20-Year Battlefield Veteran Reviews Battlefield 2042 - A COMPLETE REVIEW.
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- Опубликовано: 13 июн 2024
- Having over 25000 hours in the Battlefield Series since Battlefield 1942, I attempt to provide a full review to Battlefield 2042.
This review was put together three weeks after launch, and as such some comments may describe old features or completely fixed bugs and gameplay. In fact, I HOPE THIS IS THE CASE. The only direction this game has is up.
0:00 - Intro and General Overview.
08:09 - Breakdown of game modes - All Out Warfare.
11:31 - Breakdown of game modes - Battlefield Portal .
24:21 - Breakdown of game modes - Hazard Zone.
28:59 - Music, Missing Content, and Balance Problems.
43:55 - List of Missing and Broken Features.
49:31 - Game Performance.
54:02 - Delay Potential and Significant Mismanagement.
55:47 - Effect of Covid and Root cause of Issues.
56:55 - The Future and Conclusion.
For more, visit Gravity's twitchTV channel at / gravityxiii and @gravityxiii on twitter! 
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DICE calling a scoreboard in a first-person shooter a "legacy feature" It's so absurd I just can't get over it
Tom Henderson’s reporting included the UI crashing. o-0 That’s why there’s no scoreboard.
@@alexdasliebe5391 if your game is crashing with simple scoreboards that means IT ISN’T READY.
They don’t want everyone to see that the majority of the game is bots
Considering it was designed as a Battle Royale you don't need a scoreboard for that, just your squad stats (at least from the few I've cared to watch, can't stand the crap myself).
Everything functional, normal and good is "legacy" and "old-fashioned
" in todays clown world.
I remember BF3 looking gorgeous. I said "it can't get better than this." Apparently, I was right.
Going back to playing bf1 the difference in quality is night and day.
BF1 looks better than BF3.
@@mdc3227 wut. Bfld 3 was that absolute bees knees calm your tits your getting to froggy now
@@ert-wert I agree. That doesn't change the fact BF1 LOOKS better than BF3 does it.
Meh BF4 is the best.
How could we go from Battliefield 1s stunning visuals and fantastic details to completely clean and unmarked boring walls and streets without any character
People who worked on bf1 are looong gone...
too many people making pre orders.
Maybe my age is showing, but graphics will never be a replacement for good gameplay.
@@Reincarny gone like those people that worked on mass effect 3 but not Andromeda.
Thats easy- take a lot of money from people and spend it on hookers and cocaine while laughin at those idiots that gave it to you
The one positive thing that came out of bf2042 is that I cherish the memories of the older titles and respect the old Dice team even more
it meant i found battle bit.. its playtests remind me of bf2 but with 256 players, destructible terrain and more realistic gun handling.. its the alternate universe BF where they went with more realism, straddling the middle ground between arcade and milsim with proximity chat, bandaging and the ability to drag downed players.. if you can get over the low poly gfx and get in on the sat play tests i highly recommend it
Mine is that it showed people that Battlefield V is a better game to play xD
It wasn't a love letter they wrote to the BF community, it was a dear john letter.
The perfect analogy for this game.
With pictures of the guy she left you for! What a shame.
It wasn't a love letter, it was a prison kite.
"and she wrote me a John-Deer letter or something." -Forrest Gump
More like a su1cide note
I will never understand why DICE hired a composer known for works that fit beautifully with high stakes dramas and psychological horrors (Chernobyl and Joker) and hired her for this game. She has such a distinct style I'll never understand why they thought it'd fit something like this. It would work if there was a campaign set within this quite dark and depressing world but it definitely does not fit with the pseudo-fortnite specialists.
I feel the same way, she's a talented composer and I do like the way she wanted to work that feeling of edge and anxiety and darkness that is "present" in the "lore" but it doesn't match the rest of the game, and the lack of more 'classical' styled music is the fault of management. She would have killed it in a post apocalyptic gritty and dark campaign.
@@Danyaveltan You can tell she was briefed to make music based on the snippets of story that they have and then they had no idea what to do with the music she had made.
@@danieldyson1660 yerrrr. And that's a good summary of most of this game. Mgmt having no clue what to do.
@@danieldyson1660, you nailed it perfectly. They made The Smurfs with the soundtrack for Dracula
@@linkkraft3358 I think she herself tried, but DICE didn't put any effort into actually utilising her music.
BF1 was so incredibly cinematic and graphically advanced for its time, how the hell is this game failing so horribly a whole game after that one not even gameplay wise but even in simple things like graphics and animation quality?
Capitalism
And don’t forget they remove the class system for stupid specialist to do a fortnite they are so stupid i was so excited to see another battlefield game but nope.. they have crushed it by there greed corrupted stupidity i want to strapped the people that work in EA and dice in front of the screen and forced them to watch all the stupidities things they did to there games until they break
@@kx7500 corporatism* but i dont expect poor people like you to understand the difference
@@kx7500that can’t be the case as the previous games had great graphics and animations and they were under capitalism. Too vague of a cause
@@paulallen2680 yes good things can happen under capitalism but not necessarily *because* of capitalism. You can have productive industries that are run democratically rather than top-down corporations like with capitalism
“20 Year Battlefield Veteran Reviews”
Thank you for your service lol
Mark my words, this is the final nail in the coffin for the BF franchise. Over promising and under delivering by such a large margin - few will ever trust DICE/EA with another BF title.
Good. Nobody should buy anything from them. That company should burn in hell.
"we love specialists and it is the future of Battlefield"
Dice/ea
This might surprise you but EA didn't put much money into developing the game, and it made its money back the day pre orders launched.
