Battlefield 2042 [BF6]

[phil bottle 9,766]

I'm chomping at the bit to get on this 😁

[J4MES OX4D 10,036]

 

[phil bottle 9,766]

 

[phil bottle 9,766]

So yeah, if you can do all the things like it says, BF2042's portal mode was made for FG Fridays 🤗

[J4MES OX4D 10,036]

Apparently if you pre-ordered the Gold or Ultimate edition, you can play the game from the 12th onward. Basically pay 80% extra and get a week early. Fuck that. 

 

The one true blessing is that at least we'll be able to see how it plays and the state it's in. If it's anything like the beta then I wont even buy the game. 

[GazzaGarratt 11,055]

3 hours ago, J4MES OX4D said:

Apparently if you pre-ordered the Gold or Ultimate edition, you can play the game from the 12th onward. Basically pay 80% extra and get a week early. Fuck that. 

 

The one true blessing is that at least we'll be able to see how it plays and the state it's in. If it's anything like the beta then I wont even buy the game. 

 

Not worth it due to the fact you also only get 10 hours between 12th-19th so its only a few nights of gaming.

[J4MES OX4D 10,036]

 

[phil bottle 9,766]

 

Apparently from tomorrow there's a free trial on Xbox Gamepass, 10 hours worth. For PC too. I have the game preinstalled on Origin for the 19th but although I am tempted to jump the gun with this trial I think I'll still wait. 

[techno 3,511]

Some basic reviews are out. 

 

 

It seems improved and portal definitely looks interesting however still not sure it's an early purchase. 

 

Portal only definitely could be great for Fg Fridays 

 

 

[J4MES OX4D 10,036]

General consensus seems to be:-

 

All-out warfare: Standard Battlefield-type modes with Conquest and Breakthrough although the latter is perhaps a bit messy with too many players chasing too few objective points. Sadly there is only 22 weapons available and 7 maps. 

 

Portal: Very promising portion of the game that brings back old content such as maps, guns and vehicles which can be customised into matches. Aside from a few reskins, it looks great. Shame it's tied just to priviate/non-ranked matches. Peace from specialists too! Also there will likely be more than twice as many guns in this mode than the actual bloody main game. 

 

Hazard Zone: Complete waste of time and utterly boring apparently. Similar to MW2019's spec ops missions where you land on a huge maps, complete few generic tasks and survive waves to enemy spam. 

 

 

Game still suffers from bugs but key UI issues have been addressed. Performance is still a bit iffy on higher-end devices and with no console early access, that may also ring alarm bells. 

[techno 3,511]

On twitter last night I got replies saying it wasn't worth the money, this the most detailed reply, which I totally agree with.

 

Also only found out about the lack of weapons yesterday on YouTube and my reaction was that it's just not good enough. 

 

With lack of weapons and the specialists you could end up with 128 players all pretty much clones of each other.

[J4MES OX4D 10,036]

I'm having huge doubts about whether I should get this game. It just doesn't look very refined and the amount of content is disgraceful really. It'll probably be a case of 3 years down the line the game will be fairly polished and we'll get the quantity content and quality we should've got day one.  It'll likely be yet another occasion where DICE and EA have failed to capitalise on Call of Duty's woes.

 

If I do get the game, it will primarily be due to a lack of other titles this holiday season. I could see myself definitely putting in some hours of BF2042 but I'm not even sure if it'll keep me interested up to and beyond Christmas - something that every COD game since 2013 has failed to do. 

 

It's just laughable that there is more content in Portal than the main game. For all its technical problems, Battlefield 4 just nailed so much and I don't think it was fully appreciated until years down the line. The amount of guns, high quality maps and core gameplay were all outstanding. No matter what 2042 does, I can already tell they wont even come close to that. 

[techno 3,511]

1 hour ago, J4MES OX4D said:

I'm having huge doubts about whether I should get this game. It just doesn't look very refined and the amount of content is disgraceful really. It'll probably be a case of 3 years down the line the game will be fairly polished and we'll get the quantity content and quality we should've got day one.  It'll likely be yet another occasion where DICE and EA have failed to capitalise on Call of Duty's woes.

 

If I do get the game, it will primarily be due to a lack of other titles this holiday season. I could see myself definitely putting in some hours of BF2042 but I'm not even sure if it'll keep me interested up to and beyond Christmas - something that every COD game since 2013 has failed to do. 

