Battlefield 2042

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  1. Satyr4
    Jan 7, 2022
    0
    This review is a legacy feature. Why would you have such a brutal expectation that you could read it.
  2. xSilvertooth
    Jan 8, 2022
    0
    WARNING!!! Don’t buy this game. Absolute trash and EA/DICE should be ashamed to take money for this garbage
  3. Roystur
    Jan 9, 2022
    2
    Battlefield 1 raised the bar for online multiplayer FPS (gameplay and graphics both sublime). I struggled to find the same affection for Battlefield V, and so was hoping Battlefield 2042 would being things back up to par. But..... Holy God! It's awful! I mean, really, really awful! Ten years ago the ropey graphics and erratic gameplay may have been just about acceptable, but gamers expectBattlefield 1 raised the bar for online multiplayer FPS (gameplay and graphics both sublime). I struggled to find the same affection for Battlefield V, and so was hoping Battlefield 2042 would being things back up to par. But..... Holy God! It's awful! I mean, really, really awful! Ten years ago the ropey graphics and erratic gameplay may have been just about acceptable, but gamers expect much, much more than this shoddy mess. Best to give this game a very wide berth.… Expand
  4. skirpar2
    Jan 11, 2022
    0
    Put a bit more than 100 hours into it and as a long time battlefield fan i am just completely disappointed of every aspect in the game. Never going to touch that game again.
  5. LordFaidal
    Jan 13, 2022
    1
    Easily the worst Battlefield title to date and a top contender for the worst Battlefield launch ever. The Battlefield series is having an identity crisis and it shows. Trying to cash in on modern games as service gimmicks and a complete disregard for what makes the series good. Incredibly disappointing. I was really looking forward to this game and was let down immensely.
  6. Franz4920
    Jan 14, 2022
    0
    This is so sad how it went's. The game is not even finished. That's the end of the Battlefield franchise.
  7. SnoopyCool
    Jan 15, 2022
    1
    Ich habe Battlefield 2042 nun 96+ Stunden gespielt und muss einfach sagen das Spiel ist ein Witz.
    Ich spiele seit 20 Jahren Battlefield, aber das, was Dice uns hier auftischt, ist einfach nur eine Sauerei.
    Das Spiel ist halb fertig und hat eine unglaublich schlechte Performanz, zu Spielbeginn ruckelt das spiel erst einmal 5min (kaum Spielbar) man kann nur mit 4 Freunden Spielen da man    Ich habe Battlefield 2042 nun 96+ Stunden gespielt und muss einfach sagen das Spiel ist ein Witz.
    Ich spiele seit 20 Jahren Battlefield, aber das, was Dice uns hier auftischt, ist einfach nur eine Sauerei.
    Das Spiel ist halb fertig und hat eine unglaublich schlechte Performanz, zu Spielbeginn ruckelt das spiel erst einmal 5min (kaum Spielbar) man kann nur mit 4 Freunden Spielen da man seinen Freunden nicht nach joinen kann, wenn das Squad voll ist, für Klans nicht spielbar.
    Gegenspieler von eigenen Kameraden kaum zu unterscheiden, da alle Spezialisten dieselben Uniformen auf beiden Seiten tragen können.
    Ich wünschte, ich könnte in die Vergangenheit und mir selber auf den Finger hauen, als ich auf den Kauf bouton drückte.    … Expand
  8. Frozen_81
    Jan 16, 2022
    1
    Battlefield 2042 shows how profit is set over community. The game is so far from a former BF, you think it’s been developed by a total different studio, ok it mainly is, as we know most of the people from dice left after BF V. This is something you recognized already on BF V. The game just don’t have a soul, no immersion, it doesn’t feel like BF.

    Remember BF3? Davamand Peak? Were the    Battlefield 2042 shows how profit is set over community. The game is so far from a former BF, you think it’s been developed by a total different studio, ok it mainly is, as we know most of the people from dice left after BF V. This is something you recognized already on BF V. The game just don’t have a soul, no immersion, it doesn’t feel like BF.

    Remember BF3? Davamand Peak? Were the whole team jumped down the mountain?
    Cassias Boarder? Driving with a Jeep, seeing the antenna fall? Remember that pushing soundtrack in the map loading screens? Remember the screams, shouts and sounds on the game? You can endlessly continue that with all former BF.

    Nothing of that will be found in 2042.

    Performance and bugs can be fixed and will most likely be fixed. But changing the game will not happen - this is on the same level as Hardline :(

    So sad but most likely the last BF that I have bought.

