Battlefield 2042

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  1. Ragtown
    Nov 13, 2021
    3
    underwhelming and uninspired. not sure if it's because of the turnover rate at DICE or mismanagement but this just isn't a good game.
  2. mrgucci
    Nov 14, 2021
    3
    As a fan of the series since the first game, with thousands of hours in bf4/bf1/bfv, I have to say this release is a bad joke.

    Listing all issues with this game is a bit pointless, you can google them or go to reddit/watch some videos. If you feel adventerous, play the game yourself although i do not recommend it. Main issues are: Performance on a high end PC is just abysmal, low    As a fan of the series since the first game, with thousands of hours in bf4/bf1/bfv, I have to say this release is a bad joke.

    Listing all issues with this game is a bit pointless, you can google them or go to reddit/watch some videos. If you feel adventerous, play the game yourself although i do not recommend it. Main issues are:

    Performance on a high end PC is just abysmal, low average FPS with constant drops and stutters, so heavy on CPU usage it bottlenecks everything no matter what your specs are. Most of the video settings make no difference, DLSS doesnt really help.

    Map design for the most part is terrible, maps are large but empty so playing as 128 people is not really fun, there's little cover so infantry gameplay is next to non existent apart from the few buildings. And even these buildings feel empty and uninspiring. Also, shipping containers everywhere.

    Gunplay is just plain bad, artifically adding bloom to weapons make you shot people but not really hit them, even point blank. Vehicle controls and physics are clunky and pretty tilting. 22 weapons are only available to unlock, mod system is very flat and doesnt really allow for much. There's no teamplay cause everyone is a superhero specialist (looking exactly the same so it's hard to tell who's on your team and who isn't).

    UI and HUD has to be the worst I've seen in a long while, I'm sorry but whoever was the UI Designer either never played a game in his/her life (battlefield even more so) or its their first assignment in their career. In-game there's visual clutter everywhere.

    Server stability is a big issue, Portal has great potential but no dedicated servers or reasonable search/filter/favorites UI make it a terrible experience to use.

    Stay away from this game until its fixed, patched and improved. The price tag for it is just ridiculous in its current state.    … Expand
  3. Daviaz12
    Nov 18, 2021
    3
    BF2042 base game is death on arrival only fanboys and fortnite/apex will like it.

    Specialists destroy all sense of realism they are just the most soul-less generic action movie character possible, half of them are just garbage and the rest are OP, main game is just a Clone war. Hazard Zone death on arrival boring and incentive to replay, you should just have copied Apex here and do    BF2042 base game is death on arrival only fanboys and fortnite/apex will like it.

    Specialists destroy all sense of realism they are just the most soul-less generic action movie character possible, half of them are just garbage and the rest are OP, main game is just a Clone war.

    Hazard Zone death on arrival boring and incentive to replay, you should just have copied Apex here and do BR 3, squads of 3 and a ring, here specialists make all the sense of the world.

    Portal is the only good thing (that's why I'm giving a 3, 23% of Portal and 10% for the maps except Hourglass that is complete crap)

    Portal is great we can at least have the option to remove freaking specialists, but it needs more content, more weapons, things to unlock. dedicated servers, the game is full of idiots farming XP (like that ever cared in a BF game) the few good servers are hard to get in cause the game just have a hard time letting you get inside a game.

    Other aspects:

    Sound is a sad disappointment, clear downgrade from previous titles.
    Playing with friends is almost impossible.
    Can't switch to an specific squad.
    No scoreboard
    No spectator mode
    Full screen map is pretty much useless at this point is missing so many information
    HUD in vehicle is useless missing missile projection ect
    No general chat
    Outros are just cringe stupid pure garbage
    In Hourglass and possibly other maps crashing a JET to a building do absolutely nothing
    Did you guys even test this game?

    DICE just copy and paste BF3/BF4 with new graphics, weapons and vehicles, nobody asked for specialists.    … Expand
  4. russian_pueblo
    Nov 27, 2021
    3
    Trash game, the last EA game I will ever purchase. This is more of a mix of COD and APEX with a sprinkle of Battlefield. Don't buy this game wait for sale it's coming fast like all the rest of EA games.
  5. Pecone
    Nov 15, 2021
    3
    Oh man, what a disaster! The game is full of game breaking bugs! The same bugs we reported during the beta(which was months old lol). Loadouts disappearing, attachment not working, shooting someone point blank with my full clip and doing no damage, falling through the world geometry, bad performance and low hardware utilization and many more.
    This is unacceptable and has to stop! I just    Oh man, what a disaster! The game is full of game breaking bugs! The same bugs we reported during the beta(which was months old lol). Loadouts disappearing, attachment not working, shooting someone point blank with my full clip and doing no damage, falling through the world geometry, bad performance and low hardware utilization and many more.
    This is unacceptable and has to stop! I just sign up for the Ea play for one month so I can try the game, but man, if you paid full price get your money back asap! This thing is a dumper fire.
    Oh, I forgot to mention server issues, so many server issues, unable to connect, unable to start a match. On top of that portal really looked promising, until EA and Dice decided to kill the xp in it, so now you don't get xp while playing portal and it is completely useless! You only have conquest and breakthrough, intel gathering whatever.... that's it! 7 naps and thrre modes. This should be $30 at best. Don't waste your time or money.    … Expand
  6. Killking241
    Nov 15, 2021
    3
    unfinished and missing half the game they romoved the campaign just to remvoe half the multiplayer play bf4 or 3 at least there complete if you wanna have any fun other then that there is no point to play this game.
  7. noxxid3
    Nov 15, 2021
    3
    Battlefield 2042 or in other words "Call of Apex: 2042".
    The lead multiplayer designer is a fan of Apex and MW2019, and it really shows in the game design and gameplay elements.
    Armor? Why is this even in the main multiplayer matches, yeah it makes sense for a squad based escape from battle royal game type but not in core multiplayer. The animation is almost exactly like MW2019 if you    Battlefield 2042 or in other words "Call of Apex: 2042".
    The lead multiplayer designer is a fan of Apex and MW2019, and it really shows in the game design and gameplay elements.

    Armor? Why is this even in the main multiplayer matches, yeah it makes sense for a squad based escape from battle royal game type but not in core multiplayer. The animation is almost exactly like MW2019 if you choose to use that as you gadget slot.

    Medical pen, this is literally taken from CoD/Apex, it removes the focus of team play and relaying on team mates. Why carry a medical crate when you can self heal in a middle of a fire fight. This game completely incentives lone wolf behavior. Never in a game before have i felt so alone on the field even with 128 players.

    Classes: This is basically gone from the game besides portal. And portal is basically there so you can farm XP, not sure how DICE didnt see that coming but they didnt. (or they turned a blind eye towards QA like they usually do).

    The way the game makes it self feel like a hero shooter. You pick a specialist, you have one gadget and you run around aimlessly. You can choose a squad, you cant kick people from a squad but you can move to a random squad. Doesnt make sense. Now im so used to running a repair tool and rocket launcher that you cant even do that. Now i choose angel due to his ability to revive people with armor (which armor being very annoying to fight against), and the ability to call in supply drops. This right here, i can just sit in one spot with a sniper rifle get armor and be able to with stand a full mag dump from an enemy while using a stinger to take out air craft. This here is a huge issue. EVERYONE RUNS STINGERS because of the "no class" restrictions on weapons.

    You're constantly getting locked on by everything in the game from ground to air to nades. Frag nades damage tanks and armor (why? I dont know and its stupid). Half the time you dont know when a pilot pops flares and it takes longer to even re-lock onto them.

    Netcode is worse than BF4's launch, at least the hit reg in that game was miles ahead of this one.
    Bullet bloom, you cant hit **** and it comes down to RNG
    Mouse controls are inputted with controller so you have to change controller controls in order to get rid of mouse acceleration.

    UI is horrible, they said that was being addressed, they lied. World icons are at 100% opacity enemies can hide behind that. Mini map scale is small as hell on ultrawide and you cant change the size of it. Crosshair and hitmarker colors do not change and is bugged. You cant tell if a rocket is incoming or you're just being constantly locked. Half the time the kill cam doesnt work

    No scoreboards, no voice chat, no all chat.
    You go through 15 different type of visual's before getting into a actual match to play and thats with even getting off the transport which is bugged.

    Map design is horrible, you can take a jet and ram into an entire crowd of enemies on orbital.
    Hovercraft are tanks that can spiderman up a skyscrapper.
    DICE doesnt listen to QA

    The game is about monetization of skins and specialists. Season 1 is delayed and you're stuck with 22 weapons and cant mix and match from era's. (Season 1 is delayed prob due to the huge backlash of issues so they have to fix that).

    You go through 4 suppressors in order to unlock the muzzle brake.
    Half the time you dont know if a rocket is incoming in the air.
    The game itself is a toxic ceastpool of its own demise

    This needed a longer time despite being worked on by 4 DIFFERENT STUDIOS.
    TTK is a mess due to armor, you can take one full mag dump into someone without killing them and thats if you hit them due to bulletspread/bloom.

    Wait for it to be on sale as i can see the game getting a 50% off in a month or two.    … Expand
  8. Sin000721
    Nov 16, 2021
    3
    3/10.
    Game is in early beta state.
    And ... the biggest problem is tat every single map is "Hamada" ... Big, emty, boring...
  9. YungStevie
    Nov 15, 2021
    3
    Just make battlefield 3 with upgraded graphics.

    Why u always try sell cod/tarkov/fortnite/apex to battlefield fans?
  10. DCS431516526
    Nov 19, 2021
    3
    The game needs work.

    Portal is the only good thing it has.

    It is not worth $60/70.

    Do not buy now.
  11. chankills
    Nov 14, 2021
    3
    The only thing about this game that is battlefield is the name. No classes, no vehicle customization, no destruction, are just some of the core elements they have removed from the the game. Its a game that doesnt feel like it has a soul. The "specialists" that replaced classes feel so mismatched, some are completely useless while other have wall hacks. The gun game is horrible, randomThe only thing about this game that is battlefield is the name. No classes, no vehicle customization, no destruction, are just some of the core elements they have removed from the the game. Its a game that doesnt feel like it has a soul. The "specialists" that replaced classes feel so mismatched, some are completely useless while other have wall hacks. The gun game is horrible, random weapon spread makes it so that you are not accurate at all at range. The game feels extremely unfinished, paired with just bad game design makes this game just not that much fun to play. Portal is cool, but ultimately is lackluter. Do not recommend.… Expand
  12. KaneEdition
    Nov 16, 2021
    3
    Guys, it's some strange different game but NOT Battlefield.

    Just give us a graphic update for Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4. And it would be perfect.
  13. spriddleriddle
    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....
  14. JTonicOA
    Nov 16, 2021
    3
    This game is simply frustrating.

    The absurd map design makes 'running around' to be most of your gameplay time. Most of the time I just 'redeployed'; I mean I killed myself and respawned as I didn't want to run for another several minutes hoping to find an enemy. The animation is horrendous. Who bloody designed to running animation? The way my character wiggles the gun whilst running    This game is simply frustrating.

    The absurd map design makes 'running around' to be most of your gameplay time. Most of the time I just 'redeployed'; I mean I killed myself and respawned as I didn't want to run for another several minutes hoping to find an enemy.

    The animation is horrendous. Who bloody designed to running animation? The way my character wiggles the gun whilst running looks so unnatural and 'programmed'. For a moment I thought my character was trying to do the good old shuffling dance or something.

    The shooting mechanism is an absolute disaster. To describe it simply, imagine that instead of random boxes for loots, like those you would get from micro-transaction lunacy, there is an element of randomness in the bullets. Aiming hardly matters as the bullet spread is chaotic and absurd. This problem is exacerbated with the first problem mentioned: the map design. Such a massive but empty map design makes most of the gunfights to be long-ranged, nevertheless the chaotic bullet spread accompanied with crazy recoil makes these long-ranged gunfights to be an absolute nightmare.

    Moreover, I was surprised by the number of weapons available in the game. I thought I was playing a beta again.

    And the new specialist system....Right, this could be a personal preference, but I simply cannot comprehend why this system was implemented for a BF game. I thought this game was supposed to be the developers going back to the root, getting back the original identity of the BF franchise. However, what we have is a poor example of overwatch and apex wannabe. Furthermore, if you were going to use such system, at least make them feel special and fun. I really don't understand the point of this specialist system.

