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. Sospicy
    Nov 26, 2021
    2
    This game is unacceptable. The usual release for battlefields is to release buggy, and like a diamond in the rough they get cut into the jewel they were meant to be at the beginning. BF2042 would need to be completely rebuilt. For a game with no campaign, built on an existing engine and hardly any content... how did the development team mess this game up so badly?
  2. HemisFEAR
    Nov 26, 2021
    0
    Having started with BF3... this is the worst franchise release so far.
    After roughly 20hrs playtime - I've had enough. I uninstalled the game.
    EA put so many studios on this BF, it's a shame in which state this game is as of now. It should have been delayed at least 6 months. "Ahead of schedule" bla bla, Mister Wilson. Sterile & boring graphics, being forced to use crappy DX12, too    Having started with BF3... this is the worst franchise release so far.
    After roughly 20hrs playtime - I've had enough. I uninstalled the game.

    EA put so many studios on this BF, it's a shame in which state this game is as of now.
    It should have been delayed at least 6 months. "Ahead of schedule" bla bla, Mister Wilson.

    Sterile & boring graphics, being forced to use crappy DX12, too many BF features just missing, the mouse aim bug, overall performance... Did anyone do some serious playtesting before releasing this?

    Too many features missing from previous BF games while it feels more and more like a CoD game.

    Dice ain't the studio that gave us BF3/4 anymore. Too many of the good devs left. It's a heartless game.

    R.I.P. Battlefield
    Gonna miss you    … Expand
  3. Amp41014
    Nov 27, 2021
    3
    I can’t believe how broken this game is. Really let down at the graphics no chase from previous version and I have the Xbox x/s with the x/s version and barely see a difference. The load outs get removed Each game. I really don’t recommend buying it until they fix the game. Also no close quarter maps end up running for miles to kill by an overpowered helicopter that the rocket launcherI can’t believe how broken this game is. Really let down at the graphics no chase from previous version and I have the Xbox x/s with the x/s version and barely see a difference. The load outs get removed Each game. I really don’t recommend buying it until they fix the game. Also no close quarter maps end up running for miles to kill by an overpowered helicopter that the rocket launcher will not lock on to So frustrating since I loved the bf series. Don’t listen to “professional review” the game play is horrible and they haven’t patched anything… Expand
  4. Riicky23
    Nov 27, 2021
    2
    Estoy desilusionado, no tiene nada que con el resto de los BTF, recomiendo no lo compren!
  5. LeXXXa
    Nov 28, 2021
    0
    Worst balance I've ever seen.
    Worst progression I've ever seen.
    Hectic, meaningless gameplay, with broken mechanics and bugs.

    If you want to play it a bit - buy the subscription, but not the game.
  6. hell_o
    Nov 28, 2021
    0
    Everything is bad in this game. I don't even know where to start: from the technical part, from the game design/level design/sound design, balance, UI?.. everything is bad.

    An example from the technical part. I reinstalled the operating system and was unable to start the BF2042. I was getting an error related to visual studio. Even after manually installing the x64 and x86 packages,    Everything is bad in this game. I don't even know where to start: from the technical part, from the game design/level design/sound design, balance, UI?.. everything is bad.

    An example from the technical part.
    I reinstalled the operating system and was unable to start the BF2042. I was getting an error related to visual studio. Even after manually installing the x64 and x86 packages, the problem was not resolved. The problem was solved only after installing and running BFV.
    Several times after launching, I was getting the death screen. And no, I have no system or hardware problems. I have a brand new i9 12900K, 32GB 5200Mhz DDR5, RTX 2080ti, Windows 10 x64.
    In the middle of a match, the game crashed with a DirectX error. I reinstalled the video drivers, manually installed the latest DirectX package from the Microsoft site - it didn't help.

    I am using the "ADS Field of View" setting and when I use the sniper scope, the zoom stops working, and to fix this I have to change the scope and back on the fly.
    The animations of shooting, running, reloading BROKEN. At the moment of running, the animation breaks and the model simply slides over the surface.
    Hitboxes work oddly. In fact, there are only two hitboxes: head and body, and they are poorly made: the hitboxes are larger than the model itself. The damage in the arm and stomach/chest is almost the same.
    It often happens that these hitboxes do not work at all: you can shred your opponent with bullets, but the expected result will not be achieved.
    Vehicles can ride on walls. When jets crash into buildings (for example, on the hourglass map), nothing happens.
    Flight transport controls are broken. The controls are poorly configured, and if the behavior of ground vehicles is perceived as + - normal, then the behavior of the flight transport is simply disgusting.
    And if we have already started talking about tanks: why, for example, the speed of a tank turret when turning from the first and third person is different (mouse control)? it looks terrible.
    When I try to create my server in Portal, the ping is ~200. #TF?

