Battlefield 2042

 Xbox Series X
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2.4

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 644 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 503 out of 644
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  1. Gambit-95
    Nov 18, 2021
    0
    This game should not be called battlefield. It is a setback in all respects. Low on content, poorly balanced, empty and poorly designed maps, no destruction.
    The specialists are unbearable and their phrases ridiculous.
    A lot of mechanics from previous games are missing. You can see that this game was a battleroyale and at some point in development they turned it into a conventional game.    This game should not be called battlefield. It is a setback in all respects. Low on content, poorly balanced, empty and poorly designed maps, no destruction.
    The specialists are unbearable and their phrases ridiculous.
    A lot of mechanics from previous games are missing.
    You can see that this game was a battleroyale and at some point in development they turned it into a conventional game. EA remains unlearned in continual contempt for its lifelong users. He will continue without winning his rival Activision and Cod    … Expand
  2. davygravy93
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Idk how it's possible but I went from actively anticipating this game to despising it, well done dice and ea. Honestly this is the worst battlefield since hardline, I'd rather get t-bagged in halo than play another second of this.
  3. Ren57
    Dec 5, 2021
    0
    I’m at a loss for words here, for a while now battlefield has been one of my favorite franchises because if it’s identity and the feel and just what it brings to the table and in this installment in the series they just lost all of that.

    I decided to download the 10 hour trial on gamepass and almost made it 3 hours in before deleting the game. I was excited because over the past few years    I’m at a loss for words here, for a while now battlefield has been one of my favorite franchises because if it’s identity and the feel and just what it brings to the table and in this installment in the series they just lost all of that.

    I decided to download the 10 hour trial on gamepass and almost made it 3 hours in before deleting the game. I was excited because over the past few years I’ve seen a trendy more towards games like apex and warzone and the like and thought battlefield would be a nice breath of fresh air from those types of games but I guess I was wrong. This game has completely lost its identity and has decided to adhere to the trends going on right now and on top of that it’s completely broken!

    Frame rate issues, weapon bloom is horrible, revive glitches, glitchy spawn menu, a host of in game glitches, on top of that they removed sooo many features from this game it’s ridiculous. I’m gonna stop there because if I keep going I’ll be here all day but needless to say this game crushed my hopes this year for a good battlefield game and honestly unless there is a return to form with the next installment I don’t see myself buying another battlefield game in the future.    … Expand
  4. KettuF1N
    Dec 10, 2021
    0
    When new Battlefield coming out? This game is rubbish. The worst Battlefield game I've ever played
  5. iIkotIi
    Dec 10, 2021
    0
    0/10 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
  6. Deda_reDa
    Nov 13, 2021
    0
    This is honestly one of the worst games I have had the displeasure of playing. Good thing the trial is free.
    Most of the things either don’t work at all or are seriously glitched out.
    Getting stuck in the environment, fps issues. Flickering screens left and right. Packet bursts and lag galore. I thought Cod Vanguard was bad, but BF2042 takes the cake.
    Specialists? What is this this, overwatch?
  7. nurfedx
    Nov 19, 2021
    0
    Absolute dumpster fire and an Insult to every BF-Veteran. Even worse than BF5. DONT BUY!
  8. Rufasa
    Nov 19, 2021
    0
    It's literally EA making this franchise more appealing to 12 year olds in hope that they will carelessly throw their money at EA like they do with other games like fortnite, Apex, CoD. Watch EA flood BF with cringey skins. BF is now a dead franchise
  9. tiXxi44
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    This game is unfinished and boring. Performance is bad, gunplay feels clunky, portal browser servers have minimum 100ms ping, its just horrible.
  10. Siskus17
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Menu:
    First off, BF 2042’s menu setup is a rip-off of CoD Warzone’s. Its menu designs, its main menu, its side menus, its player card system, its customization, and its background. EA went lower than anyone could have expected and actually ripped off Activision of all companies thinking that either no one would notice or no one would care. The customization menu is completely bugged, I can    Menu:
    First off, BF 2042’s menu setup is a rip-off of CoD Warzone’s. Its menu designs, its main menu, its side menus, its player card system, its customization, and its background. EA went lower than anyone could have expected and actually ripped off Activision of all companies thinking that either no one would notice or no one would care. The customization menu is completely bugged, I can change my loadout names and my Attachment Loadouts but nothing else; even at level 10 everything is greyed out and unavailable including Specialist customization. The options have a 50/50 chance of working, I have had moments where I cannot change any options mid-match and got stuck with uncomfortable settings until I relaunched the game. There is no quality/framerate mode in the menu, which doesn’t exactly matter given that the graphics look like they’re in 1080p and the framerate is between 24FPS and 50FPS depending on how much you are planning on participating in the game; yes, I triple-checked, I do have the Series X version installed. There is no means to disable Crossplay which is disgraceful considering how much of an advantage it is to have a set-up that can actually run the game semi-functionally and how out of control the hacker situation has already become.