These aren't game developers. They are micro transaction and marketing specialists that make key decisions now. This isn't 2004 where all you had to do was make a fun game. Now you can make a shit game but the gamers will still play it because they get addicted to unlocking cosmetics or whatever to dress up their avatar.
@@CertifiedSperg but it's not the 30 year old men that blindly buy every battlefield game because "man I'm excited, wow nostalgia". Trust me when a game franchise goes on for more than a decade these stuff will happen. Halo community being the biggest offender of this, that I know of.
you say that but people say that about other ea games all the time and they show up in droves the next year. HC BF fans will show because they want the next one to be good, im the same way with cod.
4/10? In that state? More like a solid 2. Great video mate.
2/10 is legitimately a fair score, god that’s depressing
Absolutely agree. 4 is way too high for this disaster.
Solid 0
as a game 2/10 it’s literally broken…. as a bf game its 0/10 doesn’t have classes its not a battlefield game
@@pm.meowth4850 lets be honest, be broken at launch is every bf ever, aside from that, yeah, this, game sucks
I can’t believe I have just sat through an one hour review for a video game. Thanks Gravity, this is a great piece of work.
I thankfully didn’t buy 2042 after playing the Beta. After this video I’m not angry anymore just sad now. Thanks DICE.
Don't be sad. This is just how it works out sometimes.
This video is made by the community, FOR the community.
EA/Dice is watching this on a tropical island somewhere, wiping their tears off with cash.
do you really think they're even watching this video? they're too out of touch to do that
Hope they get pinkeye from their dirty money.
@@user-mx1fq6qm6i They'd watch the video but DICE removed all options to type just like in the game
DICE are the new Bioware; merely a brand name used by EA to push product, when the people who made the company and the games great have all long since departed. Just another name on a tombstone in the EA graveyard. Thanks, EA.
Completely agree. Played for free last weekend and uninstalled after 2 hours. This game does not feel like BF. I could not believe how bad the maps are designed; bland, uninteresting, boring, low effort are words that come to mind.
@@TiberiumPie
Such a shame. I was really looking forward to this game.
Yeah, Im actually afraid that EA would fuck DICE after BF2042
@@mrspidrexe9625 EA and Dice are responsible for 2042. If anything, they will just cancel the franchise.
@@TiberiumPie imagine being one of the guys who pre-ordered, I feel like a dumbass now because I was the one saying we should give it a chance. Boy was I pissed when it launched
Nailed it.
We are a BF clan dating back to '42. We have played pretty much every night since it was launched. It is heart-breaking to see how they have driven this franchise face first into the ground. If we were to write a review and list the problems and what we want to see in the game it would look like this. Hope the message gets out.
I didn't really play until BC. Had BF2, BF2 Special Ops... But still....it's sad.
Super@ ?
Wow your battlefield clan has existed for 79 years?
@@elijahmckenzie9207 😐
@@elijahmckenzie9207 Its been a long slog
Damn this guys went all out!
BTW, I'm surprised by the final score... Was expecting a 2!
a 2 is still infinitely too high.
This could've been the great comeback of the battlefield series... I learned how to build my own PC back in the day when I seen Battlefield 1942 was only on PC... played every game since and this game is a slap in the face to not only new players, but especially us battlefield veterans.
So sad to see such a great series deteriorate like this, RIP Battlefield and thanks for all the great memories
"RIP BF" You can still play previous titles :)
@@uyso6045 you can still play runscape doesn't mean the game isn't dead for the absolute majority of people, eventually the gaming industry and the vast majority of players will move on and we're already seeing that process as we speak.
battlefield is not even close to being as relevant as it was in the grand picture of gaming and even fps games nowadays.
But you still bought it, right?
😢
@@uyso6045 It means that this is probably the last battlefield game we ever gonna get after EA is done with Dice (since you know... they have a history of killing studios and franchises that don't preform well)
This Video should be mandatory material for each and every Dice employee and I mean all of them. And it should be reviewed at least once a year.
Sadly... they don't know how to RUclips to listen to fans
dice does what EA says
CEO Andrew Wilson can’t hear over his stock options
This might be the best real analysis of BATTLEFIELD 2042 that I've seen. I don't know if I have ever been more disappointed in a game than I've been with BF2042.
I would add one to two more issues that I've noticed:
1.) This game alienated most new and casual players. This leaves just the hardcore players. Consequently, newer and casual players are disenfranchised because they enter games in which the skill gap is MASSIVE. A casual gamer who buys the game (even at a discount) will be blown away by the hardcore players who are left playing it.
2.) Moreover, there is a problem with cross-platform cheating. That is, the PC cheating community are still playing. In addition to having a mouse/keyboard advantage over console players, console players now have to concern themselves with the plethora of PC cheaters too. The only way to counter this is to OPT-OUT completely of cross-platform play. There is no option for CONSOLE ONLY cross-platform play.
More subs to you! Dude make more of these reviews, your voice is perfect for it
Thanks! Greatly Appreciate it!
This is a genuinely brilliant review. I love your deep and specific breakdowns of every aspect that just doesnt sit well for you, showing a level of "expertise" on the subject without being preachy or elitist. You know what you want, and you know what a battlefield really should be to be successful. Good stuff
This is probably the most comprehensive review I've seen for Battlefield 2042. This comes from a place of true passion and love for the series as a long time fan. Respect.
110% agreed
Respect
Any game at that
Respect
I agree. I'd also say that PORTAL could have been a free-to-play game with "seasons" that were based upon different games. For instance, Season 1 could have been BF1941 (or even WW2 with BF1942 and BFV). Each season could have been a different game.
