Battlefield 2042

Throw everything what was great on BF over board and try to copy CoD, Overwatch, Fortnite... and you get BF 2042 in addition with uncountable number of bugs and terrible design choices. BF had always an edge but they lost it.

R. I. P. Battlefield. I was a big fan once.

Bad graphics make everything look plastic. Sound design is bad. Maps are uninteresting. Movement is slow with no way to adjust sensitivity. Feels unfinished. I have no idea how this was approved for release.

We play BF because COD is stupid, too fast and unplayable. When I first played BF4, it felt good to find a game the complete opposite of COD. Slower game play speed, easy to stay on target and just fun! My friends and I would stay and play online for hours! You guys have completed ruined BF by trying to turn it into COD!

All you had to do was take BF4/BF1 keep all buttons and game play the same (Aiming, movement, destruction, etc) and just update some maps, graphics and guns and this game would have been perfect! It's sad that people always have to come in and ruin something that was great! Please just make the next BF just like BF4. Bring back what the people want!!!

Battlefield 2042 has gone through a pretty significant overhaul since its horrid launch. However unlike the Battlefield 4 overhaul, the game was designed so poorly from the ground up that it ends up being mediocre at best.

Cons:

• The gunplay has zero depth(more reminiscent of Call of Duty)
• The maps are the worst in the franchise
• The tone is way to cartoonish
• The specialist is system is horrible
• 128 players just does not work
• The visuals don't match the standard of past Battlefield titles

Pros:

• Maps are in diverse locations
• Some maps look beautiful
• Iwo Jima plays pretty well on breakthrough
• Remastered maps play pretty well
• Portal is cool idea executed poorly

TLDR: It's a fun for a few hours and then it's painfully obvious that its not very good.

Plot

In the near future the world has entered a set of constant chaos with a massive immigration crisis birthing a rebellion against the last all encompassing world government.

Cast

Not familiar.

Verdict

I grew up with first person shooters, but by that I mean Doom, Wolfenstein, Hexen, Rise of the Triad and more. When the multi-player generation kicked in I was rarely impressed, Medal of Honor? No thanks. Call of Duty? Meh. Online CoD bored me whereas Battlefield I got a level of enjoyment from. I could never understand why anybody would choose CoD over Battlefield.

Battlefield had bigger environments, more players in battles, vehicles (Ground, water and air) it was just superior in every way to me.

When Battlefield 2042 came out I remember hearing wall to wall complaints, people hated it so when I went in I assumed the worst. The thing is the complaints were never really specific, they were just claims they didn't like the game but rarely an explanation of why. Yes it had bugs, but what AAA games doesn't shortly after release? The trouble is it's over two years later and there are still bugs present, mostly frustrating graphical ones.

The game itself is solid enough, though a bit all over the place as it's set across multiple time periods and tries to be a bit too grandiose for its own good. WW2 battles? Sure. Modern battles? Sure. Futuristic battles? Sure. It makes loadouts a pain in the butt and I didn't like that it was so all over the place.

Everything else however is fine, the mechanics are solid, the locations are varied, every box is ticked so why the hatred?

It's not the best Battlefield game, but it's a decent enough entry.

Rants

No seriously, why do people choose CoD over Battlefield? I believe it's changed recently but prior the environments were tiny by comparison. You couldn't turn a corner without running into an enemy. No vehicles, fewer players....why!? Battlefield saw you riding a jeep across a sprawling environment, tanks roaring beside you, planes engaged in dogfights above, superior in every conceivable way.

Breakdown

Lots of environments Great logistics Multiple time periods don't work Unforgivable bugs.