    All-Out War:
    There are 2 modes. 2. Conquest and Conquest-Rush There is no option for private matches unless it is Vs. AI. The core issue with both modes is the 128-player limit: the sectioning of control zones into separate points does not matter when 64 players are going to storm a single point whether or not it makes tactical sense. With a 128-player limit the maps feel smaller than ever because there is not enough environment outside of the control zones, so while the maps themselves are enormous there is only enough of what I will call a “playable area” for maybe an 80-player limit. I was going to go on a long tirade about this concept, but simply put BF 2042 does not have the map design quality necessary to make a thrilling and memorable experience for 128 players. The new initial spawning is confusing to say the least, it allows you to select vehicles in the load menu but from what I’ve seen it just ignores your choice and deploys all players as infantry regardless and spawns in 8 default transport vehicles for 64 players, which means roughly 20 players per team will play the first several minutes of a match while others are forced to either run or redeploy to play a part in any of the action. I was only able to changes specialists and loadouts once per match in the 5 matches I played which makes it impossible to experiment with different styles of play against different opponents. The specialists make the implementation of hardcore modes a pipe dream as the indistinguishability of 10 characters in a game of 128 makes target ID impossible. Rao, the hacker, is one of the many crimes against balance EA and DICE have committed as he can completely disable vehicle weapons and countermeasures for about 6 seconds and scrambles player HUDs to an indescribable severity with no cooldown in between the hacking tool’s uses except for a 4-second cooldown on something or someone that was recently hacked and his passive, which maps and tags the teammates of nearby enemies he kills, means that if a Rao kills one of your teammates while you are sneaking near them, you lose. This kind of imbalance exists in all specialists, Rao is just the only one I personally main.

    Hazard Zone:
    There’s nothing really much to say since the 1-minute queue time, 4-minute load time, unskippable 2-minute cutscene, 1-minute pre-game screen, and 30-second deployment cutscene bored me by match 2. Match 1 was cut abruptly short when the AI 1-shot my teammates and I from 300m away, so I guess it literally is just Escape from Tarkov.

    Portal:
    They have completely disgraced the memory of 3 of Battlefield’s most famous titles by giving the character classes we all love and remember passive abilities that make them utterly broken. I uninstalled it after looking at the Portal character screen. I do not remember much of it, likely due to my brain already trying to repress it, but I remember seeing that snipers from all three titles instantly ping anyone that shoots them and Anti-Tanks and Demolitions regenerate explosives the same way tanks do.

