Blog Post
With four man squads there will be zero team play. Throughout the many BF games you'd be luckily to find two squads per team actually working the objectives. The best team play games had six man squads, and vehicles that could carry all six. What we are going to see in 2042 is teams comprised of a couple dozen one or or two man squads of snipers.
You want real team play? Do away with K/D stats and only use objective based scoring, but no, that would mean too many unhappy 12 year old kids.
Here is what we are going to see, over powered armor, aircraft and sniper rifles, no real motivation for objectives ( unlike BC2 ), in cross platform play aim assist for consoles will make for a terrible PC experience, armor and aircraft wh*res with vehicles topped up with gadgets and no team play to take them out.
Everyone but children and twitchers are moving to games like SQUAD where they are serious about team play and a game that has some legs. At the least BF2042 should have a basic "reality mode" with larger squads, more realistic vehicle characteristics ( no tanks that can spin turrets and move like a race car), realistic physics and objective oriented scoring, seems it would have been a no brainer to add a mode like this, take the legs right out from under the up and coming reality based mods.