The End of Battlefield

[@diehardGG]

Hope you don't hate me for this, but this was my personal experience. I know there's a hate train out there on Reddit and Steam reviews, but I experienced almost everything that others did. I loved the game for the first 8 hours and I do believe that Battlefield 2042 has immense potential to turn things around and be a great game... it's just not here at launch. I'm disappointed because I've been anticipating this game for so long.

[@slushy9288]

Honestly i could care less if battlefield dies off like medal of honor did

[@fcgcdhydfvvfuvyujvhvf2700]

battlefield 2042 is more like buggyfarm 2077 XD

[@Rxnnay]

I have the game on ps5 and I can honestly say I’m enjoying the game even though it does have its bugs….I personally never experienced frame problems on the ps5 and I really haven’t experienced alot of rubber banding or too much bad server performance but I did experiences the bugs where I couldn’t crouch and had to respawn and not being able to revive teammates or be revived. Personally my issues really are the vehicles….they’re wayyyy to overpowering and it takes the fun away bc in the right hands vehicles can be a menace. I do see alot of potential in the game but it does need some work put into it.

[@kenairodriguez9090]

They should redoo the battlefilde remake and fix bugs glith and ad a banning sistom antihacking and ad more battlefiled games to portle like bf1

[@Deeznutz581]

Played bf2042 for 30+ hours . Has all the issues you mentioned. I got on BF4 this morning and the soldier movement and vehicle physics are night and day. The movement feels weird its definitely off and the jumping is like floaty it's not quick like bf4 . Bf4 movement allows you to evade gun fire this game is restrictive. I can deal with bugs missing features... But movement is everything for me and . I would fix the hit reg firstly then movement then cleanup bugs and add missing features. And only gripe about the specialist is WHY DO THEY HAVE TO LOOK SAME FOR BOTH FACTIONS

[@Danymok]

WW1 had over 60 million soldiers participating in the war. This "WW3" of sorts taking place in 2042 only has 10 participants.

[@MithriVideolari]

And their clones 😂

[@LiberatedMind1]

@@MithriVideolari XD

[@captain-chair]

@@MithriVideolari This wasn’t the Clone Wars I was looking for...

[@dillonc7955]

10 participants including Santa Claus himself.

[@slaughtered777]

A diverse cast of soldiers will temporarily come out of their safe-zones to hurl the wrong pronouns at each other.

[@chickenguy4828]

Not every game needs operators and Battlefield is one of those examples. When I play Battlefield I think of grunts in convention military units, not loose cannon operators with their own outfits that bring out their personalities.

[@zezos61]

They just fked up man.

[@eterno2457]

They accidentally named this game “battlefield”

[@chinchy111]

I heard many devs left after bfv. Its not the same dice anymore

[@dietzel8988]

@@eterno2457 this pretty much sums up the whole 2042 identity

[@indiexanna]

The specialists are just there so they can include token representations in the characters

[@DraftTheHippies]

In Battlefield 1, at the start of a match of St. Quentin Scar you see a town but at the end of the match you see nothing but rubble. It shows how war devastates the land of where you’re fighting.

[@GinsengStrip-wt8bl]

Didn't like bf1's setting but the destruction was still on point.

[@rahilanees2343]

And that French map where the bridge breaks in the middle

[@DraftTheHippies]

@@rahilanees2343 Rupture, that map was beautiful and fun to play in

[@fruitwagon9275]

Battlefield 1 was just 🤌

[@codymccracken9813]

@@fruitwagon9275 perfect

[@gammareal]

The massive hype that was built around this game and the amount of times that the devs said "its ahead of its schedule in development" and all that caused these reviews,they promised but didn't fulfill,yet. (i hope)

[@flusteredweasel7483]

They knew what they were doing. It was marketing... thats it. And yeah it's DICE but we needa pay attention to the Developers. If devs that worked on BF4 and what not leave DICE then we will know what to expect in future games

[@blaxk_light3148]

Personally, a 5/10 is being quite generous. The general quality of life stuff in this game was thrown out the window and all but a few weapons are useless. I would like my money back.

[@nevercommitsuicide]

tbh for a battlefield this is more like a 3/10

[@TheChrisLouis]

3 out of 10 for me. No hate to those who like it, it's just not something I can tolerate.

[@murphnickersis]

It seems like the developers knew after the initial flop of BFV (their shift in direction away from former battlefields), they knew BF2042 would be their last chance to revive the franchise… in that panic, they tried to pull elements from popular games like Apex and COD in a last ditch effort to make people fall in love. Consequently, it eradicated their large classic Battlefield player base because it isn’t a Battlefield game (yet).

[@mhazg6621]

Nevertheless, they've made a great effort. A moment of silence for those who made BF 1 and BF 5. BF V doesn't deserve a hate, i think. Just look at how much Dice have done. Great graphics 13 years ago(BF1), destruction, amount of players(unlike C0D), vehicles, etc. Id don't care which game do you like, but I've never seen any devs that had put that much effort in their games other than Dice.

[@iDayVids]

@@mhazg6621 I love bfv, and it definitely didnt deserve all the hate. Lots of great things about that game that arent in 2042.

