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. Ajvanho
    Dec 16, 2021
    0
    Nor the developer nor the publisher is to blame, the idiots that pre-ordered it are solely to blame.
  2. SASHYL
    Nov 15, 2021
    0
    An unoptimized piece of **** !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  3. Mavout
    Dec 7, 2021
    0
    Its litterly a zero. Probably the worst game in history (including ET for the atari).
  4. Sickboy0138
    Apr 3, 2023
    0
    Absolutely a disaster and a waste of money. Do not buy this crap game. It's disappointing on ever level. The only good thing I have to say is some of the sound effects are pretty cool.
  5. JanterX
    Nov 18, 2021
    0
    A far stray from where Battlefield began

    This game is so far from finished and doesnt feel like Battlefield in any way, It had saddened me that I have to write a bad review for one of my favorite series. The game is just not finished, the bugs are so common they break any immersion in the game that you might have and cause matches to become a comedic laughing stock from all the glitches    A far stray from where Battlefield began

    This game is so far from finished and doesnt feel like Battlefield in any way, It had saddened me that I have to write a bad review for one of my favorite series. The game is just not finished, the bugs are so common they break any immersion in the game that you might have and cause matches to become a comedic laughing stock from all the glitches happening, I can constantly hear my friends laughing on my discord because none of us can take matches seriously when people are riding up the side of buildings with hovercrafts. sure its funny as hell the first few times but how are we supposed to get immersed in this world when the stuff thats happening is stuff of science fiction and straight out of a naked gun movie FFS.

    The vehicles in this game are literally broken. you have nearly all vehicles that can glide up buildings and some that can fly in the air if you run off the proper surface. its so broken I cant even fathom how this got released in this state, not only that but the guns seem to miss targets when shooting point blank at some enemies for no apparent reason.

    Im not going to sit here and waste your time, But just for the love of god DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!!!!! They bastardized the series and shat on the Battlefield name. This is not even close to what us fans deserve, Also how the holy flying Fu** did this game get a 77 score from critics? did they even play the same version as we did? something is very fishy and its obvious alot of them were paid off. God **** damn it.!!!!!    … Expand
  6. Krapclap
    Nov 17, 2021
    0
    A terrible breakaway from the core of Battlefield that violates parts of it's core player base.

    The best part of battlefield was the realism aspect. It was a dirty gritty war game that was bound by the laws of physics. The arcade aspects and Simulation aspects were all balanced. This time they took that idea and threw it out the window making a lot of the game un immersive. It now feels    A terrible breakaway from the core of Battlefield that violates parts of it's core player base.

    The best part of battlefield was the realism aspect. It was a dirty gritty war game that was bound by the laws of physics. The arcade aspects and Simulation aspects were all balanced. This time they took that idea and threw it out the window making a lot of the game un immersive. It now feels cartoony and bland with the arcade aspects overwhelming the simulation aspects of the game.

    Next they took stats and threw anything negative out the window. No more scoreboard. No more competition. You have no way to see how you performed compared to anyone else other than seeing how you rank among the squads. The current setup is unrewarding and XP is just a way to unlock the paltry selection of items for your loadouts.

    Between these two problems they have fundamentally altered design of Battlefield moving it from a mature audience to a general audience.

    The inclusion of Portal mode is lackluster and cheap with many assets and physics being recycled from 2042 and is a terrible apology for what they are doing.

    In addition the game is launching with several severe game breaking bugs that will take time to fix. These bug are so terrible that the game cannot even be played as intended. Id just list some but there's sooooo many, it's even worse than the beta test.

    The game is also overall extremely unbalanced, with guns and vehicles getting a ton of complaints (the main selling point btw). Maps are pretty sparse with wide open spaces and little to no cover making infantry play all but worthless. Daily XP limits are limiting the amount of time I even want to play. And many other strange and bizarre issues that I just don't understand.

    As a lover of the entire battlefield series as bumpy as it's been this is by far the worst title ever created and I have to insist for the first time ever not to buy a Battlefield title.
    Please DO NOT buy this game

    E.A./DICE has lied to the public and users should beware. Many things promised features have been omitted and the game plays nothing like it appears in advertisements.    … Expand
  7. IssouByNight
    Nov 15, 2021
    0
    This is not alpha or beta, it's worse than that, a lot if bug and damn stop with all woke thing. Specialist dont have is place in battlefield and GOD I never see an UI as ugly as BF 2042.

