Battlefield 2042

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  1. galad2007
    Nov 15, 2021
    8
    in two days I realized that I like the game, there is something to work on, but when you win then you understand this is what you need!
  2. kockalabda
    Nov 15, 2021
    0
    Joke! The worst battlefield I have ever seen! Full of bugs, no scoreboard, joke classes... Need a refund right now!
  3. fameofthewolf
    Nov 15, 2021
    0
    Played all BFs and all CODs since the very first ones.

    This game is without a single doubt in my mind, the WORST BF. This game is clearly in actual Beta and should not have been released but they did it anyway. It is the most riddled with bugs AAA game i have ever played on top of servers not working. They completely stripped it of typical features, server browser, classes, voice    Played all BFs and all CODs since the very first ones.

    This game is without a single doubt in my mind, the WORST BF.

    This game is clearly in actual Beta and should not have been released but they did it anyway. It is the most riddled with bugs AAA game i have ever played on top of servers not working.

    They completely stripped it of typical features, server browser, classes, voice chat, ability to change squads, low selection of weapons, inconsequential loadouts(you can equip any attachment at any time), and any other game modes besides Conquest and Breakthrough. Hope you didnt like smaller map playlists without vehicles cause thats completely gone. Have you ever heard of games taking away features for no good reason? No because most devs arent brainless.

    This is on top of awful game design, pacing is simply terrible because of the huge maps, you run for 5 minutes from point to point hoping you dont get sniped or vehicle killed before you even get a chance to engage anybody because the maps are huge swaths of open area. And you mostly do get sniped or killed by a vehicle so youre spending 10 min just to get to a point on Conquest and you trade kills and then you start the cycle over again. It is atrocious. They have learned nothing from other shooters on the market.

    The current DICE devs dont know how to design a good BF experience, and thats a fact. You know its a huge red flag when they stripped a bunch of features and dont QA their product properly.

    CoD releases games every year and while they may not be perfect, have never been as god awful as this BF. BF 2042 has been in development for over 3 years, and this is the best they can do with EA funding.    … Expand
  4. ReSeMuZ
    Nov 15, 2021
    10
    It's funny to watch people with 1050ti and i3 give the game 0 out of 10, are you guys serious? On my 2070 super and Ryzen 5 3600, 70-80 fps are stable at high settings in FullHD, those who complain about the maps, guys, learn to play, do not rush, but do not sit still like campers, and even more so, is it really so difficult to wait until November 19th and get the first day patch
  5. Layho
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    After 5 hours of playing : Ridiculous bugs, limited Operators - limited and less weapons than Battlefield 4 or 1 - No scoreboard - 30 to Maximum 50 frame rate with Geforce 2060 RTX graphics card - Visual effects and textures are not Belong to a AAA game. .
  6. mlrtz
    Nov 15, 2021
    2
    No scoreboards.
    No classes.
    No destruction.
    No servers.
    No stats.
    No chat.

    and on and on and on. DICE did everything they could possible do to **** their fans
  7. 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
  8. adriandolata
    Nov 15, 2021
    3
    Shockingly bad.
    Could this be the most embarrassing launch ever save for last years release of Cyberpunk?
    They made the consumers pay premium price for a build that is almost unplayable even on high end PC hardware. It doesn't feel like Battlefield anymore. It's shocking, really. Visually the game looks amazing, but that's about the only good thing here. So many bad design decisions were    Shockingly bad.
    Could this be the most embarrassing launch ever save for last years release of Cyberpunk?
    They made the consumers pay premium price for a build that is almost unplayable even on high end PC hardware. It doesn't feel like Battlefield anymore. It's shocking, really. Visually the game looks amazing, but that's about the only good thing here. So many bad design decisions were made. I usually don't take the time to write reviews like this, but I loved Battlefield 4 and was very excited about this game. I feel extremely sad that one of my favorite game series went down the drain. The bad influence from EA is as clear as day. In a better world, EA would keep their dirty, greedy fingers away from Dice and let them make whatever game they want to make.