[@mhazg6621]

@@joshlucas1378 well it's an exception :D

[@mhazg6621]

@@iDayVids yeah

[@mrsanatra1]

The devs are idiots and if i know EA will probably be unemployed soon. This is a failure. Honestly all they had to do was take bf4, slap new graphics on it, add some mechanics from bf5 in terms of movement and gunplay and been fine with that for STARTERS. Im glad i dodge a bullet in not buying this & ive been playing bf games since bad company 1

[@Heffy424]

BF 2042 made me reinstall BF1 and i've been enjoying that game way more.

[@scrollop]

You should try Hell Let Loose. It brings FPS games to a different level when you are communicating by VOIP constantly - intense fun.

[@dreimikemount666]

I literally played too much BF1 in the past. Throughout BFV I was playing BF1. But BF2042 made me install BFV and now I'm loving it. Thanks DICE for releasing a €70 unfinished, unpolished game cause it made me play BFV at least.

[@macleunin]

I never uninstalled Bf1 !

[@Heffy424]

@@macleunin Defintely regret not playing it sooner. I played on PS4 up until level 70ish i think but as an Old BF2 player some things annoyed me now after 2142 I realize i was complaining about the wrong things.

[@puddingpanda3473]

This was my most anticipated game of the year. Feels bad.

[@ComplexWork]

Same man. Halo is promising

[@gurjindersingh3843]

It has been a rough year for gamers.

[@fiel81]

@@gurjindersingh3843 yeah seems like covid really hit the gaming industry hard

[@joshpodolsky7740]

This was a lot of peoples most anticipated goty

[@joshpodolsky7740]

@@fiel81 nah, you can't blame covid for this shit, at the end of the day covid can't MAKE a game bad.

[@colby8104]

You're spot on with you're depiction of Bf2042. It needed another 8-12 months in the oven. I think this is the last time people let battlefield drop the ball. Sales for the franchise will never be the same.

[@mrgray5576]

As if. The idiots are still trying to defend it on twitter and reddit.

[@colby8104]

@@mrgray5576 the idiots on Twitter and reddit make up for less than 1 percent of people who buy and play the game. Don't be fooled that they are the majority

[@mrgray5576]

@@colby8104 dude its rated as the 8th worst game of all time. Stop lying to yourself that it'll get better. Even ex dice devs have stated how bad it is.

[@colby8104]

@@mrgray5576 Ummm when did I ever say it would? Are you okay? Also, I can tell you are new to the battlefield series. Battlefield 4 was literally unplayable at launch and it went on to be most successful battlefields of all time. So it probably will get better but that doesn't justify them releasing a completely broken game at launch for $60. I'm not defending them bro.

[@mrgray5576]

@@colby8104 dude, ive been playing since battlefield 2. No battlefield 4 was never "unplayable". A bug ridden mess maybe but was definitely playable. Battlefield 2042 however is just a rushed game due to EA knowing pleb fanboys like you will throw their money at it.

[@GamingwTallenV]

My theory: This game was to be a battle royal and a hazard zone mode too (spiritual successor type game) but they turned ship with a year to go before release to make a more classic game but used those assists like specialists. So really only a year to make the multiplayer. Hence why so much stuff is missing. Because there is no way they were working on this game for 3 years. Also rumors about higher ups at ea and DICE higher ups telling developers to use popular things from other games. I’m waiting for the article to give us the behind the scene story about what happened with this game (like anthem).

[@זהסודי-ה7מ]

Yea. It seems like they didn't expect Apex to succeed as much as it did after Titanfall 2, so they wanted to make a BR using the battlefield name to compete with fortnite after firestorm flopped. After Apex blew up as much as it did, DICE decided to just pull a 180 and take that battlefield BR and turn it into 2042, but they didn't have enough time so they just pushed it out because EA

[@gurjindersingh3843]

@@זהסודי-ה7מ Firestorm flopped because DICE stopped adding content to it, not because it was bad. DICE can be blamed for its failure.

[@FEWGEE1]

The maps are far too open for a battle royale.

[@gurjindersingh3843]

@@FEWGEE1 Have you played PUBG lol? The maps are too big for Conquest & Breakthrough and that's the problem.

[@FEWGEE1]

@@gurjindersingh3843 I know they are. Too big, and too open. Even for a BR. I wouldn't say they're too big for breakthrough, but 128 players is definitely too many to be fighting over 1 or two objectives in that gamemode.

[@InclementFilms]

It’s insane how much better looking/sounding Battlefield V is compared to 2042. Also BF1 and BFV soundtracks are masterpieces compared to 2042. It really does hurt :/

[@thefunkybassistnl]

BF 2042 soundtrack is a torture recording, the real soundtrack tape is missing

[@adrianerhan7446]

Glad to see somebody notice the lack of gadget combination like reparir tool + RPG or C4 + Ammo Box or even Respawn Beacon + Soflam (or also C4)

[@diehardGG]

it bugged me so much in Portal

[@adrianerhan7446]

@@diehardGG Same, especially in portal, because when I heard about the specialists system in BF2042, I was really pleased to find out that at least in portal we would get the OG class system, but it appears it's not what I had hoped for

[@GluttonousLmg]

I think that's part of balance reasons but just my opinion

[@adrianerhan7446]

@@GluttonousLmg Well, I don't think it ruined anything in the past games

[@GluttonousLmg]

@@adrianerhan7446 they changed it up so I'm happy

[@MERPTV]

Couldn't say it better myself. ❤

[@diehardGG]

👁👄👁

[@TheUberMarshalYT]

I could have. I feel like this review was way too soft handed with *some* of its critiques. BF2042 is exactly the game I thought it’d be, in the worst way possible I mean.

