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
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  3. Negative: 4,004 out of 4864
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  1. imthatoneguy
    Mar 4, 2022
    0
    The gunplay is just so soggy. Everything about the Aesthetic and marketing screams "arcade shooter" but then even by battlefield standards everything is slow and muddy. 2042 is like the damp potato chip of Battlefield games.
  2. lrg4you
    Nov 19, 2021
    0
    Its just a dissapointment, what a shame ,what a shame, i never believed that i returned to Battlefield 4, back when devs KNOW how to develope a game, this game is unfinished,full of bugs, and simply those Dice stupid dev wont just listen to players.
  3. lardinis
    Nov 20, 2021
    0
    Buy the game in pre reserve and so far I still haven't been able to play encrivel that seems like I've done everything and the soldier keeps spinning without stopping , I play only bugs , I play rubbish
  4. Wardrobechaos
    Dec 5, 2021
    0
    Awful, unfinished, buggy, everything a game should not be. No single player campaign, 20 guns only, awful gunplay - DO NOT BUY THIS
  5. Armegedon
    Dec 3, 2021
    0
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  6. TheNoobPolice
    Jan 9, 2022
    0
    This game offers absolutely nothing to core FPS players who played infantry only, objective-based tactical modes in the past, like Domination, Frontlines, or even a proper TDM mode.

    You are forced to play silly massive player count modes against overpowered vehicles to unlock anything in the game. Literally, there are no infantry modes that are part of the main game experience. In a    This game offers absolutely nothing to core FPS players who played infantry only, objective-based tactical modes in the past, like Domination, Frontlines, or even a proper TDM mode.

    You are forced to play silly massive player count modes against overpowered vehicles to unlock anything in the game. Literally, there are no infantry modes that are part of the main game experience. In a game where the vast majority of players are infantry.

    The gameplay can summarised as a "run for 5 minutes trying to find an enemy and then get blown up by a helicopter" constantly looping subroutine.

    The game has a lot of bugs not relevant to the design. I like bloom gunplay in general when it's done right like BF3, but in this game it's sabotaged by hitbox and server hit registration issues. I wouldn't trust DICE to have the subtlety to understand the right feedback from the community regarding what are bugs and what are design issues.

    The worst-in-industry UI, huge gamut of missing features/modes and appalling performance of the game are all absolutely unforgivable.

    EA, please bin this franchise, and spend a minimum of 5 years dissolving DICE and rebuilding a new dev team sorting the wheat from the chaff internally to arrive at a level of quality we saw in titles like BF3 for their time in some new and exciting IP's. There are no shortcuts to this I'm afraid - you really are at the lowest all time low I have seen and I have been playing your games since the mid 80's.    … Expand
  7. benhez
    Nov 19, 2021
    0
    RIP The king of FPS..

    ps2 era graphics
    more bugs than an ant farm
    clunky
    broken
    unplayable
    awful effects
    awful sound
    awful gunplay
    operators
    zeroooo content
    zero customisation

    the engine is like a cursed alpha version of previous games

    BF peaked with BF1 and this is just shocking and sad. This should not have been allowed to be released its as bad as cyberpunk
  8. hawk6754
    Nov 15, 2021
    0
    This game is just atrocious. One of the worst game releases i have ever experienced. They have gutted what made BF, BF. They are too busy trying to be imitators of CoD; which if they had ANY idea of their player base they would know that thats the exact opposite of what we would want.

    Also, if you want to see who in the critical review space is a sellout paid by EA, take a look at all    This game is just atrocious. One of the worst game releases i have ever experienced. They have gutted what made BF, BF. They are too busy trying to be imitators of CoD; which if they had ANY idea of their player base they would know that thats the exact opposite of what we would want.

    Also, if you want to see who in the critical review space is a sellout paid by EA, take a look at all those 90+ reviews.    … Expand
  9. Multitude
    Nov 20, 2021
    0
    Best BF in a long time. Don't listen to the Boomers, who still cry after their BF4 times
  10. KillerUnleashed
    Nov 21, 2021
    0
    This type of effort is what is going to cause the next video game crash. If you pay into this and come up with excuses your part of the problem. Stop buying unfinished games and maybe, MAYBE, they'll stop releasing them like this.
  11. captncrash
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Absolute Low point in the Franchise. Feels like a beta, only 2 Game Modes in the Main Game, only 128 Player Games possible. Very few guns compared to previous titles. Removed Game Mechanics. Feels like a totally rushed release. They should have give it at least 6 Month more of development. Very disappointing…
  12. Muffinscrub
    Nov 13, 2021
    0
    The performance is a joke, guns are all RNG, feels like they went backwards on every single innovation that made previous battlefield titles better....
  13. Ziggyvertang
    Nov 13, 2021
    0
    This game is fundamentally broken to the point I think its best to the pulled completely and refunds offered to all!
    I feel there are one of two reasons why the game is so bad
    1) executives pushed for the game to be released despite the developers needing alot more time 2) the developers themselves felt it was acceptable to release it in this state. Worse then cyberpunk and GTA    This game is fundamentally broken to the point I think its best to the pulled completely and refunds offered to all!
    I feel there are one of two reasons why the game is so bad
    1) executives pushed for the game to be released despite the developers needing alot more time
    2) the developers themselves felt it was acceptable to release it in this state.

