What the .... have they done to this game?

I never come to the forums because it's usually full of sycophants and people complaining about pet peeves wanting the game to play entirely differently than what it is, but this time I have to say something.  FWIW, not that it means a whole lot, but I've been a Battlefield fan since the original release of 1942.  I've also been EA Play...not anymore. I won't be buying another Battlefield.  I don't think EA devs give a flying ** anymore. They're more interested in rolling out "seasons" than fixing things.

This game is full of glitches.  Sound, menu problems, graphical, netcode, whatever. I could live with those as long as they were getting worked on.  Each patch seems to fix some things, but they're replaced by others.  Fix the black screen menu issue, now it's replaced by no menus at all or overlaid menus, for instance.  Sound takes as long to load as some of the textures.  Some games I start with invisible guns and players.  My gun loading or firing sound happens 10 seconds after I actually pull the trigger. Dead after you're around a wall, dead in a half-second burst, and dead at distances that should be impossible with SMG or even carbines on automatic fire, which leads to...

Aim assist, or maybe cheating.  Want to know what the problem is?  The problem is that you can't tell the difference anymore.  I can't.  The trifecta with aim assist, bad netcode, and probably external devices helping aim has absolutely destroyed gameplay, especially in CQ maps.  Getting hosed by automatic fire with TTK less than a second, snipers that never miss a headshot at a dead run with distances of 100 meters or more, guns that fire I swear just like they have an aimbot.  Zero recoil.  Every round hits at crazy distances at full auto.  

This last patch seems for some reason to have made it worse.  I don't know what it is, worse netcode or a nerf to aim assist, but it's unplayable for me anymore.  CQ maps end up with just a couple players taking the vast majority of the kills.  You can't get near them.  Braap-dead in 0.5 seconds is all you get, 70% of the time an SMG at too-far distance.  20%  chance a carbine.  Mixed bag for the rest, the rest of the guns hardly get used because everyone's running around with zero-recoil SMG or carbines.  I played some breakthrough.  Again, one player just statpadding with an SMG getting 55-odd kills defending, zero flags,...not super unusual except that was double the next kill count down.  Usually that killcount is reserved for vehicle wh**es, except this was a CQ map with no vehicles.  Can't get past someone that insta-kills you.  And the mortar nerf...can we PLEASE block them in TDM?  Most of the maps just turn into spawnkillfests anymore thanks to the mortars and aim assist clowns rushing to spawnkill camping spots, only the bigger TDMs give any hope of maneuvering.

Anyway...the game is absolutely wrecked.  Can't play anymore without the gameplay being destroyed by a cheater or aim assist tool just mowing everyone down.