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  1. Nov 13, 2021
    0
    Game is terrible. On ultra settings, 4k I get about 70FPS. In 1920x1080 low settings, I get about 90 FPS. Can someone explain this to me? Unoptimized trash. You get killed every 10 seconds because there are TOO many damn people running around. Everything interesting is locked behind progression but there is not enough in the game to warrant this. You have 5 guns to choose from when youGame is terrible. On ultra settings, 4k I get about 70FPS. In 1920x1080 low settings, I get about 90 FPS. Can someone explain this to me? Unoptimized trash. You get killed every 10 seconds because there are TOO many damn people running around. Everything interesting is locked behind progression but there is not enough in the game to warrant this. You have 5 guns to choose from when you first start... FIVE.

    Screw the lack of content, the optimization or lack thereof makes the game completely unplayable.

    DO NOT BUY.
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  2. Nov 16, 2021
    0
    Juego para tanques y helicópteros la infanteria esta para que farmen los helis y los tankes, los mapas descampados que favorece el farmeo, el modo portal no da exp y no lo juega ni dios, y el hazard zone mejor ni hablar. Esta para cerrarlo y replantearse todo o En un mes está el Olvido
  3. Nov 16, 2021
    0
    The lag is unbearable on my series X. Most games slow down so badly you can't move your character, then some vehicle runs you over that isn't haven't connection issues. My Series X is hardwired into a business class fiber connection so the issue isn't local. Graphically it's really dissapointing. If you don't get a vehicle at the beginning of the match it's a running simulator for severalThe lag is unbearable on my series X. Most games slow down so badly you can't move your character, then some vehicle runs you over that isn't haven't connection issues. My Series X is hardwired into a business class fiber connection so the issue isn't local. Graphically it's really dissapointing. If you don't get a vehicle at the beginning of the match it's a running simulator for several minutes so most people wait for a few minutes, hit the respawn button to kill themselves and respawn on thier team. Ground vehicle weapons are a mess, most are extremely underpowered, it'll take 10 direct hits with a 50 caliber mounted weapon to kill someone at close range. The game isn't stable, menus don't load, pictures won't appear, the sound will come in late. Very disappointed, i'm a huge battlefield fan and this has been the worst battlefield experience i've ever played (and I'm an old fart). I feel like i paid 90 bucks to play the pre-alpha. Expand
  4. Nov 15, 2021
    3
    I did my 10 hours via game pass and all I can say, that the game is not appealing at all. In fact, is it battlefield at all? Classes? Scoreboard? Servers? The hell dude.

    At this point Vanguard feels like an actually good game.
  5. 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.
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  6. Nov 14, 2021
    1
    Like a worse version of COD; and that is saying a lot.

    No idea what they were going for; the only saving thing is the custom modes where you can play the old BF maps.
  7. Nov 15, 2021
    1
    What makes video games great is the ability to just relax and start them up. This isn't the case with Battlefield™ 2042, I feel as though I spend more time trying to make it work than actually playing
  8. Nov 15, 2021
    1
    Игру дорабатывать еще год минимум, оформил возврат денег.
  9. 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.
  10. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    This game would be like a 5/10 if It didn't have RANDOM BULLET SPREAD. The guns are literally broken 0/10
  11. Nov 14, 2021
    1
    I don't enjoy the game. Too faced pace, would prefer a return to 1942 or bf 2 style. I think Battlefield should stop it's nonsense of following COD, and instead pivot a new direction and look to the footsteps of ARMA and Squad.
  12. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    No scoreboards.
    No classes.
    No destruction.
    No servers.
    No stats.
    No chat.
    To big maps
    CHAOS! state of complete disorder
    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.
  13. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    This is unacceptable and continues to prove that the industry cannot be trusted and needs a serious and consistent movement from the consumers.
  14. Nov 14, 2021
    3
    Poor performance optimisation, 90fps with 3080ti and i7 9700k, The UI is a mess, gun play feels off. Cant customize the Hud to improve visibility. no scoreboard. can't use rockets and c5 at the same time for anti vehicle play. maps aren't great for infantry players. search reddit and you will find many more reviews
  15. Nov 14, 2021
    1
    This is an insult to call this Battlefield. Not just for the community but for the previous BF developers. It's a cheap mobile game. Do your remember what was PTFO? Do you remember what did you like in BF3 and BF4? Teamwork, weapon customization, PTFO, gunplay, creative maps. Okay now forget it. You will get instead bugs, specailist, no scoreboard, bad maps, poor performance and soundThis is an insult to call this Battlefield. Not just for the community but for the previous BF developers. It's a cheap mobile game. Do your remember what was PTFO? Do you remember what did you like in BF3 and BF4? Teamwork, weapon customization, PTFO, gunplay, creative maps. Okay now forget it. You will get instead bugs, specailist, no scoreboard, bad maps, poor performance and sound design, no domination or infantry heavy mode. Just read the reviews here and if you stay wanna play try with EA play. Expand
  16. Nov 14, 2021
    0
    The specialists are horrible characters not from any type of war
    The into animations to a match are the laziest cinematography I have ever witnessed
    The graphics look washed out and outdated The ui and menu interface is clunky and poorly designed The waves are not real in nosher canals The sound design is terrible apart from explosions they completely ruined bad company 2 mortar strike
    The specialists are horrible characters not from any type of war
    The into animations to a match are the laziest cinematography I have ever witnessed
    The graphics look washed out and outdated
    The ui and menu interface is clunky and poorly designed
    The waves are not real in nosher canals
    The sound design is terrible apart from explosions they completely ruined bad company 2 mortar strike
    Loads of bad design choices for example looking out of a building they try and create the transition of looking from dark to light instead it just looks pathetic
    3rd person transitions are terrible Team work is not encouraged
    They cant even do a teach you how to play conquest video properly
    Views from vehicles have a washed out look like a smear instead of a window
    Falling from the sky is nothing how a dead body would fall
    Revive cam doesn't make sense
    Doesn't feel like a war
    Is not fun anymore
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  17. Nov 14, 2021
    1
    Это разочарование. Как можно было ЭТО сделать?. Карты огромные,пустые. Я старался в неё поиграть. Но нет.
  18. Nov 14, 2021
    1
    Game is not worth the money . Bugs on day one no variation of games. Crashes on my pc 2080 super i9900k. Fragrances horrible when working
  19. Nov 15, 2021
    3
    Really disappointing. The gunplay isn't good, the UI makes it so hard to tell what's going on. The bugs are also pretty horrendous too. Might be sorted in 6 months / a year but who knows.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
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  22. 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.
  23. Nov 15, 2021
    3
    This is not battlefield, no team play is required for win a massive 64vs64. Heroes choose destroyed the essence and principal foundation of the battlefield series : classes (medic,ingeniere) you don't have to be a medic... every one can be one.... apply that at all in the game. So after that i gona used part of an other Comment :

    No scoreboards. No classes. No destruction. No server
    This is not battlefield, no team play is required for win a massive 64vs64. Heroes choose destroyed the essence and principal foundation of the battlefield series : classes (medic,ingeniere) you don't have to be a medic... every one can be one.... apply that at all in the game. So after that i gona used part of an other Comment :

    No scoreboards.
    No classes.
    No destruction.
    No server browser.
    No stats.
    Change team is forbidden in game.

