears inconsistent
    BF5 movement mechanics removed    … Expand
  51. vydeogames
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Awful pc performance, awful gameplay, awful maps, same awful EA DICE BS. Look at the paid reviewers giving the game a 10, they're Indians lmfao SIR DO NOT REDEEM THE CARD!!!
  52. DANY2008
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Well

    https://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield2042/comments/qs5gh9/a_list_of_issues_with_battlefield_2042_and_what/

    Not my post but this is all the problem of this game.

    Sadly
  53. BigMichalek
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Don't listen to the Metascore. Those people we're obviously paid...

    To make it short: this game made the Battlefield V launch seem like the best thing ever.

    The whole core of the game isn't Battlefield. It's ApexZoneNiteWatchfield..

    Stay away from this crappy game.
  54. AshySamurai
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Having directx crash error since alpha. Devs don't care to fix it. Literally can't play longer than 10 min.
  55. Coolbreezetg6
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Worst fps ever made Worst fps ever made Worst fps ever made Worst fps ever made
  56. Miti88
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    This is by far the worst Battlefield i have ever played. Im so dissapointed. Im wondering what EA Dice did the last 3 Years
  57. arrrky_
    Nov 18, 2021
    0
    New operators system - **** New maps - **** Optimisation - **** Netcode - **** Hazard zone - boring ****.
    Portal - is kinda OK. But without any progression and massive content drops - it will become **** very soon too.
  58. Red222
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    I didnt expect it to be this bad! Lots of Bugs and tons of removed or missing features.
  59. Maziiinho
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    worst battlefield ever made, good job dice.
    Everything about this game is bad, simple as that
  60. PINGL96
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    3070+8700k+2042=GPU5%+CPU50%+25-30fps
    nice DICE
    "Half of negative comments were deleted because they were from trolls and bigots. Our game is perfect" - EA in a few days.
  61. WREXBF
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Absolutely disgusting.
  62. Lichtbann
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    More Call of Duty than Battlefieid. For better or worse.. No Scoreboard. Framedrops. Glitches. Doors not opening etc etc.
  63. sekce31
    Nov 15, 2021
    0
    This is not a Battlefield! The game strives to be a love letter to Call of Duty buf fails even in that account. There is nothing fun in it and it is many steps back in comaprison with previous Battlefield titles. Even BF1 from 2016 looks way better than this. Maps are flat and empty, HUD is tragic, stability of the game non-existent, weapons shoot everywhere but where you aim. But theThis is not a Battlefield! The game strives to be a love letter to Call of Duty buf fails even in that account. There is nothing fun in it and it is many steps back in comaprison with previous Battlefield titles. Even BF1 from 2016 looks way better than this. Maps are flat and empty, HUD is tragic, stability of the game non-existent, weapons shoot everywhere but where you aim. But the worst offense is lack ot team-play incentives that Battlefield was so good at before. There is simply no reason to try to help others... it is a game for lone wolf players who like heroic shoots and for reason don't want to play Call of Duty or Apex. It is obvious this game was all designed around milking players for money. That would be... let's say acceptable, if me as a player would have fun with the game. But they somehow forget, that when no one will play this pathetic excuse for a game no one will be all that precious cosmetics and Battle path. And you shouldn't either. Also this nicely shows ho skewed are the critic's reviews. Did we even play same game? I guess not. Or maybe I payed for it while you've been paid to praise it. Shame.… Expand
  64. Finessed
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Worst bf game ever made. Downgrade from BF1 and BFV. Horrible optimization and gunplay.
  65. Mch8er
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Just God no please don't ever make me play this game again for the love of god
  66. roughbeak
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Battlefield franchise has always been my go-to for an awesome open experience, BF2042 simply has an identity crisis. Played BF1942 like a madman back in the day, so many good memories. With the remaster of it in Portal, it's honestly a middle-fingered insult to the original--which is a fact not an opinion!

    This game would have been way better and original if 2042 was the focus and not a    Battlefield franchise has always been my go-to for an awesome open experience, BF2042 simply has an identity crisis. Played BF1942 like a madman back in the day, so many good memories. With the remaster of it in Portal, it's honestly a middle-fingered insult to the original--which is a fact not an opinion!

