BF6 vs 2042

Very true 

People were very angry at 2042, but there was something they didn't know. The best UI EA had created recently belonged to 2042.

On the subject of portal in BF6,

It is a ghost town. Look at the browser. Nothing but random tat that no one is playing.

They’ve pushed people away from portal.

Why have portal in BF6 at all if you just want to make it so hard to put an experience together and then punish people for even trying to use it?

Included bots, removed bots, added SOME bots back, penalise the use of bots.

Didn’t give us game mode templates for us to pick up, tweak and use.

If portal was the same as 2042’s portal, the browser would be buzzing with multiple servers.

We would be browsing through populated servers offering all sorts of game modes, people having fun.

Hardcore servers, persistent servers running maps in rotation, same people in the server match after match, servers with tweaked settings to make them feel different and fun (we can’t even do that because we have almost NONE of the settings we had in 2042!), coded servers by people making use of the rules editor).

Portal would be ALIVE right now.

But they killed it in every way.

Now you have to use an overly complicated process where you’re forced to use godot (dev kit) to even try and get ONE MAP running!

What the hell has happened?!

How on earth did we get here?!

The face palm and disappointment is REAL.

And another thing… 

Standing here looking at 2042 as my son plays is eye opening.

On my 65” Oled, 2042 looks crisp, sharp, clear, detailed.

None of the bad texture pop ins and blurry visuals of BF6.

It is night and day.

Unforgivably small maps.

The two mid-sized maps are so terrible that the small maps actually look decent.

It comes to something when the UI for BF2042 - which has an awful mobile phone app front-end effectively - is better than BF6.

It comes to something when BF2042 - which has always been heavily criticised and even now is still considered the worst BF by near everyone - is better than BF6 in many ways.

It comes to something when Portal for BF2042 which was particularly heavily criticised works better than Portal for BF6.

Yet many content creators continue to laud BF6 like it is the saviour of the franchise... ridiculousness and perhaps a little suspicious.

Yup.

I can see what they did.

They know exactly what they were doing. It was intentional. They KNEW the maps were too small and they knew the BF community would not be happy.

but their priority was dragging COD players and others into the BF ecosystem, at the cost of the BF playerbase.

Now they say they are aware that people want bigger maps. They think we’re stupid.

their intention was to create run and gun, sweaty, spray and pray gameplay to appeal to COD players. That was their intention.

ALL BF6 maps would be a thousand times better if they were 3-4x bigger.

The city maps should both be deleted from living memory. They are truly awful. They would have been more respected if they actually made a game mode called “COD” and put those maps in there and locked the bloody door on them.

People really need to take a step back, take the rose tinted glasses off and see what BF6 actually is.

A run and gun, no strategy, chaotic, small-mapped, twitch, jump, slide, COD knock off.

And don’t get me wrong, it pains me to say these things but it cannot be ignored.

I’ve played every single BF game. Put literally thousands of hours into most of them.

And it is painful, disappointing and shameful to see what we have actually been given in BF6.

The marketing and hype did NOT reflect the product we actually got. And that had left a sour taste in the mouths of the BF community.

I’m actually worried at this stage that no amount of patching will redeem or fix the fundamental, core of this game.

I like 2042.  I think BF6 was a step backward. 

If we had 2042’s portal, I could make the gameplay in BF6 a lot more balanced in a heartbeat.

But when we have bad netcode, bad TTK/TTD, bad tick rates, we can only balance it so much.

And to Dice:

If you want people to play the game, enjoy the game and keep coming back to play the game, you NEED to give us all the tools and settings we had in 2042’s portal.

Because I can tell you now that people will not keep playing this game as it is now.

And I’m not saying that based on my opinion alone.

I play with 10-15 people regularly. You might think “pah, is that all? Big deal”

But let me say this..

These are people from all walks of life, varying ages and from different parts of the world.

And they all (ALL!) think the same. There are even some that we used to play with that have literally walked away from the game already. Those of us that remain are finding it extremely hard to find reasons to continue playing this game.

I guarantee you that if you gave us a full compliment of features and settings in portal, you would see player numbers stabilise and increase.

And I’m not just speaking for those that use portal to create experiences, I’m speaking for those that would then JOIN AND PLAY those experiences.

Have a look at portal and the browser right now.

It’s a ghost town.

And it’s because of what you’ve done.