    Ect ect... so what ? we stand agains EA who think cod is a good way to approche the battlefield way ?? Yes ! and to the Press who give 80 or 90 meta score ??? WHAT THE F... thats insane
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  24. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    After hitting level 40 I have no desire to play this game anymore

    Basically this game is full of bugs, worse optimisation than beta, specialist discourages teamplay (Casper's drone) and countless broken promises to veteran players. Portal is a saving grace in this game but XP farming servers ruins all its purposes, Now they have disabled XP gain from playing custom Portal servers, So
    After hitting level 40 I have no desire to play this game anymore

    Basically this game is full of bugs, worse optimisation than beta, specialist discourages teamplay (Casper's drone) and countless broken promises to veteran players.

    Portal is a saving grace in this game but XP farming servers ruins all its purposes, Now they have disabled XP gain from playing custom Portal servers, So what is the point of playing it?

    Such a big sadge to say such things in this review , But I suggest you to buy other games instead for this price point, Battlefield 2042 doesn't meet the Triple A game standard
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  25. Nov 15, 2021
    3
    Its hard to believe this came out after Battlefield 1 and V.
    I don't agree with some of the decision being made like removing the scoreboard, all chat and the four class system which is a staple of the series.
  26. Nov 15, 2021
    1
    This game is absolutely plagued with problems.

    The framerates are terrible, random bullet spread, inconsistent and clunky menu, hit registration, MANY load screens. To join a match, you enter a loading screen, followed by an animation, followed by a loading screen, followed by an animation and some cringey horrible one liner from some forgettable specialist, followed by a loading
    This game is absolutely plagued with problems.

    The framerates are terrible, random bullet spread, inconsistent and clunky menu, hit registration, MANY load screens.

    To join a match, you enter a loading screen, followed by an animation, followed by a loading screen, followed by an animation and some cringey horrible one liner from some forgettable specialist, followed by a loading screen...

    Then if you're lucky and don't have an error at this point, you get a 30 second count down, followed by a movie intro to the map you're on.

    If you make it this far... then congratulations, you can now play the half finished buggy mess - unless it puts you in a match on the "Victory/Defeat" screen, which happens way to often - then... rinse and repeat.

    This is so bad - and that's the process you go through before you even get to the game breaking bugs.

    If there were ZERO bugs, and great performance - then this game would possibly be a 70% at best.

    Right now, if you have a 3090 and the top of the line CPU... your game is still going to be a buggy, low FPS mess.

    Any review site that put this at 60% or above, is absolutely not to be trusted - and if they're making money from these reviews, are straight up fraudulent.
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  27. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    For 89€ Not Playable, ist ne riesen Frechheit.
    Performance -8/10, Hitscan -4/10, eine Performance wie bei einer technical Alpha. Ohne Worte
  28. Nov 15, 2021
    1
    This is NOT Battlefield anymore

    No scoreboards.
    No classes.
    No destruction.
    No servers.
    No stats.
    No chat.
    They should of remastered battlefield 3 or 4 and just skip this garbage.
  29. Nov 15, 2021
    1
    They take bf4 remove 75% of content from it and add a wing suit, game done.
    -No map select
    -No team select -No squad select -No oprative select in hazard zone -No ablility to spawn after some time after game start -No scoreboard -Grind 1200+ kills for 1 skin -Unkillable vehicles -Different progresion for US and RU vehicles -lack of maps and modes -Net code of terrible and lag
    They take bf4 remove 75% of content from it and add a wing suit, game done.
    -No map select
    -No team select
    -No squad select
    -No oprative select in hazard zone
    -No ablility to spawn after some time after game start
    -No scoreboard
    -Grind 1200+ kills for 1 skin
    -Unkillable vehicles
    -Different progresion for US and RU vehicles
    -lack of maps and modes
    -Net code of terrible and lag all time
    +Im finaly can pick any weapon
    -there not many weapons to pick
    -maps fell empty even with 128 ppl
    -they try make operatives with catchphrase and its fell cringe
    Jast make patch so im can pick any weapon as any class in bf4 not this.
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  30. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    It's sad to see my favorite franchise turning into whatever BF2042 is. So many gameplay changes that were obviously made just for cosmetic-selling reasons or to appeal to audiences other than the Battlefield community. I just hope that Dice will learn from this and go back to its roots. But I don't have much hope.
  31. Nov 16, 2021
    0
    Просто отвратительная игра ,а я её ещё так ждал ( ужасная оптимизация ,мало оружия ,внедрение специалистов ,долгая прокачка оружия-как непонятно кто вечно с 1 бегаешь что бы прокачать полностью ,большое количество багов,большие карты ,ужасные режимы (Кроме portal-единственное во что можно играть ),нет разрушаемости толком никакой.Просто отвратительная игра ,а я её ещё так ждал ( ужасная оптимизация ,мало оружия ,внедрение специалистов ,долгая прокачка оружия-как непонятно кто вечно с 1 бегаешь что бы прокачать полностью ,большое количество багов,большие карты ,ужасные режимы (Кроме portal-единственное во что можно играть ),нет разрушаемости толком никакой.
  32. Nov 14, 2021
    6
    Game takes what made Battlefield special and throws it out of the window and tries to copy competition and trends as much as possible.
  33. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    Very bad! Game is so weird, buggy and broken in the same time. Loading times for match lmao, 2 long
  34. Nov 13, 2021
    3
    Its a decent game. Some problems that the games has are:

    - No VoIP - No real scoreboard - No leaning - 22 guns total - No all chat - No server browser outside of Portal - No private/rented servers - Cannot join friends already in a match - No enemy footsteps - Enemies look the same as friendlies - Have to opt-out of reviving every death, no idea where medics are - Have to
    Its a decent game. Some problems that the games has are:

    - No VoIP
    - No real scoreboard
    - No leaning
    - 22 guns total
    - No all chat
    - No server browser outside of Portal
    - No private/rented servers
    - Cannot join friends already in a match
    - No enemy footsteps
    - Enemies look the same as friendlies
    - Have to opt-out of reviving every death, no idea where medics are
    - Have to re-select spawn location every spawn
    - Bullet spread/weapon inaccuracy outside of the close range
    - Lack of game modes
    - No hardcore
    - Cannot join, create, or lock a squad
    - No military ranks associated with numerical ranks
    - No resizable minimap
    - Cannot select loadout or operator before joining a server which, in certain situations, spawn you directly into the game with whatever you had last game. This happens when joining a fresh breakthrough game, mostly.
    - Obnoxious voice-overs, operators are incredibly vocal, every time you do an action they say a line and you cant turn it off.
    - Unnecessary changes to the aircraft flight characteristics from BF4 models
    - On the spawn screen tanks/helis use the same icon, you simply cannot tell if that's a transport or attack heli that you are spawning into.
    - No maps with water and thusly no boats.. despite there being a big-ass boat on the loading screen.
    - No stats page
    - No commander
    - No squad points for issuing orders or following them
    - No marksman head shot bonus for long range snipes
    - Melee take down animations have been turned to **** All enemies are brought to a standing position before one specific kill is performed.
    - Revive is glitched when downed teammate's head is too close to something.
    - Cannot tell if there is room to enter a friendly vehicle without trying to get in it.
    - Cannot dive underwater
    - Damage dealt numbers, e.g. "VEHICLE HIT 28" after hitting a tank with a rocket, have been removed. This applies to both infantry and vehicles.
    - Non-removable profanity filter
    - Repairing vehicles does not give XP
    - Faction locked weapons and gadgets in Portal
    - No rule editor support for objective based game modes
    - Grappling Hook is afraid of smoke
    - Zoom issues with sniper scopes
    - Inability to switch teams
    - Vehicle entry and exit animations have been removed

    I'm sure the game will get better as time goes on but it's kind of undercooked. Other than that the game is fine.
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  35. Nov 14, 2021
    7
    10 steps backwards. There is nothing here to compel fans of the series to invest their time or money, I guess it’s back to BF1 for me.

    Edit: After a longer play time, I can genuinely say that I was wrong. This game is fun, and it has a LOT of potential. I’m excited to see what it becomes 6 months from now, don’t let the hate machine keep you from at least giving it a try.
  36. Nov 14, 2021
    0
    the game runs butter smooth on my 5700xt and ryzen 3700x. the maps, gameplay modes, 128 player count all makes this game absolutely amazing, the first 2 days i sunk over 30 hours into it. All of these people review bombing the game are the worst reviews I've ever seen in my life. "oh the game is just copying call of duty" "the game has a worse launch than cyberpunk" we need to stop reviewthe game runs butter smooth on my 5700xt and ryzen 3700x. the maps, gameplay modes, 128 player count all makes this game absolutely amazing, the first 2 days i sunk over 30 hours into it. All of these people review bombing the game are the worst reviews I've ever seen in my life. "oh the game is just copying call of duty" "the game has a worse launch than cyberpunk" we need to stop review bombing good games cause you have some vendetta against the developers, grow up Expand
  37. Nov 14, 2021
    1
    The game is trying to be something like BF4, but it is very bad at it.
    Minuses:
    - the same specialists on both sides - a huge number of bugs - poor optimization, at 1050TI you won't get more than 40 fps - hit count - 1 out of 5, the network is terrible - a big price tag for the beta version, which needs to be finalized for another 1-2 years In the end: it's all sad. The AAA gaming
    The game is trying to be something like BF4, but it is very bad at it.
    Minuses:
    - the same specialists on both sides
    - a huge number of bugs
    - poor optimization, at 1050TI you won't get more than 40 fps
    - hit count - 1 out of 5, the network is terrible
    - a big price tag for the beta version, which needs to be finalized for another 1-2 years

    In the end: it's all sad. The AAA gaming industry is a bleak bottom right now = (
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  38. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    Это пиздец. Альфы в стиме в разы работоспособней и продуманней.
    Тонны багов
    НЕ рабочие механики
    Графика дно.
    В сравнении со старыми частями из портал 2042 это КУСОК ЕБАНОГО ГОВНА
    Нахуй идите DICE
  39. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    Это просто ужас! Современный геймдев совсем обнаглел выпуская забагованные игры со сломанным балансом за полную цену. Журналистам нет доверия игру облизали все кому не лень.
  40. 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.
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  41. Nov 16, 2021
    0
    No scoreboards.
    No classes.
    No destruction.
    No servers.
    No stats.
    No chat.

    This game is so bad
    Even BF1 looks sometimes better than this
    This games feels like some Asian free to play game
  42. Nov 15, 2021
    7
    Есть много багов к сожалению , система выбора оперативников и снаряжения сыровата . Будем ждать релиза и первых обновлений .
  43. Nov 15, 2021
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Перший відгук на цьому сайті - але ця гра просто змусила
    Це просто знущання з Батли, все злито, нові карти - жах, динаміка ніяка, тактики 0
    Графіка теж не вразила взагалі. Брав gold edition - refund
    Very awful
    Poorest game in series
    Even current CoD beat this
    I ordered Gold Edition - now try to refund.
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  44. Nov 15, 2021
    1
    Playing some of my 10 free hours of this unfun dumpster fire, then never looking at it again.

    Not ready for release, period. Horrible optimization on a high end gaming PC. Terrible Network and hit detection. Barely any weapons, and doesn't feel like a Battlefield game. More of a running simulator.
  45. Nov 15, 2021
    1
    The worst thing that happened to the series. The game was turned into this... Fortnite!
  46. Nov 15, 2021
    1
    Worst battlefield launch in the history of the franchise.

    I would give it a 1 just for the graphics. Main problems: 1. Insanely clunky UI - the social tab, the T menu - don't get me started. 2. Performance - playing with 5900x and 3080 GPU i have inconsistent frame rates, some hard drops during firing that make it really hard to hit. 3. Attack of the clones - everyone is the
    Worst battlefield launch in the history of the franchise.

    I would give it a 1 just for the graphics.