[@Bogo___]

I too was super underwhelmed by the game. I thoroughly enjoyed battlefield 1 and all what it entailed and this game play couldn't be farther from it

[@TheMrNukeman]

Same if it wasn't for feeling like I'm wasting the $70 I would just keep playing BF1 instead.

[@zacharyrogerssr9331]

I just don't see how they made it worse

[@1035pm]

@@zacharyrogerssr9331 by trying too hard to be more like COD

[@gurjindersingh3843]

Don't go so easy so easy on DICE, blaming EA for everything. Some of the flaws you mentioned are bad game design decisions taken by DICE; for example how big and empty the maps are. Level design is not something that developers do 2 months before launch that a publisher has to step in and say, "Our investors are getting impatient, you can add all those buildings in season 1. "

[@mattcadman131]

For the plus system, the weapon will always start with the 4 attachments in the first slots. So put your most commonly used in those, then you will start with those ones when you spawn. Just worked this out after 14 hours of playing

[@SuperJMLSWE]

I felt like a new man when I learned this

[@Antramblings]

It's so stupid that learning the ui is a thing ,i an on xbox and that bit you have to press x when in all other games a it's the select button and the description for pressing x makes mo sense .

[@mattcadman131]

@@Antramblings couldn't agree more, "clunky" would be a complement. I just don't understand how they can get it so wrong. As a long time bf fan, it is very disappointing

[@andyyy5855]

I wish they would include a "small" objective gamemode where there are only 64 players on the server but on smaller maps. I enjoy 2042 a lot so far but it's just boring to run around the way to large maps the whole time. I feel like it will be a great game if they improve gunplay and bring back all those little features that bf5 had. If they dont then I'll probably just go back to bf5 because i loved the ww2 setting, gunplay, and movement of that game

[@Z.G]

Fr plus it would be easy to do 64x64 because they already have that for last gen

[@meekareth5092]

M Ви

[@benjones7117]

Play the last gen version. That’s what I’m playing and the map size to player count is pretty good

[@thomasshermane8644]

@@benjones7117 I want to play 64 player maps too, but I cannot play last gen on pc, all matches goes to 128 players.

[@kerasys25]

They should have operation metro 24/7 server in it at least this map is fun and full of chaos and bring back the bf3 medic defibrillator it so fun running around reviving every one.

[@ricardofranco7419]

Bf1 was the last good bf…

[@allseeingeye3182]

Overrated bf

[@allseeingeye3182]

This one can beat it as long as it fixes bugs adds things that make the game more alive and some other things

[@Jg-jg6jb]

@Filthy Degenerate BF1 was one of my favorite BF's, it just felt so different from the basic ass 21st century shooters.

[@kalebdegroot7825]

@@allseeingeye3182 Nah, it really can't. The only way this game could beat it, is if they scrapped everything and made a new game. This game is broken at its core. Theres no fixing this game. They can maybe smooth out the performance issues, but the game would still suck. Specialists need to go. Nobody asked for them.

[@allseeingeye3182]

@@kalebdegroot7825 one thing won't kill this game not something as small as specialist and more content will come soon

[@nickcorrado717]

The idea of the beginning and ending cutscene with characters is for when micro transactions launch… people will see outfits they may wanna buy!

[@chinchy111]

Yay

[@prexcher7742]

Yay

[@capitcha]

Yay

[@ACVNA]

Honestly the class system was a part of what drew me into battlefield in the first place, also the game/gun play. Now I feel like I’m playing a new cod and don’t like that, hope the patch in December changes some of those things, however, as of right now 2042 for me is playable and I don’t quit the game after 3 matches so whatever

[@Coyote_Man]

This game made me realize how much I love games like Squad or Hell Let Loose, games that actually have teamwork and specific roles for your team.

[@jjoe7078]

1:03 was the hardest I have laughed in a long ass time.

[@BorderlandsBoy0]

Finally someone who sees portal for what it is and not afraid to say it!

[@someguy1365]

I don't like devaluing the work devs have put into a project, but... How the hell did this game launch? I've played 17 hours so far, and there's a great deal of fun to be had, but it's the most disappointing Battlefield I've played (at launch) since 4. I want to love this game, because when it lands, it lands! It's a lot like 4 in that regard. And watching the devs celebrate the game like it's the greatest thing they've ever worked on is... frustrating, honestly. As brutal as it sounds, this game is not worthy of praise. Not yet. It's a Minimum Viable Product, and I find that unfortunate.

[@WeathermanMilSim]

glad you didn't blame the dice team like so many others...EA is at fault for pushing the release so for the holidays...its like "congrats team we are out intime for christmas sales...no one wants to buy this shit box...but we did it" i get a flash back to W's "mission accomplished" stunt...like what were they thinking

[@delskioffskinov]

i'm rank 58 now and all i keep thinking is IT HAS NO SOUL i hate my makay character! BFV, BF1 had soul! I had 3000 hours and 5500 hours respectively because of the immersion those games gave me! I loved the chat system, I loved mocking a big mouth who had 5-10 score! i'm so disappointed they have released a game with no soul! it has cemented in me never to preorder again because this launch hurt soo much! Thanks Dice for destroying my fun!

