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. Sparky_
    Feb 15, 2022
    0
    Game is unfinished, server issue, poorly optimized, you get the point and oh boy please fix hit register
  2. EasternUNO
    Feb 14, 2022
    1
    There are some very annoying things which make the game not that enjoyable like previous Battlefield V...

    1) Class system is totally broken. For example if I switch class to medic during the game I do not have ability to heal friendly players! In Battlefield V there were no problems with switching classes 2) In 80% of cases I am getting killed by tanks or other armored vehicles or    There are some very annoying things which make the game not that enjoyable like previous Battlefield V...

    1) Class system is totally broken. For example if I switch class to medic during the game I do not have ability to heal friendly players! In Battlefield V there were no problems with switching classes

    2) In 80% of cases I am getting killed by tanks or other armored vehicles or snipers.

    3) Every time I switch on the game I am experiencing massive stuttering during first minute of gameplay making the game unplayable. I have $4000 modern PC.

    4) Respawn is also **** up. When I respawn, the next second I often get killed by enemy which is nearby. The only thing I appreciate about respawn is that it's faster than in Battlefield V.

    5) When the game is over you cannot see any scoreboard. It just not there...

    6) There are characters and weapons from Battlefield 3, 1942 and bad company 2. Why?

    7) Overall the way how you want to edit your classes, join the games is stupid and not that nice. If there would be simple list of game modes, e.g. :Team Deathmatch, Rush, Breaktrough etc. it would be much more nicer instead of weird rectangles named all-out warfare, hazard zone and portal. It does not make any sense for players.

    8) No campaign!!!

    In conclusion, if DICE or whoever is responsible for this game will take care of it, remove the bugs and update the game - more maps, bug fixes, fix issues with classes, I will be considering to install this game, but it's such a garbage I had to uninstall it.    … Expand
  3. gjv0923
    Feb 14, 2022
    1
    A pure disappointment and embarrassment to the gaming industry. This game at its core is not a fun or even enjoyable game. It was very clearly rushed and put out way to early, yet was still being sold at full AAA price. This game is basically still in alpha months after its launch and EA will not give people refunds for easily the worst game of 2021 and likely 2022. I would give it a 0,A pure disappointment and embarrassment to the gaming industry. This game at its core is not a fun or even enjoyable game. It was very clearly rushed and put out way to early, yet was still being sold at full AAA price. This game is basically still in alpha months after its launch and EA will not give people refunds for easily the worst game of 2021 and likely 2022. I would give it a 0, but the devs have actually fixed some of the issues with the game, but polishing a turd doesn't make said turd any more appealing.… Expand
  4. Drako004
    Feb 13, 2022
    0
    Hahaha I’ve never laughed so hard in my life! Bought this game, returned it, bought it again months later to see if anything was fixed. Now I’m just rolling on the floor laughing, while returning it again! WTF were you guys at Dice AND EA thinking? You had an easy payday but you read the room wrong and f-d it all up. Get to know your fan base!!!
  5. Medic7345
    Feb 13, 2022
    8
    The time I spent playing this game: 383 hrs 57 mins

    2.3, the current user score is far too low when I write this. This game is much better and is generally being undersold. For example, I would bet big money that those writing a poor review for this game have not spent over 24 hours playing it. At first glance, yes, the game looks terrible. However, after playing it past 24 hours, I    The time I spent playing this game: 383 hrs 57 mins

    2.3, the current user score is far too low when I write this. This game is much better and is generally being undersold. For example, I would bet big money that those writing a poor review for this game have not spent over 24 hours playing it. At first glance, yes, the game looks terrible. However, after playing it past 24 hours, I enjoy this game. Why?
    1. Choices. This game offers a vast number of play styles and choices. Want to fly in the air or travel on the ground? Do you want to fight solo or support a team by being a medic? Want to fight up close or far in the distance using a sniper rifle?

    2. The maps are great. They are massive, with enough for 128 people having 5-6 mini battles throughout.

    3. Talking here only for the PC servers, since I have not checked out the cross-servers, this game's skill level is very high. Many highly talented players play this game, and you are sure to find competition at ALL levels. Think you are the best in the game? You will very likely find another player with your skill level or higher.

