I am the only person alive that unironically wants this.
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Battlefield 2042 completely dropped out of the Top 50 most played on Xbox (US)
- Thread starter Theorry
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Only if its worked on by Repsawn not DICE. Respawn is part IW so it would be amazing.
Haha, you fucking sucker!
I bought the Gold edition on PC, Xbox and Playstation.
This is not good, sounds like Anthem all over again, huge budgets for an online game with little fanfare spells disaster.
The trailers looked so cool too.
The trailers looked so cool too.
I am with you, I want Medal of Honor back in non VR form developed by Respawn (OG Infinity Ward) people.
Allied Assault still my favorite WWII game. Spent way too much time in college in that multiplayer, playing round-based objective maps.
I'm sooo glad I ended up not buying this. It's dying so fast I'm not sure it will be able to recover.
I remember Arthur Gies talking about how fucked this game will be based on really poor design decisions on RFM. Space being too competitive and all. I thought maybe he's right, but it's BF, it'll have some built in love from the fan base to carry it to better times. Kinda glad I was wrong. They need to take a hard look at what they are doing with this series. Just...whoof.
Add me to the list of suckers.
How dare we think they could deliver at the very least a competent game in a longstanding series.
I feel for BF fans...I bought
BF3 on PC: impressive looking, single player was pathetic, MP was pretty fun.
BF4 on ps4: bug-ridden game that took AGES to be stable, but pretty cool then.
BF hardline: jesus christ, what a mess of a game with poor everything.
BF1: this one pretty sweet, to be fair. Single player was kinda meh.
Played BF V and wasn't impressed, hear it's much better now so i may try it on EA Play.
1 good in a whole decade isn't great for such a big franchise.
BF3 on PC: impressive looking, single player was pathetic, MP was pretty fun.
BF4 on ps4: bug-ridden game that took AGES to be stable, but pretty cool then.
BF hardline: jesus christ, what a mess of a game with poor everything.
BF1: this one pretty sweet, to be fair. Single player was kinda meh.
Played BF V and wasn't impressed, hear it's much better now so i may try it on EA Play.
1 good in a whole decade isn't great for such a big franchise.
What is the latest on the Battlepass? I feel like it needed to be out in January to help keep players.
Relaunch BFV as Battlefield 1944 with the Eastern Front, Normandy and the Bulge. Tons of new maps and vehicles and Grand Operations reworked. With BFV's original composers (End-of-Round themes are the best).
Forget BF2042. Can't be salvaged.
Forget BF2042. Can't be salvaged.
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I've had fun with 2042, but I also haven't touched it in a month so that says a lot. It really lacks a hook to it, the gunplay and movement are fine but not great, definitely a step down from BF4, BF1, and BFV. The aesthetics and details are so off, and the maps don't have a great pacing to them. I can load up BF4 and play matches on Pearl Market for hours, whereas 2042 I can load up a few matches before wanting to do something else. All of the other popular fps/mp games nailed their fundamentals, while 2042 feels like it needs a lot of patches and seasons of content to make it more appealing. F2P won't even help, it'll just kill the game faster as people will drop it after a few matches
I think so too. No campaign and only 7 maps was a bad sign we should have seen coming.
This just sucks so bad.. I looked forward to a new modern BF game for years... They blew it in every way possible. BF was such a unique, fun and overall great experience and it is clear anyone in the past that made their games special have long left Dice.
This is what happens when a publisher ruins a studio and franchise.
Making it free to play will do nothing for the numbers... if people who paid money did not stick around.. why would someone who paid nothing once they find out how broken the loop is.
This is what happens when a publisher ruins a studio and franchise.
Making it free to play will do nothing for the numbers... if people who paid money did not stick around.. why would someone who paid nothing once they find out how broken the loop is.
Egad.
Well, Battlebit Remastered will do until then.
I wonder how World War 3 is shaping up? I think it releases in March.
there's a reason COD is such a rigid template. they make improvements and try new things, but it's still COD. find a formula and fucking keep it. years between releases, throwing out what people like, removing features, adding in new ones no one asked for, that's not how you keep a multiplayer community alive
I played it on PS4 as a Medic main, I just do not like Recons getting a one shot on me. BF1 represents what a total polished package looks like and they were even able to pull off the ttk/accuracy change that really improved gunplay. Not everything worked, but it was a well thought out and executed experience through and through. BF3 was similar in my experience except the launch was rougher compared to 1 but I really liked the design of both. BF1 on PSN is actually doing quite well since it is part of the PS+ Collection.