    Worse then cyberpunk and GTA "definitive" release.    … Expand
  14. Ivan9173
    Dec 9, 2021
    0
    Абсолютно разочарован, что потратил 5к на этот кусок говнокода с отвратительной регистрацией попаданий, отвратительной производительностью даже на 3080 тиай, с огромными картами и пустыми полями, с убогой системой специалистов. Меня эта игра абсолютно бесит и вымораживает. Я надеюсь, что в будущем с ней сделают что-нибудь хорошее, но на сегодняшний день она мерзкая и убогая. Абсолютно неАбсолютно разочарован, что потратил 5к на этот кусок говнокода с отвратительной регистрацией попаданий, отвратительной производительностью даже на 3080 тиай, с огромными картами и пустыми полями, с убогой системой специалистов. Меня эта игра абсолютно бесит и вымораживает. Я надеюсь, что в будущем с ней сделают что-нибудь хорошее, но на сегодняшний день она мерзкая и убогая. Абсолютно не рекомендую к покупке.… Expand
  15. lorenze
    Nov 22, 2021
    0
    1) Too many bugs
    2) There is no server browser and you can't play TDM on small maps in infantry only mode
    3) Maps are too huge, too boring, too stupid - in most cases it is like a skyscraper and empty field around 4) Portal fan to play but this mode is dead without progression 5) Hazard zone was born as a dead mode, totally useless 6) A lot of imbalance things like hover, long-range    1) Too many bugs
    2) There is no server browser and you can't play TDM on small maps in infantry only mode
    3) Maps are too huge, too boring, too stupid - in most cases it is like a skyscraper and empty field around
    4) Portal fan to play but this mode is dead without progression
    5) Hazard zone was born as a dead mode, totally useless
    6) A lot of imbalance things like hover, long-range smgs, helicopters
    7) There is no scoreboard, they changed it to most stupid MVP **** with useless stats
    8) Sometimes hard to shoot because of bad hit registration
    9) Most specialists are obviously useless
    10) Small amount of content
    11) Can't change the squad    … Expand
  16. lothiavela
    Nov 16, 2021
    0
    i usually never rate a game here but this time.....

    AVOID THIS GAME, everything is wrong with it. It will take so development to explain but this is not a battlefield.
  17. NicShare
    Nov 27, 2021
    0
    The game is completely broken, shouldn't have been released. Game companies cannot keep doing this.
  18. Alin03
    Jan 11, 2022
    0
    Garbage ! Pls fix the game !!!!!

    This is just a lame money grab . 100e for ultimate variant what a joke
  19. Giantmonkey
    Nov 15, 2021
    0
    No Scoreboard. No Personal Stats, No Achievements, No competition between players, No Rewards for Killing, Reviving, giving ammo, basically nothing but some XP built up at the end of the game to level up. So boring, who are the NUT-Jobs thinking this was a good idea???! There is Zero Enjoyment in playing now BF now. What a Disaster, If this is the future, its game over for the BattlefieldNo Scoreboard. No Personal Stats, No Achievements, No competition between players, No Rewards for Killing, Reviving, giving ammo, basically nothing but some XP built up at the end of the game to level up. So boring, who are the NUT-Jobs thinking this was a good idea???! There is Zero Enjoyment in playing now BF now. What a Disaster, If this is the future, its game over for the Battlefield Series...… Expand
  20. AlphasOP88
    Feb 3, 2022
    0
    Unfinished game, do not recommend buying, lots of gameplay issues, not sure why they would release the game in this state.
  21. Venegrad
    Nov 17, 2021
    0
    game looks like plastic, not natural. Shooting is not real, sounds not real, map design is sht, game direction is sht, looks like cod what created for 1 year... its not battlefield, worst bf5 looks on 2042 create
  22. jaooheavy
    Nov 21, 2021
    0
    Killed the Battlefield game.

    The game is the same of Beta

    No weapons
    No Servers

    The hurricane is a joke.
  23. Age_Atomic
    Nov 13, 2021
    0
    What an absolute mess. Plays like s***, looks like s***, sounds like s*** and takes so long to load I could probably go for a s*** while waiting for the game to fire up.