    This game would have been way better and original if 2042 was the focus and not a conglomerate heap of remasters, but still have Portal for its sandbox features. I'm sure a lot of precious polish time was thrown away for the sake of "remaster" content. The quality sacrifice for 128 players is possibly the most disastrous decision one could make--with how large the maps are, feels like 6v6 at current state.

    All of this isn't even mentioning operators, freakin' "scavenger hunt" UI, and janky ass animations. I am utterly stunned how my beloved franchise let this happen. Competitors will mop up the sales subsequently.    … Expand
  67. Jak3th3gr8
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Getting 30 fps with high end rig with i7-9700k rtx 3070, 32 gigs of ram. This game runs like absolute trash. I have tried all the settings and config tweaks. To no avail. Refunded game
  68. Ningonango
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Just terrible. Unfinished game with no features. Abandoned all things battlefield. Feels like a cheap remake of COD MW
  69. MonsisuerBaybay
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    This is the worst Battlefield game ever made. Nothing that made the previous games great games is there. Do not buy this crap.
  70. Forgot652
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    What a terrible game from such a large company that had years to work on it
  71. marlinfoundnemo
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    disgusting the amount of greed that drives this industry now. This game seems like it was originally designed as a BR that they changed their mind about halfway through, but kept all the same flashy **** “features”. Every positive meta critic review or elsewhere is CERTAINLY PAID OFF or completely ignorant of what a Battlefield game is supposed to be. This franchise is trash now thanks todisgusting the amount of greed that drives this industry now. This game seems like it was originally designed as a BR that they changed their mind about halfway through, but kept all the same flashy **** “features”. Every positive meta critic review or elsewhere is CERTAINLY PAID OFF or completely ignorant of what a Battlefield game is supposed to be. This franchise is trash now thanks to a team of devs with no spine to speak up against their corporate overlords about terrible design decisions. Guess I’ll be playing Battlefield 4/5 for years more to come and I’ll be refunding and spending my money supporting a game like the new Halo which has been delayed multiple times to deliver what their FANS want not the white collars. Don’t waste your money, please. Please. Please. Only thing that hurts them is their wallet so speak with that. The whole game needs a rework before I even CONSIDER repurchasing.… Expand
  72. misn1795
    Nov 22, 2021
    0
    Extremely bad UI, no voice chat, no /all chat, no working DLSS. Bugs everywhere. Very poor performance on high-end rigs. No classes. Broken audio. NO SCOREBOARD (this is an on-line FPS game).

    This looks like a bad rip-off of modern warfare with some apex legends thrown into the mix. It's absolutely awful and unplayable. There's no story, there's no identity, there's nothing, it's super    Extremely bad UI, no voice chat, no /all chat, no working DLSS. Bugs everywhere. Very poor performance on high-end rigs. No classes. Broken audio. NO SCOREBOARD (this is an on-line FPS game).

    This looks like a bad rip-off of modern warfare with some apex legends thrown into the mix. It's absolutely awful and unplayable. There's no story, there's no identity, there's nothing, it's super bland and uneventful.    … Expand
  73. Coldza
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    That’s not Battlefield. The game is completely unacceptable. It doesn’t even look like Battlefield. It’s just a BR game that failed mid development.
  74. DrMantisTMD
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Made an account to leave this review. This game is completely unfinished and they decided to release an unpolished piece of turd. Movement is clunky, maps are way too big with minimal destruction, only 22 guns on launch? Are you kidding? Specialists are a joke, gunplay is below average, there is no ‘team’ aspect to this game. You do not get rewarded for taking objectives as a squad. They literally took everything good about battlefield and threw it in the bin. No idea how the critics could genuinely give this game anything over a 3/10. Also what is up with the game’s optimization on PC? People who are lucky enough to play on powerful systems are struggling to get anything over 50fps. I know DICE and EA aren’t unfamiliar with poor game launches but this one takes the cake.… Expand
  75. Dopa35
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Feels like the game was made by students working for free, on drugs and alcohol with heavy sleep deprivation.
    Now EA paying people to write 10/10 user reviews is a new time low. Newly created accounts, with only one review being BF 2042.
    Few quotes, which scream they are fake: "This is the smoothest battlefield launch ever." "An amazing edition to the battlefield franchise with 3 rich    Feels like the game was made by students working for free, on drugs and alcohol with heavy sleep deprivation.
    Now EA paying people to write 10/10 user reviews is a new time low. Newly created accounts, with only one review being BF 2042.

