Battlefield 2042 Beta: 5 things we think worked, and 5 things we want changed. We didn't include bugs, and this focuses more on gameplay design choices.
Battlefield 2042's Rush Mode faces criticism due to passive playstyles that hinder objective-based gameplay.
Battlefield franchise boss thinks Battlefield "absolutely can" outsell Call of Duty, but says they're not targeting that with the next entry.
Feel like if that were true, we would have seen it during the BF3/4 era. Just focus first on releasing a Battlefield that's actually feature complete, well put together, that people actually want to play right out of the gate. Hoping Zampella can make this happen.
The best opportunity was BF1 vs. Infinite Warfare. I've never actually seen a worldwide sales comparison so I'm not convinced BF1 didn't eventually win, but I do know COD sold better in the US at launch, because it was the NPD #1 that year, while BF was #2.
The best opportunity was with BC2 and BF3. BF4 dropped the ball with a short campaign and bugged multiplayer at launch
Release a decent game and let the mouth to eat do the rest.. you choose to release another BF4 then blame yourselves for it
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Definitely not BC2. I love the Bad Company games (even though everyone always pretends the first one didn't exist), but even though BC2 has achieved great respect in hindsight, at the time it came out a lot of casuals who bought COD every year either didn't know of Battlefield's existence or saw it as a knockoff of COD. Plus coming out in spring 2010 it was competing against MW2 (the original one) which came out the prior fall.
I mean, the title of the game doesn't have a lot to do with how it sells. The next game is not going to change things but Zampella course change the course of the series towards something that's more on track with that those big player numbers.
With that said, battlefield fans might not want that. To acquire the wider audience they would probably need to betray a lot of the series design principles. Call of Duty is as popular as it is because it is as simple as it is.
In his defense, BF2042 did turn things around eventually though still falls short of franchise expectations if you based it on BF4, BF3, BF1.
Hated it at lunch, came back a two years after and it was an absolute blast. Not sure how it did sales wise to be called failure or success but BF2042 is a pretty good game .
We don't need more games ruined. It's like that company puts water on their bread before they eat it.
Here we go again with rubbing mouths. BF has been a flop consistently since BF4, and I mean flop as in disappointing to the fan base due to the technical issues each has had and the gameplay changes needlessly made. Shut up and make a good BF before hyping up another potential disappointment.
Bro gave one pretty decent interview and answered the questions he was asked. Not really his fault if people want to cherry pick quotes for "content".
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I don't mind them claiming BF2042 wasn't a failure so long as they learned from it and use that experience moving forward into the new game, it was terrible at launch but towards the end it got a bit better. I don't want to see the same thing play out with the new BF though because the ones who are still interested in the franchise have been pretty vocal with what they want and don't want from Battlefield.
Battlefield 2042 may no longer be receiving new seasons, but it's already been confirmed that a new Halloween event will hit the game later this year.
''There are hot spots in maps where almost all the action takes place, but outside of that though''
That is the idea. Battlefield distances are a way to reset the playing field a little and for big strategic turns. Caspian Border memories anyone? Here they even made it easier with the vehicle calldowns. And the hot spots are where the main combat will be. Scale actually was well done here, the sniper camping wasnt very effective even though ppl were really hard at it. Which is excellent. Though the small tunnel camping is just mindless. I wonder why that exists. Maybe multiple exits would be good.
Also doesnt matter which game, action in every objective based shooter will always be in hot spots if objectives revolve around them. Except for Nuketown in COD. The whole map is a hot spot.
''Specialists Needs to Have Proper Factions and Color/Skin Coding''
Your team has floating names and is blue and your squadmates are green titled. I had no issue in the few hours that I played. I kinda like that it isnt too arcadey different, Pink one black other etc
Though yes I wouldnt mind a slightly more noticeable difference between the two teams. Just to reduce anxiety.
So basically everything we were worried about since the reveal. No distinct classes or factions is a big-time red flag for me. I miss the days when you could tell what class an enemy was by their silhouette.
I'm having fun with it. Buggy for sure but with some time I think it'll be remembered as the best BF.