Verdict after a year?

@Tank2042Manyou are aware that fundamental technical issues in the game remain unfixed since launch...? or are you ignoring that entirely? and calling these fundamental issues out is not bashing its expecting a certain standard to be met by any product and if they fail they need to be reminded that this is part of a minimum bar to clear!

@Tank2042Man 

I've been a fan and I mean a SUPERFAN of Battlefield since BF1942 and I don't think that's a fair assessment of a lot the criticism that has been directed at this game; many (myself included) have certain expectations when it comes to a Battlefield title.

Proper server browser, persistent servers, squad management just to name a few of the many things lacking in this game.

For better or worse the introduction of the specialist system with their "unique" abilities in this game is a radical departure from the core BF experience many expected and that has turned a lot of players off to it. Agree or disagree, it is what it is.

It was barely half-finished when released and add to that that a year later and it still has almost no content compared to prior BF titles, we're lacking in maps/weapons/vehicles and modes. We are basically at the point NOW where it should have been for launch. They are adding some new content and making improvements which I do appreciate, the new maps are nice, and the map reworks all look good and play better than the originals so we're making progress, I guess.

As to returning to the Premium model I am 100% behind that move although it doesn't seem to be the way game developers are headed.

@Ironhead841I agree with everything you say except for the maps. The new maps are terrible imo... I can't imagine somebody who has been a superfan of the franchise saying these new maps are good. Even with the rework they've done the locations are just poorly chosen.

I'd prefer fighting in villages or woodlands... 

My answer is simple and already known. This game which doesn't deserve the BF name yet, it's still unfinished and broken.

My expectation was low as I did not buy this game until it was vastly discounted and after all of the vitriol was doled out over time.

I've come to enjoy it. I still WISH there was a server browser though.

Here's my main beefs with the game one year after release.

TTK/TTD issues still remain

Killed around corners

No squad management

writing cache to My Documents stutter from Onedrive "Had to disable Onedrive"

No server browser

This is a small list I know, but very important to me.

EDIT: Onedrive was getting filled with the BF2042 cache and it was nagging me to get more room!

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@sk1lld wrote:

Here's my main beefs with the game one year after release.

TTK/TTD issues still remain

Killed around corners

No squad management

writing cache to My Documents stutter from Onedrive "Had to disable Onedrive"

No server browser

This is a small list I know, but very important to me.

EDIT: Onedrive was getting filled with the BF2042 cache and it was nagging me to get more room!

 

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I totally agree, your list contains very important issues which need to be addressed asap.

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@X-Sunslayer-X wrote:

@Tank2042Manyou are aware that fundamental technical issues in the game remain unfixed since launch...? or are you ignoring that entirely? and calling these fundamental issues out is not bashing its expecting a certain standard to be met by any product and if they fail they need to be reminded that this is part of a minimum bar to clear!

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Yes, there are technical issues that probably won't ever be fixed in 2042 but most of the vitriol aimed at the game has nothing to do with that.

BFV was technically great and runs far better than 2042 on the X Series so you want to remind me why that game was trashed so badly which led to a small playerbase and caused Dice to eventually abandon it before we got the Eastern front?

Saying 2042's smeared reputation is down to optimisation is a red herring.

Specialists, goofy characters, childish voice lines, no classes, and no traditional scoreboard along with ridiculously large open 128 conquest maps killed off 2042.

The technical issues were just the icing on the 'rotten' cake.

@Tank2042Man sure i will remind you why BFV Failed

• net-code issues with insane TTK/TTD delays of up to an entire second
• weapon-balance beign flipped on its head not once, not twice bit three times... remember there was a time when the FG-42 had a 5-12 BTK ?
• vehicle balance abhorently bad Planes spawned before tanks so said planes could bomb the tanks before they wwere even allowed to move
• visibility issues that forced DICE to basically put a constant spotlight on the character-outline
• class balance so bad i still have screenshots of rounds where there were less then 4 medics in the server
• attrition was only implemented to handicap better players

do you need more ?

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@X-Sunslayer-X wrote:

@Tank2042Mansure i will remind you why BFV Failed

• net-code issues with insane TTK/TTD delays of up to an entire second
• weapon-balance beign flipped on its head not once, not twice bit three times... remember there was a time when the FG-42 had a 5-12 BTK ?
• vehicle balance abhorently bad Planes spawned before tanks so said planes could bomb the tanks before they wwere even allowed to move
• visibility issues that forced DICE to basically put a constant spotlight on the character-outline
• class balance so bad i still have screenshots of rounds where there were less then 4 medics in the server
• attrition was only implemented to handicap better players

do you need more ?