    I could go on for hours: scoreboard, servers, destruction and so on. In fact, it would be much easier to list the points this game did well. Which, I conjecture, would be a very short concise list.

    It is such a shame how 'selling unfinished mediocre product' is becoming a trend in the gaming industry.    … Expand
  15. DaXtra
    Nov 15, 2021
    3
    I really love Battlefield but this game is just a joke. I tried to like it. I really tried but I cant.

    It feels so unsatisfying to do anything in the game. 128 Players, how can you turn around the game as single squad? - only 22 weapons - sound is really bad. I play hunt showdown (10 times better sound) - people just dont die. Too much hp - maps are too big and empty and ugly.    I really love Battlefield but this game is just a joke. I tried to like it. I really tried but I cant.

    It feels so unsatisfying to do anything in the game. 128 Players, how can you turn around the game as single squad?

    - only 22 weapons
    - sound is really bad. I play hunt showdown (10 times better sound)
    - people just dont die. Too much hp
    - maps are too big and empty and ugly. Copy pasted staff, everywhere.
    - The game looks soooo bad. Its 2021 almost 2022. We have next gen consoles. Do something. Bf1 looks better.
    - Buggy mess still. But a lot better than the beta
    - Performance is not great, probably cuz of the 128 players.
    - I need a proper reward system
    - Specialists... I just want russia vs usa, china vs usa, Europe armie? vs usa or other mixes. Dont need that weird looking heros
    - Third person Kills, crying for help etc. It just looks bad. Animation quality is just a joke.

    - Most important part, I like battlefield, I have fun with battlefield, I had no fun with this game. I dont even know if u can save this game.

    I wont buy it. There is one more hope, halo infinite maybe    … Expand
  16. iHatezelda_
    Nov 20, 2021
    3
    No destruction whatsoever, no modes other than conquest and breakthrough in the 2042 game, bad PC performance,no typical classes. The game was built not as a BF game that's obvious but its bad even then.
  17. ogmudbone44
    Nov 22, 2021
    3
    I’m just horribly disappointed by this game.

    Even after DICE and EA announced that this game was “months” ahead of schedule, to the surprise of no one, DICE has released yet another game in a broken state, but bugs and glitches aren’t the only issues with this game. This game is hardly Battlefield. The immersion is gone, the teamplay is gone, the map design is horrible, the player count    I’m just horribly disappointed by this game.

    Even after DICE and EA announced that this game was “months” ahead of schedule, to the surprise of no one, DICE has released yet another game in a broken state, but bugs and glitches aren’t the only issues with this game.

    This game is hardly Battlefield. The immersion is gone, the teamplay is gone, the map design is horrible, the player count is overinflated to the point where you hardly have a clue what the hell is even going on.

    There are no classes, there’s no scoreboard, no all chat, the controls are stiff, there’s a weird anti aliasing filter, lighting is off, you can’t tell who’s who, this whole game is just a mess. 2042 needs to take the Halo Infinite route and sit in the incubator for maybe another 6-8 months.    … Expand
  18. Mooseman13
    Nov 21, 2021
    3
    What exactly were four studios doing for the past three years? No campaign? Only 7 maps in the core experience? (The rest are just remakes in Portal which is dead right now because they disabled XP.) Only 22 weapons? Only four assault rifles? Only two LMGs?! Some of the maps are also horribly designed. Especially Kaleidoscope which has these stupid golden colored gazebo things on one ofWhat exactly were four studios doing for the past three years? No campaign? Only 7 maps in the core experience? (The rest are just remakes in Portal which is dead right now because they disabled XP.) Only 22 weapons? Only four assault rifles? Only two LMGs?! Some of the maps are also horribly designed. Especially Kaleidoscope which has these stupid golden colored gazebo things on one of the points that people can get on top of and they're indestructible and you can't shoot through them even though there's holes! So if the helicopter guys aren't doing their job then the enemy team can easily capture the point that way. This is the most unfinished, broken, and unbalanced Battlefield game I've ever played… Expand
  19. MPGSpotter
    Nov 14, 2021
    3
    Pretty much all concerns everyone had were true: the specialist system makes no sense and defeats any cohesion that may have existed, making every single soldier on the battlefield play and build their class solely for themselves. The UI is absolutely atrocious and doesn't build on any UI customization from the previous games, from the awful tiny minimap to flag markers not disappearingPretty much all concerns everyone had were true: the specialist system makes no sense and defeats any cohesion that may have existed, making every single soldier on the battlefield play and build their class solely for themselves. The UI is absolutely atrocious and doesn't build on any UI customization from the previous games, from the awful tiny minimap to flag markers not disappearing while aiming and covering up enemies to the fact that the only way to identify enemies is by a color of a dot over their head, which leads to laughable situations where players run past their enemies thinking they're friends, and a remarkable amount of friendly fire. The gameplay is stiff and controls unresponsive, the gunplay is awful and the (admittedly, not all will agree) terrible weapon accuracy/bloom system is so much worse than in any game before. Graphically impressive, but ruined by vaseline TAA you can't turn off, and terrible framerate on a 9900k + 3080ti. The sound design is very good, but once again marred by some of the worst directional sound I've heard in a videogame, with a range of bugs from hearing footsteps of someone 300 meters away like they're directly behind you to not hearing tank cannon shots right next to you. Increase in player counts is a great idea in theory, but ruined by both the developers (completely unfitting map design) and the players themselves (the match turns into two blobs of 64 players running between capture points, with the only gunfights really happening when they meet or when helicopters come into play). Adding AI to multiplayer matches is an absolutely baffling idea, and the half-braindead artificial teammates make each match look even more like a bunch of headless chickens running around an open field. Map design, while absolutely gorgeous to look at, is atrocious for gameplay, with huge open areas where infantry is practically useless, while snipers and vehicles have a field day. Portal as it is is woefully lacking in content (much like the rest of the game), and the server browser won't even tell you the rules of any of the bazillion servers beyond tags like "custom points" or "changed movement". Protagonist specialists don't shut up, other specialists scream from both sides of the trenches in all kinds of languages throwing me off. The guns are laughably low quality, from attachments misaligned with the gun itself to 7.62 firearms using 5.56 suppressors to animations being incorrect for the specific firearm (see the bolt on the ACR during firing or the preparation/initial spawn animation on the AK74U), DESPITE BEING CORRECT IN THE PREVIOUS GAMES. I downloaded it genuinely hoping it'd be great despite the terrible beta and baffling design decisions, but I just couldn't bring myself to like it. Maybe in a year or so when portal receives enough content and the game goes 50% off I'll give it another shot, as I really want to like this game. The whole experience feels like it was build from scratch by someone who was described what Battlefield should feel like, but all they played is other popular modern shooters. Very glad my favorite Battlefield 4 servers are still full to tide me over until this game gets good, if it ever gets to that point.… Expand
  20. AForceOne
    Nov 18, 2021
    3
    No scoreboard no player ping status like was in in bf3
    Cant change and manage the squads
    Poor and feustrating weapon attachement menu To big maps, must walk and walk miles Few landmarks, cover. The round start intro is **** and unnecessary and I have not anough time to change loadout No server browser Only CQ and Breaktrough game modes Only 128 player matches No 64, 48, 32 player options    No scoreboard no player ping status like was in in bf3
    Cant change and manage the squads
    Poor and feustrating weapon attachement menu
    To big maps, must walk and walk miles
    Few landmarks, cover.
    The round start intro is **** and unnecessary and I have not anough time to change loadout
    No server browser
    Only CQ and Breaktrough game modes
    Only 128 player matches
    No 64, 48, 32 player options
    Laggy servers
    Very few weapons
    No hardcore option
    Poor sound

    It is a CodField but I want to play Battlefield.


    The good things:

    Portal mode, old maps
    The new characters and abilitys
    Graphics, lights, effects awesome    … Expand
  21. VFE
    Nov 17, 2021
    3
    no no and no. gunfight, mouvements, level design, game modes, graphics, destructions, servers are bad
    i think the worst think for me is the general atmosphere because the few musics are awful, sounds and voices are just average. maps are big but quite empty. We are very very far from the incredible atmosphere of Battlefield 1 and even BF5.
    There is no immersion and not enough intensity    no no and no. gunfight, mouvements, level design, game modes, graphics, destructions, servers are bad
    i think the worst think for me is the general atmosphere because the few musics are awful, sounds and voices are just average. maps are big but quite empty. We are very very far from the incredible atmosphere of Battlefield 1 and even BF5.
    There is no immersion and not enough intensity in BF2042. And Portal brings nothing special
    It is a huge deception. I tried it with Game Pass and it is already uninstalled    … Expand
  22. Krzytok
    Nov 25, 2021
    3
    Maps feel so empty between the points, no tdm in fps game is very very bad, vechicles are overpowered a lot matched to that big big flat empty spaces where infantry have absolute zero chance to defend is very wrong. Shooting On controller feels like hammering down the nail using a screwdriver ,one of the worst controlls i have ever experienced in the games .. 3out of 10 skipping the bugs
  23. Pourya-abz
    Nov 23, 2021
    3
    in first i thinking they are just kidding, but after a wile just realized no. this game is real mess
  24. MetacriticOnur
    Nov 24, 2021
    3
    bad
    [ bad ]

    adjective, worse, worst;(Slang) bad·der, bad·dest for 36.
    not good in any manner or degree.
  25. Ass_hoho
    Nov 14, 2021
    3
    unfinished game，worst bf ever.ridiculous gun play experience, empty map.Only 22 weapon at launch.
  26. WeessLR
    Nov 16, 2021
    3
    Joguei as 10 horas disponibilizadas pela EA, e bom, consegui me divertir bastante nessas 10 horas, mas eu quero dizer que o jogo não vale o preço que está sendo vendido, o som do jogo é muito computadorizado, diferente do BF3 onde dava para saber qual arma atirava mesmo em meio a diferentes tipos de som, não da pra ver o KD, não da pra escolher o pelotão, o jogo praticamente não temJoguei as 10 horas disponibilizadas pela EA, e bom, consegui me divertir bastante nessas 10 horas, mas eu quero dizer que o jogo não vale o preço que está sendo vendido, o som do jogo é muito computadorizado, diferente do BF3 onde dava para saber qual arma atirava mesmo em meio a diferentes tipos de som, não da pra ver o KD, não da pra escolher o pelotão, o jogo praticamente não tem nenhuma destruição, não da pra ver os status da partida, tem pouquissimas armas. Enfim, o jogo tem uma premissa ótima, creio que com o tempo a DICE vai consertar todos esses problemas, mas meu conselho hoje é : Não compre, aguarde mais alguns meses !… Expand
  27. deax
    Nov 15, 2021
    3
    Otimização horrorosa, jogo sem alma, extremamente superficial, sem modo campanha, sem quase nada que faz Battlefield ser Battlefield. Várias mecânicas ou aspectos dos jogos anteriores foram simplesmente arrancadas do 2042 e substituídas por NADA. MUITAS coisas faltando.
    Os mapas são enormes e lindos, mas vazios e entediantes depois da primeira vez que você joga neles. armas ruins, e    Otimização horrorosa, jogo sem alma, extremamente superficial, sem modo campanha, sem quase nada que faz Battlefield ser Battlefield. Várias mecânicas ou aspectos dos jogos anteriores foram simplesmente arrancadas do 2042 e substituídas por NADA. MUITAS coisas faltando.
    Os mapas são enormes e lindos, mas vazios e entediantes depois da primeira vez que você joga neles. armas ruins, e principalmente, CHEIO DE BUGS.
    Esse jogo tá uma porcaria    … Expand
  28. eefernet
    Nov 13, 2021
    3
    This game needs another 9 months of development. The 2042 base game only has 22 weapons. Performance is terrible (i have a 5950x and a rtx 3080 paired with 64 gigs of ram) and was sticking around 40 -50 fps. Hazard zone is like the developers took all of the trending things about battle royale and shoved it into a game mode. There are only two game modes in the base game (what happened toThis game needs another 9 months of development. The 2042 base game only has 22 weapons. Performance is terrible (i have a 5950x and a rtx 3080 paired with 64 gigs of ram) and was sticking around 40 -50 fps. Hazard zone is like the developers took all of the trending things about battle royale and shoved it into a game mode. There are only two game modes in the base game (what happened to grand operations?) breakthrough and conquest. I understand that there is portal and hazard zone, but even with those extra game modes the game feels empty. The UI is terrible, and the plus system where you can change attachments on your weapon on the "fly" feels like they thought it looked cool and shoved it in the game. Personally, i think its trash. Specialists, lack of weapon customization, empty and boring maps, graphics that look slightly worse than battlefield V, this game is a mess.

    things that are broken
    -the new filler ai (running into walls, crashing into random things, aiming into the sky)
    -connection to servers (usual battlefield launch)
    -audio sounds like im in a fish bowl
    -the t menu in portal mode is completely broken (only way to customize your gun)
    -performance and frame rate issues, random crashes (i feel like the beta performed better)
    -hit reg
    -some sights on the guns are completely off
    -muzzle flash on guns is so bright i cannot see what im shooting at.
    -NO SCORE BOARD?????????????
    -cannot chat with other team, its just my team, squad and that is it.
    - tanks and vics are way too strong, and also have an issue with sights that are not lined up
    - netcode issues (using zip lines is a great way to test this)    … Expand
  29. KiefChris
    Nov 13, 2021
    3
    Basically have turned a good war game series into a reskin of Modern Warfare but it with way less guns and maps and no voice chat or in game chat?

