Battlefield 2042

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2.1

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 4864 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 618 out of 4864
  2. Mixed: 242 out of 4864
  3. Negative: 4,004 out of 4864
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  1. punisherer
    Nov 14, 2021
    1
    What a terrible game.
    Its unfinished.
    Has tons of bugs, crashes constantly. No scoreboard, ea/origin/steam integration sucks. Limited weapons, pinned 100% cpu usage. Per reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield2042/comments/qs5gh9/a_list_of_issues_with_battlefield_2042_and_what/ 1) No Scoreboard - No scoreboard means you can't tell who's hacking, can't tell if the teams are    What a terrible game.
    Its unfinished.
    Has tons of bugs, crashes constantly.
    No scoreboard, ea/origin/steam integration sucks.
    Limited weapons, pinned 100% cpu usage.

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

    1) No Scoreboard - No scoreboard means you can't tell who's hacking, can't tell if the teams are balanced, can't see how many bots there are in your lobby, can't see everyone's ranks/levels, can't see everyone's stats and comparing yourself and your squad to everyone else, can't see latency of everyone in the match, can't see overall score, and can't see how many different classes are being played. The players have everything to lose when there is no scoreboard, yet EA/DICE have everything to gain. If you care about your community and respect us as dedicated fans of this series, you will bring back at least this one feature.

    2) No scoring system - We've had a scoring system in Battlefield for many years now, yet such a system does not exist in BF2042. Shooting at enemy players does not rack up any score points, throwing ammo/meds or doing repairs doesn't rack up score points. Capturing objectives, playing as a squad, marking objectives, spotting enemies, etc, all of these do not rack up any score. All we get now is a basic XP system that cannot be shown or displayed to anyone. You cannot compare your score with people on your own team, let alone the enemy team. The removal of the scoring system plus the removal of the scoreboard both contribute to the lack of competitiveness that the franchise has been known for. Remember the days where you were at the top of the scoreboard with 0 kills but the most revives/heals? Say goodbye to that.

    3) No stats page - So we have no scoreboard, no scoring system, and also...no stats page. We cannot even see our own progression and stats in the game. Remember the Battlelog days where we can see so many detailed stats and also compare with other users? Well we hit rock bottom.

    4) No server browser - When you thought it couldn't get even worse, it just did. BF2042 has no server browser, you matchmake like you do in Call of Duty. We cannot manually select/search for games, we have to just use the matchmaking system that does the search for us. This is taking power away from players for no good reason. This opens the door for SBMM/EOMM becoming a thing which is a major red flag. It gets worse.

    5) Players do not carry over to next match, lobby disbands - Out of all the things EA/DICE could take from Modern Warfare, they took one of the worst things ever introduced, which was lobby disbandment. When a match is over, everyone is thrown back to the main menu, you get no chance to rematch the players you just played with. The older CoD and BF games all kept the same players for the next map, meaning you could play with the same players match after match. You cannot do that anymore as the system now forces everyone to disband immediately after the post-match screen. Needless to say, but this kills what little sense of community this game had left. Well done.    … Expand
  2. Kipp14
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    This game is rushed, nothing is on point (lack/remove of animation, you can’t dive underwater , you can’t lean, no with explosion,… Destruction is a totally joke, remember their video showing a big skyscraper falling down for the next battlefield ? It’s was only for a demo, because in the game it’s only big regular square and almost no destruction at all even on small building.

    UI the    This game is rushed, nothing is on point (lack/remove of animation, you can’t dive underwater , you can’t lean, no with explosion,… Destruction is a totally joke, remember their video showing a big skyscraper falling down for the next battlefield ? It’s was only for a demo, because in the game it’s only big regular square and almost no destruction at all even on small building.

    UI the designer of this **** need to be fired, the menu are a mess, the setting are a mess, you can’t even play another game it’s bring you back to the menu. Seriously dude did you design a mobile game ?

    Lack of content, no solo, 23 guns, less vehicle and bots and only 2 modes for 2042 (with almost no balancing). I mean 3 years and 4 studios to have that kind of game is really laughable, dice from 2010 did better than this.

    No naval warfare, no boats is that The bugs , yea 10 thousands of bugs And the best removing all aspect of battlefield game, no scoreboard , no voice chat, no able to choose squad, no team play.

    Welcome to new area of battle warzone 2042 this game is not battlefield.    … Expand
  3. jacked99
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    major drop in quality. Has none of the soul or emotion usually associated with a BF game. This feels like a cartoon battle royal clone aimed at 7-12 year olds who want to spend mums cash on player skins.
  4. softgrip
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    This game is absolutely plagued with problems.

