Until the following are brought back:
VOIP for Squads - not everyone has access to a public discord or teamspeak, not everyone wants to be in a clan. VOIP is essential to communications, and the chat filter screens out certain words that are viable to squad comms.
Global Scoreboard - War is a competition to win, it also includes competition to be the best player in the game, not just your team.
Global Chat - there are plenty of times, global chat is a good thing. player gets a nice incredible kill or event, people are like YOOOO that was AWESOME!, give us that ability back.
Remove the Chat Filter or make it optional, that those who dont care about language can interact with others, and those who dont want to see dont have to. ( with exception to the most vulgar commentary, anything outside of basic cursing, is out of bounds. - it IS a M17+ Rated Game, Adults curse, stop treating us like children )
HOTAS and Flight Setup Support - your excuse about X-Play is utterly ridiculous for validation to remove flight setup users from flying with HOTAS and Flight Sticks.
Squad Management - the ability to lock a squad, kick anyone out who is being disruptive.
last but not least - GIVE US 2042 HARDCORE MODE !!!!
^ ^ ^ Until i see all of this, or at least at the very basic, VOIP, HOTAS and Hardcore mode. Nope, 2042 will sit idle.
I am a Day 1 of BF1942 player, i have accrued over 15000 hours of game play since day 1 of BF1942, and Own every BF Franchise PC Title in my origin account, even Hardline. I still have the CD/DVD Cases for, BF-1942 Deluxe Edition, BF-V ( The Original Vietnam ) BF2+SF, BF2142 and BFBC2. so yeah, I'm one of the very few and rare players who has been here for the entire run of the BF Franchise. during BF2 and BF1942+Desert Combat, i was part of the <TNT> Clan who ran the worlds number 1 ranked BF1942 DC CTF Server. and the number 3 world ranked Wake Island server. Ive been around the block more than enough times as the top 1% of the most dedicated players in the BF Franchise.
I have watched over the last few releases in disgust how EA is just ignoring and over riding community feedback and requests. you are sealing your own fate here EA, we are trying to tell you what we want, but you want to listen to other communities and take their feedback and apply it to Battlefield. That is not how it works. Now you are learning the hard way.