A Hard (But Fair) BATTLEFIELD 2042 Beta Review

[@samsmith94]

Kills are unsatisfying and the map is too big even for 128 players. Feels like I’m playing a shitty campaign mission, not immersed in the chaos of battlefield conquest

[@lonewanderer7383]

Yes... and visibility of enemies or specialists omg...

[@LiberatedMind1]

What do you mean by unsatisfying? Is it because the weapons are too cartoonish / COD like?

[@Serpenteent]

Honestly the map is really big but like that isn’t a bad thing because either your playing a smaller server or I’m just lucky enough to find people every minute

[@jackgill6519]

Battlefield 3 had extremely satisfying kills and since then they’ve got worse and worse

[@samsmith94]

@@jackgill6519 I would say try bf1 but it’s impossible to find servers, at least on Xbox. Loved the shit out of that game

[@bltwegmann8431]

Am I the only one who thinks this game just looks weird? There’s some kind of bluish/greenish hue to everything. Battlefield 1 looked much better and it was released many years ago!

[@xxczerxx]

Absolutely, the game appears to be heavily modeled after Battlefield 4 in that regard, rather than Battlefield 1

[@khalednabilsi3535]

@@xxczerxx and yet PS4 and Xbox one are capped to 64 players with no crossplay with the new gen they did it on purpose

[@ArthurMorgan-hg4xp]

@Rhaegar ?

[@sammcj2000]

That teal green HUD and menu is burnt into my eyes after a few hours of playing 😂

[@rosenrot6871]

I kinda like it, even if it's more stylized than "realistic". Kinda takes me back to Battlefield 3, but with better visibility.

[@nickhartmann8836]

The specialist thing stinks and after playing 6 hours of the beta exactly what I was afraid of happened. Everyone plays as the best operator (zip line). No distinction from enemy operators and friendly operators they all have the same uniform. Nobody at least in the beta has played as a “squad” by playing their role. If they wanted to give people freedom of gun choice I don’t care but equipment, abilities (healing/revive, ammo, anti vehicle) should stay locked behind classes. Everyone just runs around with missle launchers. You can play as the medic operator and give your self the ammo crate and essentially have unlimited health and ammo and be a one man army. Overall, I had fun but these are things I’m really concerned about and could ruin the game and cause a really unbalanced meta of 128 players running the same 2 operators / same equipment.

[@Scoupe400]

- squad play? Omg I forgot about that. That’s gone from BF. It’s all about the fast COD , pro gamer keyboard & mouse players looking to wipe out a flag single handed. Grapple into a plane, C4, and quick scope some chumps 200m away. Give me back a balanced team BF game anytime.

[@MrMiniTakitos]

I hate the stupid power slide fad these games have now.

[@swedichboy1000]

I truly agree on that one. How fair is it for someone to slide around a corner, still shooting and keeping his/her aim on the target. The poor sod dont stand a chance. I´ve seen enough warzone videos to see how bullshit that mechanic can be. Reminds me alot of the katana weapon-pickup from Bf5. I makes me yearn for games like unreal tournament 2004 and the like, no sliding, just skill and experience.

[@BillyEatWorld]

Yep. There's no option to turn it off either. I looked for it.

[@traviswells6938]

Didn’t really feel it impacted the gameplay that much. But there’s always players that abuse it. Mostly just tryhards

[@carnifex2173]

Ruined warzone for me, everyone slide canceling constantly just ruins the atmosphere

[@findawaytowin2968]

I think I’m just done with gaming at the moment. This was the one game that I was excited for and it feels like a chore to play. Frustrating to constantly get killed by random dudes grapple hooking or parachuting all around you with no sense of direction the enemy is coming from. Everything is too random. I can’t enjoy firefights and shootouts because you just get blind sided by other players from a million other directions like it’s cod. This game feels chaotic like cod ground war. It’s too mindless and not mentally stimulating. The movement doesn’t feel fluid or responsive. The specialists are cartoonish and cheesy and everyone looks the same on either team. Just wait until they start adding even dumber skins like fortnite women wearing bunny ears.

[@Amcacs5654]

If you’re on Xbox or PC try Halo Infinite when it comes out. The multiplayer is free to play and the beta was so much fucking fun.

[@jaredgreenier7996]

This right here

[@luffydpirate9518]

Battlefield has always been like this. What you just said this game is like was the entire battlefield franchise and that's why I never understood why people like it.

[@wezlee117]

The game is so shit dude they literally just needed to make Battlefield 4 but a little better. They’re over complicating a working formula. This should be called BattlefieldArcade

[@Scoupe400]

Totally agree. Older BF games were not too fast and hectic, and allowed for some team play, tactical to a point. Not anymore. Totally different audience.

[@calebfultonj]

the gameplay feels horrible imo, probably the worst battlefield i’ve ever played, it’s a beta tho so hopefully it doesn’t feel like this when it releases

[@TheChuyDewy]

it was like this in the alpha and super disappointed

[@mrsanatra1]

All they had to do was take the immersion of bf1, the gun handling of bf5, and the customization of bf4 with bf3 & bad company 2 maps.

[@LiberatedMind1]

@@TheChuyDewy Guns lack recoil.

[@OmgItsLeaa]

It's a demo. They won't be able to overhaul something as big as gunplay and general feel to the game in a month.

[@ianpotter2503]

@@TheChuyDewy this is a massive improvement from alpha

[@angelob2375]

On PS5 the beta is almost unplayable man :/ feels like if I’m playing the alpha. So many texture glitches, textures not even loading in at all, hit boxes on enemy players feel so dam tiny that my bullets seem to go through the enemies when Ik for a fact I’m shooting right at them, the animations are so lackluster and the gunplay feels like COD, feels too clunky and not fluid like BF4 or BF1. I try to lead my shots as you should in BF but I got no hits on the enemy, it seems like there’s no bullet drop in this game. Performance issues overall are super glaring and need to be addressed. I’m glad PC players don’t seem to have issues but on console like I said it’s almost unplayable. The lack of optimization for consoles is so obvious

[@linkedwinters]

You are. The open beta is an old version of Battlefield 2042, meaning most of what is being complained about is either already fixed or being fixed.

