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  1. Nov 14, 2021
    1
    Dissapoinment. Worse than previous battlefields. I Think the worst bf ever.
  2. Nov 14, 2021
    3
    Underwhelming. That is the word that best describes this game. Multitude of bugs are just the start, lack luster gunplay, forgettable operators and overall just a step back. Missing features that were in previous titles that are now "coming soon", they have picked the Bethesda method of game launch. Release it in a poor state and patch it up it something at least playable down the road.Underwhelming. That is the word that best describes this game. Multitude of bugs are just the start, lack luster gunplay, forgettable operators and overall just a step back. Missing features that were in previous titles that are now "coming soon", they have picked the Bethesda method of game launch. Release it in a poor state and patch it up it something at least playable down the road. But this isn't a DICE issue, many devs are rushing games to market, cutting content that was standard 5 years ago and overall releasing half assed games. Most new games are all hype, little soul. Expand
  3. Nov 14, 2021
    9
    Thoroughly enjoying this game. It reminds me of BF4, but with more action. Small fights throughout a hectic, chaotic 128 player massive Battle. Really enjoying the specialists and the different aspects they bring to the game. Tactical squad play with friends is fantastic. Needs some work on community servers, joining, squad grouping, scoreboards and some other stats.
  4. Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Havent signed in to metacritic for years... I'm making this effort now to give 0 for this game.
    Good lord!!! I'm already old and have played every battlefield game. I'm so old that i have played wolfenstein on floppy disks old...

    I havent seen worse game than this, industry standard features missing. This game feels like mobile game ported to pc and consoles.
  5. Nov 14, 2021
    0
    The specialists are horrible characters not from any type of war
    The into animations to a match are the laziest cinematography I have ever witnessed
    The graphics look washed out and outdated The ui and menu interface is clunky and poorly designed The waves are not real in nosher canals The sound design is terrible apart from explosions they completely ruined bad company 2 mortar strike
    The specialists are horrible characters not from any type of war
    The into animations to a match are the laziest cinematography I have ever witnessed
    The graphics look washed out and outdated
    The ui and menu interface is clunky and poorly designed
    The waves are not real in nosher canals
    The sound design is terrible apart from explosions they completely ruined bad company 2 mortar strike
    Loads of bad design choices for example looking out of a building they try and create the transition of looking from dark to light instead it just looks pathetic
    3rd person transitions are terrible Team work is not encouraged
    They cant even do a teach you how to play conquest video properly
    Views from vehicles have a washed out look like a smear instead of a window
    Falling from the sky is nothing how a dead body would fall
    Revive cam doesn't make sense
    Doesn't feel like a war
    Is not fun anymore
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  6. Nov 14, 2021
    6
    I see some genuine criticism in the ratings but I find alot of the complaints rather intesesting and uncalled for. I'll start with the one I feel the most indifferent with. (Just a FYI, I will not be mentioning glitches as EVERY battlefield title on release had plenty of problems, this is not a BF 2042 specific problem).

    Gun play. In comparison to BF3, BF4, and BF1 the TTK is relatively
    I see some genuine criticism in the ratings but I find alot of the complaints rather intesesting and uncalled for. I'll start with the one I feel the most indifferent with. (Just a FYI, I will not be mentioning glitches as EVERY battlefield title on release had plenty of problems, this is not a BF 2042 specific problem).


    Gun play. In comparison to BF3, BF4, and BF1 the TTK is relatively similar yet different. With the lack of weapons you rarely get killed with anything other than the starting rifle as it works great in all situations. It's not like the other weapons are not good either, they just lack universal play. Map design. The maps lack vertically, which I would argue is what made games like BF4 special. The maps are all large with little exception making chaotic close quarter battles non-existentent. Graphics. I'm playing on PC with a 3070 and i9 11700k so it would be unfair to call the graphics good without mentioning this. Content. This easily spooks me the most. Alot of customization and content seems to be missing which could make this another No Man's Sky. Simple stuff such as the leaderboard is missing which is a literal core game feature. As mentioned before the gun category is lacking extremely. I can forgive this if every weapon is viable but that will have to wait until I unlock them all. Gun customization feels alright, no complaints. Thats raps up my negative thoughts on the game, here are some pros that I believe make it a 5-6 out of 10

    The new Portal mode is extremely fun. It's a shame they spent so much time adding all those weapons to side gamemodes and not the main game. Custom games is... custom games with little change. The map disasters are all fairly cool. I do wish they added more man made disasters instead of weather based disasters. I would love to see radiation, explosive, or fire change the objectives. Map design. Although the maps are mostly flat with no major vertical titles they are still designed fairly well. Feel free to disagree. Specialist. People hate the idea of Specialist yet complain when people don't play medic or anything else for that matter. Specialist allow players to "multi-class" and better support teams with bonuses or abilities. I dont mind it because they don't provide stupidly overpowered bonuses that can't be nerfed or changed. Once again, feel free to disagree. The vehicles are hit or miss. Maybe it's just me but tanks feel like they have ungodly amounts of armour compared to BF1/BF4. The hit boxes are TERRIBLE, rockets will hit yet not deal damage nor points. The crew positions are cool but not practical. In summery this is the average live service game from the new Era of "release then fix" games. The game is fun, but lacks personality and content. I would definitely hesitate to pay the full 60 let alone the 90 usd for the gold edition. I
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  7. Nov 14, 2021
    0
    DICE PLS.

    This comment from reddit sums it up for me. "The game looks like it was developed during the last year. What exactly was so time consuming and difficult that they needed all these teams and time to create? Basic features and systems that were a staple are missing. Maps are limited, nothing special, too empty and soulless. There's no story, no overarching plot. Gun pool is
    DICE PLS.

    This comment from reddit sums it up for me.

