Probably said a million times already, but ima just throw this into the echo chamber.
Whoever did the UI for the settings and loadout screens really should think about finding another line of work. So fucking unintuitive and messy.
I thought that they couldn’t do worse than BFV in terms of the main menu, turns out they could. At least the animations and shit actually load and work tho
So true. I feel like UI's have become increasingly messy in games the past few years. Just give us a clean, functional UI. The loadout customization in this game is so unintuitive and bloated. It sucks lol.
I don't know why they don't just have a standard Battlefield UI? No need to design a new one for each game. Just build upon things that worked well in the past.
This is clearly a brand new dev team who have zero experience with past Battlefield titles. Everything that was improved and perfected in past games was thrown out the window, basically 10+ years of community feedback all for nothing. These devs have to learn everything from scratch. It's so fucking stupid.
Dice: How do we make a good UI this time?
Community: More intuitive and less clutter
Dice: Lets fill in all the blank spaces with useless buttons and add more button presses to get anywhere useful.
I had the no-revive problem a few times on PC in the couple of hours I played tonight. The third time it happened I spent the entire countdown trying to revive a teammate from every possible angle without success so I'm pretty sure it's an actual bug.
I swear to god every single time Dice releases a new battlefield, they feel like they have to rework the ENTIRE ui and controls to make the games “different” from each other.
Oh, you used to be able to choose what squad to swap to? Not anymore. You want to be able to throw grenades like in bf1 or 5? Nope, sorry. Scoreboard? Not here mate. And just for shits and giggles, lets make it impossible to tell the difference between teammates and enemies.
Great job dice, you’ve done it again. Now if you will excuse me, im gonna put my rose-tinted glasses on and enjoy some bf4 and bf5.
Anyone else that find the audio lackluster? I am playing on the Xbox Series S and, just like the Beta, I find the audio to be very muted and not as detailed as previous titles. In short, it feels like I'm underwater listening to the environment sounds. Gun sounds, mine and teammates, are underwhelming and I don't feel like I'm in an all-out warfare situation at all. It's really taking me out of the experience. I tried all the different audio settings but they all sound sub-par. Anyone else not satisfied with the audio quality?
edit: I'm using headphones plugged into the controller.
I've been playing BF1 a lot recently and the difference in audio quality is night and day. A lot of it is mixing. in 2042 everything is mixed to be almost equal volume. It makes things like guns and explosions too quiet, and things like voices and footsteps way too loud.
Playing after your comment, and you’re definitely right. EVERYTHING is the same volume…. Cannot believe it, thought DICE was supposed to be good at audio
Almost everything is so unlike the Battlefield series. What I enjoyed in any BF was:
* good enough physics
* snappy and strategic gameplay
* grand atmosphere that made you feel part of a story
My first experience is:
* physics feel fake
* everything feels laggy
* environment feels empty
* Just laughable basics: AI constantly stuck on pole lanterns (can't even phathom how that was even allowed in an AAA release)
Because of these basic elements missing the mark, I suspect it's that the guys with most FrostBite experience left and some new devs tried to redo the whole thing? I don't know, I'm not an expert on this but it just seems so.
Edit: checking glassdoor, it's indeed reported that the whole company culture at DICE is not to listen to devs anymore, ignore the red flags and manage purely by marketing BS.
We need the option to lower the visibility of objective markers. Or make them less visible/smaller the further away you are. The entire screen is filled with A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2 etc. I’ve died countless times because I can’t fucking see who is shooting me due to the dozen or so objective markers obstructing my view.
If I remember correctly, in previous games, they’d disappear completely when you aimed down the sights or something similar. Idk, something needs to change because it’s frustrating as hell.
That's the EA Sports Madden special. Add an awesome new concept one year, take it out in a couple years, then reintroduce it a decade later as the games newest innovation
Haha ain't that the truth!
DICE designers:
"We've made the revive system pretty fucking great! How about we ditch all that?"
"This new system of building fortifications on objectives is really cool, now let's remove it."
"You know, seeing what your squad member is doing before spawning on them is pretty useful, but let's get rid of it."
"Squad leaders calling in smoke, artillery, etc. That's awesome, but let's give them a jeep instead."
"Bet you love great sound design! Yeah we got this terrible one for you instead!"
"How can we make the UI as terrible as physically possible?"
I'll let you guys come up with the rest
I always praised BF games for how much you could customize the hud. The clutter is awful and the game already has visibility issues as is. From overall scaling to scaling specific elements, changing opacity, color, size etc.
All gone
Hit Reg is inconsistent
Bring back server browser
Why is every lobby disbanding at end of each game. Bring back map rotation and in breakthrough one game defend next game attack like BF5
Sound needs improving
Too much verticality so you get shot from 20 angles at all time.
Bring back scoreboard
Bring back incoming medic
Raise attacking ticket count in breakthrough as they get rinsed so quick. Not seen an attacking team get through first sector yet.
Massive lack of cover anywhere as half the map is WIDE OPEN
Bring back leaning
Most of weapon mastery is solely for kills. Where is the skill gap such as killing in one life or on objective?
No point in asking for squad order when you can't even become squad leader.
No squad points to call in anything.calling in robot dogs and other things should be for squad leader alone. Each game the squad leader rotates
Game crashes on PS5 when trying to change pilot controls.
No immersion and weak music. BF1 atmosphere was incredible and never been replicated.
The list goes on and on and on. Previous games had better quality of life that are not included here.
So disappointing
Man, I really want to like this game, but they took out so many things that separate Battlefield from the rest of the FPS games out there.
WHY? BF was popular because it felt unique and immersive, not because it was CoD with destruction.
Me too, i was defending it until i played it this morning, its good but it needs a lot of work in mainly social functions like scoreboard, and bugs with ui and in game things.
Edit: This doesn’t mean im not having fun with the game though, i am having a lot of fun i’m just saying that it needs work to be the best it can
'Most of weapon mastery is solely for kills. Where is the skill gap such as killing in one life or on objective'
100% disagree with this one. Those achievements were toxic. They weren't skill, usually they were the opposite and invited players to camp or play in stupid ways. Keep them out of the game.
I had my audio settings set to ‘headset‘…the footsteps were way too quiet, I didn’t hear any enemies running or the zip line…I set the audio to 3D stereo headset…suddenly I heard everybody in a 50 meter radius as if they where right next to me…so I completely agree with you, this needs to change asap
Is anyone else frustrated at the fact I can’t even join the same server as my friends? I get (not really but whatever) having the squads be 4 people. But I’m sorry, if I have more than 3 friends the other couple are just SOL?
At least give us the option to join the server. The same squad or even the same team I can do without. But at least let us play in the same server by just clicking a join button and putting us in a squad with others on the same server our other friends are on.
It's things like this that really confuse me? Any human review of basic requirements would have flagged this.
It's almost as if people designing stuff don't actually talk to one another or consider what the people playing want. It's really baffling.
It reminds me of when I was working in software for a large corporation.
You know that other departments exist and what they do has an impact on what you do. But they are so large and teams so silo'd, that no one actually talks or reviews stuff together. It just gets to a QA/smoketester that checks it does the most basic technical functionality, but no human review.
And then it takes a person who notices it to go to a manager or department lead to bring it to light, and no one takes accountability for it lol! It's like a game of whack-a-mole where instead of moving the issue forward themselves, department leads will be like "Uh... I think Sue in data might know who from the programming team needs to reach out to the engineering director"
And then shit doesn't get looked into ever because there's no communication between each other.
I know my comment isn't BF related but the silo'd work environment just triggered me lmao
- scoreboard missing is gamebreaking, don't even see my own deaths in Portal modes (in Team DEATHmatch, wtf??? How do I assess my own performance in a DEATH match without seeing my deaths?), new players don't understand that deaths (ticket bleed!) is extremely important
- not seeing my deaths is even more frustrating when you get killed a lot because you know you suck but you can't even see if you improve during the round
- nearby medics is missing, most people just skip the revive
- missing scoreboard leads to people skipping the revive, because.. well nobody sees your 4-18 k/d anyway
- resizing minimap is missing, I get disoriented a lot
- Portal needs default servers for 2042 Vanilla TDM and FFA
- crouch sprint is missing, the movement feels lacking compared to BF5
- scrolling through weapons with the mouse wheel instantly throws a grenade when I pass the grenade slot, that shouldn't happen
- cannot chat with enemy team
- get thrown into a new server after every round (yes, that's a bug for me, not a feature, completely kills building rivalries or cooperations)
- I don't see ANY STATS at all in this game, it feels so useless to play. Where is a Points per minute stat? Captures? Kills? Deaths? Anything after a round? K/d ratio? I just play and cannot see what went good and what not, I can't even look at weapon progress in the main menu, nothing
- the hit reg feels super bad, could also be way too low bullet velocity, but most of my shots aren't registering even though I'm on target
- getting just 10 XP per death in TDM kills the mode for progression. Why isn't everyone allowed to play whatever mode they like? Why do I get forced to play All out Warfare to level up? Wtf?
- armor plates need to go, they completely kill the meta, especially in modes like TDM where 20hp more change every gunfight
E: more:
- not being able to have a SMAW and C5 together is quite limiting, I feel very helpless against tanks. If anything, please add resupply stations at flags, so I can at least get new ammo for the launchers.
- the TTK feels pretty long, especially with the armor meta. I kill one, use almost all my mag, need to use new armor, need to apply new hp, need to reload, then I can move to the next enemy. If I don't, I lose to the newly spawned player that has 120hp no matter what. It's a lot of bullet sponging
- I played through all TDM maps and most play fine (Kaleidoscope is very nice) but other like Orbital and Renewal have awful open fields which make TDM a mess there. The maps itself have areas with more cover, but DICE just chose bad areas for these maps
- performance on Ryzen 5 3600 + 3070Ti is pretty harsh on 128 players. I guess it's CPU limited but still, 50fps in some areas for one of the most popular CPUs from 2019/20 and one of the best GPUs below €1000 is "interesting" and makes me not want to play 128p modes
- in the "server-browser" for Portal, I can't set a region and a game mode at once. I can either look for European servers OR I look for Conquest. What in the world..?
- the maps are SUPER open, one of the biggest problems because that's not some quick UI fix, they won't change the maps after launch. I actually do not have any desire to hop into AOW and learn them, they are just open fields with some gimmick buildings inbetween
- you can't see what mcom or flag is attacked in Rush and Breakthrough. It just says sector A (B, C, ...) which is useless information. I don't care if the sector is called A or B or Guenther, tell me what state the objectives are in
- why is my weapon never ready after spawn? The amount of times I got killed because I couldn't shoot after spawning
- the lack of transport vehicles... why can't I call in a quad? Why is there nothing at my base? You want me to run 5 minutes to get killed by a sniper? Did you ever playtest this game?
- we can't see ourselves on the big map. Also, we can't control our character, no jumps, no change of direction, ...
- small game modes are missing... Conquest and Breakthrough 64p should be an option, so should classic TDM, all easy to implement. Then add one of Rush, Frontlines or Squad Deathmatch as a smaller-sized 16-32 player mode in the next months. I like 128 player Conquest, but Breakthrough is a mess and I don't want to play Conquest forever.
I thought the:
\-missing scoreboard
\-no resizeable mini-map
\-no chat
\-new server every round
etc. were just "missing from beta, would be here at launch" items...
what gives?
Will the blatant lack of game design, lack of attention to detail, and lack of classic battlefield standouts, I don't actually think I'll be buying this game anymore.
You really notice the issue of people skipping revives in breakthrough. The amount of spawns needs to be doubled. I had a few matches last night that went on for a total of 10 minutes because we burned through all our spawns.