[@Zarkmoneybags]

Yes I agree it has no soul

[@byronlindsey6773]

Cod has operators bf has soldiers i wanna be a nameless hardcore dangerous soldier , no charm to the characters or maps

[@chinchy111]

Alot of the devs left after bfV its all new people now

[@Zarkmoneybags]

@@chinchy111 bfv was also utter shit, so bad they had to give up on it, battlefield has not been the same sense bf4 or bf1

[@mhazg6621]

@@Zarkmoneybags CUZ THEY'RE TIRED OF NOISY-STUPID COMMUNITY. THAT'S WHY THEY'RE LEFT AFTER BF5. They have worked hard for BF5 but everybody just thinks that it's bad. If I'm a dev, surely i would've quit knowing those stupid community.

[@M4GP1E]

Mate completely bang on!! This was suppose to be the game we were waiting for being a battlefield 3/4 player to my core but this to be the worst launch ever and I just feel devastated now. Great all round review mate 👍🏻

[@diehardGG]

Thanks. I'm pretty upset, I really was looking forward to this game 😩

[@3Point_virtuallyrendered]

Thank God I did not pull the trigger on this game yet.... I'll wait in the new year until this game is fixed, patched and campaign added. Not going to waste $90 CAD for this rushed garbage of a game 😤

[@floydm.4159]

They only care about monetization potential now.

[@M4GP1E]

@@diehardGG on the plus side I came across your channel because of what’s been going on with battlefield a few weeks ago and it’s good to hear someone speaking the truth about the game, great content and commentary mate 👍🏻

[@Revenant530]

You hit the nail on the head. I love battlefield, but this just feels like it’s in an alpha stage to me. Missing all the game modes and how can you not have a scoreboard. I’m sad to see this game doing so bad. I hope there are some fixes soon

[@Th3G4nk]

Players who have played Battlefield over the last 15 years expect what's built into the brand, thats a class system and engaging maps. The issue reading is the original dev team have all but gone / left Dice and what we have Is a new dev team trying to redesign the wheel and forgetting the main foundations of the last 15 years. Battlefield have been down this road before with Battlefield Hardline, they simply highlighted how disjointed they are from the community again with this 2042 shite.

[@TNIZZELL-y1i]

I died laughing when that man put the C4 on that tank and got lagged back.

[@jjoe7078]

dude same. reminds me of those bf3 meme edit days

[@chrystynec1496]

wheres the guy correcting you that its c5

[@xrecklessly]

I waited 5 years for a modern BF and I’m really really disappointed, I only tried the beta and didn’t like it, it felt like Cod and i think I’m gonna buy it after 6~12 months. Hope they fix the major problems.

[@JamesFaraday]

Yeah man, everything you said here resonates with my thoughts as well. Thanks for a no bs fair review. Hazard Zone is the only thing I was hoping would do it for me. But with 75k credits banked, what’s the grind now? There’s nothing compelling me to hop back in. Overall just very disappointed.

[@GluttonousLmg]

I only have 11k credits, I did have 20k but randoms ruined that for me

[@JamesFaraday]

@@GluttonousLmg even with 11k then what? You know what I mean? There’s not much of a reason to hop in.

[@GluttonousLmg]

@@JamesFaraday maybe to you, yes But I really enjoy it over the Rocket Launcher spamming, Heli spamming, and PP29 and SVK spam

[@supernatural802]

Its not till you go play any other FPS atm do you then realize how poorly made this game is. Its really unbelievable that this franchise with so much history and knowledge to draw from produced something this piss poor on almost every level.

[@gurjindersingh3843]

With all the missing features, this game makes Battlefield V look good.

[@user-or5vq5ok8t]

Have you played bf5 recently? It actually is a pretty great game now

[@gurjindersingh3843]

@@user-or5vq5ok8t Well for one thing, it has a lot of features that BF2042 does not, like Scoreboard. DICE is making fans drop their expectations by lowering the quality every game since BF3.

[@mukeshkumar-ey1ge]

@@user-or5vq5ok8t what 2 years later? Who actually gives a damn now??

[@DellyBets]

It was a good game wtf

[@זהסודי-ה7מ]

@@mukeshkumar-ey1ge have you heard of star wars battlefront 2?

[@Duke-3508]

This video is so on point it's sad. Like I've been playing like you since BC2. And this game generally makes me think that this is really it for BF. It's like a shell of the last few games.

[@mrsanatra1]

I think BF is dead. You cant go from the goat of bad company 2 and bf4 to this trash or even bf5 buggy mess. This isnt the same company we grew up with

[@skullflower354]

Every single mode feels like Deathmatch. No team play, no squad play, no nothing. Literally all you do is go in get kills and move on to the next round. No personal stats, the same 5 ribbons every game, destroying vehicles is useless because 3 seconds later another one spawns in front of you. It literally feels like i'm playing Unreal Tournament instead of Battlefield.