    "The game looks like it was developed during the last year. What exactly was so time consuming and difficult that they needed all these teams and time to create? Basic features and systems that were a staple are missing. Maps are limited, nothing special, too empty and soulless. There's no story, no overarching plot. Gun pool is laughable, even f2p games have more variety. Destruction is a major stepback, nothing impressive that screams next gen.

    What where they all doing all this time?"
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  8. 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 !
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  9. Nov 14, 2021
    2
    Created a Metacritic account for the first time just to post this.

    If you, like me, are a long time Battlefield fan and looking for a solid new entry to the series you will be incredibly frustrated and disappointed with this game. All the annoying launch bugs aside, which will be patched out over the next few months, the foundational problem with this entry is that it's core design
    Created a Metacritic account for the first time just to post this.

    If you, like me, are a long time Battlefield fan and looking for a solid new entry to the series you will be incredibly frustrated and disappointed with this game. All the annoying launch bugs aside, which will be patched out over the next few months, the foundational problem with this entry is that it's core design decisions across all aspects of the game are bad. It's obvious the designers were tasked with trying to recreate and capitalize on the designs making the Fortnight, Apex and COD Warzone companies a lot of money but are not even able to do that. This is not Battlefield.
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  10. Nov 14, 2021
    1
    I made an account on this web-site just to review this game, been gaming for 25 years and never wrote a review. But since I've been playing Battlefield since 1942 I felt it was time to speak up.
    You've slowly but surely gutted every battlefield since Battlefield 3, you release them half baked then 12 months down the line decide to improve it.
    I won't lie this game will likely be good in
    I made an account on this web-site just to review this game, been gaming for 25 years and never wrote a review. But since I've been playing Battlefield since 1942 I felt it was time to speak up.
    You've slowly but surely gutted every battlefield since Battlefield 3, you release them half baked then 12 months down the line decide to improve it.
    I won't lie this game will likely be good in 6-12 months time, but at this moment in time it's a shambles, you cannot honestly tell me no one stopped you before release and said "This isn't a good idea, it isn't battlefield".

    You've gutted a perfectly good game that you fixed for 3 years (Battlefield V) and basically hit the reset button. How can you be so dumb and blind?
    I hope you lose profits and people refund fast, I hope it hurts your shareholders.

    Shambles of a company/developer now.
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  11. Nov 14, 2021
    0
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  12. Nov 14, 2021
    0
    The gaming industry needs regulation. There needs to be penalty for software developers who release stuff like this. This is not Battlefield. I don't know how this got past the first pass on design. How someone said hey lets not offer a different product anymore, let's mimic call of duty despite the fact people buy Battlefield to play....Battlefield.
  13. Nov 14, 2021
    0
    This has nothing to do with Battlefield.

    No scoreboards.
    No classes.
    No destruction.
    No servers.
    No stats.
    No chat.
    The weapons omg. There are literally only 4 ARs. Wtf is this?
    It tries to be a mix of Warzone, Fortnite, R6 Siege, Apex and so on.

    The cringe after game lines.

    This is an unfinished, unpolished and broken game.
    Do not buy this until everything is fixed!
  14. Nov 14, 2021
    10
    Awesome game. Buggy at release, but it will be fixed later I have no doubts. Having a blast rn, plus portal is really refreshing. Hazard Zone is more competitive, but can be fun too
  15. Nov 14, 2021
    3
    This game has some good aspects, however this company ruined it with stupid decisions.

    No Scoreboard, no stats, no server browser, no voice chat, no text chat with enemy team, lobby disband, no variety of guns and skins, UI sucks, sound and audio sucks,…..

    Dice has many studio helped in this game for a few years and this is what customer receive ?
  16. Nov 14, 2021
    0
    A scrapped class system and hero style 'Specialist' spitting egotistic cringe lines of dialog at the end of every match as they pose for you. This is what Battlefield has devolved to. What happened to you DICE? Your studio used to be amazing!
  17. 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.
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  18. Nov 14, 2021
    0
    They 100% planned to make a BR and changed course during the development. So many things point at this.

    Huge maps (too big for normal BF gameplay, even for 128 players) Armor plates Cannot switch/create squads Silly long timing when you're downed with no visibility for medics, because initially it should be only your BR squad that can revive you The + system for weapons,
    They 100% planned to make a BR and changed course during the development. So many things point at this.

    Huge maps (too big for normal BF gameplay, even for 128 players)

    Armor plates

    Cannot switch/create squads

    Silly long timing when you're downed with no visibility for medics, because initially it should be only your BR squad that can revive you

