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  1. Nov 16, 2021
    0
    battlebug 2042, fps drops server issues many features missing from last games
  2. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    battlefield is no more.
    It used to be a team focused game where any individual could make a difference.
    Now it's just...a mess, with no scoreboard.
  3. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    What a pitiful pitiful at a video game. Say what you want about it not being battlefield when its not even a functioning video game. $120 AUD for this steaming hot pile of what my dog eats. Someone's child grew up, completed school and learnt hundreds of hours of programming to come out with this piece of work.

    Absolute joke of software that is no longer on my computer.
  4. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    Game is in a complete disarray and is embarrassingly bad A list of issues with Battlefield 2042 and what needs to be changed / fixed.

    **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
    Game is in a complete disarray and is embarrassingly bad A list of issues with Battlefield 2042 and what needs to be changed / fixed.

    **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.

    **6) No real class system** - People confuse this issue with the specialist system when these are two separate issues. You can have specialists while also having a class system. The issue with BF2042 is that every specialist can use every weapon, every grenade/gadget, and every tool, with the only difference being the skin of your specialist and their special gadget/ability. Having no class system means it will be much harder to balance out your weapons, because now every single AR has to compete with every SMG, which has to compete with every LMG, which has to compete with every Sniper/Shotgun, and so on. The lack of class system means that a stricter meta will form compared to previous BF games where you still had more diversity of weapon and gadget use because you had to sacrifice something if you wanted something else. For example, in BC2/BF3/BF4, if you are running an AR, you can't use an RPG, if you wanted one, you had to sacrifice the other. This is called balance because you are balancing out who gets what. All a class system is is a package of things you get. DICE could have easily made specialists be a part of a class or "package", so certain specialists within a certain class can only use certain weapons and gadgets/utility. This would have been the correct way to go for BF2042 and a fair compromise.

    There’s more tho, heaps more, I am limited by the word count
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  5. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    Terrible, just terrible. This game has no soul. No fun. It is just a poor attempt to grab consumer money and provide nothing in return. What a shame for Battlefield franchise. I mean how is this even possible to release in such a sorry state? Nothing works. No concept. And this in turn creates disfunctional game experience.
  6. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    TL;DR: Do NOT buy this game and support EA and DICE for this unfinished, broken and halfbaked mess of a game they dare put the Battlefield name on.

    Battlefield 2042 was revealed to the world in form of a bombastic trailer that got everybody and their loved ones hyped up to no end, until the absolute **** disaster that the Open Beta dropped. "Calm down dude, it's only a 3 month old
    TL;DR: Do NOT buy this game and support EA and DICE for this unfinished, broken and halfbaked mess of a game they dare put the Battlefield name on.

    Battlefield 2042 was revealed to the world in form of a bombastic trailer that got everybody and their loved ones hyped up to no end, until the absolute **** disaster that the Open Beta dropped.

    "Calm down dude, it's only a 3 month old build, the final release will be MUCH better and more polished", the people defending this inexcusable garbage said. So how did this excuse hold up? ABSOLUTE ****

    This game does NOT feel like Battlefield but rather a bastardized mutant stitched together out of Call of Duty, Apex and a few aspects of Battlefield. Let me remind you this game was supposed to copy MW 2019 and was not even intended to be a proper Battlefield from the get-go.

    Furthermore this abomination disguised as a final release lacks BASIC features in any FPS like a **** scoreboard (not a joke), voice chat, all chat (dice doesn't want your feelings hurt in a game made for adult didn't you know?) not to mention the UI/UX is downright atrocious, the movement is a straight downgrade feeling incredibly janky and floaty (BF5 had amazing movement in contrast), it launches with 22 (YES TWENTY TWO) guns total including FOUR assault rifles and the game also lacks a server browser for the sake of implementing SBMM to continuously sell the whales skins.

