The more I find out about 2042 the less Battlefield it sounds like

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@ninjapenquinuk wrote:
@TankerFlankerdissapointed that the 'love letter' to the fans was just rehashed maps. Though they are very welcome, i was hoping for something a little more.

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Thinking about it, when we now know...

That 'love letter' was actually more like the 'real girlfriend experience'...

Of the kind that you pay for !   ;o)

May try the open beta, but as a PC player the main question is the AC and private servers or not.

They can make the best game ever but if the game once more gets a broken AC system and no private servers then it dosent matter.

@TankerFlankerYeah its a serious oversight not to have a cross play system just for console vs console.

And you raise a great point about the specialist meta. I didn't even think about this until reading that, but Google "Planetside 2 C4 Fairy" lol Light assault in Planetside 2 had jetpacks, could load out with C4, and well...you can imagine the result. Nothing worse than being in a tank and spotting one of these guys flying at you. Its why most tankers on PS4 would run with an infantry proximity radar and HE for a main gun. Even then, you often had to rely on a secondary gunner to take out the light assault or just flat run away if you couldn't get a clean hit on him.

Too often though, you'd be engaged with other armor only to immediately blow up after one of these guys uses the distraction to fly over you. So you learn to keep checking proximity radar. It was a total pain.

I REALLY don't want to see this happen in BF2042.

Check this video for a preview of what I'm talking about:

Planetside 2 - Light assault C4 compilation - YouTube

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@ArchAngeL-PCX wrote:
@TankerFlankerMan I forgot about Rocket Rifle lol. If the C4 didnt finish you off, on volley from Rocket rifle would. Yeah this was gross overcompensation for infantry. I think it was class breaking when you consider how OP some of the Heavy Assault launchers were, not to mention an Anti vehicle Max suit. Infantry had plenty of options against vehicles.

The argument though was that the high population on servers would balance that out. Well yeah until it wasn't all that high on PS4. lol

Definitely agree they need to keep an eye on this. No doubt the COD crowd would love it.

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This is Why a lot of Comments to Trailers ans others bf2042 stuff are something like "finally i don't have to play warzone anymore"...

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@TankerFlanker wrote:
@CyberDymeI'm really curious how long it will take them to remaster more older maps, if it's gonna take half or up to a year to make a large new 2042 map, then it should take like a quarter of the time to put out a map that's already made with better textures right? At least that's what I hope.

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Agreed @TankerFlanker ,

That is what one would think, if just remastering for the high resolution and new game environment.  Expanding the map size and also adding the player count from aka 64 to 128 does however demand much more than that actually, as it changes totally the game dynamics and the requirements for a map still to function well for the gameplay and the flow of it.  I would therefore not be surprised if we see all these old remastered maps in the new game still to remain with their old original player max numbers still in place...

And maybe we should actually embrace that, for the sake of the love we have of those old maps !  :o)

Interesting . . .

If I add either Horror or Fear to my previous equation I get this seeming paradox :

The New Game WILL be less Battlefield , which WILL also make it more Battlefield .

The thinking? 

BFV's early-on problems caused degrees of 'horror' for many Players , seemingly regardless of their Experience.

Old Beasts like Run-n-Gun , Vehicle Use and TTK/TTD were being feasted on by some pretty nasty New Beasts.

These Monsters eating Monsters? : Clutter-cloaked Campers , One Man Army's , and 3XScopes , among others.

If you R-n-G'd without looking ahead of you , Rolled or Flew with no fear of  Assault , or feared no afar-snipers wielding automatics ;  well . . horror .   

Fast forward then to our New War :

Try your beloved R-n-G in it without looking UP for the all-seeing Eyes of armed(?) Drones or Grapple Hook Spies in odd places.

Try to Tank or Fly in it unmindful of autonomous threats laying in wait , or of the myriad Lock-Ons those same Eyes will threaten you with.

You'll feel confident in it that your open-spaces zig-zag running style will save you from sniper fire , but now , some 'Dog' is running up to 'Greet' you .

Monsters will live here too , it seems .

Here then , the 'source' of this odd less-is-more paradox :

Where some Players in BFV felt that these tiny-to-large slices of added Horror Genre didn't mesh well within an FPS Genre ; resulting in their generalized statement that BFV was less Battlefield than previous versions ; there were also many other Players who felt the exact opposite way.

Their own added cautions ; their 're-tooled' adaptions of their own Beasts to these new threats ; brought their own Immersion and Intensity levels to brand new heights .

To them , these added threats didn't make it less Battlefield .

It made it more Battlefield.

(ps) This IS the fourth draft on this idea - the Math in it is  . . complicated 😛