    Main problems:

    1. Insanely clunky UI - the social tab, the T menu - don't get me started.
    2. Performance - playing with 5900x and 3080 GPU i have inconsistent frame rates, some hard drops during firing that make it really hard to hit.
    3. Attack of the clones - everyone is the same character and its hard to tell teams
    4. Portal - I was counting on this mode being the saving grace for this game but sadly, it inherits many bugs from the core game - such as weird bloom in gunplay, super clunky UI etc.
    5. Portal doesn't have any progression - so the very limited selection of guns is already unlocked at start with all their attachments.
    6. Portal progression seems to affect the main level - but it was immediately nerfed after launch since DICE can't be bothered to QA the game to find exploits pre launch.
    7. Impossible to join friends on the main game modes - i tried several times - the result is that I get queue for the server, when it finishes it says party leader selecting mode and goes back to main menu.
    8. Impossible to join more than 3 friends - currently its only possible to join 3 friends (even though it doesn't work for me at all), so if your clan has 5 or more tough luck - you will play on different servers.
    9. No scoreboard - kind of kills a lot of the gameplay satisfaction.
    10. Sound is terrible - something that for me was a staple of battlefield games is just horrible, its super silent although things are going on around you, and footsteps sound like they are on top of you even though they can be many meters away.
    11. Maps - there is much less detail in the new maps - very little unique stuff, usually large empty areas and some copy pasted empty buildings around objectives.
    None of the new objectives seem to create memorable or interesting combat loops, unlike most maps in BF4.
    Seems to me they were created in a hurry without passion or much thought.
    12. Specialists gameplay - once most people reached around level 25 you start seeing the asian chick with the scan wallhack ability all the time - this kills any tactical gameplay.
    Other operators are quite bland, most people below 25 will play Falck for self healing and nice XP farm for revives- can be bundled with ammo pack for maximum farm.
    13. No squad menu - cant swap squads in game - cant reassign leader etc. - kinda kills the experience as you get randomly assigned to a squad at the start of the map - add to that that after every match the previous squad gets replaced so it is always a coin toss.
    14. Guns - they seem really inconsistent - there is some weird bloom going on - sometimes the guns are laser accurate and sometimes they are not, can't say if its a bug or not, add to that the net code is quite crappy so its very hard to hit people at range.
    15. Snipers - since there isn't a real penalty for recon kit - as you can take any gun with any gadgets there are loads of snipers and marksman everywhere, consider that as I said most maps are large and empty aside from some buildings at objectives this makes it sniper heaven.
    16. No server browser or private servers - technically there is 1 for portal but not for the main game, this was a staple of battlefield because you would find a nice server you liked and keep returning to it everyday and get to know the admins and players - form a small community.
    17. No all chat - this game tries to cater to snowflakes, I suspect that the similarly to YouTube removing dislikes, DICE removed all chat and scoreboard to avoid people getting their feeling hurts.

    Almost everywhere I look there is a big issue or step backwards.

    As a fan of the franchise that owns all BF games I'm sorely disappointed and feel cheated for buying this game - especcially at a premium to get early access.

    If the rumors are true and there is indeed a day 1 patch that will release at the end of early access it would be doubly disappointing.

    I expect that EA DICE if they have any honor left for their customers - will offer some compensations for those that payed premiums for this Alpha/Beta build and can no longer refund it.
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  47. Nov 16, 2021
    0
    Lets be clear here. It has 90 % less content than BF3. BF3 was a blast, BF4 was a nice upgrade from BF3.
    -less weapons
    -less vehicles -less maps -no classes, why would add some race+gender lock on a person in a war game? -less atachments -less modules -no scoreboard -no changing squad/team or voicechat -poop graphics -more bugs -crashes,lags -progress system is terrible
    Lets be clear here. It has 90 % less content than BF3. BF3 was a blast, BF4 was a nice upgrade from BF3.
    -less weapons
    -less vehicles
    -less maps
    -no classes, why would add some race+gender lock on a person in a war game?
    -less atachments
    -less modules
    -no scoreboard
    -no changing squad/team or voicechat
    -poop graphics
    -more bugs
    -crashes,lags
    -progress system is terrible
    -cringe phrases like it seems its fortnite game
    Its played by 99% male audience by adding black, asian woman, mexican man , but no asian man you dont clear your company name for following todays standarts. So the way its played is not a team representing a country, but 64 cringe characters with the same faces from fortnite. Btw did you know Russian and US military has like 50%+ of black and asian women on their side, source-this game.
    This aint war game, you dont buy shi* like that
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  48. Dec 18, 2021
    1
    Battlefield has always been my first person shooter series in my heart. But this game is horse **** Bad optimization, fps drops. Feels like you are a rubber band when you play this game. I run a overclocked i9 9900k 5.2ghz with a Asus rog strix och 3080. Even low settings and dlss on balanced i hardly reach 100fps. This is a disgrace. I do not recommend anyone to buy this game.
  49. Nov 15, 2021
    1
    This game is such a downgrade compared to previous games. I think there is not enough space here to list them. Also I'm worried they won't make it any better in future. RIP another franchise under EA wings
  50. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    It is not a Battlefield, it's a pre Alpha test for friends and families, everything that worked in previous Battlefields they just throw away, what a shame. Let's create Hazard Zone which no one will play and make all levels for this mode which is not playable in Conquest
  51. 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.
  52. Nov 15, 2021
    4
    + graphics are good
    - design is nothing special
    - fps is terrible (with rtx 2070 super, ryzen 5 3500x)
    - sound effects and recoil are awful

    Overall, it does not feel like a battlefield at all and sound and recoil takes away all fun.
  53. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    Это не Баттерфилд ,нету динамики из-за отсутствия классов никто не ресает, не бросает патроны, не кидает аптечек
  54. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    This is not a Battlefield! The game strives to be a love letter to Call of Duty buf fails even in that account. There is nothing fun in it and it is many steps back in comaprison with previous Battlefield titles. Even BF1 from 2016 looks way better than this. Maps are flat and empty, HUD is tragic, stability of the game non-existent, weapons shoot everywhere but where you aim. But theThis is not a Battlefield! The game strives to be a love letter to Call of Duty buf fails even in that account. There is nothing fun in it and it is many steps back in comaprison with previous Battlefield titles. Even BF1 from 2016 looks way better than this. Maps are flat and empty, HUD is tragic, stability of the game non-existent, weapons shoot everywhere but where you aim. But the worst offense is lack ot team-play incentives that Battlefield was so good at before. There is simply no reason to try to help others... it is a game for lone wolf players who like heroic shoots and for reason don't want to play Call of Duty or Apex. It is obvious this game was all designed around milking players for money. That would be... let's say acceptable, if me as a player would have fun with the game. But they somehow forget, that when no one will play this pathetic excuse for a game no one will be all that precious cosmetics and Battle path. And you shouldn't either. Also this nicely shows ho skewed are the critic's reviews. Did we even play same game? I guess not. Or maybe I payed for it while you've been paid to praise it. Shame. Expand
  55. Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Just terrible. Unfinished game with no features. Abandoned all things battlefield. Feels like a cheap remake of COD MW
  56. Nov 22, 2021
    0
    Extremely bad UI, no voice chat, no /all chat, no working DLSS. Bugs everywhere. Very poor performance on high-end rigs. No classes. Broken audio. NO SCOREBOARD (this is an on-line FPS game).

    This looks like a bad rip-off of modern warfare with some apex legends thrown into the mix. It's absolutely awful and unplayable. There's no story, there's no identity, there's nothing, it's super
    Extremely bad UI, no voice chat, no /all chat, no working DLSS. Bugs everywhere. Very poor performance on high-end rigs. No classes. Broken audio. NO SCOREBOARD (this is an on-line FPS game).

