The player kits / skins are the worst I have ever encountered in any BF.
First, before I give some criticism I want to say that I love the actual gameplay so far. Besides the connection issues and some things not loading correctly everything is pretty fun and I am having a good time overall.
However, the player skins / kits the characters are wearing in 2042 are by far the worst of ANY battlefield to date. It is like a 13 year old kid went to the Army Navy Surplus store and just bought a bunch of random trash with daddies credit card. Did you hire an intern to make these? There isn't a single one that looks decent in 2042.
Almost all of the accessories are awful and make no sense. Too many dangling random Knick knacks on everybody. One of the skins the guy is wearing a gas masks with goggles, with peltors, with a bomb suit WHY? All of the skins have pouches everywhere that don't make any sense. Some of the worst wannabe "tactical" backpacks I have ever seen. The worst knee pads ever invented from early 2000s. Random knives placed in weird spots. Battle belts with gear from Vietnam attached to it, SMG mags on the plate carrier with AR mags on a thigh holster when your character is holding a sniper. Trash belts, turtle necks, dirt bike gloves, wingsuits, ""tactical" onsies, ugly cargo pants, every single character is wearing jungle boots from the 1990s and most of them are loose and not tied. The pistol holsters are out dated and look like they were made for airsoft. You should have hired someone with actual experience to make the kits for these characters. I wish whoever made these kits in game had to physically wear them in real life for just one full day, at least then they would realize how terrible they are. When in doubt just keep it simple. All the other battlefields up to this one, the player skins / kits have been acceptable for the most part. It is like you modeled them after real kits of real soldiers but in this one you just made an unmethodical random pile of trash that someone bought off eBay. It all would make more sense if this was Battlefield cyberpunk. All of the battlefield kits in portal are alright. Please just make those useable in 2042. I realize you have more pressing stuff to fix short term but for the love of god, hire someone who has served before to see if it passes the common sense test because quite frankly I would rather be running around in a fortnite skin than the characters you made.