Thank you guys for the massive support on this video! I'm not a great editor, but I wanted to challenge myself and I feel like I did a decent job on this video. There are a few things here and there that I wish I added, but overall I hit the points I wanted to hit. I will take a lot of the feedback from this video and keep it in a document to reference for any other review style videos in the future.
I understand your point, but just as you many did not understand when they were told not to pre-order or buy the game after a few months until we saw what EA was going to brings us and what did you’ll do? Then there are the results, don’t cry, because even with Battlefield 5, many people were already talking about the disaster it could bring and that was the beginning of the collapse of the saga downhill and until now no one understands, so the same thing is told again, do not pre-order the next Battlefield and do not buy it after a few months, let’s see if you understand now. Personally, I didn't reserve either the BF5 or the BF2042 and I only bought them until they cost less than 15 dollars and depending on how the next BF comes out, I’m planning to do the same.
@@JoseCortes-zp1ob Also on my platform - PC/Steam, I'd recommend that players DO pre order because you can play the game as long as you like and return it if you wish to any time before the official release date.
The primary problem with DICE is that they're not DICE anymore. Olof, Lars, Magnus, Stefan, Rob, Patrick, etc... all the founders left and created new studios (Embark being the most famous), leaving DICE being lead by EA, ex-Respawn, Bungie and Ubisoft employees. This is a franchise that has lost its identity and I do not think it will get it back ever.
This is the same story with all of the former great franchises. Halo isn’t run by the original creators of Halo, Call of Duty isn’t lead by the OG Infinity Ward anymore, and DICE isn’t actually DICE anymore
Bf1 dynamic weather was great. Rain, fog, snow, that’s it. That’s all you need. Don’t need tornados throwing you out of bounds and disrupting your damn hud
The one thing that might need to also be mentioned is the absolute hubris of DICE when they addressed the lack of the scoreboard, and called it a LEGACY FEATURE.
Vince Zampella is lead of dice rn, he always cooks. Trust in him, he may not get the game launched well because EA never gives devs enough time but the content and fundamentals will be great at least
@@Ridi_MB That wasn't a 'beta' where they expected to implement results from - it was only a week before official release ffs! That was just to sell more 'premium' versions for 'early access', pure cash grab.
The beta for me kept running worse and worse until it wouldnt even launch then the game came out i played it for like 2 months then its been sitting in my uninstalled page since
The fact that you put out this level of Truth on Battlefield 2042 and these other Million subscriber CZcams Battlefield channels have not called out Dice says a lot. Jackfrags Westie Stodeh LevelCap will never shit on EA Dice 🎲 thank you for finally making this video Dice is DONE FINISHED RIP Battlefield.🤯
Agreed! I watched both JackFrags and LevelCap until BF2042 came out. Then it was crystal clear they were hesitant or even downright avoided criticism for the game and I unsubbed to them immediately after. It was obvious they didn't want to say anything negative about it which is why I couldn't trust their opinions anymore.
When they first implemented the scoreboard, you couldn’t see it at the end of the round. As for the squad management, you couldn’t kick people out of your squad cause “it wasn’t healthy ptfo”.
@@NonZenze text chat is on another level of stupid in this game. The word “minigun” is censored and you have miniguns on most vehicles. In some instances, the word “kill” is also censored. Edit: and the worst part is that you don’t even know you’ve been censored. You don’t see asterisks on your end if you type censored words. Only other people can see asterisks. All chat disabled by default cause it’s a safe space for everyone… in a game… where you’re supposed to kill people… where they censor the word “fuck” in chat… but the specialists are allowed to curse…
As a beginner game developer, im actually shocked, how in the love of jesus they manage to create some useless tornado in 3 years, their game engine must be some sort of shit that it makes full team of developers creating this stuff for so long
After BFV's early cancellation, a shit ton of veteran dice devs were fed up with EA's decision making and left the company to make Embark, including almost the entirety of the Frostbite engine team. So basically the newly hired devs basically were placed into a situation where they had zero experience with frostbite and were forced to learn it from the ground up, which it seems to be what most of the development time set on for a major portion of 2042's development time.