[@jonathandavis873]

The hover craft taking out the helicopter by flying into it killed me with laughter 🤣. That made my day

[@badacid7388]

When they showed off the portal I was crazy hyped to play BC2, unfortunately it’s busted as hell. I think I was more disappointed that they upped the player count making the maps way unbalanced as well as there only being 2 maps and a limited amount of weapons. It should be 32 players (because that’s how the maps were designed) and at least 6 maps. They also need to have an attack then a defense round, last night I played 8 defense matches in a row. I’m soooo glad I tried this on the EA play and didn’t fork out the 109 dollars.

[@markd9318]

There is no battlefield atmosphere there is no immersion whatsoever. Bf3 and bf4 felt like modern warfare games. Bf1 and bf5 felt like you were in an epic war movie. This game is a fucking parody of all that with the snarky specialists. This game was 100 percent designed for casual teenagers thst have grown up on call of duty and fortnite yet was marketed to the hard-core player base as a return to what was great about battlefield. I was totally bamboozled

[@lonewolf9724]

I just want a updated BF4 or BF3. Those were my favorites in the BF franchise and I'm just getting tired of them moving away from BF because their competitors are making money. It's like RE6 trying to appeal to everyone when they should of focus on their own thing.

[@garfeldi8466]

Battlefield lore: EU collapsing, hyperinflation, resource shortages, climate change Battlefield quotes: THAT WAS FUN

[@Eladio316]

WeLl WeLl WeLl ThAt WaS fUn

[@chucklesoakley]

I preordered bfv and it was so buggy and a month later it was 29.99. I will always wait on battlefield from now on.

[@FEWGEE1]

Even after the tornados rip through the map, they leave it looking sterile and pristine.

[@Kai-ps8lu]

I’m buying this game after 4 months cause this need some work portal is literally the only good thing rn

[@chinchy111]

Good it will be half price then also

[@TheKavernacle]

Enjoyed the use of BFV (and 1) ost - Also thanks for being one of the only people calling out Portal. It does look lifeless but the Battlefield KZbinrs are all saying it is the best thing ever

[@MiseryDuke69]

Mainly talking about the tornado thing since that was the biggest part of my friends conversation with me. I knew from the beginning it was going to get old as shit. No matter what if a game adds something that will change a map or mission for the worst even if it happens only once every 100 games it will get beyond obnoxious.

[@Anjunabeast23]

I’m dealing with a tornado in every third round I play it seems… like, really? 🙄

[@valkryiecain1518]

My main criticism is that I am astounded that with the futuristic setting that NV or thermal scopes don't exist on soldier or vehicle??

[@BIGJACK45]

Imma skip this one. First battlefield I'll ever skip lol

[@ShanGamer1981]

2nd for me bf 5

[@BIGJACK45]

@@ShanGamer1981 I actually enjoyed bf5, played it for 500 hours lol

[@pvtspartan]

If all the bugs disappeared tomorrow this game is still fundamentally awful

[@bgossage]

Regarding the plus system--I believe whatever attachment you have in the first slot for each category (as selected in the "collections > weapons" tab in the lobby) will be automatically applied when you load into a game. This is not explained anywhere to my knowledge and I only learned about it by coincidence.

[@diehardGG]

Others have said the same and I learned something new haha

[@gurjindersingh3843]

The game doesn't tell you anything really.

[@b0n3zy]

5/10 seems accurate enough (solely based on your expectation that it might be better in a year) but I would just give it a 3 just so it could bomb in all reviews. Not that I expect anything to change but that's my only way to let the devs know that we don't want their apex legends/cod hybrid style of game. Have been playing BF since the first one. At this point, I just don't care if the franchise lives to see another day - not with these peeps making it at least.

[@mikelawrence8095]

Whoever made that decision at EA and dice to launch the game in this current state needs to be fired straight up

[@Gumball089]

Cant miss them Christmas money, this game was made to pay EA, the players are an afterthought.

[@Badger3k]

Not going to happen. I remember seeing that one of the heads of DICE was promoted to high up in EA itself. As long as they can make money that is all that will happen.

[@crow_music]

(12:03) I don't know if you recorded this before the day1 patch, but you CAN change the + system into a default loadout. while in the weapon menu, you gotta edit the accessories for your weapon and switch everything around so your preferred attachment is at the first and inner slot in any of the categories. I wish there was an easier way of doing this as it's HELLA tedious and clunky design

[@diehardGG]

yeah others have mentioned that too, I had no idea... seeing as, ya know, it's not intuitive at all 🙄

[@crow_music]

@@diehardGG yeah just the fact that you didn't even know it was possible says it all

[@Sohelanthropus]

Bugs and annoyances encountered in PS5: • Bugs - Sometimes in a match, you won't be able to select your loudout for the whole match, you have to quit and join another one - Sometimes at the start of the match, you won't be able to spawn for a couple of minutes - The communications menu (I need ammo, heals etc thing) fails to open up most of the times - Ghost or fake reloads • Annoyances - The intro cutscenes are too long, annoying, boring and kick you out of the customization menu forcefully when the game starts - The end of match voicelines are cringe, stupid and just outright annoying - The console controller schemes are a fucking cluster fuck, they need to iron them out - The menus are atrocious, very convoluted and hard to read at first - The SVK sniper seems too powerful - The Nightbird helicopter with rocket pods is too powerful - The Hovercraft is too powerful - No damage indicator when damaging vehicles, like Vehicle Hit 21 which meant you took away 21% of their health - Not being able to outright remove an attachment on the Plus menu, you're forced to run 3

[@Samuel-nq3yv]

Don't know if anyone else has said this but you actually can make a default weapon attachment thingy that you spawn with every time by putting the scope/barrel/etc in the first slot in the customization menu.