    People paid early acces for 60 bucks... welcome to 2021
  8. IronFlash
    Nov 22, 2021
    1
    I can't believe this they are changing over full price for this half baked game what a lazy development
  9. ravici
    Nov 17, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. какая же это помойка за фул прайс просто смешно бф R.I.P… Expand
  10. DCS431516526
    Nov 19, 2021
    3
    The game needs work.

    Portal is the only good thing it has.

    It is not worth $60/70.

    Do not buy now.
  11. FuleFeed
    Nov 17, 2021
    0
    Not my battlefield.
    Broken, unfinished and not my battlefield.
    This game sucks. Do not buy.
  12. bynenya
    Nov 22, 2021
    0
    Well done Dice! 0 of 10 this is your well-deserved mark! Keep going, you're in the right way!
  13. FilipeTheKid
    Nov 16, 2021
    0
    Cópia barata de Call of Duty Modern Warfare com Rainbow Six Siege. Todo lagado e bugado. Não parece Battlefield. Joguei 10 minutos e já percebi que não presta. Fã de Battlefield desde o 2, não consigo enxergar isso como algo que preste. Talvez o Portal preste. Nota 0.
  14. Denis94
    Dec 9, 2021
    4
    Este nuevo BF es una montaña rusa, tiene cosas muy buenas como el "gunplay" y que simplemente es divertido, pero tiene cosas terriblemente malas como el diseño de mapas la inmensidad de vehículos que en una partida arruinan la experiencia de la infantería, los especialistas a duras penas cumplen su cometido, no tener nada distintivo entre los diferentes bandos es muy poco inmersivo, comoEste nuevo BF es una montaña rusa, tiene cosas muy buenas como el "gunplay" y que simplemente es divertido, pero tiene cosas terriblemente malas como el diseño de mapas la inmensidad de vehículos que en una partida arruinan la experiencia de la infantería, los especialistas a duras penas cumplen su cometido, no tener nada distintivo entre los diferentes bandos es muy poco inmersivo, como jugador veterano no me termina de convencer...… Expand
  15. solidus311
    Nov 18, 2021
    0
    No voice chat on launch, rubber banding, graphics glitches, no standard classes, ea trying to emulate other games.
  16. JuanSW
    Nov 20, 2021
    0
    Bugged AF
    No scoreboards.
    No servers.