1 hour of cold and brutal truth... excellent work bro. bf2042 is a big disappointment. EA and DICE may have put a end in the franchise. Harsh days will come.
If this isn't the end. 2023 is. Wait until you see what they're cooking up in a couple years
it wouldn't be the first. I'm a fan of the C&C franchise, and this is a disturbing trend similar to how EA killed that series too. Command & Conquer was *the* RTS game which started the whole genre of resource-collecting and base-building games. They had spinoffs like Red Alert and Generals, and all these games were beloved by the fans, including me. Then EA buys the studio who made these games - Westwood - and comes out with C&C3 and Red Alert 3. C&C3 is good, and the expansion Kane's Wrath is even better. RA3, however, is comparable in reception and quality to BFV. Then they release a C&C mobile game.
Finally, they come out with C&C4 Tiberium Twilight. This game was so bad, I kid you not, the entire C&C fanbase collectively agrees that this game does not exist. Mention or ask about it and we'll all say "what game? The series ended with Kane's Wrath!" Suffice to say, this game completely destroyed the C&C formula, killed the atmosphere, and ruined the story. Anyways, what was I talking about? Oh yeah, anyways the series ended with Kane's Wrath and it kinda just ended there. Ok, in all seriousness, C&C4 didn't kill the series, it butchered it in front of its wife and kids and dismembered it. I have a feeling BF, another franchise I love and played since 1942, will also be disgraced.
The devs of C&C refused to bend to EA's will and add microtransactions to their game and so EA cancelled it. B sold out to them, dooming themselves not to a brutal death, but a slow and painful one.
@@punic4045 dude I love playing and watching C&C Generals Zero hour from time to time and seeing how they completely dumped the franchise, and still to this day about 20 YEARS LATER they still have active communities that have put their life's work into trying to get the games to work with almost no dev tools, it's very very sad
@@dannylipatov6530 yeah the community is great, but the abandonment is indeed sad. Also Zero Hour was the shit, definitely my favorite C&C game.
@@punic4045 it's freaking awesome I love it, wish they have the modders proper tools to carry it on forever
Enjoyable to listen to this - i am a fan of the longer analysis type videos and like to listen to them in the background.
I've watched a lot of reviews following the release of 2042, this is by far and away the most comprehensive video I have seen to date. It saddens me to see this, as I too have been playing since the beginning and had so many fun and exciting hours of gameplay. Not quite sure what Is going on at the helm but changes desperately need to be made...before we see the end of Battlefield. Great video man albeit for all the wrong reasons. This should be watched by everyone involved in the game at Dice/EA.
After 3 weeks of playing battlefield 2042 I can finally say that battlefield 1 and 4 are still fun
jumped back into bf4 after years, so much fun but the 2-3 people every game going 60-0 in a heli/tank is super annoying, need like 4 engineers working together to shut down a tank that is back a minute later. getting spotted in the bushes 200m away with thermal optics every time
@@ApexOfThrottle helis are so broken in that game
Atleast you can just avoid tanks for the most part
@@ApexOfThrottle full of cheaters that's why, but still playable and still gives me lots of fun, so I'm gonna stick with BF4, this one is far from being battlefield, more like those games for the kids
bf4 is way better chief and the graphics are better xD
Bf1 is the most immersive online game ive played. They really nailed it.
This is got to be the most honest 2042 review. Non of that I'm still having fun because I need a battlefield game/content on my channel bullshit.
Angry joes review was solid too.
"And why do you say BF 2042 is a good product?"
"Money."
*cough* levelcap *cough*
Agree. EA didn’t buy this guy out he said what needed to be said. Unlike levelcap, lol.
Way too accurate i would say. as a long time bf fanboy bf 2042 makes me just sad. i REALLY wanted this to be a success, but the amount of afford EA took in to the opposite just breaks my neck. Personal i don't like to play "old games" but i really consider to delete bf 2042 and just start playing bf4 again.
Thank you for calmly and clearly reviewing what is essentially an un-playable game.
I really appreciate this review. I wish the bigger BF youtubers would deliver a review as critical as this one. Truly unacceptable that they would deliver games like this time and time again.
Fr levelcap specifically is way too nice to this game. He could also just be incredibly open minded but I thought out of everyone he would give it the most hate. His review was pretty balanced and he did acknowledge most of people’s concerns. But he still seemed to give it way more credit than it deserves. It’s not even the bugs that bother me it’s honestly to be expected like it or not but I don’t think it even has the potential to be a good game especially the main game because of all the changes to the tried and true formula. Portal seems promising but even then I’d rather play their older titles. The specialist and lack of a scoreboard completely ruin the game for me. I’m having a ton of fun with BF4 tho.
BF1 really was the apex for me. The graphics, the atmosphere, the maps, the amount of guns, the way they handled. It is a great game that I'll continue playing.
Looks twice as good as 2042 with double the framerate. I'm afraid BF1 will be the last good Battlefield.
@@ddrrFA5 it was the BF to end all BF's
Absolutely, and I’m so happy the lobbies have filled back up cause I remember like 5-6 months after BF5, trying to find a NA lobby in Bf1 was quite hard. Then I watched as more and more people realized how garbage BF5 was, and start filling in the Bf1 lobbies again. I expected this to happen again with the release of this game but it seems every one realized what a dumpster fire this game was within a week or two and the lobbies in Bf1 are still poppin!
Umm, BF1 was the first Battlefield whee they made vehicles pick ups, like in Battlefront. (But my opinion is irrelevant as the only Battlefields I play are BF1942 and Forgotten Hope 2).