[@NickDurps]

I scrolled through to see if someone said this hahahaha

[@marius3083]

I absolutely regret shoveling 50€ into dice a$$ for creating the worst Battlefield ever... I also lost trust in almost any Studio.. For example CyberPunk, CoD ColdWar, Vanguard and now Battlefield 2042. They all delivered awesome games in the past

[@Demonized93]

i went back BF4. i recommend dice should too. it felt much simpler and i played it with friend straight 4 hrs.

[@Astrotamtv]

the current state of the major AAA gaming industry developers is beyond sad and disappointing. I don't know what happened that led to normalizing releasing titles in such an unfinished state.

[@Noahmartinezpdx]

Funny thing is I knew this game was gonna flop before it even released.. Bring back the OG BF3 and 4 days

[@DChainZ_YT]

It was obvious to everyone but fanboys. BF games always launch in an absolute nightmare state, and all the hype was based purely off of scripted or entirely cinematic trailers. Everyone with a brain knew this game would be bad, there was absolutely no reason to think otherwise. People called me an idiot the whole time for pointing out the obvious.

[@thedirty530]

You can tell how much people care about this series. Recent hyped releases have been so disappointing... but imagine how the overworked developers having to sort this out must be going through. I once thought it would be a cool career but probably need to reconsider!

[@diehardGG]

Yeah I think being a developer is probably one of the most demanding jobs and at the end of a several year long project you can get completely flamed online, even if it wasnt your fault

[@yaboic4525]

Just a tip. The first set of attachments you have on your + system is your default load out so you can change that to make that be your default.

[@blazin2dazin]

Good job on the thumbnail, Mackay really looks sad as a puppy 😂

[@diehardGG]

best part is that it's just a screenshot from in game

[@mubassirzaman7202]

@@diehardGG Ugh, only mkay looks like an actual soldier, and the other stealth sniper bois. The others look like and act like overgrowned teens from Jumanji that somehow fall into Battlefield.

[@Badger3k]

Mackay looks like he swam in the shallow end of the gene pool. I keep expecting to hear him talk about Lt Dan or chocolates.

[@seido1160]

@@mubassirzaman7202 what about Irish?

[@reagani1746]

Something that me and my buddies didnt realize at first about the cut scenes is that theyre actually a loading screen. It you look closely, you can see textures loading in during them. I know it's a small thing compared to the big issues of the game but in my eyes, its a "positive". I would much rather see a cool cut scene than a loading screen.

[@moon_man21-73]

The class system would flow so much better. I love playing in vehicles but every damn specialist can run a rocket launcher and it’s horrible. This makes players in vehicles camp back in their spawn. I have no drive to play this game. Sad

[@valner255]

@diehardGG you actually 'can' set your default setup on a weapon, just move the attachments you want to use to one of the three slots 'closest' to the gun (center) when doing it. That will make that attachment default each time you respawn.

[@KEYTV13]

Bring CTE (Community Test Environment) back!

[@diehardGG]

when did they have that??

[@KEYTV13]

@@diehardGG After BF4 buggy launch, they would have the community test it out first before releasing it to the public. Allowing us to voice what should and shouldn’t be implemented in the game as a collective. It was pretty much the main reason BF4 is crowned the goat today.

[@diehardGG]

@@KEYTV13 Do you know if they did that for BF1 or BFV?

[@KEYTV13]

@@diehardGG They did for BF1, but unfortunately they did not for BFV.

[@Badger3k]

Yes, let's add beta testing after launch, so DICE and EA can save money on paying testers and server time. They can have the players pay for the privilege of playing a broken game so they can attempt to do their jobs months too late.

[@ClassicalGamerYT.]

at least the Trailer wasn't a disaster like Bfv, i only started playing Battlefield with BF4 but ive always been a cod player until recently, Cod has turned into a sweatfest and these cosmetics and skins are only obtainable through micro transactions, so ive been getting back into BF cause its always just a fun game to play especially with how cinematic BfV was and how many cool things were in Bf4 and even Bf1 i liked it for being one of the only games to feature a world war 1 experience

[@coolbreeze4117]

They’ve gotten away from so many of the things that made this franchise great. I am very disappointed like many. I don’t know if it can recover from the shellacking it’s getting from all over.

[@chinchy111]

Alot of the older devs left after bfV its all new people

[@Larping101]

So with the plus system, if you put the attachments you always want in the first box, those are the attachments that will be on the weapon when you start.

[@erayznitrozz54]

I dont even care about this game anymore because Halo is amazing

[@jorgecorea7528]

For me, the difference between this and BF4 is that I like BF4 core design, so I could wait for it to be fixed, but with 2042, honestly I just don't care about it.

[@b3nnjaminn037]

Game developers got their priorities all wrong... gotta have the following: 1. Performance 2. Polish 3. Variety (CONTENT- maps, guns, vehicles- NOT SNEEZING, CYCLONES ETC) 4. Social (group play, communication) 5. Reason to play (stats, unlocks, rewarding to improve) There’s no point adding unnecessary work by making maps huge, specialists, drop zone etc if you haven’t got the fundamentals!

