@Penmous Now it's official confirmed, Battlefield 2042 launch will be delayed!
It'll now release worldwide on November 19th.
For early access on November 12th.
Greets,
Travis
beta is still coming in September afaik so hands-on gameplay is weeks away.
I expect the game is less finished at launch than it would be otherwise because of the pandemic.
@trip1ex wrote:beta is still coming in September afaik so hands-on gameplay is weeks away.
I expect the game is less finished at launch than it would be otherwise because of the pandemic.
I expect it on time and will have the usual bugs, performance problems, balance issues between weapons, classes and vehicles. Then months go by before a patch, while the forum goes crazy.
It would not be a BF game without. 🤣🤣🤣
@SirBobdk wrote:
@trip1ex wrote:beta is still coming in September afaik so hands-on gameplay is weeks away.
I expect the game is less finished at launch than it would be otherwise because of the pandemic.
I expect it on time and will have the usual bugs, performance problems, balance issues between weapons, classes and vehicles. Then months go by before a patch, while the forum goes crazy.
It would not be a BF game without. 🤣🤣🤣
And sign of our true love to it, despite all it's flaws???
😋😍😘🤓😂😂😂
@SirBobdk wrote:
@Jesse165
If we disregard BF4, then there have probably not been serious problems with any BF games at launch imo. Most have been around balance and the usual desires for nerf / buff.
Exactly. And if balancing is really the only thing we have to worry about than I would count it as a good launch 🙂
@CyberDyme wrote:
And sign of our true love to it, despite all it's flaws???
😋😍😘🤓😂😂😂
Exactly. I love the BF series and know it's never perfect in the beginning, but it's always guaranteed fun. (However not BFV, it never got anything but frustrating).
@SirBobdk wrote:
@Jesse165
If we disregard BF4, then there have probably not been serious problems with any BF games at launch imo. Most have been around balance and the usual desires for nerf / buff.
BF2, 2142 and 5 were all disasters at launch. Don't know about 1942 and Vietnam, I didn't play them at launch. 5 probably took the longest to fix though with new patches (re)introducing game breaking bugs for months.
@Jesse165 wrote:@Trokey66Battlefield V didn't really have many bugs. It's problem was game balancing which still is not good in some areas such as how vehicle ammo regeneration works (Or in this case doesn't even exist)
Honest question: Did you even play BFV? There are still some Bugs that have been there since Launch.
BFV was a mess. They did what they could. 2042 will make up for that mess.
Not talking about balance issues and accept that V still has bugs (which game hasn't?!) but functionally speaking, BFV's launch wasn't anywhere near as bad as BF4.
Bear in mind that unless objectively broken, many 'balance issues' are subjective and BFV's TTK flip flop is/was a prime example.
@Trokey66 wrote:
@NoodlesocksI don't recall BFV being that buggy but then I am old and have slept many times since then......
Very true @Trokey66 ,
Not really much game breaking bugs in BFV.
Think what really annoyed many in the player community was the extreme changes made again and again to the weapon and vehicle balances in the game. And not just a few times or minor adjustments. It was like never ending, again and again. So as soon as you had started to get comfortable with the balances, suddenly everything was literally changed dramatically again. So severe that it was like a whole new game and you had to start from scratch again.
Think that discouraged many players and many left...
@Jesse165 wrote:@Trokey66Battlefield V didn't really have many bugs. It's problem was game balancing which still is not good in some areas such as how vehicle ammo regeneration works (Or in this case doesn't even exist)
It's a shame the old forums are gone because it would have the details of all the ridiculous technical issues the game suffered from. A number of which had to be fixed multiple times because they kept coming back with each update. Game was so bad they spent over 6 months on fixing the game alone. It wasn't until the Pacific update that the game got into a decent enough state and it wasn't long after that when the game was finally abandoned.
I could quite happily go into a deranged rant about the bugs of BFV. The game actually got worse as time went on.
But from the delayed point of view, BFV had it's beta 1 month before it's release before they put the release back a month. And it still released unfinished with the single player being incomplete and firestorm not existing, then with a tutorial and practice range being added after about a year and the tank body customisations used in the pre launch marketing only being introduced after 2 years. With a map being delayed for over a month due to crashes and a gadget delayed for weeks due to not working only to release broken. Plus many other issues that reoccured.
So with this game having cross play testing put back and then PS5 testing put back and still having a beta 1 month before launch I'm a bit sceptical about it's final release state.
They also haven't mentioned what 1/3rd of the game is yet and I'm not sure which of the 3 bits of the game we'll get to see in beta.
But I would like a PS5 and haven't been able to get 1 so I'm not in a position to play on launch anywho which may work in my favor though I do wanna try the beta on PS4.
I think I'd prefer it to be delayed finished and working and then to keep the base game fairly seperate server wise from future live service additions. Than be in BFV's situation.
BFV's best bit was the pacific which was released practically as a traditional map pack until they took away the option to play the server rotation =\. So I hope the silly design decisions have gone too but I'm nervous about the phrasing around battlepasses which may mean new stuff is time gated behind stupid hoops again.
Going have a little say if it needs a delay then there a good reason hope after release the game will be better for it.
Coding games is not a simple thing i know alot of game devs and a very good friend who been making games since 2003 as just left his job because of the stress levels from making top level triple A titles, so i am with EA DICE if it needs extra time, because its not always about the game.
I have my own game projects and been making something which is on youtube called if yous want to search it "oceanmania part1" make sure to add the part 1
I started this project back in 2017 and was hoping to release it 2019 its still not released ! why because of stupid little things build up to loads.
This project is built inside Trackmania on pc i know this is bit off topic but kind of not as its linked to delays and why i understand why it needs extra time.
little maybe not that little lol
@Trokey66 wrote:
@NoodlesocksI, like many banged out of BFV quite early but because of the Hardcore light approach and not for technical reasons. I genuinely can't remember major technical issues with it that are close to BF4's.
New ForumField is not the same.....
It was an odd state of affairs. BF4 started a mess and eventually got good. BFV gradually got worse and worse, technically over the first 6-8 months.
@Billy_bSLAYER wrote:
@NoodlesocksAll correct! And today we got Specialist game play....shot snippets of the hot mess.....I hope they are eating their Wheaties!
Were they using aimbots? Looked like Irish aimbotted.
About the 18 second mark.
EDIT: nm, it's just an odd cut.
@Penmous Now it's official confirmed, Battlefield 2042 launch will be delayed!
It'll now release worldwide on November 19th.
For early access on November 12th.
Greets,
Travis
Delayed for the best.