- Adûnâi
Gun customization was wack
Very professional review. I must say I can just agree with all your points. It's astonishing how much you veterans and experienced BF players actually notice what is wrong and what is not. Very nice review and good video.
wehraboo
@@shibre9543 balls
@@dontmessageme9127 what
@@shibre9543 He didn't say a single wheraboo-like thing. You're reaching. Having a solider in your profile pic doesn't make you a wheraboo.
@@davey_boy94 most likely
What a scolding! Props to a great review man. Saves me $60
Truly great review. Comprehensive and thoughtful! Well done! I just subscribed
I too, am a Battlefield veteran of nearly 20 years, and I gotta say I completely agree with each and every point you made. My complaints EXACTLY! Let alone the fact that if I play the "Engineer", I must choose between a torch and a recoiless. WTF?! So I can either repair or destroy a vehicle SLOWLY, with the torch, or I can try to destroy enemy vehicles with the recoiless. Talk about neutering what was left of the "engineer" class. It can be fun to play with friends, but this game AINT Battlefield. Period.
together with friends is about the only way I think I can enjoy bf2042. and tbh, with the right friends, basicly any game is fun.
I am also a Battlefield veteran and i agree with you. But what has pissed me off was ,NO CAMPAIGN. Single Player story.
Excatly what I thought
I was hoping to have the very few remaining buddies I’ve got over the years jump back in to play with me. It’s beyond disappointing 2042 was so bad, we lasted less than a month.
Too true.
You just nail it.
I can't understand how there's no one on Dice and EA that doesn't see the same thing that all the community is seeing....
I think there is but they have no enough power to make change. It's weird that i don't have that same feeling as i had with BF4 release. It was great game with good maps and nice advancing trough weapons and attachtments
Pretty sure they know what the community wants but they just don't want to listen to them.
These are the same devs that trashed the community for their issues with BFV. It's 2021, when corporations make what they want, demand that people buy it, then insult those who have problems with the product.
it's not easy to see trough easy dollar bills that they have in front of their eyes.
It's not that they don't see it; it's that the executives in charge don't care and make them design shit that doesn't work because they think it'll get them more money
I have been waiting for this! I love your map series
WOAH. I tip my hat to you. This video was so damn thorough and I just know it took forever to put together. Great job!
The sad thing is, this could’ve been the ultimate battlefield, I don’t think this is a bad game but EA made this game sound like every battlefield players dream except it’s not
Dice could have executed cod since vanguard is the worst of their series. I do have a buddy who’s cousin works as dev in dice, and main cash flow went to hiring people for marketing. A
@@Donkens I don't doubt it.
It's a bad game.
Vanguard is eazily 1000x better than bf this year
@@biggie10101 yeah but both is shit.
You've nailed my feelings even better than AngryJoe did. It's genuinely so upsetting. I know it's only a game but it's one of my favourite IPs of all time and it's been trashed by greed, terrible changes to the formula and lack of direction. I can't believe I spent over 60 quid on this.
Sell it to some child's mother at half price for Christmas and only feel half as bad... orrr just give it away to a kid with a system and limited games for Christmas 🎄 and feel twice as good as you did before you played it.
Hey, never minimise your feelings. In a time as difficult as this, having a beloved game franchise completely mess up something we've all been waiting 3 years for sucks. In amongst covid and everything going on right now, a new game is a genuine glimmer of light.
It is a game. But you need only look at how much money the industry rakes in or how much joy people get from playing to see that games aren't "just games".
Imagine watching AngryJoe tho
@@shanec4494 not everybody buys discs in 2021...
@@steelbear2063 Imagine not accepting that people have different tastes and trying to be a tough guy in youtube comments about it.
THANK YOU! thank you for being the only person ive seen talk about the panzer not even shooting at crosshairs. literally zero play testing done by dice. (i also enjoyed that chris farley almost heroes reference)
Thanks for putting this video out
I also find that the way air vehicles get destroyed is extremely uncinematic, it blows up and then turns into a weightless shell of the vehicle while wildly spinning until it hits the ground and disappears. Bf1 was perfect, the crashing planes would be set aflame while barreling into the ground. I remember seeing planes crashing into the dirt while pushing an objective, smoke billowing into the sky but now i just see an ugly grey helicopter with a completely different center of gravity than it should aimlessly wobble until it is gone. Disappointing. I do find the gameplay fun but there is so much lost potential.
My brother that is called laziness, this alpha should be named Lazyfield 😂😂😂
That’s what I was saying too like comparing the destruction and destroyed aircrafts and land vehicles and boats which I wish there was in 2042 which is strange but battlefield 2042’s vehicle destruction looks so bland compared to bf4’s hell it can even be more worse than gta v’s where the helicopter just loses its tail and doors only and turns all black without the rotors than look at 2042’s oh boy…
Its shit
It drives me nuts
Battlefield 1 has been one of the best purchase decisions I have made of any kind. I did not, have not and will not regret spending on ultimate edition of Battlefield 1. The game is so refined in every aspect that I can hop back in any time and have awesome experience every single time! Glad I didn't buy this one! This was a good review, you earned my subscription!
I didn’t buy it either lol... they are SJW’s now
Bf1 was god tier.
@@Ljcr1 Yes. Most of the creatives who worked on BF1 left the studio after it. It shows even in art direction in BF5 and has it's impact on full display in BF 2042.
@@AMITAWAGHADE Yeah its painfully obvious XD.