    Few quotes, which scream they are fake: "This is the smoothest battlefield launch ever."
    "An amazing edition to the battlefield franchise with 3 rich game modes."
    "The full-time specialists know how to work in the team play."
    "Hazard Zone is an interesting mode where you can spend fun evenings with friends."    … Expand
  76. madzen
    Dec 2, 2021
    0
    They added a Santa skin. Bf2042 is officially a horrible copy of cod and Fortnite.
  77. mrxxx
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    BF Veteran here, this is literally a joke. Battlefield is officialy death after this, nothing work bad graphics and more. DO NOT BUY IT !
  78. sirre0812
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Take the worst and most hated features from the most popular fps games, And add them up. Remove the lots off the loved features from previous bf games, Release it 1 year to early, and you get battlefield 2042
  79. Phesom
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Thank god for the trial version.
    Horrible performance, buggy, not enough new content (3 years, 4 studios, 1 delay.. what the hell where they doing all this time?).
    There are countless other things that are missing for no reason, for the full list check the subreddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield2042/comments/qt7sez/list_of_current_grievances/ This is simply chasing a trend    Thank god for the trial version.
    Horrible performance, buggy, not enough new content (3 years, 4 studios, 1 delay.. what the hell where they doing all this time?).
    There are countless other things that are missing for no reason, for the full list check the subreddit.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield2042/comments/qt7sez/list_of_current_grievances/

    This is simply chasing a trend and has no soul. Pathetic, EA should fire/disband DICE like they love to do with countless other Developement Studios or relegate them to a support studio and let Ripple Effects or Respawn have a try at a proper Battlefield.
    They have proven countless times to be incompetent. This is not a one off.    … Expand
  80. Schwarzyyy
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    The only thing "Battlefield" about this game is its name and the fact that it launched unfinished, broken and riddled with bugs as it is tradition, although this one takes it to new and never before seen extremes. Unlike the predecessors this one however still would be the worst entry in the franchise had it launched perfectly finished and without bugs since this Battlefield is nothing butThe only thing "Battlefield" about this game is its name and the fact that it launched unfinished, broken and riddled with bugs as it is tradition, although this one takes it to new and never before seen extremes. Unlike the predecessors this one however still would be the worst entry in the franchise had it launched perfectly finished and without bugs since this Battlefield is nothing but a soulless regression in nearly every way representing only a former shell of the franchise. This so called "love letter to Battlefield fans" comes with, in no particular order:
    - the worst gunplay of any bf yet
    - the worst graphics and visuals for its time yet
    - the worst audio design and mixing yet
    - least amount of actual content -> only 7 maps and 22 guns (hazard zone will be nothing but a meme in 2 weeks time and portal is a cheap last ditch effort to save this absolute disaster of a base game)
    - worst map design yet
    - worst weapon and vehicle balance yet
    - worst UI yet
    - worst performance yet
    - worst settings customization yet
    - most unfinished, bugged out and featureless BF yet
    - ... and the list could keep going on without end, just see some more comprehensive ones on the games subreddit.
    In conclusion this battlefield might be the first one that cant be saved by DICEs usual patch fixing frenzy in the first year after the launch. And even if DICE outdo themselves once again, the underlying game design choices are so out of touch with the core community, that nothing but a complete redesign of pretty much the whole game could save this franchise damaging kick in the teeth of battlefield fans. Unlike entries that launched rough before, like BF4 or BFV, where most die hard fans could at least see a genuinely good and fun game at the end of the dark, bug riddled tunnel, this one is the first Battlefield that is just categorially unfun, which hurts even the most die hard fans of this franchise.    … Expand
  81. Technishon
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Game is awful in too many ways to list, maybe have another look in 6 months to a year, it might be ok by the
  82. Coolbeans194
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    A broken game on launch. Maybe in 6 months they will try to rework all the problems and make something of it, but it is not worth anyone's time or money. This game makes the CyberPunk2077 release seem good.
  83. DdGee
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Free to play games have more content and feel way more polished than this pile of trash. Reddit pretty much sums up all the issues. Poor performance, horrible ui, terrible map design, hot reg is out of this world. As a battlefield fan I feel ripped of and very very disappointed.
  84. Doomcatz
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    unfinished game，worst bf ever .ridiculous gun play experience, missing features, 4 years of development?? LOL
  85. Rolee
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    **** unfinished garbage please DONT BUY IT. I preordered and regretted it like i never did. this should've been the beta not the full released game.
  86. GensokyoIsReal
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Don't listen to "critics", DON'T WASTE YOUR WALLET ON THIS.
    This game is a mockery of the Battlefield franchise. An usurper, a corpse-puppet controlled by developpers trying to revive its glory days while simultaniously having NO IDEA what made the franchise that great in the first place. You can tell this is the result of a piss poor new management at Dice/EA, arrival of new Devs that    Don't listen to "critics", DON'T WASTE YOUR WALLET ON THIS.
    This game is a mockery of the Battlefield franchise. An usurper, a corpse-puppet controlled by developpers trying to revive its glory days while simultaniously having NO IDEA what made the franchise that great in the first place. You can tell this is the result of a piss poor new management at Dice/EA, arrival of new Devs that have absolutely no clue what they're getting into and want to rebrand the franchise into some half assed garbage that no one asked for. I feel sorry for the 2000s Dice devs that are witnessing this.

