I thought this was a good video, going through some of the early 2042 Art, which clearly looks like 2042 could have been really cool. Of course, this is my opinion so its the BF i really wanted. Still, i thought this is a interesting video, esp. that the maps look a lot more grittier and war torn and dont have that cartoony look they currently have. Check it out:
Also, the specialists looked way less cartoony then they do now... Angel was scruffy, Paik actually had a normal face, Rao's babyface looked battlehardened...
The amount of detail on maps was also a factor... There's nothing that makes the maps feel like actual area's, it feels too much like actual arena's, not a combat zone.
So much wasted potential with this game. This could have been the Battlefield of all Battlefields, the ultimate BF experience, but oh how badly it all went wrong trying to chase trends
You well and truly done effed this game up E A Ron
Early concept art designer :
So we have this cool very rough / rude mood, something that grip you to the core. We have two ambiances :
A battlefield / combat zone. You have combat wrecks, damaged vehicles, soldier in military outfits. Here the two variants for US and RU.
And the second ambiance is this climate crisis world, were the world itself look like a wreck. You have garbage, damaged building, flooding. Important storms. Hell why not tornado that destroy the zone.
It a unique experience. You fight both for your life and your country, but also to survive in this environment. Like the world because of the climate fell into a war.
EA staff :
" Mm... yeah.. but you know what would be really cool for a BF ? Remove all the wrecks, make the environment shinny and super saturated and glossy because everything will look fun. Like a cool fun zone to shoot and run.
Oh and those storms what if instead of damaging or reducing visibility etc, what if they cause like a hack/glitchof the HUD, because hacking is cool it's modern you know. Ho and this tornado what if it doesn't really suck and damage thing but you can jump inside for a crazy cool ride. Huh ?
Ho and yeah nooo the soldiers ... let's put some cool funny heroes you know like APEX or hollywood badass style. Kids will love it. Make them shout "what a time to be alive", aha soo fun isn't ?
Early concept art designer :
So here's my resignation letter.
LOL yeah I think that about sums it up!
Yeah, they really went in an odd direction at some point. Whoever came up with that should be fired. You cost EA and DICE millions, and you have a very angry customerbase.
I've always felt 2042 like a cartoon to me. The bland and no textures in the maps. They could have literally just remade BF 1 but in a future setting and it would have been a winner.
The tornado should be there from the start. They could call the map “eye of the storm”, and it could be clear for like 5 -10 minutes of the game and then back to storm again.
Well apart from all the other stuff that "sucks" in this game (e.g. movement / physics, animations, "legacy features", ...) it is really sad to see, how they completely wasted such a great setting. Maybe there is some talent left, sadly not at the people making decisions. So instead of a gritty, "pseudo-realistic" tactical battlfield, we got a copy of Warzone with some heros.
Perfect sum up for the situation: "Don't be sad, this is just how it works out sometimes". What a time to be alive, right?
At least they got, what they deserved for screwing this franchise and telling the community how stupid and bad they are in form of "brutal expectations", "endless hate" and "minorities that want to hate the game". Numbers are speaking for themselves.