@@Cognitoman go woke go broke, never fails... Smh one day these companies will learn. Can't wait till cod dies. I'm sure when mw II sucks ass people will bitch, but then buy the next one. Those diehards are another breed with that franchise.
I am VERY aware that I said Michael K. Brown instead of Michael K Williams. I think i had Sterling K Brown on the brain when I was recording and It slipped through the proofs. My bad.
Remember BF4 where there were actual camo patterns for soldiers and for vehicles and guns there also were actual camo patterns and a crazy amount of patterns DICE made themselves?
When they announced no campaign I was certain it was a good thing so they could allocate and centralize their focus and have a strong and solid multiplayer.
Boy I wish that was true. I felt like making 2042 and pleasing the fanbase should have been genuinely easy. They must have known what we wanted , right?!?
Yeah, let’s not do a campaign but 3 different multiplayer games at once! Sounds great 🤣
No they spent all of their time and resources coming up with the best way to set it up for microtransactions. Just like every other fucking game nowadays. If the game was free I'd understand. But it's 60 dollars
lmao dice said one time "why is bad company fun"
If they bring the phantom projects back, that’s be great. Special dog tags, phantom bow (minus the tedious treasure hunt for the elevator), and camos. I want it all back
They did know why we wanted but capitalism without values and morals gs corrupted our country
Raise your children well and our kids’ kids generation might have it as good as our grandparents (circa 1950s) did.
Fantastic review, listed everything into a perpective that any old BF player can relate too. 10/10
I loved it when i found out, that the normal car has a 30mm and its just copied frm the apache, because is has no bullet drop. You can snipe everyone with this.
Great video Gravity! All of these are facts. S/o to EK for sending me here to see this. Sad to say that all of these are still issues over a month later.
I've been supporting COD and BF for years! This is the first time ever, I DOD NOT PURCHASE A COD or BF game. And in the same year! That speaks immensely about the [wrong] direction these franchise's have taken their games in. Apparently I'm not the only one that feels this way.
Try Halo then
@Frigo Pie Halo infinite?
The one that came out in the same year as vanguard and BF?
@Frigo Pie dude the one I'm talking about is the one that released in the same year as Vanguard and BF2042
The one you're talking about is the one that released the year before
You are not fuck these companies
I'm so sad
I think one of the main thing that annoys me about BF2042 is if youre gonnna have operators why not have specific operators for the Russians and Americans
Cause dIvErSiTy. Seems feelings of a bunch of idiots are more important than vision of an author.
Even modern warfare got that right lmao. Had faction specific operators so you knew who was who
@@feedthemeat543f along with ability to play as a regular operator.
Racism
They didnt want to pay someone to do that work,@@listek981 , they use “diversity” as cover to trigger gamers. Works well, too. 🖕🏼 CEO Andrew Wilson.
Fantastic video keep up the good work!
Haven't watched the full video as of yet but everything you have brought up is absolutely spot on! Which games are you currently playing at the moment instead?
Thanks! At the moment, I mostly played a mix of Battlefield 4 and other BF titles, as well some 2042, only just its something different and i like to stay informed on its progress. Other than that, I havent had time to do much gaming.
Incredible review. I agree with every point. Even if Dice had an extra five years to make this game, the underlying design of nearly every system is wrong. I wanted to love this game so badly. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
When I played open beta I was super disappointed dice had one thing to do and they fucked it up
BF3, BADCO2, BF4, and BF1 are the goats. BF1 is my favorite simply because of graphics and immersion
I felt like BF3 was a downgrade in some ways from BC2 with destruction and suppression making things less interesting but I agree with BF4 and 1.
@@Edmundostudios bf3 was like 5 years ahead of every shooter at the time in terms of graphics and animation, plus destuction on top of that.
Also i believe the map design peaked with bf3 and dice somehow couldnt replicate it since.
@@s_for_short2400 The graphics and Animations sure but destruction in BC2 has always been best. You could level entire buildings in that game and leave a lot of map destroyed. BF3 was much more limited.
@@Edmundostudios true, didnt mean bf3 had better destruction, but that it was something on top of graphics and animations that other games didnt have.
But i will say bc2s destruction while visually impressive, often ruined maps by removing too much cover.
@@Edmundostudios That was done because people quickly realized that destruction was very overpowered. But that was due to the design layout, not really because of destruction in my mind. So they took the easy way out and focused more on infantry. BF1 is already a meatgrinder, so you can decide for yourself whether that was a valiant trade off or not, but Operation Metro is still a terrible map.
Fantastic video! Keep up the good work!
Now this is what I call a review. Extreme attention to detail, professional presentation, a few jokes here and there but nothing that strays from the main topic and only add to the experience, phenomenal editing all made by a person that truly understands battlefield. Every single employee that ever worked on this game should be forced to watch this video over and over again and analyze every second of this video to understand each and every single mistake they made with this game and LEARN FROM IT, FOR GOD'S SAKE. What every DICE employee should also do is get rid of their ego and learn to be honest with their fans instead of trying (and failing) to gaslight them. And as a side note, DICE should take action and fix every single problem with this game (not just technical problems but also the MANY design issues), while also hiring a small team to work on battlefield V, add back missing features like team switching, air superiority, multiple map reworks and add eastern front themed maps, weapons, vehicles and gadgets similar to the war in the Pacific expansion, and if that wasn't enough, separate Portal from 2042 and turn it into a full game similar to Halo: the master chief collection. Do all that and you might get me to buy 2042 or any new battlefield game. If you don't, this franchise will never recover
I cant believe that a game realeased in 2011 (Bf3) looks better and feels better than a recent game made by 3 or 5 studios, this is incredible, BF for me is Dead
I miss BF2142!! Titan mode was sooo much fun, imagine if they did it with battlefield 1 graphics.
