It is so sad to see how this game is failing. Farming Simulator has more people playing than BF 2042. Having to deal with these super hero specialists makes the game just laughable. The game already has over 40,000 negative reviews on steam and 1/5 stars on Xbox Live. DICE and EA please do something before the game completely collapses. It needs to be fixed before everyone says "screw it" and move to another game. This is so sad! :-(

@Theskywalker989With change is the development team at DICE, I don't think we'll ever see BF games like BC2 and BF1 again. The studio is going in a new direction of chasing trends and copying the competition instead using their own creative minds like they have been for the past 20 years. 2042 might be one of the worst games I have every played in my life and I have been gaming since Playstation 1.If I blind tested 2042, not knowing it was a Battlefield game I would've thought it was a BF knockoff from another company instead of a game from DICE.With such overwhelming negativity towards the direction of the game, I fully expected them to come out, apologize, admit that they made a tremendous mistake, fix it and give fans want they want. Remove specialists, tone down the player movement, take out 3rd person takedowns. Completely revert the game back to the core of BF.When Ubisoft released Ghost Recon Breakpoint and received huge negative backlash for bringing the gear level system into the game from The Division, they publicly apologized to the community, admitted they made a mistake and re-worked the game for the fans. That is an admirable move for a AAA studio. Ubisoft listened to what the fans wanted Breakpoint to be and to be honest Breakpoint has turned into a pretty good game. Ubisoft is one of the few AAA studios that actually cares about their fans and community. DICE could learn something about giving fans what they want and not things they didn't ask for.DICE is following hyper analytics of what has worked for other games like Apex and Warzone. They tried implement those mechanics into BF and it just doesn't work. BF has it's own fanbase, while Warzone, Apex have their own. 2042 would've been much better received and successful if it just adhered to what the fans of the franchise want and stuck to it's core. The change DICE did the Battlefield would be the equivalent to Activision making the next CoD multiplayer like a previous Battlefield game. With classes, first person takedowns, slower player movement etc. and I would safely assume the CoD fanbase would not welcome those changes. DICE hasn't even acknowledged the overwhelming disappointment from the fans and yet posts on their Twitter account like 2042 is some wild, booming success. I will for sure not ever buy another DICE game on release ever again. I know former DICE members who worked on previous BF games started their own studio and are working on a multiplayer game. We'll have to keep an eye on it and see how it turns out.

Agreed, unfortunately they aren't going to do anything. Another thing that make this game unplayable is the 128 players on breakthrough and even sometimes on conquest. All you end up with is a stalemate between both teams and no way of capturing objectives. It just gets annoying to die....respawn....die... respawn...die after you were beamed by the 50 players on the hill. The game ran a lot smoother and better with 64 players. The maps to are also very bland in my opinion. Having to run for 5 minutes just to be able to get to an objective gets old. This game needs to be completely scrapped and started over. It will be dead within a couple of months at this rate if even that long.

@Theskywalker989 Take 10 steps and get sniped. Then get sniped at the spawn point. I stopped playing. Going back to ghost recon breakpoint to play the hero specialist in a squad of 4 people.

@RacialAdhesive- Yeah. I remember playing battlefield 2 and I played and played till I was the rank of colonel. Now it's this level up crap. Where's the real army rank?

Steam is less than 20% of the player base.

Remove specialists, game is collapsing, players are leaving!

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ragnarok013
Hero+
4 years ago
@c6a9b16da4e44ec38bc3b231bb9096ec DICE won't remove Specialists. That being said I advocate for DICE to make an official class based version of AOW to run side by side with the Specialist version of AOW so both the new and veteran players can enjoy Battlefield 2042.
LordVader666
Seasoned Hotshot
4 years ago
@RacialAdhesive- Iirc that new studio was touched upon in the Tom Henderson video about dice devs leaving to start up a new studio but I think they’re under non-competition contracts - I can’t imagine why…
davidgmccoy1
4 years ago
How do we officially make a poll to remove these stupid super hero specialists? Completely ruins the game.
rippedwire01
4 years ago
BattlefieldComm on twitter indirectly said they are aware of outrage in regards to Portal explaining why they are sticking to the 'no progression' problem.
Their explanation is bad, but I'm not surprised
XD-DAWG11
4 years ago
Infantry gameplay is so frustrating in this game. You just run across empty fields for minutes at a time just to get sniped or killed by a vehicle. The maps are so lifeless and there’s so little destruction. There’s basically no weapons to choose from and the customization sucks. We can only change 4 parts of our gun, and half of the attachments do the exact same thing as each other. The amount of content in this game is laughable. Needs some major overhauls if it’s going to last into next year
Trokey66
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@XD-DAWG11 I would say there is more weapon customisation in this game than another Battlefield going back to Bad Company.

And as for attachments doing the same thing, *cough* BF4 *cough* and beyond 1 or 2 'meta' builds, most were pointless nevermind doing the same thing!
Flavin913
4 years ago
@c6a9b16da4e44ec38bc3b231bb9096ec Dude it's already to late....
But if your a good at shooters come play hell let loose or apex with me. Lmk
Flavin913
4 years ago
@ragnarok013 And divide the shrinking player base? It's to late for all of this.

And further more alot of EA insiders I believe made similar recommendations before launch and all were disregarded. We are essentially talking in circles on these forums...
RaginSam
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
Yet again it’s not Specialist causing low population. What about Portal then?
It’s the bugs, it’s hard to run for most people, and currently there’s not a ton of content. The first 10 hours is what you can expect for the rest of your time. You’ll unlock more attachments, but that’s about it. One thing for myself is that I don’t get really excited about any of the maps. I don’t think they’re terrible or anything, but BF3 maps were my favorite. Visually it’s a bit hard to see. Dark uniforms and icons that don’t disappear when aiming down sights.

Hazard zone is a really cool concept. Playing with randoms has been a little painful though. The problem is what’s the gameplay loop? Play to get money that allows you to carry better gear to get more money. There’s nothing to build towards, no real goals. Grind to be able to grind easier. I don’t connect with that style of gameplay at all.

The game is pretty fun and it does feel like a BF game. Specialist do not change the fundamental gameplay whatsoever. The issue is the gameplay loop not being super exciting. The game sold well and people will hop back on whenever there’s an update.
Buzzfunk
4 years ago
@zbran1 Thats a really low number for a just release MP only AA game. Do some research.

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