    Now for game design.
    It seems to me that abandoning classes was a mistake. I think that the distribution of roles on the battlefield was (and is) one of the key elements of the Battlefield series, and it is also a hallmark of the Battlefield series. It was a deviation into tactics, and not into a senseless war of headless chickens, which BF2042 is now, unfortunately.
    The developers were even too lazy to assign specialists specifically to Russians and Americans. Russians and Americans have the same specialists. This is perceived, to put it mildly, strange.
    And in order to somehow navigate this madness, the developers were forced to attach red and green markers to the model. Imagine that the army of country N decided to attach markers to its soldiers to make it easier for the enemy to trace them on the battlefield. It's nonsense.
    Now specialists.
    These are not military specialists, they are clowns. They look awful and pretentious, talk and behave like 16-year-olds who have not known life, children!
    For example, a "Sundance". Even the name of this "military specialist" is already causing mixed feelings. What is this nose piercing? what are these pretentious hairstyles? where have you seen such a military specialist? She also has a tattoo on her face. Oh, God!
    She's a third-wave feminist! She is NOT a military specialist!

    The balance is terrible and completely broken.
    SMGs and marksman rifles are fully dominant. Vehicles, especially hovercraft, this is a legal cheat - very fast, very "fat", can ride on walls.

    Level design.
    All BF2042 maps are flat, empty fields, diluted in places with buildings. It's just horrible!
    If you've bought this **** and you've never played the previous Battlefield, compare the BF2042 and BF3 / Bad Company / 1942 maps in Portal mode, where the latest level designers didn't give a f##k.
    Sound design.
    The sound from the shooting is mediocre. The sound from indoor and outdoor shooting is NO different, only a small echo is added.
    The positioning of the sound is broken, it is difficult to understand exactly where the enemy is from the approaching steps. For example, if you are on the second floor and the enemy is on the floor below, you will hear him as if he is on your floor. The main soundtrack is disgusting! Just compare it to BF3/4 or others Battlefield games.

    UI.
    Acid, retinal-burning colors; no score table; You cannot scale the map to spawn correctly.

    Summing up.
    The EA looked at the success of Warzone and decided to make their own in order to bite off part of the audience from Kotick, thereby ### their own audience.
    Apparently, the Battlefield developers do not understand (or pretend not to understand) that if a player wants to play the Warzone, he will go to play the Warzone, not the pathetic copy of it, which is BF2042 today.
    Redo, DICE, or whatever is left of you.