Exactly, that's what I never liked and it was saw as a silly thing that they put natural disasters as the biggest innovation they would bring and launch from the beginning, a complete garbage, putting a tornado in all maps, even in a desert🤣🤣, which at first looked horrible, with trash quality and without any degree of realism, until now they only improved it a little, but it is still garbage, a waste of resources that they could have invested in improving other things or definitely not put it in the game, the only moderately acceptable thing is the sandstorm on some maps, which also needs fixes, but it is more acceptable, EA should have been put those natural disasters little by little or not at all, let's hope for the next Battlefield they better not bring any of that.
Would you believe me if I told you Frostbite is, in fact, notoriously cranky, and was made by a development team who left in an exodus before the game started production proper? Because that would certainly explain three years of work for a tornado.
Retort on the Portal segment. The current portal state was not caused by too much freedom, it was caused by too many dumb restrictions and a bad server layout. The first thing Dice broke was the full progression on servers set up exactly the same settings as the official servers. To this day you cannot have full progress with the basic settings and the PvP A.I enabled. You are forced to disable the A.I which makes it almost imposible to start and maintain a functional normal server. You also are not allowed to add additional weapons and vehicles to the server, you can only remove from the official list. This way I am not able to host a Breakthrough server that also has helicopters and jets in it like it used to be before DICE ruined it. As about the layout: Because there are no filters to separe the normal servers from the heavily modified ones, all the main portal page is left is with all those weird hardcore milsim or zombie serfers which maintain a niche community which only plays that. As far as portal is concerned, DICE poisoned the provervial well and so the only lifeforms that can thrive in it are base liforms that can thrive in that poison
THIS. Why would I want to play portal if I can’t level up? And since nobody wants to join empty servers, I HAVE to turn on PvP AI which for some fucking reason disables progression. Why not just turn off progression for PvE AI? 🤦🏼♂️
Oh come on, if it weren't for BF2042 I never would have gotten to ride in a MAV with Ender's on one of his streams. And Enders got to meet a 73 year old BF veteran.
One of the big things you missed was the fact that for a full priced game it had multiple paid battle passes and a skin store like Fortnite or overwatch 2. Call me old school but battle passes have no right being in full priced games, especially when new content like weapons and vehicles are locked behind grinding a battle pass instead of vehicles being available to everyone on the maps allowed and weapons being unlocked through assignments.
@@heistingcrusader_ad3223 hell yeah man i already have almost 800 hours on that game, whenever i tell people that’s the way battle passes should be in paid games I get told i have unreasonable opinions or that it’s unrealistic and bad lol
I have still nightmares of the bolt with the 30 mm attack heli canon. I couldnt believe why they thought it was a good idea to put a light, fast tank with infantry shredding canon in the transport class and remember there could be as many as 7 of these vehicles per team.
I still remember when the Beta dropped and a bunch of people kept defending this trash. The amount of copium was just over the top... Anyone with a brain could tell this was not Battlefield
Seriously, i dont even want them to be creative anymore just because they will mess it up. Do a remake with the best mechanics from BF3/4, adjust the graphics, add new weapons (maybe new vehicles but not necessary), add new maps and focus on 3-4 gamemodes (TDM, Domination, Rush, CTF with a all sorts of mixes like infantry only, hardcore etc.). Thats literally everything they need to do. Implement a good code and fix your bugs prior to release. I seriously I dont trust their creative process anymore which is sad.
I think a lot of People liked BFV at the Moment the Game was cancelled. Especially after the Pacific Launch. Then Everything was shut down and Cut from Live Support. Every Ressource and possible Dev Studio was working on the new BF. But after the Realisation how Bad the actual State of the new BF is ,there was only Disapointment . No Love ,No Passion was Put into the new Game. 😢
I can't for the life of me think why they thought puting an objective at the top of a buildings coupled with being able to drop in vehicles a good idea..and on 3 MAPS hourglass, kaleidescope and orbital 99% of the time you lost but the few times using the hover craft and literally hopping from building to building climbing the side and catching the enemy team and vehicles all fixated on the elevator off guard and winning was super satisfying. Only launch worse than this was cyberpunks.
