- Publisher: Electronic Arts
- Release Date: Nov 19, 2021
- Also On: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X
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Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 4864 Ratings
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Mixed: 242 out of 4864
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Negative: 4,004 out of 4864
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Nov 14, 2021Dissapoinment. Worse than previous battlefields. I Think the worst bf ever.
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Nov 14, 2021Thoroughly 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.
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Nov 14, 2021Havent 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. -
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Nov 14, 2021The 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.
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Nov 14, 2021This 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.
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Nov 14, 2021Awesome 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
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Nov 14, 2021This 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 ? -
Nov 14, 2021A 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!
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Nov 14, 2021Beta was better than the full release, lies, lies and lies. Nothing much to say. Waiting for improvements.
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Nov 14, 2021They told us once, they are ahead of schedule....
This game in the actual state is absolutely trash.
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Nov 14, 2021Can't even leave a squad, gunplay and perfomance are atrocious, movement is clunky
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Nov 14, 2021Game is a mess, is this a preview of battlefield mobile because that's what it feels like.
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Nov 14, 2021Kinda 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 . -
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Nov 14, 2021Battlefield 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. -
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Nov 14, 2021- Bad optimisation
- Gunplay is not fun (bug at hit reg)
- Vecicles are to overpowerd (3 direct rocket lunches against hoverboat) - No sea
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Nov 14, 2021you 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.
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Nov 14, 2021i 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.
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Nov 14, 2021On 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.
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Nov 14, 2021The 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.
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Nov 14, 2021I 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.
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Nov 14, 2021Worst Battlefield so far. Unfinished, missing tons of things there were in previous titles.
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Nov 14, 2021Tragically 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!!!!
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Nov 14, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Nov 14, 2021**** 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.
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Nov 14, 2021Controls are really bad, guns are also very bad and random, lots of bugs should have just delayed the game.
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Nov 14, 2021only online game with out many modes to play , a low level copy of bf4 , you really &_-' EA
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Nov 14, 2021Broken lifeless game turned into apex legends. So many bugs and lag. This is a disgrace to the bf franchise
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Nov 14, 2021Game runs poorly, 4 weapons, maps are massive but feel empty, assault rifles are useless, spawn-die-spawn-die.
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Nov 14, 2021This is not Battlefield. Lacks everything I have loved from the saga. I hope they can fix it somehow.
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Nov 14, 2021unfinished game,worst bf ever .ridiculous gun play experience, missing features, 4 years of development?? LOL
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Nov 14, 2021Free 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.
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Nov 14, 2021Everything 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.)
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Nov 14, 2021An 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.
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Nov 14, 2021Take 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
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Nov 14, 2021This 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.
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Nov 14, 2021A 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.
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Nov 14, 2021Having directx crash error since alpha. Devs don't care to fix it. Literally can't play longer than 10 min.
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Nov 14, 2021Game is awful in too many ways to list, maybe have another look in 6 months to a year, it might be ok by the
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Nov 14, 2021I 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.
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Nov 14, 2021Low fps, no hit reg, quite a boring hazard zone, huge empty maps, too basic weapon customization, most of the attachments are about the same
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Nov 14, 2021Never use a pandemic as an excuse again, EA. This kind of crappy game quality has nothing to do with the pandemic.
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Nov 14, 2021BF Veteran here, this is literally a joke. Battlefield is officialy death after this, nothing work bad graphics and more. DO NOT BUY IT !
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Nov 14, 2021Definitely 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.
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Nov 14, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Nov 14, 2021The 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
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Nov 14, 2021Such 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).
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Nov 14, 2021That’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.
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Nov 14, 2021What a terrible game from such a large company that had years to work on it
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Nov 14, 2021This is the worst Battlefield game ever made. Nothing that made the previous games great games is there. Do not buy this crap.
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Nov 14, 2021Not getting all the hate. The game needs some polishing but is alot of fun.
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Nov 14, 2021This is game is a joke poor hit reg, bad performance, unbalanced in every aspect. Charging money for this is a rip off.
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Nov 14, 2021One 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....
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Nov 14, 2021this is the most generic, soulless and buggy game I have ever played. Not even close to being a bf game.
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Nov 14, 2021Getting 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
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Nov 14, 2021What a joke, these devs are progressing backward. This game feels like a battle royal that was scrapped and turned into a team game. AWFUL
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Nov 14, 2021worst battlefield ever made, good job dice.
Everything about this game is bad, simple as that
Awards & Rankings
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Feb 15, 2022All 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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Dec 23, 2021The 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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Dec 16, 2021Despite 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.