    A TON of great features that have been part of this series for so long: gone.
    Terrible design for all of the new original 2042 maps, unnecessarely large, flat, no cover and empty battles. They look nothing like an actual battlefield, there's zero warfare/conflict look to them. it's all designed to be some kind of ultra realistic Valorant/Overwatch with some hints of Cyberpunk 2077 instead of god damn Battlefield, add to that the MAPS are absolute garbage even on their own and yeah. Complete failure. There's no destruction, you know, the one thing that Battlefield has been know to be excelling at for more than a decade at this point?
    The performances are absolutely horrible despite my computer being a monster, Portal is limited, lacks content, and overhaul very disappointing, animations are clunky and feel unfinished. The whole "boots on the ground" feel has disappeared, say hello to cringy quirky specialists instead of the class system that has forged Battlefield since its creation. Say goodbye to teamwork, good sound design, decent variety of weapons (22 at launch, really?) The UI design is the worst I've ever seen in a post 2010 game, THERE IS NO S C O R E B O A R D, NO STATS PAGES, NO SERVER BROWSER, NO CLASS SYSTEM, NO FACTION, YOU CAN'T KNOW HOW WELL YOU ARE DOING COMPARED TO OTHERS AND YOU CAN'T CHANGE SQUAD? HELLO?! What kind of sick joke this is? Keep in mind that this is only a SMALL FRACTION of what's missing in this abortion. The end of round screen is a complete joke, filled with "comical voicelines" and animations that make you want to rip your ears off and pierce your eyes from awkwardness. It's insane how infuriatingly bad this game is, especially after Battlefield V which despite not being a great game is absolutely better than this one, which says a lot. What has Dice gone into? What sort of quality degratation abyss have they fallen in? Have they signed some sort of contract to make the most anger induincg """battlefield"""" experience possible? This entire mess of a game looks and feels like it was released a year too early. A 3 years wait, endless talk about a bunch of studio working their asses off, about being supposedly "ahead of schedule", only for this joke of a result? The game is a buggy disaster, the hit registration is an absolute shore and I have counted dozens of situations where my bullets did not hit a thing. Even if the game had a proper developpement time, its foundation is already broken by their stupid "creative choices" such as their so called "specialist" that were obviously only created to appeal to Call Of Duty/BR fans, to try to "modernise" the franchise into something completely deplorable and cringy. I wouldn't even be surprised if this game was originally meant to be a BR judging by how coincidentally similar some design choices are here to these type of games. It also seems like Portal was specifically made for people not fan of BR.
    Speaking of Portal, apparently it took only a year to make?? Yeah I can f*****g tell with how janky it is, and how inferior the sound design of each recycled weapons of this gamemode is compared to masterpieces like BATTLEFIELD 3 or Bad Company 2. How the hell did a concept such as Portal take a year to make in a 3 YEARS of developpement game, when THIS gamemode is what has most of the content. Something tells me this was a last ditch effort to appeal to "oldschool fans" because you were too scared of people not liking the garbage new ideas you had for All Out War or other boring crap like Hazard Zone that everyone casted aside on Day 1, which you were right about. Well that effort did not pay off in the end since even Portal becomes quickly boring thanks to the limitation you implemented to the rules editor and feel like a downgrade to the games it's referencing. Even in an unverse where Portal is good, it's FAR from the content of a full game.
    Nothing is cohesive, the games feels weak and unprepared, nothing feels polished, I've never felt bored this quickly by a Battlefield game, it was hollow and lifeless.
    Thank you EA, and thank you Dice for proving how plugged your ears are concering what the community enjoys and wants. You miserably failed on the one game that was supposed to bring back Battlefield into the spotlight.