    This whole thing is disgraceful.
    Do NOT buy.    … Expand
  9. unknowndef
    Nov 15, 2021
    0
    Кусок говна которая требует минимум rtx3080 для нормальной игры которые стоят как автомобиль
  10. Spallish
    Nov 15, 2021
    0
    Just play bf4, its not the usual experience youre use to. Plus there's games out there for free that do everything this game does better
  11. husej
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    Poor addition to the franchise. As always a rocky start from DICE. Game seems gutless and trying too hard to push the serotonin inducing synthetic gameplay/voice lines etc. Gunplay is lacklustre and feels like a f2p game. Regression being the keyword for this iteration.
  12. TheLoneOnion
    Nov 15, 2021
    3
    I was really excited for this game, but unfortunately I just cant bring myself to recommend it to anybody. Currently as I write this review all the servers are bugged and stuck in a never ending overtime ( Joined 6 servers in a row , all bugged )

    The entire operator system is garbage and clearly only put into the game to sell skins, which is pathetic. Also the games story makes no    I was really excited for this game, but unfortunately I just cant bring myself to recommend it to anybody. Currently as I write this review all the servers are bugged and stuck in a never ending overtime ( Joined 6 servers in a row , all bugged )

    The entire operator system is garbage and clearly only put into the game to sell skins, which is pathetic. Also the games story makes no sense, why are we all "no pats" when in multiplayer its RUSSIA VS AMERICA. Like are the countries powerful enough to attack other foreign nations but not powerful enough to have their own militaries, but apparently have enough money to hire an ARMY of personal mercenaries? Those mercenaries that get dropped off by ACTUAL soldiers? Also it looks REALLY stupid when you're fighting a team with the exact same operators as yours. *slow clap* And on a side note the AI soldiers all look way cooler than any of the operators, which is also pathetic on its own.

    Weapon variety is awful and for some reason DICE thought it was a good idea to give each weapon less attachments than their previous games, and this is clearly only because they have to work around their stupid switch attachments on the fly system which only allows you to have 4 different attachment types ( looking at vanguard you can have 8 to 10 on each gun, AND THEYRE WORLD WAR 2 GUNS FFS ), which that in its own makes literally zero sense. LIke yeah in the middle of a firefight I'm just going to swap out my optics, ammo type, and barrel in 2 seconds. yup.

    There are only TWO game modes for the main game. Conquest, which is just a hot mess with the map size and player count, and breakthrough, which just divulges into a zerg in between the attacking points/ Why have such a HUGE map but focus all the fighting into a small area?

    There is NO voice chat, at all, which is a BIG LMAO. There is no actual scoreboard, because reasons?

    The gunplay is just terrible. Hit Reg is pretty much non existent, and you better hope you NEVER have to fire your gun while moving because apparently any sort of movement turns your gun barrel into a piece of limp spaghetti because your bullets just decide to go everywhere but where you're aiming. The gun spread in portal is its own disaster but to save a paragraph, just think 2042 but worse :)

    Hovercraft....I'm convinced they just didn't do any internal testing because if they did they would have realized that the hovercraft can literally climb the sides of skyscrapers and fly through the air.

    The game is clearly unfinished, clearly a cash grab, and clearly broken. I paid 158 Canadian ( after tax ) for the ultimate edition. This game is NOT worth even a quarter of that. Why did DICE decide this game was ready for release when it clearly isn't?

    On a side note, Hazard Zone clearly received little to no love and is probably just going to end up like firestorm ( received pretty much no marketing at all other than that AWFUL trailer, and the game is out in 4 days ) I'm quite confident its just going to end up being Firestorm 2.0, abandoned and forgotten as if it were never part of the game at all. Which is sad because it seems that any time DICE tries to do ANYTHING unique, they just fail. They couldn't even copy hunt showdown or Tarkov properly. Hazard Zone is what I was most excited for and seeing how bare bones and unfinished it is just hurts.

    Sincerely, a man whom has purchased every single battlefield since battlefield 2.    … Expand
  13. Nickyleaks
    Nov 15, 2021
    10
    Bugs and glitches battlefield fans should be used to =)
    There are many things to improve but it has a potential to become one of the best battlefield game
  14. a3moser28
    Nov 15, 2021
    0
    Complete disrespect for EA to give us this game in its current state. Anyone who owns it should get a refund with how buggy and Unoptimized it is. Similar to cyberpunk2077 launch
  15. Paperpiece
    Nov 15, 2021
    2
    This is not a Battlefield
    Just a Call of duty Modern Warfare 2042
    Battlefield2042 killed Battlefield series
  16. Sayssimon
    Nov 15, 2021
    10
    The Core game is fantastic.That being said, I would like to see scoreboard, voice chat and generally more social functionalities.
  17. Killking241
    Nov 15, 2021
    3
    unfinished and missing half the game they romoved the campaign just to remvoe half the multiplayer play bf4 or 3 at least there complete if you wanna have any fun other then that there is no point to play this game.
  18. KiKiHUN
    Nov 15, 2021
    4
    It could be good, but the optimalization is pretty bad.
    The game runs better on low specs pc's than on high-end pc's.
    Lots of serverlaggs.
    Portal mode is full of farm servers.
  19. WinnieKuma
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    Fantastic map details and physical engine, a truly 10/10 game in 2021.