    4. I think the graphics are amazing. Battlefield 2042 has incredible artists making the clouds in the game - yes, the clouds. I think the mountains and all the nature bits of the game are fantastic and artistic. Running through the forests and mountain ranges alone is... actually fun.

    Take it from me - I have died probably more than anyone else in this game. However, it is STILL fun to play. The gaming community is underselling this game... and frankly makes it a rare gem. If you buy this game, try and play it long enough and be humble.

    UPDATE several months later: The flaws of this game:
    1. Scoreboard only includes your squad and not everyone in the game. It does compare your squad with other squads, but that is not accurate of individual performance.

    2. I found I have to play cross-platform in order to play. If I play only with PC users, there can be instances where there are not enough players to start a game.

    3. This game is riddled with bugs. Some bugs are easy to live with, but several bugs crash the game. I have heard of people getting stuck and having to redeploy. I have heard of people getting stuck in the sky or the earth. I have had it that all players and vehicles become invisible for a long time, and only their guns are seen. These bugs continue and, in some way, are getting worse in the game since its launch months ago.

    4. There is no way to play nonviolently. Every aspect leads to violence for anyone that wants to chill out in this game and relax - probably not the game for you.

    5. In the in-game chat, I have heard racist remarks. Swearing is consistent amongst users, but this is **** starred out.

    6. This game is competitive. If you are playing to have fun, get ready for abusive language about your performance in the chat.