    G o o d J o b !    … Expand
  87. mike328
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    This game has got to be the most blatant cash grab ever orchestrated this year. I feel really bad for the developers being forced to go in this direction. I used to love the franchise, and played all the battlefields except 1942. I really think they’re out of touch on what players want and how to properly design a game. It’s sad. I refunded my game. This wasn’t the battlefield anybodyThis game has got to be the most blatant cash grab ever orchestrated this year. I feel really bad for the developers being forced to go in this direction. I used to love the franchise, and played all the battlefields except 1942. I really think they’re out of touch on what players want and how to properly design a game. It’s sad. I refunded my game. This wasn’t the battlefield anybody wanted. I think I speak for all the OG’s out there who’ve played since the Bad Company days. God, what a disaster this launch turned out to be. Had to make an account just to express how deeply disappointed I am with this smh… Expand
  88. TheIron
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Made an account especially to rate this game. It is simply in an unfinished state without many of the features that made the previous battlefield titles so fun. To name a few:
    - the movement is worse than BFV
    - there is no scoreboard -there are no classes -the graphics are worse than BFV - the maps are empty wastelands, 80% of the game is just running to the next objective If they    Made an account especially to rate this game. It is simply in an unfinished state without many of the features that made the previous battlefield titles so fun. To name a few:
    - the movement is worse than BFV
    - there is no scoreboard
    -there are no classes
    -the graphics are worse than BFV
    - the maps are empty wastelands, 80% of the game is just running to the next objective

    If they would've just made a newer version of BF4 with new maps,more guns and with the movement of BFV this would be a perfect game. Instead, it is a broken clone of BR shooters, but with a different objective. If someone would tell me that they intended to make a BR game but changed it last minute, I would believe it instantly.    … Expand
  89. Nighters
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Worst Battlefield so far. Unfinished, missing tons of things there were in previous titles.
  90. Dracarys14
    Nov 15, 2021
    0
    This is a joke made by EA, I think they didnt even hired testers.., so many bugs, so much fps drop and the experience is mediocre. They launch the game for people that bought early, just to test the game, this is outrageous. The map is so huge and you have so few vehicles to use, they said everything is destructible in trailer , so they lied, the servers cannot support 128 players..
    They    This is a joke made by EA, I think they didnt even hired testers.., so many bugs, so much fps drop and the experience is mediocre. They launch the game for people that bought early, just to test the game, this is outrageous. The map is so huge and you have so few vehicles to use, they said everything is destructible in trailer , so they lied, the servers cannot support 128 players..
    They just didn't care and released a game with bugs and low content    … Expand
  91. DoubleHelix113
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    I paid $90 to beta test an unfinished game. DICE has been nothing but silent regarding all the issues with this game. Battlefield has officially died.
  92. goyney
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    you killed toxicity but you killed the game too, good job.

    developers charge extortionate prices for unfinished games these days, starting to get used to it.

    a real f*** up.
  93. yeayeaass
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    i had to sign up for metacritic account just to rate it 1 of 10. Been playing BF franchise since 1942, 2, 2142, BC2, 3,4,1,5 oh and hardline. By far this one is the WORST OF ALL TIME. You really have to spend sometime thinking about anything positive about this game at its current state.
  94. zoltanownsyou
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    There's not enough space here to put how terrible and unplayable this game is.

    This isn't a battlefield game. This is a warzone/fortnite hybrid and it's straight trash. The huge, huge, huge maps of vast nothingness between objective points. 22 guns in total. Lol. No voice chat? Are you serious? Indie games that take 1 month to create have voice chat. Armor platings?? That's LITERALLY    There's not enough space here to put how terrible and unplayable this game is.