    Voice actor's lines are more appropriate for other games
  17. KettuF1N
    Dec 10, 2021
    0
    When new Battlefield coming out. This game is rubbish. When new Battlefield coming out. This game is rubbish
  18. AustinS
    Nov 19, 2021
    1
    First but not most importantly, an insane number of bugs, it's become completely common for me that anything I interact with in the game may or may not work the way it did the last time I used it this alone wouldn't be enough for me to leave a bad review, but it is enough for me to say wait 8 months to a year before intending to buy.
    SI've put nearly 50 hours in already trying to love this    First but not most importantly, an insane number of bugs, it's become completely common for me that anything I interact with in the game may or may not work the way it did the last time I used it this alone wouldn't be enough for me to leave a bad review, but it is enough for me to say wait 8 months to a year before intending to buy.
    SI've put nearly 50 hours in already trying to love this game, but trying has made me downright depressed with the franchise I loved.
    Secondly and most importantly. The design decisions feel like some suits told a bunch of programmers to just include all the features of all the hot games right now.
    The specialist system is terrible. The removal of the ubiquitous class system is a travesty and removes one of the core ingredients of every battlefield game ingredients of every battlefield game. Making it so that anyone can equip any combination of weapons and equipment devalues squad planning and gameplay and promotes individual action over team action. The eight giddy happy-go-lucky personality characters removes from the epic feeling of a living breathing battlefield and turns everything you do into a silly joke. "I destroyed 16 vehicles that match? teehee dont be mad you just wish you were as good as me!"
    I miss the voice lines that sounded like actual war cries from a war zone. They also removed almost every feature that made battlefield an easy to navigate fun game that supported all types of people. Sure it has portal which is the only cool decision they made. But that doesn't account for how they've killed the actual feel of the franchise.
    This game has so many issues both in design and execution I could ramble on for hours.
    Move the specialist to hazard zone where they belong and make perfect sense but give us back our standard soldiers with minimal customization and light to moderate personality give us back classes so there are pros and cons to your decisions and you have to try to work with your team. We all had grown to love the rock paper scissors of different classes and different vehicles now everything just feels like a homogeneous hodgepodge of mediocrity.    … Expand
  19. Fas38_gg
    Dec 4, 2021
    0
    This game is a piece of sheet. I have never seen such a disgusting attitude to your audience
  20. Dillweed2211
    Nov 20, 2021
    1
    Worst bf experience ever, dice hasn't put out a quality game since battlefield 4
  21. Cocolocomoco
    Nov 20, 2021
    0
    This really doesn't feel like a Battlefield game, it feels like a hodgepodge of other games like Warzone, Fortnite and Apex. EA/DICE failed to include scoreboards, player stat profiles, server selections and chat. Also somewhat buggy, granted games at launch and bugs go hand and hand, but not being able to revive other player is a big issue.
  22. mLgz0rn
    Nov 21, 2021
    2
    Bug filled, Unfinished, Soulless, Cringe
    Do not buy Battlefield 2042.
    4 game studios has supposedly worked on this for 3 years, and yet it seems like they only started this year (Anthem 2.0?). Even the versioning of the patch tells us all how far they are with the game. v0.2.1, that's a long way to a v1.0 release. EA and DICE decided not to listen to their Game Changers, who were    Bug filled, Unfinished, Soulless, Cringe
    Do not buy Battlefield 2042.

    4 game studios has supposedly worked on this for 3 years, and yet it seems like they only started this year (Anthem 2.0?).
    Even the versioning of the patch tells us all how far they are with the game.
    v0.2.1, that's a long way to a v1.0 release.

    EA and DICE decided not to listen to their Game Changers, who were trying to bring us the best battlefield yet, with all the features we wished for.
    I mean, just go read this by a former EA Game Changer https://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield2042/comments/qwfoof/a_battlefield_2042_steam_review/

    EA and DICE decided to lie to us promising features that are not there.
    You can really tell that most of the original DICE developers left this sinking ship after BFV.
    The dev's left don't care about us, they made the game how they think it should be and did not listen to the community at all, like they said they did.

    The open beta really did show us what state the game was is, actually it's way worse, at least in the beta you could still shoot people beyond 30 meters without your bullets going all over the place.

    Portal is the only good thing here, but it's locked from XP and weapon progression, and the sad thing is that the weapons and vehicles are just reskins of the 2042 ones, except the 1942 ones (I think?)

    The amount of removed or missing stuff is insane.
    There is what, 22 weapons total? that's with portal, and you can only progress the 2042 weapons.

    Just to name a few things.

    - No scoreboard
    - No Private squad
    - No Switch squad (only to a random new one)
    - No All chat
    - No next gen destruction and levelution (destruction seemed better in 1942 xD)
    - Revive/downed bug where you can't get up so you have to quit the current game
    - The maps are boring and too open
    - The worst audio ever
    - Cringe end screens when the game is over
    - SBMM kinda style where you get kicked out to the lobby after a game
    - You can't join your friends if they are mid game.
    - You can't rejoin your friends if you get dropped from the server
    - Everything that has something to do with community is just gone.
    - 4 man squads instead of 5
    - Too few vehicles when match starts, so those who do not get into one has to run for 10 minutes on most maps, just to end up getting shot by a helicopter.