    This looks like a bad rip-off of modern warfare with some apex legends thrown into the mix. It's absolutely awful and unplayable. There's no story, there's no identity, there's nothing, it's super bland and uneventful.
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  57. Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Firstly - full disclosure - I'm on console - XBOX Series X. I get it - PC Master race and all that, so no need to bring that old chestnut into this.

    OK - so I was looking forward to this game like nothing else, and I'm a BF fan since BF3 (played 3, 4, 1 and 5 to death). I played the BETA and really enjoyed it, knowing that it was an older build, and happy in the fact that DICE had
    Firstly - full disclosure - I'm on console - XBOX Series X. I get it - PC Master race and all that, so no need to bring that old chestnut into this.

    OK - so I was looking forward to this game like nothing else, and I'm a BF fan since BF3 (played 3, 4, 1 and 5 to death). I played the BETA and really enjoyed it, knowing that it was an older build, and happy in the fact that DICE had confirmed that near all the issues with the BETA had been resolved in the release version.

    Unfortunately, the release version is a massive step down from the BETA version for me, for a number of reasons:

    Scoreboard - there isn't one. DICE don't want you feeling bad if you have a poor k/d, therefore they're not going to show you a scoreboard where you can compare your stats to anyone elses. This also means you can't see if anyone has been cheating/hacking and has a 120 k/d ratio. You can't hack on console you say - well see the second dot point.
    Forced cross-play on xbox, with zero console aim assist to combat it. You can't turn cross-play off on Xbox. 90% of the people you come up against are on PC and you just can't compete against m&k when there's no aa to help. You could turn cross play off in the BETA, but they've disabled that in the actual release - now you can only turn it off in the xbox settings and it's buried (hidden) 5 layers deep in the settings, and it also means that you can't cross-play in any other games once you've disabled it.
    Loadout issues - so you play to level up your character and your guns, but the funny thing is 9 times out of 10 the loading screen is broken and you can't actually choose what guns you want to play with, so you load in with the basic first assault rife the game gives you, without any attachments that you've opened up and also no gadgets to use. You can't change this in-game. You're stuck with that gun and no gadgets unless you pick up someone elses gun off the ground.
    No server select - in the all out war (standard conquest) mode, you can only press play, and you have to trust the system to place you in a game. You don't know where that server is and based on the lag, the system doesn't care if it places you in an oceanic one, a US or European one etc. Once you're in a server, you don't know where it is located. You also don't know what map you're loading into, and how far along that game is. It also doesn't keep you in that server. Once a map is finished you're booted back to the main menu to find a new game, which could be the same map, and also another game that's close to finishing.
    Errors - tonnes of them. I couldn't play much at all on Saturday as the game just errored out trying to enter any game mode.
    The characters - although I'm not a fan of the specialists, I don't mind them so much, but some of them are just game breaking and 90% of people are using the broken ones, such as the one that gives out free armour plates. You're forced to use him also, due to the unfairness of having to constantly fight people with 20 more HP than you.
    Removed all aspects of team play.
    The gunplay - random at best. There's bloom on all guns and it's a flip of the coin as to whether your bullets hit their target or not. Gun fights aren't won by skill, they're won by chance to give those that aren't great a fighting chance.
    The maps - some are gorgeous and look incredible. But they are also lifeless as they are just too big. Some of them have next to zero cover and you just spawn in the middle of an open desert, then are forced to watch a gun chambering animation before moving - usually by that time you've been shot.
    Portal is amazing, although I wouldn't know it as about 80% of portal games error out for me. Also, DICE have made it so you can barely level up anything when playing portal (levelling is severely capped) to combat idiots that have filled the portal servers with farm xp game modes (AI with 10 health and no weapons).
    I could go on about the no chat, small amount of weapons available, and the general unfinished and broken aspects of the game, but that's plenty for now. Like I said - I'm a massive BF fan and I've been waiting for this game for years. Disappointed is an understatement - maybe in 6 months it might be worth playing. Until then, save your cash if you were on the fence.
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  58. Nov 14, 2021
    1
    This is without a doubt the worst game I have ever played. The visuals are worse than battlefield 4 (2014) and performance is terrible on high capacity machines. Plethora of missing features that were included from previous games. There are only TWO game modes to play, with less than twenty weapons total. The gun play is absurd, and this is an FPS. The game has absolutely no polish andThis is without a doubt the worst game I have ever played. The visuals are worse than battlefield 4 (2014) and performance is terrible on high capacity machines. Plethora of missing features that were included from previous games. There are only TWO game modes to play, with less than twenty weapons total. The gun play is absurd, and this is an FPS. The game has absolutely no polish and even basic functions like customizing your load out are filled with bugs. Expand
  59. 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.
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  60. 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.
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  61. Nov 17, 2021
    0
    Une honte !

    Oubliez tout ce que vous connaissez de Battlefield, prenez CallOf Duty, fusionnez le avec Fortenite et vous avez un FPS générique qu'est Battlefield 2042. Le liste des trucs qui vont pas : - Pas de tableau des scores - Pas de classes - Spécialistes inutiles (puisque chacun peut prendre les armes des autres et gadgets ) - Pas de navigateur de serveurs pour rejoindre
    Une honte !

    Oubliez tout ce que vous connaissez de Battlefield, prenez CallOf Duty, fusionnez le avec Fortenite et vous avez un FPS générique qu'est Battlefield 2042.