    The + system for weapons, instead of ground loot attachments

    No server browser, because you don't need one in BR

    Lack of game modes

    No hardcore

    No propper factions

    No scoreboard

    No campaign

    One specialist that has a gadget to change loadouts

    https://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield2042/comments/qtmndr/this_game_was_planned_to_be_a_br_and_they_changed/
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  19. Nov 14, 2021
    1
    Beta was better than the full release, lies, lies and lies. Nothing much to say. Waiting for improvements.
  20. 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.
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  21. 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.
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  22. 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
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  23. Nov 14, 2021
    1
    They told us once, they are ahead of schedule....
    This game in the actual state is absolutely trash.
    Bugs, no balance and ugly hipster specialists
  24. Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Can't even leave a squad, gunplay and perfomance are atrocious, movement is clunky
  25. Nov 14, 2021
    1
    So 3hrs into BF2042 and I cant recommend it at all.
    No team play at all, there's no scoreboard, you cant switch squads, specialists feel out of place, maps are barren and poorly designed, there's a huge lack of game modes (only 2) no Rush or infantry maps, there's only 22 guns (should be around 80) and there's no role restriction to guns either.
    It was clearly designed to be a BR, end
    So 3hrs into BF2042 and I cant recommend it at all.
    No team play at all, there's no scoreboard, you cant switch squads, specialists feel out of place, maps are barren and poorly designed, there's a huge lack of game modes (only 2) no Rush or infantry maps, there's only 22 guns (should be around 80) and there's no role restriction to guns either.
    It was clearly designed to be a BR, end game animations, weird game intro, BR map design, abilities and specialists all scream BR.
    Pretty disappointed & glad there's a free trail so I didn't waste my money. Highly recommend against playing this until they sort the game out, but imo that's not going to happen anytime soon as so much if fundamentally wrong they would need to rework from the ground up.
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  26. Nov 14, 2021
    1
    Game is a mess, is this a preview of battlefield mobile because that's what it feels like.
  27. Nov 14, 2021
    1
    -Guy who made whole UI needs to be fired, like how the f that actually passed testing?
    -Its obvious lot of quality people left DICE after BF1/BF5,this just feels like some chinese wannabe copy of Battlefield that tries to be AGAIN something else like cod and apex.
    -Map design is terrible,everything is just so souless, like the maps are designed for battleroyale not conquest. -destruction
    -Guy who made whole UI needs to be fired, like how the f that actually passed testing?
    -Its obvious lot of quality people left DICE after BF1/BF5,this just feels like some chinese wannabe copy of Battlefield that tries to be AGAIN something else like cod and apex.
    -Map design is terrible,everything is just so souless, like the maps are designed for battleroyale not conquest.
    -destruction is worst in series
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  28. 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 .
  29. Nov 14, 2021
    2
    Это ужас, говорить что игры должна была выйти через пол год даже не буду, оптимизации нет, баг на баге, лаг на лаге. Всё господа, шутеры мертвы, те, кто их делает бездарны, это не профессионалы, а лгуны чистой воды, не тратьте свои деньги, не поддерживайте.Это ужас, говорить что игры должна была выйти через пол год даже не буду, оптимизации нет, баг на баге, лаг на лаге. Всё господа, шутеры мертвы, те, кто их делает бездарны, это не профессионалы, а лгуны чистой воды, не тратьте свои деньги, не поддерживайте.
  30. Nov 14, 2021
    3
    First off let me preface this review with I'm a HUGE BF fan and have been playing them pretty steadily since BC2. TLDR This game is a disappointment in its current state and is extremely lackluster and you should NOT purchase it until DICE/EA follow through with their promise. More in-depth with what I didn't like below. Bottom line DO NOT BUY UNLESS THERE'S A SALE OR SOMETHING it's a $40First off let me preface this review with I'm a HUGE BF fan and have been playing them pretty steadily since BC2. TLDR This game is a disappointment in its current state and is extremely lackluster and you should NOT purchase it until DICE/EA follow through with their promise. More in-depth with what I didn't like below. Bottom line DO NOT BUY UNLESS THERE'S A SALE OR SOMETHING it's a $40 game at best in its current state

    Overall- Overall the game is buggy and severely lacking in the content department (I think there's something like 22 guns total in the game!?) on top of that there's barely any unlocks for vehicle upgrades weapon attachments that sort of thing and you already know it's just so they can sell it to you in some battle pass or something because I mean come on its EA. On top of the extremely lackluster amount of content is also the issue of the bugs revive bugs and other performance issues plague the game and while its pretty typical for a battlefield game to have these issues at launch the game is significantly better performance-wise at launch than BF3 or BF4 was, that being said this game also got delayed a month so they could "deliver us a finished product" only for the month delay in release to pass just for them to give us this steaming pile of garbage.

    Multiplayer- in addition to what I mentioned above about the lack of weapons/ content and the performance issues the removal of the class systems (which is a core part of BF) the game feels really wonky and just not right or fun, that being said I do like the specialist and I don't think they need to be removed but they definitely need to tie the specialist and the respective weapon types to their classes like in old battlefield because it just makes sense for both balancing purposes and streamlining the game. The lack of the class system feels even worse as well due to the lack of content but long gone are the days of grinding for cool things like the mortar emplacement for the support class like in BF3 which honestly feels really bad because it was something to look forward to and also something that really gave that class an identity. The bottom line is no classes feel really bad and there's an easy fix DICE/EA just needs to listen to fans for a change.

    Hazard Zone- Oh boy where to start with this one. Okay, so first glances and first playthroughs it's really fun but at the end of the day, it plays it way too safe and doesn't really have any replayability. You basically spawn in and extract drives for dark market currency to then better loadout for the next round? it's a fun game mode for sure but at the end of the day, it doesn't have anything to keep people returning. They really need to add some like really bad-ass Hazard Zone exclusive cosmetics or something that can be purchased with dark market currency to keep people playing it because as of right now Hazard Zone inst going to make it past the release and it's going to die out pretty quickly (along with the rest of the game if they don't pull it together).

    Battlefield Portal - This is probably the only saving grace of this game because you can essentially go in with the tools they've given you and make the game not suck.

