Battlefield 2042

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2.1

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 4864 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 4,004 out of 4864
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  1. Ententrain3r
    Nov 18, 2021
    1
    Simply the worst Release of all Battlefield Games. And Battlefield 4 was Bad as Well ... Not recommended, stay away buy Something nice dir yourself vut Not thus Game
  2. Alex_Destiny
    Dec 5, 2021
    1
    This game is REALLY bad. And you got to realize that you pay a LOT of MONEY for a really small game full of problems with errors with lack of things that are in EVERY FPS GAME really weak balanced during the matches sometimes you fight against a lot of vehicles while you side have ZERO vehicles for more than 10 minutes, Bad destruction, few and bad weapons the list goes on and worst. IfThis game is REALLY bad. And you got to realize that you pay a LOT of MONEY for a really small game full of problems with errors with lack of things that are in EVERY FPS GAME really weak balanced during the matches sometimes you fight against a lot of vehicles while you side have ZERO vehicles for more than 10 minutes, Bad destruction, few and bad weapons the list goes on and worst. If you think the game is good you probably never played a battlefield or Call of Duty game.… Expand
  3. Xday1
    Nov 19, 2021
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I don't know where to start, but I can say that the identity of the battlefield no longer exists… Expand
  4. Dillweed
    Nov 20, 2021
    1
    An absolute disgrace one again to the franchise… For the love of Christ do not buy this game!!!
  5. O3liveon
    Dec 2, 2022
    1
    ..............................I don't like it..............................
  6. Priksen
    Nov 17, 2021
    1
    Another broken Battlefield game. This is just pathetic from EA/Dice. DON'T GIVE THEM YOUR MONEY!
  7. AR4IKZ
    Nov 18, 2021
    1
    Огромное количество багов. Отсутствие сюжетной компании. Ужасный прогресс разблокировки оружия и малое его количество (по 3-4 из каждого вида)
  8. Mshark86
    Nov 16, 2021
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Просто ужасно! Спасибо дайс, что в очередной раз выпустили недоделку еще и на повал убив почти все, что делало эту серию прекрасной. Ни одной копейки на это говно.… Expand
  9. Tajedzo
    Nov 18, 2021
    1
    Pros:
    + Shooting
    + Portal Minuses: - No optimization - Few weapons - Unnecessary specialists - Huge and empty cards -In the portal there is no Metro Map (!!!!!!) for BF3, generally little cards. The game is not worth your money. Meaningless main mode, bad cards, bad specialists. Hazard Zone is not needed when there is warzone. And in the coolest game mode (Portal), few weapons, few cards,    Pros:
    + Shooting
    + Portal
    Minuses:
    - No optimization
    - Few weapons
    - Unnecessary specialists
    - Huge and empty cards
    -In the portal there is no Metro Map (!!!!!!) for BF3, generally little cards.
    The game is not worth your money. Meaningless main mode, bad cards, bad specialists. Hazard Zone is not needed when there is warzone.
    And in the coolest game mode (Portal), few weapons, few cards, no pumping.
    And did it do 3 years?!    … Expand
  10. RafaelDC
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    Still cant believe they try to sell this game as Battlefield. To save this game they need to add all content from previous real Battlefield games to portal and very soon. For Battlefield veterans this is slap in the face.
  11. Lexak
    Nov 16, 2021
    1
    . Нах_ер EA
  12. Simon96Aic
    Nov 17, 2021
    1
    Game is unfinished. Many bugs, bad Performance and more.
    Im very dissapointed from DICE.
  13. dontknowanymore
    Nov 13, 2021
    1
    Professional Demarketing by EA/Dice, not just completely ignoring the fanbase, but actively working against it.
    It has become obvious that neither the publisher nor the developers have an interest in continuing the series and are trying to drive players away from the product. The companies goal is to destroy the FPS community gathered around 'battlefield' for more than 20 years.
    Their    Professional Demarketing by EA/Dice, not just completely ignoring the fanbase, but actively working against it.
    It has become obvious that neither the publisher nor the developers have an interest in continuing the series and are trying to drive players away from the product. The companies goal is to destroy the FPS community gathered around 'battlefield' for more than 20 years.
    Their latest strike against their loyal consumers is the "anti toxicity" mandate:
    Removing ingame chat, removing voice chat, removing playing with more than 3 friends, removing spectator mode, removing scoreboard, removing server browser, removing stats page... the list continues.
    This way no organization by communication is possibly and also no snowflake can get hurt.    … Expand
  14. leeringg
    Nov 19, 2021
    1
    Where to start? They took out a story mode to "focus on delivering a multiplayer experience" and what did we get?