[@ish8966]

Try turning off crossplay I was having the exact same issues but once I turned it off the game ran so much better

[@themtgdude486]

I’m on series x and I haven’t run into many.

[@findawaytowin2968]

Only happened to me once where I emptied all my bullets into a still player and he didn’t die and then shot me a couple times and killed me.. it’s been a chore to play this game. So disappointed

[@Mussi93]

Trust me, I have huuuuge performance issues on PC. With a 2070 Super... No matter the graphic settings. Plenty of bugs as well.

[@mylesharper3412]

Based off this beta...imma be playing bf4 for 10 more years.

[@austindailey29]

this doesnt look or feel the same as what i hoped for.. why does every developer get worse with new games?

[@AllGoldAG]

I also would like to no that

[@chimeraelite]

Because they think we want more NEW stuff, rather than just more of what we already know works with more maps and balance. They're trying to fix what isn't broken.

[@IScoreUnderPressure4]

@@chimeraelite funny thing is, when they do that, everyone complains that it’s the same game over and over again

[@NamFlow]

@@IScoreUnderPressure4 Well obviously there should be some improvements. Can you for example imagine if they combined BF3/BF4 gameplay, maps, vehicles, gadgets, weapons with graphics, destruction and sounds from BFBC2? It would be a massive hit as people (like me) are still waiting for BFBC2. If however they made this combination I would play it nonstop. However BF2042 looks like a badly made clone of BF3/BF4. Personally I'm gonna skip this one.

[@IScoreUnderPressure4]

@@NamFlow dude, that’s what portal is for. They gave us that mode specifically for that reason.

[@dirkbullet]

Its awful. Which is sad. Hoped to have a next gen BF4. May change mind on full release but the core gameplay just is NOT good enough. My opinion.

[@thesenate9455]

didnt enjoy it as much as I hoped for myself

[@squaeman_2644]

What do you think of specialists? I think they're dumb and destroy the teamwork aspect of the game. And don't like seeing the same characters on different teams.

[@thesenate9455]

@@squaeman_2644 very weird with only 4 characters. I liked it when it was soldiers covered in uniforms and camo more, lets see when the full game gets released

[@squaeman_2644]

@@thesenate9455 Yeah kinda my thoughts too, even if BF42 is disappointing at launch there's still the portal to look forward too.

[@TheChuyDewy]

i was in the alpha and am still disappointed almost nothing has changed this doesn't look good for the final realease

[@mpbarros1983]

It plays and feels like a "Planetside 3"

[@Beaxed]

As a veteran of bf2, bf3 and b4 this is a disapointment I have to say. Totatly agree with the whole cartonage feel to it. Incl the emblems you earn. they look like something out of a cerial box. So sad I spendt the money. but I should have know by now after the bf1 and V letdowns. shame on me.

[@mrsanatra1]

Bf1 was immersive but boring and the gun loadouts were trash, bf5 is broken till this day, and bf hardline was trash for a bf title. I KNEW this game would be suspect, especially with EA/DICE live service motto. Whenever you hear live service for the most part, the game will launch half ass or broken

[@findawaytowin2968]

Same. I’m also pissed that I spent money on it. Hopefully portal will be the battlefield fix that we all need. I have the feeling that they added in portal because they knew the base game is gona be cartoonish fortnite non sense

[@indoctrinate4740]

i hear you brother

[@JuanGlow]

You still can cancel your pre order, i just did that, back to playing btf4 and btf1

[@BillyEatWorld]

Just a quick clarification of what I meant at 7:58 about "real world weapons"... DICE actually 3D scans every item of equipment you see in BF games down to the smallest detail, from objects that actually exist in the real world (I've been lucky enough to see the rig in person). As they've chosen not to licence the model names for these weapons / vehicles though (as they've done in previous games), it's implying these are new "futuristic" variants of those weapons / vehicles. It's an easy way for DICE to save money which makes sense in this theme when you bear in mind, all of these designs would be at least 30 years old in 2042. It also allows DICE to balance these weapons in any way they like, whereas in previous games, they somewhat tried to stick to real world weapon stats where possible. Also, it's worth mentioning in Battlefield 4, not every weapon model name was licenced. In these cases though, guns like the HK416 were still given similar sounding military designations like "M416" so that it was immediately obvious what weapon it was supposed to be. Battlefield 2042 doesn't attempt to do this at all as far as I can see, except for the AK-24 (actually an AK-12). Finally (and this may not be the case in the final game) but so far the "real" models used as the basis for the in game weapons, aren't particularly iconic, and apart from the AK-12, none are featured in previous Battlefield games.. The only people likely to recognise them are firearms enthusiasts. So long story short... Yes... The models used as the basis for the weapons do exist in the real world. But... As with the guns in BF2042, the model used for the E-11 blaster in Star Wars: Battlefront also exists in the real world (it's a Sterling SMG). i.e... The devs aren't expecting you to make a connection with the real world weapons. They're implying they're something new in this fictional universe.

[@steveguy3]

Gotta say I disagree on the sound, it's buggy, footsteps can sometimes be heard and sometimes not, and the guns sound weak as hell

[@BillyEatWorld]

@@steveguy3 Fair enough. Foosteps will probably get solved. This is always a topic that comes up and DICE is always tweaking it. Honestly I thought it was pretty good. I mean I mostly play games like ARMA 3 so by comparison BF2042 gun sounds are epic.