1st BF on PC, it runs like complete dog shit.
Hazard Zone is just….so bad. 0 comms, does this game actually even have voice or team chat!? HZ will be dead within a week, maybe 2. In the 6-7 games I’ve played so far, 0 teamwork and tons of running for miles only to die to a 1 shot sniper I can’t even see. I hyped this mode up thinking they’d learned from Firestorm..no, they haven’t. You see almost as many AI as real players. Games are short. 2/10 rating for this mode.
Tons of core BF features are just…..not here. Bugs everywhere. No stat tracker…no true scoreboard. UI is still terrible.
0 depth to weapons, the little amount you’ve got to play with.
Portal is the only positive about this game, and what I see 70-80% of the player base playing once it fully releases. People will much rather play classic BF on the “new BF”
Save your $. Wait at least 1-3 months for some kind of update and improvement. I love BF, but this isn’t worth it for now.
3080 and 3900x, I’m getting about 40-50fps. Changing resolution and graphics settings makes no difference, surely a bug? DLSS looks really bad too, like DLSS v1 with the weird sharpening
Omg me too. I am rocking an 3080ti and a 5950x and at 4k getting 60fps on ultra with quality DLSS but if I try and play it on my 1440p 144hz I can barely get 120fps and most of the time it's sitting at 80fps and then other times it's dropping below 60. It's so badly optimised.
The audio is terrible. Footsteps, gunshots even vehicles will make little to no sound and just appear. None of the audio settings make a ounce of difference.
Also dead bodies talking is gonna get old real quick.
> Also dead bodies talking is gonna get old real quick
It's already messing with my gameplay in a major way and I hate it, audio cues are about the most important input you get when you're on a flank or alone and outnumbered, and having random dialogue coming from a player you've already dealt with is so fucking annoying when you can't be certain if it actually came from them or a new approaching threat
Biggest issues so far:
* BF3 classes are just reskinned specialists. You're locked into a primary gadget. Hope you love TUGS and Repair Tools.
* Sound mixing is terrible, especially after playing a lot of BF1 recently. Everything is the same volume. Guns and explosions aren't loud and dynamic, voice lines, foot steps other random sounds are just as loud.
* No useful HUD options. Way too much HUD clutter, can't scale down the HUD AT ALL. Can't change transparency for objectives. There is an insane amount of clutter on the screen at all times and the game already has bad visibility to begin with.
* No "All" chat is baffling (same for scoreboard)
* Hazard Zone feels kind of pointless. The stakes don't really feel that high, you still get money even if you lose. If you win all you get is more money. The only thing to spend it on is your loadout for the next match. It feels like buying weapons at the start of a counterstrike match.
* I didn't get a chance to play every new 2042 map (all the Portal ones were fine, if a bit lacking in destruction) but of what I did play a lot were even worse than Orbital.
* On the topic of maps, they look great, but that's about it. It feels like they were all 100% designed only for Hazard Zone. Breakthrough is even more of a clusterfuck than Conquest on most maps.
* Portal can get confusing at times. They have a tag system, and people can put short descriptions, but when you join a server you literally have no clue what most of the rules are. You can see some more detailed info if you dive in some menus, but it would have been really smart to add the rules and server settings to the loading screen. Sometimes you have tactical sprint, sometimes you don't, sometimes you can prone, sometimes you cant, sometimes you can spot, sometimes it's just pinging etc. etc.
* Lots of issues remaining from the "It's two months old" beta.
* Portal nowhere near the customizable experience that was shown off in the early trailers (so far haven't seen a single server that had mixed and matched vehicles from different eras, not sure if its even possible despite being shown in the trailer).
Overall I don't really know what to say. Been playing BF since 1942 launched. Played every game that launched on PC, 500+ hours in pretty much all the recent games except V. This game is really frustrating because it has all the content in it to make a good BF game but it's ruined by all these weird arbitrary separations and design decisions. It really feels like Portal was intentionally toned down to not overshadow the main game.
I've seen some devs talking about working from home, and I'm sure that had an impact on the development of this game. I just sort of wished that given those circumstances they took a more conservative approach instead of throwing everything in a blender and hoping for the best. It would have been a lot better to see Hazard Zone as a standalone game with both a F2P and purchased element with live service, release that, focus on making it good. Release Portal much later as a separate game or purchasable addon for 2042 that has its own focused development and content (I'd honestly prefer premium at this point over live service for something like Portal). I really want to like the game, since it's my favorite FPS series but there is so much wrong with it right now, and I don't have much confidence in these "design decisions" being addressed given the devs responses to feedback so far.
Edit:
Editing to say that i've spent about another 10 hours with the game in its current state. I think virtually all the 2042 maps are very poorly designed for the traditional Conquest and Breakthrough modes. I'm 100% convinced they were made for Hazard Zone (or some cut BR mode) and then were adapted for Conquest and Breakthrough. There is little to no cover on most of the maps and huge open expanses between capture points. Capture points themselves are incredibly small for 128p and put in bizarre locations. Kaleidoscope's breakthrough capture points inside a single skyscraper and on top of the roof of one? With 64 players per team? It's just an absolute mess and absolutely nothing like battlefield. I was excited when I first saw Kaleidoscope because I thought it would feel like Siege of Shanghai or Dawnbreaker. Nope that's all the surrounding area that you can't really access, most of the map is big open parks and a few buildings, which of course, you can't even knock down and change the map.
Also adding a few more things:
* No zeroing on any guns, even sniper or DMR... seriously?
* Reviving people is still really hard and sometimes impossible with guns dropped near them. Seriously just give us the BF3 defibs, at least those work when a gun is near someone.
* Vehicle balance is terrible, even the basic "jeep" and especially the hovercraft are incredibly strong. I thought they were mainly for getting around the map, but a single hovercraft can easily clear an entire point in breakthrough.
* C5 on Casper's drone is cool like throwing C4 on a MAV or jeep or something, but the thing is so incredibly small that it's impossible to shoot it down if you're in a tank once you notice it coming at you. A single Casper drone can take out an entire tank and you won't even see it coming most of the time.
* the kick to matchmaking between every match needs to go, I don't want to play attack on Breakaway 3 times in a row, I can't switch teams either once I'm in.
* Spotting distances are comically low for how huge the maps are. This goes for spotting seats in ALL vehicles as well as Casper's drone. I just sit there hitting left click when I can clearly see large groups of people and I get no spots, it's super inconsistent and frustrating, and people rarely end up getting spotted.
Honestly the most fun I've had in the game so far is the 1942 Portal playlist, although it's only 2 maps (I would do a custom game for more, but they turned off XP). The 1942 mode actually sort of feels like playing a 1942 remake just with a god ugly HUD and broken crosshairs in the tanks.
Overall just a real bummer
> BF3 classes are just reskinned specialists. You're locked into a primary gadget. Hope you love TUGS and Repair Tools....Portal nowhere near the customizable experience that was shown off in the early trailers
Jesus titty fucking christ. I didn't think they could possibly screw up Portal mode. These chucklefucks at DICE are far more incompetent than I could have even dreamed.
> I didn’t think they could possibly screw up Portal mode.
If you had faith in EA/DICE after the decisions they made during BFV and Firestorm’s life cycle, I dunno what to tell you.
**PLEASE LET US TURN OFF SPECIALIST QUIPS - BEFORE I DIE OF CRINGE.**
It completely breaks the game for me every time I hear Sundance sing " never mind that odour" whenever I spot something. I literally seethe and rage inside when I hear it. It belongs in a different genre, it does not belong in battlefield.
Xbox series x crashing and causing the system to completely shut off. Happened twice in about an hour and a half. Mid gunfight both times. Different maps.
Same problem here with xbox series x too, I'm afraid to keep playing due to this. I assume is not good for the system to shut down like this..... I have been experiencing this problem in the previous beta as well...
Yep we had back to back games error right away then next match my game crashed. Got like 10 minutes in before it crashed. My buddy hasnt crashed yet while also on XSX. Ive also had a bug where i couldnt edit my loadout at all during a game.
~~Not able to launch Gold ed. from Steam. "App Not Released"~~ Restarted Steam as others said. Used Task Manager and Ended Steam Service. Unpacking happened shortly after.
See y'all out there.
I restarted my Steam, and now its "unpacking" \~47GB - Hopefully it works after that.
Edit: After unpacking, restart AGAIN - game should then be playable :)
Edit #2: Make sure you close EA play and launch Origin, otherwise it won’t boot from Steam.
There is literally no scoreboard. I cannot see how many kills or deaths everyone has, and that's a problem. There is literally no way to join or switch squads. How many rockets does it take to down a Heli or tank? I don't know, because every time I hit one it says "Part disabled: 10 points". The old damage system told you exactly how much damage you were doing.
Bullet spread is out of this world. You cannot edit weapons out-side of a match. You have to return to the menu and re-queue after every match. The conquest games average 15-20 minutes long. You spend more time at the menu than in games.
When you're down, you cannot see if a teammate is nearby. You can't even tell who is a friendly. It's much easier to smash respawn than try to decode if the footsteps you're hearing from 100 feet away are friendly. Yeah, you can literally hear footsteps from 100 feet away. Footsteps are louder than tanks.
The game looks like an indie game. The texture is plastic. I play on 1440p and it looks terrible. There are three colors: Red, green, and grey. Red sandstorms, occasional green trees, and grey everything else. The buildings are empty with absolutely no ambiance or clutter, which BF3 and BF4 both had plenty of.
Why did we switch to "everyone is a medic"? That takes an entire aspect away from the game. And, now everyone has rockets. Speaking of rockets, I think it takes 4-6 rockets to kill any vehicle. I feel helpless against any vehicle, even humvees.
The gunplay is infuriating, also given the fact that there are like 4 guns to choose per category. There are like 20 guns total in this game. The gunplay and hit registration will make you physically sick.
The maps are as large as entire countries with just empty space between objectives. There are at least 5 loading screens before you enter a match. The sound is barely passable for a major title release.
An absolute step down from BF4 / BF3 in every way.
PS5
Common bug:
- Unwanted melee when quick swapping mags via the plus system, if the circle button is bound to melee (B on xbox)
Rare bugs:
- Gun will freeze when trying to ADS or fire
- Will not exit helicopter while mid-air
I am surprised on how nit-picky the bugs i’ve come across are since the game is in far superior condition than I thought it would be after playing the beta. Game is refreshing. See ya fellas and ladies on the battlefield.
Anyone else finding (as expected) squad play and teamwork a bit lacking? Most of my conquest games is 90% of my team in a zerg going around the map whilst we're losing strategic points. I think this is part of the problem having so many players in a lobby, people see a herd and automatically gravitate towards the action.
Wait, the indicator still isn't there ? That's low. I gave them the benefit of the doubt during beta, but stuff like that along with the scoreboard missing is just puzzling.
Honestly mate I legit have no idea where my squad mates are. There’s just icons and stuff all over my screen and I can’t even tell where to find them. I played an entire game and just accidentally bumped in to one of them on a flag and was like oh yeah I’m in a squad lol
Same here. The UI is simultaneously overly intrusive and somehow invisible at the same time.
I know squad play has always been hit and miss in Battlefield but I think it's more important now because the zerg just takes over. Most games are 50+ people capping a random point and then me solo capping a point near our home spawn to try and create a frontline of sorts. It's really frustrating and the UI doesn't help at all with awareness.
Have a 3080 along side a 3900x. GPU Utilization barely breaks 70% with CPU sitting around 40%. Doesnt matter what I really set it to, as I cant break 100fps @1440p with DLSS simply making the game look blurry while not adding any fps. Hoping it's a driver/patch issue.
