The maps in Battlefield 2042 are some of the absolute worst I have ever played with Hourglass at the top of my list for worst battlefield map of all-time. What I cannot ignore is the imbalance between vehicles, infantry, map design, the specialist system, and the flawed 128 player count. I am also going to ignore the numerous bugs I encountered while playing. All online games suffer some sort of connectivity issue at launch. Let’s ignore the fact that no one could connect to their games at launch. So how is it possible that after nineteen years of developing Battlefield games, they still can’t figure it out? In fact, DICE were the ones who built the Frostbite engine Battlefield 2042 uses. Battlefield 2042’s Amateur and flawed game design.ĭICE has over nineteen years of experience creating Battlefield games. Why fight real humans when you can put the computer on easy and just kill the AI over and over? As a result, players created servers where they could kill bots to farm XP and level up quickly. The counter-response is usually, “Well just create a custom portal server.” This would have worked except, DICE didn’t playtest their Portal server. But that still doesn’t mean that DICE can forego including a server browser. And when I say 8 friends, I am referring to a guild or a discord server where everyone can play together. Unfortunately, although this system is great for consoles and playing with four friends, it is completely useless when you want to play with 8 friends or more. DICE continues to cater to console players by simplifying the matchmaking system to one button.
This is a feature that the PC community constantly requests over and over again. DICE has once again decided not to include a server browser for their latest iteration of Battlefield. What Battlefield 2042 needed at launch was. Finally, I told my friends to quit the server and re-invite me. The game trapped me in an endless loop of loading back and forth from game to main menu. But I couldn’t rejoin because the server was full. Once we finally gave up adding a fifth person, I tried to go back into the party to play with my friends AND IT KICKED ME OUT OF THE SAME GAME WE WERE ALREADY IN AND FORCED ME TO REJOIN. If I somehow did get the invite out, my friend would get an error message that he couldn’t join my game. I tried to invite a 5 th person to play in our game and it wouldn’t let me send the invite without disbanding my current squad and forcing me into a new one. You cannot leave or invite more friends to join you. Unlike previous Battlefield games, you cannot leave squad once you are in it. Enter the game with your friends, leave the squad, and then invite your other friends to come join you.” So of course, any modern PC player knows, “If you can’t join with everyone. Once the party leader launches the game, the 5 th, 6 th, 7 th, or 8 th of your friends will not know or be able to know what game you entered. When you join a party with 3 other friends, the party leader controls when the four of you jump into a game. Cannot play with more than four friends.įor a game that advertises having 128 players, it sure is mind-boggling that if you happen to have more than four friends online at the same time, you can’t play together. You could not play any game mode except for the portal server which had its own problems. However, unlike Battlefield 1 and 5, Battlefield 2042 was unplayable at launch. Almost every Battlefield in existence has had a massive launch with thousands of players trying log in to play.Īnd almost every Battlefield launch has failed in some form or fashion to support launch day players. DICE is no stranger to Battlefield launches. A prime-time slot for gamers ready to play into the weekend. Cannot connect to play Battlefield 2042.īattlefield early access launched on Friday, November 12 th. From the lack of basic features such as server browser to the awful music and sound design, to the completely broken and unbalanced gameplay, I believe Battlefield 2042 is the worst Battlefield launch of all-time. This launch was so mind-numbingly awful that I have chosen to NEVER pre-order a Battlefield game ever again. I have NEVER experienced a Battlefield release this disappointing in my entire life. So that’s why it’s incredibly disappointing that DICE, the developers of the Battlefield series, have upheld their legacy of launching their game in a catastrophic state. Tanks bust through walls and launch their shells at unsuspecting players. Jets soar across the sky filling their air with their tracer rounds. Unlike Call of Duty, Battlefield focuses on epic conflicts that take place on large scale maps filled with dozens of players. This post was created on: December 23rd, 2021īattlefield 2042 is another entry in the long storied Battlefield franchise. Battlefield 2042 will go down in history as the most disastrous launch of all time.