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Battlefield 2042 is reportedly in ‘abandon ship’ mode as EA switches focus to the next series entry

Putonahappyface

Gold Member
Glad I stuck to my gut instincts with this Amber Turd of a game.

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TransTrender

Gold Member
oh so this is what they meant when they said "they where way ahead of schedule" they meant in dropping support for the title.
Once again I think a shareholder lawsuit against EA here would be a slam dunk.

'Super ahead of schedule'
Game comes out broken
Must accept refunds from regions which have consumer protections against broken and incomplete software
EA intentionally misleads share holders while using company resources on a broken game that technically is not shippable in certain markets
 

Boss Mog

Member
I'm gonna say it again. Just make a game like BF4 with current gen visuals. No bullshit trailers either, just straight up actual gameplay like this:





I want lots of tanks, APCs, helicopters, jets, etc... Full chaotic combat with full on destruction and levolutions.

Oh and no" Operators" or any bullshit like that, keep mtx to cosmetics only and nothing too ridiculous or out of place.
 
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Battlefield hasn't been good in a decade and not great for longer.

EA continuously produces hot garbage.

Why were so many people surprised by this game? Shit like this happens constantly where a big shitty publisher with a terrible track record pumps out a turd and everyone seems surprised. Why are so many people, even ones that closely follow the industry, always buying these games?! It's madness.
I have a friend that wanted to play it and I expected more from the Portal. BF launching crappy is kind of a given, but I thought it would eventually turn around and have great user created custom games in the Portal.
 

Aldynes

Member
Specialists are cancer 100%. Fuck the guy that pushed that on the concept stages of the game.

Fuck battle royale modes

Fuck not having a k/d board to check how you're doing compared to the rest of the server.

Triple fuck the random bullet spread, especially when you're scoped and taking single shots. Killing merit based gameplay for luck of the draw.

Basically i wish they would go back to BF3/BF4, just with proper anti-cheat protection. It's the minimum we deserve.
I'd legit buy a remaster of BF4 for modern consoles with a proper resolution boost and a few new graphics updates.
 

Dream-Knife

Banned
Fuck not having a k/d board to check how you're doing compared to the rest of the server.
Actually, Squad doesn't show your kills or deaths until a match is over and it plays great (Squad is the successor to the Project Reality mod for BF2). Maybe they wanted people to focus on more than K/D? They could have done something with that.
 

Haggard

Banned
Ofc it is.
Who seriously expects continuous effort from more developers than the game has players....
 

Needlecrash

Member
This does NOT surprise me. I've been a fan since 1943 but really got into it since Bad Company 2 and Battlefield 3/4. Most of the DICE Senior Leadership have jumped ship and moved on to different studios or formed their own; in particular the upcoming FTP game Arc Raiders (published by Nexon but developed by former DICE members now called Embark Studios).

It's a shame EA/DICE couldn't salvage this game at all. They had a great formula and just had to stick to the script. Instead, we got sold a game that's not even worthy of being a drink coaster.
 
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Neofire

Member
I feel for the poor suckers who bought a season pass for this. Instead of doing the decent thing and issuing refunds, the game will be kept on life support in order to crap out a few shitty expansions that will barely meet basic expectations. What scummy behavior!
Also paging EDMIX EDMIX , still think that BF2042 is a resounding success?
Yeah I wish I could get a refund. The game is basically dead on playstation 5. I couldn't find one game in any mode.
 

jaysius

Banned
I really wanted BF 2042 to be good, I was looking forward to it, after playing half of my EA Play trial on Series X I had enough of it, I was waiting to finish my trial for a big patch... lol that didn't happen.
 

flying_sq

Member
I can't remember when a DICE game didn't release a broken mess, but they all end up pretty good. I wait a few years until the game is actually done, then buy it. It would kind of suck if they're already backing out.
 

Fordfx2

Member
I've had it with this company! I've played Battlefield since the very first one and by them abandoning the game. That confirms I'll NEVER purchase another cash grab piece Of trash they offer.... You lost a long time fan to your greed!

I hope the next garage does even worse (middle finger to EA)
 

Gamerguy84

Member
Sure piss off the last fans hanging around.

The netcode was the worse I've ever seen for BF4 but it ended up being a great game. Fuck EA I'm done with them.
 

BadBurger

Is 'That Pure Potato'
I heard they removed the voice overs from the end of round. The beginning of the end.

On a serious note, they should just go free to play. They'd probably pick up a few thousand more regular players - the same crowd that surfs from free to play game to free to play game. People can excuse a lack of content and crummy specialist-driven gameplay if they don't have to pay for it and you let them dress up their characters in stupid hats and shit for $1.50 a pop.
 
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Speaking on his premium Giant Bomb show Grubbsnax (transcribed by VGC), journalist Jeff Grubb said EA is attempting to fulfil the game’s promised DLC using as few resources as possible so that it can focus on the next Battlefield game.



EA has committed to releasing four seasons of live service content for Battlefield 2042 over the course of a year.



He then said the reason for this is that EA is currently in pre-production for the next Battlefield game.



I called it when the 2042 beta came out. We have another BFV on our hands.
 

Optimus Lime

(L3) + (R3) | Spartan rage activated
Sometimes, when I close my eyes, I can still hear 'Fortunate Son' playing as I rain down tank shells on a Viet Cong stronghold, somewhere on the northern part of the map. My breathing becomes ragged and my pupils dilate, and I start to bite my lip. It seems like so long ago, in so many ways.
 

pqueue

Member
The only game EA has ANY chance of me ever giving them money for again will be the Dead Space remake.

And that is assuming that it is actually good.
 
