Battlefield 2042 - what do you think?

[MarcusRolla75]

Everyone everywhere is a Battlefield vet nowadays, but we all know who are the one and only true TotalBf vets around here 😁

I know it's not released yet, but anyone got a chance to try the game during Beta?

To me it's really sad overall to see how games all slowly lose their identity in order to follow trends, everything , the controls (of the vehicles and the parachutes) are dumbed down to be super accessible, the pace of the game is this super fast non room to breathe michael bay thing, everything is clearly geared towards live service fortnite animations, pink glowing bacon anime skins etc.
No commo rose, a lot of stupid gameplay decisions overall and the least teamplay I have ever seen in a battlefied game. ( I played for 4h and never got revived, repaired or ammo once)
It's just so so many little things to enumerate that I get too tired to think of all of them. I don't want to make this post too long so I will enumerate my thoughts bellow.

I guess I must be getting old, but certainly this must be the reason why they came up with Battlefield Portal, a section of the game that can cater to both "vets" and still work alongside their so desired live service.

I quite enjoyed Battlefield V, slower paced, more tactical fun game that reverted quite a lot to more old school battlefields. Pity both the game marketing and community pretty much sentenced it to be DOA.


So what do you guys think?
Did you get to play the beta?
Are you going to buy the game?
What are your feelings towards the game?

Crazy reading this now in 2025 and remembering how heated those beta discussions were back in 2021 😅. Looking back, most of what you said actually turned out to be true — the live-service direction, flashy skins, and lack of real teamplay really defined the launch.

What’s funny is that Portal ended up being the only thing that kept a part of the community alive for a while. But overall, the game never really reached the heights of the old-school Battlefield days.

[Crrrazzzy]

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[Crrrazzzy]

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