    Final Thoughts- Overall I'm really disappointed with the game and genuinely shocked by how bad this game is and how a AAA studio could put out a product like this but then again it is EA and they put out games like Anthem and Battlefront 2 so, as a hardcore BF3 and BF4 guy I really thought this was our chance at something great, and not to my surprise DICE/EA fail to deliver once again. ive requested a refund because I'm tired of paying $60+ for half-finished AAA titles.
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  31. 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.
  32. Nov 14, 2021
    4
    Honestly, I feel a little bit bad for all the negative feedback. But you can't blame the fan base for it. Game is missing so much, even simple things like global/voice chat, scoreboard, promised next gen destruction and so on. Portal is a huge plus, because you let the fans to make new gamemodes and fix things like too much armor/too little damage or too fast/slow movement.
    The AI was also
    Honestly, I feel a little bit bad for all the negative feedback. But you can't blame the fan base for it. Game is missing so much, even simple things like global/voice chat, scoreboard, promised next gen destruction and so on. Portal is a huge plus, because you let the fans to make new gamemodes and fix things like too much armor/too little damage or too fast/slow movement.
    The AI was also good addition to the game. But the hit registration is bad, the bullet spread is hilarious and the action is always at one area. Either on top of a hill, ship or a building.
    I have always like BF series, because of it's 'realism' and large scale fight compared to other titles, but it's slowly turning into COD. Everything else is in place, just the stupid skins missing. BF1 and BFV surprised me and I have enjoyed playing BFV for years now, Firestorm being one of my main gamemode and I even bought the V on all platforms, but was let down after cutting support short for this mess.
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  33. Nov 14, 2021
    2
    - Bad optimisation
    - Gunplay is not fun (bug at hit reg)
    - Vecicles are to overpowerd (3 direct rocket lunches against hoverboat) - No sea
    - No ships
    - No diving
    - A lot of less weapon
    - Maps are too big
  34. 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.
  35. 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.
  36. Nov 14, 2021
    2
    On launch day I got up nice and early so I could get on when the game went live, only to be plagued with constant 'Unable to Load Persistence Data' errors again and again and again. I managed to play two games all day. I tried numerous 'fixes', none of which worked for me.

    I uninstalled and got my money back.
  37. Nov 14, 2021
    3
    The base is there. But the game needs a lot of work in many aspects. Even tho it won't happen, I hope they remove specialists from conquest and move back to basic class system. In any case, game is not recommended at this time. Check back in 6 months.
  38. 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.
  39. Nov 14, 2021
    3
    Performance is terrible on a high end PC with an RTX 3070.
    The maps are too open and feel lifeless. There's no meaningful cover and this means that vehicles dominate everywhere on every map. Every map is just made of cubes with nothing inside them. No matter where you stand, you can guarantee that there's at least 10 vantage points that you can be seen from, so you just die repeatedly.
    Performance is terrible on a high end PC with an RTX 3070.
    The maps are too open and feel lifeless. There's no meaningful cover and this means that vehicles dominate everywhere on every map. Every map is just made of cubes with nothing inside them. No matter where you stand, you can guarantee that there's at least 10 vantage points that you can be seen from, so you just die repeatedly.
    Vehicles heal themselves?? This makes it almost impossible to destroy vehicles unless multiple people are focussing on it at the same time. There's almost no risk for a player to hop into a vehicle solo and just start destroying people. Previous games would've required you take an engineer with you to repair the vehicle, which kept things balanced.
    There's a poor selection of weapons and gadgets compared with older battlefield games.
    Specialists have no place in a classic battlefield game mode. They completely break classes. Because of Specialists there's no way to know what your team mates are carrying, is Sundance carrying Ammo or an RPG? You'll never know because every character can equip every type of weapon. You truly cannot easily coordinate with your squad to make sure each requirement is covered. And even if you could you'd still never be able to take out a vehicle without either all of you carring an RPG or another couple of sqauds helping you.
    Aiming on mouse is like jelly, it's entirely unresponsive, which means you can't react quickly to close quarters combat.
    The guns that are present are unbalanced. The beginner SMG is more stable and useful at range than the standard Assault Rifle, which has insane recoil.
    The User Interface is truly the worst I've ever seen in a full priced "AAA" game. It's like it was made for a mobile phone. The tooltips for that you're looking at are in the corners of the screen.... well everything is in the corners, the loudouts are huge squares for some reason so you have to scroll to see them all but the scrolling is painfully slow. The toggles in the main menu are just undecipherable, you can't tell if something is on or off.
    The ping system is slow and laggy.
    There are still a lot of user interface bugs, such as permanent on screen loading wheels, getting kicked out of the "call-in" screen randomly.
    Oh and Hazard Zone is boring.
    All of this on top of the many many missing features from previous games that everyone else has already spoken about e.g Scoreboards, cover leaning, video feed from squad mates whilst on the spawn screen to ensure you dont choose to spawn nnext to an enemy tank.
    They really couldn't have released a worse battlefield game, there's so much more I could say but I've already ranted for too long. Do not buy this game, play BF4 it's better in every regard except for maybe graphical fidelity. Battlefield 2042 is not a fun game, it's a platform that has been built to take money from consumers. I do not believe that this game can be fixed in the way that previous games have redeemed themselves. The maps are too fundamentally broken and Speciaiists are too integrated into the game even from a map design perspective. They'd have to go back to the drawing board to make this a decent game
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  40. 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.
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  41. Nov 14, 2021
    2
    I have litterally 30 fps, can't get more even with everything down,dlss etc..
    It's unplayable, i can clearly enjoy the game otherwise but with that kind of frames i want to break everything, (2060 oc, ryzen 5 3600 and not even able to have more than 40 fps at low even if i'm in high i still have 40 fps pls do something), otherwise gun seem's to shoot rocks most of them are shoot ramdomly,
    I have litterally 30 fps, can't get more even with everything down,dlss etc..
    It's unplayable, i can clearly enjoy the game otherwise but with that kind of frames i want to break everything, (2060 oc, ryzen 5 3600 and not even able to have more than 40 fps at low even if i'm in high i still have 40 fps pls do something), otherwise gun seem's to shoot rocks most of them are shoot ramdomly, hitreg is a disaster, and server disgusting glad i payed 80$ and i'm not able to enjoy the game
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  42. Nov 14, 2021
    4
    The biggest issue I have with this game is map design. They are too big, even for 128 players.

    I loved previous BF title because they made you feel like you are in an actual war. There's a certain feeling in all the previous title that is all but lost in BF2042. I get that the franchise needs to evolve but in my opinion this title foregoes most of those elements that made battlefield
    The biggest issue I have with this game is map design. They are too big, even for 128 players.