    Let me remind you that this game has had 3 years of development time, 4 studios working it, Battlefield 5 and Battlefront 2 died for this atrocity, looks worse than Battlefield 1 which released 5 years ago (which btw had less devs working on it than this) and a delay for the cherry on top. Not to mention the abomination that is the specialist system which throws the beloved and iconic class system straight out of the window in order to yet again sell more skins ($$$ is a constant here).

    Did I also mention this game is optimized like total **** to the point where people with 3090s cant even get more than 100fps at 1440p?
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  7. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    Optimalizátlan, akad 1050 TI en ,holott a minimum lett igérve, hogy működik, a cheaterekről ne is beszéljünk refundoltam.
  8. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    How can they release a game that looks worse, plays worse, more buggy, less destruction, less content and less of battlefields core gameplay features?
  9. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    В этой игре всё ужасно!
    -Плохие технические характеристики.
    -Плохая графика.
    -Плохой геймплей.
    -Плохая разрушаемость.
    - Очень мало оружия.
    - Плохой K / D.
    - Много читеров.
    P.S. Эта игра не имеет ничего общего с Battlefield.
  10. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    After playing for 5 hours, I couldn't help but wonder if Battlefield was always this terrible. I went back to Battlefield 1, and the answer was clearly no. So many features were removed from the game for absolutely no reason (spotting, scoreboard, team and squad switching, etc..). Not to mention the overwhelming number of glitches and bugs. I had to reset my game after every match to enterAfter playing for 5 hours, I couldn't help but wonder if Battlefield was always this terrible. I went back to Battlefield 1, and the answer was clearly no. So many features were removed from the game for absolutely no reason (spotting, scoreboard, team and squad switching, etc..). Not to mention the overwhelming number of glitches and bugs. I had to reset my game after every match to enter a new server! Terrible map design that makes it compulsory to use a vehicle or a sniper due to vast spaces. I end up running 70% of the game and then dying because I can't tell where I am being shot from. The concept of "all-out warfare" was executed poorly. I don't want a game where there are too many players concentrated around a few objectives. The only good thing I can mention is that I was blessed with the opportunity to try the game for 10 hours before buying through the Xbox Game Pass for PC. Refrain from wasting your money on this piece of unfinished garbage. Expand
  11. Nov 23, 2021
    0
    It is broken games without a campaign mood and also no voice chat too not optimized at all for pc for example dlss not working at all i don't know who is buying this game for 70$ if it's free also I would buy it I will be back to Battlefield one and 4 much fun
  12. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    Refunded after playing beta and all bad reviews. Looks like garbage game and in beta it was terrible.
  13. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    This "game" is an embarrassment.. DICE is officially no longer a triple-A developer...
  14. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    "Disappointment" is the best one word description of Battlefield 2042.
    The beta was already rough but I defended DICE because the build was 3 months old and they seemed to address a lot of the areas of concern from the beta. I was really hoping that specialists would just be removed but unfortunately they made it to the release.
    So this is what we got out of a battlefield game: No
    "Disappointment" is the best one word description of Battlefield 2042.
    The beta was already rough but I defended DICE because the build was 3 months old and they seemed to address a lot of the areas of concern from the beta. I was really hoping that specialists would just be removed but unfortunately they made it to the release.

    So this is what we got out of a battlefield game:
    No Scoreboard
    No Classes
    No Stats
    No Chat
    No Server Browser
    Hit Registration is abysmal
    All "Specialists" can be a jack of all trades (Yes even medics as snipers)

    No indication of anyone is close enough to revive you or not.