    If you're looking for a game to fuel the void that's been left by battlefield 4 or 3, well I'm sorry to say this will not fill it. Probably make the void worse since when you play it you realise the Battlefield genre we once knew is dead...    Basically have turned a good war game series into a reskin of Modern Warfare but it with way less guns and maps and no voice chat or in game chat?

    If you're looking for a game to fuel the void that's been left by battlefield 4 or 3, well I'm sorry to say this will not fill it. Probably make the void worse since when you play it you realise the Battlefield genre we once knew is dead... R.I.P Dice & Battlefield series 1992 - 2013.    … Expand
  30. punished_xuxo
    Nov 13, 2021
    3
    Things we lost in BF2042

    Scoreboard
    CLASSES
    All chat
    A server browser for the main modes
    KD
    A stat page
    more than 100fps
    Teamswitching
    Squad switching that isnt random
    Persistent community servers
    UI info like damage done to infantry/vehicles
    Voice-chat
  31. Mrgray208
    Nov 13, 2021
    3
    As a long time fan of battlefield games, I have to say this feels more like an APEX legends or other Hero Shooter than it does BF3. Some of the design choices are painfully obvious influences of more recent games and it really feels like people who made those choices (I assume higher-ups) didn't understand what makes the BF franchise not just another good looking shooter. I could list aAs a long time fan of battlefield games, I have to say this feels more like an APEX legends or other Hero Shooter than it does BF3. Some of the design choices are painfully obvious influences of more recent games and it really feels like people who made those choices (I assume higher-ups) didn't understand what makes the BF franchise not just another good looking shooter. I could list a number of these design choices but others have said it more thoroughly than I could ever.

    I hope I can change this review if the Devs listen to the community and set aside their pride. Coming to terms with the sunk-cost of designing a bunch of systems no one asked for is going to be the big hurdle to being flexible and making this into a Battlefield game but I really hope they strip down a lot of the "innovation" and focus on just putting content in. 20 guns at launch is a joke and 4 maps (which are WAY too big) isn't a good consolation prize...Anyone who's played an earlier BF can feel this is just off. The engine looks great as always but the design of things if awful as it stands.

    If you're at all curious about the game, I WOULD NOT buy it. Paying $5 for a 1 month EA play account will get you 10 hours of play time to see for yourself. If it's your cup of tea, go get it!    … Expand
  32. LERPENEREUPE
    Nov 13, 2021
    3
    todos os mapas parecem incompletos gerando áreas com absolutamente nenhuma importância, configuração de sensibilidade do mouse horrível, lag em diversas partidas, sistema de lobby pouquíssimo intuitivo, sistema de configuração de esquadrão praticamente inexistente, consciência situacional horrível, se existisse um mod de conquest no arma 3 seria melhor, não parece battlefield, faltatodos os mapas parecem incompletos gerando áreas com absolutamente nenhuma importância, configuração de sensibilidade do mouse horrível, lag em diversas partidas, sistema de lobby pouquíssimo intuitivo, sistema de configuração de esquadrão praticamente inexistente, consciência situacional horrível, se existisse um mod de conquest no arma 3 seria melhor, não parece battlefield, falta praticamente de tudo no jogo, fingindo que esse jogo não foi lançado ainda.… Expand
  33. Oavestruz223
    Nov 13, 2021
    3
    I am extremely disappointed. made great Games like BF3 and BF4 and just ignored them.

    Looks like I'm playing a beta version. Totally incomplete in terms of audio, completely bad songs. Optimization is definitely bad. It seems to me that whoever made the game never played battlefield, everything the players like was completely ignored. There is simply not: server browser;    I am extremely disappointed. made great Games like BF3 and BF4 and just ignored them.

    Looks like I'm playing a beta version.

    Totally incomplete in terms of audio, completely bad songs.

    Optimization is definitely bad.

    It seems to me that whoever made the game never played battlefield, everything the players like was completely ignored.

    There is simply not:
    server browser;
    score board;
    3d spot;
    minimap control;
    platoon exchange;
    changing teams;    … Expand
  34. Jacko007
    Nov 18, 2021
    3
    Don't buy this crap , worst gameplay for infantry players and full of bugs.

    Big empty flat Maps . No destruction and worst graphics than BF1. No campaign for this?? Only 7 maps and 2 games modes WTF Hazard zone is useless will be dead in 2 weeks . Portal is cool but have the mechanics from the main game not the original title which sucks try it on gamepass and don't give    Don't buy this crap , worst gameplay for infantry players and full of bugs.

    Big empty flat Maps .
    No destruction and worst graphics than BF1.

    No campaign for this??
    Only 7 maps and 2 games modes WTF

    Hazard zone is useless will be dead in 2 weeks .

    Portal is cool but have the mechanics from the main game not the original title which sucks

    try it on gamepass and don't give money to this rats

    I give 3 because it can be fun at moments but most of the time you will hate it. Thanks for reading.    … Expand
  35. 42bebop
    Nov 13, 2021
    3
    Its a decent game. Some problems that the games has are:

    - No VoIP - No real scoreboard - No leaning - 22 guns total - No all chat - No server browser outside of Portal - No private/rented servers - Cannot join friends already in a match - No enemy footsteps - Enemies look the same as friendlies - Have to opt-out of reviving every death, no idea where medics are - Have to    Its a decent game. Some problems that the games has are:

    - No VoIP
    - No real scoreboard
    - No leaning
    - 22 guns total
    - No all chat
    - No server browser outside of Portal
    - No private/rented servers
    - Cannot join friends already in a match
    - No enemy footsteps
    - Enemies look the same as friendlies
    - Have to opt-out of reviving every death, no idea where medics are
    - Have to re-select spawn location every spawn
    - Bullet spread/weapon inaccuracy outside of the close range
    - Lack of game modes
    - No hardcore
    - Cannot join, create, or lock a squad
    - No military ranks associated with numerical ranks
    - No resizable minimap
    - Cannot select loadout or operator before joining a server which, in certain situations, spawn you directly into the game with whatever you had last game. This happens when joining a fresh breakthrough game, mostly.
    - Obnoxious voice-overs, operators are incredibly vocal, every time you do an action they say a line and you cant turn it off.
    - Unnecessary changes to the aircraft flight characteristics from BF4 models
    - On the spawn screen tanks/helis use the same icon, you simply cannot tell if that's a transport or attack heli that you are spawning into.
    - No maps with water and thusly no boats.. despite there being a big-ass boat on the loading screen.
    - No stats page
    - No commander
    - No squad points for issuing orders or following them
    - No marksman head shot bonus for long range snipes
    - Melee take down animations have been turned to **** All enemies are brought to a standing position before one specific kill is performed.
    - Revive is glitched when downed teammate's head is too close to something.
    - Cannot tell if there is room to enter a friendly vehicle without trying to get in it.
    - Cannot dive underwater
    - Damage dealt numbers, e.g. "VEHICLE HIT 28" after hitting a tank with a rocket, have been removed. This applies to both infantry and vehicles.
    - Non-removable profanity filter
    - Repairing vehicles does not give XP
    - Faction locked weapons and gadgets in Portal
    - No rule editor support for objective based game modes
    - Grappling Hook is afraid of smoke
    - Zoom issues with sniper scopes
    - Inability to switch teams
    - Vehicle entry and exit animations have been removed

    I'm sure the game will get better as time goes on but it's kind of undercooked. Other than that the game is fine.    … Expand
  36. Alibob
    Nov 14, 2021
    3
    This game is simply not enjoyable. I had high expectations because Dice made games such as BF3, BFBC2,BF4 but this comes nowhere close. The game feels soulless, absolute horrible UI, huge and empty maps, underwhelming animations, lack of content, disappointing sound design, bad performance, inconsistent hitreg, addition of specialists, removal of core features such as scoreboard, serverThis game is simply not enjoyable. I had high expectations because Dice made games such as BF3, BFBC2,BF4 but this comes nowhere close. The game feels soulless, absolute horrible UI, huge and empty maps, underwhelming animations, lack of content, disappointing sound design, bad performance, inconsistent hitreg, addition of specialists, removal of core features such as scoreboard, server browser, player spawn camera, nearby medics, etc. I cannot believe that DICE thought that this game was ready for release!… Expand
  37. uncut80
    Nov 14, 2021
    3
    The worst battlefield of all time. It's a mess with very questionable design decisions.
    All the things that made up a battlefield are now dead ! Battlefield is regressing to a f2p (cod) newbie shooter.
    After years of developing experience and good features, Dice buried finally their franchise by cutting the whole clans & teamplay communities features in their own grave. Some examples:    The worst battlefield of all time. It's a mess with very questionable design decisions.
    All the things that made up a battlefield are now dead ! Battlefield is regressing to a f2p (cod) newbie shooter.
    After years of developing experience and good features, Dice buried finally their franchise by cutting the whole clans & teamplay communities features in their own grave.

    Some examples:

    - it is practically impossible to play with more than 3 friends on a server together. It seems dice don't want teamplay platoons and clans anymore.
    - no scoreboard
    - no serverbrowser and no servers
    - no persistent or rentable community servers
    - no platoons
    - no squadchange to your friends
    - no teamswitch
    - no all chat
    - no spectator mode
    - after every round u must rejoin a (server)
    - lots of annoying screens & cutscenes
    - broken and useless minimap
    - big and soulless maps
    - recoil broken and satanic hitreg
    - no soldier class system
    - no menu view to your stats
    - very poor audio mixing like a tinpan
    - footsteps are broken
    - poor graphics like cardboard boxes
    - broken chopper and jet physics
    - performance on a good pc is weak!
    - cringe voice lines after the round is finished by the charakters (Fortnite?)

    After nearly 20 years of BF gaming, i'm gonna refund this unfinished game. It seems you're playing a 2nd beta.
    I'm done with my ex-love battelfield. Thanks for the good times.    … Expand
  38. Marandellas
    Nov 18, 2021
    3
    Visually stunning but ruined by massive gameplay alterations from previous titles.

    The maps look extremely nice but It's quite clear that gameplay was not taken into account in the design, most are 90% open space with little to no cover making the game a nightmare for anyone unlucky enough to not be in a vehicle the game is also buggy to ridiculous extent, some bugs are expected for    Visually stunning but ruined by massive gameplay alterations from previous titles.

    The maps look extremely nice but It's quite clear that gameplay was not taken into account in the design, most are 90% open space with little to no cover making the game a nightmare for anyone unlucky enough to not be in a vehicle

    the game is also buggy to ridiculous extent, some bugs are expected for a new release but some make the game almost unplayable. Even if DICE quickly fixes them they won't fix the underlying flaws of the game design.

    The new specialist system is a very blatant attempt to imitate other popular shooters like Apex: Legends, CoD Warzone and Rainbow Six siege. Sacrificing the formula that made the franchise popular to begin with for a shameless cash grab attempt to sell skins. The result is a soulless mess with terrible voice acting and poorly implemented characters.

    DICE has blatantly disregarded player feedback and the wishes of it's existing player base in attempt to appeal to the player bases of other games.