    The framerates are terrible, random bullet spread, inconsistent and clunky menu, hit registration, MANY load screens. To join a match, you enter a loading screen, followed by an animation, followed by a loading screen, followed by an animation and some cringey horrible one liner from some forgettable specialist, followed by a loading    This game is absolutely plagued with problems.

    The framerates are terrible, random bullet spread, inconsistent and clunky menu, hit registration, MANY load screens.

    To join a match, you enter a loading screen, followed by an animation, followed by a loading screen, followed by an animation and some cringey horrible one liner from some forgettable specialist, followed by a loading screen...

    Then if you're lucky and don't have an error at this point, you get a 30 second count down, followed by a movie intro to the map you're on.

    If you make it this far... then congratulations, you can now play the half finished buggy mess - unless it puts you in a match on the "Victory/Defeat" screen, which happens way to often - then... rinse and repeat.

    This is so bad - and that's the process you go through before you even get to the game breaking bugs.

    If there were ZERO bugs, and great performance - then this game would possibly be a 70% at best.

    Right now, if you have a 3090 and the top of the line CPU... your game is still going to be a buggy, low FPS mess.

    Any review site that put this at 60% or above, is absolutely not to be trusted - and if they're making money from these reviews, are straight up fraudulent.    … Expand
  5. Criticman69
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    Pretty much everything that make battlefield great has been stripped from this game. Here I was expecting battlefield V transformed into the modern setting but instead we got a Chinese knock-off battle royale that wanted to be battlefield at the last second. I doubt fixing the technical issues can make up for all the horrible design decisions DICE made with this game. Absolutely guttedPretty much everything that make battlefield great has been stripped from this game. Here I was expecting battlefield V transformed into the modern setting but instead we got a Chinese knock-off battle royale that wanted to be battlefield at the last second. I doubt fixing the technical issues can make up for all the horrible design decisions DICE made with this game. Absolutely gutted that the only franchise I look forward to has been ruined this much.… Expand
  6. Monotyp
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    This is NOT Battlefield anymore

    No scoreboards.
    No classes.
    No destruction.
    No servers.
    No stats.
    No chat.
    They should of remastered battlefield 3 or 4 and just skip this garbage.
  7. flyomotive
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    An embarrassment for a once great series. It takes many steps back on almost all fronts, from gameplay to graphics and performance.
    DICE showing once again that they are blind on both eyes when it comes to understanding what the community wants. All they see is profit opportunities. To add to that, EA over-promised and under-delivered to an insane degree.
    No self-respecting battlefield    An embarrassment for a once great series. It takes many steps back on almost all fronts, from gameplay to graphics and performance.
    DICE showing once again that they are blind on both eyes when it comes to understanding what the community wants. All they see is profit opportunities. To add to that, EA over-promised and under-delivered to an insane degree.

