https://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield2042/comments/rb6hw9/a_quick_look_at_map_design_and_map_flow_in_bf2042/I think this video may be short but makes the point. 3 years of development produced this.

Yep, the 2042 maps are depressingly sanitised, a huge step backwards. Especially when you consider the levolution that was central to the hype 6 months ago. If the next maps are the same, I go will back to BF1 and V. That maps were so much better.Why aren't there any civilian NPCs, IMO it would be interesting to have XP penalties for hitting civilians...

@JOGAGATYA All the maps of BF V and BF 1 were more detailed and had more grit and character. The muddy trenches of BF 1 were much more interesting than this.

I kinda got used to the new maps and enjoying the new game but when once in awhile i see BF5 footage, one eye is crying.

2042 maps are so boring it’s untrue, far too clean and samey That comparison video is hilarious, they should hang their heads in shame.

Sanitized is a good description. BF V maps have so much detail. They aren't perfect but man, they could not make 7 GOOD maps in 3 years. This is why i have zero faith in Dice. If the visual Fidelity suffers due to the 128 player count -id like to go back to 64 players. I think most of us venting daily here because 2042 should've been a no brainer. A winner. An easy one. Take the best from BF 3,4 and 1, make it a dark and gritty future. Almost Terminator like. Cities torn apart. Ravaged by war with some bad * beats when going into battle. The last stand off between the US and RU. Heck i wouldn't mind the specialists if everything else was great. But it just isn't. You can tell that hourglass for example, seems to be a BR style map. Everything looks like a "play ground" if you know what i mean. Too clean, too boring, nothing is happening. Really the ONLY map i sorta like is Orbital. But booting up BF 1 and playing man, what a difference in speed, Fidelity and gun play. Tomorrow, Embark - the OG ex Dice guys will be showing off their first game. Im super excited for it. While not BF, these guys KNOW what sup!

Let's compare BF 2042 and BF V maps just for fun shall we?

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DaveTheBrave_USA
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@FlatChat Those must be solar powered lights that come on automatically for e real WOW effect.
trip1ex
4 years ago
@FlatChat wrote:
Not more woke please...
WTF! There are lights on in this, ah, DESERT map...no people, 98% sand, and there are F#!@$ing lights! No one turned the lights off!

lol I'm sure you could go back and make fun of every BF map for seemingly illogical discrepancies.
FlatChat
4 years ago
@trip1ex
No, I don't think I could, at least not for BF1 and BFV maps...
GrizzGolf
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
The maps in this game stink compared to other BF games. They messed up with this.
FlatChat
4 years ago
@Buzzfunk wrote:
Basically, the games premise is war and climate change.
It would have been much better if lets say hourglass, when you start the game, its a clean city. but due climate change, the storms come and go and would leave the city changes aka turn it into a semi city/desert maybe a few of the towers would collapse onto themselves. That way, the storms are not useless really. They add something ie change the balltlefield midgame. The same applies to all maps. Maybe Breakaway could have an earthquake or sort, or the ice begins to shift so the oil rig would collapse a bit. Any events like that would tie in with the story and make the maps more interesting. Im pretty sure the engine could do it. Maybe not. I dont know. I would forgive the lack of visual fidelity but as they are, nothing interesting happens. (minus the rocket launch).
Yeah, more climate events and levolution (which is totally absent) would IMO help the atmosphere (and add to the complaints no doubt).
Apparently Tom Henderson has reported that cut content, including more weather and geological events could be added later, presumably once the fixes have been done (and redone ad infinitum):
"Everything such as volcanos, flooding, and other weather events were scrapped in summer 2020 to focus on the tornados," said Henderson. "I've heard they could return as events in DLC, but we'll see."
https://twitter.com/_Tom_Henderson_/status/1468007409193046024
https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/battlefield-2042-dlc-xbox-ps4-ps5-pc-cut-content/
Buzzfunk
4 years ago
@FlatChat I dont really care about NPC's. BF never had em. They could be deserted but they should look like it. Kinda half wrecked. Like some of the WW1 or WW2 maps in the past just in the future. The story says its already been going on and US and RU are the only super powers left. So had they stuck to their own narrative it would have all made sense. ATM it does not.
a_crying_orphan
4 years ago
Absolutely agree 2042 maps are bare barren and boring.
Flavin913
4 years ago
@FlatChat Such a beautiful, so many BF1 maps are like WOW! Atmosphere 100, & that forest map! Incredible!

Reminds me of a game I play now, Hell Let Loose.
FlatChat
4 years ago
@Flavin913 wrote:
@FlatChatSuch a beautiful, so many BF1 maps are like WOW! Atmosphere 100, & that forest map! Incredible!

Reminds me of a game I play now, Hell Let Loose.
Yes, I have that game as well, really nice maps, texture and atmosphere, very reminiscent of BF1. Good game play as well, and VoIP...
Carentan - I stayed there two years ago.
And Omaha - visited twice now, the first when I stayed at Colleville-sur-Mer just up from the beautiful Omaha cemetery. Looks like Widerstandsnest 72 in the foreground at Vierville-sur-Mer on the the right flank of Omaha at Dog Green sector of the beach.
laserheart10
4 years ago
@FlatChat We have to count on indie devs