It’s really bad they didn’t bring it back in portal.
I hope they bring it out as a dlc in the future. That game was best bf title for me
@@watchmen617 Just imagine "dieselpunk 2142 inspired" expansion for BF1. Titan mode with interwar prototypes and fictional flying battlestations...
Something like BF1 married to Jakub Różalski's 1920+ paintings.
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I'm 100% convinced you've shot me out the the sky with a tank at least once with those opening tank shots. Wowie
great video , great showcase thank you!!
Your conclusion in the end with the BF5 Devastation theme really hit the spot. Brought a tear to my eye on how bad this game was made. And not even a single sorry from EA or DICE. Mind boggling.
Why would EA or Dice be sorry? They made bank on 2042. To then it's a massive success, and they know you'll be pre ordering battlefield 6 because gamers lack self control.
Man i cry when i think about it they have Fucked my favorite game they dont care about us its a bloody shame
@@BoleDaPole I seriously doubt any person will be preordering any new battlefield, if the franchise even survives
The crazy part for me is the absolute reversal starting after BF3, my all time favorite. Sure it was a mess in the beginning as with most launches, but in the end, we all had a platform to build communities, dedicated severs, end of round statistics, and an intuitive loadout management system. They had the template and foundation to continue building something truly incredible. Just imagine what could have been with 2042 had they stuck to the design philosophies of BF3 and just built from that.
They also created so many different gamemodes! Armored warface, cqb etc!
I've watched your review twice now. By far the best review on RUclips. Thank u sir!
Great video man, as a solid veteran myself playing every single BF ever made, you did justice making this video in this way. If the EA/Dice watched any video on a review of this disaster , I hoped it was this one they watched.
Great honest review! I always picture the marketing team thinking " Hey, you know all those trendy games? add em all to the game, just do it, doesn't matter if it doesn't work or make sense" Then the people in charge were thinking copying those games = copying their profits. And lastly the true creators and developers of the franchise just get screwed over with deadlines and adding things that don't belong.
They said give me rainbow 6, apex legends, and call of duty all in one and the kids will love it!💰💰💰💰
I mean it's also because the old DICE left during the period of 1 and V. The new guys have no idea what makes a good Battlefield game, some are even from Respawn which explains the apex-like vibe it gives off. 2042 was also a scrapped Battle Royale game, hence why maps feel too big and plain.
@@fiercelypolygons3696 that does explain a lot .. the vibes are different and the map is built for battle royal. The new direction has pushed all the hardcore fana onto other great titles like sandstorm insurgency and hell let loose.
A friend of mine on EA's marketing team said they had a meeting 8 months prior to launch, where the execs pretty much grabbed the dev team lead by his head and CRANKED it towards a picture of apex and aaid "do this"
The dude straight up told about the operator abilities several weeks before the initial reveal, and nobody believed him lol.
Fuck man, Battlefield is dead, isnt it?
Welcome to Modern Gaming ladies and gentlemen
Wow, incredible review👌🏼
That you bring up engine at the end there. you know. iv kinda wanted to see BF in the CryEngine. its very similar in trying to focus on particals, small things, animated mini detail such as evaporating puddles, making trees actually interact with wind rather than just making the trees as an animation. and the history that CryEngine has had. EA worked with CryTek before to publish their games. Though, it looks like CryTek doesnt want EA to touch their shit considering CryTek's last title to be Published by EA was Crysis 3 in 2013. they released 10 games since then. and Crysis 4 TBA, published by CryTek itself.
The reason I say the little things is because BF1 and V had alot of the GRIT to it. and 2042 had clean streets and no clutter. Then the small things tend to build up to create something bigger. Hell, the sparks, dirt flying, and lasers all over the place in SW:Bf2 was a good feeling. and an engine built like this like CryEngine, will bring that sense in. Not only that but CryEngine has had MMO support since CryEngine 1 with ' Blue Mars '. now all the way to CryEngine 5, we have seen personal-made setups able to fit 200 players in one game instants. if MAG did it well, im sure other could as well.
from what i see theres also 8 new games on the way being developed with the CryEngine.
You know what could’ve helped flesh out the world a bit? Bring back Operations mode and have cutscenes before the games like BF1. Operations mode was not only the best game mode in BF1, it’s got to be my favorite game mode in any FPS, and for no apparent reason Dice threw their only recent gameplay innovation straight in the trash.
They need to actually make this game playable first 💀
There is no way this game can be saved somehow, just scrap it entirely and start anew (who the fuck even asked for Portal if the base game is not existant?)
same goes for Cyberpunk, Security Breach and many more recent releases
Operations could be a good gamemode if you could actually PLAY and not get sniped or killed by a plane or a tank after 15 seconds
@@ekkimukk2039 well that is a war situation, god knows how many times u killed someone 10 seconds after they spawned
Watch the choppers annihilate all those people in the open - so much of this game seems designed around creating clip/stream worthy moments for certain players with the rest as fodder
It’s made for casual players which in essence the bad players tend to go more for vehicles instead of gunplay to get kills. That’s why I think the maps are so open.
@@thegreatid3595 with 128 players maps could either be
Open- sniper/vehicle slaughterfest
Closed- lockers/metro meat grinder
And the maps were Designed for a battle royale first
@@ravinkrishnan3183 or they could be this big with more cover. You just need to keep certain density of space and covers per player. We have space, but not enough objects to fill it. Bad objectives design doesn't help either, making some overcrowded metro esque. And some of them just empty
Huh? Choppers were deadly in every BF game... BF4 choppers would goo 200-0 in matches. Why are you acting like this is new?