    No self-respecting battlefield player should touch this game. There could be some fun in portal, but right now it feels so lifeless and half-arsed that I don't think DICE have it in them anymore. Sad.    … Expand
  8. PiterBrony
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    They take bf4 remove 75% of content from it and add a wing suit, game done.
    -No map select
    -No team select -No squad select -No oprative select in hazard zone -No ablility to spawn after some time after game start -No scoreboard -Grind 1200+ kills for 1 skin -Unkillable vehicles -Different progresion for US and RU vehicles -lack of maps and modes -Net code of terrible and lag    They take bf4 remove 75% of content from it and add a wing suit, game done.
    -No map select
    -No team select
    -No squad select
    -No oprative select in hazard zone
    -No ablility to spawn after some time after game start
    -No scoreboard
    -Grind 1200+ kills for 1 skin
    -Unkillable vehicles
    -Different progresion for US and RU vehicles
    -lack of maps and modes
    -Net code of terrible and lag all time
    +Im finaly can pick any weapon
    -there not many weapons to pick
    -maps fell empty even with 128 ppl
    -they try make operatives with catchphrase and its fell cringe
    Jast make patch so im can pick any weapon as any class in bf4 not this.    … Expand
  9. TheKosst
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    If you want to buy this game - wait few months until they fix EVERYTHING. Tons of bugs, small amount of weapons. Only 1 game mode is good - its Portal, but im not sure, that you want to pay about 50$ for this mode only.
  10. hacksuya
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    Okay, so where to begin? Bugs and glitches are expected so no surprise because sadly that's a concept we the gamers accepted by buying broken games on release since 10 years ago. By doing that we set the bar too low to a point where developers and publishers simply release broken games expecting that we will buy them even though the quality is complete trash. And guess what, we do, we justOkay, so where to begin? Bugs and glitches are expected so no surprise because sadly that's a concept we the gamers accepted by buying broken games on release since 10 years ago. By doing that we set the bar too low to a point where developers and publishers simply release broken games expecting that we will buy them even though the quality is complete trash. And guess what, we do, we just can't help ourselves.
    Onto a more technical approach toward the game. As many here pointed out: This is not Battlefield as we know. It's an amalgamate of Apex, R6 Siege, Fortinite and Warzone.
    No classes,
    almost so called "levolution" introduced in BF4,
    no dedicated servers,
    no stat page,
    no scoreboards,
    no chat (voice nor typed),
    "specialists",
    they introduced these cringey voice lines while running around and doing stuff and at the end screen with those unnecessary animations of MVP. Like, why? Why did you think that's something Battlefield needed?
    I also do not appreciate that we can change our attachments in the middle of the gunfight. To me, it completely destroys immersion (among other things present in this game) because it feels that our "soldiers" (not soldiers, our characters seems like privately owned fighters from those security companies we see in movies and series) carry them in the pocket. Maybe that's a thing and I don't know.
    Also the wingsuit has "Just Cause" physics. Completely ridiculous. Ruins the immersion.
    Lastly, the lack of weapon is disappointing. Barely reaching 20 guns while BF4 had almost 80 or more. I bet they will add more as they release the surprise mechanic called season pass or battle pass.
    I regret playing more than 2 hours, because I really tried to enjoy but so many things are wrong. This is not a war game, it's just a bunch of people running around playing with expensive toys.
    TL;DR
    Don't buy it, it's not Battlefield, it's a Frankenstein's monster.    … Expand
  11. Gunmonkey0861
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    Game needs a tremendous amount of work. The only way to make progression is playing limited game modes.
  12. paddylosty
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    DICE have gone back multiple steps and removed everything good about the previous battlefield. Its clear this game was meant to be a BR cash grab game to try and get some of the WARZONE money. No longer feels like BF, its pretty much Call Of Duty but somehow worse.