    DO NOT BUY THIS!    … Expand
  7. FelipePP
    Nov 28, 2021
    0
    Jogo medíocre REPLETO de bugs que atrapalham e te impossibilitam de jogar. Um monte de mecânicas idiotas do COD e um monte de especialistas infantis falando frases adolescentes ao final da partida. Essa franquia cada vez se torna mais LIXO.
  8. SenmiMsS
    Nov 29, 2021
    1
    Ok, this is just a disaster. I used my free 10h to try this game. I knew reviews were terrible, but i wanted to witness it with my own eyes, and HOLY S***. Unbalanced, buggy and boring are the words that i can think of playing this game. On my very first map, very first few minutes of gameplay i experienced around 6 bugs that actually interrupted my gameplay. Sniper scope that does notOk, this is just a disaster. I used my free 10h to try this game. I knew reviews were terrible, but i wanted to witness it with my own eyes, and HOLY S***. Unbalanced, buggy and boring are the words that i can think of playing this game. On my very first map, very first few minutes of gameplay i experienced around 6 bugs that actually interrupted my gameplay. Sniper scope that does not zoom in (I had to take it off and back on few times every few minutes to fix zooming). AA missiles that circles around planes and Heli but never hitting them. Falling under the map. Shooting enemies in torso and head FOR NO RESULT AT ALL. Like they are not there, just tu turn around and kill me. I didn't believed game was so bad from reviews but after playing myself... I understand those negative reviews.… Expand
  9. behegyo784
    Nov 29, 2021
    0
    It depends on where you place your evaluation criteria, but if you evaluate the game as a battlefield, the score is definitely zero.
  10. KMM1
    Nov 29, 2021
    0
    This game is pure trash. Needs at least 2 full years of work, and I don't think even that could save it. Unimaginably stupid designs and decisions, this game really makes me feel violent rage.
  11. Erectus-Maximus
    Nov 29, 2021
    1
    Merci dice pour de m'avoir fait payer 70€ pour être un de vos beta testeur. J'ai acheté ce jeu pour jouer avec mes amis et Ho surprise impossible de jouer à plus de 4 dans un groupe pour des maps prévues pour 128 joueurs c'est finement pensé. Parlons des maps beaucoup trop grandes même pour 128 joueurs où au final seulement 30% de la Map est optimisé et la destruction des décors elle estMerci dice pour de m'avoir fait payer 70€ pour être un de vos beta testeur. J'ai acheté ce jeu pour jouer avec mes amis et Ho surprise impossible de jouer à plus de 4 dans un groupe pour des maps prévues pour 128 joueurs c'est finement pensé. Parlons des maps beaucoup trop grandes même pour 128 joueurs où au final seulement 30% de la Map est optimisé et la destruction des décors elle est où ?. Sans parler des chutes de framerates qui tuerait ma grand mère épileptique, du manque de scoreboard , des classes fourre tout qui sont casualisé à l'extrême il faudrait pas que le jeu soit trop compliqué non plus..du manque de punch des armes et de leurs bruit de pétard quand on tire avec. Toutes les armes disponible sur le mode portal, votre mode de branleur "allez y la communauté créez le contenu pour nous" alors qu'il y a trop peu d'armes dans les modes Warfare et Hazard zone qui se passent en 2042 donc mettre les armes d'avant ça serait logique.surrout que très peu d'armes sont vraiment équilibré et que du coup tout le monde joue avec les 3 même armes.
    Bref la liste est longue.
    Vous êtes la honte de l'univers vidéo ludique là où Activision représente la luxure avec ses histoires de harcèlement ,vous représentez l'avarice et la fainéantise. Vous contribuez à la mort progressive de l'industrie du jeux vidéo    … Expand
  12. luckydog32
    Nov 29, 2021
    0
    They have stripped everything that made battlefield, battlefield. And expanded out the maps into barren empty fields with no cover. You will spawn constantly and get shot from a kilometer away both because the spawn system sucks and because the maps are devoid of anything that can be considered cover. Unless you like to play vehicles prepared to be farmed harder than a losing team in MW2.
  13. boznia
    Nov 29, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Graficamente el juego es pobre en todo sentido, tanto en su jugabilidad como en los diseños.
    hasta los mapas rematerizados son mas pobres que sus versiones anteriores. Desilucion total, Battlefield 3, 4, 1 y 5 tienen mas efectos explosivos que este.

    Lo más gracioso que EA dijo que no iba incluir una campaña para centrarse en el multiplayer y solo sacan 7 mapas y un tornado? enserio? mejor digan q no tienen tiempo y hubieran dado mas contenido al 5 mientras trabajaban bien el 2042.    … Expand
  14. cogitoergosam
    Nov 29, 2021
    0
    Un-playable and depressing. Others have already outlined all the missing features and issues with netcode, but the end result is that the game feels empty and unsatisfying. None of the rewarding aspects of previous games remain, the gunplay feels sluggish and slow, and progress is agonizingly slow and redundant (in terms of unlocks/mods).

    It feels like they're so light on actual    Un-playable and depressing. Others have already outlined all the missing features and issues with netcode, but the end result is that the game feels empty and unsatisfying. None of the rewarding aspects of previous games remain, the gunplay feels sluggish and slow, and progress is agonizingly slow and redundant (in terms of unlocks/mods).

    It feels like they're so light on actual unlockable content that they had to arbitrarily slow down progress to stretch it further, but I just can't muster enough interest to grind the same **** for every weapon when most of them are garbage anyway.