[@traviswells6938]

Maybe if they added more iconic futuristic versions of the bf4 weapons we might see some more connections between the feel and vibes of the gameplay. I think adding some gadgets from bf4 might also help.

[@traviswells6938]

@@steveguy3 really? I always heard footsteps, but I agree with the guns, I saw a dude firing an mg infront of me and I heard zero sound. Apparently this game version is months old so hopefully it will be fixed in the release.

[@Onc3Holy]

Gotta say, I disagree on the guns. The Glock is really close, and assuming that the current NGSW weapons get adopted as the M5 was a smart choice. I do think the devs want that connection made, they just don't want to spend the money.

[@BilbroBaginz]

Im really disappointed with the Heli gameplay, the physic seem basic and sluggish. Most vehicle combat is 2 people auto hovering locking onto each other seeing who fires first. They seem to sluggish for cool evasive maneuvers like bf3/4

[@LiberatedMind1]

Do remember, its a 2 month old beta, could be better when launched.

[@BilbroBaginz]

@@LiberatedMind1 agree... it definitely could be better.

[@reckle556]

exaclty what I thought. Coming from BF4 driving the heli in 2042 felt terrible. Hours and hours to master it to then come on 2042 and have the same feeling as a cutscene in a campaign mission

[@realname5332]

I had a lot of practice in the scout chopper from BF4 and I felt that I was pretty good at it. hopping in one in 2042 made me feel like a noob again. Why couldn’t they just have kept the same control scheme as the BF4 choppers? Ugh

[@TheTeletrap]

Question about the gunplay: In your gameplay, aside from the AR platform DMR, the guns seem to have nonexistent recoil. Is this due to your gun setup or are almost guns laser like?

[@juliomarques7970]

Just got to play the beta, and i do feel like all guns are laser like. Personally hope they change this, sniper feels kinda useless in this BF.

[@BillyEatWorld]

The guns definitely don't have much recoil. You can apply attachments that increase it, but the base recoil is pretty slight. It matters out at a distance though. Bear in mind this map is huge.

[@traviswells6938]

It’s not nonexistent recoil, but as someone who plays realistic shooters, it’s pretty normal recoil, it’s just that you can change your barrel and grip on the go to suit the ranges you’re playing.

[@TheTeletrap]

@@juliomarques7970 I just tried out the game and I’d argue that snipers will be pretty powerful. The TTK is surprisingly high and the game just feels… clunky to say the least. Snipers can likely still 1-2 shot even with the high TTK.

[@LiberatedMind1]

@@traviswells6938 Normal for other games? That is not realistic recoil at all. BF3 had that shit down pat, the weapons had impact.

[@Leonix13]

Feels like BF4 where the smaller player (48 > 64) games felt better.

[@BillyEatWorld]

Yep I agree.

[@hhhfdsfs]

This game feels really fast, i prefer the slower pace of bf4.

[@Leonix13]

@@hhhfdsfs to be fair I think BF4 felt slower not because of speed, but because of less movement options.

[@sammcj2000]

Of the many reviews I've seen I must say this is the closest aligned with my experience. The game has a decent foundation to build from but feels more like an arcade shooter and has less of the immersive strategic feel that battlefield 1 and 5 had. Feels like an early alpha but has potential.

[@gamesmaster1060]

That's because erm... battlefield is an arcade shooter, this isn't escape from tarkov lmao

[@realname5332]

@@gamesmaster1060 Is Escape From Tarkov that memoir the Russian oligarch wrote about escaping the gulag? I thought it was called something else..?

[@Radiant-Edge]

@@gamesmaster1060 Everything is an arcade shooter compared to Tarkov. But they're not wrong, go play a round of 2042 and then a round of BF4 right afterwards. There's such a distinct difference in how everything feels, 2042 just lacks that weighted gameplay previous titles achieved. If people enjoy it then that's fine but the lack of any inertia to your movements and gun play is what feels so off-putting for a battlefield title.

[@TheMrseanster67]

@@gamesmaster1060 just because it's an arcade shooter doesn't mean it can't try and incorporate elements of strategy and teamwork.

[@gamesmaster1060]

@@TheMrseanster67 yes but there are games for that, not every game needs to be that for example, as copy and paste as call of duty there's still a place for that sort of game, I never saw battlefield as much as a teamwork game anyway lol

[@brienmaybe.4415]

When you can destroy every structure in the battlefield series ill buy battlefield again.

[@mrsanatra1]

Seriously, why in all game play i havent seen destructible building’s or environments? This game doesnt look good honestly

[@brienmaybe.4415]

@@mrsanatra1 i don't understand why this game "requires" a rtx 3060 to play when bf4 bf1 bfv look better and even cod mw 2019.

[@mrsanatra1]

@@brienmaybe.4415 Bro my Xbox one was having a stroke playing the beta. This game just by the beta is turning me off from even caring about it. Tbh I rather just enjoy bf4 or even shitty 5

[@daniel-it2lw]

they just need to make bad company 3, but without all the casual shooter shit. thats why we played the old battlefields because they were hard and rewarding when you got good at sniping or flying

[@SLAYHOLE88]

I think my biggest issue with the game is that if everyone has access to everything, you'll no longer be able to see a support and know he'll have ammo, or see a sniper and predict he most likely has a bolt action.

[@NamFlow]

Imagine if they combined BF3/BF4 gameplay, maps, vehicles, gadgets, weapons with graphics, destruction and sounds from BFBC2. I would actually pre-order it which is something I don't do.

[@lexingtonlad5745]

OK, I guess I'm ordering sandstorm.