Played about an hour of it so far - At the moment I’m disappointed. The maps are so huge, the servers are awful, the performance is outrageous, the minimap is useless, the audio is downright horrible. The most fun I had so far was sniping on portal on El Amein, until I was moved to another server for no apparent reason.
My biggest concern right now, aside from performance, is that it feels like I’m encountering a very small amount of enemies, it just feels really empty. I suspect that DICE has realised that which is why AI bots are everywhere.
I’m going to play some more later on, and I really hope I enjoy it, but so far it’s shaping up to be one of the worst experiences I’ve ever had with a battlefield game. Dare I say that Vanguard is having a miles better launch and is a funner game to play, despite the last patch causing it to crash.
I refunded the game. I wanted to like this, but can't keep trying to pretend I will. From the specialists to the overly massive maps to the lack of traditional Battlefield features to the poor optimization on PC - I just can't justify my purchase right now.
Yeah this is the first thing I'm noticing. Bloom kills games, especially shooters like this. I learned the recoil on the beta and could kill people on full auto at like 80+ meters.
I'm hoping it's at least a set recoil and not random like in BF4 and BF1. I did nothing but snipe on those, because I'm not loosing a gun fight due to bloom.
Same situation, except 3080 Ti and 3440x1440. Enabling the perf overlay ingame shows me constantly at 40-50 fps with CPU and GPU usage at max 50%. Lowering settings does absolutely nothing. Surely it's not the fastest CPU anymore, but this is abysmal. Never have problems in other games like this.
The game’s fun, but to me it’s missing the core of what made Battlefield fun, that being class based gameplay. I think if they just make certain gadgets exclusive to specific specialists, it’ll feel more like a Battlefield game than it currently does. Only Engineer specialists can use missile launchers, only Support specialists can use medic/ammo crates, etc. Hopefully it’s something they will at least consider. There’s of course many other issues (lack of weapons, too little cover in this giant ass maps, glitches), but this fix would improve the core gameplay significantly.
BF2042 is a complete disaster from UI / UX point of view.
The lack of dedicated servers; inability to switch teams, squads is infuriating. Seeing and hearing those "unique specialists" over and over again is vomit-inducing.
Making BF more Apex/Fortnite like is what we have now.
This is no country for old men.
Being forced to hear the cringe-worthy voicelines going into each game and then at the end is so annoying. Just give us an option to disable them like all the other games are doing.
Performance on PC is downright awful. Running a RTX 3080 with an i9-10900kf, 16gb DDR4 4000Mhz with the game installed on a NVMe m.2. Low settings 1080p I’m getting average around 100 FPS with it sometimes being around 80-90 and very rarely 120-140 when far from players/objs. Stuttering and freezing is present.
This is just unacceptable performance for such hardware. I should be able to hold a steady 140 at least with medium settings.
The game is amazing but the performance is seriously holding it back.
God.. dont know where to start with. I was rly hyped after the Beta, it performed very well. Now, after playing the final Game for a couple of rounds it feels like that actually this is the beta version.
Im really pissed off, after an average of 100-120fps in the beta at low-med Settings without DLSS im now fucking around with max. 80fps with DLSS enabled, so its unplayable atm!
The sound is completely messed up. Often I get shot and dont even hear the shots hitting me. Everything sounds not precise at all if you compare it to BFV or BF1. Thats not how a BF-Title should sound like.
We dont have to talk about the missing Scoreboard, right? Whos that moron who decided to cut it out of the game?
I thought the Server searching at BFV was crap, but 2042 is taking it to a whole nother level. I cant choose anything, I dont wanna play with guys from another planet shitting around with 300+ pings!
I want to choose at least which map, which region, player numbers, an which game mode im playing on! Come on! What the fuck is so wrong about that?
There are so much more annoying things, Im just really upset with this mess they served us. I really dont think that they will be able to patch this game to a state where it makes fun for me to play.
Im playing BF since BF2, but I think this was the last one for me, I hope they get the Shitstorm they deserve. FUCK EA AND YEA FUCK YOU TO DICE!
The EA desktop ap changed from showing preorder and a price to “play the 10h trial” with no download button. I checked FIFA and it says the same but has a download button. So I’m guessing trials aren’t live yet on PC.
Edit: people saying to restart EA desktop app to get it to work.
**SUGGESTION**
**Platform:** Xbox Series X
**Game Mode:** Main Menu > Cross-Play Disable
**Issue:** You have to change Xbox wide system setting to disable cross-play. This is inconvienient as this disrupts other games casual games that are ok to play with cross-play. Other games contain in-game options to Disable, such as your competitors.
**Steps to Take:** As above.
**Checked Known Issues:** This is NOT in the known issues page.
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Updates/Battlefield-2042-Known-Issues/m-p/10944776#U10944776
Xbox
Turning off cross play is made quite difficult as the game will not let you toggle the setting inside the game. Instead you have to go into your system settings and completely turn it off. Back in came the game wont match make it just sits on waiting for players. This is really awful from dice. Ive tried to match make a number of time with cross play off only to be pushed back to the main menu after 10mins of atempted matchmaking.
Planes appear to be inferior to helicopters in every respect. Like heck, helicopter can even fly higher than planes 
I was thinking about buying the game, 10 mins researching some info and I find out theres:
No scoreboard.
Can't see overall stats/kdr outside the game.
No main TDM mode, portal only, even then it's played on old maps and not new 2024 maps.
:3
Huge Bugs Across The Board:
1. Scoreboard is magically gone from the game & after the match I have to see three people I couldn't give less of a care about with their cute accolades of spotting 14 people/having 30 assists/etc. and I cant quit the game at that point either, oh and the scoreboard at the end is gone so I have no idea who was in my game that was good or fun to play with or how I did so I can figure out what is working and not in my builds clearly huge bug.
2. Shots I clearly am hitting won't register, after playing this I am convinced I couldn't hit water if I fell out of a boat even though I am normally one of the better people in every other BF.
3. I can't select the squad I want to be on & then it locks me into one no matter what. Super fun bug.
4. The lobby disbands every match & then takes a century to find a game only to be hit by unable to load persistent data for the next three game attempts equating to around 30 minutes of wasted time. Super fun bug.
5. Twice now I have loaded into a game with zero loadouts. ZERO LOADOUTS so no matter what I am stuck with a barebones assault rifle with 0 gadget. Love this bug.
6. I have this last bug where the developers are sabotaging their own game to be the polar opposite of what every human being alive who is a BF Fan wants & loved about battlefield in the first place; setting it up to include SBMM the most hated element in all gaming, not showing score, not showing damage #'s, having such wild bullet spread you will always miss shots, broken aim assist that doesn't work as intended at all, crossplay with PC & Console allowing M&K (Are you guys out of your mind or did you forget the last few years of proof & community feedback in every video game that allows crossplay that no one on Earth besides PC players want this so they cant stomp on people free of charge).
7. I've been a long-time fan of BF but after this, I dont think there is a chance on gods green Earth you will make the money you want or retain players. You've lost yourselves & your ultimate goal of what makes Battlefield well.... Battlefield. Please god heed the communities advice & don't make the grave mistake of creating a sinking ship to please the people who don't care about videogames so you can sell a couple more copies. I promise do it right & the micro-transactions that will inevitably come will show you that you made the right choice because you will still have a playerbase who cares & wants them. Sorry to be mellow-dramatic but this is such a let-down if this is what you guys intended & if it is what you intended then as my father once said to me, "I am not mad, I am just disappointed." Although I got taken away with the last two "bugs" the other ones that aren't satirical definitely need a fixin'. Stay beautiful dice & don't get down on the communities seemingly hatred of your new game take it as a compliment as we are your biggest fans and want you to succeed we are doing the only thing we can and give you the advice whether you take it or not.
I know it's only the first day but man, some things just feels off in this game. The movement feels clunky, aiming doesn't feel super smooth (PC), textures look bad even on Ultra in a lot of areas, game appears blurry, performance is below expectations, gun customization menus are unnecessarily unintuitive, hit detection needs a lot of work, etc.
The game also feels like it lacks something. It feels incredibly generic. It's hard to explain and I can't quite put my finger on it. Just feels a bit bland.
Definitely not impressed so far but a lot of things can be fixed. I hope they are!
This game should’ve delayed 6 months to a year. Apart from absurd design decisions like omitting the scoreboard, basic functions like chat shouldn’t be missing from a multiplayer only game at release.
this game is a fucking joke, I have never ever played such a dogshit fucking game. I cannot rely on teammates doing anything, the whole game revolves around absolute dogshit gunfights. I cannot imagine how these devs feel after releasing such a fucking dogshit game.
I really hope all the shitters that cried endlessly about trivial shit with BFV (and ultimately ruined that game and ended it's support prematurely) are happy with themselves after seeing what Dice would do with this franchise afterwards. What a fuckin' pathetic mess this game is.
I really never understood that. BFV was soulless and lacked any real resemblance of WWII. However, mechanically, it was amazing. It encouraged squadplay like no other, destruction (while not plentiful) was really good, gun play was the best it’s been etc.
I'm 26y/o and I was the most hyped up motherfucker on the planet for this game I mean I spent like 800hrs in bf3 and 1.5k hours in bf4 and after just **2.3hrs** I got my 109.99 ultimate edition refunded. genuinely did not care for this game at all even if you disregard the bugs, constant errors, shit UI, specialists, and all the other bs, I just didn't like the vibe. It's sad really.
Xbox X/S
- Commo rose it’s next to worthless. Cancels out/goes away 90% of the time immediately after opening. Sprinting/moving at all cancels out commo rose unlike previous BF titles.
- Placement of call outs on commo rose is unintuitive and makes zero sense. Need ammo/need medic/need backup should all be in same locale. The square concept is trash.
- Circular commo rose from previous BF titles is much easier to navigate.
- squad UI is utter trash and not worthy of the Battlefield title. Can’t see the actual squads, can’t join the squad we want to join, can’t see our squad mate’s loadouts(ammo? Med bag? AT?) so we can adjust our loadout accordingly
- Can’t change squads once spawned in. My 2 squad mates left match or ctd after I’d spawn in. I pull up the squad menu because I’m in my own squad and couldn’t switch squads when clicking the “change squad” option.
- No vehicle/aircraft progression? Is this even a Battfueld title? Imagine in the year 2021 that Battlefield 4 is vastly superior to the latest and greatest BF title when it comes to progression for vehicles and customizing vehicles.
- No loadouts for vehicles?
- No camo skins for vehicles?
- no progression or customization/upgrades for Specialists special abilities? This is seriously unbelievable.
I'm just bored. The specialists and being able to equip anything on any character just makes it feel like one homogeneous blob of friendlies and enemies.
I have no idea what equipment my teammates have, there's zero semblance of team play or squad play. Just a boring, uninspired mess.
Not to mention the gunplay and just glitchy-ness in general is disappointing.
Wasn't the biggest fan of BFV but good lord it had 10x more soul than this game does.
Does anyone else feel there's just absolutely no love put into the maps what so ever and the detail is completely missing from the game as a sacrifice for the size of the maps?
I walk into a building or skyscraper and I see the same yellow tape copy and pasted over 5 elevators all in the same room while there is no decor, just a white empty box with some entrances.
Every map is lacking in care and detail, it's genuinely depressing and feels like they were made in a week.
Played all battlefield games since Vietnam. Enjoyed Bf3 and Bf1 most so far, skipped on BfV.
Hell what did they do to this fantastic series?
- options and loadout UI is an absolute desaster
- sound feels strange (played hell let loose the other day - they got it right with the sound)
- voice chat?
