It just occurred to me that DICE could have eaten its cake and had it... If they had built BF2042 as a normal Battlefield, THEN put the Specialists in the 'Store' for sale, they could have pleased everyone AND done the micro transaction- someone get Vince on the blower...
@Matty101yttamI think you are right.
It seems like Orbital and Manifest are the only 'finished' maps, all the other maps have issues with being far to open and they feel unfinished (some more than others).
We really needs the maps to be redesigned, at most 3 or 4 maps are acceptable for playing infantry, the rest are just not fun. This is not really acceptable for a AAA-game that cost 60 usd.
@Matty101yttamThe open beta was on Orbital. One of the only 'ok' maps in the game and not really showcasing the 2042 maps in any (truthful) way.
Unfortunately Dice haven't really fixed maps in earlier BF-games and we are probably stuck with this mess we have now.
Dice made some small adjustments in BFV to some of the maps, but the maps in 2042 needs a lot of work to become acceptable.
The only trick EA is successfully good at - giving promises supported by no evidence (correction: false statements - "way ahead of schedule in many aspects") avoidance of a "class action lawsuit" and implementation of "surprise mechanics". Building a solid first-person shooter experience is currently a sideshow, unfortunately.
Forget about the release of a stable and finished product - false expectations in A.D. 2022.
Keep defending this or be moderately surprised again with an upcoming release again.
@ExxInferisThis pandemic excuse still? it's sad and just that an excuse for * poor effort, there was plenty of other games that released not in the same awful state Bf2042 was during the same time frame.
@TankerFlankerExcuse?
Oh dear.
I am going to take a stab in the dark here and guess that you have never worked in a design environment, with multiple different skill-sets and areas of expertise, all working together to produce a final product.
Imagine that it's 2018 and you are working for a company that, in the last years or so, has seen all it's original founding members leave the company. You are working on something that has a million moving parts, but it's OK. You can simply turn around in your office chair when you get stuck and ask a technical question to the room in general. Your answer comes back in seconds, with easy opportunity for follow-up questions and clarification.
Now this covid nonsense happens, and all of a sudden everything you have been working on changes radically, and you are stuck in your house, remoting in on your home PC or laptop, into a workstation that has about 3 monitors. You have one. You end up with this lovely situation where you have to flick between different displays to gather the information into something you can use to create....whatever it is you are designing. Which all now has got to be re-done. In a hurry.
I was lucky. I had enough funds to immediately drop a few grand on extra hardware for my home set-up when it happened to me. Others were not so lucky.
Other studios would obviously had different circumstances. Like the corporate overlords NOT moving the goal-posts on you entirely more than half way through development.
Do you know what, I just re-read your arrogant, entitled, whiny post, and realised that I am probably doing the forum equivalent of playing chess with a pigeon.