[@arespirit256]

How to make a good battlefield @EA

[@arespirit256]

I guess their priority was just on money giving features. Forgetting, that they need a working game for that

[@chinchy111]

Alot of the older devs left after bfV. Its all bew people now

[@dondontrollisten2915]

@@chinchy111 oh so thats why this game is a hot steaming piece of garbage

[@chinchy111]

Yes that and also it was rushed like hell

[@systemmonitor5295]

Can you tell us what the Metal Gear music in the background is? A link please?

[@diehardGG]

MGS3 OST - Old Metal Gear [Extended] kzbin.info/www/bejne/onXFhYWupdlro6c

[@kx250fforlife]

They need to buff rockets or give you more because you can't do shit with 3. Also plates need to go, anything that give players more health isn't welcome in fps games.

[@crnpowerimmortal]

Yeah, need at least 3 to kill those hovercraft just for them to spawn another one and kill us back

[@janschmid281]

In the trailer we saw on discarded the side of the ship getting blown open. Is that in the game ? I never see it in rounds

[@metalphobos3632]

Another thing that boggles my mind is that the game takes place in the future, but the helis don't even have windshield wipers. Lol.

[@singersunite9785]

Bigger the map the better, if you don’t like open maps then go and play cod…. You should be playing a single player game on easy

[@jakehoneybun4424]

Great review and sadly it seems like the gaming industry is plagued at the minute with underdeveloped games just being pushed out for financial gains.

[@shooto7]

Agree with everything you said although I would rate this game at 2/10 not 5/10. I bought and after playing for a few hours to try out all the features, I asked for a refund. This is not a battlefield game, it is a try hard Call of Duty game.

[@RadioactvPanda]

You hit it on the head of the nail. I am utterly boggled why they didnt just take everything they developed for BFV like the movement and all that crispy movement and just put it in here. The jets are absolute dog crap and you cant get a kill with the guns on any infantry with the crazy spread they have and the missles are just not fun to uss. The helicopters fly like something out of gta 5 (exaggerated a bit). And everything else you've mentioned. I think to sum up this game, I would just say it doesnt feel like a battlefield game to me. It just feels sloppy at best.

[@diehardGG]

It feels like they started over with this. I don't know game development well but I'd expect to build off of past code and features, not remove them

[@RadioactvPanda]

@@diehardGG exactly! I'd imagine they could build off past principles. But yeah I'm sure there is more that goes into it. EA probably compared the success of BFV and Apex and was like, make it more like this game, that'll give more profits. Maybe it's just out of touch corporates looking at metrics. Either way, I hope it gets better down the road and they fix some of these major issues.

[@Alex-ff1mk]

Gta helicopters actually feel heavy and not these light paper choppers

[@FireWalkMusic]

Battlefield 2042 is not really a Battlefield game at all. They took the unique and beloved battlefield formula and threw it out the window, and instead, they added elements from other games such as COD, and Apex Legends. Gone is the class system, so there's almost no teamwork anymore, like in previous battlefield games. There's not even a scoreboard in the game, and the point system is lacking compared to previous titles, so the game is not very competitive either, which further degrades the experience. Instead, they added specialists (heroes), and they are very cartoonish and silly. They all look the same on both teams, so there's now a bunch of clones running around. Even the uniforms are the same on both teams so it's hard to tell who's who. To fix that they added glow sticks instead..... Gone is the immersion and the feeling of being on an actual battlefield, playing one faction against another like in previous titles. It's now more of a hero shooter, where everyone goes lone wolf. The mechanics that incentivized team-play are gone, and everyone can now just choose whatever they want, which naturally causes everyone to just go with the most selfish loadout. Everyone just runs around with rocket launchers now, and there's no reason for anyone to choose say a repair tool over the rocket launcher, so naturally, no one is repairing. The map design is also terrible. 128 players was a mistake. It just causes performance to suffer terribly, and the game is performing badly even on high-end PC's. The maps are huge and open, and there's no cover, and it just feels like a walking simulator a lot of the time. There are 128 players now, but it still feels more empty than ever before.. Arguably, even the graphics were better in BF5 due to more detailed maps. Destruction has also been heavily reduced and feels almost nonexistent in Battlefield 2042. Even Battlefield 4 had more destruction (levolution) than this game... The movement system is also downgraded. You can't even swim underwater anymore. There's no All-Chat, and there's no server browser, so you can't play on your favorite maps. Even the music in this game is terrible. I can barely stand listening to it. And then there are all the bugs on top of all that. It's ok to enjoy this game for what it is of course, but it's "battlefield" in name only. They tried to reinvent the wheel with this game, and unfortunately, it didn't work very well. It's just a cheap clone of other games, including some hero shooters. They then slapped the Battlefield sticker on it and hoped for the best. People play Battlefield because they want that unique "Battlefield" experience. If I wanted to play COD or Apex legends, I would just play those games instead. I come to Battlefield because I want something different. That's what they failed to realize when they decided to copy those other games. This is the reason why people are going back to older Battlefield titles, and why Battlefield 5 currently has more active players on Steam than Battlefield 2042...

