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Reddoguk's avatar
Reddoguk
4 years ago

Battlefield 2042 currently has 74% negative user reviews on Steam.

This is an issue. This has to be the worst BF game launch in history and nothing like the war simulator we wanted. All they seemed to worry about is stupid gimmicks like weather events and rocket l...
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carsono311's avatar
carsono311
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@Reddoguk Not the worst in history.

While it is unfortunate that game still needs so much work, Battlefield 4 was worse at launch. Battlefield V was better at launch, but the drama surrounding it and the doubling-down on dumb or broken game mechanics were early coffin nails.

I do not really pay attention to media input on the game at this point. They all say the same thing and the easy, self-gratifying groupthink is really good at not seeing the forest for the trees...

My take is still that the game is fun, but it needs a lot of work still.
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ArchAngeL-PCX
4 years ago
@carsono311 I can't agree at all. BF4 was worse in that you couldn't connect online, but the content was there. It wasn't a case of knowing that you are in for some long drawn out support cycle, hoping the content would show up. A few months after launch, they had the servers fixed. Players had a single player, 10 launch maps, the China Rising DLC, the Second Assault DLC, and the Naval Strike DLC on the way in spring. In the mean time, I played Killzone Shadow Fall on PS4. Basically BF4 was like having the launch of a great game delayed a few months.

BFV was no better than this game. Was there more quantity? Sure. But it was the exact opposite anyone expected from a WW2 Battlefield game. Felt more like COD3 to me than BF1942. And just like this game, we have to wait and see what happens over the course of a year.
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    carsono311
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago
    @ArchAngeL-PCX Agree to disagree then.

    What you described for Battlefield 4 sounds exactly like what I am experiencing with 2042. Intermittent disconnecting (my first lost server connection issue last night actually), but there is a Battlefield game tucked away in there behind the connection issues, bugs, etc. Since we are still in week 1 / 2 for the game, the months ahead comparison is naturally a bit harder to make...

    Agreed on Battlefield V.
    • ArchAngeL-PCX's avatar
      ArchAngeL-PCX
      4 years ago
      @carsono311 Yeah connection issues are the same for sure. But BF4 was there. It was about 4 months before I could play it without rubber banding. By then I already had 18 maps to play (10 launch, 4 China Rising, 4 Second Assault) with 3 more DLC packs on the way. BFV had 18 maps total when they cancelled support LOL!!! How long before BF2042 gets that many maps? I guess you could count Portal, but it's not the same since they aren't in the All Out War rotation. And they nerfed Portal XP, so anyone wanting to rank up won't be in there.

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