I'm going to call it quits...
This new update... Yeah, wasn't much, again... - Balance is still all over the place: its K30's, Avancys or M5 with a specific setup and the rest just doesn't cut it. - Map playlists broken, haven'...
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I hear you @Daeyon-be and @cso7777 ,
As you really called out some of the absolute base fundamentals that makes a FPS game attractive and that keep the players wanting to come back for more, again and again.
...and that BF2042 is still not delivering on those absolute must-haves.
Really hard to read some of the sincere and well-meant posts here.
Summarizing it into a few but very telling words, like: It is simply not fun to play.
If there was some fun in this game then we would all be ok to be exposed to the occasional bug or missing features here and there. But when there is just agony and frustration, then its hard to take day after day, release update after the next, season release after the next. And none of the core issues are getting fixed despite they were raised since the first playtesting we went through long before game release.
The gameplay is boring, frustrating and no fun.
And no improvements being made to it, that really matters.
It's always sad to hear of more players leaving the BF series, how did it end up in this terrible state so quickly. 😕
I fully concur with all your reasons, sadly BF2042 is simply not fun to play.
Mainly because of the direction taken and also because there are way too many essential elements missing that made previous BF's great.
We are not able to play the game the way we choose and are therefore being forced to play maps / modes that we don't want to play, and conversely unable to play those that we like.
It's a shame really, BF has been my go to FPS game for so long so I hate to see its downfall.
The social / community aspect was always one of the main attractions for me and I am sure many others, but that sadly is currently lacking in BF2042.
@RayD_O1 wrote:It's always sad to hear of more players leaving the BF series, how did it end up in this terrible state so quickly. 😕
I fully concur with all your reasons, sadly BF2042 is simply not fun to play.
Mainly because of the direction taken and also because there are way too many essential elements missing that made previous BF's great.
We are not able to play the game the way we choose and are therefore being forced to play maps / modes that we don't want to play, and conversely unable to play those that we like.
It's a shame really, BF has been my go to FPS game for so long so I hate ti see its downfall.
The social / community aspect was always one of the main attractions for me and I am sure many others, but that sadly is currently lacking in BF2042.
I realy wonder what EA and DICE view is on why people are leaving this game.
i'll probably be done with this game when they half * the class system and ruin the loadouts i have been running since launch by locking gadgets. but the snipers will still have their ammo box because they aren't locking weapons (or in the case of angel or falk they'll have ammo AND health AND sniper rifles AND be able to revive each other when they bunch up on their rock)
I have been close for weeks. Barely played after T1 in Season 1.
It seems like the rock/paper/scissors component is missing between infantry, vehicles, and aircraft. Then you add zero teamwork functionality and the game feels extremely hollow, which is unfortunate. With the vehicle and aircraft classes, several vehicles are never played. When is the last time you have seen a Bolte lol?
Before in Conquest, capping a point was important, if it was a critical (center) point, you stayed and defended after capping with at least 5-6 others, sometimes 2-3 squads while others were capping or defending other flags. Now I move around Conquest and cap an empty flag, then move to another and maybe fight one or two enemies. Rarely is there a major engagement (at least for me). It is incredibly boring. Everything feels disconnected (me>squad>team>objectives>strategy).
It might be the map design as well. Caspian is really good at this, team spawns are pretty far away from the objectives, then the flags are all somewhat clustered together in the middle of the map with decent cover for infantry, but also clear routes for vehicles. Most of these maps lack both of those somehow.
That is all in game stuff, then you have the fact that you cannot choose the map you want to play and the only way to join is via MM. That kills it for me before I even get into a game. I know my first join is going to be an existing game on the losing team near the end of the match. So I have to suffer through 5 minutes of terrible gameplay getting steamrolled just to get back into the queue for a new game, but then I am now waiting for players after playing a match full of them. I start the round with half the team as bots and then see other players joining mid-round just like I did the last match. It is an endless loop of suck. They need to address this and add a Server Browser.
I stopped after season 2 dropped to many issues. I came a few days ago after the newest update. Hoping it be better. Game is better now then when it was first released. But almost a year after it still has game breaking issues that the devs have yet to fix. I understand it takes awhile but almost a year
That’s unacceptable. Hitreg still an issue All tho I’ll say it has been better. Mouse input better but still needs work/. Let’s not talk about MM lol. Same two or three maps in one day is just flat out sad.and ONLY TWO NEW MAPS?! That is embarrassing. Playing the same map more that once in a row should not happen in a AAA game. I play free to play games that have better rotation than this. I don’t have the enthusiasm to play. I might get on if I can play a few matches and that’s it if I’m bored. With it now being gaming season there are plenty of other new games that offer more and free ones that are not broken as 2042.Dice/Ea failed.
Besides the game breaking bugs, the thing for me that makes it so boring is the wait time between matches. Once a match ends, you'll wait up to 5 minutes to get into another match and then it's the same map you just played. There are maps that I haven't played in eons. I have to keep going and looking up the maps for 2042 because I NEVER PLAY THEM. And then, despite all of the yelling and screaming in the forums, they decide to remove the most popular modes and FORCE you to play two maps with 128 players. That's a good portion of the boredom for me, the lack of a true map rotation. If you play for 2 hours, you shouldn't play the same map twice, unless you want to!!! I played for two hours the other day on a supposed random play list, but played the same two maps over and over.