    I loved previous BF title because they made you feel like you are in an actual war. There's a certain feeling in all the previous title that is all but lost in BF2042.

    I get that the franchise needs to evolve but in my opinion this title foregoes most of those elements that made battlefield battlefield. In my opinion that was a mistake and that is why fans are upset.

    They are trying to market a new audience - not successfully in my opinion. I don't hate the devs and I'm sure they worked hard. Ultimately, though, it is not a game I see myself playing in what little free time I have.
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  43. Nov 14, 2021
    0
    I normally don't write game reviews. I'm doing it this time so Dice hopefully gets the message.
    This game sucks.
    They tried to do a strange combination of COD and Battlefield and it just doesn't work. I HATE the specialists. After every game you get a cringy voiceline from them. Also, as is tradition this new Battlefield launched in a completely broken state. But what's new right?
    I normally don't write game reviews. I'm doing it this time so Dice hopefully gets the message.
    This game sucks.
    They tried to do a strange combination of COD and Battlefield and it just doesn't work.
    I HATE the specialists.
    After every game you get a cringy voiceline from them.

    Also, as is tradition this new Battlefield launched in a completely broken state.
    But what's new right? I can deal with that. As a Battlefield player I'm even used to it.
    But Battlefield 2042 has so many core problems which are probably unfixable - I don't have high hopes for it.
    My recommendation? DO NOT BUY! Grab it when its 20 bucks in a few months if you want to.
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  44. Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Worst Battlefield so far. Unfinished, missing tons of things there were in previous titles.
  45. Nov 14, 2021
    8
    The game core is excellent and the gunplay is good, need optimization and more content but that will come with time, there are some gamebreaking bugs like trying to revive a downed ally near a wall also servers are a bit rough sometimes but its EA so what do we expect. I see a lot of people **** about stupid stuff but the game is still fun to play and portal is a very good addition forThe game core is excellent and the gunplay is good, need optimization and more content but that will come with time, there are some gamebreaking bugs like trying to revive a downed ally near a wall also servers are a bit rough sometimes but its EA so what do we expect. I see a lot of people **** about stupid stuff but the game is still fun to play and portal is a very good addition for those boomers that only play bf4 and claims to be the best **** ever since they dont want new stuff. Expand
  46. 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
  47. Nov 14, 2021
    2
    Tragically terrible... Pretty much every single thing in the game is wrong. It does not even feel like a Battlefield title. There are dozens and dozens of missing features. DO NOT RECOMMEND!!!!
  48. Nov 14, 2021
    0
    1. Game is nonfunctional at launch (sorry, I don’t care if the regular release is a week later when so many people had to pay $100 to play it early). 4 hours of my 10 hour trial were spent trying to get into a game. A few more were spent trying to find a Portal server that wasn’t an XP farm and then trying to host my own when DICE limited the number of Portal servers. When actually in a1. Game is nonfunctional at launch (sorry, I don’t care if the regular release is a week later when so many people had to pay $100 to play it early). 4 hours of my 10 hour trial were spent trying to get into a game. A few more were spent trying to find a Portal server that wasn’t an XP farm and then trying to host my own when DICE limited the number of Portal servers. When actually in a game, there are numerous game breaking bugs. I remember when our biggest launch day bug problems were giraffe necks...

    2. Specialists are every bit as bad as people feared, and clearly are there for monetization. I hate the idea of heroes in anything even trying to resemble a military shooter (and believe me, every specialist but Irish looks stupid and out of place in a warzone) but the Marvelesque quips they give after apparently just finishing a BATTLE in a WAR are some of the cringiest aspects. Love that DICE also brought the same exact specialist quips to portal games too lol. There’s no tonal consistency between the setting of climate-change exacerbated global conflict that has collapsed entire nations and fun colorful characters flying around on wing suits and grappling hooks having the time of their lives. Very cool that DICE didn’t playtest their game and has had to temporarily disable a Specialist’s ability as it was apparently too broken.

    3. Awful art direction. Okay, I’m a gun/vehicle/militaria nerd, I admit. But of the 22 weapons in 2042, how many really belong in a future setting? Many are already not in use in the 2020s, and slightly changing the name doesn’t change that. Of the guns and vehicles that do conceivably fit into a future setting, most have simply had ridiculous name changes (AK-24 that’s simply an AK-12, the Ka-52 being renamed Ka-520 lol). Special shout out to the ridiculous optics, which include a sniper scope with no BDC/ranging marks, the already discontinued Leupold HAMR, and an airsoft ACOG with the outdated chevron reticle. I remember when shooters used to hire military advisors lol.

    4. Extreme lack of content. 22 weapons. 10 maps that are entirely empty for the most part. Less destruction. Only three gamemodes in actual 2042 (Breakthrough, Conquest, Hazard Zone). Clearly this is in place to drip feed us content under the live service model.

    5. Portal is not the savior that was promised. It was the only thing that approached fun for me in the 10 hour trial, but really just represented worse versions of already beloved games. You’re only getting 2 maps per game and an incredibly limited pool of weapons. Funnily enough BC2 and BF3 even share weapons and vehicles, for instance the change of BF3’s US helicopters now just being the ones from BC2 (clearly saving time on recreating the actual assets from each game). I don’t know 1942 as well because I haven’t played it since grade school, but they even removed MCOM stations from Rush on Caspian Border and Valparaiso lol. Portal weapons and movement are considerably worse than the original games. And the editor (which is online and not usable from the actual game) is pretty limited, from vehicles/weapons being locked to their base game factions to not being able to separately enable/disable the minimap and the larger map for instance. There are even editor settings that are available for TDM/FFA but not Conquest/Rush for no apparent reason.