    During the beta, I played on Series X and had a good time. Was really impressed with the weather systems and enjoyed burning around in vehicles with a hurricane chasing. This PC version is a shambles. I have a decent    What an absolute mess. Plays like s***, looks like s***, sounds like s*** and takes so long to load I could probably go for a s*** while waiting for the game to fire up.

    During the beta, I played on Series X and had a good time. Was really impressed with the weather systems and enjoyed burning around in vehicles with a hurricane chasing.

    This PC version is a shambles. I have a decent rig with a 2080ti which usually has no issues running games at 1440p on high settings especially when the game has DLSS. Here I'm struggling to scrape 30fps with settings at medium and DLSS on performance. On high graphics settings and DLSS set to quality it still looks awful.

    I'm really disappointed with what EA and Dice have put out here. To the point, I personally won't switch over and play on XB instead. I'll just wait for Halo to drop.    … Expand
  24. georgievich
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    По сравнению с бетой оптимизация стала заметно лучше, но все еще плохой. Но это уже не имеет никакого значения так как игра полный провал. Все то что отличало Battlefield от других сетевых шутеров, просто удалили. Я не узнаю эту игру.По сравнению с бетой оптимизация стала заметно лучше, но все еще плохой. Но это уже не имеет никакого значения так как игра полный провал. Все то что отличало Battlefield от других сетевых шутеров, просто удалили. Я не узнаю эту игру.
  25. agazoo
    Nov 21, 2021
    0
    Major Disappointment. I am not sure what this game is even is. It is not a Battlefield, that's for sure. Every mechanic is broken. Gun play is broken. Overall this is yet another arcade. I wish there was an option to refund.
  26. bloodtherover
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    1. Game is nonfunctional at launch (sorry, I don’t care if the regular release is a week later when so many people had to pay $100 to play it early). 4 hours of my 10 hour trial were spent trying to get into a game. A few more were spent trying to find a Portal server that wasn’t an XP farm and then trying to host my own when DICE limited the number of Portal servers. When actually in a1. Game is nonfunctional at launch (sorry, I don’t care if the regular release is a week later when so many people had to pay $100 to play it early). 4 hours of my 10 hour trial were spent trying to get into a game. A few more were spent trying to find a Portal server that wasn’t an XP farm and then trying to host my own when DICE limited the number of Portal servers. When actually in a game, there are numerous game breaking bugs. I remember when our biggest launch day bug problems were giraffe necks...

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

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

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

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

    This can hardly be called a Battlefield game. It can’t be called a good game either. So much for the “love letter” to the fans DICE promised.    … Expand
  27. CosmicDream
    Nov 22, 2021
    0
    This game is such a joke.

    No scoreboards.
    No classes.
    No destruction.
    No servers.
    No stats.
    No chat.
    No nothing that makes a game a Battlefield.

    DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!
  28. Tcore999
    Nov 22, 2021
    0
    Save your money and buy BF4 with all the add-ons.

    Battlefield 2042 is garbage... maps to large, gun play is horrible, no flow to the game play, 20 something guns (?), operators are not well though-out. Basically, it boils down to getting killed by the same operator then revived by the same operator as 10 of the same operator runs by you...it's stupid. There is no destruction in this    Save your money and buy BF4 with all the add-ons.

    Battlefield 2042 is garbage... maps to large, gun play is horrible, no flow to the game play, 20 something guns (?), operators are not well though-out. Basically, it boils down to getting killed by the same operator then revived by the same operator as 10 of the same operator runs by you...it's stupid.

    There is no destruction in this game... what happened to driving a tank through a building?

    Super disappointed... like really really disappointed... How can they get this so wrong?

    Immediately requested and got refunded, which they got that right at least, easy process.

    Truly sad that a great franchise like this tried to make a COD game (which was a pretty awesome game).

    Who is in charge over there? They should be fired...    … Expand
  29. kimy02
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Can't even leave a squad, gunplay and perfomance are atrocious, movement is clunky
  30. SamuraiJapan
    Dec 18, 2021
    0
    Полный шлак! Зашел на бесплатных выходных попробовать игру. Удалил через 2 часа к чертям собачьим, даже бесплатно играть не хочется. Основные механики BF3 и BF4 поломаны напрочь, отмечать врагов спотом теперь нельзя. Графика отстойная, карты пустые, техника насилует пехоту на раз два. Извращенная система оперативников, их способности бестолковые, играть не интересно. Баги везде и всюду,Полный шлак! Зашел на бесплатных выходных попробовать игру. Удалил через 2 часа к чертям собачьим, даже бесплатно играть не хочется. Основные механики BF3 и BF4 поломаны напрочь, отмечать врагов спотом теперь нельзя. Графика отстойная, карты пустые, техника насилует пехоту на раз два. Извращенная система оперативников, их способности бестолковые, играть не интересно. Баги везде и всюду, техника переворачивается в воздухе просто так.… Expand
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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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