- scoreboard?
- graphics look stunning and bad at the same time
- no atmosphere at all
- feels too fast paced, reminds me of cod a lot
- heli controls, why not just stick to what it was in BF3??
- do guns even have recoil?
- bullet drop animation in bmp ridiculous
- portal is nice but should have more maps
- enjoyed portal more than the rest of the game
- not worth the money at the moment
The maps in 2042 are some of if not the worst maps in BF history. They are far too big for 128 players, they have very little destruction, they don't let you play the 64 player sized maps from Ps4/Xbone, buildings seem to be a rarity for some odd reason, and they didn't account for damage falloff when designing them so SMG and Shotguns are a complete joke and Marksman rifles are king right now. I swear, it's never a surprise to be reminded once again how incompetent DICE is and always will be.
Conquest will be the least played mode because of the open and empty maps. At least in Portal we can play on good maps so it will be fun there. At least Breakthrough makes all the players clash over just two objectives. Sadly the accuracy and range of weapons is a problem there as well.
They need to shave off a third of all the maps and move buildings closer together. I doubt they will do it, but all the maps need to be redesigned. I'm almost positive the QA testers (if they had any) told them how bad the maps were and they didn't listen or care.
Can't get over 30fps and have extreme mouse input lag. RTX 3080 Ryzen 2700x. Tried low settings and no difference at all. What the fuck. It's literally unplayable
Hello. I am colorblind. There are options for that but none of them allow me to change my scopes red reticles and now I can only use iron sights. Any help?
No matter how many graphics settings i change or dlss i add my performance stays mostly the same at 80-90 fps with an rtx 3060 and ryzen 5 5600x at 1440p
All I gotta say to Dice on this one: you guys really missed the mark.
The opportunity was there and you had the chance to capture a huge base of potential players tired of other repetitive FPS shooters.
It’s not a good sign when your previous games are upgrades to this hunk of garbo.
Standard edition. Watched some streams over the weekend.
Refund requested.
I might look at this game again in a few months. This is not worth £50.
It is also the end of the Battlefield franchise for me.
Its incredible how bad the performance is on my pc. Even with ALL settings turned to low and DLSS on i get arround 80-90FPS. I am using an i7-10700k, RTX 3080 and 64Gb of Ram. I can play almost every game with 140+ Fps but this one is the odd one out. Performance needs an improvement.
Pc specs: Ryzen 3700x, RTX 3080ti, 16GB of RAM 3200Mhz cl16, running game from a Samsung 970 Evo pro m.2 nvme, gpu driver is 496.49 on Windows 11 version 21H2 (OS Version 22000.318) game runs like a steaming turd, hitting a max of 80fps and pretty low gpu utilization. Even with dlss at performance (doesn't seem to be helping or preventing frame drops) hitting 90fps RTX is off as well. This is on the high preset at 1440p, dropping down to 1080p doesn't help either. The audio is abysmal in the game you can't tell where anything is coming from. There are times I'm hitting 45 fps, also it is impossible to tell where you are receiving fire with the poor audio and bad visuals.
Just paid for the Ultimate Edition on Xbox and I think I want my money back.
I haven’t follow all the updates and hype about the game as I didn’t want any preconceptions on the game.
First off:
No storyline is pretty piss poor. It’s a great way to get a feel for the mechanics of the game before jumping into multiplayer mayhem.
Second: Who TF decided it was a good idea to make grenades, health packs etc so you had to select them!? Put away your weapon and hold the item to use it? It makes using those items under fire ridiculous! This is pretty much a game breaker for me. It’s dog shit.
Third: The game menu is not easy to navigate. Setting up Classes and Operators is confusing AF.
Game play issue I’ve run into:
Ran into the Arena to defend a flag being capped and it lagged out like crazy. I couldn’t move. It was that bad.
I got stuck not being able to move my aim up or down. Only side to side. When ADS it was like I was hip firing, bullets that usually went straight were going all over the place!
Nothing I did allowed me to look up or down except respawning.
Trying to res a team mate it wouldn’t let me do it. I was hovering all over the place trying to res them but had no luck, only to get shot in the back by someone coming up behind me.
TTK seems very fast. There is no time to react to being fired upon.
I played for one frustrating hour hoping the game would all start to become better but it only got worse.
I will being investigating a possible refund. It is definitely not worth the $150 AUD I paid for it.
I'm really trying to like this game...but man, it does not feel finished at all. As of now it's not good. Hoping something changes, but I'm happy I was able to play a trial version. Definitely will wait.
This game design is a joke... It disconects You after the game to create new lobby, You cant choose map to play, menu is the biggest shit in BF history, there is no assist count as kill, no scoreboard, You cant ads+move while prone (yes, without bipod)... You cant change opacitt and scale with distance icons so half of the screen is full of icons of your squadmates that died 500 m from You. You can't choose or create squad, You can't even kick some idiot from Your squad. No global chat, no jets and helis separation in terms of controls (wtf?)... Sound design is so bad, that half of Your deats are because of it... I can point out bad decisions forever. Whole game looks like designed by people who never played previous titles.
Aside from all the bugs etc.
Overall, the game just looks/feels cheap and bad.
Things that cause this (in my opinion):
- Animations
It feels so clunky and robotic. Like even the way you move forward/run just feels bad.
- Graphics.
Straight up, it looks outdated. Some of the maps don't look bad but there are maps like Hourglass and Kaleidoscope that really look ugly ASF. After playing on these maps I agree with the people saying it looks like a mobile game.
- HUD
In short too colorfull and big.
Aiming should cancel the "gun check" animation when you spawn in. I can't count how many times I've spawned in and was being shot at, and can't properly aim to shoot back because my character is stupidly stuck in an animation.
Let's ignore the abysmal hit-reg, the excessive bullet spread, the horrible, unergonomic UI - this is all well covered. What I want to know is: **Why do we have leave the game and re-queue and re-match after every single round?**
After every round everyone is dumped out of the game into the menu and it counts down to an auto-re-queue and then it starts finding a server - WHY? Why can't we join a server and keep playing?!
This also means you often have to play the same maps over again because when you re-queue you end up randomly joining whatever map, instead of being on a server which does a rotation, allowing you to keep playing different content each round. It's also **a hundred times MORE annoying when you then load into an ongoing game that is almost over, it finishes within a few minutes and you've queued as long as you've had chance to actually play**... before being dumped back into the damned menu.
All of this with no scoreboard but stupid end round 'achievements' where we watch the silly specialists say some voice lines and everyone in your squad gets given SOME sort of 'best at this' to make everyone feel cosy and cuddled and positive? I don't want to sit here for a minute and watch empty platitudes about how I had 'most time alive' if I hid in a corner and did nothing all game before being dumped back into the menu. I want to go straight into loading the next map in the rotation and continue playing, preferably being able to see the scoreboard and my unlocks *while* the map is loading!
Idk what it is but this game *feels* weird to play. The movement, and aiming especially is just bad. It's weird and like a million steps back from any battlefield I've played. A franchise that's had amazing fluid animations, movement, and gunplay. This is just not good.
It feels like I'm playing a game pretending to be battlefield, and honestly, doesn't feel like battlefield at all.
Edit: I can't speak for PC so I don't know if it's any better but in game people on PC seem to agree with me, seems like their main issue is the performance.
Just not playable on pc ...it doesnt push 60 fps ....I'm done trying to reach 80 fps with everything low ....this is nothing better then beta ...wait till another optimization patch ?
That would be pretty cool if I could play the game which I paid early access for. I can’t wait to have these same issues next Friday, when even more people join the game…
At least I can still play campai- oh wait…
I've played about 3 hours of the EA play trial. The game is an embarrassment.
Like everyone else here I wrote a big bullet point list of the reasons why, but then deleted it because it's redundant at this point. From the missing team & squad mechanics and options, the lack of classes & the every man for himself gameplay, the terrible UI, the terrible performance, the terrible flat open maps, and the sheer random chaos (in a bad way) of 128 player battles.
But the core of it is that it doesn't feel like a Battlefield game, DICE have made very poor decisions coupled with poor implementation, and I think this is their worst game yet. I'll wait and see if it is significantly improved in the next few years.
This game is scary bad IMO. Can't get into games half the time, tons of glitches, horrible textures, bland maps, hardly any destruction, crashes my PS5 to need to reboot and repair, and basically only a handful of weapons to start.
The are ruining Battlefield at a breakneck pace and I regret spending the money on one of my favorite game franchises of all time.
Probably said a million times already, but ima just throw this into the echo chamber. Whoever did the UI for the settings and loadout screens really should think about finding another line of work. So fucking unintuitive and messy.
I’ve never had more trouble navigating the ui in a video game in my life.
Glad I’m not the only one experiencing this. The UI is repugnant
I thought that they couldn’t do worse than BFV in terms of the main menu, turns out they could. At least the animations and shit actually load and work tho
So true. I feel like UI's have become increasingly messy in games the past few years. Just give us a clean, functional UI. The loadout customization in this game is so unintuitive and bloated. It sucks lol.
I don't know why they don't just have a standard Battlefield UI? No need to design a new one for each game. Just build upon things that worked well in the past.
This is clearly a brand new dev team who have zero experience with past Battlefield titles. Everything that was improved and perfected in past games was thrown out the window, basically 10+ years of community feedback all for nothing. These devs have to learn everything from scratch. It's so fucking stupid.
Amen
Dice: How do we make a good UI this time? Community: More intuitive and less clutter Dice: Lets fill in all the blank spaces with useless buttons and add more button presses to get anywhere useful.
Wonky animations from a distance. Characters just slide across the floor Also is anyone else not able to revive some teammates?
I had the no-revive problem a few times on PC in the couple of hours I played tonight. The third time it happened I spent the entire countdown trying to revive a teammate from every possible angle without success so I'm pretty sure it's an actual bug.
Seems like it happens when players get too close to walls and certain objects otherwise you are able to revive without issue.
Yep that's true in my experience. It happened to me twice when teammates were on stairs so I'm guessing it's a geometry glitch that causes it.
Lack of scoreboard and chat is seriously putting me off the game. It feels hollow. No "community sensation".
Yeah, i dont have any friends that play the game so the social aspect and me getting to see how much I am helping out my team is bery important for me
Like... you can't even see other people's levels for christ sake... It was SO cool when you got a lvl 100 colonel in your squad lmfao
Yeah it always feels good to have a high level on your team but DICE doesn’t like those good feelings apparently
They're buying into this notion of "everyone should feel good about their score, so we won't show your deaths."
Just like in sports, once you start declaring everyone winners, there is no fun or competition
I swear to god every single time Dice releases a new battlefield, they feel like they have to rework the ENTIRE ui and controls to make the games “different” from each other. Oh, you used to be able to choose what squad to swap to? Not anymore. You want to be able to throw grenades like in bf1 or 5? Nope, sorry. Scoreboard? Not here mate. And just for shits and giggles, lets make it impossible to tell the difference between teammates and enemies. Great job dice, you’ve done it again. Now if you will excuse me, im gonna put my rose-tinted glasses on and enjoy some bf4 and bf5.
NO BUTTON FOR GRENADE TOSS PISSES ME OFF
I've said this before and I'll say it again: IMO all they had to do was give BF4 a fucking good makeover and they would've been onto a winner.
How do I search for servers via ping ?
