Why is everyone moaning?
So I just don't get why all I read is how bad 2042 is..... I'm really enjoying the game... sure there's issues but there is on every game launch The bugs made me laugh, the wait times remind me of...
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DICE\EA know how to make a “Battlefield” game.
DICE\EA made trailers that promoted this game.
> DICE\EA inserted all the “only in Battlefield” moments in to the Trailer
DICE\EA knew that this game is missing all of the below features.
DICE\EA still released this.
> No standard server browser
> Fewer standardized game modes
> Fewer base game maps than any other title (even including portal the map count is only 13)
> No persistent lobbies You have to matchmake after EVERY round
> Fewer in-game assignments None outside of cosmetic unlocks
> Less character customization options (than BF5)
> No profile progress/stats page in the menu
> No battle log/stats tracker for other players
> No global leaderboards
> No end of round assignment progress screen
> No custom emblems
> Fewer achievements
> No medals
> No swelling crescendo of dramatic music near the end of a match. Static Noise does not count
> Less destruction
> Only a small handful of destructible buildings on each map
> No map altering levolution
> No spectator mode
> No permanent community servers (would be useful for clans and events)
Missing from Infantry Gameplay
> Fewer guns Even including all the portal guns, BF4 still had more at launch
> Fewer infantry gadgets
> No manual leaning
> No diving while swimming
> No high wall vaulting
> No crouch sprinting
> No backwards prone
> No explosion knockback
> No rolling after falling from heights
> No ammo or health pickup off teammates
> No scope zeroing
> No thermal optics
> No indirect fire gadgets
> Less anti-tank launchers
> No lock-on launchers The M5 works with the SOFLAM but that requires 2 people
> No AP mines/claymores
> No static weapon emplacements
> No fortification building
> No resupply stations
> No suppression mechanic This one I don't mind but it was a staple and now it is gone
Missing from Vehicles
> Fewer vehicle types Separate vehicle progression per faction even though they are functionally identical.
> No naval vehicles Except I guess the hovercraft technically
> No vehicle gunner direction indicator
> No lock on direction indicator
> No vehicle enter/exit animations
> No tank turret decoupling This was in BF4
> Less vehicle driver/pilot customization options
> No tank zoom customization options
> No tank gunner customization options
> No helicopter gunner secondary weapons
> No separate helicopter/fixed-wing controls
> No control input while looking behind/free looking in aircraft
Missing from Scoring System
> No squad wipe scoring
> No player damage points
> No vehicle damage points
> No vehicle kill assist points
> No headshot bonus
> No long-range kill bonus
> No assist counts as kill bonus
> No squad objective play bonus
> Oversimplified teamplay scoring (i.e. healing a teammate always gives you +5xp rather than the amount of health you give)
> Squad and Teamwork
> No commander
> No special squad call-in abilities
> No squad field upgrades
> No in-game VOIP
> Fewer factions (with almost nothing to give the 2 factions any distinction)
> No cross-team chat
> No "create new squad" option
> No clans
> No view of squadmates while in the spawn screen
> No "Medic incoming" indicator in downed state
> No rank names/icons, just a number.
Missing from UI and Quality of Life
> Less control customization options
> Less UI customization options
> No HUD/icon opacity customization
> No HUD scaling customization options
> No gunsight reticle customization options
> No network performance graph
> No individual player scoreboard
> Less detail in the 'who killed you' screen
> No ultrawide monitor support. Cannot move UI elements to suit screen size
> Very poor friend joining system
BROKEN
> 45 tick rate servers
> Rubberbanding
> Deploy bugs, revive bugs
> Janky animations
> Performance is horrible on PC. Unplayable framerates from what looks like CPU bottlenecking
> Unlock three different silencers for the same weapon that have no effect on the stats of the weapon
> Exact same attachment on two different guns having an opposite effect
> Hovercrafts are able to scale vertical surfaces, as well as fly in the right circumstances.
> In rare cases, a player will become unable to damage enemies. This is fixed by dying and respawning.
> Broken Bullet Registration
> Broken recoil system
> Broken Weapon Balance
> Broken Vehicle Balance
i mean if u put blindfold on and let ur empty soul just go the way of a bootlicker go on
- @Seeker-V1 An impressively long list. I agree with some of the items there and that I hope will be implemented and some are bugs that I expect to be fixed at some point. None gamebreaking though. Some are features from earlier games that lots of people came here to complain about. Most of the list are what some players hoped and expected, but was never promised by ea dice.
