100%
I too noticed a bunch of comments and/ or praise going on for this title so early, and I thought okay, EA's marketing team is working overtime. Like, the fake smiles at the reveal from all the streamers (game beggars / actors basically). Oh look at, "Only In Battlefield Moment", a chair falls in front of them. Like wtf (this really happened).
Once I noticed the odd comments for one YouTube channel that got sent out to the event, I copied all the comments and sent it to Open AI (I know, don't judge me), it showed at least 20 with marketing words to hype up a product. It then noticed that this was EA and told me that EA has in the past used something called astroturfing. Like the LLM went crazy into the comments and said, no way this person knows a dev by name, and thanks them, then just goes over and over.
EA DICE screwed the last two titles so it justifies pushing towards a Call of Duty clone, dumb. Like, I don't see anything wrong with Battlefield 3, 4 and/ or 1 (well 1's customization was very limited). Each had a flow to the gameplay, why is EA incapable of getting their teams to do basic things?
One of the popular Battlefields with updated graphics and a load of weapons. Like between squad revives, downed state after death and automatic spotting, I want nothing to do with this title. I expect the BR to be this boring as well. Boring I mean, just acts like a shooter with some old Battlefield assist to make it feel like Battlefield. I would have honestly gone for a remaster over this.
Add in the maps being terribly small, vehicles lack any clear guidance and/ or approach to the rock paper scissors mentality like in the previous titles. I guess it's better than Battlefield 5, 2042, but I think Hardline beats this as it had a flow, just a terrible theme I guess (but was still enjoyable).