[@tylermark7497]

movement and aiming feels really weird for me, can't find good controller settings. i miss bf3 and 4 :(

[@imnotusingmyrealname4566]

Is the intro music from BF1? I can't believe BF1 was as good as it was. So polished, smooth and beautiful in it's large scale (well not comparable to the scale of BF 2042 of course).

[@tukkas2893]

Intro music is from BFV.

[@JAILEDforMEMES]

Yep BF1 is amazing

[@titancheat]

I wish there was a mag 2 game. The players and objectives in that game were amazing

[@DCGMatthew1]

I wish I could play. It wither says I can't connect to servers or that I need to pre-order or be an active EA Play member, which I already am.

[@BillyEatWorld]

This is a known issue. Check the official BF socials :).

[@DCGMatthew1]

7:32 I disagree. It all connects with Battlefield 3, 4 and 2142. If you know all the lore about them it's great. 7:58 And you're also wrong about this. The guns do exist, they just don't all use the real names because if licensing, and the vehicles exist as well, they literally showed a Polaris ATV...

[@BillyEatWorld]

Look I'm sure it does link in as far as the lore is concerned, although the theme still needs to stand on it's own. Most players picking this game up won't have played those games and many that did, won't remember the lore anyway. My main issue is that it doesn't feel like Battlefield 4. Some more classic maps, weapons and gadgets might improve this. And look knowing how DICE content capture stuff (every item of clothing is a real physical object scanned in the world)... I realise the physical weapons exist in real life, but by not having the licenced named (as has happened in previous BF games) most players won't make the connection. Also the implication is that, because this is the future, these are updated version of these weapons / vehicles... as an example the AH64 Apache is obviously a real helicopter but the AH-64GX Apache Warchief doesn't exist in the real world.

[@imnotusingmyrealname4566]

@@BillyEatWorld The Apache was weird for me because it's so old. By the time of 2042 it would definitely be ancient and likely even obsolete. They should've put the RAH 66 or a fictionalized more modern version of it into the game.

[@cannonlampe6506]

@@imnotusingmyrealname4566 the Apache is the most devastating war machine the modern world has. It makes sense it would still be in use in just 20 years in the future with better weapons

[@cannonlampe6506]

@@imnotusingmyrealname4566 and considering how a lot of the guns are not too too more advanced and the architecture as well as the gear soldiers use the Apache makes sense

[@bausy2196]

Who gives a fuck about lore in a multiplayer game?!

[@Dub3God]

Audio is good? We playing the same beta?!?!?!

[@lukazz1270]

I personally dont like how long it takes to kill someone. It feels really bad and annoying to me at least. I liked BF4 and how quickly you could kill an enemy. But now i feel like i have to shoot the same dude 10 times with the assault rifles from anywhere beyond 40 meters. So for me personally the gunplay is really bad. I like the feel of the weapons but i dont like how they are being balanced. The games i played everyone used the sniper because everything else sucked beyond 20 meters.

[@Bean_8000]

8:03 I have to disagree. Many weapons and vehicles do resemble what exists today. In the background clip, yes the weapon used may not exist in reality but it's clearly resembling a M4 rife type weapon (charging handle, receiver, etc.). The same thing happened in BF4 with some of the AK variant rifles where the developers made weapons that would be plausible future service rifles for the Russians. So this quite clearly contradicts the question is it "supposed to be a sci fi shooter or is it supposed to be grounded in the real world like battlefield 4 is?". Other than that, I appreciate the honest review and I do agree with some other potential problems brought up.

[@BillyEatWorld]

Thanks mate! There's a detailed response to what I actually meant by this in the pins.

[@Bean_8000]

@@BillyEatWorld I guess I am a pretty big firearms enthusiast lol. You have seen more than me of this game and I guess you're right that most people wont recognise the firearms if they've never been in previous games or are very iconic. This meaning that I will probably get a much stronger of this 'grounded to reality' feeling than other people. I appreciate your comments, keep up the great videos and have a great day!

[@imnotusingmyrealname4566]

@@BillyEatWorld Where?

[@caiocm2350]

just to add a minor detail to this nice comment, that m4 style weapon in the clip is the new daniel defense model so it actually does exist, of course no real military usage yet but its similar to bf1's prototype weapons that never saw combat usage but did exist.

[@26jferris]

The AR hes using is a real rifle. It's the SiG MCX Spear. It's the new rifle the Army is testing currently to replace the M4.

[@demontongue9893]

Personally I'm starting to think that custom servers made in the map creator with 64 player or even 40 vs 40 caps implemented are gonna end up more popular than any of the map setups DICE has made. I can see communities getting together and making battlefield 3 and bad company 2 maps.....could be wrong but I feel it might go down that route.

[@evanwiger]

Keep getting the error you need to be an ea play member. Or cannot connect to servers. I'm sure they're hammered right now. Also, I feel exactly the same about the graphics. I kinda wish it was a bit better. Nothing Reahade can't fix. Might get banned tho. EDIT: I finally got in. I have a brand new system and the performance, major bugs, and networking is horrible. I have a 3070 and I get about 40-58 fps. Hopefully, this all gets ironed out but I feel like they should delay this again another 6-8 months. I can wait.

[@BillyEatWorld]

Hope you found a solution! For me I've got a 2070 and I was running (and streaming) at a decent framerate.

[@MiniNadez25]

Bro 95% of the player base are gonna hate if it gets delayed

[@evanwiger]

@@BillyEatWorld even when things get crazy? I went down to 1080p from 1440p. And barley saw a performance gain. 25-40 fps.

[@linkedwinters]

The beta is an old version with just one or two maps, meaning there's plenty of visual and performance bugs. Upon release, it'll be much better.