    All and all, do not buy this game because there was not enough thought or effort put into it to justify the outrageous price. It is disgusting that EA expects us to just shut up and buy and I just cannot do that any longer. Battlefield’s future is bleak and I expect we will be seeing heavy layoffs at DICE in the months to come.    … Expand
  11. Berke07
    Mar 4, 2022
    0
    Trash can. You dont buy. DICE, EA are useless company. You are best idiot in the world.
  12. densdds
    Nov 19, 2021
    0
    On XSS there is nice stable FPS. But many bugs and problems with netcode makes the game awful. Hazard zone is absolutely useless mode. Original modes of BF 2042 are not playable because of bad balance and awful level design. The only reason to buy this game is BF Portal. But bad optimisation also can spoil your experience in Portal modes.
  13. Chrisdxb87
    Dec 3, 2021
    0
    I feel like it should be a criminal matter to sell
    Games to people at 100 + dollar and they suck this much. Why no scoreboard, why the class system that doesnt make sense. I am sad and angry to have wasted 100 dollar on a game that is nothing like the reviewers u paid handsomly said it is. Misleading and disappointing
  14. splashyDIAMOND
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Battlefield Battle Royale scraped into a mess. Greedy devs wanted warzone money. That's it!
  15. luisbortolaso
    Feb 13, 2022
    0
    um lixo , só muié gritando o tempo inteiro forçando a barra , nós todos sabemos que existem mulheres em campos de batalhas mas ficar focando e forçando a atenção o tempo todo à elas da no saco, o que salva um pouco é modo portal mas do resto está muito fraco, fora as apelações a la fortinite e personagens patéticos, e tem as lacrações empurradas guéla abaixo, sem chance ja parei de jogarum lixo , só muié gritando o tempo inteiro forçando a barra , nós todos sabemos que existem mulheres em campos de batalhas mas ficar focando e forçando a atenção o tempo todo à elas da no saco, o que salva um pouco é modo portal mas do resto está muito fraco, fora as apelações a la fortinite e personagens patéticos, e tem as lacrações empurradas guéla abaixo, sem chance ja parei de jogar , finishi hin!!… Expand
  16. MANXMAN76
    Dec 6, 2021
    0
    This is the most piss poor attempt at a battlefield game to date this **** oH aLl BatTlEfiElD gAmEs ArE bUgGy At LaUnCh excuse is pathetic this is the most unplayable game that I have seen since Fallout 76 and Cyberpunk 2077 like you could have just copied battlefield 4 and improve everything of that game and we would be none the wiser not only that betas of other battlefields like 1 and 5This is the most piss poor attempt at a battlefield game to date this **** oH aLl BatTlEfiElD gAmEs ArE bUgGy At LaUnCh excuse is pathetic this is the most unplayable game that I have seen since Fallout 76 and Cyberpunk 2077 like you could have just copied battlefield 4 and improve everything of that game and we would be none the wiser not only that betas of other battlefields like 1 and 5 look, play and have more mechanics then this game did at launch **** THIS GAME!!!!… Expand
  17. KAPEC22
    Nov 26, 2021
    0
    The game was re-zoned as the heir to the worm's part, but it's impossible to play it. You can't mark enemies normally, you just don't see them, even when someone nearby is firing at them. The maps are too big, this is a running and death simulator. WHY DON'T JUST UPDATE PART 4 FOR CURRENT GENERATION !!? It will be played more than "IT". I will not return to this game again.
  18. Dolfan444Life
    Dec 3, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Broken game. Unfinished, no campaign, too few maps. Broken weapons, broken hover crafts, unable to team with friends, scoring in multiplayer broken. Bad UI. Not one redeeming quality. Biggest disappointment of 2021.… Expand
  19. Cingleon
    Nov 27, 2021
    0
    Firstly. I'm glad that I didn't buy this trash. I played on xbox game pass. Thank you so muck microsoft for this deal. Secondly. From which time 12 terraflops is not enough for good gaming? How is that **** is must lagging? ON 1080!!!! EXUSE ME. WTF. Where is your pleased optimisation? Are you kiddin' me?
    It's a bad joke dice. But about LGBTQ+ community you did't forget. (our game for    Firstly. I'm glad that I didn't buy this trash. I played on xbox game pass. Thank you so muck microsoft for this deal. Secondly. From which time 12 terraflops is not enough for good gaming? How is that **** is must lagging? ON 1080!!!! EXUSE ME. WTF. Where is your pleased optimisation? Are you kiddin' me?
    It's a bad joke dice. But about LGBTQ+ community you did't forget. (our game for y'all. For gays. Afroamericans, transexuals and different nationalitice and belives) **** that. Oh yeah, and weapon... It's so bad. I won't buy your games ever guys. Rip dice.    … Expand
  20. Abdulelah1
    Nov 18, 2021
    0
    Unplayable game bots every where do not buy this garbage this is not Battlefield any more no teamwork !!!
  21. aimineye
    Nov 19, 2021
    0
    This so to say game has the worst animation ever. Huge maps and no people on it. The worst battlefield.
  22. Adwel
    Jan 16, 2022
    0
    Battlefield fan since 4. Besides the massive list of missing basic legacy features that make players want to play Battlefield over other games, this title has lost much of it's identity.

    My first clue this one this one was gonna be a fail should have been in the beta when I was unable to play the early access I paid for because the A button didn't allow me to get by the "start game"    Battlefield fan since 4. Besides the massive list of missing basic legacy features that make players want to play Battlefield over other games, this title has lost much of it's identity.

