Imagine actively shilling for this game to such an extent. No, 2042 will not get better. 2042 is broken at its core. Unlike something like BFV or Battlefront 2 which both still had the proper foundation to build upon after the issues were fixed, 2042 has no such foundation. 2042 is the leftovers of a typical battle royale trend hop that was abandoned last minute and because of this, the game's core is not salvageable without a total redesign of everything. The specialists are one example of the consequences of this bastardized game but the map design is the absolute biggest nail in the coffin that came from the battle royale husk. There is no defending the maps here. Unlike past games that have interesting layouts to keep things fresh, tons of different obstacles to use for cover, interiors of various, actual destruction and so on, 2042's map design philosophy follows Battle Royale to a tee. Mostly flat, mostly empty with very little actual thought or effort. BR maps usually don't take a whole lot of effort. Just make the map massive and place some things here and there. This design doesn't matter much to most people when the playfield gets smaller and smaller. As a supposed Battlefield experience though, it completely ruins everything. Instead of areas like the skyscrapers on the sand map (I don't care enough to remember the name) being well crafted for gameplay variety with interiors or interesting design, they are nothing more than meaningless filler, window dressing so it could be a "zone" for the BR gameplay it was supposed to have. It is not fleshed out, on purpose, because that's the lazy BR philosophy.
I was playing BFV with a friend recently and the sheer difference in just the basic foundation of the map design was noticeable immediately. The maps felt crafted, like they were made with purpose, to fit a certain theme and to cater to Battlefield gameplay. 2042 doesn't do this AT ALL and there is no saving it. Either the maps are completely redesigned with actual effort put into them or nothing changes. The maps are such an important thing to any shooter, especially the Battlefield series and the maps in 2042 go against everything the series is about. Even the map design in Ground War from MW2019 is 10,000x more faithful to the core of Battlefield than this and that's a goddamn Call of Duty game!
In short, 2042 is completely unsalvageable without a total rework of the core and the foundation, especially with the maps, which would take an Anthem 2.0 level of work and we all know how that turned out. Stop defending this horrendous excuse for a BF title when it goes against everything the series stands for.
BF3 and BC2 especially, were better games than 2042 will ever dream of being. Everything else is minutia. End of discussion.