    -No Scoreboard -No VC -No All Chat -No Squad Management -Max of 3 friends in a 128 player game -No server browser for 2042 -Minimum amount of weapons -Like 3/4 attachments for each gun that do the EXACT same thing. -ADDED BLOOM TO EVERY WEAPON SO EACH GUNFIGHT IS RANDOM    Where to start? They took out a story mode to "focus on delivering a multiplayer experience" and what did we get?

    -No Scoreboard
    -No VC
    -No All Chat
    -No Squad Management
    -Max of 3 friends in a 128 player game
    -No server browser for 2042
    -Minimum amount of weapons
    -Like 3/4 attachments for each gun that do the EXACT same thing.
    -ADDED BLOOM TO EVERY WEAPON SO EACH GUNFIGHT IS RANDOM (SERIOUSLY GO LOOK UP A VIDEO IT MAKES FIREFIGHTS AWFUL)
    -Promised XP and Unlock for everything then disabled them in VS AI and Portal
    -Boring large open maps
    -Objective placement on maps is horrible. (One map the last objective is on top of a skyscraper that you can only get up 2 ways)
    -Downed bug is back AGAIN hope you like having to wait matches repeatedly
    -Servers disband after every match hope you like playing the same map back to back to back
    -Every single class has AA and AT so good luck being a pilot or driver.
    -OPERATORS ARE TERRIBLE THIS ISN'T A HERO SHOOTER DICE
    -Cringe endgame stat screen
    -UI is awful to navigate


    But really go look up the bloom in BF2042 and tell me if you want to waste your money on a shooter that you can't shoot in, how this ever made it through testing is beyond me.    … Expand
  15. Liadkap
    Nov 24, 2021
    1
    Lack of content, no voice chat, unfinished game.
    There are only 22 guns in the game
    Dont buy yet
  16. gamer_bunny
    Jan 31, 2022
    1
    What a bad game EA, DICE. Pretty bad graphics it looks like a PS2 game. The multiplayer is broken. Battlefield 3 looks more better. I see a lot of bad Project Management here. I feel sorry for the developers.
  17. sammyodds
    Nov 17, 2021
    1
    Just plain and simply not ready to be launched. Want classes back, specialists aren't the answer! Hit box and TTK is awful! Just bad right now...
  18. windy1602
    Nov 19, 2021
    1
    Lacks many staple features of the series such as a scoreboard. Game is a buggy mess and should’ve been delayed 1-2 years to be completed and polished. I hate to imagine what the micro transactions will be.
  19. Warnerve007
    Nov 21, 2021
    1
    Dice/EA - you should be ashamed. I'm honestly amazed that you managed to release a game in this state. This isn't a Battlefield game - they have removed pretty much every aspect that us fans of the series expected and enjoyed in previous installments. Gun selection and customization is a joke. We don't even have a server list, can't voice chat, don't have classes, no scoreboard. ItDice/EA - you should be ashamed. I'm honestly amazed that you managed to release a game in this state. This isn't a Battlefield game - they have removed pretty much every aspect that us fans of the series expected and enjoyed in previous installments. Gun selection and customization is a joke. We don't even have a server list, can't voice chat, don't have classes, no scoreboard. It feels like they changed what this game was trying to be 10 times during development and this is what we have. The game has so many issues on top of everything I've said, its insane.

    If anyone play tested this for 5 minutes they would have definitely known there were MAJOR issues.... Dump an entire mag into someone from 10 feet away and not even getting a hit marker. I got revived and was invincible for the rest of the match. Clipping through the map NUMEROUS times while in a vehicle. I can go on and on and on.

    As someone looking for a new Battlefield game set in modern times, wow. I'm very disappointed. How you could strip everything that made Battlefield what it is, blows my mind. No campaign so the entire team focused on the multiplayer and this is what we get? You obviously are very out of touch with what the fans want. Sigh.    … Expand
  20. nightsniffer
    Nov 14, 2021
    1
    What a shame from Dice. I hate to give this point but this is clearly a second Cyberpunk 2077 situation. I really tried love the game but it is impossible
  21. husej
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    Poor addition to the franchise. As always a rocky start from DICE. Game seems gutless and trying too hard to push the serotonin inducing synthetic gameplay/voice lines etc. Gunplay is lacklustre and feels like a f2p game. Regression being the keyword for this iteration.
  22. Tymerias
    Nov 14, 2021
    1
    They told us once, they are ahead of schedule....
    This game in the actual state is absolutely trash.
    Bugs, no balance and ugly hipster specialists
  23. Notsanta412
    Nov 19, 2021
    1
    Bugfield 2042 - PP-29 Edition (BETA Build 69.420)
    It's a mess.... Feels like they tried to mix Warzone, RS6 and a pinch of BF. Really rushed game
  24. RantHistorian
    Nov 17, 2021
    1
    This is teh most addicting game ever... let me explain.