    R.I.P. Battle Field series.
  20. 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
  21. Kensh1nBE
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    You should expect quality coming from a Triple A game & studio. Instead we got a completely new and revamped Battlefield that reminds me all the time of PUBG. Don't get me wrong but I like the fact that studios and developers creating something new and dare stepping out of their comfort zone. But we as veteran players know that Battlefield is a game that likes to set the standard for theYou should expect quality coming from a Triple A game & studio. Instead we got a completely new and revamped Battlefield that reminds me all the time of PUBG. Don't get me wrong but I like the fact that studios and developers creating something new and dare stepping out of their comfort zone. But we as veteran players know that Battlefield is a game that likes to set the standard for the next Battlefield title and so on.

    Cons:
    -Devs saying that they were gonna keep most of the physics from BFV and yet released something far from the standard.
    -Devs and reviewers are being paid or told on how to review the game. The twitter accounts from the devs was such an organized attack on promoting "ThE BeSt BaTtLeFiElD gAmE wE hAvE eVeR cReAtEd"
    -Basic and poor destruction that feels like BF3-4
    -Performance issues while GPU & CPU are only utilized for 50-60%
    -128 players (I've noticed that when encountering more players the lag spikes starts to occur)
    -Map design (this is the worst map design I have ever seen in a BF title. Textures are sharp, every buidling and model looks squared, too many open space. The game throws you into a tutorials on the dessert map, at first I thought I downloaded BF2. My first reaction to this was: "I want the game from the trailer".
    -What's up with the bullet spread?
    -Long range shooting feels RNG-based
    -UI (It's improved comparing with the Beta but still has a long way to home. I see people on reddit making redesigns who should be hired immediately)
    -Options menu is a mess but this is the least of my concerns
    -The classes. Besides destruction, the classes are the kind of thing that makes Battlefield classic. I don't like the mixup with operators and classes. There is already so much to focus on and now I have to filter players of them cheating or having some kind of sketchy operators that can scan through walls. The players don't like it and it should be removed instantly.

    Mids - Pro's:
    -The scoreboard. Everyone is complaining about bringing the old scoreboard back. I honestly don't care at all. This Scoreboard is a step into the right direction and devs should make everything a bit more objective based to have a much better team experience.
    -The weapons. I don't mind having 22 guns to choose from. In the end I only play with the same kind of weapons and at this stage of the game with all the hitreg problems there is no gun that has my preference. People also seem to forget that this game has more weapons which you can find in the Portal mode.
    -Portal. This is the only spark the game has to offer but at this point I'm starting to think if it wasn't better for them to release remakes of the games with the BFV engine (Remakes, not remaster). That would've put them in a better spotlight then BF2042
    -No story mode. It's personal preference between 'Play a story once' or 'play a better multiplayer'. However we now have a full team concentrating on Multiplayer and still received a burning house.
    -No all chat. I leave this in the middle but I don't miss it at all. 90% of the time the chat is being used to flame.

