Battlefield 2042

DarkJager21

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179315#Comment_118179315

Yeah the thing is a laser beam, a lot of the "day 1" players on Friday are going to be rage quitting with the amount of people running it :D

Even easier way of ranking up if you are interested - switch to Solo/Co-Op and keep going in and out of conquest until it loads Manifest. Spawn in a tank and just continually loop the C1/C2 & B1 objectives (enemy will take then you come back and recapture). Do nothing but that for the full match and you will have about 22k XP at the end of it, can jump entire ranks early on.

Shlippery

Ah didn't realise they had xp switched on for Solo/Bots. The handiest part about that mode is it's great for practicing flying. I used to do a lot of flying with the Logitech joystick I had but it doesn't seem to work with 2042 yet.. I can't fly with mouse / kb - so trying to learn with xbox controller!

Think the dates teased for upcoming patches on twitter are 19th Nov(launch bugs) , 30th Nov (qol) and 7th dec (content).

It's strange - I'm still addicted as it's great to have Battlefield back in my life again, despite switching to COD after BFV, I've missed the Battlefield gameplay loop... I do think the maps are a bit sanitised / barren, the guns are frustrating (although I like the second DMR) and it still needs a bit of love..(and christ I do hate the light hearted quips at the end of round - saw this comparison last night - some difference from BF3 https://old.reddit.com/r/battlefield2042/comments/qvbl2h/battlefield_3_voice_lines_vs_battlefield_2042/

But maybe there's hope there...

DarkJager21

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179659#Comment_118179659

Yep it will reward you XP and it will also count a number of kills towards the vehicle/weapon you use (around 15 before it stops but this seems to be a bug based off what they did to stop the Portal XP farms). Handy if you are close to getting an attachment but need the last few kills.

Dcully

The game is bug ridden to infinity but its fun as fcuk to play lol.

DarkJager21

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179900#Comment_118179900

Yep and it's a ridiculous situation when you need to grind to level 18 just to get a weapon that gives you a chance to win gunfights :D Hope the patch on Friday makes the AR options some bit viable.

dreamers75

Finished the LCMG Mastery* last night its a decent gun for all ranges but lacks the power of PP29 SMG 😁

The last few grips for the LCMG turn it into a very capable gun.

*50 underbarrel grenade launcher mastery may take a while, maybe when Metro comes out.

For BreakthroughI cannot stress how important smoke grenades are, i know you can wingsuit around but well placed smoke grenades can get you around the side of the point of attack and you can open up an entrance for your team.

Shlippery

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118180480#Comment_118180480

Feel people don't realise the value in the insta pop smokes, I'd often medic and pop smokes galore in past battlefields and it's just as effective here, drop smoke and sprint for the rez off.

Have noticed there are a still a few medics going, not as clear as before but they exist. The nearby medic indicator would be a welcome return. (aside from the bug where you can't revive someone clipping in a wall ) that's a genuine pain the ass. Feel like a dick looking at em leaving them to die!

B.A._Baracus

How in the Heck do you change scopes in portal/rush mode? I keep saying confirm on a scope and it never gets added to the weapon.

Shlippery

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118180695#Comment_118180695

Its very finicky and likely incomplete, but you have to move the attachment to position 1 in the T/plus menu in the deploy screen - if that makes sense..

Plus system doesn't seem to work in game in portal.

Hellrazer

Thinking of buying a Laptop solely for BF2042

What would these specs run it like.

Processor: intel core i7-9750H

Graphics: nvidia rtx 2060 6gb vram gddr6

Other option is

Core i7 11370H 

RTX 3060 6gb.

Difference in price is around 450.00 - If I could get away with the 2060 @ low - medium @ 60fps 1080p Id be quite ok with that.

Dohnjoe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118180895#Comment_118180895

Some laptops run lower power graphics cards. Sometimes significantly so. Therefore check reviews on both, notebookcheck is the best site for really indepth reviews. In certain cases a decently powered 2060 will be almost as fast as an underpowered 3060. Is the second laptop an Asus TUF?