    This game has absolutely none of the spark that made previous games fun.    … Expand
  15. Abe69
    Nov 29, 2021
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Choppy. Needs ton of work. Feels like a CoD game.
    The sliding is completely trash. When you try sliding you only slide like an inch. Lololiki    … Expand
  16. Pieter1234
    Nov 29, 2021
    0
    All I want is a finished game for once. I upgraded my hardware just for this game and am now so dissapointed I will never waste money on this franchise again.
  17. chalalot
    Nov 29, 2021
    0
    this is so terrible, an expensive game but has a lot of bugs, and not have the feeling of true Battlefield
  18. Sneerfulmite22
    Nov 30, 2021
    0
    2042 times the details ! It just works with Very high attention to map design and some great gameplay!
  19. iguess
    Nov 30, 2021
    0
    Didn't even play all 10 hours of demo. The game lost everything i like about battlefield.
  20. JJays
    Jun 10, 2023
    0
    All maps are worstotally **** The maps are terrible, the weapons are terrible, they said they will fix the gameplay but they ruined everything. The players is loser, they just play by camping. You can be very nervous and it will harm your health, so stay away from this game.e than each other, they made the gameplay messy with the new update.
  21. Hyx2221
    Dec 2, 2021
    0
    I don't even know what to say, you all know why this game is such a mess..

    2042 was supposed to be a LOVE letter to the fanbase ???

    It's basically a war declaration fo fans LOL, nothing else !
  22. Mrarchaon
    Dec 2, 2021
    1
    This game is unfinished. They didn't even have to make a campaign mode and it's still terrible. It's trying to be like fortnite with these lame specialists who have no redeeming qualities or personalities. They add nothing to the game. Don't buy this game, it's not worth it. It's not Battlefield anymore, it's some other ****
  23. SALOSP
    Dec 2, 2021
    0
    please EA, stop selling this game and refund my money! today a new patch has been released, there are no persons on the maps, the balance is bad, but most of all it is a terrible UI !!!
  24. jaworpa
    Dec 2, 2021
    1
    This is not a game - this is garbage.
    Why always when these losers with pink hairs start work on something it becomes cow ****
  25. hamidrezaa67
    Dec 3, 2021
    0
    i couldnt find anything about this game to like .... rage quit everyday ...seriosly what happened to dice...
  26. Meyoh
    Dec 3, 2021
    0
    Call of Fortnitefield 2042.

    The games is made to sell skins, with these god awful specialists. - Destruction is gone - Scoreboard is gone to protect snowflakes feelings. - Can't make a squad, or when the game is full you can't even change squad or kick players from your squad. - Awful maps! Big, empty, made without any love. (NOT ONE ENJOYABLE MAP!) - Can't see the distance on    Call of Fortnitefield 2042.

    The games is made to sell skins, with these god awful specialists.
    - Destruction is gone
    - Scoreboard is gone to protect snowflakes feelings.
    - Can't make a squad, or when the game is full you can't even change squad or kick players from your squad.
    - Awful maps! Big, empty, made without any love. (NOT ONE ENJOYABLE MAP!)
    - Can't see the distance on kills
    - So much more, but can't be asked to write more about this ****

    I really REALLY hate this game!
    This ain't Battlefield, not even close!

    And don't think this can be repaired, cause the specialists will be there no matter what.    … Expand
  27. Accad0
    Dec 3, 2021
    2
    Poor performances, empty maps, infatry rampage by vehicules, bugs bugs bugs, idiotic SpEcIaLiStS Fortnite CoD style, cringe characters lines, new update breaking even more the game, no content, Dumb Santa skins, No destruction anymore...
    BF used to be a brilliant franchise. Seems EA wants it to become the new "Escape from BattleNite OverZone Siege" and sell cringe skins and specialist for    Poor performances, empty maps, infatry rampage by vehicules, bugs bugs bugs, idiotic SpEcIaLiStS Fortnite CoD style, cringe characters lines, new update breaking even more the game, no content, Dumb Santa skins, No destruction anymore...
    BF used to be a brilliant franchise. Seems EA wants it to become the new "Escape from BattleNite OverZone Siege" and sell cringe skins and specialist for newcomers while giving their loyal comunity the game they deserved after the MEH BFV. Sadly, with new intern changes, it sounds like the game/franchise is dying for real. Marketing got me, like "the devs listened to us", Please... 2021...What a sad time for video games.    … Expand
  28. Sul1
    Dec 3, 2021
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The hit registration not working properly! Glitch everywhere and crash! Good job Dice, very good job!… Expand
  29. Vae-VictusPR
    Dec 3, 2021
    1
    This game should not have been release in this state. This is not Battlefield , this is a mixture of features from many different games that NO BAttlefield fan asked for. Battlefield 4 from 9 years ago has better destruction, UI, Class System , Squad System than this garbage.
  30. JohnnyZoo
    Dec 3, 2021
    0
    Don’t spend your money for dat cr4p. Yo DICE better respect ur audience. I really love BF, but this one is really bad.
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  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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