Battlefield 2042

I just watched the specialist trailer. Hated pretty much every second of it. . I'm also hopeful portal can save it so the community can cut out most of this shite.

It's looking more and more like Call of Duty every time I see it. I think I'll probably pass.

My only real problem with the specialists is that there isn't any visual difference in the clothing between opposing teams. At least with 5 the ke-razy characters were team specific.

This will be the first bf since 3 I haven't purchased day one. I want to see how it actually plays out with the specialists. As just mentioned in older games you knew which role each team mate player and it gently pushed you towards working together. Each bf has slowly gone away from this.

I wonder if the 3 and 4 servers are busy.

I swapped out the ammo pack in BF1 for something and naturally a guy wandered over asking for ammo which I couldn't give. Never did it again after that. It's so ingrained into the series that support players give out heals/ammo that it's almost expected they have them.

Yeah, just watched that. That wallhack special looks ridiculous, as does the ballistic shield reflecting the bullets back to the shooter.

I don't know. I felt his comments on that ability were overblown, without knowing things like how long it can be active for and cool down on it. The video clip that accompanied the ability didn't look too ridiculous, particularly when you consider all of those are obviously set up to show the powers in their absolute best light. Perhaps just having nearby enemies show up on the minimap would be more suitable, but I think you could in theory balance the current implementation.

The ballistic shield feels worse to me, with the bouncing bullets. That is the kind of thing that will frustrate the person facing against it, until they work out not to shoot the person with the shield out. By that point it becomes a pointless part of the ability. Just remove the bouncing bullets and it will be fine.

The hacker also seems like he will be too situational to the point that he will be mostly useless.

Have they actually said that they will monetise specialists or is that the assumption? Would rather they went back to map packs if they are going to do that.

Everyone will get full access to all the specialists, I believe, including any future additions to the roster. That's included with the base game and does not require the season/battle passes. What they will monetise, however, will be the skins/adornments for these individual specialists. And having a skin system that affects full player outline in a game like Battlefield could potentially present problems in terms of identification and general readability in-game, making it harder to know what special ability/traits you're up against etc.

With the system they've went for here, though, I guess it might be okay, as aside from each special ability you wont have the slightest clue what anybody's load out is now anyway, as they've completely removed the class restrictions that have previously defined the series. This is, of course, until a meta is established, and the 'optimal' heroes are identified, then you'll probably just see the same handful running around (looking identical until people start to get annoyed and drop some money on skins to try and differentiate themselves).

As someone mentioned above, a lot of the core system changes they've made here appear to be designed to promote solo/lone wolf play, so I imagine the main game mode (All Out Warfare; AOW) is going to be heavily defined by which specials are deemed OP at launch or after each subsequent balancing pass.




  

This looks much better:

I think this is where most people will be spending their time.

I put around 200 hours into BF4.

When the server rental thing came in it became a nightmare.

You would struggle and struggle to get an ordinary game mode in a Dice server, because I think they sold off many of their servers to people that made broken and/or unfun modes.

That's what worries me about Portal.

On the other hand the thought of having a BF3 server, a BC2 server, a 1942 server does appeal. Or having modern tanks on El Alamein. I do agree mixing eras is lame. Too gamey.

The bad company 2 map gave me chills. A resurgence of EgMILF at some point?

We had a mini revival last year when BC2 came to Game Pass, so definitely keen to try the BC2 maps in 2042!

Preload is available for many platforms now. Annoyingly, it appears if you're using EA Play on PC for the 10hour trial you will not have the option to pre-load, despite the fact that EA Play/Game Pass players on consoles will. Odd decision.

Oh well. Guess it's waiting until the 12th to download. Will be interesting to see how performance handles; reports from the closed access thing going on now with games media and various content creators suggests that the console version of the game is in much better shape than the current PC build. Seems they have quite a lot of (particularly) CPU optimization issues still. This was my concern after the beta so very glad I held off for now. Will see how the trial goes.