    Long story short. Battlefield 2042 is a Battlefield game made by people who don't like Battlefield for people who also don't like Battlefield.    … Expand
  39. Louis010
    Nov 14, 2021
    3
    Looks nice I guess. That's the only thing going for it. Runs awful on series x, customisation sucks, specialists feel weird in place of actual classes, gunplay feels awful too (somehow). From the one game I played it was 20 people huddled round a flag doing nothing then occasionally getting shot with missiles from nowhere as everything and everyone is so damn hard to make out in this game.Looks nice I guess. That's the only thing going for it. Runs awful on series x, customisation sucks, specialists feel weird in place of actual classes, gunplay feels awful too (somehow). From the one game I played it was 20 people huddled round a flag doing nothing then occasionally getting shot with missiles from nowhere as everything and everyone is so damn hard to make out in this game. Truly worst game I've played this year and a massive disappointment. At least I got to try it for free in the trial instead of wasting money on this garbage.… Expand
  40. ImJustRelaxX
    Nov 14, 2021
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Base of the game is meh, other than that…

    I’ll just talk about the bad things of the game
    Take in mind i’m talking from an XSX user perspective

    No campaign

    Only 2 Game-modes, I’m not counting HazardZone cuz that crap is already dead

    Portal servers are DogWater
    Servers in general are a bit better but still crap
    No Solo-CooP progression system

    Progression in general is MEH, there is no much to unlock, and the few progression rewards you with crap cosmetics

    FPS drop in consoles (at least in XSX & XSS)
    Poor customization
    Tons of bugs
    Tons of visual errors
    Pop-Up textures
    Crap physics

    And talking about physics…
    Game has little to no destruction, that Battlefield essence is gone, but not only on the destruction area, overall in general game doesn’t feels like a Battlefield, it’s seems like if it’s just a forced attempt of copying CoD. No1 works as a team, everyone is playing for themselves, there’s no medics, and no supports, only ppl with missiles, and there’s another problem, VEHICLES ARE SO USELESS, as some1 who loves tanks from past BF games, I feel so betrayed; you can’t do a push cuz your tank will just get demolished. There’s also no manual repair, so u gotta wait and sit as an idiot just to get back in action.

    Maps are huge for NO reason, and although you still find enemies, there are sectors that are forgotten, entires buildings that are forgotten, and most of the area of the maps are just a flat areas where nothing interesting goes on.

    Tornados are such a dumb idea, and they are no game changing, they just pass by and no nothing.

    Aiming and shooting feels like **** bullets start going in after the 3-4 shoot you hit & head damage multiplier is so broken.

    One of the most common BF problems is camping, and in this game OH BOY; the situation is even worse and because of one thing; SPECIALISTS. WTF was DICE thinking when they add them? They make no sense, they not only take on slot gadget, slot that could’ve been used for people to have gadgets that actually complements the necessity of your team, but their abilities are so stupid.

    And I could keep going but I’m just tired and pissed TBH. If you are new to BF, buying the game is 70% recommended, but don’t expect a show, and if you were looking for a BF3, BF4 or even BF1 experience, I’m sorry, but this ain’t the game.    … Expand
  41. HZD87
    Nov 14, 2021
    3
    I'd Call this a Good game if it even delivered the CORE functions of Battlefield as a franchise.

    Portal is Good inclusion with proper battlefield baked in by default - how the Fans want a battlefield game to be. 2042 "Expansion" is a mess of pandering to the ADHD of "Gamers" in the last 5 years or so, Its Pretty but can't deliver the foundations what people know and expect of a    I'd Call this a Good game if it even delivered the CORE functions of Battlefield as a franchise.

    Portal is Good inclusion with proper battlefield baked in by default - how the Fans want a battlefield game to be.

    2042 "Expansion" is a mess of pandering to the ADHD of "Gamers" in the last 5 years or so, Its Pretty but can't deliver the foundations what people know and expect of a battlefield title.

    Hazard zone, Well it might be okay but its not battlefield, its trying to appeal to the BR / Extraction Fad.

    Here is sit just above the minimum specs at 1080p with a PC rig that can run this years "AAA" titles with all high settings and yet a company worth several millions can't even get their half baked BF title to run on their own recommended minimum specs any better than stick animations on a flicked stack of post-it notes . . .

    They Lied that production was going well and better than expected a year ago, they said the BETA was a much older build then "Release" yet their launch runs considerably worse than that BETA.

    No Campaign

    No VoIP

    No real scoreboard

    No leaning

    22 guns total lol

    Plus system is clunky dog ****

    UI is clunky dog **** wrapped in cat **** Might be the least intuitive I've ever seen

    No all chat

    No server browser outside of Portal

    No private/rented servers

    Doesn't just roll into the next map after a game in AoW, back to matchmaking peasant

    Cannot join friends already in a match (pretty sure I could do this in beta??)

    No enemy footsteps

    Enemies look the same as friendlies

    Have to opt out of revive every death, no idea who can actually revive me anyway

    Have to re-select spawn location every spawn

    Poor hardware optimization

    Cutscenes all over the place

    Stupid ass 'look at me' after a match

    Bullet spread / weapon inaccuracy outside of rock throwing range Lack of game modes No hardcore Cannot join, create, or lock a squad No military ranks associated with numerical ranks No resizable minimap Audio is poorly mixed The maps, while stunning from both a scale and visuals perspective, lack any real flow for infantry combat. Its a game for sure, its currently not a good one worse than that it has the name battlefield attached to it. Its always funny when someone puts a Ferrari badge on a modded Toyota Supra, when you ask people for 90GBP to be BETA testers early its not funny . . . . This should go back into development for 6 Months get striped back from everything that's not your Standard battlefield since 2002 and slowly add features in . . . . . This is Cyberfield 2042    … Expand
  42. AnyFreeUsername
    Nov 14, 2021
    3
    1. Fix BFV for 3 years
    2. Game becomes masterpiece
    3. Start developing new title
    4. Throw away all best mechanics
    5. Take all the worst mechanics you can find
    6. ???
    7. BF 2042
  43. Arcxide
    Nov 14, 2021
    3
    Poor performance optimisation, 90fps with 3080ti and i7 9700k, The UI is a mess, gun play feels off. Cant customize the Hud to improve visibility. no scoreboard. can't use rockets and c5 at the same time for anti vehicle play. maps aren't great for infantry players. search reddit and you will find many more reviews
  44. PotatoFish
    Nov 14, 2021
    3
    2 steps forwards, 10 steps back.

    You have no idea what your missing out on if you’ve never played a BF game before. this whole thing is just a mess.
  45. Drinzler
    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.    … Expand
  46. zSenpai
    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.
  47. Punkstyler
    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.
  48. codzy
    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    … Expand
  49. Subsonix303
    Nov 18, 2021
    3
    EA sold us a half baked alpha for full-price...
    the game is really fun in its best moments, but its overshadowed from lack of important features, weird design decisions, horrible performance and bugs.
    with this release, EA showed once more, how they value their customers...do not buy it at this point, it needs at least 6 more months in the oven
  50. SwiftyDigitz
    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.    … Expand
  51. hungphan1305
    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 ?
  52. StealthMonkey
    Nov 14, 2021
    3
    EA removed the server browser, which means you cannot play the game with more than 3 friends. Maybe you’re more of a solo player? Well there’s also no scoreboard (or stat page), so you can’t play for personal achievement either. There really is no reason to play this game; it just feels like you’re going through the motions. This is a soulless game that feels like it was built by an AIEA removed the server browser, which means you cannot play the game with more than 3 friends. Maybe you’re more of a solo player? Well there’s also no scoreboard (or stat page), so you can’t play for personal achievement either. There really is no reason to play this game; it just feels like you’re going through the motions. This is a soulless game that feels like it was built by an AI that was trained on photos of Modern Warfare 2019 and BF4.… Expand
  53. Delco24
    Nov 14, 2021
    3
    Game can be fun at times, but it doesn’t feel like a Battlefield game. Many features from past Battlefield games were removed, and there’s practically no team play as a result.
  54. vidyagamenjoyr
    Nov 16, 2021
    3
    Battlefield 2042 is yet another addition to the franchise that releases unfinished. Rather this time EA and Ripple Effect (a horrible name for a studio) went above and beyond to see how far they can push it.

    They removed stuff that was deemed great in previous installments, like the more realistic movement animations from BFV eg. wall vaulting, cover leaning, prone positions. An    Battlefield 2042 is yet another addition to the franchise that releases unfinished. Rather this time EA and Ripple Effect (a horrible name for a studio) went above and beyond to see how far they can push it.

    They removed stuff that was deemed great in previous installments, like the more realistic movement animations from BFV eg. wall vaulting, cover leaning, prone positions. An essential part of the entire identity of Battlefield called destruction (yeah, remember that?). Adding to this, the positional audio is completely cocked, the performance is less than ideal on a high-end system (5950X, 32GB, RTX 3080) and even all else aside, this game keeps crashing every single match I get to join if the servers are stable enough to let me connect.

    EDIT 17th November: I have a hypothesis that this game is somehow coded in a manner that it's very sensitive to hardware instabilities, and I think that my ram was a contributing factor because the cpu couldn't keep up at 1:1 ratio as ryzen likes it. Reduced memory speed and no crashes since. Mind you this hasn't happened in other games.

    The only reason I have given this game a 3/10, which I already think is quite generous is, because I love this franchise. After missing out on the previous two games by my own accord I'd like to be back, believe that they're gonna actually deliver on their promise that this game is made for the community, and not a lie.    … Expand
  55. JeanGamer
    Nov 14, 2021
    3
    Where to begin...
    I love BF. I have been playing since BF3. I have bought and played every since then.
    This game is bad. It is not only a performance issue. Also, gameplay, in general, is bad. Bullets spread randomly. The object icons block your view. They made the Attachment system so complicated to use. Maps are way too big. Not a server browser for the main game... Like why? You really    Where to begin...
    I love BF. I have been playing since BF3. I have bought and played every since then.

    This game is bad. It is not only a performance issue. Also, gameplay, in general, is bad. Bullets spread randomly. The object icons block your view. They made the Attachment system so complicated to use. Maps are way too big. Not a server browser for the main game... Like why? You really can not squad up with friends. The scoreboard is missing...Again, why? Specialists really do not belong to this game. 22 guns at launch? The only good thing I could say about this game, it is portal amazing, but its content is very limited. This is not a game you can play for years. I have been a bf fan since BF3, but I really can't defend this game. It is such a mess. It is like BF lost its identity.


    The thing I hate the most is those YouTubers hyping up this game. They are either in EA's payroll or playing a different game cuz this game is far away from the battlefield I grow with and love.    … Expand
  56. Jasmith
    Nov 14, 2021
    3
    An out of touch battlefield game by people who have never played one. This feels like a last second thrown together mess that misses many key features from past games. Features like the improved movement mechanics from battlefield V have since been downgraded or outright removed for no explanation and have been replaced with floaty fast arcady movements that are blatantly trying to rip offAn out of touch battlefield game by people who have never played one. This feels like a last second thrown together mess that misses many key features from past games. Features like the improved movement mechanics from battlefield V have since been downgraded or outright removed for no explanation and have been replaced with floaty fast arcady movements that are blatantly trying to rip off call of duty. Guns handle poorly and gunfights past 25m are next to impossible. Given that the maps are incredibly giant, flat, boring open spaces with no cover, expect many boring pointless gunfights with inaccurate weapons. Speaking of maps, maps are hugs empty arenas with next to no cover so vehicles can decimate you with little to no effort…. That’s if you can get ahold of a vehicle given that there’s 64 players per team and maybe 6 vehicles if you’re lucky. Destruction, a major component to what makes battlefield great, is next to nothing on the new maps. You can blow out walls here or there but that basically it. If you were looking for destruction like past battlefield games prepare to be disappointed. The only decent destruction comes from the classic maps in the new portal mode. There’s a new mode called hazard zone but it’s a soulless copy of other games that do it better and was clearly just created to salvage what was left of the br game they were clearly making this game to be. The only redeeming mode is portal, which gives players the tools to create their own battlefield experiences with assets from previous games. It genuinely is a fantastic mode that brings back so classic favorites. Overall I’m disappointed with this game, it’s lacking feature list that’s been improved upon up until this point has been scrapped for a more arcady monetize-able experience. DICE has a long way to go in bringing features back to make this feel like a battlefield game again, but until then I recommend passing and waiting a few months to see how they support the game. But given their past record of giving up and moving on, I wouldn’t hold my breath for those required changes to actually come.… Expand
  57. HeyImLea
    Nov 14, 2021
    3
    Im going to make this a review without going on about how DICE, its support studios and EA are the worst. I have nothing against the people who have spent massive amounts of hours to make this game, I just want to give my opinion on the game.
    apologies if my sentences aren't perfect, English isn't my native language. :)
    first off, I've been a fan of this franchise since I was 7 years    Im going to make this a review without going on about how DICE, its support studios and EA are the worst. I have nothing against the people who have spent massive amounts of hours to make this game, I just want to give my opinion on the game.
    apologies if my sentences aren't perfect, English isn't my native language. :)

    first off, I've been a fan of this franchise since I was 7 years old, I'm 23 now. I've like nearly every single release, except for maybe V (except for movement) and now most recently, 2042.