    This can hardly be called a Battlefield game. It can’t be called a good game either. So much for the “love letter” to the fans DICE promised.
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  49. Nov 14, 2021
    1
    This game is fundamentally broken. Invincibility glitches, limited number of portal servers that are not rentable, no scoreboard, no voice chat, no all players chat, lack of guns, guns can’t hit people right in front of them, maps are too big and feel soulless, lack of classes. This game was clearly designed as a battle royale and then changed in the last 5-6 months. This is a lifelessThis game is fundamentally broken. Invincibility glitches, limited number of portal servers that are not rentable, no scoreboard, no voice chat, no all players chat, lack of guns, guns can’t hit people right in front of them, maps are too big and feel soulless, lack of classes. This game was clearly designed as a battle royale and then changed in the last 5-6 months. This is a lifeless cash grab. Expand
  50. Nov 14, 2021
    2
    A lot of content missing. Bad performance on i9 9900k rtx2070 super @1080p. Graphics are a downgrade on previous titles. Features too… less destructions, no classes, less mobility, less game modes. Gunplay feels floaty, reminds me of the consolitis desease a lot of games get when they get a bad port treatment. 128 game servers are unstable so nothing to look forward to at the moment justA lot of content missing. Bad performance on i9 9900k rtx2070 super @1080p. Graphics are a downgrade on previous titles. Features too… less destructions, no classes, less mobility, less game modes. Gunplay feels floaty, reminds me of the consolitis desease a lot of games get when they get a bad port treatment. 128 game servers are unstable so nothing to look forward to at the moment just before release. Do not buy at this moment. Maybe next year. Expand
  51. Nov 14, 2021
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. 1)TTK超長 射唔死人 超難壓
    2)承上今集將以往既兵種系統變做九個專家,你唔知搵邊個可以比彈你
    3)每場個場景好似兩班人互射水槍
    4)64打64 人遇人難過以前
    5)得好小車同坦克 行路多過打架
    6)PS4同PS5 無得一齊玩
    7)弱化坦克同飛機,我明白以往坦克太屈,但步兵面對坦克果種無力感我相信都係遊戲體驗一部分,你過往打爆一架坦克會好開心,依加連續打爆幾架都無感覺,同理你用坦克都唔會殺得開心(打人無反應打飛機無反應)
    諗倒再講
    8)架氣墊船可以響陸地周圍飛
    9)地圖設計簡陋,唔似戰地5有戰壕同埋掩護物,128人響個平地行,搶旗同突破模式都係災難
    9.1)突破模式,即係一個個區咁進攻果個,進攻個火箭發射中心 全部平地打條毛,記唔記得你玩戰地風雲係慢慢搶灘再攻上去,好玩好多
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  52. 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.
  53. Nov 14, 2021
    1
    Controls are really bad, guns are also very bad and random, lots of bugs should have just delayed the game.
  54. 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.
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  55. 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."
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  56. Nov 14, 2021
    0
    only online game with out many modes to play , a low level copy of bf4 , you really &_-' EA
  57. Nov 14, 2021
    1
    Broken lifeless game turned into apex legends. So many bugs and lag. This is a disgrace to the bf franchise
  58. Nov 14, 2021
    2
    Game runs poorly, 4 weapons, maps are massive but feel empty, assault rifles are useless, spawn-die-spawn-die.

    Have played hundreds of hours of BF4, bf5 and bf1 but this ain't it dog.
  59. Nov 14, 2021
    4
    This is not Battlefield. Lacks everything I have loved from the saga. I hope they can fix it somehow.
  60. Nov 14, 2021
    0
    unfinished game,worst bf ever .ridiculous gun play experience, missing features, 4 years of development?? LOL
  61. 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.
  62. Nov 14, 2021
    3
    Everything is bad.

    -sound
    -menu
    -lack of content
    -stupid design decisions (disconecting after every match to create new lobby)
    -specialists that are killing teamplay and you can be 1 man army
    -bugs
    -low performance
    -cringe characters
    -lack of highly needed options (separate keybindgs for helis and jets, squad menu, scoreboard etc.)

    Do not buy now.
  63. Nov 14, 2021
    10
    An amazing edition to the battlefield franchise with 3 rich game modes. The best edition to the series since BF4. Portal has made its claim as a permanent addition hopefully.
  64. 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
  65. Nov 14, 2021
    2
    Lot and lot of problems:

    -Very poor performance even with high ends PC -Horrible map design, way too big, way too open -Horrible UI -Horrible movement and gunplay, especially at distance and since the maps are so big, well you got it... -Poor content with only 23 guns and 10 maps - lack of choice : can't talk to everyone in the game via chat, no audio com with squad, can't switch teams,
    Lot and lot of problems:

    -Very poor performance even with high ends PC
    -Horrible map design, way too big, way too open
    -Horrible UI
    -Horrible movement and gunplay, especially at distance and since the maps are so big, well you got it...
    -Poor content with only 23 guns and 10 maps
    - lack of choice : can't talk to everyone in the game via chat, no audio com with squad, can't switch teams, can't choose maps since there is no server browser...
    -bugs The list goes on

