Battlefield 2042

OK, so my previous post on this was very negative based on the servers being completely useless on day 1 and 2 of the early access.its a lot more stable now and it's really really fun. Been playing conquest on the full game

Not yet, I got every battlefield game that came out on PC so I will buy it . Our Discord is quiet theses days so I'm not in any great hurry .

I've not even tried hazard zone yet cause none of my friends have picked it up outside of me and one other person (who's not finished downloading it yet)

One group of BF friends have said they wont touch it until at least 6 months in when its more stable. And the other have outright said they're not playing it because of the specialists.

Has anyone thrown up a discord server yet?

I'm happy to throw mine up there but if there's one people are using already ?

Lol I bet he was pissed

Had a LOT of issues with connectivity and stability last night. De-sync, packet loss, bullet lag, general lag etc. Was difficult to get through games when some players are walking around invincible for a few moments before finally the server catches up.

Was having a cracking to and fro rush game on Valparaiso before the server finally disconnected and I gave up for the rest of the night.

in fairness I saw a lot of complaints on reddit and in game.

It has its flaws absolutely without doubt. Air combat is an absolute joke..the jets might as well be taken out since they're basically useless and have no major impact on battles... its impossible to make out the helis long distance and by the time you're close enough to fire cannon you're already flying past them.

But then again people have always hated jet whores and DICE have accommodated those whiners.

Squads should absolutely be expanded to 5-6 people. There is practically zero teamplay going on in any match and no matter who i squad with in multiple matches half the squad are at the other side of the map.

Shooting guns at choppers... I have no idea if guns can damage then since I don't get a visual indicator of hit damage so now I don't bother.

No in squad voip. i know there's discord etc but DICE not provided voip is unforgiveable.

Maps just feel really bland and generic. And it just looks cartoony as hell ffs.

Apparently VOIP is coming asap. I reckon we're looking at a patch of 3-gb minimum this friday to address a lot of the issues.

The thing is we know EA/DICE are going the microtransaction route with the specialists and I've no doubt that there will be meta specialist released down the line for people to buy who will be so overpowered but I think going this way will ensure that we get regular patches etc. At least i hope so.

Voice chat is coming "ASAP," according to EA, but for launch, DICE is working on the assumption that coordinated squads will communicate in Discord or other standalone chat applications. 

I dont mind the bugs, which still for a company which is doing the same fps stuff all the time You would think it would be easier to spot them and fix them.

Im talking about overall base game was/is designed. Like I said previously, when the game works, its a great BF experience but there are still problems which cant be fixed with simple day one patch.

Starting from beggining, UI. It looks like it was put there just in a last second on top of code by some intern. Cant imagine that someone approved that on any of design team meetings. Lack of "flow", menus making no sense like the customization one, icons, UI elements looking like they were made in paint. Its a proper example how not to design UI elements and it comes from a massive AAA company.

Maps. Many previous games gave us good, bad and horrible maps. This one just goes from bad to horrible. Lets look on Hourglass for example. On breakthrough two last points make no sense, if enemy takes over roofs, its almost imposible to take them over without using hover glitch, great way to make it so fun. Even the previous ones, when You have to be a sitting duck in the middle of open space praying that some people will use deployable covers besides You.

To many things to mention. Game shows potential, but it doesnt play like it was by AAA but some random college students on GameJam session.

Edit:

Im just curious, from when it became a norm to accept a half baked product and be ok with it? Cause they allways will fix it....

I haven't used my Xbox One since Battlefield 1 which I loved. Thinking about giving 2042 a go. Conscious that my Xbox One is getting on and I'm wondering are there any reasons that I should be considering upgrading to an xbox series console to play this game?

Thanks

I would definitely avoid the Xbox One version at this stage, it's 64p only and the framerate is gonna be suspect, visuals not great either.

A Series S will run it pretty well. I think the S runs at 1080-1440P range at 60fps and the series X runs at 4K 60fps. So there's a difference, but the Series S still runs the "real" version of the game at fairly clean visual levels and good framerate.

People get more worked up over resolution than needs be, resolution isn't a huge deal and there's a lot more to how a game looks and runs than just resolution, hence why the One S version is miles better than the Xbox One X version (which runs at 4K).

The S is easy to get and a lot cheaper, and it still runs games very well. It's ideal for someone who just plays the odd game but wants to get in on next-gen. Games at 1080P still look totally fine really.

I play on a 240hz monitor usually but sometimes connect my PC to the TV which is 4K, and running at ultra settings 1080P games still look great. I wouldn't be hugely worried about a Series S impacting on your enjoyment of anything. The bigger issue for me personally with it is that there's no disc drive so no 2nd hand games, or borrowing from friends, buying a game and trading it back in, etc.

The Series S is €300 and you can get it with a free month of GamePass, which would allow you to play 10 hours of BF2042 for free before you buy.

Base PS4 here and it plays absolutely fine, no complaints about the FPS.

Any boards discords on the go? Its good but needs squads.

any chance of one of the game mods in here making a discord server? I don't want to create one under the boards banner as I'm not a mod.

Would be nice to be able to pop on and see who's around and team up for a few games. The join on player is broken as hell i find.

Yep - same here. Actually feels like I can shoot straight, as I said here before I was really struggling to get kills with the AR's, was getting 35+ kills with the PP last night. Nothing amazing, but a step up from the previous games!!

Easy way of ranking up if anyone isn't rank 18 yet (PP-29 unlock rank) just choose casper and play breakthrough, spot as many enemies as you can and just do it for the whole game. 5 XP for a spot + 50 XP for an assist (same as a kill). Done this for two games where I got 100+ assists in each, just to get to rank 18 so I could use a gun that's half decent.