Battlefield™ 2042

Launch Review

Do not buy Battlefield 2042

DICE\EA know how to make a “Battlefield” game.
DICE\EA made trailers that promoted this game.
> DICE\EA inserted all the “only in Battlefield” moments in to the Trailer
DICE\EA knew that this game is missing all of the below features.
DICE\EA still released this.

A lot of the missing features come from a reddit post, I added a list of my "Broken" experiences. I only wanted to use this list to prove my opening statement.
Battlefield 2042 subreddit and Jellyswim_


No offense was intended, I just wanted to leave my review this morning on the cut content and what a poor "Battlefield" this was.

Missing Core Features
> No standard server browser
> Fewer standardized game modes
> Fewer base game maps than any other title (even including portal the map count is only 13)
> No persistent lobbies You have to matchmake after EVERY round
> Fewer in-game assignments None outside of cosmetic unlocks
> Less character customization options (than BF5)
> No profile progress/stats page in the menu
> No battle log/stats tracker for other players
> No global leaderboards
> No end of round assignment progress screen
> No custom emblems
> Fewer achievements
> No medals
> No swelling crescendo of dramatic music near the end of a match. Static Noise does not count
> Less destruction
> Only a small handful of destructible buildings on each map
> No map altering levolution
> No spectator mode
> No permanent community servers (would be useful for clans and events)

Missing from Infantry Gameplay
> Fewer guns Even including all the portal guns, BF4 still had more at launch
> Fewer infantry gadgets
> No manual leaning
> No diving while swimming
> No high wall vaulting
> No crouch sprinting
> No backwards prone
> No explosion knockback
> No rolling after falling from heights
> No ammo or health pickup off teammates
> No scope zeroing
> No thermal optics
> No indirect fire gadgets
> Less anti-tank launchers
> No lock-on launchers The M5 works with the SOFLAM but that requires 2 people
> No AP mines/claymores
> No static weapon emplacements
> No fortification building
> No resupply stations
> No suppression mechanic This one I don't mind but it was a staple and now it is gone

Missing from Vehicles
> Fewer vehicle types Separate vehicle progression per faction even though they are functionally identical.
> No naval vehicles Except I guess the hovercraft technically
> No vehicle gunner direction indicator
> No lock on direction indicator
> No vehicle enter/exit animations
> No tank turret decoupling This was in BF4
> Less vehicle driver/pilot customization options
> No tank zoom customization options
> No tank gunner customization options
> No helicopter gunner secondary weapons
> No separate helicopter/fixed-wing controls
> No control input while looking behind/free looking in aircraft

Missing from Scoring System
> No squad wipe scoring
> No player damage points
> No vehicle damage points
> No vehicle kill assist points
> No headshot bonus
> No long-range kill bonus
> No assist counts as kill bonus
> No squad objective play bonus
> Oversimplified teamplay scoring (i.e. healing a teammate always gives you +5xp rather than the amount of health you give)
> Squad and Teamwork
> No commander
> No special squad call-in abilities
> No squad field upgrades
> No in-game VOIP
> Fewer factions (with almost nothing to give the 2 factions any distinction)
> No cross-team chat
> No "create new squad" option
> No clans
> No view of squadmates while in the spawn screen
> No "Medic incoming" indicator in downed state
> No rank names/icons, just a number.

Missing from UI and Quality of Life
> Less control customization options
> Less UI customization options
> No HUD/icon opacity customization
> No HUD scaling customization options
> No gunsight reticle customization options
> No network performance graph
> No individual player scoreboard
> Less detail in the 'who killed you' screen
> No ultrawide monitor support. Cannot move UI elements to suit screen size
> Very poor friend joining system

BROKEN
> 45 tick rate servers
> Rubberbanding
> Deploy bugs, revive bugs. Downed state bug that prevents you from being revived if you clip through anything. There times where you have no countdown and cannot respawn
> Janky animations
> Performance is horrible on PC. Unplayable framerates from what looks like CPU bottlenecking
> Unlock three different silencers for the same weapon that have no effect on the stats of the weapon
> Exact same attachment on two different guns having an opposite effect
> Hovercrafts are able to scale vertical surfaces, as well as fly in the right circumstances.
> In rare cases, a player will become unable to damage enemies. This player will also lose their nameplate, causing them to appear as hostile to allies. This is fixed by dying and respawning.
> Broken Bullet Registration
> Broken Bullet Spread
> Broken Weapon Balance
> Broken Vehicle Balance