    I've loved how the franchise that I love have moved forward and the movement being less and less static, gunplay being more responsive. learning vouzoiu and zouzou on bf4 was a fun challenge too.
    anyway, my thoughts on 2042 (so far)

    I spent a good amount of time in the beta, that was supposedly a few months old, and according to lots of fans in the community it was all going to be fixed for release. didn't work out great, huh?
    the official release is on the 19th but EA and DICE are selling access to the game already. If you're willing to take my money (even more than standard price if youre not using EA Play) to play your product im going to judge it as if it was fully released.

    Beta was broken, but I managed to put in around 10-15 hours even with the poor performance and almost drowning in bugs.

    around comes "early access" that we're playing now, and credit where credit is due, many bugs have been fixed. elevators work, the sound is better, explosions looks a lot better, the UI isn't as ugly, but its just not enough.

    * lets start with specialists, while it's a nice idea and something I actually would really like. I miss not being able to play as my gender in bf4 and only being able to play as a male for example. the problem for me is that it's not done right here, at all. I think that for most people BF have been about being a soldier among other soldiers, working together to overcome the enemy.

    that's not the case in 2042, specialists are made out to almost be like superheroes and not needing anyone but themselves. They have too much character, they're good at everything and aren't restricted by class. I can be a medic Specialist with a healing pistol but also bring an RPG into the fight. there are no classes left.
    by doing this, I cant tell who's going to be able to give me heals or ammo when running up to them, this was easy in the previous titles, I knew instantly who was a medic or support in BF3 for example, a game that was released in 2011.

    * Teamwork.
    I don't know what to say, it feels like DICE just wanted to rid BF of its identity. there's next to no teamwork here. reviving is clunky, I dont know who's a support or a medic because there are no classes, I don't know if anyone is coming to revive me, healing and helping your team doesnt give nearly enough xp, so you're not really motivated to risk your life to rush to the other side to heal your teammates.

    *UI/UX/settings
    where to begin? what happened here? the UI is surprisingly bad. how did we go from BF3/4/1/V, to this? I get F2P vibes when looking at it, doesnt feel finished at all. there's no indicator in the UI for what firemode I'm on, I cant resize my map, I cant change opacity of the objectives on the map, some settings do not work (crosshairs) and some are just missing (direct x12)

    * Maps
    We got 7 base game maps in total for release, who are all big and focus a lot on vehichles. not one map or mode for the people that enjoy infantry over large scale battles. disappointing.
    I feel like the maps are okay, at best. they're too big imo, even for 128 players and there's not nearly enough spots to hide. you're always getting shot at. the flow isn't there.

    * Performance
    Shockingly poor across most, if not all platforms. Im on PC so that's what ill be focusing since I cant speak for my friends on the console side.
    lowering the presets to low doesnt seem to do much, or anything at all. I dropped my settings from high, to everything low on 1080p on my mid-spec system, I messed around in the config file and gained around 15-20FPS total. going from 25FPS avg, to around 45-50avg. When its not chugging along at under 60, its stuttering, slowing down, or teleporting me back and forth. Other games doesnt teleport me, using fiber with 100/100 uncapped.

    * Misc/QoL
    Spread/bloom. - random bullet deviation.
    Mouse Input not consistent
    No server browser for main game
    lobby disbands after every match
    no squad management - cant join/create/leave/lock during games
    no scoreboard
    no all chat - let me choose if i want to see or hide the chat like in previous titles.
    gun customization UI messy
    Soundscape completely broken
    UI/UX customization severely lacking
    Spawns broken
    Specialists - theyre not faction specific.
    No Incentive for teamplay
    lackling destruction

    I had more to say but im at the limit. thank you for taking your time to read about my thoughts on the game. :) please dont harass devs :)    … Expand
  58. AquaberrySkerry
    Nov 14, 2021
    3
    It’s a 3 on the basis that a 5 would be average. Bugs, glitches, missing features, only 2 lmgs, overly big and open maps that make you run 5 miles out in the open to get anywhere, bugged audio, no voice chat, no scoreboard, hazard zone is a throwaway mode that no one will touch past launch, hit detection and the net code is terrible, gun accuracy is purposely atrocious to make gun fights aIt’s a 3 on the basis that a 5 would be average. Bugs, glitches, missing features, only 2 lmgs, overly big and open maps that make you run 5 miles out in the open to get anywhere, bugged audio, no voice chat, no scoreboard, hazard zone is a throwaway mode that no one will touch past launch, hit detection and the net code is terrible, gun accuracy is purposely atrocious to make gun fights a toss up for lower skilled players, a very obvious DMR meta, and the lack of a class system in favor of half assed specialists makes for a very underwhelming, half baked, pile of meh. Oh and it runs terrible on pc and crashes a lot. Now if you fix all of this, we’re looking at an easy 7-8, but this is Dice we’re talking about, so I don’t have high hopes.… Expand
  59. SnoMane1172
    Nov 14, 2021
    3
    Lack of server browser, no VOIP, unsatisfying and unreliable gunplay, uninspired audio, lack of cover on all maps (map design caters more vehicle play with little ability to play as infantry), specialists are goofy/cringworthy voice lines ruin the modern military feeling we all hoped for, the only gadgets worth using are the launchers and C5, most matches involve 40+ players zergingLack of server browser, no VOIP, unsatisfying and unreliable gunplay, uninspired audio, lack of cover on all maps (map design caters more vehicle play with little ability to play as infantry), specialists are goofy/cringworthy voice lines ruin the modern military feeling we all hoped for, the only gadgets worth using are the launchers and C5, most matches involve 40+ players zerging objectives which is not playable on the receiving end. The first season of content has already been delayed so welcome to another delayfeild like BFV. On the positive side the graphics are fine and the storm does add a cool element of chaos to the gameplay. Maybe after a few updates the game will be better.… Expand
  60. Natuk
    Nov 14, 2021
    3
    It looks nice, and it is a decently cool game, lots of fights to be had in a big scale war, however it lacks alot on the development side. For example it is absolutely filled with bugs which could have easily been solved if they had a proper QA testing team. And at the moment just feels like a huge laggy mess. Hopefully with time they will decide to do some great patches though. I'm givingIt looks nice, and it is a decently cool game, lots of fights to be had in a big scale war, however it lacks alot on the development side. For example it is absolutely filled with bugs which could have easily been solved if they had a proper QA testing team. And at the moment just feels like a huge laggy mess. Hopefully with time they will decide to do some great patches though. I'm giving a 3/10 (Lot's of room for improvement) I wish days were simple like with Battlefield 2!!!… Expand
  61. RougeGunner00
    Nov 14, 2021
    3
    This game went 10 steps back. Buildings and environments aren't as destructive. Graphics take ages to load in, something I would expect from 2010. Removal of the scoreboard is annoying, the end round dialog is so poorly done and just cringeworthy. Reviving is almost never an option. Most weapons and vehicles need a nerf or buff. The leveling system is a mess and the grind required for someThis game went 10 steps back. Buildings and environments aren't as destructive. Graphics take ages to load in, something I would expect from 2010. Removal of the scoreboard is annoying, the end round dialog is so poorly done and just cringeworthy. Reviving is almost never an option. Most weapons and vehicles need a nerf or buff. The leveling system is a mess and the grind required for some items are absolutely mind blowing. 20 knife kills in a single life? Get real. The devs said they cut the single player campaign to focus on the multiplayer and honestly this game feels so under developed. The most annoying issue so far is that the servers are constantly crashing and lag is in every game. I don't know why the devs decided to make their games this way. Everything that made Battlefield into the powerhouse that it was seems like it is missing. "It looks pretty but everything holding it together is just duck tape, zip ties, and last years dreams."… Expand
  62. Leopard993
    Nov 14, 2021
    3
    I play on PC,
    Servers are atrocious, very laggy and difficult to get into a match, had to disable crossplay for it to work. After a couple of days now I can't even select a game to get into, it goes to the loading screen and just crashes at this point.
    Loadouts are fine everything there works, maps are not good, too big for the game I'd rather it be like battlefield 4 but with 128 players    I play on PC,
    Servers are atrocious, very laggy and difficult to get into a match, had to disable crossplay for it to work. After a couple of days now I can't even select a game to get into, it goes to the loading screen and just crashes at this point.

    Loadouts are fine everything there works, maps are not good, too big for the game I'd rather it be like battlefield 4 but with 128 players on the same maps. What happened to destruction? No clue since there's no taking down buildings or a giant battlefield scarred with craters like in BF1 or BFV it's just cod at this point where all you see is vehicles exploding and that's about it.

    The frame rate is around 30-40 with occasional drops to 20 I've seen people say they have a RTX 3090 and a Ryzen 5950x and it's at 40-50 so you know the optimization is absolutely trash.

    What a dumpster fire of a launch, at least the BFV beta was playable and the only issues in that was revives and the fact that you could see the grey floor underwater.

    If they're gonna fix all these issues in a week I'd say that's a death sentence and a very difficult task, though if by some miracle this game comes out okay at launch it'd be great.    … Expand
  63. 7orque
    Nov 14, 2021
    3
    Butchered features from previous games to cater to a wider audience, and ultimately released a game that is completely bug ridden, performs terribly on high-end PC's at any resolution above 1080p, netcode and servers are rubbish, doesn't have a campaign, and is blatantly moving in the direction of enticing cosmetic microtransactions. This isn't battlefiield.
  64. godzillapo
    Nov 15, 2021
    3
    Really disappointing. The gunplay isn't good, the UI makes it so hard to tell what's going on. The bugs are also pretty horrendous too. Might be sorted in 6 months / a year but who knows.
  65. Ninjarabies
    Nov 14, 2021
    3
    They ruined it with all the new COD features. The majority of battlefield fans wanted something like Battlefield 3 or 4 and instead they got a COD/ Titanfall crossover. Absolutely horrible. This is no longer the war simulator we all loved. There's a old saying "Don't fix it if it ain't broke" remastered versions of 3 and 4 would be nice but EA is becoming too greedy.
  66. TheLoneOnion
    Nov 15, 2021
    3
    I was really excited for this game, but unfortunately I just cant bring myself to recommend it to anybody. Currently as I write this review all the servers are bugged and stuck in a never ending overtime ( Joined 6 servers in a row , all bugged )

    The entire operator system is garbage and clearly only put into the game to sell skins, which is pathetic. Also the games story makes no    I was really excited for this game, but unfortunately I just cant bring myself to recommend it to anybody. Currently as I write this review all the servers are bugged and stuck in a never ending overtime ( Joined 6 servers in a row , all bugged )

    The entire operator system is garbage and clearly only put into the game to sell skins, which is pathetic. Also the games story makes no sense, why are we all "no pats" when in multiplayer its RUSSIA VS AMERICA. Like are the countries powerful enough to attack other foreign nations but not powerful enough to have their own militaries, but apparently have enough money to hire an ARMY of personal mercenaries? Those mercenaries that get dropped off by ACTUAL soldiers? Also it looks REALLY stupid when you're fighting a team with the exact same operators as yours. *slow clap* And on a side note the AI soldiers all look way cooler than any of the operators, which is also pathetic on its own.