What battlefield is and is not is totally defined by ea dice and their devs. And in some prelaunch interview one of the high-ups stated their definition quite clearly. Team based something something… We can either subscribe to that or not. And we can hope to affect where they go forward. But to say 2042 isn’t battlefield is just nonproductive .Just a conclusion from my side. There are people who like the game and people who don't. But the game isn't getting better nor can you ignore all the facts:
- Promise for "more destruction than ever", yet the destruction is back to BF3 / BF4 level, but without levolution. The tornado is annoying and does absolutely nothing, also because it is random. In BF4 the levolution was a chance to change the map for the losing team. Not happy with the enemy team camping on the skyscraper in Shanghai? Destroy it!
- Silly Setting, dont get this wrong, the "base lore" is great. With all that climate change, nations falling apart and a war for the ressources, fought by veterans / militarys / contractors from all over the world. Instead of a "build your own soldier" with a lot of customization, we got annoying and super lame specialists. But they are not only annoying, they also screwed all the balance we previously had (and i would say, it is impossible to even balance this game without a class system). But it is even worse, because they are fighting on both sides. So instead of skins / specialists for each sides they are all the same. Don't even get me started about the clown skins, they tried to bring in again. The message spready by these "specialits" is also terrible. They are suggest a "war is fun, climate change is fun, lets kill some humans" attitude and that is totally wrong in a game like Battlefield. It is okay in a fantasy shooter, but not in a halfway serious shooter. So Dice should just stop with that "What a time to be alive"-crap and use the potential of their great setting.
- Bugs, bad ui and performance issues. There ist sill a ADS bug in a game. How great is it, that you can't ADS in a FPS?. Sound design is even worse than in BFV. Performance / optimization is pretty bad. There are people with high end hardware, who are not able to play this game with more than 100 fps? Yet this game looks worse than BFV.
- Missing "legacy" features. Nothing more to say about the lack of a scoreboard, not being able to climb to higher positions, lack of a server-browser, that awful party-system (from BF1) we got again, instead of a normal squad-system. List goes on, but i will cut it here, because those are the most important features in my opinion.
- Map design is also terrible. Most of the maps are just empty and lifeless. There is a war going on and everything seems to be fine. Cars parked perfect in line, like people are just normaly working there. You should actually be able to see the climate crisis, war, poverty and all that results from that.
This game is overall a failure and i bet EA/Dice knows this. It is dying, there new super amazing core mode "Hazard Zone" is just boring and noone asked for that, especially behind a paywall. You can clearly see the direction in the steam statistics. That community is big enough to apply the gained knowledge / the trend to the entire community. You can also watch the YouTube or Twitch numbers (terrible, compared to the rivals).
If you still like the game, fine. As said in my second sentence, there are people who like the game and that is fine. I am still playing it myself, because somehow i want to be loyal to this franchise, because i "love" it. But i said the same about Fifa, before i stopped buying it. The same happened to SimCity, another amazing franchise, that was killed by lazy game designers / devs. So, please if you like the game, it is totally fine. But don't close your eyes and say "everything is fine, i like it", because it doesn't change anything about the problems of this game.
- @Seeker-V1 Oh look, it's that list again?
Have you, or anyone else looked at it critically before copy and pasting it? I would suggest not.
Many on the list have only been in one game, 2 at most.
Many on the list were complained about (quite vocally) on here and other social media.
Many on the list are the same, or similar thing just presented differently.
And this 'ahead of schedule' argument is getting silly and clearly shows that anyone using it have never been involved with large projects. If they had, they would know all to well that it is entirely possible to be 'ahead of schedule' one day then something happens the next which can put a project days, weeks or even months behind.These type of posts make just roll my eyes backwards all the way. But its good to see that the same trolls are still here basically telling us "you are all wrong and im policing the forum because my opinion is correct and yours isnt". GTFOH
@Buzzfunk wrote:These type of posts make just roll my eyes backwards all the way. But its good to see that the same trolls are still here basically telling us "you are all wrong and im policing the forum because my opinion is correct and yours isnt". GTFOH
Even those trolls should recognize the player numbers ingame. Had like 5 of these matches today. Some dont even fill up till the end of the round. Was around 18:00 today on EU servers.
yes, If this happens in the real world companies go under and belly up! but apparently not tin he gaming bushiness world??
- @Seeker-V1 That’s a great list, the devs should grab a copy of these points and address them. I still have a random bug where I can’t jump. My weapon will twitch as if I jumped but here is no action of jumping. Upon death (which happens pretty quick when you can’t jump) then I can jump again. It’s incredibly random.
@Seeker-V1 Damn, calling people who like the game "boot lickers" sure helps, doesn't it?
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