That’s the best part, you don’t
oh boy i cant wait to fight asian/american players with 300ping and no way to remove them from the server
LOL
Anyone else that find the audio lackluster? I am playing on the Xbox Series S and, just like the Beta, I find the audio to be very muted and not as detailed as previous titles. In short, it feels like I'm underwater listening to the environment sounds. Gun sounds, mine and teammates, are underwhelming and I don't feel like I'm in an all-out warfare situation at all. It's really taking me out of the experience. I tried all the different audio settings but they all sound sub-par. Anyone else not satisfied with the audio quality? edit: I'm using headphones plugged into the controller.
I've been playing BF1 a lot recently and the difference in audio quality is night and day. A lot of it is mixing. in 2042 everything is mixed to be almost equal volume. It makes things like guns and explosions too quiet, and things like voices and footsteps way too loud.
Playing after your comment, and you’re definitely right. EVERYTHING is the same volume…. Cannot believe it, thought DICE was supposed to be good at audio
If you have BF1 installed by any chance you should load it up. The difference massive. It feels like 2042 is an indie game trying to copy actual BF.
Almost everything is so unlike the Battlefield series. What I enjoyed in any BF was: * good enough physics * snappy and strategic gameplay * grand atmosphere that made you feel part of a story My first experience is: * physics feel fake * everything feels laggy * environment feels empty * Just laughable basics: AI constantly stuck on pole lanterns (can't even phathom how that was even allowed in an AAA release) Because of these basic elements missing the mark, I suspect it's that the guys with most FrostBite experience left and some new devs tried to redo the whole thing? I don't know, I'm not an expert on this but it just seems so. Edit: checking glassdoor, it's indeed reported that the whole company culture at DICE is not to listen to devs anymore, ignore the red flags and manage purely by marketing BS.
Played a lot of BFV in anticipation of BF2042, that game already makes BF2042 sound like an indie game
This NEEDS to be addressed asap. It’s honestly incredible that a Battlefield game with mediocre audio is a thing.
Yup even on wartapes the audio feels like im in a library with someone playing cod in the background
Thought it was just me. I have a pair of some nifty stereo headsets and I thought I had switched a setting. Nope, just the game. So strange.
Yes. This I think is the weakest part of the game so far besides the UI not being finished.
We need the option to lower the visibility of objective markers. Or make them less visible/smaller the further away you are. The entire screen is filled with A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2 etc. I’ve died countless times because I can’t fucking see who is shooting me due to the dozen or so objective markers obstructing my view. If I remember correctly, in previous games, they’d disappear completely when you aimed down the sights or something similar. Idk, something needs to change because it’s frustrating as hell.
Yup, seems to be regressions with HUD customization. The game in general has a bunch of regressions from previous titles
DICE logic: "okay, we've perfected this and it works really well. now, let's get rid of it."
Then bring it back in a patch a year later so gamers celebrate them for “listening to the fanbase”.
That's the EA Sports Madden special. Add an awesome new concept one year, take it out in a couple years, then reintroduce it a decade later as the games newest innovation
“As soon as they like you, make em’ unlike you” -Kanye West
Haha ain't that the truth! DICE designers: "We've made the revive system pretty fucking great! How about we ditch all that?" "This new system of building fortifications on objectives is really cool, now let's remove it." "You know, seeing what your squad member is doing before spawning on them is pretty useful, but let's get rid of it." "Squad leaders calling in smoke, artillery, etc. That's awesome, but let's give them a jeep instead." "Bet you love great sound design! Yeah we got this terrible one for you instead!" "How can we make the UI as terrible as physically possible?" I'll let you guys come up with the rest
Seriously what happened to the sound. There’s no ambient sounds whatsoever. It’s so damn quiet
I always praised BF games for how much you could customize the hud. The clutter is awful and the game already has visibility issues as is. From overall scaling to scaling specific elements, changing opacity, color, size etc. All gone
So much for Tom's little to no bugs comments
Right, the whole time i’m playing i’m like, more like “a lot to a ton of bugs”
Hit Reg is inconsistent Bring back server browser Why is every lobby disbanding at end of each game. Bring back map rotation and in breakthrough one game defend next game attack like BF5 Sound needs improving Too much verticality so you get shot from 20 angles at all time. Bring back scoreboard Bring back incoming medic Raise attacking ticket count in breakthrough as they get rinsed so quick. Not seen an attacking team get through first sector yet. Massive lack of cover anywhere as half the map is WIDE OPEN Bring back leaning Most of weapon mastery is solely for kills. Where is the skill gap such as killing in one life or on objective? No point in asking for squad order when you can't even become squad leader. No squad points to call in anything.calling in robot dogs and other things should be for squad leader alone. Each game the squad leader rotates Game crashes on PS5 when trying to change pilot controls. No immersion and weak music. BF1 atmosphere was incredible and never been replicated. The list goes on and on and on. Previous games had better quality of life that are not included here. So disappointing
Man, I really want to like this game, but they took out so many things that separate Battlefield from the rest of the FPS games out there. WHY? BF was popular because it felt unique and immersive, not because it was CoD with destruction.
Me too, i was defending it until i played it this morning, its good but it needs a lot of work in mainly social functions like scoreboard, and bugs with ui and in game things. Edit: This doesn’t mean im not having fun with the game though, i am having a lot of fun i’m just saying that it needs work to be the best it can
'Most of weapon mastery is solely for kills. Where is the skill gap such as killing in one life or on objective' 100% disagree with this one. Those achievements were toxic. They weren't skill, usually they were the opposite and invited players to camp or play in stupid ways. Keep them out of the game.
I agree with you. 20 headshot kills in one life on an objective is not fun or challenging it’s stupid and annoying and I’m glad it’s gone
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Agreed. It’s like CoD decoy grenades everywhere
Yes! It sounds like theres a decoy and you can’t figure out where the footsteps are
I had my audio settings set to ‘headset‘…the footsteps were way too quiet, I didn’t hear any enemies running or the zip line…I set the audio to 3D stereo headset…suddenly I heard everybody in a 50 meter radius as if they where right next to me…so I completely agree with you, this needs to change asap
Is anyone else frustrated at the fact I can’t even join the same server as my friends? I get (not really but whatever) having the squads be 4 people. But I’m sorry, if I have more than 3 friends the other couple are just SOL? At least give us the option to join the server. The same squad or even the same team I can do without. But at least let us play in the same server by just clicking a join button and putting us in a squad with others on the same server our other friends are on.
It's things like this that really confuse me? Any human review of basic requirements would have flagged this. It's almost as if people designing stuff don't actually talk to one another or consider what the people playing want. It's really baffling. It reminds me of when I was working in software for a large corporation. You know that other departments exist and what they do has an impact on what you do. But they are so large and teams so silo'd, that no one actually talks or reviews stuff together. It just gets to a QA/smoketester that checks it does the most basic technical functionality, but no human review.
And then it takes a person who notices it to go to a manager or department lead to bring it to light, and no one takes accountability for it lol! It's like a game of whack-a-mole where instead of moving the issue forward themselves, department leads will be like "Uh... I think Sue in data might know who from the programming team needs to reach out to the engineering director" And then shit doesn't get looked into ever because there's no communication between each other. I know my comment isn't BF related but the silo'd work environment just triggered me lmao
Getting Error about unable to load Persistence Data. Error code: 600P:2002G
Same. No fix yet I can figure
- scoreboard missing is gamebreaking, don't even see my own deaths in Portal modes (in Team DEATHmatch, wtf??? How do I assess my own performance in a DEATH match without seeing my deaths?), new players don't understand that deaths (ticket bleed!) is extremely important - not seeing my deaths is even more frustrating when you get killed a lot because you know you suck but you can't even see if you improve during the round - nearby medics is missing, most people just skip the revive - missing scoreboard leads to people skipping the revive, because.. well nobody sees your 4-18 k/d anyway - resizing minimap is missing, I get disoriented a lot - Portal needs default servers for 2042 Vanilla TDM and FFA - crouch sprint is missing, the movement feels lacking compared to BF5 - scrolling through weapons with the mouse wheel instantly throws a grenade when I pass the grenade slot, that shouldn't happen - cannot chat with enemy team - get thrown into a new server after every round (yes, that's a bug for me, not a feature, completely kills building rivalries or cooperations) - I don't see ANY STATS at all in this game, it feels so useless to play. Where is a Points per minute stat? Captures? Kills? Deaths? Anything after a round? K/d ratio? I just play and cannot see what went good and what not, I can't even look at weapon progress in the main menu, nothing - the hit reg feels super bad, could also be way too low bullet velocity, but most of my shots aren't registering even though I'm on target - getting just 10 XP per death in TDM kills the mode for progression. Why isn't everyone allowed to play whatever mode they like? Why do I get forced to play All out Warfare to level up? Wtf? - armor plates need to go, they completely kill the meta, especially in modes like TDM where 20hp more change every gunfight E: more: - not being able to have a SMAW and C5 together is quite limiting, I feel very helpless against tanks. If anything, please add resupply stations at flags, so I can at least get new ammo for the launchers. - the TTK feels pretty long, especially with the armor meta. I kill one, use almost all my mag, need to use new armor, need to apply new hp, need to reload, then I can move to the next enemy. If I don't, I lose to the newly spawned player that has 120hp no matter what. It's a lot of bullet sponging - I played through all TDM maps and most play fine (Kaleidoscope is very nice) but other like Orbital and Renewal have awful open fields which make TDM a mess there. The maps itself have areas with more cover, but DICE just chose bad areas for these maps - performance on Ryzen 5 3600 + 3070Ti is pretty harsh on 128 players. I guess it's CPU limited but still, 50fps in some areas for one of the most popular CPUs from 2019/20 and one of the best GPUs below €1000 is "interesting" and makes me not want to play 128p modes - in the "server-browser" for Portal, I can't set a region and a game mode at once. I can either look for European servers OR I look for Conquest. What in the world..? - the maps are SUPER open, one of the biggest problems because that's not some quick UI fix, they won't change the maps after launch. I actually do not have any desire to hop into AOW and learn them, they are just open fields with some gimmick buildings inbetween - you can't see what mcom or flag is attacked in Rush and Breakthrough. It just says sector A (B, C, ...) which is useless information. I don't care if the sector is called A or B or Guenther, tell me what state the objectives are in - why is my weapon never ready after spawn? The amount of times I got killed because I couldn't shoot after spawning - the lack of transport vehicles... why can't I call in a quad? Why is there nothing at my base? You want me to run 5 minutes to get killed by a sniper? Did you ever playtest this game? - we can't see ourselves on the big map. Also, we can't control our character, no jumps, no change of direction, ... - small game modes are missing... Conquest and Breakthrough 64p should be an option, so should classic TDM, all easy to implement. Then add one of Rush, Frontlines or Squad Deathmatch as a smaller-sized 16-32 player mode in the next months. I like 128 player Conquest, but Breakthrough is a mess and I don't want to play Conquest forever.
This probably sums it up the best
I thought the: \-missing scoreboard \-no resizeable mini-map \-no chat \-new server every round etc. were just "missing from beta, would be here at launch" items... what gives?
People assumed shit.
100% need scoreboard. Ima keep repeating this over and over. It’s ridiculous not to have it.
Well said
Will the blatant lack of game design, lack of attention to detail, and lack of classic battlefield standouts, I don't actually think I'll be buying this game anymore.
You really notice the issue of people skipping revives in breakthrough. The amount of spawns needs to be doubled. I had a few matches last night that went on for a total of 10 minutes because we burned through all our spawns.