    Weapon variety is awful and for some reason DICE thought it was a good idea to give each weapon less attachments than their previous games, and this is clearly only because they have to work around their stupid switch attachments on the fly system which only allows you to have 4 different attachment types ( looking at vanguard you can have 8 to 10 on each gun, AND THEYRE WORLD WAR 2 GUNS FFS ), which that in its own makes literally zero sense. LIke yeah in the middle of a firefight I'm just going to swap out my optics, ammo type, and barrel in 2 seconds. yup.

    There are only TWO game modes for the main game. Conquest, which is just a hot mess with the map size and player count, and breakthrough, which just divulges into a zerg in between the attacking points/ Why have such a HUGE map but focus all the fighting into a small area?

    There is NO voice chat, at all, which is a BIG LMAO. There is no actual scoreboard, because reasons?

    The gunplay is just terrible. Hit Reg is pretty much non existent, and you better hope you NEVER have to fire your gun while moving because apparently any sort of movement turns your gun barrel into a piece of limp spaghetti because your bullets just decide to go everywhere but where you're aiming. The gun spread in portal is its own disaster but to save a paragraph, just think 2042 but worse :)

    Hovercraft....I'm convinced they just didn't do any internal testing because if they did they would have realized that the hovercraft can literally climb the sides of skyscrapers and fly through the air.

    The game is clearly unfinished, clearly a cash grab, and clearly broken. I paid 158 Canadian ( after tax ) for the ultimate edition. This game is NOT worth even a quarter of that. Why did DICE decide this game was ready for release when it clearly isn't?

    On a side note, Hazard Zone clearly received little to no love and is probably just going to end up like firestorm ( received pretty much no marketing at all other than that AWFUL trailer, and the game is out in 4 days ) I'm quite confident its just going to end up being Firestorm 2.0, abandoned and forgotten as if it were never part of the game at all. Which is sad because it seems that any time DICE tries to do ANYTHING unique, they just fail. They couldn't even copy hunt showdown or Tarkov properly. Hazard Zone is what I was most excited for and seeing how bare bones and unfinished it is just hurts.

    Sincerely, a man whom has purchased every single battlefield since battlefield 2.    … Expand
  67. PartySaurusRex
    Nov 15, 2021
    3
    This is not battlefield, no team play is required for win a massive 64vs64. Heroes choose destroyed the essence and principal foundation of the battlefield series : classes (medic,ingeniere) you don't have to be a medic... every one can be one.... apply that at all in the game. So after that i gona used part of an other Comment :

    No scoreboards. No classes. No destruction. No server    This is not battlefield, no team play is required for win a massive 64vs64. Heroes choose destroyed the essence and principal foundation of the battlefield series : classes (medic,ingeniere) you don't have to be a medic... every one can be one.... apply that at all in the game. So after that i gona used part of an other Comment :

    No scoreboards.
    No classes.
    No destruction.
    No server browser.
    No stats.
    Change team is forbidden in game.

    Ect ect... so what ? we stand agains EA who think cod is a good way to approche the battlefield way ?? Yes ! and to the Press who give 80 or 90 meta score ??? WHAT THE F... thats insane    … Expand
  68. antoncommenter
    Nov 15, 2021
    3
    A lot of bugs,
    Vehicles too strong.
    Lack of weapons.
    Bad class design (if it is possible to call this system a class design).
    Big empty maps.

    DICE should pay us for testing their product, but in fact they took money for early access.
  69. BeadiestGem
    Nov 15, 2021
    3
    Its hard to believe this came out after Battlefield 1 and V.
    I don't agree with some of the decision being made like removing the scoreboard, all chat and the four class system which is a staple of the series.
  70. caatalyst07
    Nov 15, 2021
    3
    Fan of the series, started playing BF1942 as a kid and sunk thousands of hours into every subsequent game until BF1. I still jump into BF4 from time to time but have moved on to play a lot more survival focused games like Dayz and Tarkov.

    I was looking forward to playing 2042 a great deal as I’d missed the previous two instalments as I wasn’t looking for a historical experience. I    Fan of the series, started playing BF1942 as a kid and sunk thousands of hours into every subsequent game until BF1. I still jump into BF4 from time to time but have moved on to play a lot more survival focused games like Dayz and Tarkov.

    I was looking forward to playing 2042 a great deal as I’d missed the previous two instalments as I wasn’t looking for a historical experience. I preferred the BF4 arsenal, weapon modifications and progression that came with it. I was also looking forward to having a more casual shooter to jump into.

    I pre-ordered the gold edition and played the open beta. Refunded now.

    2042 feels like multiple game studios were working on multiple games within the same engine and tried to cobble them together with very little time or thought about synergy. It feels like the starting point was “How can we make battlefield appeal to BR and survival trends” rather than “how can we improve and innovate the battlefield experience”. The game is riddled with technical and design issues as a result of trying to appeal to too many audiences. Some can be band aided but a lot of them are deep rooted into the game which would require an enormous amount of work and balls on EA/DICE’s part to fix which I just don’t think we will see. DICE used to set the trends with Battlefield and this is what I was hoping for. A Battlefield game that new its strengths and built on them further for the next generation of hardware.

    Ultimately the game lacks passion and soul, like it was built exclusively to try and compete for current trends but as always EA/DICE were late to the party and executed their strategy poorly leaving a lack luster product that is an okay experience at best.

    Highlights:

    1) Menu and UI is frustrating at best, infuriating at worst.
    2) Weapons and customisation is barebones. Step backwards from previous titles
    3) Weapons and customisation offer no real gameplay changes or value.
    4) Weapons feel terrible to shoot due to weapon spread
    5) Animations often feel cheap and whacky like a F2P BR game
    6) Specialists were clearly built for hazard zone and band aided into all out war creating a poor and unimmersive experience
    7) Specialists are goofy, cheesy and cheapen the whole experience with tacky one liners
    8) Graphics, especially the maps just feel like a step backwards
    9) Performance on a 3070 / i9900k was inconsistent, barely hitting around 60-70 fps
    10) Tons of UI elements missing like score boards, squad changing, server browser
    11) Spend more time in menus watching cheesy tacky animations whilst waiting to get in games
    12) Portal was sold as the saving grace but ultimately falls flat due to lack of customisation and bare content

    If you’re a fan of the battlefield formula then I cannot recommend this title at release. A huge disappointment.    … Expand
  71. TheTruthIsHarsh
    Jul 24, 2022
    3
    laggy servers, unpolished, and unfinished.
    Well, you cant even Choose your Squad, you can just randomly switch between squads that have a slot free.
    Objects like Trees have a bigger Hitbox than the visible object - > You shoot into invisible walls The Hovercraft is completely broken, it even can climb any skyscraper. Reviving Bug, Bugs of any kind, like u cant switch weapons anymore.    laggy servers, unpolished, and unfinished.
    Well, you cant even Choose your Squad, you can just randomly switch between squads that have a slot free.
    Objects like Trees have a bigger Hitbox than the visible object - > You shoot into invisible walls
    The Hovercraft is completely broken, it even can climb any skyscraper.
    Reviving Bug, Bugs of any kind, like u cant switch weapons anymore.
    The list would go on, but I've to go to work now and have to deliver working software ;)

    I give 7 stars since I know they will patch it right.
    If not I will reduce to 3 stars.    … Expand
  72. wrzooz
    Nov 23, 2021
    3
    No scoreboard,
    No classes,
    No destruction,
    Few servers,
    Portal cheated stats,
    Almost no weapons

    That game would be actually good, if it was called something else.
  73. AMironov79
    Nov 15, 2021
    3
    First about what is good: performance is better than i expected (1080p on Asus i9/rtx2080 Chimera laptop gives 70-80+ fps on mix of high and ultra without RT). Well, that`s it. The rest is well.. not good.

    - No dedicated servers. Thanks to matchmaking you are always playing with random people. - No way to join specific squad, all you can do is leaving your squad and joining other    First about what is good: performance is better than i expected (1080p on Asus i9/rtx2080 Chimera laptop gives 70-80+ fps on mix of high and ultra without RT). Well, that`s it. The rest is well.. not good.

    - No dedicated servers. Thanks to matchmaking you are always playing with random people.
    - No way to join specific squad, all you can do is leaving your squad and joining other _random_ squad mid game. You dont see other squads on map, so you can not tell if they play objective or just soloing.
    - There is no in game voice chat for squad coordination. Funny thing is that if you click the player on the player list there is an option to mute him, but... there is no voice chat.
    - You can not zoom the map so if there is some heavy fighting around some oint good luck selecting the right point (squad mate, point itself, spawn beacon etc)
    - No hardcore mode without 3rd person vehicle view, 3d spotting, kill cams etc.

    They did everything to kill the teamwork making BF2142 into large scale COD/Apex/Fortnite.

    BF2142 is like hymn for mediocracy - stats removed, low weapons variety (two types of launchers only, really?), overly simplified core game cycle.

    I wont tell you much about the operators. They are useless and could be like skins for normal classes.

    Voiceover is irritating, and i bet that there is NOT A SINGLE person not swearing on those opening non-skippable cinematics at the beginning of EVERY FREAKING round.

    There are A LOT of bugs/glitches even in the interface (menus) here and there, it looks unpolished, like its somewhere between alpha and beta.    … Expand
  74. alexjexm
    Nov 15, 2021
    3
    Ставлю 3.

    Игра сырая, а ее выпускают и тестируют на пользователях подписки ea pro. Игра, которая стоит 5 тысяч рублей совсем не оправдывает свою стоимость. Игра про будущее, а вы бегаете по карте пешком от точки А до точки В. Техники в игре очень мало, оружия по пальцам пересчитать, какие-то оперативники в которых путаешься. Это уже давно не батла, которую мы помнили и любили.    Ставлю 3.

    Игра сырая, а ее выпускают и тестируют на пользователях подписки ea pro. Игра, которая стоит 5 тысяч рублей совсем не оправдывает свою стоимость. Игра про будущее, а вы бегаете по карте пешком от точки А до точки В.

    Техники в игре очень мало, оружия по пальцам пересчитать, какие-то оперативники в которых путаешься.

    Это уже давно не батла, которую мы помнили и любили.

    R.I.P Battlefield    … Expand
  75. Rusty414
    Nov 15, 2021
    3
    This can be a great game but instead they rushed it, left out core features and systems out. Mix that with **** balance and bugs plus UI designer that is 5 years old....

    Stop trying to be COD, your not just be battlefield FFS.

    Lets hope in a year its fixed so that no-one can play it. Frist impressions man how hard is that to understand.
  76. Nokas_gr
    Nov 15, 2021
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I playing Battlefield Franchise from BF2 to BFV... i AM BATTLEFIELD Fan and i will be real.

    Gameplay : 4/10

    Gunplay : the assault rifles have more recoil than smg's and you wait to see more damage.
    They are not.. the smgs is better on all ranges , the bullet speed is to low and in ranges it feels unrealistic, the guns fire on random spots , they have spread on bullets and it looks and feel awfull.
    The weapons need re-edit to be some balance
    SMGS fast bullets ,less damage , short range less recoil
    Rifles big damage , bigger recoil , steady damage on all ranges

    Helis - Jets - land vechicles

    They need buff on all damages and the land vechicles need nerf on life.

    A lot of bags on the gunfight.

    Graphics : 6/10
    The battlefield V have better graphics and perfomance.. this is the true..

    UI MENUS HUD 4/10
    The Ui is an nightmare !
    I can talk about it all day..
    The customization is too complicated , there is NO SCOREBOARD , NO STATS , NO real proggression or milestones to unlock something bigger , No ranking system.

    Servers : 5/10
    A lot of lags.. no high pings but lagging a lot of time

    Bags gliches 3/10
    the game is full of bags. i can talk about 15-30 bags.
    at 50 meters and more the players are look like 2D pICTURES , they are moving and the legs and the whole animation is steady.
    bags everywhere. bags on the servers.. when you play breakaway , sometime it throws you on a server in overtime period and it havent time and you waiting there for ever. you can't even deploy.

    Maps : 3/10
    Way to big , no cover , no nice places to fight , just a open map for tanks and snipers.
    the battlefield V-BF4-BF3 have way better maps.

    Contest - Weapons - customization 3/10

    7 maps only , only 22 weapons (only 3 assault rifles , its like a joke) , limites weapons everywhere (and portal) , limited customization everywhere and the skins is nothing... if you play ww3 you will understand this is nothing.