    Do not waste your money!
  13. Unk1nD
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    Ну вот и всё, похоже это последний гвоздь в крышку гроба для серии battlefield. Отвратильеный и дегенеративный продукт. Единственный луч света в этой помойке это режим портал. По сути еа и дайс говорят нам, мол ебитесь как хотите, ибо у нас творческая импотенция и сделать мы нормально ничего не можем. Основной мультиплеер это ультра параша во всех аспектах, про хазард зону и говоритьНу вот и всё, похоже это последний гвоздь в крышку гроба для серии battlefield. Отвратильеный и дегенеративный продукт. Единственный луч света в этой помойке это режим портал. По сути еа и дайс говорят нам, мол ебитесь как хотите, ибо у нас творческая импотенция и сделать мы нормально ничего не можем. Основной мультиплеер это ультра параша во всех аспектах, про хазард зону и говорить нечего, это просто рудимент. Вообще не покупайте этот мусор.… Expand
  14. sirius25260
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    Le potentiel pour un bon jeu était présent, il s'appelait BFV. Il suffisait de mettre des skins modernes à ce jeu, y ajouter quelques features et voila. Pas vouloir réinventer ce qui faisait Battlefield.
  15. kulfon997
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    gfx looks like from 2006, everything is mess. game looks like unfinished, indie project from kickstarter. worst bf ever, i swear.
  16. DaRealTeufel
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    I was so excited for this since I have no fps games to play at the moment and every big AAA game has been a let down this year and last. I never pre order games though as it is pointless and played the free beta. I wanted to like it so much but it was so buggy on Xbox Series X that it was unplayable. With only a few guns to play with, 1 map and mode, and seeing the same two characters overI was so excited for this since I have no fps games to play at the moment and every big AAA game has been a let down this year and last. I never pre order games though as it is pointless and played the free beta. I wanted to like it so much but it was so buggy on Xbox Series X that it was unplayable. With only a few guns to play with, 1 map and mode, and seeing the same two characters over 100 times got old real quick. I believe they built specialists around hazard mode and I think they work well with it but adding them to the core game was a big mistake. With there only being like 11 specialists at launch and not enough added later and mostly everyone playing the same 3-4 specialists, it won't feel like battlefield. Your meant to feel like a faceless solider that can die and not have massive importance. Not every single game needs to make you feel like the hero of the movie or game. Now on to the release or what they call early access  but is still the full game. Again I don't pre order AAA games nor buy day one, pointless. I have the game pass which includes EA Access and allowed me to play 2042 for 9 hours. Within those 9 hours I can paraphrase the rest of the review by saying it sucks and don't buy until a deep sale 6 months later. Now don't get me wrong there's a Very good foundation here. You have the good ole Battlefield engine, the movements of the character feels good along with core gunplay when it works. That's it though. First and foremost there's no campaign, which automatically should of lowered the price of the game not raised it 10 dollars on console  for "next gen", Which is a scam. With no campaign, there should have been more time to add more content to multiplayer and its just not there at all. The thing that worries me most is that BF5 was a "Woke Failure from the start and almost no content added later. Bf 2042 gives you 22 Weapons in total with a handful more dedicated to portal mode, worse then any recent battlefield or call of duty. The few guns you do get come with a very small handful of skins that are very simple bland ones. The vehicles in this game feel cheap and blocky too. You get a few Massive but empty maps without much detail although pretty graphics at times, Two main modes, conquest and Breakthrough. It seems like battlefield strips away more and more modes every game. The performance is not there on new consoles and even worse on pc. Personally I dip below 50fps on Series X all the time. Next you have hazard mode which is like Battle Royale and a very simple version of escape from Tarkov. I thinks there's only map, that's all I got and it gets boring quick. Now the bread and butter and our potential savior is portal. A mode that for now combines Bf 1942 with bad company 2 and bf3 allows you to play 2 maps from each game along with a couple weapons and vehicles from them and a dedicated mode in each game that has potential. Seeing this mode makes me think they should of just remastered some old bf games and put them together in a bundle instead. If they add a lot more maps and guns to these games and even more games to the mode, there is something here. Like I said before I am very worried about post launch content. Even with portal though, you still have a buggy ugly glitchy ui. No scoreboard along with other features missing and poor button mapping. A small but necessary annoyance, on xbox you cannot disable crossplay within the game. You must go to xbox settings and disable crossplay which turns it off for every game which is annoying because I play a lot of co op games and like crossplay. On fps games I do not though with pc players. To wrap it up, there are a lot of bugs in this game but can be ironed out, a good foundation, and a potentially very good portal mode thats worth paying $70 alone in the future. Other then that there are way too many issues and missing content in the game and not worth the money nor time. Absolutely wait for a sale and months for issues to be fixed.… Expand
  17. Humanologus
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    Unfsinished / Unpolishhed / Lack of content / Servers rubish / no hit rregistraion / 60fps with high end reeg!

    Dont buy!
  18. lm98
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    Such a shame, list of things below:

    No scoreboard...? infantry play is trash not enough guns servers are trash destruction is non-existent strange bullet behaviour thing is trash the voice acting is trash classes are gone, a staple of battlefield the menus are just horrific, I don't know who designed such a bad user experience maps are massive, too large all I end up doing is    Such a shame, list of things below:

    No scoreboard...?
    infantry play is trash
    not enough guns
    servers are trash
    destruction is non-existent
    strange bullet behaviour thing is trash
    the voice acting is trash
    classes are gone, a staple of battlefield
    the menus are just horrific, I don't know who designed such a bad user experience
    maps are massive, too large all I end up doing is running around from point to point

    I could go on. Portal redeems it slightly but it is still buggy.