    My first clue this one this one was gonna be a fail should have been in the beta when I was unable to play the early access I paid for because the A button didn't allow me to get by the "start game" menu screen...(Google that once, absolutely unbelievable)

    Instead of the sincerely proper tone of it's previous titles, this one with it's new specialists, it's the cringiest ever.

    I'm writing this in late January and it still doesnt save my loadouts and half the players in matches are invisible or invincible.

    Do not waste a penny on this title.    … Expand
  23. Harryik
    Nov 20, 2021
    0
    Плохая графика и физика. Нет вибрации по ПС5. Бф1 Бф5 лучше и интереснее, а тут играешь с ботами. За бесплатно даже не хочу играть
  24. neviusnc
    Nov 15, 2021
    0
    Even on Series X the performance is absolutely terrible. And even when the game runs smoothly, it's trash. Graphics look extremely basic, player runs like a Nintendo game off in the distance, expolded vehicles look like burnt dog turds, etc. This game is a very bad joke. They will not be getting my money this year, the line is drawn at this pre-alpha 70$ trash
  25. Heisenberg2020
    Nov 18, 2021
    0
    As a veteran player who started with Battlefield 2 on PC and played all parts except hardline, I'm stunned what was delivered here, and by that I don't mean the bugs that are still to be fixed, but with the game everything was thrown together around everyone with which they completely destroyed the DNA of Battlefield!
    I don't even know what to start with, the list is endless, I just try    As a veteran player who started with Battlefield 2 on PC and played all parts except hardline, I'm stunned what was delivered here, and by that I don't mean the bugs that are still to be fixed, but with the game everything was thrown together around everyone with which they completely destroyed the DNA of Battlefield!
    I don't even know what to start with, the list is endless, I just try to list all the points, I've been playing the New Zealand trick consistently since the first lesson, and still there is no real Battlefield feeling, I'm now almost level 20 and draw my first conclusion.

    Now to the individual points:

    Negative:

    There is no server browser in AOW, you get to a new random server every round, that's unbelievable!
    From here you should rethink the purchase, that's an unrivaled outrage, because there is no map rotation at all, because you come back to a random server every round, so it can be good that you come back to the same map you have already played the round before who comes up with something like that.
    It's also not conducive to team play in random play, because you don't even stay with your squad with whom you may have been very good.

    There are no more factions, everyone is some 0815 superhero with unnecessary skills.

    And because everyone is a superhero, and there are no armies, you can only tell them apart with unnecessary red and green glow sticks.

    You can't see who has what because there are no classes, that sabotages team play even more.

    There are far too few points for team play, now Rambo is the hero of the hour on the server, who needs Battlefield gameplay when there is CoD XXL now.

    Take everything that is left of Battlefield with flags, support the team, and so on is only decoration because, as I said, it is a CoD XXL.

    The entire movement is copied from warzone, and a huge step backward from Battlefield 5.

    Furthermore, the immersion of a war game is destroyed by radio stations that would like to make cool in vehicles such as combat helicopters and the like, plus then the would-be cool sayings of the operator, not to be surpassed in terms of unnecessary.

    There is no longer a real scoreboard that you don't need anyway, it's all about shooting people, who needs team play in an XXL CoD.

    Normally, Battlefield is always an excellent game, for which you always need a new computer on a PC, but neither graphics nor sound are any pioneering upper class.

    Melee kills only work from behind, because it is now from the third-person perspective instead of with the knife from any side, and tear off the dog tag.
    If you do it from the side or from the front you need two hits, since the close combat kill animation only works from behind, as with CoD.

    The robot dog cannot be broken with a rocket launcher shot, the hovercraft can take as many shots as a whole tank, the whole thing is pretty questionable.

    Hitreg doesn't seem to be that good either, you have to take the LMG so that it feels like an assault rifle, otherwise you can sometimes push a whole magazine into it and the hit marker flashes crazy without the opponent tipping over, but you tip yourself felt around after two shots.
    Hopefully this can be readjusted with a patch, in the current state the whole thing is for the bin.

    The UI is far too colorful, it flashes and flashes from all sides, Fortnite kiddies are sure to find it cool when turquoise messages flash across the screen from all sides at all times.
    Clean UI looks different, but wouldn't it fit into an over-the-top Super Hero arcade shooter.

