80-90% of this game's development cycle was used on a different game, focusing strictly on Battle Royale and Hazard Zone. The maps were built for those game modes, the GUIs were built for those game modes. No need for a scoreboard because they were last-man/team standing type game modes.
Then they pivoted at the last minute after closed-beta feedback and tried to shoehorn traditional BF modes back into the core of a game that was not intended for them in the first place. That is what we got at launch, a half-baked game with silly Specialists (go look at their punchlines to start the game), and some of the worst maps for Battlefield that you could ever imagine.
At its core, we still have a broken game, all running on poverty 45Hz servers just to serve last-gen consoles.
It is hard to strike out as many times throughout a game's lifecycle than they did with BF2042, but just when you think they couldn't mess the game up any worse, they add dispersion to all weapons.
@ATFGunr wrote:
For all the savings they generate by this, they seem fine dropping $20 million in salary and bonus for CEO Andrew Wilson: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1241271/ea-executive-officer-compensation/. WTH did he do to deserve that while one of their flagship AAA games is withering on the vine. Dang now I’m all riled up.
Thinking that Battlefield still is one of EA’s flagship games is a big misconception. It’s titles such as FC (formerly known as Fifa), F1, Madden that are EA’s bread and butter. Imagine, releasing a “new” game every year just by reskinning characters and adding some stadiums/racetracks and slightly alter gameplay mechanics. Add to that a community that is willing to spend real money on “content” and you’ll see where their priority is. They have tried to push Battlefield in the same direction without success, alienating the OG Battlefield community.
come on guys has everybody forgotten about BF2142? Now that was one of the great BF games.
Of course BF3 & BF4 where great games to
