- Publisher: Electronic Arts
- Release Date: Nov 19, 2021
- Also On: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X
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Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 4864 Ratings
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Positive: 618 out of 4864
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Mixed: 242 out of 4864
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Negative: 4,004 out of 4864
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Nov 23, 2021Worst battlefield! Never place pre-order of EA games, or they will make similar games all the time!!!
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Nov 23, 2021We want bf4.5 and we get a kid game
No scoreboards.
No classes.
No destruction.
No servers.
No stats.
No chat. -
Nov 23, 2021This game sucks. I'm done with the Battlefield franchise for good. I'm never coming back. I got my refund and it's done. I hate you ea, I hate you dice. I'm finished. I'll never buy another Battlefield game again. You should quit while your ahead. I can't take anymore of your ****
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Nov 23, 2021
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Nov 24, 2021
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Nov 25, 2021
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Nov 25, 2021This is nothing but a **** money grab. EA IS OUT OF THEIR DAMN MIND. THEY RUINED THE KEY MECHANIC OF CLASSES TO SELL **** SKINS. TEAM PLAY IS DEAD . Battelfield 2042 is pathetic. Maps are disgusting 0 cover . They litteraly look like the flat world from Minecraft.
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Nov 25, 2021Angry Joe said it all, I'd say also a completely random and unbalanced matchmaking.
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Nov 25, 2021
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Nov 25, 2021Battlefield is DEAD. Dont wast your time and passion on DICE anymore. Keep away from 2042 and you may have a nice day.
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Nov 25, 2021DICE use three years made it.A piece of **** I can't understand who made the maps.So idiot. Look at the old battlefield maps. Where are they? And weapons. Weapon parts are like **** If you think you can’t do it well, can you take a good look at the weapons in the previous Battlefield series? I want play battlefied not cod ow and rainbowsix.I'm so disappointed with 2042. It's just a pile of ****
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Nov 25, 2021Absolute hot mess. Avoid. Definitely regret purchasing this game and would have rather bought a game where the developers are actually passionate about delivering a polished game
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Dec 9, 2021This game should never have been a Battlefield title. They removed classes and added things nobody asked for like robot dogs and sentry guns. I’m afraid this is the end for the Battlefield series.
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Mar 22, 2022
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Nov 21, 2021
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Nov 20, 2021
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Nov 24, 2021Jesus Christ, how the hell did they let this pile of crap out the door.
Muffled sound, clunky movement, poorly optimised, awful front end, just a freaking mess imo.
Come back in a years time if I was you. -
Nov 22, 2021
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Nov 17, 2021
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Nov 17, 2021
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Nov 19, 2021No server browser (ie., Skill Based Matchmaking) no scoreboards, no global chat, "weapon bloom" so unskilled players feel better about themselves. Way more issues with the core gameplay than this, but overall, not Battlefield.
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Nov 25, 2021Played the beta, and trial….
Anyone that had any hand in making this abomination should take a serious break and do some soul searching. Complete joke of a game. Nothing like battlefield. Nothing like a Triple A game. Just plain irresponsible. Shame on you DICE and EA. First time I didn’t purchase a battlefield game since buying ebery single one since 1942. -
Nov 19, 2021Absolutely terrible. I have nothing good to say about this game. Awful gameplay
Awful design
Buggy
Not a technical advance. -
Nov 22, 2021I deleted it after the 10h trial. I no longer want to be lied as a customer by marketing. Technically and playfully one of the most unfinished Battlefields of all time.
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Nov 22, 2021
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Dec 3, 2021
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Nov 23, 2021Constant connection issues, can rarely get into a game and when I can the maps are pretty bad, very poorly balanced map design that feels more like a game made 20 years ago rather than a top tier title in 2021. I would not recommend this game for at least another 6 months when hopefully these issues have been fixed.
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Nov 25, 2021Absolute garbage game. Bugged, no content, terrible and lifeless maps, no classes, no scoreboard, no servers, no stats, crappy "specialists" that are only there to milk people when they release P2W specialists.
Here is a list of everything removed from this game compared to previous editions:
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Nov 25, 2021Dude, it's **** sucks. Trust me. Not lying. Just crap. **** the DICE. **** the EA. Every single time we receive pieces of **** **** from this company. For what?
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Nov 22, 2021Wow so glad I played this on trial. Saved me £50. Less concerned with bugs, VERY concerned with all the missing things that made BF3/4 good (Squad/team switching, weapon variety, community servers, server search for main modes etc)
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Nov 24, 2021
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Nov 22, 2021This is complete garbage.
The game is barely functional, completely unoriginal and a big downgrade of any previous Battlefield title.
Even that garbage Battlefield V is better than this.
No single player, no classes, no stats, no scoreboard and the list goes on and on.