    Lots of work needed.    … Expand
  19. BlueGravity
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    game is lacking campaign, there are many bugs, high ttk, horrible bloom ( they took the easy way out and didn’t just balance the weapons), horrible performance on pc, horrible UI, controls are confusing, big voidless maps, 22 guns, doesn’t feel like battlefield.
  20. Akme_au
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    Not a real BF, is missing all the heart and soul, feels more like a monster of combined dead parts that no one asked for, and lacks any of the passion that previous iterations had poured into them. RIP Battlefield, from 1942/Desert Combat/BF2, to this mockery of a FPS that can’t do anything right, and won’t give the fans any of what they need.
  21. NioniosGanja
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    No proper scoreboard and forcing me to see the most ambiguous player highlights at the end of a match (most assisted kills as a passenger? most hipfire kiils?? who cares about that stuff???) Then you got an always on profanity filter on chat whilst your "specialists" scream and swear every 2 seconds on the battlefield. Oh and you wanna play with more than 3 friends? Tough luck!
  22. lightning_aus
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Been playing BF since BF3, and I was hoping BF2042 would be similar in its creative direction, and bring back the nostalgia from the good old days. I couldn't have been more wrong. Instead of listening to the community, who pretty much all wanted a bf3 style game, EA went the "screw you we will do what we want" route and now everyone is looking at them the same way they did when Bfv came out. Imagine BF4 had a child with Titanfall and CoD MW2019 and thats BF2042. It is so obvious to me that EA and DICE have shifted their focus to money and marketing rather than the game itself. Cosmetic skins, specialists, a very similar movement systen to CoD, it doesnt feel like BF at all. Don't waste your money until EA and DICE sort this **** game out. Did I mention it runs like ass on anything reasonably priced? Unless you have the most recent generation graphics cards good luck getting anything over 40fps...and dont even get me started on consoles. DO NOT BUY IT YOU ARE JUST FUELLING THEM TO KEEP MAKING BAD DECISIONS LIKE THIS.… Expand
  23. Draliolo21
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    Умные мысли преследовали разрабов,но они быстрее.Большое спасибо за обнову для Блокады
  24. Chennigan
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    Games absolute garbage. running around doing **** all simulator 2042. Fuming I paid 80 quid for this bag of ****
  25. CYAN0TIC
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The specialist system is stupid and breaks the game. If you could actually progress in Solo it would make up for SOME issues but you can't even do that. Stay away from this pile of garbage.… Expand
  26. Tkane775
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    Everything we were worried about was correct. Tried to copy multiple other games success at the sake of their own. I've been playing since 1942 and after playing the trial I have absolutely no intention of buying a battlefield game again.
  27. Citizen435
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    Call of Duty: 2042
    it's not a bad game, it's just a bad Battlefield game...
  28. AJ_Clicks
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    The game is so bad it made me quit gaming altogether.

    Bugs, bloom, no scoreboard, imbalanced weapons (SMGs better at range than ARs), one hit sniper (NTW-50), poor performance, sluggish aiming and the list goes on
  29. nobo660
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    Where do I start? Some scopes feel good, but anything above x1.5 is horrible because of the bullet spread. I found semi-auto worked better on some of the weapons, if available. Where is the scoreboard? Are we going to get a safe space button in the next patch? Keep the woke crap out of comp video games FFS. Respawn selection is garbage and you can't even tell where you are at when you openWhere do I start? Some scopes feel good, but anything above x1.5 is horrible because of the bullet spread. I found semi-auto worked better on some of the weapons, if available. Where is the scoreboard? Are we going to get a safe space button in the next patch? Keep the woke crap out of comp video games FFS. Respawn selection is garbage and you can't even tell where you are at when you open the large map. Invincible players running around slaying everyone and not taking damage even from a melee. Cant change squads to join your friends. Not to mention the usual server and lag issues since that is part of BF series at launch. Stay away and keep an eye on it. BF4 is still the better game.… Expand
  30. bl4ckOut
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    Biggest Problem:
    Many bugs for too much money. Even if the day-one patch fixes a few things, I can't imagine that the performance will be that better. It's unoptimised, unfinished and unpolished in every aspect and I can't get it to run constant 60 fps. Frame drops all over the place and input lag way too high. Thereby my GPU runs just with 40-60% (5700XT) and my CPU Xeon E3-1231 v3 works    Biggest Problem:
    Many bugs for too much money. Even if the day-one patch fixes a few things, I can't imagine that the performance will be that better. It's unoptimised, unfinished and unpolished in every aspect and I can't get it to run constant 60 fps. Frame drops all over the place and input lag way too high. Thereby my GPU runs just with 40-60% (5700XT) and my CPU Xeon E3-1231 v3 works as bottleneck with 95-100% CPU utilization.

    Also:
    - Graphics worse then in BFV
    - Maps way too big and steril, running is not worth in 99% of all situations
    - Worse destruction then in BFV
    - No Scorebord ?!
    - No Squad change, creation etc. in-game; ALSO no Teamchange possible
    - No server list
    - No global chat
    - No voice chat
    - No possibillity to change the minimap size
    - No stats page
    - No persistent community servers in portal (Why create servers anymore?)
    - UI is too intrusive and large and cannot be customized

    This game is just a cash-crab, released unfinished before christmas and I'm only waiting for the day one patch, before (maybe) refunding it    … Expand
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Metascore
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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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