[@TheChuyDewy]

@@linkedwinters bro the beta is literally the same shit in the alpha everyone says the beta runs better but the alpha was locked at 30 fps same weps same ops same vehicles same map the only major diff I see is the weather like the tornado and the rocket shits fucking disappointing the alpha was like 2-3 months ago I think its gonna be bad on release they're gonna prob fix it like bf4

[@jaderaymond1785]

I refunded already, and the main reason was - hit detection. I don't know, it's ping issue or something. But it was plenty of time, when I can't saw my shots registered, even in close combat, or they were delayed. In teams of graphics, I can't find DLSS support at all! Having 140Gz and playing with a 60 FPS at low, not for me, when I know my RIG can handle it. I probably will buy it later, when they optimized the game or fix some problems and if hackers don't occupy servers at that moment. But it's still way fucking better that what Ubisoft show us yesterday.

[@steveguy3]

This has always happened in Battlefield, I don't know if their code is flawed or what, but getting shot behind walls cause of shoddy hit detection has always been in Battlefield, can't remember Cs ever having the problem which is ancient

[@BillyEatWorld]

I think they were having server issues earlier in the afternoon. Maybe that's been fixed now? I didn't notice issues like that.

[@jaderaymond1785]

@@BillyEatWorld Maybe, but I don't want to deal with this if it continues and Steam still allow me to refund the game. Btw thank you for honest short review.

[@BillyEatWorld]

@@jaderaymond1785 Thanks a lot!

[@fiftydabs5114]

No hate, but why would you refund it just to buy it again lol just wait it out

[@matthewj3266]

So basically at first glance we got the battlefield experience we asked for but what we asked for was dated and the same old stuff ?

[@BillyEatWorld]

That's a good way to put it, but just bear in mind this is the beta... I'm keen to see what Hazard Zone is and what can be created by the community in Portal.

[@VonJay]

@@BillyEatWorld I would wait out for HZ if the core gameplay of 42 had a bit more traction to it. Everything feels weightless, the running, the climbing, the sliding, the shooting, shooting people, and getting hit feels like it has near zero real world traction. So if that is still near zero at launch the different gamemodes won't matter. It feels like I'm controlling a floating camera than a real soldier with boots on the ground. Even BFV got that right.

[@rnrailproductions5049]

Most of the guns do exist in real life, it's just that most are renamed probably due to Licensing. Such as the AK-24 is actually an AK-12, the M5A2 or whatever is a SIG MCX, and so on and so on.

[@djjayem100]

The sound is shit mate, what you talking about?

[@expo2000000]

Is BF2042 map open (with no cover) like BF1? I hope DICE balance vehicles better.. theres never enough engineers when 3 MBTs shows up in one area. XD

[@BillyEatWorld]

In some areas it is. Lots of open space in between certain objectives.

[@traviswells6938]

I didn’t really feel that vehicles were op because the map is so huge, plus with more players launching aa and rpgs at you it kind of balances it out.

[@traviswells6938]

Also, any specialist can take rpgs or aa gadgets. I found that if just rush the tank with the 20 dudes around you (which happens naturally) the tanks get squashed.

[@trautsj]

I made it to audio being a 10/10 and I'm clicking off. I can't take anything more seriously after that statement...

[@Slixbrah]

i dont know if its because of the forced TAA anti aliasing, but the game has weird texture flickering, like fuzzy, and its blurry too, its gross on 1080p

[@KingJerm]

If you think about it. The beta is 17gb that’s not enough storage to make the game beautiful for the beta. I’m pretty sure the real game will be about 100gb so it might blow peoples minds

[@MrRb26det]

fingers crossed. cause this shit is Alpha grade and inspires nothing at all not too mention boring bigger maps doesnt mean better. more ppl in the map doesnt mean better. i want the game to be butter smooth and look and sound like a dream.

[@linkedwinters]

The beta is an old version with just one or two maps, meaning there's plenty of visual and performance bugs. Upon release, it'll be much better.

[@thesenate9455]

I hope so, thanks for the info

[@yo-nq9wr]

so close to release 👀

[@theoxygencombustion7006]

Hi, nice video! I want to give some formative feedback tho. When you are giving examples, try to include them as a visual or audio, show what you mean with cartoony characters. I believe those tiny changes will make the video even better

[@a.i.privilege1233]

It's fun for a few hours then all regret

[@rbeezy-]

What is portal?

[@dreamusdreamus557]

Wow! Feels like I’m shooting at ants!

[@Goldsnip]

It is not supposed to be a 'very fast past shooter.. you got it wrong

[@Mathadar]

Ouch to Midway, that was actually a historically accurate film. Pearl Harbor was trash. More explosions that are accurate didn't detract from the film. I interviewed 3 pilots at Midway, and the film matched those accurately.

[@HungryEatNow]

Don’t forget to add the huge amt of connection issues from an established veteran company

[@robertholsopple9451]

Back to BF1 for a few more years.

[@Oldmirror64]

No mounted weapon option is a miss..

[@BillyEatWorld]

I think it's probably coming. Bipod attachment just isn't an option in the beta i'd say.

[@traviswells6938]

@@BillyEatWorld I hope it’s coming haha, the lmg is uncontrollable at most ranges.

[@baylorhubble7113]

I would disagree with most of the guns not existing in the real world. Actually most of the guns and vehicles in 2042 exist in the real world, or they will exist in full production very soon.

[@xdarkknight670x]

Played the beta for 3 hrs... now I can no longer say Shaq-Fu was the worst I've ever played.

[@chris177uk]

Thanks for the vid! Informative as usual, can’t wait to drop in and try myself 🙌

[@BillyEatWorld]

Thanks mate!

[@thisguy7083]

Do👏 not👏 pre👏 order👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@MiniNadez25]

Lmao don’t have to I have ea play

[@traviswells6938]

Huh? Preordering is fine, I think it also shows devs that the public is interested in the game, also proving that they should work on the game long term.