Honestly, all Battlefield 2042 has taught me is that every live service gets shut down as soon as it gets good. Battlefield 5, Battlefield 2042, Halo Infinite, Red Dead Online, Starbound, all CoD games right before the next one releases. All of these games started to show real potential but then got shut down and abandoned. I'm honestly starting to think gaming execs are afraid that if their live service game gets too good, no one will buy the next installment...
23:50 - BF2 also had jump peeking, strafing etc. The movement glitches were quite extent in that game with what you could do. Not as broken as Bf4 but yea. There are guides out there if you want to know more.
This is was I thought about during the conclusion. I remember playing BF5 and being annoyed about the gunplay, skins, small number of maps etc. and basically everyone around me thought the same: They could not f up the next game. Just do what the fans wanted, and the trailer promised that. But they managed to f it up big time.
Bring back Dorritos! I think removing 3D spotting for the whole team, as a default was a big mistake. There was a greater sense of battle lines in older games. You could be in the firing line as an infantry, or if you wanted to flank you had an idea what you were flanking. Now it just feels like you can be absolutely melted from any direction, or any bush. Bring back Dorritos!
As a diehard battlefield pilot, the only thing I'm asking for in the next game is for the jet/heli physics to not be goofy as hell like they are in 2042.
For. Real. What were they thinking? On top of all of this. Every charater is a hero. Why?! Stop selling jank Call of duty Character skins. Just make battlebit but with 2042 graphics! Get rid of the Call of duty movements and sliding (@23:25 why do you think this game has sucked for the last decade? Also No. movement is not needed for a skill gap. ) Why is that so difficult. Scrap the Crazy weather every single map. It comes at the same time every map and it feels like a Déjà vu. Lighten it up at least! Its become a fast and furious game with all the over the top cringe.
@@EndersFPS It needs to have a cool down then. You can't have sweaty (Like myself) players slide cancelling past corners and going crazy in a non sbmm games. Dolphin diving came at a cost. you landed and had to get back up. Slide cancelling has given all games the unrealistic overboard feel. I've been Playing fps for a longgg time. In no game should you be able to slide around like a crack addict over and over and over again its a literal joke. It takes out any sort of realism. In what situation have you been able to power slide yourself out of a real life event once or twice.. let alone 6+ times in a gunfight lol. Just because you and I are good at it doesn't mean it should be in-game. We're gear'd up with all this weight and guns and awkward.. and you expect me to want that physic. I dont know if you've worn a plate carrier irl but you wont be sliding and jumping like a maniac after about 10 seconds. I do love that you've called out all the other problems with the game though thanks for the time and effort you put into this.
You mentioned the guns and the dismally low recoil, leading to laser behaviour, and I think there's a pretty good solution to this for the next game that would be much more in line with how people want Battlefield to play. Physicalise the weapons. I've been playing a lot of Helldivers and some Insurgency Sandstorm, and both games treat the gun as a physics oblect with real interaction with the environment. This allows recoil to be properly simulated by imparting a force onto a physics object, and means that projectiles leave the barrel properly, instead of coming from the sight or the player's face. This would then make attachments even more useful, because they could change the effect of the recoil physics in a simulated manner, rather than just as numbers on a spreadsheet. It would also make hip-fire a lot more intuitive, because the bullets would actually just go where the barrel is pointing, not wherever in a crosshair on screen.