Hellrazer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118181406#Comment_118181406

Thanks for that -Yep the second one is an ASUS TUF- F15 FX516PM-HN002T

Akrasia

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118179329#Comment_118179329

If grinding on bots, you don't need to keep cycling the maps, you can select whatever map you like by pressing the settings button

Been trying to grind a the attack chopper given that the starting weapons take about 20 direct hits to kill anything and you don't get any splash damage on infantry so you basically need to sniper them from the air

Hoping that the upgraded weapons will be a bit meatier

Dohnjoe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118181511#Comment_118181511

I know that laptop well, it's a good one but the 3060 in it is underpowered compared to most others on the market

Go search a video where they test BF2042 on a 3060 laptop card, reduce it by about 10% and see if you can live with it. Likewise check the 2060 laptop vs the slower 3060 and see if you could live with that

All that said, the TUF F15 is a good laptop in all other respects, just a little underpowered card and chip if you are a frames junkie

Riesen_Meal

Playing the 10 hour trial on my Series X at the moment and it's running okay for now, I think I've 2 hours left...

It's a mess of bugs and the usual launch nonsense but I am having fun with it...

It drops frames like feck though when it gets intense on some maps, I was playing with my mate on PS5 and he wasn't getting it at all, so I'll he interested to see does it happen like that on the PS5 version...

I only pre-ordered it because I had a GameStop voucher since last Xmas to use up and knew I would buy BF at some stage anyway 😂

Sure BF4 didn't work for literally a year after it released on PS4 so hence my being wary of this one...

I will skip on the PC I think my 1070 would melt if I attempted to play it on that!

Homelander

The 9750H would probably be better on paper for BF2042 as while older it's hex-core with 12 threads, the 11th gen i7 is four-core eight thread.

4/8 really doesn't cut the mustard for BF2042 to be honest so definitely would avoid the 11370H.

The problem with the 9750H is also that it depends very heavily on the cooling ability of the laptop. The base clock speed is low, boost is high. However in most budget/cheaper laptops, the cooling isn't great so it wildly fluctuates, leading to all-over-the-place FPS and total inability to maintain a constant decent clockspeed.

My opinion - you are way, way better off getting a laptop with a Ryzen 5600H or 5800H as the base processor.

Also keep in mind you really would need 16GB ram as well in dual channel config (eg 2x8GB, a single stick of 16GB would hurt performance badly)

Obviously check out reviews first but this is more like what you should be looking at. €1139, Ryzen 5800H, 16GB Ram, RTX3060, 144hz screen.

https://www.currys.ie/ieen/gaming/pc-gaming/gaming-laptops/hp-victus-16-e0511na-16-1-gaming-laptop-amd-ryzen-7-rtx-3060-512-gb-ssd-10225999-pdt.html

Hellrazer

That Victus was actually my second choice....Wasnt sure how the Ryzen stood up to the Intels these days - although my main Pc Ryzen 1700x and that holds up quite well with my (Old) R9 390X - 75 FPS @1080P medium to low settings.

Homelander

Ryzen is generally superior and has been for quite some time in the overall scheme of things. The 5800H is superior to either the 9750H or the 11370H, it would also be decently better than a desktop 1700X.

BF2042 is pretty demanding, just like BFV and BF1 were when they released. Buying a laptop for it specifically, I'd say 5800H/16GB/RTX3060 would really be the minimum to have a decent experience.

I have that exact spec and haven't tried BF2042 though BFV runs at ultra smooth as butter. My old laptop chugged on BFV because it had an i7-9750H and it constantly overheated and throttled to low clockspeed.

yoshiktk

https://youtu.be/i_vBMbi7qSQ

Damo 2k9

Nearly lost the head playing tonight

Is it only me or do all vehicles bar the pickup take ages to destroy? Tanks eat rockets and anti armour grenades. Same with hovercrafts and the track vehicle (cannot remember the name of it)

The AA launcher takes an age to lock onto choppers, so by the time I can shoot a second rocket their flares have recharged.

Any tips greatly appreciated before I break another controller.

