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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bitebullet2142
Rising Adventurer
4 years ago
Old news. Is this a bot id?
Specialists isn't the problem in this game.
kregora
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@c6a9b16da4e44ec38bc3b231bb9096ec As @bitebullet2142 said, the soldier specializations aren't the problem. BF3 classes and BF2042 specialists are pretty much the same.
Opening the weapon classes doesn't hinder team play. Neither is the opening of the secondary gadget.

I agree that the graphical representation of friend and foe in 2042 is an issue.
Maybe "class" based advantages to gadgets could help, like +50m range on Anti-Vehicle Weapons, or bigger range for supply crates for support class specialists, eg.
But I believe this would be complex changes to the system per se.
Lone_Strang3r
4 years ago
@ragnarok013 they could use a sistem like battlefront 2, where players could spawn as an hero based on points earned while playing, this could had more sense compared to a map with 128 players with almost no variety because there are only few operators with no facrion restrictions
ragnarok013
Hero+
4 years ago
@Lone_Strang3r wrote:
@ragnarok013 they could use a sistem like battlefront 2, where players could spawn as an hero based on points earned while playing, this could had more sense compared to a map with 128 players with almost no variety because there are only few operators with no facrion restrictions

@Lone_Strang3r that actually sounds worse than the Battlefront inspired BF1 Elite classes IMO. Many players want Battlefield to return to Battlefield game play instead of the direction that we've had since Battlefront 1 was released which is why the Specialists have elicted so much pushback since June.
ragnarok013
Hero+
4 years ago
@Flavin913 wrote:
@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...

@Flavin913 the playe rbase is shrinking precisely because Battlefield vets don't like the direction 2042 has taken. Splitting the Specialist AOW player base by giving vets the game play experience they actually want to play by having a class based version of AOW will result in more players overall not fewer. Just curious what is your definition of "EA Insider"?
Lone_Strang3r
4 years ago
@ragnarok013 I'm too against the operators and i don't like it, but i understand what devs want, i understand what some players want and only with this battlefront 2 system we could put an end to this struggle. Probably I'm wrong
Man_iLoveFishing
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
I really don't understand, why on earth Dice/EA is trying to make battlefield into hero shooter? What is the idea? Sure, hard to make new IP, also stupid to name "hero shooter, that almost is not battlefield" to battlefield and splits community. Isn't it too big risk, maybe it's time to take big white board and start drawing charts? I even wonder, did they even speak about that?
Wessmarc
4 years ago
Player really seems to have dropped out "en masse" last days, never seen so many AI bots like now, same goes for the servers, EA must have taken down a lot because of this.
u cant hardly "cancel" when an unfavorable map "matchmakes" over and over again. Game is becoming more and more boring. No scoreboard (of course because were not suppose to spot cheaters!), no serverbrowser, only matchmaking (My God!), 7 maps? jeez!, 22!!! (TWENTY TWO) weapons, soon all nerfed. No battlelog... no wonder this game is dying!
Nenitor
4 years ago
I think the same friend.... This battlefield is not Battlefield ☹️

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