This is only viable in milsims because it adds a host of complications like larger weapons getting hung up on tight corridors and just sucks for fast-paced gameplay. Really they just need BF4's post-update system where bullets come out of your torso, so you can't headglitch, and more agressive recoil and/or spread
@@KekusMagnus I get your point, but I don't think it would be as much of a problem as you say it does. The prison map in Sandstorm is basically just Operation Locker, and with a full server, it can get pretty chaotic in there, but I've never seen the weapons get stuck on anything or really cause issues. Helldivers, by comparison, is very arcade-y, and I spend just as much time running away from giant bugs or leaping off hills as I do shooting and calling in airstrikes, but the guns have never been a problem for me during. The only time Helldivers' weapons have been an issue is when I need to shoot a bug up close, and that's only because the laser/third person sight get a bit funky at melee range. Mostly, the developers of both games seem to get around it by carefully animating the characters so that the weapons don't clip through things or cause problems, which is something Dice has always been good at. I understand your point that doing it like BF4 would be the best option, but I think the Battlefield playerbase would actually appreciate a total change to the way the guns work, after how bad weapon handling and recoil has been in 2042.
I miss the tank gameplay from Battlefield 5. It felt more team based and you had to be somewhat smart with tanks to use them effectively because of ammo limitations and general team support
For me, it was the immersion or lack of that killed the game. BF1 as much as it had it's gunplay and balance problems, the atmosphere was unmatched. There were so many little details that showed the devs cared. Battlefield used to be known for the most accurate depictions of firearms and always showcasing strange unique weapons but with 2042 there are so many basic errors, it's painful.
Agreed. You can sorta do it too in BFV and that ones movement was top tier. At least there if you tried bunny hopping and shooting at the same time your aim would suffer for it. They should have at least kept that part.
another thing to add to the fuel with your vehicle section in bfv there was a bug before the round started tank players could move back wards when they spawned in so you could get the similar effect as the jets
Was a good review until you started screeching about dice banning military simulation servers cause you don't have fun playing them. Not everything you don't like needs to be banned, just play a differant server. (And no I'm not some military stimulator nut, I'm just sick of the childish mentality that everything you don't enjoy needs to be removed)
That first part of that video has been happening a lot to me and its annoying as heck. I might try to spawn in an air vehicle and all of a sudden I'm underwater under the map and I can't do anything with my vehicle. So annoying
Something must have happened during the development that made this game change course, cause so many things point to that this was at some point in time intended to be a followup to BF3 & BF4. Just look at the trailer; The rendezook, the Damavand basejump, the noshair containers - it all screamed BF3 & BF4. Heck, even Pac and Irish was in one trailer. It looked dark, gritty and like a true followup to the proper battlefield-games, and what we then got was something completely different.
Battlefield 2042 was exclusive made with Hazard Zone in mind. The huge maps, the range on weapons, the "heroes" and lack of a class system where you can use any equipment and weapon, the non existence scoreboard, the ciclones... Everything fits the Hazard Zone mode, and that's pretty obvious that DICE was fully invested in it.
I feel like using aircraft in Bf2042 is pointless. Like trying to take out a tank with an Apache is virtually impossible because you need to land 3 direct lock-on missiles or a whole payload of AT missiles on a tank before you can kill it. Not to mention most of the time that is interrupted by an AA system that only needs to lock on to you and fire only 2 missiles. In BF 3 you could have a meaningful impact on the battlefield and change the course of battle where as in 2042 it seems as if you make zero impact because you either get shot down immediately or 75% of the airspace is gridlocked by an AA system.
Battlefield 2042 will become a testament to video games, ON WHAT EXACTLY NOT TO DO. I believe Battlefield is having an Identity Crisis; Battlefield has had it since BFV. Who remembers BFV’s terrible Battle Royale mode? And of course Hazard Zone in 2042. What Dice needs to stop doing is invest in developing and adding game modes that the core player base never asked for. But, the biggest problem with 2042 wasn’t touched on here: LACK OF CAMPAIGN. Ask Black Ops 4 how no campaign turned out for them. How am I supposed to know where I am, who I am fighting, who I am fighting for, when all of this context is added with voice over dialogues before the match??? Say what you want about Battlefield single players, at least I knew why I was in China in BF4, I knew why I was in the Middle East in BF3, and I knew why I was in Norway in BFV. TLDR; Dice doing things we never wanted, no single makes it confusing to know what the multiplayer is about, why should I give a damn when they don’t about a location or theme.
