*** The Official Battlefield 2042 thread***

This game continues to frustrate and yet I still keep playing it - that is a headline that sums up this release so well. When the battles work, you can have epic fights, the ebb and flow of a fight where each side is equally balanced, equally engaged and fire fights feel satisfying. Even the issues with some of the maps disappears from view when you and your team are surging towards a capture point, and meeting an array of armed enemy. this is something this game does well.

However, the game's lovely flow is often interrupted by either hitreg issues or a blatant imbalance of vehicles on infantry (100 kills from a little bird anyone?). I am not a good BF player, but I am able to hold my own. But this game, I can go from 28 kills and 15 deaths to a horrifying 10 kills and 18 deaths. Each round is just so unpredictable, where you pound an enemy in the head, expecting to have them drop dead, only for you to hear the dreaded "PAP" noise as you get hit with a magical bullet. Dead in one shot.

Yep, that is BF2042, moments of sublime followed by subpar netcoding that leaves you unable to ignore the flaws in this game.

And yet, I still play it - go figure!
 
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pestt said:
Yeah, I'm out the other side of this now. Explosive/grenade spam is now on par with BF1 and until they re-balance the damage to, and from, vehicles it's just boringly frustrating. The only time it works (especially on Breakthrough) is when you get a squad or bunch of players actually making an effort to knock out the armour, sadly rare.
I'm going back to trolling with my EOD, haven't actually put any effort into that yet. :D
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I was playing that Rush XL playlist yesterday and someone on the other team was just zooming their EOD bot round the entire objectives all game long!

I definitely have most fun playing Conquest, a shame they've removed both Conquest 128p and Exodus Conquest this week. I've been working towards Tier 1 on a few of the choppers (Minibird / attack chopper) and the amount of Wildcats / TORs that camp spawn is so frustrating.
 
MikoSkye said:
However, the game's lovely flow is often interrupted by either hitreg issues or a blatant imbalance of vehicles on infantry (100 kills from a little bird anyone?). I am not a good BF player, but I am able to hold my own.
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Agree about the hitreg, it can occasionally feel terrible.

I still think they've over nerfed air vehicles in 2042 and have pandered to infantry players a bit too much. There are so many ways to stop aircraft and yet people will still complain.

People have forgotten how dominant attack choppers were in BF3 or how good jets were in BF4. The Warthog in BF4 was crazy good in the right hands.

A good pilot should be able to survive and make the most of a chopper that you get one of and after it's destroyed, is on a 90 second to 2 minute cooldown. If a little bird is getting 100 kills then no-one on the team has even thought to use Rao to hack or any of the engineers to take it down - or even use the vehicles like a wildcat to counter!
 
t2na said:
Agree about the hitreg, it can occasionally feel terrible.

I still think they've over nerfed air vehicles in 2042 and have pandered to infantry players a bit too much. There are so many ways to stop aircraft and yet people will still complain.

People have forgotten how dominant attack choppers were in BF3 or how good jets were in BF4. The Warthog in BF4 was crazy good in the right hands.

A good pilot should be able to survive and make the most of a chopper that you get one of and after it's destroyed, is on a 90 second to 2 minute cooldown. If a little bird is getting 100 kills then no-one on the team has even thought to use Rao to hack or any of the engineers to take it down - or even use the vehicles like a wildcat to counter!
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So true on the response to a vehicle. I have yet to be on many matches where a united response to a heli or aggressively good tank team happens. So you find individuals isolated, trying to hide, as the vehicles lay waste to the battlefield. Breaks the flow for me, for sure :(
 
I don't have an issue with the vehicles per say, but the spawn time I do! Back in the day you used to have to run to the vehicle first on the airfield. But now give it 5mins and you can jump back in and it becomes a chore for others take it down.
 
Neil79 said:
I don't have an issue with the vehicles per say, but the spawn time I do! Back in the day you used to have to run to the vehicle first on the airfield. But now give it 5mins and you can jump back in and it becomes a chore for others take it down.
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That is one of the imbalances for me. Even if the team manages to pull together and bring a vehicle down, it is back in play a few minutes later. Queue the disruption to flow again. Also, allowing vehicles to park in spawn and snipe from a distance, that seems like an odd choice. Again, a team could bring it down, but the cost to the battle is a bit off sometimes.
 
Anyone else have an issue when your stuck on melee mode and can't fight or switch weapons and have to redeploy to get back control of your weapons?
 
Been playing 2042 for a couple of days to see how its turned out after all the recent changes they've supposedly made.

Game runs extremely smooth,Well over 160 Fps at High settings @ 1440P / 165Hz.

Its nice to see a proper Class system back in place.

Not come across many bugs other than one when spotting people it not highlighting them for some bizarre reason then when i died and re-spawned it worked again.

I still feel its a bit ways off been good though,I still feel the Conquest Maps are just not that fantastic to be honest,They feel too big in places and if you get put in a bad situation you end up playing a Walking simulator.
Also why is it so much of a chore to be able to get hold of a Tank! i love using tanks but 9/10 throughout the entire match its constantly not available..never felt like this in BF4 you could always pretty much find a Tank.

Overall i still dont think 2042 is fantastic,Its certainly not a patch on BF4. :(
 
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Nevakonaza said:
Oh,No wonder haha..didn't even know there was this gadget! :)
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It's a brilliant gadget tbf to stop the spotting spam - but if you're against a good Wildcat / tank crew they'll have an Irish using his APS and Blasco with her anti spotting/anti locking gadget.
 
playing this again after around a year,

It's a much better game now,

Quick question - I've been trying to play anti-vehicle as Lis, using her TV guided missile and the NTW-50... Honestly, it's a miserable experience, why are the anti-air weapons so weak? If there's a guy flying around in a helicopter with someone repairing it, I can't do enough damage to kill it - it's stupid :confused:
 
Screeeech said:
playing this again after around a year,

It's a much better game now,

Quick question - I've been trying to play anti-vehicle as Lis, using her TV guided missile and the NTW-50... Honestly, it's a miserable experience, why are the anti-air weapons so weak? If there's a guy flying around in a helicopter with someone repairing it, I can't do enough damage to kill it - it's stupid :confused:
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Lis had her rockets nerfed big time........ And yes they are so much worse now :(
 
Neil79 said:
Lis had her rockets nerfed big time........ And yes they are so much worse now :(
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Honestly, trying to perform anti-vehicle is just miserable, it's so much effort for basically no reward, I mean you can still C5 stuff - but the actual missiles and launchers are so weak,
 
When the hitreg works!!! Although they've really nerfed the Wildcats against Aircraft and Heli's :(

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Wildcats are still really good, you can 100-0 the attack chopper and mini bird without overheating your 30mm cannons which I'm not sure is totally balanced. People are just too reliant on sitting in their spawn and then wondering why they're just tickling enemy air.

I have games where it feels like everyone is running AA, I've got an enemy attack chopper who's taken anti-air missiles. The enemy RAM is running the AA secondary gunner, they have 2 wildcats and about 30 people playing Rao or using stingers. Those games I die immediately or quickly in the nightbird and just call it a day and swap to infantry.

Other games it feels like there is just 1 bloke on the other team with a stinger who cares about me and the rest haven't noticed - and I can get 60 kills without even using flares...
 
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