Lord Nikon

Anyone have the problem where they have selected an attachment in Loadouts, only to enter a game and it's not there, like not even selectable in the T ingame?

PP29 is the weapon of choice, still grinding to unlock it, everyone is killing me with it.

Feel like I'm killed rather quickly in general, and not knowing where the shooting was even coming from.

Footsteps are all over the place with a surround sound headset, can't determine where anyone is coming from.

When looking to be revived it's just a pointless screen, cannot determine who is close to revive you, and you can't determine if those walking around you are team or enemy.

The UI for customizing weapons is laughable, Left click to do this, Right click to do that.

Spear

1.4 gig patch just released on PC.

Changes are:

• Implemented Server Side upgrades that are targeted at reducing instances of Rubber Banding, often experienced in the later part of a round in All-Out Warfare modes.
• Significantly reduced instances of stuttering when playing on Breakaway. If the Silo’s are destroyed, it should no longer reduce performance on the server.
• A note that we are continuing to investigate similar occurrences that have been reported to us on other maps.
• When looking at allies on your team, their names will now correctly display.
• Adjusted the animations for Falck during the End of Round sequence to ensure that she is displayed correctly.
• Updated a skin earnable for Boris via Mastery Progression with a new name: Gator.
• Ensured that TDM Rounds in Battlefield Portal always start with Random Deploy set as active. We observed that this sometimes wasn’t active when moving from round to round, but have now fixed this.
• Applied a set of measures that ensure the correct number of AI spawn in Custom Battlefield Portal modes using the Free for All preset.
• PC Only - Enabled Specialist Selection in Hazard Zone via mouse interaction, removing the need to lock in your selection with the Spacebar.
• Fixed a rare occurrence in Hazard Zone that would sometimes cause the End of Round flow to not activate correctly, ensuring that the correct amount of bonus XP was awarded.
• Repaired an issue found in Hazard Zone that could cause players to be shown on the Map when they were not visible, or spotted.
• Provided a fix for Hazard Zone players who were not seeing their Extraction Streaks updating correctly.

Grumpypants

That's small for the number of issues.

Spear

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118185639#Comment_118185639

That number is from Steam, which has a poor and inefficient method of simply replacing entire files, so it may be inflated by that.

DarkJager21

They seem to be tweaking some stuff in the backend as well, the "first match of the day" award just randomly started working again last nightfor first time since Friday, and I've been getting melted by M5A3 users (haven't gone back to it myself so don't know if they corrected the bloom issues).

B.A._Baracus

Not sure if anyone else is having this problem but you could empty a clip on someone and for them to be still standing. Yet you take a few hits and down you go.

DarkJager21

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118185742#Comment_118185742

It depends on the weapon you are using, some of them are seriously bad due to the weapon bloom (19 out of 20 shots will just randomly fly anywhere but at the target). There's nobody gonna be standing after a full clip of the PP though 😂

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118185742#Comment_118185742

Yeah, played a match on orbital last night running the lcmg and came out with two kills, many more deaths. Totally different in portal though, where I clean up with the m240b.

BlitzKrieg

I decided to let Nividia optimise my settings today for bf2042 and also ran a repair of my installation. One of the two smoothed out my game a lot, much steadier framerate and performance overall.

Only issue is I think I need to move the game to my SSD, loading is dreadful and sometimes when I load in, not all of my graphics have loaded and I'm running around with an invisible gun.

Aside from that spent a chunk trying out Portal's custom gun game mode which was fun as hell but hectic.

Put me in the mood to try and recreate classic Rocket Arena in Battlefield portal

Shlippery

It's running better for me with the Day 0/1 patch & Nvidia drivers. They promised 2 more, the rumours are one on Nov 30th, which should cover QoL stuff and the bigger bugs we've seen (i imagine the revive issues and others) and then a larger one Dec 7th which should be substantial and include stuff that missed launch.

Rumours only of course and then I imagine it'll be quiet til after Xmas.

Re: Hovercrafts, there's a bug right now where the drivers window is bulletproof from certain angles which probably explains why some of them feel so hard to combat. There was a video somewhere on twitter but can't find it it immediately..