Do you want a sniper that can launch anti-air missiles? No problem, guvnor! EA and Dice decided to liberally borrow from Call of Duty, the thing no one asked them to do. Instead of them, we have different named specialists that can be equipped with any loadout, without mutually-exclusive stuff. Historically, except for Battlefield 1, which had five classes, most Battlefield games were DEFINED by the holy quaternity of assault, medic, engineer, and scout. The real elephant in the conceptual room is the absence of classes. There is also an issue of removing the combat feedback, as shooting a vehicle only informs you whether you hit it or not, without indication of the damage.
They are comparatively faster than ever before, and some, like attack helicopters, were made much deadlier (the only exception is the jets, which are now somewhat useless). Among other things, the lag prevented the normal use of lock-on launchers, which worked as intended only sporadically. Framerate drops were constant even on the low settings, not helped at all by the unexplainable lag that made my Conquest/Breakthrough sessions very unpleasant.
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Lowering the resolution to 1080p and fiddling with the settings didn’t make much of a difference. I had played the game on a reasonably capable rig equipped with Nvidia RTX 3080, and it struggled like hell at 1440p on a high preset. If you decide to play BF2042 on PC, drag, and lag will be the problems that will overshadow everything else. The lack of a single-player campaign won’t even qualify for the list of all that is wrong with it.
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Where to start? From the limited modes at launch? Elimination of classes? Total lack of any optimization of the PC version? Permanent lag in Conquest mode? No server browser? No scoreboard or stats page? Lack of combat feedback? Overpowered vehicles? Overly long time to kill? Unremarkable maps? Maybe from the general feeling of sloppy, uninspired tiredness that permeates almost all its elements? This is a Battlefield game made by people who didn’t play previous games or have no appreciation for the series’ history. ▼Article Continues Below▼ Worse than Hardline? Battlefield 2042 doesn’t radiate anything but clumsy, identityless despair. Battlefield 4 launch was a horrid mess back in a day, but the game radiated great potential, realized after several months of heavy patching. This latest entry is terrible for the reasons that aren’t redeemable in the future, not without a significant overhaul of the entirety of its systems. The disaster that is Battlefield 2042 won’t fade from memory any time soon. Right now, Battlefield 2042 is asking it to hold its beer. It’s mostly forgotten now and for a good reason. It screwed too much with signature BF multiplayer, losing the true Battlefield identity in the process of devolving it for the Call of Duty audience. The consensus is that Battlefield: Hardline was a single major flop for the series. Battlefield 1942, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, and Battlefield 3 were genuinely remarkable, groundbreaking games Battlefield 4 was a great entry that suffered from disastrous launch, and Battlefield 1 and V were mostly competent games that lacked the spark of true greatness. I think people will still ask for it, but who knows.Through twenty years of Battlefield history, we witnessed many ups and only a few downs for this exceptional shooting franchise. They're also going to be very different - playing Arica Harbor with 128 players is insane, compared to what it used to be. “We are really happy that we got Bad Company 2 maps in there. “I would be very surprised if they do but who knows,” Grass laughed. Related: Battlefield Portal Combines Bad Company 2, BF3, 1942, and 2042, Allowing Players To Make Their Own Modes But will it be enough to stop people asking about more Bad Company? I asked Ripple Effect GM Christian Grass. Thanks to Battlefield Portal - a game mode creation tool that’s included in Battlefield 2042 - two of Bad Company 2’s maps are coming back, along with Rush mode. Who needs to lie on the floor when you can do that?īad Company 2 also has some of the best multiplayer maps in the series’ history. Sure, you couldn’t go prone, but you could cover a quad bike in C4, drive it into an objective, and detonate it to bring the entire building down. I’m one of the people who thinks Bad Company 2 was the pinnacle of the Battlefield series.