    Perfomance : 6/10
    it needs a lot of optimazation

    Teamplay - Chat - Voip 3/10

    No teamplay no voip.

    No classes just specialist
    No teamplay just random fights
    No close quarters fight just open world chaotic fighting
    No Scoreboard , No Stats , no balance. no contest Only 2 modes , awfull menus and ui , filters and matchmaking on portal (the servers close after the a day and you can't find the again to play. The weapons take no xp on portal , there is no progression on portal. Hazard zone is a joke... you never take the feeling of ''Victory'' ... you just drop , you take 2-3 kills and you are out. no big winner or stats or competition or something... The game is full of bags. The wrost battlefield game ever. overall is a 3/10 ... This game is unfinished , it feels like a beta or alpha. limited , bags , no content , no stability on servers and game, no motivation to play it for more than a week.    … Expand
  77. Smokeyfal
    Nov 15, 2021
    3
    I would rather play bf5, played about 8 hours so far. Only 3 pistols wtf dice. Do yourself a favor and wait for a sale. 2 game modes conquest and breakthrough get old after awhile.
  78. AbysmalHollow
    Nov 15, 2021
    3
    This is a poor excuse of a Battlefield game. Sloppily put together, poorly optimized for pc, and full of game breaking bugs. Unfinished and unpolished. Just avoid this game at all cost. I'm so glad I could play this for free, because if I had to pay for this game I'd be livid.
  79. StoneFoxAU
    Nov 15, 2021
    3
    All the building blocks of a decent game but none of the polish.
    I rate the game poorly because they have added or changed features that nobody asked for. These features somehoe passed the design phase.
    Other reasons include poor performance, lazy map design and tremendously bad hit registry. This game at times is a laggy mess I'll admit when it works it feels good but 60% of the time    All the building blocks of a decent game but none of the polish.
    I rate the game poorly because they have added or changed features that nobody asked for. These features somehoe passed the design phase.

    Other reasons include poor performance, lazy map design and tremendously bad hit registry.
    This game at times is a laggy mess I'll admit when it works it feels good but 60% of the time the bullets don't register or people lag out.
    The vehicles and vehicle balancing are a whole other issue that I don't want to get into suffice to say EA should be aware of what went wrong.
    Glitches are not few and far between sadly, falling through the map, guns refusing to fire, players being invulnerable and going on killing sprees the list goes on.

    Let's talk about the operators and the lackluster content in the game on launch.
    It's actually sad that ea and dice believe they can get away with the huge price tag this game has when it's 1. Not a complete or properly functioning product and 2. Has such a lack of content and to be honest the map design is pretty lazy. In their videos they talk about how they had to re-asses the way they designed their maps to increase performance and game flow for their "larger" conquest mode.
    Now while the maps may be slightly larger they feel empty and the gameplay really reflects it.

    Specialists should only exist in hazard zone they are a waste in regular gameplay.
    Hazard zone itself was a throw away mode to draw players. It's lazy boring and lackluster. Imagine using the exact same maps from the regular mode, same weapons, same operators and the concept of the mode is such a waste of time to play.
    Hazard zone is a poorly designed battle Royale mode instead of a risk it all exhilarating solo or squad based mode.
    The feeling of loss in hazard zone is non existent considering you get everything for free and there's no need to pay for other equipment.
    It feels like a very lazy tarkov and I think I speak for the community when I say we feel cheated by this lazy attempt at a tarkov esq game mode. If your going to make a tarkov esq mode please atleast look at what makes tarkov so exhilarating and so fun to play, there's a grind, missions, you have to find and craft loot and you well and truly lose everything when you die it's not an optional rule to the game it's the core concept.
    Basically you made a lazy attempt at a title that should have been ground breaking but instead was a waste of $100 and everyone's time. It has potential and if given the proper care by the developers it can be a long lasting game with a vibrant community for each mode. But as we have seen time and time again it's unlikely to happen. Please fix the game poll the community and let us decide what we want from the product don't assume you know what we want. Not worth it in the current state but hopefully in a month or so they will have implemented the appropriate changes.
    Thanks for listening to my ted talk.    … Expand
  80. Aliliwaa
    Nov 16, 2021
    3
    Don't be a fool like me to throw 120$ for this trash game. I've been a battlefield fan since battlefield 2 (2005) and I have witnessed all the crappy lunches of all the series, THIS ONE IS DIFFERENT! The problem in 2042 is the core game itself and it's design, And this can't be reversed with a patch or update. The aiming, movement, environment, weapons, vehicles and the sandbox feeling allDon't be a fool like me to throw 120$ for this trash game. I've been a battlefield fan since battlefield 2 (2005) and I have witnessed all the crappy lunches of all the series, THIS ONE IS DIFFERENT! The problem in 2042 is the core game itself and it's design, And this can't be reversed with a patch or update. The aiming, movement, environment, weapons, vehicles and the sandbox feeling all feel different in a very bad way that makes you think that you're playing some free to play game called apex of duty: battlefield edition. Even if all the glitches and bugs were fixed, This game would still a medicore game you get for 10$ at some ebay listing. Its really sad this what we get after all the hype for destruction, teamwork, sandbox clusterfuk fights and the good feeling of the whole team is giving all they got to complete the objective. And PLEASE don't believe the people talking about the Portal, It's indeed fun and everything but there is no progress over there, No ranks, No XP, No unlocks, It's only good for some nostalgia of how this game was great one day.… Expand
  81. Moosenak
    Nov 16, 2021
    3
    3/10 is the best I can give it. The game is just not finished. Hit regulation doesn’t work on anything but an SMG for some reason. I’ve always liked sniping in battlefield, and crosshair on the head at 50 meters never seems like a gamble; the assault rifles are even worse. Having all gear available to everyone is just a bad call. Everyone runs around with a rocket launcher and ammo.3/10 is the best I can give it. The game is just not finished. Hit regulation doesn’t work on anything but an SMG for some reason. I’ve always liked sniping in battlefield, and crosshair on the head at 50 meters never seems like a gamble; the assault rifles are even worse. Having all gear available to everyone is just a bad call. Everyone runs around with a rocket launcher and ammo. Because of this, team play is pretty much gone. For the guys that want to run and gun, they just rock ammo plates. They really need to make class load outs for specialists. 128v128 just feels like too much. The chaos of certain zones seems cool in theory, but it’s just a massive FPS loss where everyone is shooting from every corner. I’d really like a 64v64 option. The graphics are awesome? I guess that’s something? There’s very little destruction that we sorta expect out of BF games, but, okay, I’ll give it to them. The game looks good. They have a lot to work on. I wouldn’t buy it, but it’s worth the 15 bucks on EAs game pass if you wanna try it out.… Expand
  82. Molotov94
    Nov 16, 2021
    3
    I will just describe a typical breakthrough BF2042 game :

    You spawn on the map. You start moving towards the ennemy point. First you have to understand how the new deplacement mechanic works. It is called "the rollback movement". Your soldier will frequently be teleported due to servers. Not a great add imo. Then, after 3 minutes of walk in the infinite landscape, you will get ran    I will just describe a typical breakthrough BF2042 game :

    You spawn on the map.
    You start moving towards the ennemy point.
    First you have to understand how the new deplacement mechanic works. It is called "the rollback movement". Your soldier will frequently be teleported due to servers. Not a great add imo.

    Then, after 3 minutes of walk in the infinite landscape, you will get ran over by a hovercraft.
    You spawn again, you go back to the place you died before and manage to dodge the same overcraft.
    "Hehe not two times buddy".
    You will immediatly get ran over by a second overcraft (the ennemy teams has 5 of them, not including Humvees and others vehicules ofc).

    After getting killed 2 more times by a chopper, and a gunner in a humvee you manage to see your first ennemy.
    You start aiming and realize it is really hard with 49 fps to shoot someone at this range. "Holy **** my gun has horrible recoil, i hope it will get better with attachm...".
    An ennemy sniper kills you before you finished your sentence.
    Go to settings ==> Put all graphics to low ==> 58 FPS.
    Nice.

    "F*** my squadmates are terrible, they are again so far away from the front that i cant spawn on them".
    You try to join an other squad hoping it will have better players.
    You cant select your squad.

    Few minutes of walk later (and an other death by the ennemy chopper) you see an ennemy not too far away.
    With your 55 FPS and the usual rollbacks you manage to control your insane recoil and kills the ennemy using 28 of the 31 bullets of your mag.
    "MY FIRST KILL LETS GOOO"
    Here comes a second ennemy on your map.
    You reload and wait for him. He didnt see you, it is an easy kills.
    You shoot him the same way with you did few seconds ago but HE IS NOT DYING WTF ??
    You have to swap to your handgun to finish him, but due to lags server you have to push your button 3 times so your soldier can actually swap his weapon. During this time the ennemy starts shooting you back.
    TRADE KILL.
    "F*** what happened ??". You realize the game has the worst gunplay mechanic a shooter can have : bloom. You can shoot the exact same way two times in a row it will never have the same result because the bullets are not going where you are aiming at. Nice.

    Few moments later, you die again trying to shoot a guy who is in your sight and you realize that bloom and rollbacks and insane recoil and long ttk are not the only problem in the gunplay.
    You shoot someone.
    You see him bleeding
    You see his character react to your bullets.
    But there is NO hitmarkers.
    You understands the hit registration problem is still there. Just a superior version of what we had in BF4.
    An hovercraft crushes you.

    "Ok time to calm this kids , lets pick Engineer".
    There is no class system anymore.
    "Ok time to pick the rocket launcher for my medic hehe".
    You shoot the hovercraft with your rocket. And die.
    "How much damage did i inflict on him ?". Impossible to know.
    "Hey at least i damaged it right ? right ?". No because all vehicules including chopper and tanks have self repairs. No need to have an Engineer to repair you, you just have to wait.
    "What is happening i cant spawn ?? My character doesnt want to die, cmon ...". You will find that this glitch is among hundreds of others glitches in the game.

    "Ok, il will restart my game".
    The game crashes in the menu.
    **** it".
    I could add, - the 14 points to capture in Conquest mode which will force you to drive 3 minutes to find an ennemy - the UI that hides the ennemy - the absence of scoreboard - the absence of indicators so you cant know if there is a medic nearby when you die - the impossibility to select the spawn of your choice when your teamates are stacked on a point - the AR that are terrible - The insane travel time of every weapon - etc etc Just dont buy this game.    … Expand
  83. CoFRDoG
    Nov 16, 2021
    3
    I have been a BF fanboy my whole life since 1942 and the excellent desert combat mod and was always one of them white knight defenders at launch. But this time...
    This is the buggiest BF i have ever played, If you can call it a battlefield game...
    Frankly its an embarrassment that they released it in this state. Glad i only paid 15 euros for it through game pro. Played it to level 40    I have been a BF fanboy my whole life since 1942 and the excellent desert combat mod and was always one of them white knight defenders at launch. But this time...
    This is the buggiest BF i have ever played, If you can call it a battlefield game...

    Frankly its an embarrassment that they released it in this state. Glad i only paid 15 euros for it through game pro.
    Played it to level 40 in the hope that unlocking other stuff might make it better for some reason but ofc it didnt.

    So much tweaking has to be done, the maps rubberband like crazy on certain events (like the oil tanks exploding) even on single player.
    Lobby emptying after a game, no server browser, try to get more than 4 friends into the same game. Good luck.

    No squad management whatsoever, cant see who has ammo packs, weird movement bugs.
    Whoever thought it would be fun to have sprinklers or whatever go of in buildings and hurt infantry... what a joke.
    The absolute worst thing is the invisible wall that prevent you from hitting your enemy.

    Dont buy this absolute horsecrap.    … Expand
  84. NFarquhar
    Nov 16, 2021
    3
    This game is mostly unplayable for me, I have a very high end system, and on medium it struggles to even get to 60 Fps, frame rate fluctuates massively between 26 and 60fps, it appears to be horribly optimized, and there is a massive CPU Bottleneck... I have a 16 Core Threadripper...... and the game has a 16% CPU utilizing, with a 20-30ms CPU latency... ridiculous.

    Thats when I can    This game is mostly unplayable for me, I have a very high end system, and on medium it struggles to even get to 60 Fps, frame rate fluctuates massively between 26 and 60fps, it appears to be horribly optimized, and there is a massive CPU Bottleneck... I have a 16 Core Threadripper...... and the game has a 16% CPU utilizing, with a 20-30ms CPU latency... ridiculous.