    For a full list of everything go look at this reddit post, it's insane ****

    I'm sad to see battlefield going this way.
    But we can thank the money hungry EA for this and the DICE developer team who has no soul left.
    They do not care about us the community, they only care about themselfs and how much money they can make before they need to piss out a bug filled unfinished soul less new game.    … Expand
  23. UnknownDeath
    Nov 29, 2021
    0
    Just utter trash. There are so many poor decisions that a 5 year old can comprehend. Check the subreddit r/battlefield2042 you will see the consensus. Only the fanboys really enjoy the game and I'm convinced that's due to the sunk cost fallacy. If you want to try it, get it through xbox game pass. You only get a 10 hour in game time access to 2042 but I doubt you will stick around past 5 hours.
  24. Milena_J
    Nov 19, 2021
    2
    Just absolute **** Ugly looking, weirdly bright, absolutely the weirdest aiming technology, and to not be able to crawl and aim the same time. You have to stand still when you aim. And just no fun. This game is just no fun at all. Battlefield 1 and 2 are genius, absolutely amazing games. And now you have made this. This absolutely pile of garbage.
  25. crabmaster
    Nov 17, 2021
    0
    yikes yikes yikes

    get your refunds now while you can, because this bag of **** ain't getting any better
  26. PfunkNH
    Nov 29, 2021
    0
    Worst battlefield to date.

    Just play world war 3 in march its going to be free and its already better than bf2042. As someone who has played every single battlefield apon release I can assure you this is just a warzone clone.
  27. Rufasa
    Nov 19, 2021
    0
    This game is just EA trying to copy Activision CoD and Apex Legends. They're goal is to get the money that young kids carelessly throw at games. It is absolutely rotten behaviour by EA.
  28. Dre4dful
    Nov 17, 2021
    0
    Paid 100USD to play a broke piece of trash. This game is not Battlefield.
    This has nothing to do with Battlefield.
    No scoreboards. No classes. No destruction. No servers. No stats. No chat. The weapons omg. There are literally only 4 ARs. Wtf is this? It tries to be a mix of Warzone, Fortnite, R6 Siege, Apex and so on. The cringe after game lines. This is an unfinished,    Paid 100USD to play a broke piece of trash. This game is not Battlefield.
    This has nothing to do with Battlefield.

    No scoreboards.
    No classes.
    No destruction.
    No servers.
    No stats.
    No chat.
    The weapons omg. There are literally only 4 ARs. Wtf is this?
    It tries to be a mix of Warzone, Fortnite, R6 Siege, Apex and so on.

    The cringe after game lines.

    This is an unfinished, unpolished and broken game.
    Do not buy this until everything is fixed!    … Expand
  29. Applebl3ach
    Nov 19, 2021
    0
    The worst Battlefield Game i have ever witnessed and played. It's an literal spit and slap into the face of hardcore veterans who got into this franchise many many years ago. Feels and plays like an Arcade shooter, an mix of Apex and CoD. I don't know if the devs are going through an identity crisis right now or just fired all the old staff that worked on BFBC, 3 and 4. Even BF1 is betterThe worst Battlefield Game i have ever witnessed and played. It's an literal spit and slap into the face of hardcore veterans who got into this franchise many many years ago. Feels and plays like an Arcade shooter, an mix of Apex and CoD. I don't know if the devs are going through an identity crisis right now or just fired all the old staff that worked on BFBC, 3 and 4. Even BF1 is better than this joke of a game.
    Just watch Angry Joes Review on this crap game, he pretty much summs everything bad up.    … Expand
  30. guccigang87
    Nov 21, 2021
    0
    This game cant run properly even on RTX 3080/5900X combo, i fail to comprehend how much you need to fail as a developer to make this happen.

    Aside of optimization issues and so many bugs it has, battlefield lacks lots of content right now. Maps, vehicles, weapons and game mods... All lacking. DICE along with many other game developing companies should just drop this trend of    This game cant run properly even on RTX 3080/5900X combo, i fail to comprehend how much you need to fail as a developer to make this happen.

    Aside of optimization issues and so many bugs it has, battlefield lacks lots of content right now.
    Maps, vehicles, weapons and game mods... All lacking.

    DICE along with many other game developing companies should just drop this trend of releasing games before they are done to get some quick cash.

    The game is just not finished yet both in terms of optimization, bugs, balance and content and i believe it wont be for at least 6 months or maybe even more, just like every other battlefield game was before it.

    Seeing how the game industry is going nowadays, I will never ever preorder any game from now on.

    They just sell you half-baked, unfinished content with bugs, optimization and gameplay balance issues for full price then make you wait for months to get it fixed by patches, and what is even more annoying is that it is just became a new normal in the industry, doing this should actually be a crime...    … 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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