I remember buying the game only for portal, I had made a basic custom breakthrough mod more similar to BF1 operations before another guy made a great template for everyone to use, I had also made a kind of frontline mode but without mcoms because those were absent, and once they were available they were bugged. I also had another idea for a custom mode where teams would gains buffs from certain flags, like vehicles more powerful weapons or even more tickets, but I wasn't able to do make this one because I'm bad.
There is another point, that came to my mind watching your review Enders. I doubt Dice and EA will go from the year 2042, back to the year 1980… It is much more likely that they are moving forward in time, to Battlefield 2142 2. A couple of things in BF 2042 suggest this direction. 1) The game Title 2) The effort that developers at Dice put into post apocalyptic, future weather and map designe. 3) The Snow/Ice map in BF2042 4) Walkers and VTOL‘s seem to function really well on the frostbite engine. Just my opinion and i think another modern warfare game would hurt them even more as the momentum for this scenario, is completly lost.
the mouse input issue is tied up with the unfinished version of frostbite used for the game, DICE devs wanted to delay it 1 year to fix it and release the game with a fully working version of the graphics engine, they werent allowed by EA.
So little craftsmanship and care went into this game, you can literally see the result of all the veteran developers quitting DICE everywhere you look.
I have put hundreds or thousands of hours into each battlefield from Bad Company 2 to BF1. Battlefield 5 got maybe 50-60 hours. 2042 I think I played for like 3 hours and put it down. My favorite franchise and I just couldn't do it. I still bought it, so they won in that respect but I'll be very cautious to buy the next one.
Thank you guys for the massive support on this video! I'm not a great editor, but I wanted to challenge myself and I feel like I did a decent job on this video. There are a few things here and there that I wish I added, but overall I hit the points I wanted to hit. I will take a lot of the feedback from this video and keep it in a document to reference for any other review style videos in the future.
Thank you for your dedication and promotion of the game. You are appreciated Enders
EA should rent a theater and force all DICE devs to watch this.
EA should be forced to watch as well, a lot is also on them
Best comment so far
IMAX
They will watch it and ignore it
@@PrasathMGMProbably cuz the current DICE devs are filled with idiots
"Don't be sad, this is just how it works out sometimes." - that quote pretty much sums up the 2042 expirience.
“Sometimes” meanwhile the betas of pervious battlefield games since 3 (I never played 3 but I saw some clips of long neck soldiers)
@@The_whales I posted that exact line on every Battlefield 2042 video, official or not. Until they eventually removed the end round voice lines
match making instead of a server browser is the worst punishment to any video game
At the same time, the bf4 browser sucked n we all complained about it
@@dudeilligence6441who ever said that??? Lool
@@GazDaLad remember launch day where the server browser showed all the servers with no players as recommeded? beastly :D
@@dudeilligence6441 i have no idea what your talking about
@gio6918 its better than matchmaking for 15 mins to be put in an empty lobby.
That fact that they offered zero refunds for this launch is unforgivable.
Those who bought the game on Steam had no issue, I myself refunded after 20h playtime, and later on bought the game back on discount.
Should’ve gotten it during the beta.
I understand your point, but just as you many did not understand when they were told not to pre-order or buy the game after a few months until we saw what EA was going to brings us and what did you’ll do? Then there are the results, don’t cry, because even with Battlefield 5, many people were already talking about the disaster it could bring and that was the beginning of the collapse of the saga downhill and until now no one understands, so the same thing is told again, do not pre-order the next Battlefield and do not buy it after a few months, let’s see if you understand now. Personally, I didn't reserve either the BF5 or the BF2042 and I only bought them until they cost less than 15 dollars and depending on how the next BF comes out, I’m planning to do the same.
@@JoseCortes-zp1ob You're not only missing the point entirely but have written a wall of text of assumptions.
@@JoseCortes-zp1ob Also on my platform - PC/Steam, I'd recommend that players DO pre order because you can play the game as long as you like and return it if you wish to any time before the official release date.
How to save Battlefield ? Sell the IP to someone who can make a BF game...
like to the guy that made battlebits
@@dotkillske Battlebit + a real budget [and modern graphics] would take the gaming world by storm.
