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carsono311
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago

Re: Battlefield 2042 currently has 74% negative user reviews on Steam.

@Reddoguk Not the worst in history.

While it is unfortunate that game still needs so much work, Battlefield 4 was worse at launch. Battlefield V was better at launch, but the drama surrounding it and the doubling-down on dumb or broken game mechanics were early coffin nails.

I do not really pay attention to media input on the game at this point. They all say the same thing and the easy, self-gratifying groupthink is really good at not seeing the forest for the trees...

My take is still that the game is fun, but it needs a lot of work still.

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  • ghinavirus's avatar
    ghinavirus
    4 years ago
    @carsono311 with a 2 year cycle now, do they stay with it and fix it or add the features on the next game?

    We never had EA say 2 year cycle before. It changes everything on how they see 2042. It may be a stepping stone to them for the next game where they will focus majority of their attention and finances. Just typical wall street business.

    I hope they fix this game, I really do.
  • carsono311's avatar
    carsono311
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago

    @ghinavirusThat is my biggest concern / fear. The list is so long at this point, that I seriously wonder how realistic it is that they get to it all...

    They really need to pump brakes on any 2 year cycle and open their eyes to this game's reception and every other game around it getting delayed and/or releasing with serious issues...

    Otherwise, their next game will be an even bigger, buggier mess. It is essentially self-sabotage at that point.

  • ghinavirus's avatar
    ghinavirus
    4 years ago
    @carsono311 it is my fear also. I want them to see 2042 true and through. Dice needs to be realistic with EA and stop saying yes to everything.

    If season 1 flops and I think it will because no way with the list of issues can be resolved by January for season 1. My concern is do they stick with it or just throw some half baked crap on the wall to make it seem like they are still here for the game when they truly abandoned it.

    That is where we agree my friend. And we will have our answers in less than 60 days.
  • ArchAngeL-PCX's avatar
    ArchAngeL-PCX
    4 years ago
    @carsono311 I can't agree at all. BF4 was worse in that you couldn't connect online, but the content was there. It wasn't a case of knowing that you are in for some long drawn out support cycle, hoping the content would show up. A few months after launch, they had the servers fixed. Players had a single player, 10 launch maps, the China Rising DLC, the Second Assault DLC, and the Naval Strike DLC on the way in spring. In the mean time, I played Killzone Shadow Fall on PS4. Basically BF4 was like having the launch of a great game delayed a few months.

    BFV was no better than this game. Was there more quantity? Sure. But it was the exact opposite anyone expected from a WW2 Battlefield game. Felt more like COD3 to me than BF1942. And just like this game, we have to wait and see what happens over the course of a year.
  • carsono311's avatar
    carsono311
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago
    @ArchAngeL-PCX Agree to disagree then.

    What you described for Battlefield 4 sounds exactly like what I am experiencing with 2042. Intermittent disconnecting (my first lost server connection issue last night actually), but there is a Battlefield game tucked away in there behind the connection issues, bugs, etc. Since we are still in week 1 / 2 for the game, the months ahead comparison is naturally a bit harder to make...

    Agreed on Battlefield V.
  • ArchAngeL-PCX's avatar
    ArchAngeL-PCX
    4 years ago
    @carsono311 Yeah connection issues are the same for sure. But BF4 was there. It was about 4 months before I could play it without rubber banding. By then I already had 18 maps to play (10 launch, 4 China Rising, 4 Second Assault) with 3 more DLC packs on the way. BFV had 18 maps total when they cancelled support LOL!!! How long before BF2042 gets that many maps? I guess you could count Portal, but it's not the same since they aren't in the All Out War rotation. And they nerfed Portal XP, so anyone wanting to rank up won't be in there.
  • buxshots's avatar
    buxshots
    New Traveler
    4 years ago

    @carsono311Carsono311 they have made enough BF's to know what works and what does not.

    They failed at the basics things that they had implied back in 2005 with the release of this BF - VOIP / hit-reg and game that mostly worked.

    We can blow smoke up the a*rse of EA all you want, but the simply truth is that by the time they fix all the issues the player base will have moved on to another game and BF2042 will simply die a slow death.

    Another poor installment of our beloved franchise. this might be the end of an BF itself.

  • carsono311's avatar
    carsono311
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago
    @buxshots Could be, but I do not really play any other games... maybe Diablo IV when it comes out?

    I am not giving EA DICE much more grace at this point, but I am enjoying the game still.
  • Lykosia's avatar
    Lykosia
    4 years ago

    Metacritic user score is 2.3. Hopefully this will wake EA/DICE up. I doubt it though. I'm putting my faith into the relaunch of World War 3. Maybe our only hope of getting new good Battlefield like game.

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