    I was hyped for this game. I was really hoping for basically a battlefield 4 remaster from this but instead got this Call of Duty experience so I had to refund my ultimate edition of BF 2042 :(

    Maybe the game will be better in a year as that is typically par for the course for games nowadays.
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  15. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    Bad performance
    Rubberbanding like 2005
    Weapon balance broken
    Way to big even with 128 players
    No class System. Feels like a free to play copy of cod / Warzone
  16. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    The amount of copium people be smoking in unreal. This game is a poor mans battlefield and how poorly opimised it is, is enough reason to give it a low score. Game feels like a step backwards in every way. At least bf5 ran well on launch despite other issues it had. Dont buy it simple as that.
  17. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    As others say:
    No scoreboards.
    No classes.
    No destruction.
    No servers.
    No stats.
    No chat.

    also bad UI, terrible.
  18. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    Horrible game, 4 assault rifles, 3 snipers, 2 pistols. Laggy servers cant support the load. Guns won’t shoot at times and you cannot exit vehicles quite often. Sometimes you can’t even respawn. Not worth the wait, should have been delayed even longer .
  19. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    Imagine, in the year 2021 the age of cross platform play and the game you just spent $100 on has no VOIP, but purportedly preaches it is a game that is encouraging cooperation between teammates. Then only let's you play with 4 of your friends unlike previous versions and hovercrafts defy gravity. Ask for a refund and EA doesn't disappoint if you expect the worst from them. Battlefront 2Imagine, in the year 2021 the age of cross platform play and the game you just spent $100 on has no VOIP, but purportedly preaches it is a game that is encouraging cooperation between teammates. Then only let's you play with 4 of your friends unlike previous versions and hovercrafts defy gravity. Ask for a refund and EA doesn't disappoint if you expect the worst from them. Battlefront 2 release all over again see you in a year... Expand
  20. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    Its wild they even released this game, its an atrocity. The fact that they can make 64v64 feel like a dead game is the only successful thing they did. The maps in 2042 look like some teenage G mod level editor quality, The players all have skins no uniforms. The gunplay is 0% fun and has bloom that you cannot predict. the server performance is wildly inconsistent. Id only recommend thisIts wild they even released this game, its an atrocity. The fact that they can make 64v64 feel like a dead game is the only successful thing they did. The maps in 2042 look like some teenage G mod level editor quality, The players all have skins no uniforms. The gunplay is 0% fun and has bloom that you cannot predict. the server performance is wildly inconsistent. Id only recommend this game is you like to play vs bots, if your looking for a pvp shooter this aint it cheif. I give the game a 1 out of 10 , resounding failure. Expand
  21. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    What's wrong with Battlefield 2042?
    Why are people who have followed this game for 15+ years (Battlefield 2) so disappointed?
    Everything that gave BF it's niche in the 'Online FPS Gaming Arena', starting nearly 2 decades ago by a Swedish development studio named DICE, has been neutered and/or completely removed from the game: 1) Squad Creation and Squad Interaction neutered -
    What's wrong with Battlefield 2042?
    Why are people who have followed this game for 15+ years (Battlefield 2) so disappointed?

    Everything that gave BF it's niche in the 'Online FPS Gaming Arena', starting nearly 2 decades ago by a Swedish development studio named DICE, has been neutered and/or completely removed from the game:

    1) Squad Creation and Squad Interaction neutered
    - Starting in BF2, you would be able to create/join/leave/lock/rename and voice-comm with your in-game squad.
    > This was revolutionary as you only needed a mic and some gamers to coordinate what you wanted to do on the gigantic BF maps
    > BF2042 removed the ability to create/leave/lock/join/voice-comm with your own private squads. How have we regressed 15 years later?

    2)Skill expression from air vehicles (Jets/Choppers) by way of a complex Air Physics system
    > The Air Physics in BF2042 have been dumbed down -- speed control, precision aim, tactical maneuvers...all removed in favor of a hand-guided/rail system which raises the skill floor and drops the skill ceiling
    > Think of it like this: whose line is it anyway's greatest quote, "where everything's made up (air physics) and the points (speed control, precision, skill expression) doesnt matter

    3) No scoreboards in BF2042
    - Cmon? Really? Do I even need to say anything?

    4) Map/Lobby disbands in the 'AOW' (default, All out warfare/conquest) game mode
    - Again, self explanatory. Really? We have to go back to the title screen upon map change?