    Thats when I can actually play it, many times, I experience extreme graphics glitches that make the game unplayable, bright white screens with glowing lights, missing textures... its a mess

    There are also animation bugs and a variety of other bugs.

    I have been playing multiple other games, and they all run flawlessly on High Settings, at 165fps at 1440p. this game runs like Garbage!!!

    I'm sick of this push an unfinished game out, and patch it later attitude.    … Expand
  85. Hairy_Chewie
    Nov 16, 2021
    3
    Really disappointed. Doesn't feel or play like battlefield to me. Missing basic functions and destruction feels underwhelming. Specialists are also a backwards step with the effective removal of classes, purely trying to cash in and copy COD.
  86. Jadordook
    Nov 17, 2021
    3
    Well, it's...dull. Classes have no meaning at all, it's almost impossible to distinguish an ally from the enemy as there are no differences between sides. Maps are empty AF and so big that it makes no sense to play them with so small amount of players. There's no chat, even in groups (you know, it's a MULTIPLAYER game with a strong COOPERATION vibe...). No fun weapons, no fun vehicles.Well, it's...dull. Classes have no meaning at all, it's almost impossible to distinguish an ally from the enemy as there are no differences between sides. Maps are empty AF and so big that it makes no sense to play them with so small amount of players. There's no chat, even in groups (you know, it's a MULTIPLAYER game with a strong COOPERATION vibe...). No fun weapons, no fun vehicles. And, of course, a **** of campers waiting with their maxed-out sniper rifles to down you after you've spent several minutes running to the utterly distant flag.… Expand
  87. ahmdreza
    Nov 17, 2021
    3
    Game is unfinished. Many bugs, bad Performance and more.
    Im very dissapointed from DICE.
  88. AceArchangel
    Nov 17, 2021
    3
    2042 has 22 weapons less than half of 2011's BF3 at launch and the least of any main title in franchise since prior to 2005.

    It lacks core features that have been rock solid for over a decade such as a Server Browser, Scoreboard, VOIP, Team Switching, Leaning, Persistent Lobbies, Spectator Mode, Naval Vehicles, Console Aim Assist, RDS customization... just to name a few. It suffers    2042 has 22 weapons less than half of 2011's BF3 at launch and the least of any main title in franchise since prior to 2005.

    It lacks core features that have been rock solid for over a decade such as a Server Browser, Scoreboard, VOIP, Team Switching, Leaning, Persistent Lobbies, Spectator Mode, Naval Vehicles, Console Aim Assist, RDS customization... just to name a few.

    It suffers from constant crashing, errors, game breaking bugs, rubber banding, major FPS drops due to poor optimization.

    Maps are far too big and much too empty, few buildings, buildings are liminal spaces with next to no assets in them, just empty. Destruction has been toned way down, huge step back here, many buildings are either barely destructible or not at all.

    The new gimmick of a "tornado" is mostly just an annoyance that hinders gameplay as well as being a FPS killer and is a major down grade compared to Levelution.

    Only 2 gameplay modes with the Core 2042 game (Conquest and Breakthrough) is just not good enough from DICE and EA and get extremely stale given the excessive map sizes.

    The addition of Specialists have effectively ruined the pacing of the game, and seem to have been added more to increase profits than actually improving gameplay. They are confirmed to be added as a part of the Batlepass (Battlepass holders getting early access to them) and will have premium skins, takedowns, emblems and weapon charms. The Specialists remove what was previously a second gadget slot for a mandatory character ability which means players now have to choose between an offensive gadget, a support crate or the repair tool and because of this most of the time players choose the gadget supporting a solo playstyle. Because the Specialists are shared between both factions enemy recognition is non existent and conversely you cannot tell who has ammo or health nor can you barely tell who can revive you when you are downed. Also the end of game voice quips that are reminiscent of APEX Legends is cringe, and does not suit with the lore.

    Hazard Zone is a knock off Tarkov / Dark Zone (The Division) and has been marketed as a Warzone killer, but can't seem to decide what it wants to be and comes off as the worst of all of them. I do not suggest playing this mode it is just not worth it, nor is it "fun".

    Portal has the most going for it among the 3 modes offered by 2042. But each part of Portal only offers 2 maps bar Core 2042, and have no unlocks within them. They also only offer a select few weapons from previous BF games and thus the mode only comes off as "a taste of previous BF experiences" rather than truly reliving them again. Progression for Core 2042 now is only given in the EA setup servers and is no longer given in the Player created servers (RIP Populated Player Created Servers) The mode is amazing on paper and is fun but the novelty quickly wears off and the monotony of the same 2 maps quickly kills the enthusiasm.

    Game needs a ton of TLC to be acceptable.    … Expand
  89. Inner_Rambo
    Nov 17, 2021
    3
    I wouldn't recommend this. I would wait a couple of months and hopefully it might be worth playing.

    This game is 60% finished and needed another 4 months in development, but instead was rushed out with a lot of problems, bugs and simple things like scoreboards, destruction and ui being overlook. Also not mention simple quality of life changes that made previous games enjoyable and less    I wouldn't recommend this. I would wait a couple of months and hopefully it might be worth playing.

    This game is 60% finished and needed another 4 months in development, but instead was rushed out with a lot of problems, bugs and simple things like scoreboards, destruction and ui being overlook. Also not mention simple quality of life changes that made previous games enjoyable and less frustrating are missing like medic distance, aim down sight object opacity, obvious button prompt for reloading, squad creation in game.

    I would say this game has its moments where its amazing and you feel like Rambo, but at the moment they are minuscule compared to the amount of time you question why you preordered or spent x amount for this game whether its the awful hit detection or the bug that force you to quit games.    … Expand
  90. LouiS3if3r
    Nov 18, 2021
    3
    No scoreboard -1 point
    Too few game modes -1 point
    Cards much too big, but loveless and empty -1 point
    Hardware utilization too high -1 point
    No classes -1 point
    Too many players -1 point
    Too expensive for the content, early access at € 30 would be fair -1 point
  91. Matthisss
    Nov 18, 2021
    3
    Not the battlefield we were hoping for. Dice disregarded their core audience and loyal fans in order to chase a quick buck.
  92. MowkMeister
    Nov 19, 2021
    3
    This game is meant to sell, not play. They invested all of their efforts into things like pointless weather effects and completely unnecessary scale so they could use them as selling points instead of investing in gameplay. And because of that ridiculous scale, they decided to throw in as many vehicle as possible without thinking of balancing them, Again to use the spectacle as a sellingThis game is meant to sell, not play. They invested all of their efforts into things like pointless weather effects and completely unnecessary scale so they could use them as selling points instead of investing in gameplay. And because of that ridiculous scale, they decided to throw in as many vehicle as possible without thinking of balancing them, Again to use the spectacle as a selling point.

    They swapped classes, a battlefield staple, for specialists because they would be easier to monetize. They got rid of so many great details and gameplay additions from old battlefields, so they could focus on making the game more sellable, not playable.

    They practically got rid of all sense of community by getting rid of voip, scoreboards, clans, and all chat.

    And not to mention how absolutely horrible the performance it. I am fortunate enough to have a pretty solid pc, (10900k, 3080) i get constant stutters ranging from 50 to 90 fps on settings meant for performance. I cant imagine how they expect people who have been getting screwed over by scalpers from getting components to play this game.

    The ONLY redeemable thing about this game is portal. It offers a great nostalgia trip and has a lot of potential. Unfortunately since people went straight to abusing it which i have no clue how dice didn't see that coming, its basically impossible to level up with right now.

    I could honestly go on but i think the part that is the most disappointing thing about all of this is that this game was labeled as "a love letter to fans" before it was even revealed, yet here they are ignoring feedback on what fans want.    … Expand
  93. DJ_Suvy
    Jul 18, 2023
    3
    The worst FPS game I ever played. Gunplay is terrible, maps are terrible, sound is garbage, hitreg is terrible, weapons customization is terrible, classes are terrible. All f*****g game is TERRIBLE.
    Edit : In July 2023 gunplay is better and some technical problems are solved but game still is not very good and it is lacking off content.
  94. Brollo
    Nov 18, 2021
    3
    I have played every Bf in history ..ok ok I know I'm old.
    This isn't Battlefield game, this is some sort of Frankenstein monstrosity!
    Dead bodies of Warzone, Apex, Tarkov and slice of BF put together and reanimated as some sort of mutant of the game. Don't buy! I waisted £60 on this experiment and feel so stupid for preordering this steaming pile of dead game-parts ! Super bad:    I have played every Bf in history ..ok ok I know I'm old.
    This isn't Battlefield game, this is some sort of Frankenstein monstrosity!
    Dead bodies of Warzone, Apex, Tarkov and slice of BF put together and reanimated as some sort of mutant of the game.
    Don't buy! I waisted £60 on this experiment and feel so stupid for preordering this steaming pile of dead game-parts !

    Super bad:
    -sound positioning is crime against humanity, atrocity level nonsense. Why employ deaf ppl as sound engineers?
    -UI - why employ blind person to create UI . I'm sorry, blind person would do better job. UI looks like random sh@t put together by website building software operated by monkey.
    -guns or rather Nerfguns - why employ pacifist to program bullet spread?
    -no squad control - why employ antisocial person to design social features?
    -no leaderboard- why? simply why? social justice ? equality? hurt fillings ? Competitiveness=Bad white men?
    -Maps - I'm lost on flat plains of idiocy

    Good:
    The game doesn't fry graphic cards!

    Excellent:
    Portal - but only when core game is fixed and new maps added    … Expand
  95. dambal
    Nov 18, 2021
    3
    This game is a joke, not battlefield, lot of content is missing and it's for full price, I hoped this game would be good as other battlefields but it's not. As everybody else says: unfinished and broken game.
  96. Falcon911
    Nov 18, 2021
    3
    The most broken and unfinished BF game at launch with missing features, bugs and glitches, tribble servers, Bad UI, Horrible sound design and the worst extraction battle royale gamemode in the market:
  97. DonRibeiro
    Nov 18, 2021
    3
    Gráficos muito bonitos e bem feito...o som das armas bem feito também. Mas, peca na questão de não ter modo história.
  98. Gwimpon
    Nov 19, 2021
    3
    Game is fun enough but they launched without the basics a video game needs. Where the f is the scoreboard?????? That's ridiculous that a shooter wouldnt have that. Gunplay is fun but the game is so obviously unfinished.

    Dont buy it wait till it goes on sale a couple months down the road and get it for $30-$40
  99. LordNibbles
    Nov 19, 2021
    3
    I will put the same amount of effort into this review, as DICE and EA have put into this game. None.
  100. KernelFender
    Nov 19, 2021
    3
    I'm not going into huge detail as all has been covered.
    suffice to say I've been a gamer 30 yrs now this game is the worst Battlefield game I've ever owned it's worse than 5 ever was DICE and EA should be thoroughly disgusted with themselves releasing this game in this condition cannot even bind a flight sticks a FLIGHT STICKS!!!!
    its 6 months min away from being playable.

    2/10
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  1. Trusted Reviews
    Feb 15, 2022
    70
    All in all, Battlefield 2042 has been a real labour of love for me. The initial launch was remarkably underbaked, but I can’t deny the enjoyment that comes from firing a rocket launcher into a tornado. This may not be the best FPS multiplayer game available, and there are still plenty of issues that need ironing out, but there are occasionally some thrilling moments that you won’t be able to experience in the likes of Call of Duty or Fortinte. It remains frustrating having to pay full price for a multiplayer game, but if you’re already a fan of the franchise and don’t mind missing out on the campaign, you’ll likely enjoy yourself here. The nostalgic aspect of Portal mode will also draw fans in, and of course, the 4K graphics make it very pretty game, even if it has its cracks.
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  2. Riot Pixels
    Dec 23, 2021
    40
    The weakest first-person shooter in the history of DICE. Even, by some miracle, the studio manages to fix the most glaring mistakes and reanimate the abysmal netcode, this game will not become Battlefield at its core.
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  3. Merlin'in Kazanı (Turkey)
    Dec 16, 2021
    65
    Despite the promising Portal mode, Battlefield 2042, which uses players as a tester, still gives the impression of an incomplete game with its errors and important problems.
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