    Once again they pulled the rug from beneath our feet. Took our money and run. They will come back in 6 months with a update that makes everyone happy just to take it away three months later. The lesson to be learned here is that if the beta doesn't satisfy you, you should not be preordering or buying the game at release.    … Expand
  22. clownmame
    Nov 14, 2021
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Очень крутая игра, но есть минусы тоже это когда ты падаешь, об стенку у тебя нога в стенке , это нормальная игра но надо понимать и читать, новости в новостях говорили что игра сделана нормально, но игра не готова и сами дайс говорили что игра будет готова в декабре или в 22 году начало!… Expand
  23. ANNDIR
    Nov 14, 2021
    9
    antoher great bf now in modern time, try in beta and even there it was fun.
  24. Lazerzzz
    Nov 14, 2021
    1
    This doesn't feel like a BF game.
    Awful moving and shooting. In BFV sniping was great and this feel like a wet rag.
    Too large maps. Just running everywhere. Everything is bugged. Specialist are pointless. Everybody can use every weapon and gadget. No different feel when switching a specialist. I spent a lot of money to buy Gold version and i regret it. BF3/4/1/V feels like    This doesn't feel like a BF game.
    Awful moving and shooting. In BFV sniping was great and this feel like a wet rag.
    Too large maps. Just running everywhere.
    Everything is bugged.
    Specialist are pointless. Everybody can use every weapon and gadget. No different feel when switching a specialist.
    I spent a lot of money to buy Gold version and i regret it.
    BF3/4/1/V feels like masterpieces after this.
    Overall this is not a fun to play.    … Expand
  25. luckydutch
    Nov 14, 2021
    5
    Very poorly optimised for low-to-mid PCs. Graphically looks (a lot) worse than BF1 and BFV and the frame rates are low, as well as being extremely unstable. Seems like the extra player count and pointless weather gimmicks are a major hog on the PC’s resources and DICE failed to optimise the graphics properly for older cards.

    Additionally, gunplay isn’t great and the lack of classes means    Very poorly optimised for low-to-mid PCs. Graphically looks (a lot) worse than BF1 and BFV and the frame rates are low, as well as being extremely unstable. Seems like the extra player count and pointless weather gimmicks are a major hog on the PC’s resources and DICE failed to optimise the graphics properly for older cards.

    Additionally, gunplay isn’t great and the lack of classes means everyone is just charging around as a 1-man army. Squad play is dead.

    Not a great game. Still kind of fun if you can get over it looking terrible and delivering low frames.    … Expand
  26. Ninjarabies
    Nov 14, 2021
    3
    They ruined it with all the new COD features. The majority of battlefield fans wanted something like Battlefield 3 or 4 and instead they got a COD/ Titanfall crossover. Absolutely horrible. This is no longer the war simulator we all loved. There's a old saying "Don't fix it if it ain't broke" remastered versions of 3 and 4 would be nice but EA is becoming too greedy.
  27. ThatGuyDVNNY
    Nov 14, 2021
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Dev team really dropped the ball on this one.

    Game feels…lifeless? Empty? Hallow? All of these.

    Dev team is so out of touch they think people actually prefer the changes they made which is HILARIOUS. I WOULD NOT recommend you to buy this.    … Expand
  28. mcarlo
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    So you loved battlefield 10 years ago and want to hop on and have the nostalgic experience with your old friends like in battlefield 3?

    Forget it. This game feels nothing like a real battlefield we grew up with. No Classes. No Scoreboards. No reporting or vote kicking. No Leaderboards and stats. Terrible UI. No dedicated servers. SBMM.. No server chat. 3 official game    So you loved battlefield 10 years ago and want to hop on and have the nostalgic experience with your old friends like in battlefield 3?

    Forget it.

    This game feels nothing like a real battlefield we grew up with.

    No Classes.
    No Scoreboards.
    No reporting or vote kicking.
    No Leaderboards and stats.
    Terrible UI.
    No dedicated servers.
    SBMM..
    No server chat.
    3 official game modes.
    No server size selection.
    Max 4 men squad size.
    No platoons.

    and don't let me start on the bugs..

    Laggy servers
    Spawning as enemy.
    Poop performance with high end pc.
    Bugged friend parties.
    Cant revive bug.
    Terrible netcode.
    Soldiers running around in 2d animations in the distance
    and so on and so on

    You just cant justify paying 60$ and even pre-ordering and get this kind of product.

    Everything what made battlefield true battlefield just cut out. And we are left with this game, which doesnt even worthy to be named battlefield.

    Everyone who are reviewing how good this game is probably never played old battlefields, where you were unnamed soldier, where picking class mattered,where teamwork, and leadership was a key to win a match. And not a shiny skin with a cringy voice line at the end of the match, for most spot assists with a drone.    … Expand
  29. st0rm101
    Nov 14, 2021
    1
    This feels like an alpha test for $60, runs like ass and purposely misses out features, such as leaderboards and an actual class system, to appeal to a non existent hyper-casual audience. Should have been delayed another year but EA said otherwise.
  30. SpadeCR
    Nov 14, 2021
    10
    ppl are crybabies lol, the game is still incredibly fun despite a few performance issues and too much bloom. seriously aside from those two things its in really good shape. And it’s definitely one of the most bug-free launches in any battlefield games in the past decade or 2
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  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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