    This isn't a battlefield game. This is a warzone/fortnite hybrid and it's straight trash.

    The huge, huge, huge maps of vast nothingness between objective points.

    22 guns in total. Lol.

    No voice chat? Are you serious? Indie games that take 1 month to create have voice chat.

    Armor platings?? That's LITERALLY from warzone. And it's infuriating to lose a gunfight to a player who has armor.... game breaking.

    The game looks like plastic on 1440p and I get 50 frames with an RTX 2080. The sound in this game literally equalizes all sound into one volume. Footsteps as loud as tanks. It looks and sounds worse than a early 2000s FPS title.

    The physics in this game make no sense. The bullet registrstion and bullet spread will make you physically sick.

    DICE has betrayed fans of this once militaristic FPS franchise which is now a child's game with operstors who have quirky one-liners and goofy outfits. All of this betrayl just to sell skins. Is this the definition of "selling out"?

    There is literally no scoreboard in this game. You cannot see hiw many kills everyone has. This is unacceptable.

    There is no progression system aside from a number that keeps rising. There are no "military ranks". There is no way to check your stats or progression.

    There are TWO GAMEMODES. LOL. Are you serious? And there are 7 maps. And not every map is compatible with each gamemode. So you will literally play 3 GIGANTIC maps over and over.

    When you hit a vehicle with a rocket it says "part disabled: 10 points". TELL ME HOW MUCH DAMAGE I DID TO THE VEHICLE FFS.

    There are robot dog AI that will laser you from 500 meters out. They are very common.

    I don't think I've seen a building collapse in this game, for two reasons: #1 tgere are like 6 buildings on every map, the rest is just empty space. #2 I'm pretty sure the skyscrapers are indestructible.

    The game automatically takes you to the menu after the match. You cannot play the same lobby twice. You cannot join or create a squad. That's right, I'm not making that up.

    This game has THE WORSE and MODT UNINTUITIVE UI screen to ever plague a video game.

    I'm just getting depressed listing this stuff. In summary, this isn't a battlefield game. What a shame they did this    … Expand
  95. Metaaussie2
    Nov 15, 2021
    0
    Game is riddled with game breaking bugs and poor gameplay design. Maps are the worst the series has ever seen. Gun selection is woeful and gunplay is a travesty. Vehicles handle the worst in the series. Hit reef is utterly broken. Half the time you try to spawn it disable the ui so you have to restart. Specialists are an unbalanced nightmare. The ui is nigh unusable on consoles and is anGame is riddled with game breaking bugs and poor gameplay design. Maps are the worst the series has ever seen. Gun selection is woeful and gunplay is a travesty. Vehicles handle the worst in the series. Hit reef is utterly broken. Half the time you try to spawn it disable the ui so you have to restart. Specialists are an unbalanced nightmare. The ui is nigh unusable on consoles and is an absolute ****fight to navigate through at the best of times. Stay away from this travesty and just wait for halo or play cod. They might actually be worth the time… Expand
  96. datguyjack
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Battlefield player since Bad Company 2 with collectively over 2k hours across all BFs, this is by far the biggest travesty I've ever seen.

    SAVE. YOUR. MONEY.
  97. ciganyone
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Kinda shocked how bad this game is . There was time for developing, but still a horrible expereience. Low FPS, unlocking weapon attachments in Portal currently not possible, so i am forced to play their main game mode with 128 players but still empty maps and running 2 min just to get killed by a vehicle .
    Everything gets touched by EA is dead .
  98. Stebbzor
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    You said this game was a love letter from you to us. This feels more like a spit in the face. This game doesn't have the same gritty feeling as all your other battlefield games have, hell I even installed Battlefield V yesterday just to see if I was being dramatic, and just playing the basic intro in Battlefield V got me 50 x more hyped for Battlefield V than 2042. Map doesn't becomeYou said this game was a love letter from you to us. This feels more like a spit in the face. This game doesn't have the same gritty feeling as all your other battlefield games have, hell I even installed Battlefield V yesterday just to see if I was being dramatic, and just playing the basic intro in Battlefield V got me 50 x more hyped for Battlefield V than 2042. Map doesn't become destroyed after a while of playing, it stays clean, you can choose between a couple of middle aged specialists instead of actual soldiers, which is dumb, half the players look the same and there's 128 of us.

