Why Do People Hate Battlefield 5 So Much?

I do personally enjoy BFV and play it regularly. While I don't hate it I'd have to admit that some elements spoil it a bit for me:

- Attrition: Just not a fan. I appreciate they tried something different but simply not for me. 

- Vehicle damage: Same as the above. I just preferred the older style where you can fully repair without using a repair station.

- Round balance: I just don't feel that rounds are balanced all that well. However I know this is something the devs are trying a few things with.

- The setting: WW2 was probably a mistake. It's a very well known setting and while they did try to bring in less known battles I don't feel it worked. Now we have an incomplete WW2 game. 

- Animations: Too many for me and in some respects they're limiting. For example it's quite often difficult to hop in a squad mate's plane and parachute behind enemy lines. Quite often you'll overshoot and end up outside the playable area.

- Visibility: A personal problem most likely but I still sometimes struggle seeing enemies. 

- The gamemode carousel: I hated that many gamemodes were temporary.

- Matchmaking: Gave up using it a long time ago as it has a habit of putting me in empty servers.

- Grand Operations: Nowhere near as enjoyable as Operations in BF1.

I do like lots in this game too though, such as Tides of War, the weapons and vehicles, most of the maps, the customisations, buddy revives and it's a lovely looking game.

People take WWII especially seriously, and in the online outrage era of internet, I'm not surprised thr community is divided.

I don't think the game deserves as much hate as it is getting but there were a few design choices that I just personally don't agree with.

Attrition could have been better imo (too many crates everywhere), and longer animations have really messed me up as a mainly solo player.

While I like what they did with spotting, I can't for the life of me see any enemies; they might as well be invisible its so bad.

Warzone isn't much better from thr sounds of it, but I think thr biggest factor affecting enjoyment in BF (at least on PC) is how anti-cheat is implimented

I just can't stand the map design, the gunplay, the community, the bugs, the visual and gameplay glitches, the sound design, the visual clarity, the balancing issues, the hyperactive ADHD movement, the Call of Duty with vehicles feeling, the camping nature of the players, the vehicle damage and anti vehicle options, the list goes on. I LOVED bf1, bf4 and other battlefields but BF5 really does everything wrong in my eyes. I don't like a single aspect of it, other than Rotterdam is a map (my city), but I don't even like the map in this game. Absolutely BY FAR the worst battlefield in the series. I pre-ordered 2042, I definitely hope it's better than this absolute * of a game because else the BF series is gone for me.

@MrNifler This is why I don't like BF5, frankly it was a continuation of the Battlefront formula from BF1 that was a marked departure from pre-Battlefront Battlefield that is popular to this day. I found post Battlefront Battlefield being boring compared to 1942-BF4. All of these are subjective.

Attrition: While this mechanic was heavily nerfed since launch it's still no fun and really limits gameplay compared to non-attrition Battlefield.

Squad Call ins/No Commander: The squad call ins became very spammy and should have been the purview of a Commander which BF5 didn't have. I also hated the explosion knockback.

BF1/5 Class system: These classes were completely unbalanced with the Assault Class (ie "Action Man") being the best overall choice for class choice.

Animations: Everything had an animation which yanked you out of the flow of Battle and got you killed frequently. Animations also killed almost all of the "Only in Battlefield Moments".

No RSP: Community games simply doesn't fill the need that the old RSP did for Communities to thrive long term. CG was a stop gap measure just like BF1's version that checked the block due to community outrage but really didn't fill the need.

Revives: You had an animation which was much slower than 1942-BF1 revives.

Squad Revive: I know some people like this, but I personally think it really takes away from the importance of playing the medic class.

Classes being pigeon holed into specific engagement ranges: In Previous Battlefields through BF4 you could be effective in many different engagement rages from CQB to long range in all classes. Beginning in BF1 DICE tried to put specific classes into specific engagement ranges which was lessened but still present in BF5. DICE tried to reinforce this in some of their multiple unwanted TTK changes

Squad Size: The squad size was reduced from 5 men in BF1 to 4 men which made it harder to play with your friends.

Visibility: Visibility was simply horrible in BF5 and unfortunately some of these issues have persisted into 2042.

Ping System: This was a bad Battle Royale import like many of the objectionable features, the 3D spotting system was much better for visibility and situation awareness.

Vehicle damage: Internal vehicle self repair is bad and limits the need for an engineer to play his class (another lone wolf feature), then you have the various types of damage like glancing blows that was worse than older damage types.

Round balance/No Teamswitch: In Battlefield we need to be able to switch teams to self balance servers and play with your friends. This feature was bafflingly absent in BF5.

The setting: It wasn't a realistic WWII, it was some sort of alternate reality version of WWII which was reinforced by the cosmetics and Elites. I would have been fine with this immersion killing feature if we had a customization killswitch like World of Tanks has.

No Parachute: I prefer the parachute to the combat role.

It's funny after playing more I've realized just how bad BF5 is.

Some maps are just bad in either design or objective placement balance.

Im very late to the game so I just mute VC and have fun.

There are gamemodes other than conquest but I just don't feel like playing them for some reason.

IDK I just want to wander and do my own thing helping who I like, pushing X Y Z or whatever.