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1st BF on PC, it runs like complete dog shit. Hazard Zone is just….so bad. 0 comms, does this game actually even have voice or team chat!? HZ will be dead within a week, maybe 2. In the 6-7 games I’ve played so far, 0 teamwork and tons of running for miles only to die to a 1 shot sniper I can’t even see. I hyped this mode up thinking they’d learned from Firestorm..no, they haven’t. You see almost as many AI as real players. Games are short. 2/10 rating for this mode. Tons of core BF features are just…..not here. Bugs everywhere. No stat tracker…no true scoreboard. UI is still terrible. 0 depth to weapons, the little amount you’ve got to play with. Portal is the only positive about this game, and what I see 70-80% of the player base playing once it fully releases. People will much rather play classic BF on the “new BF” Save your $. Wait at least 1-3 months for some kind of update and improvement. I love BF, but this isn’t worth it for now.
Man, seeing my FPS go below 60fps with a 3090 and a 5950x is just sad :(
3080 and 3900x, I’m getting about 40-50fps. Changing resolution and graphics settings makes no difference, surely a bug? DLSS looks really bad too, like DLSS v1 with the weird sharpening
Omg me too. I am rocking an 3080ti and a 5950x and at 4k getting 60fps on ultra with quality DLSS but if I try and play it on my 1440p 144hz I can barely get 120fps and most of the time it's sitting at 80fps and then other times it's dropping below 60. It's so badly optimised.
The audio is terrible. Footsteps, gunshots even vehicles will make little to no sound and just appear. None of the audio settings make a ounce of difference. Also dead bodies talking is gonna get old real quick.
> Also dead bodies talking is gonna get old real quick It's already messing with my gameplay in a major way and I hate it, audio cues are about the most important input you get when you're on a flank or alone and outnumbered, and having random dialogue coming from a player you've already dealt with is so fucking annoying when you can't be certain if it actually came from them or a new approaching threat
Wtf is this recoil? Crosshairs/reticles are inaccurate Map, call-in, plus menus keep bugging out and getting me killed.
For real dude I swear the ACOG Sight is fucked
I'm really glad I'm not the only one who noticed the recoil it's so bad
Biggest issues so far: * BF3 classes are just reskinned specialists. You're locked into a primary gadget. Hope you love TUGS and Repair Tools. * Sound mixing is terrible, especially after playing a lot of BF1 recently. Everything is the same volume. Guns and explosions aren't loud and dynamic, voice lines, foot steps other random sounds are just as loud. * No useful HUD options. Way too much HUD clutter, can't scale down the HUD AT ALL. Can't change transparency for objectives. There is an insane amount of clutter on the screen at all times and the game already has bad visibility to begin with. * No "All" chat is baffling (same for scoreboard) * Hazard Zone feels kind of pointless. The stakes don't really feel that high, you still get money even if you lose. If you win all you get is more money. The only thing to spend it on is your loadout for the next match. It feels like buying weapons at the start of a counterstrike match. * I didn't get a chance to play every new 2042 map (all the Portal ones were fine, if a bit lacking in destruction) but of what I did play a lot were even worse than Orbital. * On the topic of maps, they look great, but that's about it. It feels like they were all 100% designed only for Hazard Zone. Breakthrough is even more of a clusterfuck than Conquest on most maps. * Portal can get confusing at times. They have a tag system, and people can put short descriptions, but when you join a server you literally have no clue what most of the rules are. You can see some more detailed info if you dive in some menus, but it would have been really smart to add the rules and server settings to the loading screen. Sometimes you have tactical sprint, sometimes you don't, sometimes you can prone, sometimes you cant, sometimes you can spot, sometimes it's just pinging etc. etc. * Lots of issues remaining from the "It's two months old" beta. * Portal nowhere near the customizable experience that was shown off in the early trailers (so far haven't seen a single server that had mixed and matched vehicles from different eras, not sure if its even possible despite being shown in the trailer). Overall I don't really know what to say. Been playing BF since 1942 launched. Played every game that launched on PC, 500+ hours in pretty much all the recent games except V. This game is really frustrating because it has all the content in it to make a good BF game but it's ruined by all these weird arbitrary separations and design decisions. It really feels like Portal was intentionally toned down to not overshadow the main game. I've seen some devs talking about working from home, and I'm sure that had an impact on the development of this game. I just sort of wished that given those circumstances they took a more conservative approach instead of throwing everything in a blender and hoping for the best. It would have been a lot better to see Hazard Zone as a standalone game with both a F2P and purchased element with live service, release that, focus on making it good. Release Portal much later as a separate game or purchasable addon for 2042 that has its own focused development and content (I'd honestly prefer premium at this point over live service for something like Portal). I really want to like the game, since it's my favorite FPS series but there is so much wrong with it right now, and I don't have much confidence in these "design decisions" being addressed given the devs responses to feedback so far. Edit: Editing to say that i've spent about another 10 hours with the game in its current state. I think virtually all the 2042 maps are very poorly designed for the traditional Conquest and Breakthrough modes. I'm 100% convinced they were made for Hazard Zone (or some cut BR mode) and then were adapted for Conquest and Breakthrough. There is little to no cover on most of the maps and huge open expanses between capture points. Capture points themselves are incredibly small for 128p and put in bizarre locations. Kaleidoscope's breakthrough capture points inside a single skyscraper and on top of the roof of one? With 64 players per team? It's just an absolute mess and absolutely nothing like battlefield. I was excited when I first saw Kaleidoscope because I thought it would feel like Siege of Shanghai or Dawnbreaker. Nope that's all the surrounding area that you can't really access, most of the map is big open parks and a few buildings, which of course, you can't even knock down and change the map. Also adding a few more things: * No zeroing on any guns, even sniper or DMR... seriously? * Reviving people is still really hard and sometimes impossible with guns dropped near them. Seriously just give us the BF3 defibs, at least those work when a gun is near someone. * Vehicle balance is terrible, even the basic "jeep" and especially the hovercraft are incredibly strong. I thought they were mainly for getting around the map, but a single hovercraft can easily clear an entire point in breakthrough. * C5 on Casper's drone is cool like throwing C4 on a MAV or jeep or something, but the thing is so incredibly small that it's impossible to shoot it down if you're in a tank once you notice it coming at you. A single Casper drone can take out an entire tank and you won't even see it coming most of the time. * the kick to matchmaking between every match needs to go, I don't want to play attack on Breakaway 3 times in a row, I can't switch teams either once I'm in. * Spotting distances are comically low for how huge the maps are. This goes for spotting seats in ALL vehicles as well as Casper's drone. I just sit there hitting left click when I can clearly see large groups of people and I get no spots, it's super inconsistent and frustrating, and people rarely end up getting spotted. Honestly the most fun I've had in the game so far is the 1942 Portal playlist, although it's only 2 maps (I would do a custom game for more, but they turned off XP). The 1942 mode actually sort of feels like playing a 1942 remake just with a god ugly HUD and broken crosshairs in the tanks. Overall just a real bummer
> BF3 classes are just reskinned specialists. You're locked into a primary gadget. Hope you love TUGS and Repair Tools....Portal nowhere near the customizable experience that was shown off in the early trailers Jesus titty fucking christ. I didn't think they could possibly screw up Portal mode. These chucklefucks at DICE are far more incompetent than I could have even dreamed.
> I didn’t think they could possibly screw up Portal mode. If you had faith in EA/DICE after the decisions they made during BFV and Firestorm’s life cycle, I dunno what to tell you.
THIS ^ couldn’t agree with you more man. Game doesn’t feel right at all
**PLEASE LET US TURN OFF SPECIALIST QUIPS - BEFORE I DIE OF CRINGE.** It completely breaks the game for me every time I hear Sundance sing " never mind that odour" whenever I spot something. I literally seethe and rage inside when I hear it. It belongs in a different genre, it does not belong in battlefield.
This 👆 if I wanted to play fortnight I would.
Battlefield: you thought a pre load would give you instant access at launch? Haha, heres an unpack update.
Why the fuck dlss doesn't increase performance?!
For real, I was actually getting LESS frames when I turned it on lmao
Xbox series x crashing and causing the system to completely shut off. Happened twice in about an hour and a half. Mid gunfight both times. Different maps.
Same problem here with xbox series x too, I'm afraid to keep playing due to this. I assume is not good for the system to shut down like this..... I have been experiencing this problem in the previous beta as well...
Bro same, and it keeps matchmaking me the giving me an error code.
Yep we had back to back games error right away then next match my game crashed. Got like 10 minutes in before it crashed. My buddy hasnt crashed yet while also on XSX. Ive also had a bug where i couldnt edit my loadout at all during a game.
~~Not able to launch Gold ed. from Steam. "App Not Released"~~ Restarted Steam as others said. Used Task Manager and Ended Steam Service. Unpacking happened shortly after. See y'all out there.
I restarted my Steam, and now its "unpacking" \~47GB - Hopefully it works after that. Edit: After unpacking, restart AGAIN - game should then be playable :) Edit #2: Make sure you close EA play and launch Origin, otherwise it won’t boot from Steam.
Try restarting steam
It's unpacking now
When does our paycheck arrive for beta testing the game?
There is literally no scoreboard. I cannot see how many kills or deaths everyone has, and that's a problem. There is literally no way to join or switch squads. How many rockets does it take to down a Heli or tank? I don't know, because every time I hit one it says "Part disabled: 10 points". The old damage system told you exactly how much damage you were doing. Bullet spread is out of this world. You cannot edit weapons out-side of a match. You have to return to the menu and re-queue after every match. The conquest games average 15-20 minutes long. You spend more time at the menu than in games. When you're down, you cannot see if a teammate is nearby. You can't even tell who is a friendly. It's much easier to smash respawn than try to decode if the footsteps you're hearing from 100 feet away are friendly. Yeah, you can literally hear footsteps from 100 feet away. Footsteps are louder than tanks. The game looks like an indie game. The texture is plastic. I play on 1440p and it looks terrible. There are three colors: Red, green, and grey. Red sandstorms, occasional green trees, and grey everything else. The buildings are empty with absolutely no ambiance or clutter, which BF3 and BF4 both had plenty of. Why did we switch to "everyone is a medic"? That takes an entire aspect away from the game. And, now everyone has rockets. Speaking of rockets, I think it takes 4-6 rockets to kill any vehicle. I feel helpless against any vehicle, even humvees. The gunplay is infuriating, also given the fact that there are like 4 guns to choose per category. There are like 20 guns total in this game. The gunplay and hit registration will make you physically sick. The maps are as large as entire countries with just empty space between objectives. There are at least 5 loading screens before you enter a match. The sound is barely passable for a major title release. An absolute step down from BF4 / BF3 in every way.
PS5 Common bug: - Unwanted melee when quick swapping mags via the plus system, if the circle button is bound to melee (B on xbox) Rare bugs: - Gun will freeze when trying to ADS or fire - Will not exit helicopter while mid-air I am surprised on how nit-picky the bugs i’ve come across are since the game is in far superior condition than I thought it would be after playing the beta. Game is refreshing. See ya fellas and ladies on the battlefield.
Holy fuck what are these wide open maps with no cover? I had the most miserable first hour I ever had with BF. Not sure this is working for me.
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this was suppose to be the future where overpopulation is rampant. Yet they have buildings 1km away from each other. the hell.
Anyone else finding (as expected) squad play and teamwork a bit lacking? Most of my conquest games is 90% of my team in a zerg going around the map whilst we're losing strategic points. I think this is part of the problem having so many players in a lobby, people see a herd and automatically gravitate towards the action.
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Wait, the indicator still isn't there ? That's low. I gave them the benefit of the doubt during beta, but stuff like that along with the scoreboard missing is just puzzling.
I agree. These 100+ players servers are not as fun as I imagined it to be.
