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Lanc3_B0yL3s
4 years ago

Re: 20 Year Battlefield Anniversary. Where do you rate 2042 in the series?

@Tank2042Man wrote:
@Ai-Fluffy wrote:

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They chased every thing and ended up making a game no one wanted.

They have already destroyed the community.

There isn't much left at this point.

I'm old enough to remember the release of BF3 which this board rates very highly.

BF3 generated as much hate as V and 2042 relatively speaking.

That game 'destroyed' the community too but here we are 10 years later!

True, they were all a bit buggy at launch.  The difference was that people really enjoyed the teamplay aspect so much that they were willing to overlook its imperfections.  Then they went and killed the teamplay by removing the classes and introducing the specialists.  This just resulted in selfish playing.  Don't seek out a support guy, no need when you can just carry the ammo box yourself?  Why play a medic at all, when anyone can carry the med kit and revive their squadmates at least?  Why bother kitting out as an engineer and repairing when nobody cares anyway because the tank will heal itself?  

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  • Tank2042Man's avatar
    Tank2042Man
    4 years ago
    @Lanc3_B0yL3s The hate for BF3 had nothing to do with bugs and everything to do with the new direction of battlefield.

    The complaints ranged from no commander mode, to linear flag layouts, one man armies and the overall casualisation of the game to appeal to the COD audience.

    So it's incredibly ironic reading posts in this thread praising BF3 while attacking 2042.

  • NazT55's avatar
    NazT55
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago
    @Tank2042Man It has always been like that for the most part. When the new BF game comes out everyone starts praising how good the previous one was even though everyone took a dump on it when it was the current BF game to play. It will be the same with 2042.
  • Lanc3_B0yL3s's avatar
    Lanc3_B0yL3s
    4 years ago
    @Tank2042Man wrote:
    @Lanc3_B0yL3sThe hate for BF3 had nothing to do with bugs and everything to do with the new direction of battlefield.

    The complaints ranged from no commander mode, to linear flag layouts, one man armies and the overall casualisation of the game to appeal to the COD audience.

    So it's incredibly ironic reading posts in this thread praising BF3 while attacking 2042.

    Oh I'm not praising BF3 by any means.  I agree with the complaints about the loss of commander mode (I was complaining too) among other things.  The most notable impact (in both BF3 and BF4) was the enormous amount of stupid bugs that took way too long to fix.  We got used to the new playstyle relatively quick and still had fun for the most part, but man those bugs really pissed a lot of people off.  I still think that 2142 and the original 1942 are tied for my favorite.  My biggest criticism of this one is the loss of the class system and going toward this Fortnite-style character with cosmetic DLCs instead of just going with what made this series great.  Basically, we didn't need another CoD or Fortnite, nor did we want one. 

    As of tomorrow morning at 6am local time I will be switching over to MW2 and play the occasional game of Fortnite with my 7-year old kid, because yeah, we already have those games.  This game is just a lame copy of those. Battlefield should stop trying to be like them and go back to being Battlefield again.  Bring back the classes, commander, get rid of self-healing vehicles and self-replenishing ammo on the aircrart (remember when you had to go back to the airstrip to get more bombs?  no infantry farming aircraft back then).  If you want customization, just let us change the skin/hair/eye color and build of the soldier, and maybe pick from a few different uniforms.  I'm ok with selling them too, or paying a monthly subscription for a reasonable price if that's what it takes.  Make Battlefield Great Again  😃

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