    Le liste des trucs qui vont pas :
    - Pas de tableau des scores
    - Pas de classes
    - Spécialistes inutiles (puisque chacun peut prendre les armes des autres et gadgets )
    - Pas de navigateur de serveurs pour rejoindre les parties
    - Pas d'icone de grade
    - Sentiments de progression inexistant
    - 22 armes et c'est tout (bordel mais ya même pas l'UMP ou le P90 .... ! )
    - Map trop grande et donc on se sent bien seul malgré les 128 joueurs
    - Dispersion des balles des armes totalement random
    - Optimisation ridicule alors que c'est pas plus jolie que BF5... (voir moins)
    - Mode Portal en "cache misère" (2 map par BF youhou ...)
    - Chat ridicule
    - CutScene avant et après bataille inutile au possible
    - Voix des spécialistes ridicules, et leurs répliques sont nazes au possible (un enfant de 10 ans fait mieux)
    - Interfaces non ergonomique ! Trop brouillon , trop d'information, parfois, pas assez
    - Pour réanimer les joueurs, c'est "Hold E" et c'est mou du slip .... parfois ca bug, on peut meme pas rez....
    - Bug/glitch en tout genre
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  62. Nov 15, 2021
    1
    major drop in quality. Has none of the soul or emotion usually associated with a BF game. This feels like a cartoon battle royal clone aimed at 7-12 year olds who want to spend mums cash on player skins.
  63. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    I played Battlefield from 1942 and i think that battlefield 5 was bad. But this, i have no words to describe this. Go sell burgers, making games not your job.
  64. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    Игра на ультра настройках с видеокартой RTX с включенными лучами и без dlss выглядит хуже чем 2019 года на средних! Это что вообще такое, дауншифтинг? Оптимизация ужасная, сервера лагают, а еще меня всегда раздражало количество маркеров на экране.Игра на ультра настройках с видеокартой RTX с включенными лучами и без dlss выглядит хуже чем 2019 года на средних! Это что вообще такое, дауншифтинг? Оптимизация ужасная, сервера лагают, а еще меня всегда раздражало количество маркеров на экране.
  65. Nov 15, 2021
    1
    An embarrassment for a once great series. It takes many steps back on almost all fronts, from gameplay to graphics and performance.
    DICE showing once again that they are blind on both eyes when it comes to understanding what the community wants. All they see is profit opportunities. To add to that, EA over-promised and under-delivered to an insane degree.
    No self-respecting battlefield
    An embarrassment for a once great series. It takes many steps back on almost all fronts, from gameplay to graphics and performance.
    DICE showing once again that they are blind on both eyes when it comes to understanding what the community wants. All they see is profit opportunities. To add to that, EA over-promised and under-delivered to an insane degree.

    No self-respecting battlefield player should touch this game. There could be some fun in portal, but right now it feels so lifeless and half-arsed that I don't think DICE have it in them anymore. Sad.
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  66. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    Three years of development, killed battlefront 2 and BFV for this piece of crap?? Totally unacceptable for a full priced triple A games. DICE should be disbanded right away and hand over the franchise to someone competent.
  67. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    This game represents the complete decadence of a company and, as a result, how one of the best FPS games of history has just been ruined by bad decisions.

    If you are an old fan of Battlefield (I've been playing their tittles since BF1942) this will make you really sad. It feels empty, rushed, unfinished, unpolished... There is nothing that saves this game. It has lost its roots, has
    This game represents the complete decadence of a company and, as a result, how one of the best FPS games of history has just been ruined by bad decisions.

    If you are an old fan of Battlefield (I've been playing their tittles since BF1942) this will make you really sad. It feels empty, rushed, unfinished, unpolished... There is nothing that saves this game. It has lost its roots, has become worse in any aspect compared to any of the previous tittles. The main problem is not this game, is what they have done to the franchise and how unlikely I see that they do something to regain my trust or any other Battlefield fan ever.

    If this is the line they are going to follow from now on, I'm just not going to play any future titles and completely forget about this franchise.
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  68. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    Only positive after playing this, is that I got my refund accepted by Steam
  69. Nov 15, 2021
    5
    The current state of early release is a disaster. Dice is going to have their work cut out for them patching all these bugs. The unfortunate thing is this is nothing new for them and the status quo in the industry. We as gamers are given garbage and expected to pay more for it. Dice stripped out many core battlefield features and severely dumbed down the content. Multiple attachments shareThe current state of early release is a disaster. Dice is going to have their work cut out for them patching all these bugs. The unfortunate thing is this is nothing new for them and the status quo in the industry. We as gamers are given garbage and expected to pay more for it. Dice stripped out many core battlefield features and severely dumbed down the content. Multiple attachments share the same stats and are pointless. They removed voice chat and all chat. I don't understand how I'm supposed to communicate with my console teammates, especially with how the commo rose is terrible and never works as it should. This game feels like they were trying to make a BR but realized that it wasn't a good idea and are trying to salvage it. Expand
  70. Nov 16, 2021
    1
    2042 alienates part of Battlefields core player base. The inclusion of Portal doesn't go far enough to make up for their changes in fundamental gameplay. It's bad enough that it carries over into portal making it an unclean experience. Portal doesn't feel like battlefield either. It feels like I'm playing a different game that copied battlefields maps. The maps look great even though they2042 alienates part of Battlefields core player base. The inclusion of Portal doesn't go far enough to make up for their changes in fundamental gameplay. It's bad enough that it carries over into portal making it an unclean experience. Portal doesn't feel like battlefield either. It feels like I'm playing a different game that copied battlefields maps. The maps look great even though they aren't faithful recreations. It just doesn't play right.

    The battlefield series has always had this magical feeling of being a military sim and an arcade game in one making it easily accessible. You could jump on the game and act like a complete idiot and have a lot of fun or you could go sweaty, get your adrenaline pumped up, and compete for top spot while trying not to throw your keyboard through your monitor. Hell, you could even do both at the same time. However, the sim stuff was never **** with. It would draw you in and get your heart racing as you battled your way through the maps. Everything felt proper.

    As a competitive player the only thing that kept me playing was the need to get good enough to place in a decent position to be able to enjoy the game the way it was meant to be played because I was really bad at it when I started. While I don't mind people running around acting like idiots because I do it myself, I don't want to loose what has kept me drawn to battlefield for the last 15 years.

    With 2042 they threw the simulation and competition out the window. It's all play and little work. I can't take this factionless, classless, scoreboard less, stat less, XP exploitable, moon vehicle physics, 3rd person takedown piece of **** seriously. The realism is gone, The Competition is gone. It's 100% an arcade game with few military sim features now. They have changed the fundamentals of battlefield and screwed up features that have been in the ENTIRE battlefield series. The game is flat and extremely unrewarding for me and I feel like I was ripped off.
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  71. Nov 17, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Whatever this is... It is not Battlefield.
    Fans and community again and again told EA/Dice in many and lengthy posts what they expect from a modern Battlefield. Then EA development deciders seem to have a meeting about it, realize what the community wants and then decide: Now we make it all it a different way, because the community cannot know what they want - only us godlike EA deciders are smart enough to know what the community wants. Well, the reactions on the released game now show how "smart" EA really is. The have launched another gigantic flop.

    So let's skip this abomination of a battlefield game and hope the best for the next try. Hopefully from Dice LA or whatever they call themselves now, they always seem to have a better feeling for what Battlefield is than the Swedish.

    Thanks again for nothing, EA.
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  72. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    J’ai mis 1. Je sais qu’il vaut plus mais les défauts énumérés par d’autres que moi sont insupportables. Une purge complète. Ça lag un maximum, le contenu maigre, les spécialistes ridicules, reste que quelques moments de plaisir.

