I hate all out warfare because of the specialists and the awful map design. The graphics are also a whole separate issue that I'm not going to talk about. But Dice, please delete these two massive problems with the game and give us a true battlefield experience like you did with portal. It's not like you are incompetent, cause you did do it with portal. Now copy that method and add on to it.
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"BF2042 base game is very much a battlefield" Yeah nah that's wrong lol, the maps are terrible and noone ever expected trash specialist to completely replace Assault, Support, Engineer, and Recon. The specialist and garbage maps and lack of weapons is what has ruined this game, it may have sold well but I don't think I've seen a game population die out so quick.
You praising this game would be in the minority of people who actually like it.
We need more infantry based maps
I had high hopes for this game because of all the animation vids they had for it during build up. They showed a heavy infantry aspect in those videos and more details and destruction. It was also supposed to go back to the roots of battlefield. How can you advertise that you're going to the roots while putting in specialists.
I agree with the person that called this a hero shooter now. Specialists shouldn't have had names, they should have been replacements for the engineer, medic, assault, and recon instead. They didn't need to be basically named mercenaries. It makes fighting sometimes confusing because you're attacking player models that look exactly like your team. That's a dumb decision.
Maps are very few, and not very good. Graphics are pretty low and there's nearly no map details. Feels like some quickly made korean mmo where all the houses are empty. There's nothing unique. There's nothing really to destroy, and the ones that do are very clunky and unrealistic compared to the last few BF games. There's also A LOT of empty space. It makes you feel like this is barely an infantry shooter anymore. Vehicles dominate everything, and the Heli's are just insane with how much empty ground there is. For the guy that mentioned we shouldn't be running across empty fields....most of these maps you really have no choice in the matter. They are some of the largest BF maps to date, but 80% of it is just empty, fully exposed land. The maps need more cover for ground troops to move around in, and most of the vehicles need a lot of rework.
The weapons I'm not going to really complain too much about, mainly because I can't imagine them not adding more, however, the synergy around them need to be adjusted. Everyone complains that no one is restocking or throwing out medpacks....could that possibly be because they made these massive maps dominated by vehicles, and infantry need to carry anti vehicle weapons on them to cross the map? That weapon that takes over the slot for your medbag or ammo? Dumb decision considering that you could use both of those in previous BF games. Again, if we're going back to our roots, why are you forcing something on us that is completely different than our norm? They were so excited to push out the specialists that no one asked for and was never in past BF games (roots again), that they hijacked one of the slots that would normally be for either your weapon tool or your med/ammo slot instead, then wonder why no one is healing or resupplying, lol.
Game is just a giant contradiction to what most of us were under the impression we were getting from this game, and they deserve this backlash.
@dirtytamato You seem to be blinded by the hate for this game. There is plenty of cover and more than 6 buildings in the city.
Maps are not terrible, and gunplay is good after Update 3. We need content and more modes. It's that simple. The drop in player base is not because the game sucks, but because people are waiting for content. Battle Pass is incoming with more guns. People have nothing to do right now.