@@dotkillske LMAO NAHHHHH
@@dotkillskeprob not battlebit considering they dropped zero content in the last 6-7 months
embark studio who made the finals
The primary problem with DICE is that they're not DICE anymore.
Olof, Lars, Magnus, Stefan, Rob, Patrick, etc... all the founders left and created new studios (Embark being the most famous), leaving DICE being lead by EA, ex-Respawn, Bungie and Ubisoft employees.
This is a franchise that has lost its identity and I do not think it will get it back ever.
This is the same story with all of the former great franchises. Halo isn’t run by the original creators of Halo, Call of Duty isn’t lead by the OG Infinity Ward anymore, and DICE isn’t actually DICE anymore
Bf1 dynamic weather was great. Rain, fog, snow, that’s it. That’s all you need. Don’t need tornados throwing you out of bounds and disrupting your damn hud
Don't forget the sandstorm.... the sand gets everywhere...
@@ironrain1x BF1 Sinai Desert and BF4 Gulf of Oman sandstorm says hi, sandstorms are funny keep them as long they're cosmetic
Just hope your not flying an airplane when the fog or sandstorm rolls in
@@The_whales true. I hated that. Great for sneaky roadkills on aa guns
The one thing that might need to also be mentioned is the absolute hubris of DICE when they addressed the lack of the scoreboard, and called it a LEGACY FEATURE.
Both sad and laughable. No scoreboard in a squad-based FPS. Wut, DICE.
@@alexdasliebe5391fun fact: there WAS a scoreboard in the game but it was trash
Lmao
What a disaster of a videogame. DON'T LET THEM COOK EVER AGAIN
Who treats their IP worse? 343 or DICE lol either way its sad
@@mup8661at least dice made good battlefields. 343 never dropped a good halo
true
i want ex dice to make a new bf game not these shitters
Vince Zampella is lead of dice rn, he always cooks. Trust in him, he may not get the game launched well because EA never gives devs enough time but the content and fundamentals will be great at least
I can still remember the Beta. I can still remember the hype up until the Beta „3 months old build“ released. Laughable even in hindsight.
Why would they have been collecting data from a 3 month old build anyway? Sounds ridiculous to give the players a completely irrelevant build.
Good job remembering something that happened less than 3 years ago lol
@@Ridi_MB That wasn't a 'beta' where they expected to implement results from - it was only a week before official release ffs! That was just to sell more 'premium' versions for 'early access', pure cash grab.
The beta for me kept running worse and worse until it wouldnt even launch then the game came out i played it for like 2 months then its been sitting in my uninstalled page since
@@dishmeup Sure
This game is a biblical fuck up.
Multi-generational transcendent fuck up
The fact that you put out this level of Truth on Battlefield 2042 and these other Million subscriber CZcams Battlefield channels have not called out Dice says a lot. Jackfrags Westie Stodeh LevelCap will never shit on EA Dice 🎲 thank you for finally making this video Dice is DONE FINISHED RIP Battlefield.🤯
I think a lot of big creators are too worried about their relationships with IP’s that give them nothing
Levelcap does though. He was even kicked out of the EA creators thingy because he was negative about BF.
Agreed! I watched both JackFrags and LevelCap until BF2042 came out.
Then it was crystal clear they were hesitant or even downright avoided criticism for the game and I unsubbed to them immediately after. It was obvious they didn't want to say anything negative about it which is why I couldn't trust their opinions anymore.
Jackfrags just a shill. Only have positive things to say about 2042. Unsubscribed from him after he kept doing that
@@XKS_ he had room temperature takes on them, he barely shat on them
Love letter to battlefield fans.
BF4 is rolling in its grave
at the moment BF4 has the most Player Count
@@ELECTRICSCARSno surprise it's the best bf. Not perfect but 2042 isn't even worth comparing
BF3 also when BF4 was released.
BF3 was best IMO
@@JustxLiving909 By far, the only thing BF4 had over 3 was the Water warfare everything else was a big step backwards.