    In conclusion lack completely of the BF atmosphere. DICE common you know how to make good game.
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  66. Nov 14, 2021
    9
    Ignore the trolls review-hating this game. It's all **** I'm pretty sure the vast majority haven't even played it. This game is sooooo good. Me and my squad have been playing it non-stop. Gorgeous, good weapon balance, and tons of those only in battlefield moments. There's a few bugs here and there, which is expected in such a massive game, but they are minor. This is the smoothestIgnore the trolls review-hating this game. It's all **** I'm pretty sure the vast majority haven't even played it. This game is sooooo good. Me and my squad have been playing it non-stop. Gorgeous, good weapon balance, and tons of those only in battlefield moments. There's a few bugs here and there, which is expected in such a massive game, but they are minor. This is the smoothest battlefield launch ever. Expand
  67. Nov 14, 2021
    2
    Such a small amount of guns, menu looks like it was made one week ago, UI/UX is so poor that i could make a better one, not to talk about shooting, hit detection, random spread, cant revive if someone dies near a wall, and more... Hovercrafts are sooo OP its crazy and it takes 3-4 shots to get it destroyed with M5..
    I like the gameplay but with so many bugs and random lags, its almost
    Such a small amount of guns, menu looks like it was made one week ago, UI/UX is so poor that i could make a better one, not to talk about shooting, hit detection, random spread, cant revive if someone dies near a wall, and more... Hovercrafts are sooo OP its crazy and it takes 3-4 shots to get it destroyed with M5..
    I like the gameplay but with so many bugs and random lags, its almost unplayable. It would be better if they delayed it until christmass and gave us a solid build then... I hope they at least give something to the community for releasing such **** game..
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  68. Nov 14, 2021
    5
    This game is just mediocore/bad, nothing more. Poor optimization (game barely maintains 100fps on 1440p on high end rigs), gunplay is awful with the added bloom, AOW conquest maps are just way too big even for 128 players - there are points that are never touched simply because they are too far away, no scoreboard. Save yourself a few bucks and buy this later when they care to fix all this stuff.
  69. 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.
  70. 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.
  71. 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.
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  72. 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
  73. Nov 14, 2021
    3
    I really loved the battlefield franchise, it doesn't feel like a proper battlefield anymore. It's filled with bugs, the sound design is at best mediocre, the user interface is unintuitive, it's just very bad for the price point.
  74. Nov 14, 2021
    2
    Low fps, no hit reg, quite a boring hazard zone, huge empty maps, too basic weapon customization, most of the attachments are about the same
  75. Nov 14, 2021
    4
    Never use a pandemic as an excuse again, EA. This kind of crappy game quality has nothing to do with the pandemic.
  76. 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 !
  77. Nov 14, 2021
    1
    This is an insult to call this Battlefield. Not just for the community but for the previous BF developers. It's a cheap mobile game. Do your remember what was PTFO? Do you remember what did you like in BF3 and BF4? Teamwork, weapon customization, PTFO, gunplay, creative maps. Okay now forget it. You will get instead bugs, specailist, no scoreboard, bad maps, poor performance and soundThis is an insult to call this Battlefield. Not just for the community but for the previous BF developers. It's a cheap mobile game. Do your remember what was PTFO? Do you remember what did you like in BF3 and BF4? Teamwork, weapon customization, PTFO, gunplay, creative maps. Okay now forget it. You will get instead bugs, specailist, no scoreboard, bad maps, poor performance and sound design, no domination or infantry heavy mode. Just read the reviews here and if you stay wanna play try with EA play. Expand
  78. Nov 14, 2021
    1
    Definitely lots of potential in this game. Lots of minor issues and bugs, but I can see this becoming a decent game in 6 months to year.
  79. 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
  80. Nov 14, 2021
    1
    The game as nothing to compare with his predecesor

    The current game is :
    -getting chained by invincible hoovercraft that you can't shoot and if you manage to do you so you need 2 loadout of rockets to kill it
    -armor making the TTK too long
    -the lack of weapon

    It have potential but it need an update asap
  81. Nov 14, 2021
    2
    Such a disappointment. Can't actually understand how the game can be a step back from previous entries on pretty much everything.
    Graphically speaking, it looks very poor on good PC (same applies for consoles XSX and PS5).
    Really a shame, can't understand how it could go so wrong.
  82. 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
  83. 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.
  84. Nov 14, 2021
    2
    Someone really rated this a 10 and wrote this "Not perfect, but wayyyy better than BF1, BF4, and BF5.". This is what you can expect from the ones giving it good reviews. The games no way near how good BF1, 4 and 5 is/was.

    The game lacks everything from a good hit-reg, actual map design - everything is just a big square box, where if you decide to go outside to get to the next point you
    Someone really rated this a 10 and wrote this "Not perfect, but wayyyy better than BF1, BF4, and BF5.". This is what you can expect from the ones giving it good reviews. The games no way near how good BF1, 4 and 5 is/was.

    The game lacks everything from a good hit-reg, actual map design - everything is just a big square box, where if you decide to go outside to get to the next point you gotta pray that you ain't getting sniped. The cut scenes are 50 times too long. Everything is **** about the game atm. 4 total guns in rifles, 4 in snipers etc. I could go on, but i wont since everyone probably already wrote it.
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  85. Nov 14, 2021
    0
    What a terrible game from such a large company that had years to work on it
  86. 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.
  87. 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.
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  88. Nov 14, 2021
    4
    Not getting all the hate. The game needs some polishing but is alot of fun.
  89. Nov 14, 2021
    2
    Is there absolute chaos and mayhem? Yep. Is it enough fun to last for hours hours on end? Hard to see how. The gunplay in the game feels like a complete after thought. Half the time, it’s difficult to tell if shots should be landing or if the game has poor hit registration. Maps are huge…and open. Very open. You spend far too much time traveling to the action, often traversing dangerousIs there absolute chaos and mayhem? Yep. Is it enough fun to last for hours hours on end? Hard to see how. The gunplay in the game feels like a complete after thought. Half the time, it’s difficult to tell if shots should be landing or if the game has poor hit registration. Maps are huge…and open. Very open. You spend far too much time traveling to the action, often traversing dangerous open ground in the process. Gun balance is all over the place with SMGs outclassing ARs, snipers reigning king with the open map design and DMRs being the most situational of weapons. Game runs poorly on PC. So, there’s that. This could’ve been something to look over if the core gameplay was engaging, but its not. Its more frustrating than anything else. Bottom line: gun fights feel like they’re decided by the toss of a coin, and the maps don’t offer much by way or tactical depth. When you’re not running the length or Caspian Border to get into position, each experience really just feels like a mindless mosh pit. No doubt some may be enthralled about the this. But I missed the possibility for in-depth tactical squad play. That’s just gone now. Expand
  90. Nov 14, 2021
    2
    Pour un fan de la série Battlefield, une DÉCEPTION TOTALE.
    Un "jeu" Bâclé!
    Un mauvais mix de COD, BF4 et BF5, tout ça sans aucun fun. Le jeu n'est pas beau, fade et se permet de demander des pc ultra performants. Des plantages, bug, lags à répétition. Des hitbox pourries. Des maps géantes vide d’intérêt. Des combats brouillons. Un menu surchargé avec des répétitions d'options dans
    Pour un fan de la série Battlefield, une DÉCEPTION TOTALE.
    Un "jeu" Bâclé!
    Un mauvais mix de COD, BF4 et BF5, tout ça sans aucun fun.
    Le jeu n'est pas beau, fade et se permet de demander des pc ultra performants.
    Des plantages, bug, lags à répétition.
    Des hitbox pourries.
    Des maps géantes vide d’intérêt.
    Des combats brouillons.
    Un menu surchargé avec des répétitions d'options dans les sous-menu.

