Battlefield 2042 is Excellent and Disappointing at The Same Time | COGconnected

COG writes: Battlefield 2042 is the next installment of the long-running multiplayer first person team shooter, featuring new weapons, vehicles, immense maps and match mechanics.

[Ruegrong]

Game was extremely broken and they still released it as a first impression, what a shit company

[Teflon02]

It's mainly for server prep, not a first impression thing lol. That's just what comes with it. Maybe a mess but was alot of fun

[Pocahontas]

TBF the games a month out and was everyones first impression. Pro post mover.

[eddieistheillest]

A beta is not meant to be a first impression lol. A demo or trial yes, but not a beta.

[Extermin8or3_]

I mean tbf an open beta like a month from launch is to all intents and purposes more like a timed demo than an actual beta.

[CorndogBurglar]

While that's true, the Beta is still everyone's first impression of the game. It may be buggy and may not accurately represent what the final product will be. But its still people's first time getting their hands on the game. Which makes it a first impression.

Not to mention, when a game's beta takes place a month before launch, very little, if anything,, ever gets changed before the actual launch. There just isn't enough time for the devs to fix much at that point

[Pocahontas]

Terrible open beta a month out. First impression it definitely is otherwise it would have been closed.

[JEECE]

Lol that moment when you out yourself as one of the kids whose entire gaming experience has happened in the era where "beta" typically means "demo" and so you don't know how to react when you play a beta that's actually a beta.

[CorndogBurglar]

This game is releasing in a month. I fully understand that Betas nowadays are for server testing. But when the Beta takes place a month before launch, the bugs and everything found in it are almost never fixed before launch. There's just not enough time to fix it all. Generally speaking, anytime a Beta happens that close to launch, it's a very good indicator of what the game will be like at launch. They might be able to fix some things, but not much.

This is how Betas have been for over a decade now, including Battlefield Betas.

[SixFrvgz]

Lol that moment when you out yourself as one of those naïve kids giving companies like EA/DICE a pass considering their horrendous track record - the Stockholm Syndrome with you lot is real.

A beta is a first impression... period. No matter how you slice it - it is gamers first time at getting a hands on experience as to what they could generally expect. A beta that's open to the public on a Friday and ends on a Saturday... what? They wanted this beta to start and end as soon as possible. They felt obligated to give us one because they had to back up their talk - something they generally don't do.

Apart from the myriad of bugs/glitches - this just doesn't feel like a great Battlefield game. It's missing those special ingredients that make Battlefield games feel like Battlefield. I won't delve into that here - there are plenty of videos out there that do so. Expect this and anything EA/DICE releases Battlefield related to be completely divisive from now on - the decision making is highly questionable.

At least they have a portion of the community like you excusing them though, right?

[JEECE]

@SixFrvgz

"I won't delve into that here - there are plenty of videos out there that do so."

That moment when you out yourself as one of the kids who doesn't have his own opinions, but instead finds out what his opinions should be from YouTube.

[Pocahontas]

Less than a month out and the company says lets do an open beta where everyone can critic it and then somehow they'll completely forget 3 weeks later. If you're a fan you wouldn't settle for this.

[poppatron]

I had a great time playing. It’s far far from perfect, with many missing features. But it was a beta, with lots of features to play/test. There were many silly little bugs, but again… it was a beta test. A test on a build months old apparently. If the game comes out exactly as it was in this test I’d have no problem whatsoever calling it broken and unfinished, and to be fair, I’d very very (pleasantly) surprised if on launch it work exactly as intended, which is sad and frustrating, but unfortunately seems to be the nature of a battlefield launch. I’d expected it to be playable still, and for it to get better and better very quickly. I’m still buying at launch. I personally also wouldn’t be crazy surprised if we had another small delay, but I’d imagine the pressures on to get it out this side of Christmas and time is running out.

Bottom line… the core game worked in this beta, and many of those playing it had lots of fun, myself included

[EvertonFC]

It's a beta you know, to report bugs/glitches and stuff. You do understand that right? 🤣 😂

[TheColbertinator]

Yeah needs more energy swords or Avengers skins or something

[giveyerheadawobble]

You jest, but you know we'll get those in some form or another.

[UltraNova]

Apart from the obvious bugs, which is to be expected from a beta I found the audio to be really unfinished. Footsteps were almost non existent and everything sounded flat af. Really uncharacteristic of a BF game.

That said, the crazy sand box game we know and love is there in full tilt. Finally, let's see how they handle specialists in the full game.

[poppatron]

I’ve seen a lot of people comment on the sound. I defo agree. I think in some games like apex you can hear people from really far away, maybe a little to far, but this as it stands is just too hard to pick out anything really

[Saaleh]

I demand rank systems

[philm87]

Bugs aside, which will be mostly cleared up, I thought it was great. Loved how the environment felt more alive with a lot more foliage and trees moving in the wind (PS5 compared with previous PS4 iterations).

[aaronaton]

The specialist characters seem like the biggest design mistake so far, next to that Tornado that cost millions to develop.

[boing1]

It was a rollercoaster for me. First impression was that it's awesome, then there was some disappointment and then the more I played, the more it grew on me and became awesome again. I think people generally overreacted with how bad it really is. Gunplay feels like BF3 and I already had a lot of 'only in bf' moments. Beta was buggy, but super fun IMO.

[giveyerheadawobble]

They should rename it "Call of Battlenite".

I don't even know what this game is trying to be, but I know that it's not Battlefield anymore, and that its following trends set by COD and Fortshite.