    PS: Customer Service EA sucks even harder then the game when it comes to refund

    You won’t find anything of that in 2042.    … Expand
  9. Jaxc67
    Jan 16, 2022
    0
    WHY IS BATTLEFIELD A HERO SHOOTER NOW. Who did this. We waited 3 years and you turned this game into a hero shooter with no team play. IT DOSNT EVEN HAVE A DAMN SCOREBOARD. CASUALFIELD 2077 VANGUARD
  10. GinaHasa
    Jan 17, 2022
    0
    EA lied and conned me to giving them my hard earned money and delivered me a game that is opposite to what was advertised. EA should be held responsible for this crime. They purposely commit this kind of fraudulent activity of selling a product that is a total unplayable and broken just to make the Christmas sales. I'm a Battlefield veteran, but because of this game, I will never play orEA lied and conned me to giving them my hard earned money and delivered me a game that is opposite to what was advertised. EA should be held responsible for this crime. They purposely commit this kind of fraudulent activity of selling a product that is a total unplayable and broken just to make the Christmas sales. I'm a Battlefield veteran, but because of this game, I will never play or purchase any EA / Dice products. They've ruined the Battlefield franchise.… Expand
  11. Tomsen765
    Jan 17, 2022
    0
    Its Buggy... the aiming is a Piece of **** and the fun factor ist Not there. I dont understand how they can release a game like that.
  12. Zux
    Jan 27, 2022
    0
    Кратко:
    1. Нет контената
    2. Баги даже после патчей 3.Сами патчи не привносят никах нововведений и каких-либо серьезных изменений. 4. Разработчики безрукие инвалиды. 5.И да, если этот калл станет бесплатным, вы не сможете вернуть деньги, так же как и я не смогу вернуть свои 5500 рублей за предзаказ. Dice вы потеряли любое к вам доверие, это был последний раз когда я купил вашу игру    Кратко:
    1. Нет контената
    2. Баги даже после патчей
    3.Сами патчи не привносят никах нововведений и каких-либо серьезных изменений.
    4. Разработчики безрукие инвалиды.
    5.И да, если этот калл станет бесплатным, вы не сможете вернуть деньги, так же как и я не смогу вернуть свои 5500 рублей за предзаказ.

    Dice вы потеряли любое к вам доверие, это был последний раз когда я купил вашу игру на вашем честном слове.
    Компании EA нужно отдать честь, ведь убивать игры желанием заработать гениально, желаю вам нищеты в будущем.    … Expand
  13. yejoce3532
    Jan 27, 2022
    0
    The game is unplayable and was sold and have after that gotten planes to become a free to play model from publisher abuse without any buyer compensation.
  14. farsansmorsa
    Jan 28, 2022
    0
    Wasted 60€ on this pieace of crap! Even though they fix all bugs and glitches its still not a battlefield game.
  15. LXIX
    Jan 28, 2022
    0
    I was stoked for battlefield 2042. Been playing bf4 with around 4k hours. Man was I really let down with this game though. Bugs, no voip, no score board. Literally spend more time running then actually playing the game. So many features missing. I was stoked for customizing guns and characters but Holy hell... literally a straight rip off of call of duty. I wanted military style equipment.I was stoked for battlefield 2042. Been playing bf4 with around 4k hours. Man was I really let down with this game though. Bugs, no voip, no score board. Literally spend more time running then actually playing the game. So many features missing. I was stoked for customizing guns and characters but Holy hell... literally a straight rip off of call of duty. I wanted military style equipment. Team based game play. Not this turd. If this was an indy development charging $25 for this game, that would feel acceptable. I spent 120 on this garbage to get a unfinished untested game? Shame on me for thinking ill pre-order a game since I haven't done that in many many years because of this crap right here. DO NOT RECOMMEND… Expand
  16. Bazyli
    Jan 29, 2022
    2
    So its 3 months after realease. Game is still broken, with a lot of glitches and bugs. We still got the same, open maps and boring guns with so slow progress. And for me, personaly worse think, is they didnt told us any damn plans for future. 3 months of big fixing witch brings even more new bugs, or old glitches come back. But Hey, we still dunno anythink. Theres no communication, not oneSo its 3 months after realease. Game is still broken, with a lot of glitches and bugs. We still got the same, open maps and boring guns with so slow progress. And for me, personaly worse think, is they didnt told us any damn plans for future. 3 months of big fixing witch brings even more new bugs, or old glitches come back. But Hey, we still dunno anythink. Theres no communication, not one tweet about plans. Its digsusting. The only **** we know, that theres will be update next month. But what will it be, damn You, we dont know. New map? New guns? Bringing 10% of content from older bf's? Or maby just skins and season pass to beg for more money?
    And the last thing about it. The game on realease didnt work, and the 10 day beta also (cose there was no day1 patch xdd). You colndt shoot, there was no hitbox, coundt spawn, change weapon. Who from IGN or other **** give it 8/10? Xdd Did they even play it ffs? I gues time od those portals ended with paid revisions some time ago, but that one is not even funny. Its sad. Like the whole gamę.    … Expand
  17. Ra1dM4X
    Jan 29, 2022
    0
    DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!

