Battlefield 4 still the best unfortunately
Vehicles are more fun when aiming and shooting Better maps and destruction than 2042. You can easy go from one flag to another and you can make the difference in game Classes are classic similar to...
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And I think BF2142 is better than any of them !!! 😉 :: I love the sound of a Pod Launch in the morning..!!
Whilst I am not defending some of the design decisions or exonerating DICE over some of the bugs and issues etc but.....
I think it is rediculous to compare games that have completed their life cycle in terms of DLC and extra content, had umpteen patches to fix bugs and glitches with a game that has only been out for 2 weeks!
@Trokey66Well those games kept me hooked and wanting to play, 2042 is a game that seems more like a chore.
Before they ever had any dlc.
ALSO they had paid DLC which was GUARANTEED a good amount of new content.
- @TankerFlanker So you don't play 2042 then. Are you here just to complain?
- @Tank2042Man When I want the game to not SUCK instead of praising dice for a failure yeah, this is their forums a place to voice COMPLAINTS.
- @TankerFlanker you can't put all the blame for removing paid DLC, the 'community' demanded it.
Playing 2042 is painful. Painful because it had potential. Weirdly enough, i like the Specialists abilities. They are fun and allow for some new strategies. But thats about it.
No patch will be able to save this dumbed down BF experience. IMO. Lots of broken promises as it seems common within the VG industry (See CDPR Cyberpunk 2077). Oh yeah im so glad they mention scoreboard and server browser in their new blog, because those are such premium features. *Sarcasm* with eye roll.
Where is all of the "next level destruction"? Various interviews in the past, they talk about how the storms destroy everything and it would take levelution to the next level. Currently, most maps feel just flat and uneventful aside from the weather. Destruction seems less then in previews games. Does anyone remember Hardline? You could collapse entire highway overpasses, that would change the map. Hardline is almost 7 years old. I know this has been beating to death but every time i play, I want to love the game but its just at times so disappointing. And surely, now we know why they choose Orbital for the beta because its the only map that has some kind of map altering event (slightly).
Its even more painful when they get a pass because they proudly post blogs pretending missing core elements are now "legacy features" which is so laughable. And with people already maxing out, without more contend, I dont see this game going anywhere.
Yeah, im grumpy. Sorry.
- @TankerFlanker Yeah the Season Pass no doubt was a superior concept over live service...at least EA/DICE's implementation of live service anyway. Season Pass locked them into meeting DLC deadlines, and it also meant that they had to be on point at launch with DLC development already well in hand. They usually would drop the first DLC pack a month or so after launch in Season Passes.
So we've had two live service games from EA/DICE, both cancelled. Neither had remotely close to the same post-launch content a season pass brought:
- Battlefront 2 cancelled after just over 2 years of support.
- BFV after just over 1 year of support.
Seems like the standard release cadence to me, just without the DLC obligation. So what does live service even mean to EA/DICE? For other games it's years of support.
@Trokey66True, but the fact an 8 year old game stands as the best currently available after now 4 releases after it? Not good.
BF4 was a catastrophe at launch, but it had a couple things going for it:
1) It was a console launch game for PS4 an Xbox One, so there were other games to play. On PS4, Killzone Shadow Fall became the go to game as BF4 fixed itself and COD Ghost was generally not regarded well. Xbox One had TitanFall on the way plus it's own set of launch games.
2) BF4 issues were server and connectivity related. The content was there with plenty more on the way in the Season pass. There was no uncertain future of support or how long it will take to get a full featured game, more maps, etc. We have all that and more with BF2042.@ArchAngeL-PCX
Maybe BF4 will turn out to be better than 2042 once 2042 is fully polished but it's still just an opinion.
I like them all, but the last thing I wanted was a reskinned BF4.
BF4 is definitely the best in my heart.
BF1 grew on me over time and is my 2nd favorite
everything else is just ho hum...keep in mind I'm a console player so BF3 wasn't all that great on console. BFV was and is a very buggy game and 2042 looks like they stole alot of the bugs from BFV but stole very little of the good stuff from it.
For 2042 being a follow up or continuation of the BF4 story its pretty garbage if you ask me. You'd think they would've started with the weapons and vehicles from bf4 as their base and worked from there...but hey what do I know I'm just the guy that pays for the game and then sinks 2000hrs of my life into it.
I’d have paid £60+ for new maps, updated graphics and, I can’t believe I’m saying this, more classes or specialist to an updated BF4 or bf4 dlc.
instead I bought bf2042 and got…….
Specialists have destroyed this game, please remove them EA and DICE, you are ruining the franchise.
- @Trokey66 I understand what you mean but I think that those games had a much more solid foundation that bf2042. BF4, for instance, had terrible server and balance problems but the maps were nowhere near as nonsensical as the ones in this game. They could patch the balance issues and add new maps. The base maps were not terrible so if you decided to forgo DLC, you could still have a good time.
Unless EA permits DICE to completely redo the maps (and Id hope they would also gut the specialists system and return to a more "battlefield" class system) this game is going to continue dying.