Do not buy this game

A lot of the missing features come from a reddit post, I added a list of my "Broken" experiences. I only wanted to use this list to prove my opening statement.
Battlefield 2042 subreddit and Jellyswim_

No offense was intended, I just wanted to leave my review this morning on the cut content and what a poor "Battlefield" this was.

Lets launch an all star game . Promote it like crazy , knowing you have a BF hard core group who will buy but the newbies on the block get sucked into the hype . We all find out its is the worst BF released to date incomplete, bug ridden , laggy mess. even the simple thing of the quality of the textures is 2nd class. Whats going on ? oh and with in months your smashing the price down by 34% as no one is buying it anymore . Are you still trying to work out why this is ? read the reviews here. Sell the franchise to someone who cares please EA . You don't care anymore and have milked enough out of what was originally a classic game that we would all spend 100s of hours on. Yes i have been here since the first one so many great memories of such a great game back then . Its been ruined. I'm out. I write very little reviews but had to this time. Do I recommend = No

I spent $109.99 and didn't refund to save you wasting your money.

The good:

- Portal might be good some day.

The bad:

- No classes
- Wide open maps with no cover
- Maps are too big and turns the game into a running simulator
- No scoreboard
- No changing squads
- No changing teams
- Awful hit registration
- Awful random bullet deviation
- Broken hover tank that can scale walls and harder to blow up than a tank.
- Bug that won't allow you to re-deploy when you die. You have to leave the game.
- Bug that will show your team mates as enemies and they can knife you to death
- Only 22 weapons, of which 2 are actually good.
- Attachments unlocked that are cosmetic only.
- Some attachments do the opposite of what the description gives.
- XP disabled in custom portal games
- Attachment progression disabled in AoW Solo / Squad matches.
- Crashes and disconnects
- Persistence data error that makes the game unplayable.
- Only two modes on 7 maps for AoW that feels like you are playing wide open fields.
- Control points in breakthrough mode on top of skyscrapers what can't be captured because there are 11 vehicles on top.
- Hit registration, or lack there of. You will dump an entire clip into an enemies back to have them turn around and kill you.
- You can get in a vehicle and shoot and kill yourself because the animation still has you outside of the vehicle.
- Crap FPS on the highest end systems. Changing the settings makes virtually no difference.
- No stats page
- No server browser
- Lobby disbands after every game, no carryover
- No distinctions between factions except the glow stick colors. Soldiers around the world wear glow sticks to make themselves unseen to the enemy. Sometimes you see the Betty White specialist kill the other Betty White specialist who is then revived by the Betty White specialist.
- When you spawn in you are forced into an animation of chambering a round that you can't avoid. If you spawn near an enemy, you are dead.
- Not nearly enough destruction.
- Can't change the scale of the UI, or the zoom of the minimap.
- No all chat
- No bullet damage on hit, this goes for vehicle hits too.
- Finding yourself on the map or the mini-map can be... challenging.
- You can't dive under water but...
- You can fall through the map
- Portal
- No single player campaign that was left out to focus on the multiplayer.
- No spectator mode
- No community servers
- No test range
- No 3d spotting
- No contextual leaning
- No crouch sprinting
- No scope zeroing
- No tiered or paused reloads
- No melee weapon choices
- No thermal optics in the future
- No Claymores
- No first person takedowns which are different based on positioning.
- No naval vehicles
- No gunner direction indicator
- No TV missles
- No vehicle kill assists. Do 95% of the damage... Well, too bad.
- No in-game VOIP at launch
- No static weapon emplacements
- No infantry focus maps. You will get farmed by vehicles.
- UI is...well...interesting
- Impossible to play with more than 3 friends.

There is more, but I'm tired of typing. Take it for what you will.