    5) No allchat on PC? You can't even OPT IN (defaulted OPT OUT, for example)??
    - Really? When an amazing 'ONLY IN BATTLEFIELD' moment happens (I.E. sniping a player driving a transport vehicle, who then runs over the sniper after he dies) can't even be talked about across teams anymore?
    > Who made this decision?

    6) VEHICLE Customization COMPLETELY neutered
    - How do we go from
    > deep customization trees, like in BF5 (google it),
    > 'relatively-robust' customization options in BF4
    >> (I.E. BF4 Jet weapon loadout customizations: Heatseekers, Passive/Active Radar missiles, Hydra rocket pods, Laser Guided Missiles, TV Guided Missiles,JDAMs)
    > BF2042 LITERALLY handful of choices
    >> (I.E. BF2042 Jet weapon loadout customizations: Heat Seekers, Air to Air. and Air to ground?)

    7) Commander mode removed
    - In BF2 you could work together with your squad in order to help takeover the Battlefield. Your commander could generate UAVs, Artillery Strikes, and send Supply crates/Vehicle drops for the ace squadrons
    > In BF2042, commander mode is REMOVED, and you can 'drop your own' vehicles. Nice. Really feels like a team here

    8)Server browsers removed from AoW (default, All out Warfare) mode
    - Again, Really? We regressed to online matchmaking?

    9) Destruction in the next gen feels like xbox 360 levels of basic
    - Enough said

    I could go on, but it really makes one wonder how a company, who has literally 15 years worth of successful titles, was able to put a game in the oven for ~4 years of development and fail this hard to maintain the formula.

    The worst part about this entire process was the ~6ish months of marketing after the reveal at 'EA Play' in the summer of 2021: 'This is a BATTLEFIELD FOR THE FANS' they said

    Imagine.

    A 'Battlefield for the fans', that strays so far from Battlefield, that without the name slapped across the title, you wouldn't even know it was created by a game studio with the prestige of DICE.

    Honestly, a disgrace. And no, the consumer is not responsible for the feelings of the people who produced the game. This is not how it works at restaurants when you are served bad food, nor how it works when Game of Thrones' final season is an abomination, nor how it works in any facet of life. Your game is a sorry excuse of a generation-defining franchise. Thankfully, we live in a world where infinitely redistributable, digital licenses of video games are refundable. Thanks Steam for my 100$ back.
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  22. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    В этой игре всё ужасно!
    -Плохие технические характеристики.
    -Плохая графика.
    -Плохой геймплей.
    -Плохая разрушаемость.
    - Очень мало оружия.
    - Плохой K / D.
    - Много читеров.
    P.S. Эта игра не имеет ничего общего с Battlefield.
  23. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    They say BF3 had a bad start. They say BF4 had a bad start too...
    BF2042 definetly has a bad start. This game is no fun at the moment. Game modes are boring, maps are too big. Performance is bad. The only highlight seems to be portal mode, which teleports u back to the good old days of ancient BF titles... well they should have made a BF3 or BF4 remake then...
  24. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    I'm old BF player. I had play BETA BF 2042 and it was much, much, much better then this final version.

    Also, BF2042 is everything but not BF what we had before. No problem about some new changes, but they removed all good stuff what was in BF5, BF1, BF4 had. And Yes this version hadBIG performance problem and BIG LAG issues. In BETA version was much better, never had this problem. I
    I'm old BF player. I had play BETA BF 2042 and it was much, much, much better then this final version.

    Also, BF2042 is everything but not BF what we had before. No problem about some new changes, but they removed all good stuff what was in BF5, BF1, BF4 had.

    And Yes this version hadBIG performance problem and BIG LAG issues. In BETA version was much better, never had this problem.