[@amysteriousviewer3772]

@@traviswells6938 „Buying a game at launch means paying the most amount of money for the worst version of the game." - Total Biscuit If people stopped pre-ordering and buying at launch it would force developers and publishers to actually finish and polish their games before demanding money for them.

[@zeeshanparvez5235]

Absolutely love it!

[@nicoalabat6670]

TF2 is underrated

[@Ty-wf6mg]

It needs a delay without a doubt. It’s incredibly buggy. Hit registration is terrible. UI is unintuitive and messy. Movement feels like you’re constantly rubber banding. Specialist feel completely underwhelming. The structure is there. This feels like an alpha of a game preview. But would not be mad if they delayed it for another year.

[@VonJay]

I wouldn't be mad if they delayed until next year to get the gameplay right. Every aspect of this game feels worse than underwhelming in that it lacks an identity. If someone said this was a new shooter by the name of "XYZ" I'd say that it is a bootleg BF knockoff hybrid of APEX TITANFALL COD. A straight up identity crisis of a game.

[@loganstegall9113]

I’m enjoying the beta. But I can’t hear footsteps. I mean the game in he seems too quiet. My picture keeps have this flicker on the screen. And I might be the only one thinking this but, I run outa bullets so fast! 22 bullets for the DMR?!?! Come on guys! And the worst thing is not knowing if it’s an enemy or teammate. We need Russian characters and US characters. All in all, I’m having fun

[@mithundias]

BTW, BF4 is 90% off over steam. Will it still get support for multiplayer?

[@BillyEatWorld]

Nope. Support for that game is long since ended. Definitely worth picking up though. Lots of people still playing.

[@mithundias]

@@BillyEatWorld Thank you. I meant to ask, servers won't go down?

[@traviswells6938]

@@mithundias no I don’t think so, even if that’s the case in about a year or so, I think you should still pick it up. It’s such a great game.

[@CiviTac]

A lot of the guns in the game I have seen are indeed real weapon systems.

[@BillyEatWorld]

There's a detailed response to this in the pins :)

[@CiviTac]

@@BillyEatWorld I saw that pinned post but I'm taking it a step further. The majority of the weapons in the game are actually in existence today on the civilian market. The m4, for example, variant is actually a sig mcx rifle. The scar is in the game, dd m4 v7, among others. I'm pretty sure all the weapons I've seen in the game are available now either in military application, civilian purchase or both. Check them out, they're pretty cool. Thanks for the vid. It was a great review of the beta and I'll be gaming it hard this week

[@bjack1547]

Instead of another 2142 we get Grapplefield +20 years. Seems like a waste by trying to appeal to two different groups. Not a big surprise for Dice.

[@hhhfdsfs]

Have ypu played ot the grapple is very balanced.

[@MrRb26det]

2142 was better than this tho.... plenty of mechanics too at least make you feel important in a role

[@armen1136]

The thing with multiplayer shooters is if it doesn't hook me with the first match I play, then it's not a good game to me. I had more fun playing vanguard than 2042, Which is sad because I was looking forward to this game. I know it's a beta but I felt bored after a few minutes of playing. I'm more excited about Halo Infinite than 2042 at this point.

[@MrRb26det]

100% nailed it... Im a BF and was so excited yet bored after 30 mins. BF3 & BF4 was such a step up then we got BF1 and the immersion in that really sunk that boot to other FPS at the time.. this one. very lacklustre

[@VonJay]

Yeah. Though it took me several tries to have a bit of fun, it isn't a game, if the the gameplay is intentionally written the way it is, that I'll invest any time in.

[@findawaytowin2968]

I feel the same way. I remember when I played the modern warfare alpha (which was my first cod game ever being a long time battlefield player), immediately after 10 seconds I loved the game because of the movement and aiming. This game feels like trash and it hasn’t been fun. Even on rounds where I’ve had tons of kills and few deaths it’s still been a headache to play

[@Amcacs5654]

Halo Infinite’s flight/ beta was so fucking fun. And the multiplayer is free to play! It’s an easy decision to me. Save $70 from this multiplayer only game and play Halo instead.

[@L0stly]

I still miss BF2’s class system

[@beaconing7689]

if the graphics is not as good as BF1, so it's a piece of cake to run right ?

[@franco8010]

yes but the map size will compensate

[@BillyEatWorld]

Well these days game developers nerf games so that they can be run on consoles as well as PC's. If your rig is better than a PS5 you should be okay. I wouldn't be suprised if the devs add render distance options in the final game for players with lower spec cards (especially considering how hard it is to get a GPU at the moment). The map size definitely means more objects to render though, so don't assume if you can run BF1 you'll be able to run this.

[@traviswells6938]

@@BillyEatWorld yeah, I can’t run this game that great but bf1 runs just fine. I hate that I can’t upgrade my GPU at the moment, bloody Bitcoin miners.

[@MrRb26det]

@@traviswells6938 yeah BF1 for me on an old 1080ti hits over 100fps @1440p on hugh to ultra.... this .. 75-85 but in my opinion looks far worse

[@thesenate9455]

Im running like 70-100 fps, with a good cpu and an AMD 6700xt. Not good enough for me

[@MsSaskue360]

Flickering glitch is annoying this beta has so many glitches

[@zapador]

A lot of valid points! Just played about an hour myself, it certainly feels like Battlefield but I'm not entirely convinced. With that said I've never liked Conquest so I'm looking forward to trying the other modes, like Domination or Rush, or whatever they're going to come up with.

[@narwhalblast]

2042's game world looks Arma 3

[@BillyEatWorld]

Basically. A lot of the thematic criticisms I have about BF2042 were also bit issues for the A3 community when it launched as well.