 

It's just laughable that there is more content in Portal than the main game. For all its technical problems, Battlefield 4 just nailed so much and I don't think it was fully appreciated until years down the line. The amount of guns, high quality maps and core gameplay were all outstanding. No matter what 2042 does, I can already tell they wont even come close to that. 

100% this. 

It goes back to what I've thought before about these big franchises, they know what made them great but for some reason at this time they just seem to have no clue I don't know wether it's laziness or arrogance at this point however people still lap this shit up and I feel that's due to "content creators" as much as anyone. Nothing I've seen from YouTube makes this game say it's battlefield, it may as well be called generic fps 2.

[Greboth 2,721]

I think it’s unfair to complain the ‘main’ game has less content than through the portal.  You’re counting content from numerous games against one.  Of course the one has less.

 

That doesn’t excuse the small number of weapons but I’ll wait until I’ve played it to judge it.  There’s a limited number of iterations on the stats of weapons without large overlap so if there’s a few weapons but they’re significantly different then I don’t mind.

[J4MES OX4D 10,036]

1 hour ago, Greboth said:

I think it’s unfair to complain the ‘main’ game has less content than through the portal.  You’re counting content from numerous games against one.  Of course the one has less.

But why didn't they instead focus on producing more content for the main game rather than skinning old assets and remaking old maps? Waste of internal resources. Battlefield 4 alone had over 80 primary weapons available at launch. 20 is absolutely dire. Portal will eventually fizzle out with no progression and then they'll be relying on the main modes for longevity but they ain't gonna get that with such little content. 

[techno 3,511]

I've heard that the game was built for hazardzone hence the specialist, this lack of mp content kind of backs that up

[J4MES OX4D 10,036]

Can't believe it doesn't have a proper scoreboard

Battlefield 2042 players are demanding a traditional scoreboard | PC Gamer

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Some want to compare their K/D ratios against all 128 players.

 

[techno 3,511]

I was talking to @Stretch616  a little last night regarding the fact that Ive seen that theres no server browser except in portal and no mention of the smaller gamemodes. This is a big deal for me personally , stretch seems to think they may come with the release on the 19th. 🤷

 

[techno 3,511]

23 hours ago, Greboth said:

 

 

That doesn’t excuse the small number of weapons but I’ll wait until I’ve played it to judge it.  

It seems that's the kind of thing these developers hope for that people will buy the game just "to see" 

To me that's what reviews are for, and so far Im waiting to see how it is after full release, if nothing changes I'm reluctant to spend money on it.

 

It seems these changes aren't to make a better game they're for making more profit.

[J4MES OX4D 10,036]

31 minutes ago, techno said:

I was talking to @Stretch616  a little last night regarding the fact that Ive seen that theres no server browser except in portal and no mention of the smaller gamemodes. This is a big deal for me personally , stretch seems to think they may come with the release on the 19th. 🤷

If there is no dedicated server support then that will be a travesty however with such little content in the main portion and scope for customisation, it would probably be a waste of time anyway. The server browser in BF4 was epic with on high-ticket Metro or Locker matches. There likely just isn't enough flexibility to offer with 2 modes, 20 weapons and just 7 maps in 2042. 

 

There are too many Portal servers as it is already and 99% of them are just for XP boosting against bots rather than creative content. It's causing the main server to crash even with a limited population. If this doesn't get plugged by release, it'll be embarrassing. The fact it's allowed either by intent or as an oversight already leaves a giant stain on the game. 

[techno 3,511]

So the fact I'd heard portal wouldn't give xp was nonsense then, it was obvious that if you can generate your own games that xp farming would be a thing.

[J4MES OX4D 10,036]

Hovercrafts can travel sideways up buildings

 

[J4MES OX4D 10,036]

Apparently along with no live scoreboard, there is also no combat record or stat tracking. Apart from your player level, there is nothing in place which shows your lifetime kills, weapon and match stats. Doesn't seem to be an API for 3rd party sites that can track this outside of the game either. 

 

This could be one of the most staggeringly threadbare experiences in existence. 

[techno 3,511]

15 hours ago, J4MES OX4D said:

Hovercrafts can travel sideways up buildings

 

 

😂

[MrBiron 1,453]

I'm tempted to get a refund from Sony and pick this up later on down the line when it's been fixed.