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Nov 21, 2021Game crashing, unable to join games. Graphics poorly optimized, with bad maps and reused textures. Poor hit detection, and overall class system makes no sense. Don’t buy.
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Nov 25, 2021worst BF ever..Good features were removed..Maps are shallow, no tactics possible..Its just meat grinder for 60 dollars with even bad gunplay (bloom)....see you in BF4..
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Nov 27, 2021Trash game, the last EA game I will ever purchase. This is more of a mix of COD and APEX with a sprinkle of Battlefield. Don't buy this game wait for sale it's coming fast like all the rest of EA games.
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Nov 24, 2021Worst launch I have ever seen. Game is literally incomplete, buildings with no collision, a forth of the week-long bf4 had bugged vehicles, weapons that just doesn't work, this is literally ridiculous
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Nov 20, 2021It's a giant pile of garbage I'm not going to go into detail because a lot of other people have done a really good job of doing that but the game at this stage is a mediocre at best free to play shooter and a absolutely horrible battlefield title. I really wish I didn't pre-order the game. It is simply not a battlefield game ans it's not what we were wating for at all!
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Nov 18, 2021Completely unfinished rugged game. Animations, vehicles, gunplay is horrible. Not worth 60 dollars.
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Dec 4, 2021This is not BF. Save your money. This is buggy, doesnt have any basic BF features, full of gimmicks, oh and it's unfinished. Don't think I'd play again if it was free.
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Nov 17, 2021
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Nov 23, 2021Broken mess and I couldn’t refund. They charged $100 for an extra beta essentially.
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Nov 19, 2021Marketing took over - this means that ads look great, but game is **** Took away all what made BF unique. Don’t buy.
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Nov 23, 2021fui jogar a versao trial no gamepass pc, e ta todo bugado, mal otimizado.
O game nao tem proposta alguma.
Superou o Hardline em ruindade. -
Nov 24, 2021DICE wants to charge you $70 USD for a product/service that has the poorest quality of any Tiple A released game of all time.
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Nov 24, 2021thx ripple effect for bf portal
please do the next part BF, please!
bf 2042 full sh1t -
Nov 19, 2021
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Nov 22, 2021Its like they removed everything that was good from previous titles, made some ridiculus aircrafts and they removed all sorts of stats.
performance is trash
asking price for this is insane
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Nov 20, 2021A sorry excuse for a BF game. Many beloved features like classes have been removed and on top of that it has a ton of bugs. Yet another AAA game disappointment. It's better than cyberpunk.. but not by much.
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Nov 24, 2021Game released only for Yotuber who wins RTX 3090 for free.
Happy to see EA sinking.
After Jeff Grubb announced the postponement of the release of BF2042 to 2022, EA shares fell by 7%. In a desperation to recapture the shares, it marked the pre-mature launch of 2042. Result. A TRASH!
Wait for more games from EA, these days it's just going to be a disappointment. -
Nov 23, 2021
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Nov 19, 2021Bad optimization lame maps laggy servers cant even change squads or choose servers
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Nov 22, 2021bad gameplay,
bad story,
bad audio-engineering,
no chat, why ther is no chat or scoreboards?
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Nov 19, 2021
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Nov 25, 2021Worst performance issues i’ve ever seen in a game, game feels empty and boring
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Nov 20, 2021
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Nov 25, 2021BAD of bad battlefield in the world. Very big maps, bad weapon, bad sound, bad ping. Very, Very BAD.
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Nov 24, 2021
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Nov 20, 2021No destruction whatsoever, no modes other than conquest and breakthrough in the 2042 game, bad PC performance,no typical classes. The game was built not as a BF game that's obvious but its bad even then.
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Nov 26, 2021This is a a distaster This game is not set in 2042
It gets between 20-42 fps
It has a total of 2042 bugs This is a disgrace to battlefield franchise
Please dont buy this unless you are insane or an extremely blind battlefield fan with a 3090 -
Nov 25, 2021
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Nov 25, 2021Jogo mais do mesmo e tb cheio de bugs e não tem muito inovação na gameplay, e call of dutty tá mais bonito e bom de se jogar.
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Nov 23, 2021Worst game in the series. Call of duty bad clone. And xbox version have lags. PC crossplay does not turn off.
You could improve battlefield 5. -
Nov 20, 2021Worst Bf ever ! Terrible maps ! No weapons! Lots of bug’s! Portal mode have no maps !
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Nov 23, 2021**** of a game.Just stop it just stop buying call of duty and bf.Time to stop.Y fking fanboys still buying this horse piss thats company like EA and activision getting away with this kind of **** Stop it play some good games there are so many good games stop it.NO STOP stfu and stop watching streamers have a life then go play some good games there are so many.
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Nov 19, 2021This game is a huge disappointment.