[@bossalinedezz]

The game looks generic but this is suppose to be next gen right ? This isn't a next gen game .

[@themtgdude486]

So happy about the movie references!

[@expo2000000]

You got on oct 5? :o

[@traviswells6938]

Early access

[@Kingwill-oy4xo]

Blows COD vanguard out of the water already and just showing top of ice burg.

[@shilobosch5307]

Basically the new nuke town 24/7

[@gxtoast2221]

I think Portal is the only truly ground-breaking technology in this release and hopefully it will carry the Battlefield PC experience (and maybe the Console experience) far into the future as the platform for all future Battlefield content. Portal will fail if it is not well monetised. As a platform for all future Battlefield content that enables highly configurable community experiences, dynamic server creation and orchestration we might see Battlefield transition into the epic gaming universe we dream about.

[@VonJay]

IDK how any of the gamemodes will have success with such sloppy gameplay physics. Are buildings going to be fully destructable in portal? Doubt that. The core mechanics of the game won't make it feel like the older games.

[@gxtoast2221]

@@VonJay I suspect this could be the case. BF4 had noticeably less destruction than BF3, too.

[@dem0man21]

Who the Hell at EA and Dice thought it was a good Idea to release this to the public. They just destroyed the battlefield franchise. So many things wrong with this. Not having a dedicated q button to request anything like all old battlefield game is ridiculous. To me this is a walking running simulator. If you don't get in any vehicle. You have to run to each objective. The map is so dam big that by the time you get half way to one of the zones to take over. Your to late then you turn to the next and same thing happens. So on and so on. Having all the Ai in the game are stupid. They die so fast. Just like Titanfall. I loved that game but having Ai in it just ruined it for me. The vehicles are just horrible to drive and fly. All arcade like. I think all battle royal games have ruined every fps that will come out now as they are all going to arcade gameplay. These new games are catered to the young kids that just spends mom and dads money on skins. Ugh just make a Battlefield 4 remaster already and call it a day. I am 52 years old and guess my time in gaming has come to an end.

[@bokmdkddd]

Bruh they should add 64 player matches. The amount of times you get spawnkilled. Shot by helicopters planes and tanks is abnormal.

[@sped8740]

This is not a battfield 4 spiritual successor. It's hardly a fucking battlefield game, it's everything but battlefield 4 from no skill cod like gunplay, no classes, no loadouts, no teamwork, no battlefield. Good job EA

[@Phantom-ez4zv]

yeh thats why i closed it right away, just meh

[@danielt6856]

I was really hoping that they'd take a bit more freedom with this battlefield. BF1 was a nice change of pace, but to me BF4 felt like a cluttered mess which barely iterated on BF3. I was holding out for a bit of the magic of rush in BFBC2-style or titan mode from 2142, not a larger conquest game mode. BF won't ever hit the scale of games like Planetside, but it is still the best for squad gameplay imo - but the best squad gameplay is when objectives are a bit more dynamic than conquest capture points.

[@VonJay]

Hard to feel important in this new squad based gameplay. Not feeling the gameplay on any level at all. I see that some people are having fun with it which is nice, but, I'm probably just going to have to hang BF up for another 3 years.

[@deeeeeeeench1209]

Point 1. Objectively graphics in fps games are not important the only thing that matters is seeing your enemy and getting good performance. Point 2 music in an fps what? You should turn music off it shouldn't even get a mention. Point 3 I agree could be slightly more recoil. Point 4 didn't hear a clear point made just some ramble about conquest. Point 5 customization yeah its a beta not seen much so far specialist's will always cause balancing issues Point 6 authenticity/immersion Battlefield has never been a mislim or immersion game its an arcade shooter, realism never made a good game maybe it's just not for you if that's what you're expecting.

[@zhorzh22]

Game Industry is all about The MONEY now...

[@mrsanatra1]

I said it before ill say it again, ill wait to test it saturday but after bf5 being broken, bf1 being immersive & boring, and after bf hardline being weird, i dont trust this game to be anything special. And i knew it would be a bf4 clone but in thhat case why pay a full purchase price when bf4 servers still work & are packed?

[@VonJay]

Agreed. I'm starting to have a little bit of fun in the beta but it is supremely underwhelming. And worst of all, it lacks an identity. It feels like the bootleg knockoff version of several first person shooters at once. The last iterations of BF weren't good but they did certain things very well and I can't find any of those things in this build.

[@shepherdrm8486]

Honestly game plays and feel like the first attempt of CoD on a BR. Also...Music can be turned off

[@rileyrichardson8091]

Just thought id pop in here an mention world War 3 is about to relaunch, and while still very rough, I liked it more that bf 2042 which is a surprise to me because I thought It was gonna be the other way around.

[@stephenurso9267]

It doesn't matter what they put out.a large part of the community have turned Into drama Queens who cry about everything!!!

[@jackgill6519]

The game is dumbing itself down to appeal to a wider audience, to the detriment of its gameplay, map design, squad based combat and class system

[@VonJay]

It took me two paragraphs to explain what you said in one sentence. Furthermore, BF lost its identity.

[@Greifus]

The setting already establishes all the players as belonging to various stateless factions right? So logically they would be using whatever equipment they can get their hands on or whatever their "benefactor" nation gives them. This means room for customization that's more "out-there" and haphazard, preferring improvisation and practicality of whatever's at hand instead of following any national standardization. Therefore, if the individual customization and appearance of the characters are distinctly non standard when compared to real life soldiers. I am personally okay with it as long as DICE sticks to the rules established by themselves regarding the origin of the player factions. Tldr: Non-standardized equipment or haphazard appearances can be acceptable given the established setting, just no stupid completely unpractical shit like clownsuits or something like that.

