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Battlefield 2042 launches with Mostly Negative Reviews on Steam

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Electronic Arts and DICE released today Battlefield 2042 on Steam and in just a few hours, the game has received Mostly Negative Reviews.

Although this isn’t as bad as eFootball 2022’s launch, it definitely shows how DICE has missed the target with this new BF game.

BF 2042 Mostly Negative Reviews

Alongside some tech issues, Battlefield 2042 lacks a lot of features that were present in previous BF games. For instance, there isn’t any class system, server browser, or individual player scoreboard. The game also does not give you the ability to change teams, and you can’t even zoom in on the spawn map. Not only that, but there isn’t a way to differentiate between transport or attack helicopters. Add to this the new “Specialists” which is obviously inspired by other games and has no place in a BF, and you got yourself a Battlefield game that suffers from an identity crisis.

Let’s also not forget that BF2042 does not feature any single-player campaign. As such, you’d expect this game to be more polished than its predecessors. Instead, BF2042 is in a worse state. And while all previous Battlefield games had a rocky launch, most of them only suffered from technical or network issues. On the other hand, Battlefield 2042 lacks major features. It seriously boggles our minds how DICE has managed to deliver such an underwhelming product.

Steam users aren’t the only ones that are disappointed with this new BF game. A lot of critics/reviewers are also unhappy with the game’s direction.

My guess is that some of the aforementioned issues will find their way to the game via post-launch updates. However, I’m almost certain that DICE will stick with its new Specialists system, and won’t implement a traditional class system.

Stay tuned for more!

91 thoughts on “Battlefield 2042 launches with Mostly Negative Reviews on Steam”

    1. steam is populated by haters in their facial acne period of life
      the game is good, it has just launched…its 2021 not 2010 of bad company 2..there are more users online higher expectations and the performance on middle to high gpu for bad company 2 wasnt good at all and never improved but it was a very good game, with an ugly single player campaign…why dedicate too long time and many resources to single player if nobody plays it in bf?

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      1. its 2021 not 2010 of bad company 2″

        so what are you saying BC2 was the best BF? if yes then you sound like a console peasant that hasn’t played a BF game before BC2 either way BF 2042 is total garbage and that’s coming from a true fan that has been playing the series since 1942-BF1 since BF5 was utter sh***t as well and yes i have played every F2P BF that has been released on PC so yes i know what i’m talking about

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        2. you have started an argument between you and yourself mentioning things i never said…anyways i enjoyed bf5 too…

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      4. “steam is populated by haters in their facial acne period of life”
        Very true

        “the game is good”
        F*k no

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        2. Lmao, you took him for a mini ride. I saw what you did there. Make for a good laugh for sure.

          “steam is populated by haters in their facial acne period of life”

          Don’t you just love when people start off but being dismissive, thinking it will win then the argument. It’s basically the “you live in your moms basement”. Come to done out dude lives in South Florida. No basements there. ???

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      5. Sadly this person a.k.a you exists and is multiplied by MILLIONS. That’s how they stay churning out the rubbish. Good Job you degenerate.

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        1. im sorry whom are you talking to? if to me thank all the gods in history you are behind a screen at safe hidden somewhere in the a*s of your mother or you would end sadly….

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        2. please little butterfly do not fly too high, now you cut it with me because probably we are separated by thousand kms of distance, which keep you safe, but you never know you may irritate some not very patient guy, who would rip your small balls off your ears, d..ckhead

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          1. seems you are flying out of the stratosphere yourself, because you have no idea who i am or what I’m capable of either. So you should keep your idle threats and follow your own advice. Because i ain’t going for your balls, I don’t touch other men’s balls. I’m thinking more to rip your head from your shoulders.

          2. ah ha hah
            thanks you are really a funny kid, enough with marvel ok? time to go back to your school where they bully you, call me and ill come to defend you
            oh i can clearly see your capacity, by the way…

      7. it looks like me just as much as your mother looks like the b…h i f…ked 9 months before you were born, you splurt of s*men

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          1. rot and die, its like what you do you f*k the pillow and then wear the condom later, so you pretend you had real s*x with your pillow girlfriend

        2. people pity you…i hope that you may at least get a pity f*k
          but you dont wear a mask, and you would get covid out of the pity f*k, if you dont cut it through, you wont be missed by many…

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    4. And they will still buy it. They will complain and biche but they will still buy it and que up in those lobbie.

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      1. It will be interesting to see the sales figures on this game if EA does release them but yeah I think a lot of people will buy the game anyway even with all the negativity surrounding it.