    7. Overall, the community is low in this game. Either nobody is chatting, or there is some argument happening. Trolling is pretty consistent in this game's gaming community.    … Expand
  6. Flashspirit
    Feb 13, 2022
    0
    I love Battlefield, I've been playing Battlefield for 10 years, it gave me a lot of good memories. But this game sucks. it has a lot of bugs. Very poorly optimized for hardware. Unfinished at all, not worth anyone buying it. And now EA is going to drop the game. I only have bad memories of it. Bring my battlefield back, EA!
  7. luisbortolaso
    Feb 13, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. um lixo , só muié gritando o tempo inteiro forçando a barra , nós todos sabemos que existem mulheres em campos de batalhas mas ficar focando e forçando a atenção o tempo todo à elas da no saco, o que salva um pouco é modo portal mas do resto está muito fraco, fora as apelações a la fortinite e personagens patéticos, e tem as lacrações empurradas guéla abaixo, sem chance ja parei de jogar , finishi hin!!… Expand
  8. SpringtrapAfton
    Jan 29, 2022
    0
    Absolute garbage and definitely not worth it. I go into every game shops and websites that sell this rubbish Battlefield game. It cost around S$90 in game shops and S$70 in Steam without the discount. Buyers/Players will passed on this game due to its overwhelming negative reception as well as smaller player numbers. My best advice for new Battlefield players, buy and play previousAbsolute garbage and definitely not worth it. I go into every game shops and websites that sell this rubbish Battlefield game. It cost around S$90 in game shops and S$70 in Steam without the discount. Buyers/Players will passed on this game due to its overwhelming negative reception as well as smaller player numbers. My best advice for new Battlefield players, buy and play previous Battlefield games like V or 4 rather than this newly-launched mess. Overall, Battlefield 2042 is a biggest flop in the gaming history for both Electronic Arts and D.I.C.E.… Expand
  9. Naish_Leenoyu
    Feb 11, 2022
    7
    Yes, there is poor optimization, yes, there are not many little things inherent in the games of the series, and there is still very little content with a backlog for future battle passes, but the gameplay is still a great pleasure
  10. DerMuggi
    Feb 11, 2022
    0
    Worst BF ever made.
    After BF V another broken game.
    We need laws to protect us from companies like EA/Activision/Ubisoft.
  11. Asti157
    Feb 11, 2022
    0
    Dno..
    Tak zniszczyć całą serie BF..
    Oddajcie pieniądze i zakopcie tą grę głęboko pod ziemią !
  12. Genek13
    Feb 10, 2022
    1
    I have played every BF game and as a veteran of the series I must say that THIS IS A JOKE XD after many patches this game is still unplayable at the moments. Progressions and all new mechanics in the game suck. Even PORTAL mode is lame... better stick to original games like BF1, BF3/4 etc.
  13. Anti-Dreamer
    Feb 9, 2022
    0
    Maps are too huge to be fun, vehicles just spawn infinitely, no scoreboard, not enough weapons, no story campaign (which could make multiplayer a lot better because having a story helps designers to come up with atmospheric maps not this generic crap), not enough. Only 2 modes... EA killed Dead Space, Anthem, Mass Effect and a lot of others and now it put a bullet in its last good gameMaps are too huge to be fun, vehicles just spawn infinitely, no scoreboard, not enough weapons, no story campaign (which could make multiplayer a lot better because having a story helps designers to come up with atmospheric maps not this generic crap), not enough. Only 2 modes... EA killed Dead Space, Anthem, Mass Effect and a lot of others and now it put a bullet in its last good game Battlefield.… Expand
  14. ad3mmm
    Feb 9, 2022
    0
    this game is suckss.. bad graphic bad controller very bad game dont buy this gurbage
  15. officialtk53
    Feb 8, 2022
    0
    I am **** done. DICE, EA, you're **** dead to me. This game is absolutely atrocious, and I hate this game. I am going to get a refund on this game (I love Steam), and fix your **** in the meantime, and I MAY play the game on Xbox Game Pass whenever you decide to put the game on there, or if it's free-to-play. **** You.
  16. easb
    Feb 7, 2022
    0
    This is a horrible game. Everything in this game can be found as a problem, weapons, vehicles, maps, it's a pain to play the game like this.
  17. Jurawi
    Feb 7, 2022
    0
    Hab extra einen Account hier bei MC erstellt um dieses drecksgame zu bewerten!!! Hab 90€ für euren scheiß bezahlt!! FU EA!
  18. ayypecs
    Feb 7, 2022
    0
    What a colossal step backwards for such a prolific franchise. Feels like baby's first project rather than a seasoned studio's "love letter to the fans." Don't buy this spaghetti code in a tin.
  19. Patrikk
    Feb 7, 2022
    0
    i would rather get cancer,develope cure for it and then getting covid with aids before i play this again
  20. JWKorean
    Feb 7, 2022
    1
    We wanted a awsome game like BF3 or BF1....
    Whats this?! It has billion bugs and.. bad experience... Bad sound effect bad bom effects... **** gun play...
  21. TrueTactiX
    Feb 7, 2022
    0
    How to ruin a perfectly fine franchise.., great job.. I want the maps of BF3, the gunfeel of BF4 and that nostalgic BF feeling of BF2... It's not so hard, you did it before...
  22. industria
    Feb 1, 2022
    0
    Season pass fraud, like if the game would be released from small indi studio in early access. Seems like EA turn every fan boy to hater soon or later.
  23. ilya_gg
    Feb 6, 2022
    0
    Dice you're doing everything wrong. How could you go down like this with such potential and such a fan base?
  24. Sooxzay
    Feb 6, 2022
    2
    This game is disgustingly bad. BF5 had its problems but with several updates and the pacific one they started to make things right. Suddenly.. support for BF5 ended when everyone began to be happy about it. For what you might ask? For Battlefield 2042..

    A game that crashes even more after every patch, a shooter game where shooting still doesnt work after months from release, full of    This game is disgustingly bad. BF5 had its problems but with several updates and the pacific one they started to make things right. Suddenly.. support for BF5 ended when everyone began to be happy about it. For what you might ask? For Battlefield 2042..

    A game that crashes even more after every patch, a shooter game where shooting still doesnt work after months from release, full of bugs, non intuitive UI, super bad performance, unbalanced gameplay, clown specialists that makes me feel like playing a comedy shooter when the exodus movie gave me the feeling this will be even more grittier than battlefield 1. Now that was a fukin lie.

    The missleading marketing was so good that so many people including myself ended up preordering the game.. This should be illegal and is similar worse like CP2077 when it released.

    - No scoreboard as we knew it
    - No Server Browser for AOW
    - No VOIP
    - Crossplay invite friends is buggy
    - U can only join a match with a maximum of 4 people (one squad)
    - 128 players are way to much
    - Way to huge maps that makes me feel playing a copy pasted far cry
    - Almost no cover and IF there is cover it can do electric dmg to you or even explode, like wtf?
    - No Squad play and almost no XP rewards for specific gameplay actions
    - No Content, no battlepass
    - Almost no destruction just scripted stuff like the rocket on orbital
    - No gritty atmosphere but fortnite style saturation
    - Most cringy voicelines ever with voice actors that doesnt even fit to the specialist
    - Netcode is a mess
    - Hitreg is a mess
    - Aim assist for console players is a mess
    - I could continue.. but I wont waste to much of my lifetime for this.