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S0ULZB0URNE

Member
If they do this they will alienate fans from buying future BF games.
BF2042 not only needs to be fixed but it needs a couple years worth of content.
 

nikos

Member
What exactly don't people like about the game at this point? It's as if it became cool to hate it and everybody jumped on the bandwagon.

I personally had a lot of fun with it at launch. It needed some things that were quickly fixed, but I don't think deserved all of the backlash.

I REALLY hope they don't go back to an older era because of this. We finally got Battlefield in a modern setting and it has gone to waste.
 

BadBurger

Is 'That Pure Potato'
I reinstalled it to check out season one and also to check the state of the game - conquest mode (128 people), main queue, PC. The first match was hovering around 50 actual human beings, and all anyone wanted to discuss was how season one is just one new map, one new characters, and two guns.

So far it seems like since I stopped playing all they've done is tweak things slightly, and nerfed the one submachine I was using to snipe people from like 100 yards away with lol. It's absolute garbage now. Also, Sundance's anti vehicle grenades take so long to lockon they're not very useful, but at least they actually track vehicles now and don't fly off into the cold blue sky 50% of the time.

Not good. What a waste of money this was.
 

KrisB

Member
Fuck not having a k/d board to check how you're doing compared to the rest of the server.
That was changed a long time ago now. You can view the scoreboard and see all your stats, ribbon progression etc during the rounds.

I shelved the game for many months but have started playing it again recently and they've actually made a few improvements. Despite the terrible launch I'm enjoying it more than Vanguard. They really need to knock the next one out of the park though.
 

EDMIX

Member
That was changed a long time ago now. You can view the scoreboard and see all your stats, ribbon progression etc during the rounds.

I shelved the game for many months but have started playing it again recently and they've actually made a few improvements. Despite the terrible launch I'm enjoying it more than Vanguard. They really need to knock the next one out of the park though.

Its one of theses things were even the worst BF isn't going to suddenly make me like COD lol

I also doubt this rumor as it sounds too weird. Put out free DLC, go to skeleton crew and shit, put out 3 more seasons this year? I'd believe it if it just said no seasons would come out after this or something, but I have a hard time believing the team that is taking this long to redesign those maps with a skeleton crew will put out 3 more seasons..THIS YEAR, that sounds just too unlikely and makes this sound more fake then anything rumored thus far lol
 

Apocryphon

Member
Just 4k 60 battlefield 3 and 4 on ps5 and series x and crossplay it , if It doesn't sell like hotcakes I'll retire from gaming forever.
Relasing 1 map in 7 months Is just fucking stupid
I'd buy that in a heartbeat. I'd also buy a remastered BC2 that has the player movement from BFV. I'd certainly consider those more than I will whatever drivel they are planning to put out next.
 

EDMIX

Member
Just 4k 60 battlefield 3 and 4 on ps5 and series x and crossplay it , if It doesn't sell like hotcakes I'll retire from gaming forever.
Relasing 1 map in 7 months Is just fucking stupid

I legit don't even know if that would change any of this. The fact that they have BF3 in portal and that didn't really change much, makes me doubt that BF3 and BF4 put in 4K 60fps would matter as much as many of us think.

I mean...shit I'd buy it day 1 with you, but I don't know how much others really care about this games. So don't retire from gaming on this lol Even that COD4 remake didn't do massive numbers compared to that year's current COD, so what hope would BF3 or BF4 really have? So knows if we get some remake or remaster of those games outside of portal, but if we do I don't have any belief they would sell like hotcakes even if they came out perfect with zero issue.

Though I wish we got new maps sooner, if it was based on that past design, I'd rather wait those months to get a good map vs a rushed map. So never mind waiting 7 months, BF2042 shouldn't have even been released in 2021 in the first place if so much shit needs to be redesigned, fixed, done over, corrected etc. At the state of this game currently, I'd rather not have them rush out content if its just going to be buggy and bad.

Apocryphon Apocryphon I love the movement and changes they made with BFV, too bad it got all that hate cause they did so many great things with that game.
 
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clarky

Gold Member
Between this, CP2077 and Vangard to an extent hopefully shareholders are begging for delays to these companies biggest releases if they are not ready. The hit to the share price over time because of this shambles must be bigger than a cheeky 6-12 month delay surely.

They have to start from scratch again, rather than a quality battlefield coming this fall. Got to hurt the bottom line.

Maybe we'll see real change( probably not)
 
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Shmunter

Member
I legit don't even know if that would change any of this. The fact that they have BF3 in portal and that didn't really change much, makes me doubt that BF3 and BF4 put in 4K 60fps would matter as much as many of us think.

I mean...shit I'd buy it day 1 with you, but I don't know how much others really care about this games. So don't retire from gaming on this lol Even that COD4 remake didn't do massive numbers compared to that year's current COD, so what hope would BF3 or BF4 really have? So knows if we get some remake or remaster of those games outside of portal, but if we do I don't have any belief they would sell like hotcakes even if they came out perfect with zero issue.

Though I wish we got new maps sooner, if it was based on that past design, I'd rather wait those months to get a good map vs a rushed map. So never mind waiting 7 months, BF2042 shouldn't have even been released in 2021 in the first place if so much shit needs to be redesigned, fixed, done over, corrected etc. At the state of this game currently, I'd rather not have them rush out content if its just going to be buggy and bad.

Apocryphon Apocryphon I love the movement and changes they made with BFV, too bad it got all that hate cause they did so many great things with that game.
Too many modes and options. Just put a Conquest button and a Rush button on the title screen, include all the maps. Done

Once you build up a strong user base, diversify from there. When the base is too low, too many modes dilutes it further.
 
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