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Yes I need more than that, which apart from the dumb decision a year after release to mess with the TTK, are all normal battlefield issues that occur in every battlefield game.

I need the correct answer 

I know the correct answer and it ties in with why 2042 was killed by a toxic part of the gaming community before it was even released.

@Tank2042Man  The narrative that "BF games always release bad" does not give DICE a blank cheque to continue to use the community as free beta testers whatsoever. if you accept that suit yourself but i refuse to accept that, if DICE wants me to beta test for them they can ask me and then pay me....

 now things if a game isn't working on a technical level i.e Net-code, map design, performance, UI, etc... and you are again fine with it suit yourself...
do i give two hoots about women in a BF game set in WW2? no i couldn't care less and i am fairly sure that is the "toxic community" you refer to... but correct me if i am wrong

BFV also released half developed just as 2042 did and what makes it even more infuriating for me were developer comments like
" not my first rodeo" , "the beta build was months old"

is 2042 better now? sure on a technical level some things have improved. others have not like

• the issue with recoild interfering with mouse/controller inputs in a AAA game for over a year and DICE didn't even find the issue Baranox had to tell them the issue.... imagine my suprise
• general input delays (e.g parachute not deploying no matter how often you hit the keybind, reloads not triggering
• no squad management whatsoever
• no platoon tags to foster community, something that put BF above its more direct competitor
• less content then any BF game since BC2 at launch
• horrible live-service model that prooved just like BFV that DICE is not very good at rolling out ( BFV took i think 4 months for them to start the service, while 2042 took over half a year )
• lackluster UI design

all these are valid chriticisms beyond the normal narrative of "i don't like specialists so i must hate 2042" that is an entire different can of worms we can get into if oyu like but that issue has also been disscussed for months already...

It's in a below average state if it was to release now imo! Which says a lot for it's launch state. EA/Dice are paying off their shill youtubers to promote the game as if it is a second coming! 

Still no squad management, this was never meant to be a team based tactical squad game was it 

No destruction, how can we devlove from what was such a fantastic part of the game. There is no meaningful destruction in 2042 probably becuase theres really nothing to destroy, not one town esqe map since launch, Arica Harbour still one of the better maps 

Lack of map, could write a page on the maps alone but 3x maps per year is just not good enough, and reworking old maps is not new content, ZERO additional legacy maps for Portal, complete waste of one of BF2042's best feature.  The fact that EA/Dice with their shill media youtubers have convinced the public that this is acceptable levels of content fot a big AAA main title of billion $ company is a joke.

The live service is another joke, Premium was better! 100 tiers of mainly useless trinkets that would have been normal xp unlocks in previous titles from vehicle camos and gun skins behind a battlepass/paywall, even less content due to boosters, so instead of making the content require less XP they reduce the overall content by adding a few boosters. Amazing!! 

A complete lack of weapons so they flood the game with uncustomizable legacy weapons as a cheap way of boosting the weapon count. Weapon progeression throttled behind massive kill numbers in order to percieve theres a skill curve 

Ah well lessoned learned never pre ordering a Battlefield title again, minimum 6 months post launch to see what the state of play is. 

I like the game overall, gunplay is smooth for me on PS5 with a fast wired internet connection.

I’ve played since Battlefield 1942 and put thousands of hours in each title (S220 in this game). I do find it annoying that features from previous tiles were left out of this game (leaning, levolution, etc.).

To me, the worst parts of the game are matchmaking and cross-play, give us a server browser where we can choose to play PS or console-only and I think my friends and I would be much happier.

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@cornybbq2 wrote:
@JediMastaWynThe maps are truly horrible...
If they would ask me to make a top 20 of all battlefield maps ever made, 0 maps of 2042 would be in this top 20... even top 30!

Even after the updates it is still clear that they still don't get it.

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All subjective really.

I found BF3 and BF4 launch maps dull and uninspiring and 3 was heavily criticised for having hardly any building destruction yet players today think they were great.

I like 2042 maps, I find them both interesting and diverse and all of them are very distinct.

I started playing 2042 on last gen so I was playing 64 versions of conquest so I can see why criticism of the large maps with a lack of cover was valid.

However Stranded and Spearhead all launched with lots of cover and all of the reworks so far have improved the 128 maps with the exception of Manifest conquest 64 which was fine but now is just a shipping container map, though I'm having a lot more success using tanks on the map strangely enough.