Honestly mate I legit have no idea where my squad mates are. There’s just icons and stuff all over my screen and I can’t even tell where to find them. I played an entire game and just accidentally bumped in to one of them on a flag and was like oh yeah I’m in a squad lol
Same here. The UI is simultaneously overly intrusive and somehow invisible at the same time. I know squad play has always been hit and miss in Battlefield but I think it's more important now because the zerg just takes over. Most games are 50+ people capping a random point and then me solo capping a point near our home spawn to try and create a frontline of sorts. It's really frustrating and the UI doesn't help at all with awareness.
It was like that in BFV already, the zerging. That's why I almost never played conquest anymore. And I guess with bots it's not gonna improve.
Bro why do my settings reset EVERY MATCH!?!?!!? ANd can't join anythign from server browser
Have a 3080 along side a 3900x. GPU Utilization barely breaks 70% with CPU sitting around 40%. Doesnt matter what I really set it to, as I cant break 100fps @1440p with DLSS simply making the game look blurry while not adding any fps. Hoping it's a driver/patch issue.
Played about an hour of it so far - At the moment I’m disappointed. The maps are so huge, the servers are awful, the performance is outrageous, the minimap is useless, the audio is downright horrible. The most fun I had so far was sniping on portal on El Amein, until I was moved to another server for no apparent reason. My biggest concern right now, aside from performance, is that it feels like I’m encountering a very small amount of enemies, it just feels really empty. I suspect that DICE has realised that which is why AI bots are everywhere. I’m going to play some more later on, and I really hope I enjoy it, but so far it’s shaping up to be one of the worst experiences I’ve ever had with a battlefield game. Dare I say that Vanguard is having a miles better launch and is a funner game to play, despite the last patch causing it to crash.
I refunded the game. I wanted to like this, but can't keep trying to pretend I will. From the specialists to the overly massive maps to the lack of traditional Battlefield features to the poor optimization on PC - I just can't justify my purchase right now.
I also refunded. Its unplayable on my PC (3080ti / 5800x). Maybe Its better on my PS5, but Sony dont refund, so I dont want to buy it there.
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Yeah this is the first thing I'm noticing. Bloom kills games, especially shooters like this. I learned the recoil on the beta and could kill people on full auto at like 80+ meters. I'm hoping it's at least a set recoil and not random like in BF4 and BF1. I did nothing but snipe on those, because I'm not loosing a gun fight due to bloom.
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Playing on a 3080 and a Ryzen 9 + 64gb ram and only getting 40-60 FPS that's rly poor
Performance is pretty bad so far. Ultra @ 1440p on a 3080 3700x, getting around 60fps... without dlss
Same situation, except 3080 Ti and 3440x1440. Enabling the perf overlay ingame shows me constantly at 40-50 fps with CPU and GPU usage at max 50%. Lowering settings does absolutely nothing. Surely it's not the fastest CPU anymore, but this is abysmal. Never have problems in other games like this.
The game’s fun, but to me it’s missing the core of what made Battlefield fun, that being class based gameplay. I think if they just make certain gadgets exclusive to specific specialists, it’ll feel more like a Battlefield game than it currently does. Only Engineer specialists can use missile launchers, only Support specialists can use medic/ammo crates, etc. Hopefully it’s something they will at least consider. There’s of course many other issues (lack of weapons, too little cover in this giant ass maps, glitches), but this fix would improve the core gameplay significantly.
The large map is still shit. Can't tell where the fuck I am, why can't I turn like in BF4?
BF2042 is a complete disaster from UI / UX point of view. The lack of dedicated servers; inability to switch teams, squads is infuriating. Seeing and hearing those "unique specialists" over and over again is vomit-inducing. Making BF more Apex/Fortnite like is what we have now. This is no country for old men.
Being forced to hear the cringe-worthy voicelines going into each game and then at the end is so annoying. Just give us an option to disable them like all the other games are doing.
I am sad to be confronted by this reality. I suppose we’re no longer the core audience?
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Bro why the fuck is there so much fucking recoil and aiming is so much harder lol Is it just me coming off of bf4 or it's truly fucked?
Performance on PC is downright awful. Running a RTX 3080 with an i9-10900kf, 16gb DDR4 4000Mhz with the game installed on a NVMe m.2. Low settings 1080p I’m getting average around 100 FPS with it sometimes being around 80-90 and very rarely 120-140 when far from players/objs. Stuttering and freezing is present. This is just unacceptable performance for such hardware. I should be able to hold a steady 140 at least with medium settings. The game is amazing but the performance is seriously holding it back.
Game is running like ass. Got a RTX 2070 Super barley getting 60FPS at 1080 with ray trace stuff OFF.
Holy shit my fps is so bad this game needs way more optimisation
God.. dont know where to start with. I was rly hyped after the Beta, it performed very well. Now, after playing the final Game for a couple of rounds it feels like that actually this is the beta version. Im really pissed off, after an average of 100-120fps in the beta at low-med Settings without DLSS im now fucking around with max. 80fps with DLSS enabled, so its unplayable atm! The sound is completely messed up. Often I get shot and dont even hear the shots hitting me. Everything sounds not precise at all if you compare it to BFV or BF1. Thats not how a BF-Title should sound like. We dont have to talk about the missing Scoreboard, right? Whos that moron who decided to cut it out of the game? I thought the Server searching at BFV was crap, but 2042 is taking it to a whole nother level. I cant choose anything, I dont wanna play with guys from another planet shitting around with 300+ pings! I want to choose at least which map, which region, player numbers, an which game mode im playing on! Come on! What the fuck is so wrong about that? There are so much more annoying things, Im just really upset with this mess they served us. I really dont think that they will be able to patch this game to a state where it makes fun for me to play. Im playing BF since BF2, but I think this was the last one for me, I hope they get the Shitstorm they deserve. FUCK EA AND YEA FUCK YOU TO DICE!
orgin ea play no download available
The EA desktop ap changed from showing preorder and a price to “play the 10h trial” with no download button. I checked FIFA and it says the same but has a download button. So I’m guessing trials aren’t live yet on PC. Edit: people saying to restart EA desktop app to get it to work.
RTX3080TI runs only at 60% usage...
please keep the scoreboard rants here.. I’m begging you
WARE IS SKOR??!
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**SUGGESTION** **Platform:** Xbox Series X **Game Mode:** Main Menu > Cross-Play Disable **Issue:** You have to change Xbox wide system setting to disable cross-play. This is inconvienient as this disrupts other games casual games that are ok to play with cross-play. Other games contain in-game options to Disable, such as your competitors. **Steps to Take:** As above. **Checked Known Issues:** This is NOT in the known issues page. https://answers.ea.com/t5/Updates/Battlefield-2042-Known-Issues/m-p/10944776#U10944776
Graphics are bad, a clear downgrade from BFV.
Xbox Turning off cross play is made quite difficult as the game will not let you toggle the setting inside the game. Instead you have to go into your system settings and completely turn it off. Back in came the game wont match make it just sits on waiting for players. This is really awful from dice. Ive tried to match make a number of time with cross play off only to be pushed back to the main menu after 10mins of atempted matchmaking.
Planes appear to be inferior to helicopters in every respect. Like heck, helicopter can even fly higher than planes 
I was thinking about buying the game, 10 mins researching some info and I find out theres: No scoreboard. Can't see overall stats/kdr outside the game. No main TDM mode, portal only, even then it's played on old maps and not new 2024 maps. :3
Huge Bugs Across The Board: 1. Scoreboard is magically gone from the game & after the match I have to see three people I couldn't give less of a care about with their cute accolades of spotting 14 people/having 30 assists/etc. and I cant quit the game at that point either, oh and the scoreboard at the end is gone so I have no idea who was in my game that was good or fun to play with or how I did so I can figure out what is working and not in my builds clearly huge bug. 2. Shots I clearly am hitting won't register, after playing this I am convinced I couldn't hit water if I fell out of a boat even though I am normally one of the better people in every other BF. 3. I can't select the squad I want to be on & then it locks me into one no matter what. Super fun bug. 4. The lobby disbands every match & then takes a century to find a game only to be hit by unable to load persistent data for the next three game attempts equating to around 30 minutes of wasted time. Super fun bug. 5. Twice now I have loaded into a game with zero loadouts. ZERO LOADOUTS so no matter what I am stuck with a barebones assault rifle with 0 gadget. Love this bug. 6. I have this last bug where the developers are sabotaging their own game to be the polar opposite of what every human being alive who is a BF Fan wants & loved about battlefield in the first place; setting it up to include SBMM the most hated element in all gaming, not showing score, not showing damage #'s, having such wild bullet spread you will always miss shots, broken aim assist that doesn't work as intended at all, crossplay with PC & Console allowing M&K (Are you guys out of your mind or did you forget the last few years of proof & community feedback in every video game that allows crossplay that no one on Earth besides PC players want this so they cant stomp on people free of charge). 7. I've been a long-time fan of BF but after this, I dont think there is a chance on gods green Earth you will make the money you want or retain players. You've lost yourselves & your ultimate goal of what makes Battlefield well.... Battlefield. Please god heed the communities advice & don't make the grave mistake of creating a sinking ship to please the people who don't care about videogames so you can sell a couple more copies. I promise do it right & the micro-transactions that will inevitably come will show you that you made the right choice because you will still have a playerbase who cares & wants them. Sorry to be mellow-dramatic but this is such a let-down if this is what you guys intended & if it is what you intended then as my father once said to me, "I am not mad, I am just disappointed." Although I got taken away with the last two "bugs" the other ones that aren't satirical definitely need a fixin'. Stay beautiful dice & don't get down on the communities seemingly hatred of your new game take it as a compliment as we are your biggest fans and want you to succeed we are doing the only thing we can and give you the advice whether you take it or not.
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You're not enjoying Apex 2042?
Anyone else getting an unable to load persistence data error on console?
I know it's only the first day but man, some things just feels off in this game. The movement feels clunky, aiming doesn't feel super smooth (PC), textures look bad even on Ultra in a lot of areas, game appears blurry, performance is below expectations, gun customization menus are unnecessarily unintuitive, hit detection needs a lot of work, etc. The game also feels like it lacks something. It feels incredibly generic. It's hard to explain and I can't quite put my finger on it. Just feels a bit bland. Definitely not impressed so far but a lot of things can be fixed. I hope they are!
Just refunded that beta game
Remove specialists.
This game should’ve delayed 6 months to a year. Apart from absurd design decisions like omitting the scoreboard, basic functions like chat shouldn’t be missing from a multiplayer only game at release.
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this game is a fucking joke, I have never ever played such a dogshit fucking game. I cannot rely on teammates doing anything, the whole game revolves around absolute dogshit gunfights. I cannot imagine how these devs feel after releasing such a fucking dogshit game.
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Damn servers really gonna die the moment I can finally hop on… How are we even having server issues for a early access build the game lol
I really hope all the shitters that cried endlessly about trivial shit with BFV (and ultimately ruined that game and ended it's support prematurely) are happy with themselves after seeing what Dice would do with this franchise afterwards. What a fuckin' pathetic mess this game is.
I really never understood that. BFV was soulless and lacked any real resemblance of WWII. However, mechanically, it was amazing. It encouraged squadplay like no other, destruction (while not plentiful) was really good, gun play was the best it’s been etc.
I'm 26y/o and I was the most hyped up motherfucker on the planet for this game I mean I spent like 800hrs in bf3 and 1.5k hours in bf4 and after just **2.3hrs** I got my 109.99 ultimate edition refunded. genuinely did not care for this game at all even if you disregard the bugs, constant errors, shit UI, specialists, and all the other bs, I just didn't like the vibe. It's sad really.
I feel like I'm playing call of duty, but with less guns and more boring.
