BF2042 is good now, but what can make it great ?

So, we all have to apreciate the work that DICE has done to improve this game by making it a lot better than before, and also the fact that they didn't give up on it like soome thought they would do.

I'm finnaly enjoying the game and I play it more often now, but what might make me play it for every single day just like I used to do with othe BFs, like BF3 & BF4.

Here is a list of what I believe would make this game GREAT for BF veterans :

Mixed server browser

A server browser that has both official servers and comunity servers would be a great adition, right now most of the comunity servers are Hardcore, I'm not saying I hate Hardcore but I just don't wanna play it every day. A mixed browser would let us find more servers and introduce us to others.

I just don't like the fact that after every round I get kicked to the main menu to start looking for another match, I just want it to be like Portal, once the round is over a new map starts, and you know for sure it's gonna be a different map.

Specialists per Faction

Yes, I know that many have asked for this before, and I don't think it's too late, having different specialists per faction would be great, at least you can differenciate between an enemy and a friendly just by looking at them.

Imagine if -for an example- we will have Zain as the Russian Assault and Sundance as the US Assault, and we would have to choose between there speciality in the deployment menu.

Portal Faction in BF2042

The title says it, If I can choose between BF3, BC2 and 42 soldiers and vehicles in the game, that would be more than GREAT, of course they would have their own weapons and customization.

But what if it was like Star Wars Battlefront 2, where some characters and vehicles are free, while others you have to use a score that you collect during the round to use them. In this case BF3, BC2 characters and vehicles would be free, and 42 would require a certain score (objectives score probablly).

Number of vehicles

Not all maps should have the same amount of vehicles, some are medium scale focused on infantry and others are large scale focused on vehicles, unfortunetly the numbers are the same for all maps.

Orbital -for an example- is a large scale map, it needs to have (per team) : 1 Bomber (A10), 2 Jets, 1 Ah6, 2 Attack Helis, 1 Transport Heli, 2 LAVs, 4 Tanks, 1 Heavy tank, 1 AA, 2 Armored transport vehicle, 6 Light transport vehicles.

BF4 was 64 players only and some maps had a lot of vehicles.

Rectangle Large scale maps

Older BFs had these layouts :

Lineaire --> Infantry only.

Square --> Medium scale focused on infantry with fewer vehicles.

Rectangle --> Large/Huge scale maps focused on vehicles.

Levolution/ Destruction/ More remastered maps...

and more large scale maps for custom conquest in Portal.

I know I have probably exagerated but if the game would have all of this forget about other FPS games.

Anyway that's all for today, thank you for reading and don't forget to share your openions as well.

discussion

26 Replies

sk1lld
Legend
3 years ago
@Hunter45Killer

The server browser is #1 in my book, it would be nice to have infantry only large maps with transport vehicles only. Vehicles are unbalanced at this time and need to be balanced "Transports with cannons I'm looking at you"

Just my 2 cents.
NazT55
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
They can do a lot of things to make the game better but I doubt they will at this point. The game is over a year old now and just getting stale. I mean what do we have to look forward to going forward that they have mentioned? 1 new/old map and 1 rework map coming up along with so-called squad management tools. Nothing to get excited about.
ElliotLH
Hero+
3 years ago
@sk1lld My #1 too. Always preferred using it rather than matchmaking.
DPsx7
3 years ago
@Hunter45Killer Wrong. It was better months ago and now is the worst it's been since launch.
cso7777
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@DPsx7I disagree, the game was trash and it has improved a lot.

But the improvements have not made the game good, it has so many frustrating issues and is still one of the worst BF-games ever made (probably the worst).

For me the spawning, the "netcode", the sound, vehicle/infantry balance, unskippable EOR-screens, dumbed down gunplay, missing squad-tools (etc etc) needs fixing for the game to be even remotely good.
DPsx7
3 years ago
@cso7777 That stuff isn't important. Removing classes to get back the fun and teamplay aspect would be top of the list, with more maps being next. They crapped on infantry to quiet the vehicle-using trolls. It sucks.

I was playing every day last year so it was far from trash.
cso7777
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@DPsx7I'm not fan of the specialists or the way they have implemented classes, on top of the specialists.

But the problem with the game is that it is frustrating to play, partly because of the reasons I mentioned (the list is much longer).

BF has lost the fun element and it has gone downhill since BF4.

Even though BF4 was frustrating, the amount of fun made up for that. Now we have almost only frustrations left with very little fun gameplay.

The specialist issue adds to the frustrations (even more variables Dice cannot balance right), but the overall "quality-of-life" in the game is just bad.

I have also put many hours into 2042, even though the game sucks. That is more or less because it still is some kind of a BF-game and you cannot really find that kind of gameplay anywhere in other games.
DPsx7
3 years ago
@cso7777 The specialists were ok. It was a cool step towards loosening restrictions and letting people play how they want. Throwing classes on top and restricting all the tools really cramped the game. I literally haven't touched it in 3 months. I want to like the game again...

Can only imagine how much worse it's gotten since. More weapons nerfed, no new maps (all remakes), less players, what did they expect? I've said before the worst part is I didn't care for BF1 and 5, so I've been waiting since BF4 for a game like this was. Now it's gone. I paid $20 for a flip flop.
Adamonic
Legend
3 years ago
@Hunter45Killer good now? I guess that is in the eye of the beholder. If you peel the onion back a little bit, you will realize they haven't done much.

So what has been improved outside of the normal seasonal cycle and normal game bug fixes and tweaks?

1. Class System added which was a cute way to say "gadget restrictions", which were already in the game with Lis. Not hard to add restrictions to others then update the GUI.
2. Added a Scoreboard with fake weights. How it launched without one is anyone's guess.
3. Added VOIP. Again how did a team/squad based game launch without ANY voice?
4. Added All Chat = changed one value in the code.
5. Updated launch maps that were all half-baked upon launch.

Did I miss anything?

We are still missing basic core features like a Server Browser, squad management tools, and platoons. All the things needed to build a community.

The netcode/performance/hit reg causes wildy inconsistent game play, which is possibly the most maddening thing about the game past the mickey mouse MM.

EA and DICE checked out of this title in December 2021.
sk1lld
Legend
3 years ago
@Adamonic

I'm going to have to agree with Adamonic here. There are really game breaking features that need to be addressed. MM among other things doesn't belong in a Battlefield imho.