Thoughts on BF 2042
Well I don't know where to start with this. I guess i could start with how disappointed i am with the game. Let's be honest here, after BF1 the BF games have gone downhill, especially BF 2042. Season 4 starts today and sure it's better than it was when it launched, its still not it, it's still not the BF game we wanted. So many unnecessary features and changes that might look good on paper, but not really being fun. I've played BF 2042 for 190 hours so far and i can't really say my time has been fun with it. Always have I had to push myself to play it cause there wasn't really much else to play, until COD MWII relesed. I'm gonna be compering BF 2042 and COD MWII, cause it is the biggest competitor to BF 2042 and a shooter game that i REALLY enjoy.
Firstly i want to say iv'e never been a COD guy, always have I been a BF guy, until the most resent COD (MWII).
What i like about COD that DICE should take notes of:
-THE AUDIO. The COD team has done a 10/10 job with the games audio, the gunshots, enviorment interactions, footsteps etc- all this makes for very intense gunfights
-THE ANIMATIONS. With the animations they really went above and beyond. All the tactical movement, diving, gun inspections, reloading animations- you really do feel like your a special ops soldier with the cool AF animations.
-GAMEMODES- Now when it comes to gamemodes, they really made the MP part in 3 sections. There's warzone, the classic COD modes (deathmatch, domination, FFA etc) and DMZ of which was the most surprising and best mode in my opinion, DMZ is what i play the most, because of the intense battles that can occur there.
What i want DICE to do better with the next BF game:
-DESTRUCTION. The destruction is REAAAALLY a HUUUGE let down in this game (and one of the main reasons i don't enjoy this game) Theres really nothing more to say about it cause its really bad in this game i gotta be honest. In the next game we the players would like to see the EPIC destruction you showed in the 2020 teaser of that big building coming down. TAKE AS LOOOONG as you need, WE WANT THAT DESTRUCTION to be in the next game.
-THE AUDIO. The second biggest reason why i don't like this game is the audio. Let me tell you, taking a 6 month break from BF 2042 and coming back to it from playing almost daily COD... the audio is just.... bad. If COD's audio design was a flavourful soup with lots of meat and vegetables then BF's audio is a schools heavily watered down soup with a few potatoes in it. The guns especially sound bad with no real "KICK" to them, "watered down" is what i'd say about the overall sound design, from guns, tanks, jets, they sound so quiet and boring, no real "punch" to it, and it can't be my headphones (got hyperX cloud orbit S) and the options are all set up correctly. Again, COD's audio design is a 10/10 while i'd give BF's audio design a 5/10 MAX.
-THE CONTENT. The content is comperable to the sahara desert in this game. Boring gun customization (take a look at COD's guns and the customization options and you see what good content looks like), slow content drops overall, i mean 8 months to get the 1st season out was a joke, this game needed another YEAR in the oven atleast.
A little gamemode idea: you had a little gamemode called hazard zone which failed terribly. Now, in the next game if you want to make a gamemode for it why not make a Squad, Arma 3 type of gamemode, but with your own twist- destruciton. No arma 3 or squad type of mil sim game has destruction in it. So there's maybe something to think about... I mean those types of shooters are also very popular, i would defenetly want to play something like that.
Lastly my advice- i would hire the Embark studio guys to help with the next BF game. They are the wizards of destruction, so.... if i were EA/DICE i'd offer them a huge amount of money and make THE BEST SHOOTER GAME ON THE MARKET. (I can't wait for their new "The Finals" game... Now that is what i call destruction, March 7th couldn't come any faster)
And what happens after season 6? Well one thing is for sure... no offence, but i won't be playing much of this game, maybe a little from time to time, but i'd put everyone on the next BF project, make it CONTENT RICH and work on improving the audio and destruction. And i wouldn't mind a singleplayer story.