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  3. I got this game as a gift for my Bday on steam and I feel robbed.
    Even portal which everyone is creaming their pants for is horrible. You cannot escape the janky cheap feeling there too.
    There’s a bug that keeps happening where your body gets stuck on the floor after you spawn ??
    how is this allowed to happen in 2021 ??
    I thought CYberpunk died so other studios can learn from that failure and avoid releasing Uncomplete Alphas but nope, seems nothing will change ?
    anyway back to Halo Infinite, at least that game works as intended aside frop Xp

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  5. Lot of dissatisfied customers with this Battlefield. Will EA/ DICE get the message and try harder on the next game? No, not if gamers keep buying this game. The only language Publishers understand is money. Take that away from them and they understand much better.

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    1. It wouldn’t matter, they’ve built a fanbase, what majority of people want is irrelevant to these companies and numbers back it up.
      wikipedia(dot)org/wiki/Pareto_principle

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      1. I don’t make it a crusade to get gamers to stop pre-ordering or buying on Day 1 of release but occasionally I try to reach these gamers with advice on spending their gaming dollars wisely. I doubt that I’ve made much difference if any at all.

        Hell Cyberpunk 2077 had 8 million pre-orders.

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      2. The pareto principle says that a small portion of every company does the most work and the rest barely do anything. The more diverse a company gets the more of a mess it gets.

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        1. In business, it implies that 20 percent of customers bring about 80 percent of revenue, you didn’t need me to tell you that but I guess that’s too much thinking to expect from someone like you.

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  8. As the best man for the job no longer applies, the new generation of game devs is upon us as the old talent is mostly gone and not in charge anymore. Expect nothing but mediocrity and garbage like this from now on.

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        2. Lmao, well put man. I laughed so damn hard. Damn near woke my 7 month old up. Literally had to stuff my head in the pillow at 7 a.m it morning. ???

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  10. Flop after flop
    I hope the AAA industry keeps going at this pace, in a decade or so they’ll be struggling for anyone to buy their cashcows.
    They sure as hell can’t create any new IPs so that won’t save them.

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    2. Actually you are wrong my friend, valid points but only valid if you were talking about smart people. These are dummies that will buy this ON EVERY RELEASE. I agree with every thing you say, but you over estimate these gamers. They love this garbage!

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      1. The market has changed considerably, people don’t give a f*k about these games anymore and most were tricked by the good marketing with this one.
        You also forget that it’s the first Battlefield on Steam since Bad Company 2

        Lighting in a bottle, the whole game is a gimmick and it won’t happen twice.

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      2. You are the bitter chalice the devs have to drink to the full, nonwithstanding how much effort intelligence experience they put in their work…….only those many who cannot make anything criticize those few who can, instead

        Fact is they have a job, and you spend your time on dsog, so you are as harmful to them as dust in their neighbors house

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      3. You are the bitter chalice the devs have to drink to the full, nonwithstanding how much effort intelligence experience they put in their work…….only those many who cannot make anything criticize those few who can, instead

        Fact is they have a job, and you spend your time on dsog, so you are as harmful to them as dust in their neighbors house

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      2. Good for empty pockets like yours…its normal considering you are a teen even if you were thirty, the avatar is clearly showing your higher education, you have not been using memes for the past 2 minutes, are you ok?

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  17. MSI Afterburner can show individual CPU cores. Showing just a percentage CPU usage (for the whole CPU) can be very misleading and JayZ should be called out for doing a below-average job.

    I mean, he enables DLSS and says that “nothing is really happening”, when you can clearly see that the GPU usage has dropped significantly (from 95% to 75%). So DLSS is working fine. The fact that he doesn’t get higher framerates is because he is either bottlenecked by the CPU or the RAM.

    Bottom line, JayZ should simply stick to hardware benchmarks because he clearly doesn’t know anything about games, and he gets embarased with this kind of videos.

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    2. Jayz is an idiot though and this shouldn’t be news to anyone. He had no hardware to update so he’s gone over to software. Can’t wait to see his review of the latest Corel Word Perfect.

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  25. Since Battlfield 4 garbage release (I moved completely to Planetside 2 when it was actually a good game not like now) I stopped buying Battlefield games at release.

    Battlefield 4 was given for free with almost all the content a while ago, then a friend gifted me a copy of Battlefield 1 (which to me is a good game overall, the last good game made by them, graphics, netcode, feeling, is perfect in that regard), and then Battlefield V was also given as a gift to me but barely played it.
    A friend pre-ordered it and then refunded the game…I pre-ordered Elden Ring instead and God of War. Bye bye Battlefield.

    Hope the guys that worked at Dice that are making a new game come up with something good, I think their studio is called Embark and are working in a third person perspective open world game with great visuals and some Coop/PvP components. Let’s see what they can do. I’m tired of shooters anyways.

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  29. I played the beta for half and hour and it was boring af. Glad to do not have bough this woketard game. I prefer by far bf4 and I still playing it.

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  30. RIP Battlefield. It’ll now join the graveyard of NFS, Battlefront, and all the other game series EA has tainted. They may continue to make new entries in the future but they will never be what they were as long as EA is at the helm.

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