2042 is not a Battlefield game; This is why BF5 will have more and more players.

I like the specialists much better than the traditional one sided class system. It's about time Medics get to carry rocket launchers. I hated playing medic in BFV because their weapons were only useful in close combat so making it through an open space to revive a mate was suicide. I don't like the fact of waiting for someone to decide to be ammo guy so I wish there were ammo stations on the maps.

I think Dice / EA need to do better at rewarding good squad play. A good squad in 2042 can do a ton of damage with the right specialists.

I totally agree, this to me does not feel like Battlefield. While we can all agree on that Battlefield 5 was not perfect it at least felt like a proper Battlefield game. And I can enjoy playing it when I feel like playing a Battlefield game. 

But with their new direction and approach to the series DICE has alienated from their roots and their community. Yes, there are some who like those changes, but there is no doubt that a huge majority would rather have their class system back. It belongs to this series and it was something that other franchises do not have. 

I was already disappointed after the beta so I cancelled that preorder right afterwards. I cannot support this franchise any more if they keep on following this design direction. I cannot identify any more. That is very hard for me because I love this franchise and Battlefield games have been the only video games that I played for the last 4-5 years.

They are trying to follow the trends of the market in order to be “innovative”. But neither is following trends blindly innovative nor do innovations make sense if they ruin your customer’s experience. If you have made yourself a name and deliver a specific brand experience you do not have to be that innovative. You just need to give people the brand experience that they fell in love with. I cannot understand how they cannot understand this simple logic. 

@LS5_71   I beg to differ, with the right guys/classes with the right perks a squad in BF4 can demolish enemy even better than the superhero in 2042. The bonus in that would be immersion and diversity, not 4 clowns in a xmas suit running around. 😉

@Trokey66  no, you cant run around looking like a russian clown in BF3 or BF4 😉

So many people taking about "muh feels! It's not a battlefield game"...

This is entirely subjective and highly influenced by emotional factors. If you look objectively at core features of Conquest throughout the series, however, it's strongly consistent:

• Objective-oriented gameplay. Rounds are won or lost through control of territory.
• Resource management. The prevalence of resupply/health is extremely important, influencing how, when, or even whether you engage enemy. BFV is notable in this regard, as early player reeeee! feedback led to the attrition system being heavily scaled back, to the point where it was largely meaningless.
• Weapons with strengths and weaknesses that heavily influence engagement range.

I wonder whether many people are salty because they simply aren't very good at it yet, having learned the games they came from over years. If each installment played the same as the last, there would be little compelling reason to release it, and no reason to buy it.

• If you go from BF4 to BF2042 expecting them to play them same, you're going to have a bad time.
• If you go from BFV to BF2042 expecting them to play the same, you're going to have a bad time.

With regard to BF4, there's been 7 years of changing trends in the games industry. If you've played nothing else in the Battlefield series in between, you're doing both of the games and yourself a disservice with the comparison.

As for BFV, the change in map size and player count, along with the shift in balance away from semi-automatic weapons towards full auto rifles and the return of lock-on weapons makes comparisons difficult. The expectations of BFV will get you killed. Often.

I had a hard time the first few weeks finding a loadout that reflects my playstyle and helps me succeed (close support and spotting.) The absence of fixed classes means you have to develop your own. Now I've found my niche, I'm doing much better:

• Falck
• MP9 with heavy suppressor/cq sights/extended mag + cq rounds/laser
• Prox sensor
• SOFLAM

My squadmate(s) run Boris/McKay/Sundance and the recoilless M5. They kill the armour, I revive them and pick off infantry at close quarters. If I'm playing alone, I choose a flag/area to contest and stay there, painting targets when not pewepewing. A little flexibility also helps. If no one is reacting to my painting targets and I see others are using the SOFLAM, I'll switch to the M5. If there's no SOFLAM or rockets going up, I'll switch to the ammo crate. Sometimes I'll switch to C5 and blow things up.

Generally, I've noticed, over the six weeks or so since the game came out, that people are starting to defend flags a lot more than in other BF titles. This leads to some really fun, intense battles on A, C or D on Orbital, for instance.

It works for me and "feels" like Battlefield. I get both BF2 and BF4 vibes depending on the map and its infantry/armour balance.

Sure, I can do without the awful voice lines at the end of the round, but the reaction to specialists and much freer loadouts suggests to me that many people just don't want to think all that much about their loadout. This is a real shame, as the opportunities for team play afforded by the changes are, in my view, much richer than before.

I'm sure most players agree with you. Specialists are ruining the game. The only problems with Battlefield V were the uniforms and elite soldiers that didn't fit into WW 2. 

But Battlefield V was a better game for Battlefield structure. Also most of maps are badly designed in Battlefield 2042.

Thanks to DICE again, we played Battlefield V without Western and Eastern front. Instead of taking lessons from their mistakes in Battlefield V, they made a worse game.

Developers ans designers are so inexperienced that instead of taking the good things from the previous game, they make it worse.

DICE please stop being a Call of Duty wannabe. Battlefield gamers need old Battlefield style games, not Hero Shooter style games.

If they released remaster all maps from Battlefield 1942 as premium content for Battlefield V. I'd buy it instead of Battlefield 2042.