    The maps have barely any hiding spots, they're massive and open, and those maps that do have houses that you can enter are literally a copy paste of the same house scattered, most of the times it's even just a container that you can enter. There's not any levelution which is what made the other Battlefield games feel epic. Playing this game feels more like I'm playing Call of Duty on the same engine used in Battlefield 2, with basic destruction added to only those walls that have a concrete material on it.

    There's a serious lack of weapons to choose from straight from launch, it's seriously disappointing and it kills any drive to play the game.

    Audio quality, it honestly feels like the whole game was designed by a team that has never worked or played Battlefield before. Usually the audio quality, music, explosions, gun sounds and ambient sound has been very epic, like in Battlefield V. But this game is a serious let down when it comes to audio quality.

    Menu feels very annoying to use, it's finnicky and looks like it was designed for an iPad. The audio when you hover over menu options is irritating as hell, for the first couple of hours I thought it was an audio bug but no the sound is just like that apparantly, ear raping.

    I've put 31 hours into the game cause I desperately want to believe there is a hot patch coming to fix all the endless amounts of inbalance and bugs in this game, but I don't feel like that's going to happen anytime soon and I honestly wish I could just get my money back at this point. What you'll end up experiencing when playing this game is spawning in, getting spotted within the first second, getting ran over by a hovercraft that is indestructible somehow yet everyone has one. You'll get to level 20 after 20 hours of gameplay and unlock that gun you've wanted and then realize it's utter **** and you might as well just use an SMG cause you can kill anyone from anywhere across the map with that.

    I don't know how to express my anger towards Dice for this let down of a game, I hope they actually put their whole team into fixing this mess and release a patch within the month. Cause this game is far from a love letter to us Battlefield fans.    … Expand
  99. LobsterMan43
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    This game was clearly not ready to be launched. Missing features, server errors, bad optimization (especially on PC) etc etc etc. Seems like DICE straight up doesn’t care about the Battlefield IP or it’s community. It’s track record with their previous games doesn’t give this user a lot of hope for post launch 2042 support or content.

    For anyone reading this, DONT BUY IT right now.    This game was clearly not ready to be launched. Missing features, server errors, bad optimization (especially on PC) etc etc etc. Seems like DICE straight up doesn’t care about the Battlefield IP or it’s community. It’s track record with their previous games doesn’t give this user a lot of hope for post launch 2042 support or content.

    For anyone reading this, DONT BUY IT right now. Wait until spring or summer of 2022 and see if DICE does anything productive with the game. In the meantime, play the other battlefields or find another FPS made by devs that gives a crap about their player base.    … Expand
  100. notepadx16
    Nov 21, 2021
    0
    Worse FPS i ever played. Low performance. Bugs everywhere. Bad map design. Bad gameplay. Missing fetures that even Quake 4 had... the list goes on...
    I am now a proud owner of a 100usd 20-42fps digital turd.
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  1. Trusted Reviews
    Feb 15, 2022
    70
    All in all, Battlefield 2042 has been a real labour of love for me. The initial launch was remarkably underbaked, but I can’t deny the enjoyment that comes from firing a rocket launcher into a tornado. This may not be the best FPS multiplayer game available, and there are still plenty of issues that need ironing out, but there are occasionally some thrilling moments that you won’t be able to experience in the likes of Call of Duty or Fortinte. It remains frustrating having to pay full price for a multiplayer game, but if you’re already a fan of the franchise and don’t mind missing out on the campaign, you’ll likely enjoy yourself here. The nostalgic aspect of Portal mode will also draw fans in, and of course, the 4K graphics make it very pretty game, even if it has its cracks.
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  2. Riot Pixels
    Dec 23, 2021
    40
    The weakest first-person shooter in the history of DICE. Even, by some miracle, the studio manages to fix the most glaring mistakes and reanimate the abysmal netcode, this game will not become Battlefield at its core.
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  3. Merlin'in Kazanı (Turkey)
    Dec 16, 2021
    65
    Despite the promising Portal mode, Battlefield 2042, which uses players as a tester, still gives the impression of an incomplete game with its errors and important problems.
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