    Pourtant, j’en ai essoré des BF mais à chaque nouvel opus c’est de pire en pire. Honteux de faire payer ça en early access 100€.
  73. Nov 15, 2021
    2
    Major downgrade in many areas. This is a big move towards console ports. Major features removed (cant talk to other team, no scoreboard), a big push towards inclusivity and gender issues (why in battlefield? we get enough of this **** down our throats already), it feels like they took the game and first thing they said was "ok how do we make this appeal to a larger new audience and makeMajor downgrade in many areas. This is a big move towards console ports. Major features removed (cant talk to other team, no scoreboard), a big push towards inclusivity and gender issues (why in battlefield? we get enough of this **** down our throats already), it feels like they took the game and first thing they said was "ok how do we make this appeal to a larger new audience and make more money and promote our globohomo agenda" and went from there. and as a player, you feel that first and foremost and it sucks Expand
  74. Nov 15, 2021
    2
    If you want to just jump on and shoot some things there are better games out there. If you want to play with friends in a squad based shooter this game will fight you every step of the way. Everything about this game is rushed.
  75. Dec 13, 2021
    0
    I don't know what this game is, but it is Battlefield in name only. It feels obviously rushed out in a very broken state. It is missing many, many key defining features from the older Battlefield games. It's frankly a huge letdown to any fan of the series, and just not a fun game for people who may be unfamiliar with Battlefield games.
  76. Nov 14, 2021
    0
    I'm so disappointed I'm so disappointed I'm so disappointed I'm so disappointed I'm so disappointed I'm so disappointed I'm so disappointed I'm so disappointed I'm so disappointed I'm so disappointed
  77. Nov 20, 2021
    3
    A Battlefield game that was seemingly made by people who absolutely detest Battlefield games.

    Horrendous UI that is borderline headache inducing, braindead AI, inconsistent visuals, a total gutting of teamplay with the specialist system, no voice chat (no, really, no voice chat - in Battlefield. It boggles the mind!), terrible weaponry, miserable maps, frame drops all over the shop,
    A Battlefield game that was seemingly made by people who absolutely detest Battlefield games.

    Horrendous UI that is borderline headache inducing, braindead AI, inconsistent visuals, a total gutting of teamplay with the specialist system, no voice chat (no, really, no voice chat - in Battlefield. It boggles the mind!), terrible weaponry, miserable maps, frame drops all over the shop, shoddy hit detection... the things wrong with it go on and on and on.

    It gets a 3 solely for the Portal mode, which is... tolerable, but only because it allows you to fix the actual game through your own settings. The other main modes of the game are absolutely atrocious, particularly the laughable take on Tarkov.

    It's a shockingly bad game. Really, really bad. The critic reviews are unreal - how anyone can score this above a 5 is beyond my comprehension.

    DICE have lost the plot completely. It really is one of the most head-scratchingly terrible games made in recent memory.
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  78. Nov 14, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A Battlefield game this is not.

    It feels like some F2P Chinese knock-off of COD and it plays just as bad.

    It has zero Battlefield "feel" and no soul whatsoever. The specialist system is a joke. You have 128 players running around aimlessly as 1 of 8 clones with their goofy gadgets.

    You have factionless mercenaries fighting for factions? LOL, ok. At least give them uniforms.

    Whomever thought it was a good idea to get rid of the class system needs to be fired.

    Other cons:
    No scoreboard
    No chat
    Nauseating voice acting and cut scenes
    No Battlefield music
    Hit reg is terrible
    Lack of weapons
    Unstable servers
    Graphics not optimized No class system
    Aircraft fly like bricks
    No server browser
    Dumped to random lobby after every match
    Only 2 countries involved in a world conflict?
    No single player
    No practice range

    This game needs a lot of patches and a ton of polish but a Battlefield game it will never be.
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  79. Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Tell me this - are you ok if you go to a restaurant and order food, but the food is bad because the chef is new, or had a bad day, or wasn’t able to get the proper ingredients due to Covid restrictions or never tastes his food - which are all valid reasons for bad food, but invalid for asking premium price for said food. This is exactly what DICE and EA have served us - a **** sandwich andTell me this - are you ok if you go to a restaurant and order food, but the food is bad because the chef is new, or had a bad day, or wasn’t able to get the proper ingredients due to Covid restrictions or never tastes his food - which are all valid reasons for bad food, but invalid for asking premium price for said food. This is exactly what DICE and EA have served us - a **** sandwich and you are an idiot with no standards if you accept to eat it. Every aspect of this game is far below average (maybe except few tracks from the soundtrack) - it has not been tested enough, it has not enough content, for a multiplayer only game the netcode is horrendous, the UI is very very bad - looking at the option menus too much will make your head hurt. Expand
  80. Nov 14, 2021
    4
    The biggest issue I have with this game is map design. They are too big, even for 128 players.

    I loved previous BF title because they made you feel like you are in an actual war. There's a certain feeling in all the previous title that is all but lost in BF2042. I get that the franchise needs to evolve but in my opinion this title foregoes most of those elements that made battlefield
    The biggest issue I have with this game is map design. They are too big, even for 128 players.

    I loved previous BF title because they made you feel like you are in an actual war. There's a certain feeling in all the previous title that is all but lost in BF2042.

    I get that the franchise needs to evolve but in my opinion this title foregoes most of those elements that made battlefield battlefield. In my opinion that was a mistake and that is why fans are upset.

    They are trying to market a new audience - not successfully in my opinion. I don't hate the devs and I'm sure they worked hard. Ultimately, though, it is not a game I see myself playing in what little free time I have.
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  81. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    This game is just atrocious. One of the worst game releases i have ever experienced. They have gutted what made BF, BF. They are too busy trying to be imitators of CoD; which if they had ANY idea of their player base they would know that thats the exact opposite of what we would want.

    Also, if you want to see who in the critical review space is a sellout paid by EA, take a look at all
    This game is just atrocious. One of the worst game releases i have ever experienced. They have gutted what made BF, BF. They are too busy trying to be imitators of CoD; which if they had ANY idea of their player base they would know that thats the exact opposite of what we would want.

    Also, if you want to see who in the critical review space is a sellout paid by EA, take a look at all those 90+ reviews.
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  82. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    No scoreboards.
    No classes.
    No destruction.
    No servers.
    No stats.
    No chat.

    also bad UI, terrible.