    I can't believe they make this game so bad, and so poor, without so much things what miss so much from old Battlefields.
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  25. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    Просто отвратительная игра, мало того что она не имеет практически ничего общего с предыдущими частями серии, так она еще и очень сырая в техническом плане, постоянные баги текстур, моделек оружия, техники и персонажей.
    В первый день наиграл я в неё два часа и это было ужасно, после трех игровых сессий я не хотел играть не только в "Battlefield2042" а ни во что вообще. Конечно скорее
    Просто отвратительная игра, мало того что она не имеет практически ничего общего с предыдущими частями серии, так она еще и очень сырая в техническом плане, постоянные баги текстур, моделек оружия, техники и персонажей.
    В первый день наиграл я в неё два часа и это было ужасно, после трех игровых сессий я не хотел играть не только в "Battlefield2042" а ни во что вообще. Конечно скорее всего с выходом игры для всех(19 ноября) багов и неприятных моментов станет меньше, а через полгода будет вполне играбельной, однако только с технической части, все остальное останется на таком-же уровне, а именно-абсолютно дурацкая и непонятная система оперативников, топорная и убогая стрельба из "Battlefield V", так еще и с примесью колды, огромные неиграбельные карты(с ужасным мап-дизайном и кучей открытых мест), торнадо которое было добавлено ради рекламной компанией, но на деле надоедает через 5-10 игр и т.д.
    Самое забавное что игру рекламировали как продукт для старых фанатов, а по факту в игре нет ничего что могло бы порадовать любителя "классического баттлфилда" кроме режима "Portal" но за 3500 рублей этого мало!
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  26. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    An absolute disgrace to the Battlefield heritage and a complete joke for one of the biggest publishers in the industry.

    Playing Battlefield 2042 has felt like trying out a game from a small indie studio where you expect it to be buggy and messy and just overall mediocre. But EA/DICE is all but a small indie studio and has 20 years of experience with Battlefield series alone. The most
    An absolute disgrace to the Battlefield heritage and a complete joke for one of the biggest publishers in the industry.

    Playing Battlefield 2042 has felt like trying out a game from a small indie studio where you expect it to be buggy and messy and just overall mediocre.
    But EA/DICE is all but a small indie studio and has 20 years of experience with Battlefield series alone.
    The most basic features that have been in all Battlefield games for years are suddenly either missing or broken.

    To release a game in this state and then charge extra just to experience this garbage a week early is a slap in the face to all the fans of the franchise.
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  27. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    This is the worst part of whole BF series.
    After couple of hours I don't want to play it anymore.

    A taunt from DICE - take ugly boring battle royal maps, make tons of bugs and release it as a AAA-shooter.

    Ok, DICE, good job.
  28. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    full of bugs and missing many features from previous battlefield games. waste of money
  29. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    I know a 0 is harsh but I am completely fed up with broken unplayable games at launch, and stripped or missing features we expect as battlefield fans. If you want a different still a game make a different game and leave our battlefield alone.
  30. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    I loved the original BF2, BF3, and even BF4 was pretty decent (after a lot of post-release improvements), but BF2042 is complete crap (issues listed below), and from the comments of the developers online its like they are completely out of touch with what their players want. I played somewhere around 20+ hours already, and I just kept getting more and more irritated. Eventually I realizedI loved the original BF2, BF3, and even BF4 was pretty decent (after a lot of post-release improvements), but BF2042 is complete crap (issues listed below), and from the comments of the developers online its like they are completely out of touch with what their players want. I played somewhere around 20+ hours already, and I just kept getting more and more irritated. Eventually I realized that I was only still playing because I wanted to like it to justify my waste of money. I have since uninstalled. This will be my last ever EA/DICE purchase.
    If you decide to try it, you can look forward to:
    -The worst hit registration of any game I have ever played
    -Bullets simply refusing to go where your gun is pointed (the barrels must be made out of overcooked pasta)
    -Terrible vehicle controls
    -Gravity doesn't exist sometimes for no apparent reason
    -No ability to see match stats in game (no scoreboard)
    -Invisible players and friendly players appearing as enemy
    -No campaign
    -No ability to make or manage squads
    -Hard to team up with friends (and impossible if you have more than 3 friends)
    -Developers telling everyone how much you love their game even though you hate it
    -No refunds if you play more than a couple hours
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 74 Critic Reviews

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