    Battlefield 2042 has tapped into the Variable Ratio reward system of your brain to create instant addiction. A Variable Ratio reward is one delivered after an unpredictable number of responses - ie: Gambling. How did this make its way into Battlefield 2042? You will only connect to servers after an unknown amount of time to make    This is teh most addicting game ever... let me explain.

    Battlefield 2042 has tapped into the Variable Ratio reward system of your brain to create instant addiction. A Variable Ratio reward is one delivered after an unpredictable number of responses - ie: Gambling. How did this make its way into Battlefield 2042?

    You will only connect to servers after an unknown amount of time to make it to the main menu. When you finally do DOPAMINE to your brain. Then when you are in the main menu it will take a random number of attempts to join a game type before one actually lets you in... DOPAMINE. Then when you are in game it will take a random amount of tries before you get passed a bugged pre-match menu that shows the map BUT when you finally do DOPAMINE. Then when you get into a match will your player load? Will your weapons work? Will you be able to shoot the enemy? Will your own team mates spawn looking like enemies? Who knows! It creates a giant chaotic three ring **** show with no scoreboard so you wouldn't know if you got close to doing anything good anyway. But when the game actually does work like its supposed to which i have calculated to be about 2 matches in every four hours of game time DOPAMINE. I mean why do you think they named their company DICE???? That sweet sweet gambling dopamine.

    They even made it to where your bullets go in random directions so it doesn't matter where you aim.
    When you pull the trigger will the enemy get shot? Jesus Christ, Himself doesn't know, only His Father knows.

    Amen    … Expand
  25. MikadoLu
    Nov 17, 2021
    1
    is not battlefield, is call of duty with 128 players, and the system with operator....
  26. AngryNewton
    Dec 6, 2021
    1
    Where to start? Its garbage. G A R B A G E

    Game boasts 128 players on a map, but 50% are stupid bots getting caught in doors just to make you THINK you are playing against humans, you are not. Specialists are cringe AF. Their stupid snarky comments at the end of each round… wtf is wrong with Dice seriously, supposed to be in a end of the world **** and your got these non-binaries woke    Where to start? Its garbage. G A R B A G E

    Game boasts 128 players on a map, but 50% are stupid bots getting caught in doors just to make you THINK you are playing against humans, you are not.

    Specialists are cringe AF. Their stupid snarky comments at the end of each round… wtf is wrong with Dice seriously, supposed to be in a end of the world **** and your got these non-binaries woke ****heads boasting about how good they where… ****.

    Maps are HUGE. And EMPTY. No cover, just long long loooooong streches of NOTHING. Capture points placed in either impossible to attack or impossible to defend spots. Map design is ****.

    Destruction? Not this time. Maybe you can break a wall here and there, but that’s it. No better than COD and a huge step back from any BF game since Bad Company 2.

    Weapons? Sure… they all work like **** exept for SMGs which are OP AF. Stupid « bloom » which is nice way to say lack of accuracy. This is 2042 and weapons in BF1 have better accuracy.

    Gone are the classes now so everyone running around with rocket launchers on the backs. Can’t revive some players, can only revive your own squad mates.

    Squads? lol can’t comm with them, can’t change squad, can’t make one private with buddies, nope. All random.

    I could go on and on about the endless vehicule spam, the hitboxes, ****ty weather system, the stupid Hovercrafts that can climb up buildings, and many many other reasons why this game outright blows. Wish I could get it refunded, one of THE worst game in history.    … Expand
  27. 2random
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    The game is just not fun to play anymore. They've removed way too much stuff. Why would an FPS have no scoreboard?
  28. Nubells
    Nov 16, 2021
    1
    One of the worst games I've ever played.. I'd rather cut off my testicles with a dirty cleaver than play another **** EA game.
  29. IsMaEaSy
    Dec 3, 2021
    1
    Toooooo muuuuuuuuch features that were there in previous battlefields games removed.. tooooo muuuuch bug and lag and really really really poor PC optimization... I'm rewlly disapointed. This game was supose to be a love letter to the fans... feels more like a F.U letter ...
  30. Bushido95
    Nov 19, 2021
    1
    Скучно, банально, неинтересно это всё про 2042. Гейм дизайн невероятный кал.
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 74 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 74
  2. Mixed: 34 out of 74
  3. Negative: 11 out of 74
  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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