[@wingman9992]

wanted it to be good, there's a good game buried in here. unfortunately I think it will get the battlefront 2 treatment and they will pull the plug on support and content when the game is entering a good state.

[@gurjindersingh3843]

Same as they did with BFV

[@Shloogle]

For the plus system, whatever attachment is closest to the center will be default when you spawn in. So you can set up attachments.

[@whiteglint7694]

Yeah I really despise that the specialists have personality. Battlefield has always made you a faceless soldier in multiplayer. So to see this, it feels like apex or something. Don't like ot

[@nullcase404]

You can configure your starting loadout, you just need to left click the sight slot that you want to replace (first slot) and choose the one with right click that you wanna replace with, its annoying and not intuitive wtf who though about that ui flow

[@yakivpopavich]

I am someone who has been playing Battlefield since 1942, in 2002 when I was literally a pre-teen. I was installing 64mb and 128mb sticks of ram into my family PC in order to play. I already felt insulted and outcasted by Battlefield V's poor marketing and PR. Battlefield 2042 feels like the final nail in the coffin for long time fans like me. This isn't Battlefield anymore. It's trying so hard to emulate and gain players from COD and Apex Legends and various other shooters it has lost it's own identity. Battlefield has classes, not specialists. This is not Battlefield. And like Battlefield V, I'm not going to purchase or play it. The last new Battlefield game I enjoyed on released was BF1. That's it. I have been back on BF4 playing hardcore servers recently. Even with my filters for hardcore only and NA servers I get 16-20 servers that are jammed pact, 64/64 players. Battlefield 4 is alive and well and with 2042 being a failure in the eyes of most true original Battlefield fans BF4 will only continue to increase in player count.

[@1035pm]

I keep switching between bf4 and bf1 I’m actually considering getting bfV just because 2042 seems like such a let down, I want to play a battle game not a COD game... I must say I kinda knew they would lean towards COD with the spin round flip 360 3rd person take down bullshit! Such a disappointment of a game even with all the bugs fixed.

[@HaLone.]

12:06 about the plus system, i found that if u set the desired attachment closer to the number it will be set as the default ons

[@dallaslee2162]

My ps5 experience was great on the full game I’ve experience minor bugs and mostly visually glitch’s time to time so for me it’s been awesome for me

[@externalboss9404]

I never really appreciated naval combat in Battlefield until it was gone.

[@TK-hw2ph]

Glad I canceled my preorder. Seeing the sad release state, I feel like I just jumped the train track. Maybe if the game is completely fixed in a year or 2, I’ll buy it if it’s discounted

[@gameboyterrorysta6307]

IMO 5/10 is far too much for this game. Idk if this is 3/10. BF4 was good game in terrible technical state at launch. BF2042 is bad game in even worse technical state.

[@somebody1thegame]

It's sad that I don't think I'm going to be going through my 10 hour trial anytime soon. Makes me happy I didn't spend $60 on it

[@kingarthur7250]

My hope now is that another company makes a bf type game that we can buy. EA games are garbage. Will people please stop.saying Dice has made bf2042. ...dice dont exist. EA made this trash and use bf nane to get sales. I utterly hate ea games...they feel souless and are just zero fun to play. Ea should of put ttk bak to its original ttk we all loved...brought in workng anti cheat....given us a option to pay for 12 months of conquest maps at one a month sub...l would pay for that..instead ea does what ea akways does it ignores its customers completely...so l dont buy their games and ignore their releases

[@eyesoftomorrows]

This is one of the more rougher launches, though this game IS going to redeem itself in one way or another. If Battlefront 2 which was possibly one of the most controversial game launch and even Battlefield 5, both games did redeem themself (bt5 pacific war, bft2 whole journey).

[@PropCrash]

I doubt it. Of all the Battlefield launches this is the ONLY one to go in such a terrible direction. I actually believe this game is trying to kill off the classic Battlefield experience.

[@EmpReb]

They didn’t revive BFV. They pulled teams for 2042. You really think they gonna fix it when they releasing the next game in 2023? No

[@dondontrollisten2915]

yeah no, I knew when they said the beta was a 3 month build, It was gonna be its launch condition. and somehow it launched worse than its beta. Its like they had the 5 month build ready to go and they sent that one out. this game is incomplete, dice has abandoned this game already and are looking for yearly releases

[@spidermonkeynuts3851]

This game is a disgrace to battlefield. Comparing this game to Battlefield 4 ( the last modern battlefield) is fucking laughable. From the gun play to the vehicle play to the amount of weapons. This game is horrible. I ain’t buying it. I spend 5 dollars to get 10 hours free on ea play and glad I didn’t waste my money. It’s a utter joke that they thought people would enjoy this game. I also hate the way you just lay there alive calling for someone. I’d rather just be dead watching the person who killed me like in BF4. Don’t buy this game. It’s garbage. I can’t say it enough. Fuck this game

[@tobinissel1696]

The best review of 2042 I’ve seen yet

[@TheJan]

such a good review

[@mtfulemming]

Can't believe they denied consoles the option for mouse and keyboard. Thank you for an honest review

[@chinchy111]

Wow really? Why did they do that

[@nano-pg4lo]

I’m also a big fan of bf, I’ve been playing since bf 1942 but so far this game has been a big disappointment, your review was on point but I’m sad so say that I would probably give it a 2/10 at most being nice.