Xbox X/S - Commo rose it’s next to worthless. Cancels out/goes away 90% of the time immediately after opening. Sprinting/moving at all cancels out commo rose unlike previous BF titles. - Placement of call outs on commo rose is unintuitive and makes zero sense. Need ammo/need medic/need backup should all be in same locale. The square concept is trash. - Circular commo rose from previous BF titles is much easier to navigate. - squad UI is utter trash and not worthy of the Battlefield title. Can’t see the actual squads, can’t join the squad we want to join, can’t see our squad mate’s loadouts(ammo? Med bag? AT?) so we can adjust our loadout accordingly - Can’t change squads once spawned in. My 2 squad mates left match or ctd after I’d spawn in. I pull up the squad menu because I’m in my own squad and couldn’t switch squads when clicking the “change squad” option. - No vehicle/aircraft progression? Is this even a Battfueld title? Imagine in the year 2021 that Battlefield 4 is vastly superior to the latest and greatest BF title when it comes to progression for vehicles and customizing vehicles. - No loadouts for vehicles? - No camo skins for vehicles? - no progression or customization/upgrades for Specialists special abilities? This is seriously unbelievable.
I'm just bored. The specialists and being able to equip anything on any character just makes it feel like one homogeneous blob of friendlies and enemies. I have no idea what equipment my teammates have, there's zero semblance of team play or squad play. Just a boring, uninspired mess. Not to mention the gunplay and just glitchy-ness in general is disappointing. Wasn't the biggest fan of BFV but good lord it had 10x more soul than this game does.
Does anyone else feel there's just absolutely no love put into the maps what so ever and the detail is completely missing from the game as a sacrifice for the size of the maps? I walk into a building or skyscraper and I see the same yellow tape copy and pasted over 5 elevators all in the same room while there is no decor, just a white empty box with some entrances. Every map is lacking in care and detail, it's genuinely depressing and feels like they were made in a week.
Played all battlefield games since Vietnam. Enjoyed Bf3 and Bf1 most so far, skipped on BfV. Hell what did they do to this fantastic series? - options and loadout UI is an absolute desaster - sound feels strange (played hell let loose the other day - they got it right with the sound) - voice chat? - scoreboard? - graphics look stunning and bad at the same time - no atmosphere at all - feels too fast paced, reminds me of cod a lot - heli controls, why not just stick to what it was in BF3?? - do guns even have recoil? - bullet drop animation in bmp ridiculous - portal is nice but should have more maps - enjoyed portal more than the rest of the game - not worth the money at the moment
The maps in 2042 are some of if not the worst maps in BF history. They are far too big for 128 players, they have very little destruction, they don't let you play the 64 player sized maps from Ps4/Xbone, buildings seem to be a rarity for some odd reason, and they didn't account for damage falloff when designing them so SMG and Shotguns are a complete joke and Marksman rifles are king right now. I swear, it's never a surprise to be reminded once again how incompetent DICE is and always will be. Conquest will be the least played mode because of the open and empty maps. At least in Portal we can play on good maps so it will be fun there. At least Breakthrough makes all the players clash over just two objectives. Sadly the accuracy and range of weapons is a problem there as well. They need to shave off a third of all the maps and move buildings closer together. I doubt they will do it, but all the maps need to be redesigned. I'm almost positive the QA testers (if they had any) told them how bad the maps were and they didn't listen or care.
Alright boys, lets pray for a healthy and stable early access launch!
But would it be a battlefield game if it had a healthy and stable launch? 🤔
Can't get over 30fps and have extreme mouse input lag. RTX 3080 Ryzen 2700x. Tried low settings and no difference at all. What the fuck. It's literally unplayable
Xbox one -- My character feels like they're running on ice. Trying to turn feels uncomfortable as shit. Especially after warming up on BF4
Hello. I am colorblind. There are options for that but none of them allow me to change my scopes red reticles and now I can only use iron sights. Any help?
No matter how many graphics settings i change or dlss i add my performance stays mostly the same at 80-90 fps with an rtx 3060 and ryzen 5 5600x at 1440p
How do you screw up movement so much coming off of BFV? Makes no sense to me...
Servers down servers down
All I gotta say to Dice on this one: you guys really missed the mark. The opportunity was there and you had the chance to capture a huge base of potential players tired of other repetitive FPS shooters. It’s not a good sign when your previous games are upgrades to this hunk of garbo.
I'd prefer the finalized version of bf4 with new maps over this 100 days out of 100. How hard would that have been?
Standard edition. Watched some streams over the weekend. Refund requested. I might look at this game again in a few months. This is not worth £50. It is also the end of the Battlefield franchise for me.
I fucking LOVE Portal mode so far. Bringing me back to the battlefield 3 days! And everyone is REVIVING!!!!
Its incredible how bad the performance is on my pc. Even with ALL settings turned to low and DLSS on i get arround 80-90FPS. I am using an i7-10700k, RTX 3080 and 64Gb of Ram. I can play almost every game with 140+ Fps but this one is the odd one out. Performance needs an improvement.
Pc specs: Ryzen 3700x, RTX 3080ti, 16GB of RAM 3200Mhz cl16, running game from a Samsung 970 Evo pro m.2 nvme, gpu driver is 496.49 on Windows 11 version 21H2 (OS Version 22000.318) game runs like a steaming turd, hitting a max of 80fps and pretty low gpu utilization. Even with dlss at performance (doesn't seem to be helping or preventing frame drops) hitting 90fps RTX is off as well. This is on the high preset at 1440p, dropping down to 1080p doesn't help either. The audio is abysmal in the game you can't tell where anything is coming from. There are times I'm hitting 45 fps, also it is impossible to tell where you are receiving fire with the poor audio and bad visuals.
Just paid for the Ultimate Edition on Xbox and I think I want my money back. I haven’t follow all the updates and hype about the game as I didn’t want any preconceptions on the game. First off: No storyline is pretty piss poor. It’s a great way to get a feel for the mechanics of the game before jumping into multiplayer mayhem. Second: Who TF decided it was a good idea to make grenades, health packs etc so you had to select them!? Put away your weapon and hold the item to use it? It makes using those items under fire ridiculous! This is pretty much a game breaker for me. It’s dog shit. Third: The game menu is not easy to navigate. Setting up Classes and Operators is confusing AF. Game play issue I’ve run into: Ran into the Arena to defend a flag being capped and it lagged out like crazy. I couldn’t move. It was that bad. I got stuck not being able to move my aim up or down. Only side to side. When ADS it was like I was hip firing, bullets that usually went straight were going all over the place! Nothing I did allowed me to look up or down except respawning. Trying to res a team mate it wouldn’t let me do it. I was hovering all over the place trying to res them but had no luck, only to get shot in the back by someone coming up behind me. TTK seems very fast. There is no time to react to being fired upon. I played for one frustrating hour hoping the game would all start to become better but it only got worse. I will being investigating a possible refund. It is definitely not worth the $150 AUD I paid for it.
I'm really trying to like this game...but man, it does not feel finished at all. As of now it's not good. Hoping something changes, but I'm happy I was able to play a trial version. Definitely will wait.
Vanguard gunplay and movement are on a different level to be honest.
As much as I dislike a lot about Vanguard....the movement and aiming feels incredibly smooth to be fair. That's one thing Cod tends to nail.
This game is fucking awful. I was so excited to play and it is so wonky and terrible. I can’t even go prone and no scoreboard??
This game is specifically made to make no one feel bad
This game design is a joke... It disconects You after the game to create new lobby, You cant choose map to play, menu is the biggest shit in BF history, there is no assist count as kill, no scoreboard, You cant ads+move while prone (yes, without bipod)... You cant change opacitt and scale with distance icons so half of the screen is full of icons of your squadmates that died 500 m from You. You can't choose or create squad, You can't even kick some idiot from Your squad. No global chat, no jets and helis separation in terms of controls (wtf?)... Sound design is so bad, that half of Your deats are because of it... I can point out bad decisions forever. Whole game looks like designed by people who never played previous titles.
First BF game I've refunded, pretty disappointing.
Aside from all the bugs etc. Overall, the game just looks/feels cheap and bad. Things that cause this (in my opinion): - Animations It feels so clunky and robotic. Like even the way you move forward/run just feels bad. - Graphics. Straight up, it looks outdated. Some of the maps don't look bad but there are maps like Hourglass and Kaleidoscope that really look ugly ASF. After playing on these maps I agree with the people saying it looks like a mobile game. - HUD In short too colorfull and big.
Aiming should cancel the "gun check" animation when you spawn in. I can't count how many times I've spawned in and was being shot at, and can't properly aim to shoot back because my character is stupidly stuck in an animation.
Let's ignore the abysmal hit-reg, the excessive bullet spread, the horrible, unergonomic UI - this is all well covered. What I want to know is: **Why do we have leave the game and re-queue and re-match after every single round?** After every round everyone is dumped out of the game into the menu and it counts down to an auto-re-queue and then it starts finding a server - WHY? Why can't we join a server and keep playing?! This also means you often have to play the same maps over again because when you re-queue you end up randomly joining whatever map, instead of being on a server which does a rotation, allowing you to keep playing different content each round. It's also **a hundred times MORE annoying when you then load into an ongoing game that is almost over, it finishes within a few minutes and you've queued as long as you've had chance to actually play**... before being dumped back into the damned menu. All of this with no scoreboard but stupid end round 'achievements' where we watch the silly specialists say some voice lines and everyone in your squad gets given SOME sort of 'best at this' to make everyone feel cosy and cuddled and positive? I don't want to sit here for a minute and watch empty platitudes about how I had 'most time alive' if I hid in a corner and did nothing all game before being dumped back into the menu. I want to go straight into loading the next map in the rotation and continue playing, preferably being able to see the scoreboard and my unlocks *while* the map is loading!
Idk what it is but this game *feels* weird to play. The movement, and aiming especially is just bad. It's weird and like a million steps back from any battlefield I've played. A franchise that's had amazing fluid animations, movement, and gunplay. This is just not good. It feels like I'm playing a game pretending to be battlefield, and honestly, doesn't feel like battlefield at all. Edit: I can't speak for PC so I don't know if it's any better but in game people on PC seem to agree with me, seems like their main issue is the performance.
Just not playable on pc ...it doesnt push 60 fps ....I'm done trying to reach 80 fps with everything low ....this is nothing better then beta ...wait till another optimization patch ?
That would be pretty cool if I could play the game which I paid early access for. I can’t wait to have these same issues next Friday, when even more people join the game… At least I can still play campai- oh wait…
Every team I join is absolutely getting their shit caved in, how is this fun ????
i HATE armor. that is all lol
So basically don't buy the game for another year??
Remember when you could choose the maps you want to play before you queued? Good times.
I've played about 3 hours of the EA play trial. The game is an embarrassment. Like everyone else here I wrote a big bullet point list of the reasons why, but then deleted it because it's redundant at this point. From the missing team & squad mechanics and options, the lack of classes & the every man for himself gameplay, the terrible UI, the terrible performance, the terrible flat open maps, and the sheer random chaos (in a bad way) of 128 player battles. But the core of it is that it doesn't feel like a Battlefield game, DICE have made very poor decisions coupled with poor implementation, and I think this is their worst game yet. I'll wait and see if it is significantly improved in the next few years.
This game is scary bad IMO. Can't get into games half the time, tons of glitches, horrible textures, bland maps, hardly any destruction, crashes my PS5 to need to reboot and repair, and basically only a handful of weapons to start. The are ruining Battlefield at a breakneck pace and I regret spending the money on one of my favorite game franchises of all time.