Battlefield 2042 Beta was in a rough state - illustrated here...
Coming to terms with my own disappointment when trying hard to love the new BF during 18 hours of beta game testing...
I also understood after trying it on PC that the beta testing on PC was actually giving a 'better' experience than the truly deplorable experience we had on the new gen consoles! Though it wasn't great at all on PC, it was still markedly better.
Reason why I think we may have had some rather diverted opinions here on the forum also, as we actually did not all experience the same bugs/shortcomings, despite we might even have been in the very same game at the same time!
So here a summary of the majority of the bugs/shortcomings we experienced, all clearly illustrated by video clips of the situations, so also the PC players can see it for themselves...
Battlefield 2042 is in very (very) rough shape - Beta impressions - YouTube
And the question is:
Should we ask EA to delay the go-live with another 3-4 months that it would minimum take for them to truly concentrate and get some of the most severe design flaws fixed or you don't mind/prefer to get it raw and get it next month. And we will have to suffer probably 2-3 times longer until we might get a reasonable game 9-12 months from now through endless incremental fixes being released?
@Trokey66 wrote:
@CyberDymeCome on, another thread on this!? Why not just add that video to the other one?
Who are we to ask DICE to delay anything? Non of us know the state of the game, not even YouTubers so how can we say DICE should delay nevermind for how long!
Be sensible.Thx @carsono311 and @ghinavirus ,
Think we all want and wish this BF2042 to be successful!
And that is actually why @Trokey66 ,
I honestly think that the most sensible thing would be for EA to face reality and call off the launch until some time early next year.
And why is that?
There are several reasons for this, but among the most severe:
- The appalling poor state of the beta. Across so many foundational aspects of the gameplay, the mechanics, the imagery, the sounds, the hit registry, vehicle dynamics, the aircraft aerodynamics, the server backend and the list goes on and on... And its not just cosmetics... So even if it was a software build from few months back, it would still take more than 3 months of more substantial fixing for EA to make that playable for launch date in November.
- EA kept claiming that they were well ahead of schedule. Until we hit the technical playtest. And all of us in that know what we saw. And all the stuff that we didn't see. As EA also pulled the plug on that one...
- Shortly followed by sudden stonewalling and total absence from the long planned Gamescom-launch with all their Battlefield franchise partners on their stands. Nothing!
- Then last minute 1-month delay of the beta. So tell me now how much we can still trust all we have heard so far from EA?
- And when we finally got to the beta, what did we get? Probably the worst looking and worst-dysfunctional beta of any Battlefield game we have ever had. Yes, agreed, we did not see the many blue screen of death as we had with BF4, but at least we had good gameplay mechanics and sense of that being a game with huge potential with just some polishing being done to it. That it not the sensation we are left behind with now after the poor BF2042 beta.
So we absolutely know what we have seen and experienced in the beta.
And with all the above in mind, then yes, the most sensible thing would be to delay the launch until sometime in February or March next year.
Because that is the time the Dev team needs just to fix just the bare basics to make this game playable and enjoyable of some sort for more than just 4-5 game rounds.
