what is missing most in 2042

I actually agree with @Stew360  that improving the team play aspects would be a vast improvement. Hell I’d probably even try playing again. 

What's lacking in BF 2042? PLENTY! 

1). Menus/Loading/Cinematics. We shouldn't have to spend up to 1/3 of an hour, every hour in menus or loading screens or cinematics. Get on with the gaming and especially ditch the stupid countdowns, they're about as much use as a fart in a strong breeze!! Grr.

2). Simplicity. The layers of complexity in key-binds are an absolute headache!! Why change what's worked since the dawn of gaming?! 

3). Commander Mode! 

4). BFBC2 Conquest Mode! 

5). BFBC2 Map: Heavy Metal! What. An. Amazing. And. Fun. Map! Played it to death for almost 10 years! 

6). Easy-Swap Squads! Jeez, what a palaver it is now!! What a sanctimonious mess! 

7). Server Browser & Dedicated Servers! Ab-so-lute-ly missing from BF 2042!! 

8). The Simple & Effective Chat! Press . to send to all. DONE!! Press / to send to team! DONE!! Press , to send to squad DONE!! Not the convoluted headache it is now! OMG, Drop that already!! The chat window came up, you typed, you sent, it showed on screen for x# seconds. It disappeared. IT. WORKED! Why change it and make it more complicated???! Jeez!! 

9). Long rounds. In BF 2042, tickets are FAR too low for 64 and 128 players! If gamers think a round is too long, they can leave early and still collect their points! HOWEVER, if a game has been set with too few tickets, it will nearly always be too SHORT, everyone has to finish and wait for another (short) round! There's no time to settle in. No time to think or relax and actually have fun. No time to plan a surprise attack. No time to observe what's going on - every single round is just one, mad, crazy, spam-fest dash for points! It's HORRIBLE!! 

64 players should be at least 1500 tickets (MINIMUM!) Ideally 2000 tickets. Maximum 2500. 

128 Players should be at least 2000 tickets. (MINIMUM!) Ideally 3000. Maximum 4000. 

Close rant. 🙂 

[CM - edited post to be in line with AHQ rules and guidelines]

1. A sensible spawn system: Predicable, open spawnpoints (and that daft "weapon check" animation) are the only thing in 2042 that have made me ragequit a game.
2. Squad VOIP: This is absolutely vital - if you have no mates who play 2042, how else are you supposed to make some?
3. Sound that isn't overcompressed and muddy: I've lost count of the number of times I've died because the sound is so compressed that I don't hear that Bolte or Nightbird 5m away...
4. A proper range of weapons. It's more common to notice that you didn't die to the AC-42, K30 or PKP.

To be fair, there are a host of other issues, but they're tolerable.

expandable minimap

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@RUMPLE9 wrote:

expandable minimap

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I forgot about that - Yes! There's even a keybind for it (or at least there was).

To me, what is missing most in BF2042, are the virtues of what made the previous games good, if not great.  BF1 in particular.  These virtues are wrapped in the soul of that game; from the look and feel down to game and team play.  

Compiling a list is one thing, but it's like reading a great book, or watching a great movie - it's an intangible quality that is difficult to pin down, but is surely a confluence of many things.

Unfortunately, unless DICE/EA find the right people to replace the execs and developers of those games (who principally formed Embark Studios), then I don't see the situation getting better in respect to the BF series.

I note that another DICE veteran developer, Aleksander Grøndal left to join Embark Studios on 12 Jan 2022...

I'm keeping my eye on ARC Raiders...which looks very promising as a free cooperative action/FPS game   

The game needs something called music as a soundtrack!

Maps are a mess in AOW

What’s missing?

players, by the sounds of it.

less than 7k playing, globally, they’re saying.

those that want to play the game as it currently is, can’t because the servers are ghost towns 👻