We all expected BF2042 to continue line 2 like it did with Battlefield 1942, 1972 (Vietnam), 2, Special Forces, 2142. We all want to remove forced internet connection so people can play with bots without connecting to DICE servers . .This will raise online and interest in the game.On behalf of the entire player community: please remove internet connection enforcement and allow people to play with bots offline.

I have to agree with OP. There is no need to buy game separately if it will be online only. Who want to play can just subscribe to EA Play service. In any case you just rent a game, when EA will decide to shut down servers, there will be nothing left.EA has so far failed to reply to a simple question, if game will be playable offline. Developers at DICE take years of hard work to develop such amazing models, mechanics, graphics that Battlefield games contain, just to be everything dumped after several years and there is nothing left for fans to keep playing this masterpiece. Unfortunately i won't be able to buy this game, If there wont be a simple offline mode. And it is quite sad that this is probably where my Battlefield veteran collection also end.

I'm starting to think that a offline mode would be wonderful. I used to be in the boat of having zero internet. I was limited to the games i could play during that time period. Especially how now days almost every game needs to be connected to the internet. Which sucks for certain people that want to play this game, or any other game for that matter, and don't have internet at all or slower internet where online play is practically difficult. Offline would be a huge positive for the game. But, if it doesn't have it. oh well, no real big loss there.

@Forkbeard84 First of all, BF 2042 will NOT have a Singleplayer campaign.But it's been confirmed that there will be new AI Soldiers (aka Bots) included in the game, which means you can play alone or even with a squad of friends (+the rest of you team being filled with AI Soldiers) against a full enemy team of AI soldiers. To test new stuff ect. or just mess around.Even tho if you could play alone with only Bots, we don't know if this is possible completely offline, since you might still play on a multiplayer map.Greets,Trav

sadly I’m with you. Just stupid that we can’t at least practice offline. Battlefield five and battlefield one at least has campaign. But I’ve always hated that we couldn’t practice with bots offline. Especially considering fewer and fewer people playing when the new game comes out. Takes ages to match make if at all. So if they ever want to sale more they really need to think of what op said.

@rouvioThere is absolutely nothing wrong with multiplayer in Battlefield series. This is where Battlefield shine, I totally agree. But some fans, like me, have been asking for the simple offline mode for years. Like dedicated offline sandbox mode/practice range which has nothing to do with progression in multiplayer (like Instant Action mode in Star wars Battlefront 2). We are just tired of "online only" games where developers/publishers decide to shut down servers after few years and we cannot play with game anymore. I want this cool weapons, gadgets and vehicles to stay so I can fool around in some dedicated offline mode, even when multiplayer servers dont exist anymore.If this game will have that mode, than I will instant buy ultimate edition, otherwise it's not worth it in my opinion, because I will be locked out of the content after few years.

Let people play with bots in Conquest mode without internet connection.

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ChrisAWJBethel
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@Trokey66 Why not?
dragonslayerxxx
4 years ago
@Trokey66 It's not the same thing. There are no two different versions of 2042 to choose from. There are no two distinctive market groups to sell it to. We're all buying the same game. You payed for it, you decide what you want from it. Sure, devs have control over their vision and some of technicalities but they SHOULD listen to YOU.
You think DICE came with modern setting on their own? Please-they got burnt so badly with BF5 and their ''ideas'' that they immediately backtracked to first safest haven they knew will get them back up. And not coincidentally, that safe haven is what players (consumers) always liked.
Besides, you're not targeted niche for those cars in a first place.
ChugKendall
4 years ago
@AristarhUcolov2 To be fair, "eternal pleasure" is not what EA wants, when it comes to trying to sell you a new game every couple of years. They have to make new games, and make more money, to be able to stay in business. One game version can make or break a studio, as has happened before. I would hate to see that. I do want EA to give me a great product, and listen to suggestions from the gamer community, but I do understand that they have to have repeat business to stay afloat.
Jesse165
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
Battlefield 4 is now completely unplayable on Xbox because of server problems. If there was ever a reason to make the Bot matches available offline this is it.
Trokey66
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@dragonslayerxxx1 And perhaps people with poor interwebs who want offline 'bots' are not the target niche for DICE.

Parallels can dawn.
Jesse165
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@Trokey66 Sorry but with the Server Problems I am seeing now on Battlefield 4 it makes me realize once again that the OP is completely right. Even if its not at launch the Offline Bot Matches NEED to be added as soon as possible so that we can still play the game when the servers are down.

Doesn't matter how good your internet is at all if there are no servers to play on.
Jesse165
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@ChrisAWJBethel Thanks for saving me from the Online Only Dark Side.
CyberDyme
4 years ago
@Jesse165 wrote:
@Trokey66Sorry but with the Server Problems I am seeing now on Battlefield 4 it makes me realize once again that the OP is completely right. Even if its not at launch the Offline Bot Matches NEED to be added as soon as possible so that we can still play the game when the servers are down.

Doesn't matter how good your internet is at all if there are no servers to play on.
Hi @Jesse165,
While the option to go offline and still have fun with BF4 these day would have been ideal, its many years ago that EA cared to make more money out a game they released back in Oct 2013. So though we are many that still plays that game with great joy (myself included) then we also have to admit that time has gone and much about it has become outdated.
If BFV had been with modern weapons in a modern setting, then I would think most of us BF3/BF4 fans would have moved on. But with the mysterious repeated old historical battle titles from EA that BF1 and BFV were, we have been left behind till now...
As some posters above points out, there are no long-term financial incentive for EA to make a game too long lived. Unfortunately.
Trokey66
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@Jesse165Although they occur, they aren't 'unplayable' on PS.....
You could always play a different game.
ChrisAWJBethel
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@Trokey66 Why is 'playing a different game' your solution? He has the right to play this game and give feedback just like EA has the right to completely ignore that feedback.

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