No classes
No scoreboard
No "all" chat
Weapon selection isn't good
Empty feeling maps
Unpolished and unfinished. Tons of performance issues. Don't buy, not yet at least. -
Nov 23, 2021Это больше не BATTLEFIELD , это прикольный шутер за 3.5к, или 5к, ну или же 7к ДЛЯ PC, которое того не стоит.
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Nov 19, 2021
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Nov 24, 2021
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Nov 19, 2021A game that was made for monetization, not good gameplay. Almost Battlefield V levels of bad! Battlefield 4 is still the best modern Battlefield you can play.
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Nov 14, 2021Bad optimization
Bad hit reg
Insane amount of spread in a arcade FPS
Servers are constantly down (out of the 16 hours I have in this game I have only been able to play 3)
Can't write Steam reviews -
Nov 23, 2021It’s hard not to be disappointed with this 2042 offering. You know when the devs said this is a game to “celebrate Battlefield”? They’ve stripped away some of the most fundamental elements of the series and added tornados and Wingsuits to make up for it. It’s Marketing 101
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Nov 15, 2021Absolute trash game. Clunky, buggy and bare bones. What a joke. Its like I am playing an alpha game not even beta. SO many things missing. Runs like crap on a high end pc
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Nov 18, 2021The worst version of game. This is not battlefield but another game. And as always we got a lot of bugs without new game experience.
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Nov 16, 2021Nothing to do with a Battlefield game… Junkfoodgame :-/
Just a fps horror with good hardware.
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Nov 16, 2021
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Nov 16, 2021все что было в старых частях топ а остальное ужас ... завезите оптимизацию хотя бы !!!!!!
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Nov 16, 2021All maps Warzone copy paste, but failed. There is no skillgap in this game right now.
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Nov 16, 2021Убрали всё наилучшее из серии, третья часть и четвёртая шедевры, это не стоит своих денег
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Nov 16, 2021This is More worse than BF 4 release. So many performance Problems. Unbelievable
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Nov 16, 2021My main complaint about optimization is that it is not here. I have a computer above the minimum system requirements, but there are constant freezes and statters. 60 fps is not stable. I liked the game, there are no quibbles about it, but the technical component is disgusting. Please do not write system requirements if they are not true.
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Nov 16, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Nov 17, 2021The game is simply awful. Thank god I have EA Access and didn't spend 100 bucks on that crap of a game . Battlefield is officially dead . It's been 8 years since they released a decent game . DICE and EA are joke . I will always remember the good old days back when the Battlefield community was great .
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Nov 17, 2021
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Nov 18, 2021Horrible - gunplay, TTK , spawns , maps , hazard zone . Everything is wrong with this game
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Nov 18, 2021This game is a joke, not battlefield, lot of content is missing and it's for full price, I hoped this game would be good as other battlefields but it's not. As everybody else says: unfinished and broken game.
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Nov 18, 2021I have played Battlefield games since the original 1942 twenty years ago. This is hands down the worst game of them all. Its shockingly bad. It's so far removed from the last few games. There's no fluidity in movement, the maps are just a marathon simulator. The Ttk is terrible. I am glad I just took a punt on EA Pro to try it for X14. 99simulator,
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Nov 25, 2021Ist mein erstes Battlefield,habe mich schon sehr darauf gefreut aber mich hat das Spiel nur enttäuscht.
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Nov 18, 2021The most broken and unfinished BF game at launch with missing features, bugs and glitches, tribble servers, Bad UI, Horrible sound design and the worst extraction battle royale gamemode in the market:
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Nov 24, 2021
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Nov 19, 2021Game is fun enough but they launched without the basics a video game needs. Where the f is the scoreboard?????? That's ridiculous that a shooter wouldnt have that. Gunplay is fun but the game is so obviously unfinished.
Dont buy it wait till it goes on sale a couple months down the road and get it for $30-$40 -
Nov 19, 2021I just played one first game and were already met with 2 bugs one of which was game breaking.
Also im struggling to stay above 60fps with my rtx3070 regardless of what graphic settings i am on. -
Nov 19, 2021
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Nov 19, 2021
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Nov 19, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Nov 19, 2021
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Nov 19, 2021Biggest disappointment in gaming. Huge fan of all the battlefield games, they absolutely butchered everything that made the battlefield franchise great. Wouldn’t be surprised if 2042 lost support and the game dies in a couple months.
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Nov 20, 2021
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Nov 20, 2021
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Nov 20, 2021A game that sucks so badly that you want to go to the trouble of creating an metacritic account to neglect it.
If it were at least lighter and didn't have fatal bugs, I'd give it a 5/10. -
Nov 20, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
Awards & Rankings
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Feb 15, 2022All 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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Dec 23, 2021The 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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Dec 16, 2021Despite 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.