    this game is a bigger pile of steaming **** than what the dinosaurs left behind in the first Jurassic Park movie, it is so far away from the Battlefield spirit that it should have been called Call of Duty 2042. i have played every single Battlefield game since BF 1942 and if you combine every single error and glitch from 1942 and until battlefield V it would still    DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!

    this game is a bigger pile of steaming **** than what the dinosaurs left behind in the first Jurassic Park movie, it is so far away from the Battlefield spirit that it should have been called Call of Duty 2042.
    i have played every single Battlefield game since BF 1942 and if you combine every single error and glitch from 1942 and until battlefield V it would still be short of the amount of glitches and bugs 2042 has and that is saying something, currently farming simulator 2022 has more players than 2042 heck even the parody game has more than twice the amount of players,

    All the options like the scoreboard making a squad private and kicking from your squad so you can actually play with your friends have been completely removed from this game, its like the lead developer was some kind of SJW that wanted to force everyone to play together and give out participation throphies for just installing the game

    i hate the call of duty series because it caters to the arcade game style and at this point i'm more interested in playing call of duty

    TLDR: you're better off burning the money they want for this game as it will give you more enjoyment than this landfill sized pile of ****    … Expand
  18. Bloody096
    Feb 3, 2022
    0
    Worst Battlefield game in history. Too many removed content from previous games, CoD like new animations and gameplay... Everything battlefield has done right is gone in this game.
  19. Heksu91
    Feb 4, 2022
    0
    Amazing. Bought the game two months before the release. From the info EA was releasing, the expectancy was high.

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

    The scam cost me 90€.
  20. bf2042istrash
    Feb 16, 2022
    0
    This game is a disaster, absolute trash, unplayable piece of garbage without any support. I bought ultimate edition and got only pain in my ass. GIVE US OUR MONEY BACK!
    This is a huge lesson for me. I never preorder any game again ESPECIALLY EA GAME.
  21. xDev120
    Mar 20, 2022
    0
    I don't know how to describe this piece of garbage that Resembles A Game.

    DICE wtf. After so many years of managing to make perfect games like BF1, now you sell us this garbage. It took DICE three **** years to release this **** destroying every good aspect of the battlefield franchise. Why the **** would they remove the good old 4 classes to add these Fortnite-like SpECiaLIsTs? It was    I don't know how to describe this piece of garbage that Resembles A Game.

    DICE wtf. After so many years of managing to make perfect games like BF1, now you sell us this garbage. It took DICE three **** years to release this **** destroying every good aspect of the battlefield franchise.

    Why the **** would they remove the good old 4 classes to add these Fortnite-like SpECiaLIsTs? It was one of the main advantages of battlefield over other games; everything was balanced, you couldn't run a sniper with a rocket launcher and an automatic turret.

    As for optimization, I just won't talk about it. Out of 10 tries, the 6 it didnt even launch properly. Sometimes the gun models wouldn't load, sometimes the game itself wouldn't load.

    So, if you are thinking of buying this game, don't. Wait for it to go like 20€ (or even free, as the rumours suggest) and then you think again about it. Or you don't know, they may even release an UPDATE, something that for now belongs to science fiction.    … Expand
  22. themilkmanbot
    Mar 20, 2022
    0
    Worst release of 2021, worst release ever in the BF franchise. The decision makers related to this title deserve to fail as hard as this game has
  23. kzlato
    Mar 22, 2022
    0
    This is not a Battlefield game, its a trash. This game don't bring back BF4 feelings, they just try to create another game from zero and actually they need to make a BF4 2.0
  24. Wenzthat
    Mar 22, 2022
    0
    The specialists make zero sense for a battlefield game. I really don’t even know where to begin with this mess. I immediately requested a refund. EA and DICE have successfully killed this franchise. Those who are still playing have a scoreboard being added to the game to look forward to. I can’t even anymore. RIP.
  25. JJTomo
    Mar 23, 2022
    1
    Atrocious. Not remotely close to what was expected just terrible. Pathetic attempt of a battlefield game.
  26. WondrousDotLy
    Mar 27, 2022
    0
    I'll never pre-order anything from EA ever again. This is the worst experience you can get from battlefield franchise
  27. Dranuke
    Mar 27, 2022
    0
    I am ashamed to have spent over $100 on this game. Clearly, that is not how I am supposed to feel with a purchase I was looking forward to, I feel truly scammed. There is nothing that I can say that has already been said.
  28. Sidvrath
    Apr 9, 2022
    2
    This is the worst battlefield in a long time. Save your money and buy something else!
  29. fb10nl
    May 6, 2022
    0
    This game is pure garbage, a total waste of money. Unplayable, buggy, crashy.
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    Jun 2, 2022
    0
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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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