    Portal is also not the bringer of salvation as many believed, because it is not the real old games but just the bad 2042 mechanics with old maps that are reskinned.
    They brought the mode in because they don't trust their new concept themselves, so that all suspicious Battlefield veterans buy anyway, you can forget you will be disappointed, so it goes back to AOW where there is again no server browser, so stay just being able to play randomly every round is unbelievable and that's no joke.

    The musculoskeletal system is one to one stolen from warzone, you already know this fast run with a weapon held up and so, the movement of Battlefield 5 was actually already perfect and just had to be taken over and / or improved.

    Some bullets fly quite slowly, for example from the passenger gun in the tank, feels slower than from an air rifle, very questionable bullet physics in any case.

    Partly the graphics look really good, on the other hand so many large areas are just loveless and barren, no comparison to Battlefield 5 where every millimeter is detailed and made with love, although this game is no longer from the real DICE team is.

    and so on and so on ...    … Expand
  26. papaja2137
    Nov 26, 2021
    0
    This game is a joke. Is not playable at this point, is more bugged than cyberpunk
  27. loborodas
    Dec 9, 2021
    0
    No Xbox Series X/S update for physical owners of the disc and no mentioning on the box (because they're 98% IDENTICAL, unlike the PlayStation versions); offer that stands only for the digital versions of the game.

    The game has pauper direction, which results in a bug ridden, rushed (not even a freaking scoreboard, what the hell?) mess with zero soul put from DICE, the developer,    No Xbox Series X/S update for physical owners of the disc and no mentioning on the box (because they're 98% IDENTICAL, unlike the PlayStation versions); offer that stands only for the digital versions of the game.

    The game has pauper direction, which results in a bug ridden, rushed (not even a freaking scoreboard, what the hell?) mess with zero soul put from DICE, the developer, stripping the Battlefield experience down. They didn't take the things they did great with Bad Company 2, Battlefield 1 or Battlefield 3 and just made the formula worse.    … Expand
  28. CerberusTheWise
    Jan 2, 2022
    0
    Technically as sound as a dumpster fire. Impossible to play a game without running into some kind of issues. Don’t even get me started on missing basic features such as a map, voice chat (for a cooperative multiplayer game at that!), a scoreboard, and countless other things. This cash grab has erased battlefield’s identity. Save your money.
  29. Setiks
    Nov 15, 2021
    0
    Run run run run run run run run there, dead, run run run run run run here, nice gameplay!
  30. bradi23
    Nov 21, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Worst battlefield luanch ever. There is no reason to actually buy this game. It's broken. how could they go downhill. DO NOT BUY!!!!… Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 18
  3. Negative: 4 out of 18
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 30, 2024
    40
    Destruction is still cool, and in the end I have to give the creators credit for the fact that the much marketing-washed akedo has its moments. Everything else that made a good Battlefield is completely missing, and that chase for record-breaking size or player count is really a poor substitute for well-designed maps, rich content in the form of game modes, and certainly no substitute for the original class system that the gameplay has always relied on in the first place. [Issue#317]
  2. Impulsegamer
    Dec 6, 2021
    52
    Battlefield 2042 is a huge disappointment for gamers and the Battlefield franchise. Had this been the product of an indie developer, then this might be a different story as it would be understandable how a game like this could be the product of an independent studio that doesn’t have enormous corporate backing. Instead, EA pumped more resources into creating a CGI film that acts as the only real source of storyline context than ensuring the game was going to live up to the enormous amount of hype they were trying to create. I hate saying such negative things in my reviews, but when a game developer can’t be bothered to even try and live up to it’s own legacy, then I have to call it as I see it and for that very reason, I don’t recommend this game. Not even the nostalgia or temptation of ‘Battlefield Portal’ is enough to save this game from itself.
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  3. ComicBook
    Dec 3, 2021
    40
    Battlefield 2042 absolutely should have been pushed back by EA and DICE to some point in 2022. Instead, the version of this game that is currently available has been virtually unplayable for me at times since first releasing. Even beyond this, though, some of the key design changes that DICE has made in Battlefield 2042 don't feel for the better. Rather than improving on the core Battlefield experience that fans loved with Battlefield 3, 4, or Bad Company 2, 2042 is a bloated husk of its former self that is trying to recapture some semblance of its previous glory. As a fan that has been playing this series for well over a decade, Battlefield 2042 is a massive disappointment that I struggle to think is even worth saving.
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