45:32 Correction it does list details of firing mode.
I'm a big soundtrack guy, Bear is a refreshing choice, I'll have to pick up the album (because I sure as Hell don't own the game).
The BF1 score I found very effective - especially after winning an MP round, which sound like the musical equivalent of pure triumph. BFV was melancholic for me - even a victory sounded like the tears of regret being wrung from the old dishrag of distant sorrows.
2042 goes and gets not-Bjorn 😐 I can't wait to get my 'More Modern Warfare' groove on 😕
Do they not know the term CONSULTANTS ? EA may need to update it's roster with people more familiar with it's longtime fanbase (I mean a real fanbase, not corporate-speak for "shareholders")and familiar with the kind of key answers that you've been unable/unwilling to digest, but ones that will give it enough volts to at least do more than shamble about armed to the teeth wearing an E.A. t-shirt, no underwear and a serious problem with criticism from people who don't own shares.
We can give you the damned answers to a better Battlefield (yes, riches, revenue and rave reviews - steak dinners and power fantasies about dropping artists from rooftops, all the usual stuff 👍), anything besides spending a heap of cash on useless (read: useless) focus groups - each time I hear you've been seeking their wisdom, I see suitcases of cash being unceremoniously dumped into a fire 😐
This game looks like it really lacked focus during development, even after striping the single player mode (Which I wouldn't mind myself). You know a brand is having an identity crisis when even the marketing comes off as incomprehensible and schizophrenic. Dice needs to stop chasing trends and stick to what they did best.
Thanks for the honest review, I'll be sure to steer clear of this game. Seems like the series has been taking a nose dive since BF1.
@teebles They need to bring back old devs to fix that game, I think.
@@Hunya-ti7xy would be a wet dream. Unlikely tho I think.
The older devs don't want to work at dice. It's not very inclusive atmosphere to free thinking individuals.
@@BoleDaPole how do u know ?
I was hoping this game was going to be the one that brought all my friends together like the older titles did. To say I’m disappointed is an understatement. It’s pretty insulting, honestly.
Great video.
And not just friends but my favorite battlefield tubers collaborating. Remember when lvl cap, matimo, Jack frags, and xfactor would do squad up thing where they worked together to win games like dude that was some of my favorite things to watch
Same here. I miss the BF3 days.
@@joeyg29jgjg jack is a shill now m8
Same with a few of the other "BF youtubers", you can be damn sure they knew this was going to be utter crap yet still said nothing and took the money from EA
Yet people don't hold them accountable, just yell at EA and dice, everyone should be yelled at, Including the Muppets that took money from them and said nothing but praise and hype
Well played with the call of duty music in the background
What an amazing review. It's just sad that a game I love has just been buried.
As a 20 year veteran of BF myself, I find myself agreeing with much of the criticisms of our video. It is a real shame that we came from masterpieces like BF4 and BF3 to this game that bears little resemblance to its predecessors. Thanks for the well thought out and in my opinion brutally truthful critique. I look forward to viewing more of your videos.
As someone who has BF2 as the epitome of what BF should be. I subscribed to you just based on the review. Absolutely spot on and I appreciate you not holding back.
BF2 was my all time favorite BF as well. Strike at Karkand is probably the best mp map ever created. Would have loved to see that in a rush mode
@@casaninchiify There are two maps I still dream about seeing again. Strike at Karkand and Kubra Dam for the insane dog fights. Hopefully they will remake BF2 at some point.
@@Kooralho Glad im not the only one dreaming about Battlefield 2 :) so sad to see what DICE/EA are doing with our beloved Battlefield :(
Perfect video essay! Well done man!
Played every BF from 1942 as well. BF3 will always hold a special place in my heart.
Outstanding review. I hope DICE/EA actually take on community feedback like this
They never do. If they did they wouldn't have continued the wrong way after BF5.
@@laurentbeaulieu2446 They wouldn’t have released BF2042 in the state that it is if they did genuinely care.
The only thing they are do is give a big shit on the community
Oh sweet summer child
Unless the feedback is about diversity, inclusion or strong female representation I wouldn't count on it.
I really have nothing to say other then "You're so fucking right" this is a sure catastrophe for this amazing collection of games
I always go back to comparing Battlefield 2 (2005) and Battlefield 3 (2011) in terms of gameplay. A precedent was made in 2011 - no mod tools, consolized gameplay, 4 not 6 man squads, 4 classes instead of 7, DLC instead of expansion packs...dumbed down beyond belief for so many other reasons. Much of the original teams from both games are gone, and the suits always win in the end. I repeat again, a precedent was made. Back in 2011 many people from consoles started playing on PC for some reason, and the game was targeted at them. Sure it was better than the classic console experience, but as far as the classic PC experience - that one was gone. Huge loss of standards and praise of mediocrity. People thought that it was the most amazing game because their standard up to that point were console games. This is the result. We complained about this on the EAUK forums 10 years ago, and they shut down the forum. We did warn you all.
Demand excellence and stop buying this crap.
You're wrong in at least one point: if a game is "consolized" it's not because console players play on PC, it's simply because there is one code base, and that is of course the console version. The console UI is by nature limited (you have quite a few buttons on controllers these days, but it still pales to what a PC can offer… not to mention you don't have a mouse, so any inventory stuff *automatically* has to be simplified). And thus the game is geared towards a console UX (User eXperience… hate that abbrev), and the PC just follows suit. Making a better UI/UX for PC? Just costs money, so they save on that.