I good game but leans too far into the realistic and tactical niches. BF1 and BFV were both given away on PS+ and both seem to still be healthy even though I am primarily on 2042.
I actually enjoy playing the game and I would still say this is the appropriate response to what was ultimately delivered. They talked such a big game about 2042, and then to release what they did in the end is pretty laughable.
Months after release and they still haven't started their first Season of the "battle pass". What are they doing.
Months after release and they still haven't started their first Season of the "battle pass". What are they doing.
Yep. All the community was really looking for was a next-gen spiritual successor to BF3/4. What they got instead was a bastardized hatchet-job attempt at competing with Warzone and COD's microtransaction model. While not cool, it's not the bugs or the missing features that are the real issue, it's the fact that the fundamental framework of the game is complete nonsense. It doesn't work at all for a BF title.
Eh, disagree. HLL isn't bad but it's too much in the other direction. Too hardcore to ever get to how big BF was at it's peak.
Honestly? That was the worrying thing for me in a weird way. Most of the trailers never showed actual gameplay. Just in-engine stuff and whatever gameplay they did show was heavily scripted and even then I noticed some weird stuff.
But for me one of the big red flags was the Rendezook in the reveal trailer. That should have been a big tip off that the game was going to go in a very different direction. While a staple of the series, a crazy move a player did while recording. It was one of those: "Battlefield" moments that felt like you were almost breaking the game by doing something so wild. So when that became official marketing material it made me feel like: "Are they trying to make 2042 nothing but "BF Moments"? and in ways, yeah and when you try to make everything a "BF Moment" it makes those moments feel way less special.
Kinda like how DICE said they don't get why people liked BC2 so much, I don't think they actually understood why those: "Battlefield moments" truly stood out.
Yup. Don't like CoD this year? Don't worry, come back next year and maybe you will like that one. You don't need to worry about being stuck with a bad entry for years.
The in game store is still inactive and there's no season to work towards. They didn't even do that.
Completely expected. The game is just straight bad. Going F2P or doing updates isn't going to fix the fact that it's core its an unfun game that feels terrible. The specialists system is a downgrade. The maps are awful. The feedback to players and sheer lack of information is aggravating. This game has nothing going for it.
I will say seeing this all play out is quite cathartic after anyone discussing the game's problems in the BF2042 OT got hounded out by the game's defenders.
I will say seeing this all play out is quite cathartic after anyone discussing the game's problems in the BF2042 OT got hounded out by the game's defenders.
As an avid Hell Let Loose player, I feel pretty confident in saying that this will NEVER happen. HLL isn't complicated, but its far more complicated than battlefield and it lacks a lot of the things AAA shooter players have come to expect in those games. It's somewhere in between Battlefield and a hardcore sim experience like Squad or ARMA, being closer to Battlefield on that scale but at the same time, NOT being all that close to Battlefield if you get what I mean.
I love HLL and wish more people would try it, but the console launch was completely botched and no one is playing it anymore, last i checked. PC is great fun with an awesome community, and there's always full servers. But its not for everyone.
it's still baffling to me that the first content drop for this game isn't coming until March. That's 4 months and would have been 5 if they didn't delay it.
Obviously the scale is a bit different than something like CoD or Halo but you should have SOMETHING substantial 1 month after launch at the very least.
Obviously the scale is a bit different than something like CoD or Halo but you should have SOMETHING substantial 1 month after launch at the very least.
Specialists are fun. People also now heal/revive and hand out ammo a lot more than they used to. That is really not a critical issue for the game IMO.
Maps are definitely half baked though. There's just not enough there in general to make people want to stick around. There's nothing to invest in. There's not even an in-game scoreboard to track how you're doing (which is now coming in a patch months after release). There's zero career stats to access as well (other than tracking badge progress which has a hard limit). It is completely unsurprising this game bled players this quickly when you combine it with how broken the game itself was at launch.
To be fair, Infinite isn't getting its first post-launch content drop until May either.
Even with all of the issues, I can look past most of them and still find enjoyment in 2042. When you get in a game, just running around and killing people and stalking vehicles is stil fun, even with all of the stupidity of the specialist system and dumb movement options. The thing that really limits it as far as i'm concerned is the lack of maps. I was tired of them after the first two weeks, and its why me and my friends will play this for a few days, then not touch it for 2 or 3 weeks.
Oh and I just noticed that COD Black Ops III is still in the too 50 (although to be fair, BF2042 has 2 versions counted so it may be actually ahead of Black Ops III)