    Portal with restricted XP to 300 a minute and NO ribbons. You can gain 6K XP in 20 minutes while making 25-35K XP in 20 Minutes in a standard AOW round if you are good at battlefield. This is a joke. Who made such bad calculations? No one even plays portal anymore because of the restrictions.

    Hazard Zone.. well I dont even want to start here. There is literally no value in this mode. You try to extract and obtain coins you then can spend to play your loadout you can play in AOW anyway. Just to do THE EXACT SAME THING you did before being able to buy your loadout with coins. No other rewards nothing. This game mode is already dead like Firestorm 2.0 back in BF5. Wasted. They hyped this mode into oblivion. Holy moly..

    Content got delayed to "early" summer. Scoreboard got delayed from february to march. This is a joke. What the heck happened to DICE? This is not battlefield and this is no live service. This is a bad aprils fool joke.

    BUT: They were ahead of schedule.. KEKW!    … Expand
  25. Reiler
    Feb 6, 2022
    0
    No class system, **** vehicles... And this is a battlefield game? Pathethic.
  26. GutoMaggi
    Feb 6, 2022
    0
    O que me levou a escrever isso, foi o comentario de um dos diretores da EA.

    O cara literalmente falou que BF não alcançou as expectativas por conta da quarentena e do serviço home office. Afinal, teve varios problemas durante o seu desenvolvimento um exemplo é que os devs não tinham suporte total para testar e desenvolver seus jogos em casa, como testar em outras plataformas pq eles    O que me levou a escrever isso, foi o comentario de um dos diretores da EA.

    O cara literalmente falou que BF não alcançou as expectativas por conta da quarentena e do serviço home office. Afinal, teve varios problemas durante o seu desenvolvimento um exemplo é que os devs não tinham suporte total para testar e desenvolver seus jogos em casa, como testar em outras plataformas pq eles não tinha um PS ou XBOX ao seu alcance.

    Mas eu já acho que o fracasso do BF não vem disso, e sim da mal administração e uso do que tentaram aproveitar e não aproveitaram, a essencia do BF foi literalmente obliterada nesse jogo, não tem nada dos outros jogos da franquia nesse, e literalmente tem um downgrade na jogabilidade. O que é triste, pq o realismo era o que mais me prendia, agora se fosse pra ser um jogo viajado, eu vou pro COD que me divirtor mais mesmo kk. O foda é que agora eu sinto que BF perdeu a famosa disputa, mais espero que a franquia não desande por conta disso, mas tomara que a EA venda os direitos e alguem salve essa franquia mtl inda linda linda ! :3    … Expand
  27. Axcr3d
    Feb 5, 2022
    8
    I Literally, just bought it from Steam I don't care about "Overwhelmingly Negative" reviews on Steam I directly buy Battlefield 2042 and I really enjoy that because I have always dreamed about owning Battlefield 2042 and My dreams come true I finally can buy it, for me It's awesome even though it's overpriced, has no campaign, and Bugs. I recommend you all buy when It goes sale.

    edit: I    I Literally, just bought it from Steam I don't care about "Overwhelmingly Negative" reviews on Steam I directly buy Battlefield 2042 and I really enjoy that because I have always dreamed about owning Battlefield 2042 and My dreams come true I finally can buy it, for me It's awesome even though it's overpriced, has no campaign, and Bugs. I recommend you all buy when It goes sale.

    edit: I use Ryzen 5 2600, 16GB RAM DDR4, Nvidia RTX 2060 6GB and the FPS still unstable at 60fps in-game.    … Expand
  28. Heksu91
    Feb 4, 2022
    0
    Amazing. Bought the game two months before the release. From the info EA was releasing, the expectancy was high.

    3 monts after the realease, the game is completly abandoned. It still has too much basic bugs and there are some features are absurd.

    The scam cost me 90€.
  29. 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.
  30. Bjau
    Jan 27, 2022
    0
    Pile of dead trash.
    They litteraly dont care, they got your money.
    Cant belive people still brought it after beta.
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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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