@ Perhaps i should have clairified, but yes, that is what i meant. When the base of the game is made in such a way that when you play on PC, it feels like a console port more than a "meant to be on PC first" game.
exactly, this is what I fail to understand, people talk about BF3/4 like they were these great games, when in reality they were a consolized version of the TRUE OG battlefield which is BF2, by far the best one ever, a pc exclusive one, sadly most of those console gamers probably never played BF2 so they don't even know what they missed, and since console is the priority now, we PC players only get stupid versions "limited" due to console hardware and console players "bad taste" if we can say that, every battlefield after BF2 was a downgrade, all of them, even BF1
Sure grandpa. Bf3 was a masterpiece.
I still miss the bf3 dog tags. Collecting and unlocking those was so much fun.
They're literally could've just repeated bf3 with improved physics, gameplay, gunplay, vehicles and graphics and it would've been 20x better than 2042
They could take BF3 and extent it without changing anything except for maybe the blue filter and the sunglare. The physics are what makes the game m
It's somewhat reassuring to know I'm not the only one here. This game isn't just bad. It's the end of the series. The leaks now are pointing at small, squad based hero shooter for the next entry. Fuck this series. I love battlefield. Saying that hurts, but this isn't battlefield. This is a pile of shit. The game is flawed before the bugs and poor decisions to remove voip and all chat. The game is fundamentally broken. Specialists don't belong. Maps are shit. Squads are poorly handled shit. The only fun I had was in breaking the game via climbing skyscrapers in a hovercraft. Out of 17 hours, I maybe had a full 5 minutes of fun. I really tried to just shut up and enjoy this game. I can't.
SAME HERE. Same here. BF is dead :(
I share all your sentiments. I really tried to enjoy this game... but the maps really are shit. Like, they're so big, the action feels more sparse than 32v32 maps of old. And just the lacking of classic tactical features like corner-peeking and highly detailed movement, sucks. Also no scoreboard FML.
Have you found any games that fill the void? I've been back on BFV but even that one I don't enjoy nearly as much as BF3+4. Cheers lol
This is a wicked review. Honest and up front. DICE needs to see this‼️
You know what wasn't mentioned was the spectator cam on the BF4 deployment menu. Such a useful feature.
With this quality and honest review of BF2042. I'm really surprised that you only have a thousand of subs. This review > LevelClown's review.
Thanks for the honesty and quality of review.
I’m going to rewatch LC’s review. Thanks for reminding me. 🤣👍🏼 it’ll be good for a laugh
“LevelClown” 😂😂😂
Thank you for your honest review. I felt like I was going crazy hearing my friends try to defend this game. I’m not having fun playing it so much so that I reinstalled Battlefield 1 for a true immersive and gritty time. I uninstalled BF2042 it’s not even Battlefield I legit feel like I’m playing Call of Duty and that’s not why I played BF games. BF games were always about working with your squad and overall team to win the match…BF 2042 has none of that everyone is just off doing their own thing. There is absolutely zero immersion, and that one line “well well well that was fun” it’s so out of place and stupid.
Battlefield was never about working with your squad and you can do good without with them and that's kinda pathetic you play a video game for immersion 😂
What did you mean by unfriendly kill cam? Do you mean cause it’s breaks a lot, or cause every time I die to the PKP they are always tea bagging
I absolutely love listening to this destruction of Battlefield from a long time player. I have played for 15 years and paid the $100 for the ultimate edition out of pure excitement. Saying it was a waste of money is an understatement. I do feel SCAMMED. I don't have hope of it being fixed. It's altready February now. RIP, Battlefield.
Damn, and I'm sure them delaying the update that adds the scoreboard is definitely helping justify your purchase
I already made my mind, this game will never be any close to older ones even after the amount of years that took for them to develop it
March now…
Good, you deserve to be scammed.
In BF 1 when you and your squad become the MVP it was a proud moment.
That glorious pose of your Ready to fight and dependable character... you can just feel it.
In 2042 you just... don't want to be the MVP.
@Jonathan G Better than 2042
@Jonathan G still, is better than bruhfield 2042
Yeerr Angel does it again!
Well well well, that was fun!
@Jonathan G Its is balanced you are just bad at game lol .
I feel you man. This is a complete and honest review. As a long time batlefield fan i myself am also shocked about the design and gameplay choices they made. Feels like a big step back. I think its not even worth saying this has potential.
It's not a step back.
It's a giant leap all the way back to the starting line, and after that another step back. With this pathetic entry, DICE took everything that made people fall in love with battlefield, and replaced it with either an industry trend chasing mechanic that completely destroys the gameplay loop of battlefield of more bugs that make the game unplayable
Outstanding review
Bear McCrearys Battlestar Galactica Theme was amazing.
Almost cried at the end man 😞 as an obsessed bf2 player back in the day it makes me sad that the franchise forgot where it came from I try and convince my self that the game is fun and it is but definitely feel like it’s short lived due to map selection and other issues that you and everyone else is pointing out I always said that a great bf game would consist of Battlefield 2s formula fused with modern day ideas from passionate developers that actually played the game with us back in the day ughhh I can write a whole book right now but I’ll just stop here,hopefully something goes down because it’s pretty evident that the game is in rough shape
If you write a book, make sure you use periods.
When i played bf1 i thought to myself "if every bf game from now on will look and play this good we are in for a treat". I guess i could not have been more wrong.
Why was that statement wrong? Or did you mean that bf2042 did you wrong?
Bf1 is my favorite
This video was so fucking well put together. Thank you, well done 👍
How’s we go from battlefield 1 to this?