    Je fini par le seul point positif la modification de son arme en cours de partie.

    A presque 100€, c'est juste inadmissible pour un Jeu AAA.
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  91. Nov 14, 2021
    9
    Once you learn how to approach and get the most out of it, this is a really exciting and addictive shooter with a dynamic Portal mode which adds even more shelf life than we could reasonably expect. You can jump in and be a lone trooper in battles or team up with squad mates and take a satisfying tactical route. Having played COD Vanguard and then this, I’m finding it difficult to justifyOnce you learn how to approach and get the most out of it, this is a really exciting and addictive shooter with a dynamic Portal mode which adds even more shelf life than we could reasonably expect. You can jump in and be a lone trooper in battles or team up with squad mates and take a satisfying tactical route. Having played COD Vanguard and then this, I’m finding it difficult to justify going back to the former. Some of the new large scale maps are colossal and are possibly the biggest I’ve ever seen in the genre. They are incredibly impressive. Expand
  92. Nov 14, 2021
    2
    If it wasn't for the Portal mode this would be the worst battlefield ever, on 2042 conquest and rush modes the game play is just poor and ever match end the same, stalemate. The weapons and gear selection completely go against what battlefield is and just make it feel like a Call Of Duty Clone.
    This is yet again another example of DICE doing what EA tell them to do and make what popular
    If it wasn't for the Portal mode this would be the worst battlefield ever, on 2042 conquest and rush modes the game play is just poor and ever match end the same, stalemate. The weapons and gear selection completely go against what battlefield is and just make it feel like a Call Of Duty Clone.
    This is yet again another example of DICE doing what EA tell them to do and make what popular what as always is a Call Of Duty clones.

    weapons selection= 22 weapons !! battlefield 5 a game set in the second world war has more!
    specialists = useless, most are pointless few are way to overpowered
    Maps = yes there very big, but by god their boring and empty.

    Ive always played battlefield since 1942 and it sad to see how a company that made bad company and battlefield 3/4 can release this mess of a game, it would have been better for them to do more Q/A and betas and release next year rather than this pile of crap.
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  93. Nov 14, 2021
    4
    no hit reg
    server rubber banding
    aim assist that just dont work cant disable crossplay from the game "xbox" and need to disable it from my profile for all games no destruction portal is just a reskin my game thing hazard zone is just awful for too many reason and for last, early access used for betatesting their thing this is just having no respect for people who pay full price for
    no hit reg
    server rubber banding
    aim assist that just dont work
    cant disable crossplay from the game "xbox" and need to disable it from my profile for all games
    no destruction
    portal is just a reskin my game thing
    hazard zone is just awful for too many reason
    and for last, early access used for betatesting their thing
    this is just having no respect for people who pay full price for your game.
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  94. Nov 14, 2021
    1
    This is game is a joke poor hit reg, bad performance, unbalanced in every aspect. Charging money for this is a rip off.
  95. Nov 14, 2021
    3
    The game feels like it has been engineered solely to introduce a battle pass and micro transactions over any semblance of all the things that really make a battlefield game work.

    There is absolutely no need to have specialists introduced over the old class system. It also seems that a lot of design choices reflect that they were initially making a battle royale game. Played every
    The game feels like it has been engineered solely to introduce a battle pass and micro transactions over any semblance of all the things that really make a battlefield game work.

    There is absolutely no need to have specialists introduced over the old class system. It also seems that a lot of design choices reflect that they were initially making a battle royale game. Played every battlefield since 2 and I just have no motivation to play this one as even progressions seems stale and half arsed.
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  96. Nov 14, 2021
    3
    One of the worst Battlefield of all time. The Game has no soul, no passion, no real core. It feels like a copy of many games mixed together. It feels like some kind of mobile version. This is so sad to see Battlefield go down the drain this hard. This is so sad..... so disappointed....
  97. Nov 14, 2021
    2
    this is the most generic, soulless and buggy game I have ever played. Not even close to being a bf game.
  98. 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
  99. Nov 14, 2021
    2
    What a joke, these devs are progressing backward. This game feels like a battle royal that was scrapped and turned into a team game. AWFUL
  100. Nov 14, 2021
    0
    worst battlefield ever made, good job dice.
    Everything about this game is bad, simple as that
Metascore
68

Mixed or average reviews - based on 74 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 74
  2. Negative: 11 out of 74
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.