Hello I am new to the forums and was wondering will fully destructible Skyscrapers be making a return?

The limited ability to demolish structures in the Beta gameplay does not bode well in this regard.Alongside the large-scale warfare, the destruction of various structures added that extra layer of realism setting Battlefield apart and above its competitors. So it was not promising with the almost entirely missing levolution and abillity for the players to inflict any damage to the structures in the Beta game...Even the smallest feeble shed on the Orbital map could not be bulldozed over when in a tank. And none of the buildings could be levelled despite shelling them with Sabot or other explosives. This definitely need to get attention and implemented or yet again another Only-In-Battlefield has gone missing in action!

@CyberDymeIndeed. I am in full agreement with you that if the quality of destruction we saw in the Beta is what is to be expected at launch... that is * poor.There are so many aspects of this game and its development that have been head-scratching and seemingly going backwards... I truly hope destructibility is not one of them.

@ragnarok013Same. I would like to know the reasoning here, although I suspect it is as you said and perhaps increased demands on video memory to make those kind of "permanent" changes on maps this large...I would say they could have at least included the aesthetic and interactive aspects of destroying building facades and crushing infantry and whatnot like we had in the recent games.I mean, at least put a nice spalled hole from a Sabot shot on the side of that Assembly Building if we cannot take it apart...

@D3vilMan420 One battlefield game had one skyscraper in one map which had a prescripted event to collapse if the pillars took enough damage.The only part you could destroy were the pillars so it's a real stretch to call it a fully destructible skyscraper.

@CyberDyme I agree with your concerns, but I felt the original post was asking about levolution type events, which we have definitively seen are coming back to Battlefield 2042… we simply don’t know which maps will have what feature.

Will fully destructible skyscrapers be making a return?

22 Replies

carsono311
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
@D3vilMan420There is no official word on skyscraper destruction yet, but the best candidate to see it in will be the KALEIDOSCOPE map set in Songdo, South Korea:
https://www.ea.com/games/battlefield/battlefield-2042/game-overview/maps#kaleidoscope
Jesse165
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
@D3vilMan420 Considering we don't know much about the other maps I want to say maybe? But probably not.
D3vilMan420
5 years ago
That be a major bummer if they don't have that in this, really enjoyed that feature in battlefield 4.
carsono311
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
@D3vilMan420 I would be surprised if EA DICE don’t have something like that coming, since they clearly are featuring large scale events in their maps… like Orbital (the rocket) and Discarded (big ship pieces falling like in the reveal trailer)…
zakrocz
Seasoned Veteran
5 years ago
@D3vilMan420 One battlefield game had one skyscraper in one map which had a prescripted event to collapse if the pillars took enough damage.

The only part you could destroy were the pillars so it's a real stretch to call it a fully destructible skyscraper.
D3vilMan420
5 years ago
sorry what you said is what I meant.
ragnarok013
Hero+
5 years ago
@D3vilMan420 I wouldn't expect it to make a return since DICE has returned to BF3/4 levels of destruction.
CyberDyme
5 years ago
The limited ability to demolish structures in the Beta gameplay does not bode well in this regard.
Alongside the large-scale warfare, the destruction of various structures added that extra layer of realism setting Battlefield apart and above its competitors. So it was not promising with the almost entirely missing levolution and abillity for the players to inflict any damage to the structures in the Beta game...
Even the smallest feeble shed on the Orbital map could not be bulldozed over when in a tank. And none of the buildings could be levelled despite shelling them with Sabot or other explosives.
This definitely need to get attention and implemented or yet again another Only-In-Battlefield has gone missing in action!
carsono311
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@CyberDyme I agree with your concerns, but I felt the original post was asking about levolution type events, which we have definitively seen are coming back to Battlefield 2042… we simply don’t know which maps will have what feature.
CyberDyme
4 years ago
Fair point @carsono311 ,
If just for skyscraper levolutions, then it will much depend on the map and its contents.
And if on the skyscraper-busy Songdo map in South Korea, would we be happy even with just one of the many buildings coming down? 😎
That was maybe something special on the Siege of Shanghai map..... 7 years ago...
And back then we took it down by using tank shells on a couple of it's pillars. Why not give us more buildings like that on the city maps we now get in BF2042?
We could also previously turn small cities/village buildings into large piles of rubble. The tank hunting engineers could both be crushed in it, but they also served as great hiding spots for the same engineers to take out the vehicle *. (replace * with: 'overly dedicated vehicle drivers') The large piles of rubble also serve as great infantry hideouts from air fire.
This is 2042 and we want to make things go BOOM !