    Hit registration is bad, performance is bad...Do not buy now.
  83. Nov 19, 2021
    0
    worst battlefield of all time, No matter how good you are, the hit registry and variable weapon accuracy ruins any sense of this being a fun gain and makes every fight a coin toss. the game was not ready and honestly with all the bs thats broken and lack of features this game will never be ready. Litterally half the content of battlefield 4....
  84. Nov 15, 2021
    2
    Fun, but unfinished. Class system removed. Might feel like a finished title in a year.
  85. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    A mess of a version, my gaming pc runs games so well but this runs so much worse than series x…. Bug ridden and unpolished
  86. Nov 14, 2021
    0
    I would have a hard time creating a worse battlefield game even if I was purposely trying to make it bad. Everything I found enjoyable from 3, 4, hardline, 1, and 5 is gone. In my opinion they completely destroyed the identity of the franchise. The characters that you choose in multiplayer are lame and do not fit the game. They have backstories that noone cares about. It's missing featuresI would have a hard time creating a worse battlefield game even if I was purposely trying to make it bad. Everything I found enjoyable from 3, 4, hardline, 1, and 5 is gone. In my opinion they completely destroyed the identity of the franchise. The characters that you choose in multiplayer are lame and do not fit the game. They have backstories that noone cares about. It's missing features including crucial communication methods with teammates and even a scoreboard. The gunplay is atrocious. I wanted so much to like this game, however I absolutely hate it. Noone I know actually likes it, and we were all hardcore battlefield fans ready to throw tons of money down. Expand
  87. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    another failed attempt history repeats itself deplorable performance start in the game is the same garbage that in all battlefields at a disadvantage against other players weapons without sights you do not see the other players, riddled with errors null visibility. thank god do not buy the game if not I would have greatly regretted, 4 rifles ar? in the presentation videos you see someanother failed attempt history repeats itself deplorable performance start in the game is the same garbage that in all battlefields at a disadvantage against other players weapons without sights you do not see the other players, riddled with errors null visibility. thank god do not buy the game if not I would have greatly regretted, 4 rifles ar? in the presentation videos you see some accessories to which you do not have access because you have to unlock I want to play a full game from minute 1 with everything you can offer the game so what they do is give bad experience Expand
  88. Nov 20, 2021
    3
    Juego bugueado a no más poder, solo 7 mapas originales de 2042. Sin marcadores globales, solo 2 mapas por battlefield clásico... En fin muy pobre.
  89. Nov 14, 2021
    2
    On launch day I got up nice and early so I could get on when the game went live, only to be plagued with constant 'Unable to Load Persistence Data' errors again and again and again. I managed to play two games all day. I tried numerous 'fixes', none of which worked for me.

    I uninstalled and got my money back.
  90. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    Juego a medias, optimizado por 4 chimpances, con lag y problemas de conexión. Avance y conquista están hechos para que los aviones y sobre todo helicópteros te farmeen. Portal no ganas experiencia.
    Las armas son escopetas de feria.
    Es el 6º Battlefield que compro de salida, y desde luego que el ultimo, tras 2 fraudes seguidos.
    El peor shooter que jugué en mi vida.
    No tires tu dinero.
  91. Nov 14, 2021
    4
    Long time Battlefield fan and I'm really disappointed. This ain't it, DICE. Game is buggy as hell, gunplay has insane spread for some weapons, fights at more than 50m are basically a coin toss. It runs like garbage. Only 22 weapons.
    Specialists are honestly cringy, their lines sound like they're aware that this is a video game. "Well well well, that was fun" says a guy fighting to the
    Long time Battlefield fan and I'm really disappointed. This ain't it, DICE. Game is buggy as hell, gunplay has insane spread for some weapons, fights at more than 50m are basically a coin toss. It runs like garbage. Only 22 weapons.
    Specialists are honestly cringy, their lines sound like they're aware that this is a video game. "Well well well, that was fun" says a guy fighting to the death for resources while the world is going to ****
    And since both teams share the same specialists well you end up seeing clones of yourself and teammates left and right. It's really bad.

    Lots of basic features missing like a scoreboard, squad voice chat, being able to switch squad/team, being able to tell downed teammates that you're coming to rez them. Weapon customization is barebones, BF4 was way better in that regard. And a crap ton more but you get the gist, they rushed the game and didn't learn anything from previous games.

    All that being said I'm still somewhat having fun when things go well, there's definitely something there but the game should've been delayed at least another 6 months. Don't buy it right now, wait at least a few months, but I don't really expect them to pull another BF4 where the game ends up being great after a bunch of updates. They abandoned BFV after only a year because it didn't sell well so that's not reassuring.
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  92. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    bad weapon stability, bad server, bad optimization tam bir vakit kaybı kesinlikle para vermeyin iade etme imkanım olsa iade ederim.
  93. Nov 19, 2021
    0
    Отвратительная оптимизация, с момента открытой беты ничего не изменилось, все такие же постоянные фризы, лаги, стабильно низкий фпс, хоть в портале все с этим относительно нормально. Ужасный балланс в основном режиме, также отвратительные карты, почти все представляют из себя просто поле с парой, тройкой построек, убить тебя могут отовсюду, в штурмовых винтовках, пулеметах, дробовиках нетОтвратительная оптимизация, с момента открытой беты ничего не изменилось, все такие же постоянные фризы, лаги, стабильно низкий фпс, хоть в портале все с этим относительно нормально. Ужасный балланс в основном режиме, также отвратительные карты, почти все представляют из себя просто поле с парой, тройкой построек, убить тебя могут отовсюду, в штурмовых винтовках, пулеметах, дробовиках нет вообще никакого смысла, бои на средней и близкой дистанции - редкость, все играют с дмрками и со снайперскими винтовками, феноменальное количество багов, да, с беты, конечно, пофиксли их большинство, но все равно играется отвратительно, не знаю, у меня одного ли такие проблемы, но с мувментом в игре все ооочень плохо, вот, нельзя нормально объяснить, это надо почувствовать при игре, но какой то инпут лаг при движении, очень неприятно ходить, бегать, прыгать итд, портал, хоть и не плох, но, вечно только в него играть надоест достаточно быстро, а вот в захват и прорыв играть совершенно невозможно, карты, балланс, оптимизация, всё отвратительно. Запросил возврат средств, надеюсь, что разработчики одумаются и начнут как-то менять игру в плане геймплея. Expand
  94. Nov 15, 2021
    2
    High ping and unstable fps.
    Tons and tons of bugs.

    No scoreboards and stats.
  95. Nov 15, 2021
    2
    openfield 2042
    no classes
    cod style
    poor optimisation
    no scoreboard
    no squad change
    insane bullet spray
    unbalanced amount of vehicles
  96. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    ITIS NOT BATTLEFIELD. we dont have classes. we have same body of all sites of battle. bad regestration. to mutch bugs and lags.
    #NOTMYBATTLEFIELD
  97. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    Refound
    No scoreboards.
    No classes.
    No destruction.
    No servers.
    No stats.
    No chat.
  98. Nov 15, 2021
    0
    Идите играть в свою калду, игра нормальная
  99. Nov 18, 2021
    0
    The only good and perspective thing is a Portal.
    2042 - is an example of totaly degradation of gamedev process as an art
Metascore
68

Mixed or average reviews - based on 74 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 74
  2. Negative: 11 out of 74
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.