[@VonJay]

That's if you give a fuck about the story they're pushing. I just want gameplay with a bit of traction and feel like I'm an important member of a team that doesn't have to rack up kills. It doesn't feel like I'm controlling a soldier with boots on the ground. The gameplay is near weightless. It feels like I"m controlling a floating camera with arms attached to it. Sliding has almost no resistance or forward leg animation. Jumping fences is superhuman. How in the world does Dice not know what it's good at? Don't give me APEX, titanfall COD hybrids, that's not BF's identity, I don't play those games for a reason. And even if I did, what would make me want to turn on BF if you don't do it better than them?

[@BlancoMD]

The tickrate and hit detection are the worse ever, at least BF4 had 10-20HZ at launch. But this feels like 5hz or less. They cut corners for 120 player, but feels like playing fortnite guns. Random spread, controller sensetivity is broken, the menu settings feels like an SAT.

[@cjcog37]

It looks like an arcade shooter now bf4 looked more realistic idk just seems off

[@yootchoobe]

10/10?? The audio was TERRIBLE lmao...The number of times I was killed by a heli right overhead, sometimes only feet overhead and didn't hear A THING...

[@Whitect4v]

Very good

[@GothyCakesofficial]

Bf 1 and 5 look better to me in my personal opinion I know they definitely play better and the gunplay feels a bit flat I'm hoping I'll get better soon but I'm not holding out from my personal experience

[@VonJay]

Naw I think the gameplay is intentional. I'm still waiting to see at launch but if the gameplay isn't corrected I'm not coming back to BF again.

[@Thamac15]

It’s the garbage crackhead side to side skater moves without an accuracy penalty that gets me. Nothing battlefield about this game. It’s literally Apex with a side order of CoD. It is a cluster fk of an experience and I really thought it was going to be fun. And don’t get started on the “everyone shoots their teammates because Dice couldn’t even get that right”.

[@totalwar008]

Sorry, but to me the UI color scheme is cancer to my eyes. I can't be the only one...

[@Elobomg]

You should totally try Foxhole

[@stefanvansorgen1845]

Looks like i will be playing Battlefield 5 for a while. They have alot to do in terms of putting the experience together in a way that is actually fun to play. Battlefield 4 is better in Feel and Fun than this is. I played the BETA for an hour. And i can't get myself to play any longer. I can't get Immersed.

[@etwanican_7439]

The gun play doesn’t feel right, specialists were a bad move especially since the same ones are on both factions, 3rd person executions are dog shit, movement feels clunky, weapon attachment system is mediocre, bullet velocity is too slow, feels too arcadey, and well shit.. prolly some other issues too.. tbh it’s still a fun game and I have a lot of good things to say about it but I have a feeling it won’t be that good until a long while after launch just because of the bugs. To be fair I did play the beta on ps4 but it worries me with some of the moves they’ve made for this game

[@lunchboxgames2358]

I had a lot of FUN on battlefield 2042 and that’s what I look for in battlefield game. Plenty of options and plenty of open sandbox decisions.

[@HazBofficial]

Tbh I've not really enjoyed/connected with a battlefield since bf3. Bf4s launch put me off giving it a go. Bf1 and bf:sjw were more like a collection of impressive highlight reel. Thanks for the review short n sweet, however, not really picking up the cartoony vibe on the gfx...maybe it's a mix of the ingame lighting settings, gamma and what not but looks standard to me (although there was alot of mid range action so I may not have picked up the style as much you would playing it) I hope EA do listen and can guide the game through community feedback, they did try this with BFV however it was a tiny bit too late and was on the back of the backlash it got with robotics lol.

[@BillyEatWorld]

Totally understand that. Cartoony probably wasn't the most accurate word (however the spec with the baseball cap basically looks like Woody from Toy Story). Like I said though, the specs are kind of like GI Joes rather than regular soldiers in Battlefield 2042. The elites from BFV were the same, very over the top.

[@traviswells6938]

@@BillyEatWorld I get the feeling that this is just supposed to be a fun game for DICE not squad or insurgency.

[@roxerpro100]

this is never going to be a bf3-bf4.. this is going to come out and get 1 week hype and then 1 year of wishing they fix it and then it dies out and repeat with the next "BF" now with even more special specialists that specialize in specialized super special shit

[@enricopaolocoronado2511]

"None of the weapons or vehicles exist in the real world" Weren't you just using a Knights Armament Company Stoner LMG and a Daniel Defense M4 throughout the video?

[@crispay8304]

And a lot of real world vehicles too

[@BillyEatWorld]

Just put a more detailed explanation of what I meant in the pins. It's kind of hard to really unpack something like this in detail in a short video like this. Thanks for raising this point though... it's worth discussing :)

[@26jferris]

It's not a DD M4. It's a Sig MCX Spear. It's the new rifle the army is currently testing.

[@crispay8304]

@@26jferris yep your right

[@enricopaolocoronado2511]

@@26jferris You mean the M5A1? Yes, that's the SIG Sauer MCX Spear. I was talking about that DV7 rifle Billy was using occasionally.

[@26jferris]

Yall are to critical of an old build beta. This is absolutely not what the game will be. BF4 was dog shit when it first came out. Now it's the most popular Battlefield game that was made.

[@VonJay]

Besides them not having time to correct the gameplay, I think that the gameplay is an intentional hybrid of Apex, TItanfall and COD. I don't blame the developers, it was about the wallet men and trying to attract more people to BF. It was only a matter of time. I mean, I never thought it would happen to cinema and it did. This is the game where BF loses its identity. You can't even destroy buildings, you have traction based weighted movements that make your soldier feel attached to the real world. They're not borrowing the best of what they accomplished over the years, they just straight up copying other games.

[@SteveTheFollower]

The beta made me not wanna buy the game. I think this release was counter intuitive for ea on their part