When they first implemented the scoreboard, you couldn’t see it at the end of the round. As for the squad management, you couldn’t kick people out of your squad cause “it wasn’t healthy ptfo”.
And text chat could only be seen by you own team, so when people got frustrated they took it out on their own, hilarious.
@@NonZenze text chat is on another level of stupid in this game. The word “minigun” is censored and you have miniguns on most vehicles. In some instances, the word “kill” is also censored.
Edit: and the worst part is that you don’t even know you’ve been censored. You don’t see asterisks on your end if you type censored words. Only other people can see asterisks.
All chat disabled by default cause it’s a safe space for everyone… in a game… where you’re supposed to kill people… where they censor the word “fuck” in chat… but the specialists are allowed to curse…
@@_ReaperHereIts like they were making a video game for game "journalists" And you know how fucking soft those people are.
As a beginner game developer, im actually shocked, how in the love of jesus they manage to create some useless tornado in 3 years, their game engine must be some sort of shit that it makes full team of developers creating this stuff for so long
After BFV's early cancellation, a shit ton of veteran dice devs were fed up with EA's decision making and left the company to make Embark, including almost the entirety of the Frostbite engine team. So basically the newly hired devs basically were placed into a situation where they had zero experience with frostbite and were forced to learn it from the ground up, which it seems to be what most of the development time set on for a major portion of 2042's development time.
Exactly, that's what I never liked and it was saw as a silly thing that they put natural disasters as the biggest innovation they would bring and launch from the beginning, a complete garbage, putting a tornado in all maps, even in a desert🤣🤣, which at first looked horrible, with trash quality and without any degree of realism, until now they only improved it a little, but it is still garbage, a waste of resources that they could have invested in improving other things or definitely not put it in the game, the only moderately acceptable thing is the sandstorm on some maps, which also needs fixes, but it is more acceptable, EA should have been put those natural disasters little by little or not at all, let's hope for the next Battlefield they better not bring any of that.
Would you believe me if I told you Frostbite is, in fact, notoriously cranky, and was made by a development team who left in an exodus before the game started production proper? Because that would certainly explain three years of work for a tornado.
IT'S HERE! IT'S FINALLY HERE!
Excellent work Enders. Genuinely think the higher ups at DICE need to see this
2042 broke me. I spiral into a deep depression every time I think about it.
Retort on the Portal segment.
The current portal state was not caused by too much freedom, it was caused by too many dumb restrictions and a bad server layout.
The first thing Dice broke was the full progression on servers set up exactly the same settings as the official servers. To this day you cannot have full progress with the basic settings and the PvP A.I enabled. You are forced to disable the A.I which makes it almost imposible to start and maintain a functional normal server. You also are not allowed to add additional weapons and vehicles to the server, you can only remove from the official list. This way I am not able to host a Breakthrough server that also has helicopters and jets in it like it used to be before DICE ruined it.
As about the layout: Because there are no filters to separe the normal servers from the heavily modified ones, all the main portal page is left is with all those weird hardcore milsim or zombie serfers which maintain a niche community which only plays that.
As far as portal is concerned, DICE poisoned the provervial well and so the only lifeforms that can thrive in it are base liforms that can thrive in that poison
THIS. Why would I want to play portal if I can’t level up? And since nobody wants to join empty servers, I HAVE to turn on PvP AI which for some fucking reason disables progression. Why not just turn off progression for PvE AI? 🤦🏼♂️
We got Enders definitive 2042 review before Gta 6
I'm not going to lie. The shitty hovercraft was so damn funny
Oh come on, if it weren't for BF2042 I never would have gotten to ride in a MAV with Ender's on one of his streams. And Enders got to meet a 73 year old BF veteran.
As you mentioned the marketing team that created that trailer were top tier
FRUSTRATION 🎈
is my one word description
of BF 2042
Thank you Enders for your effort
finally. the trailer team carries this franchise at this point.
One of the big things you missed was the fact that for a full priced game it had multiple paid battle passes and a skin store like Fortnite or overwatch 2. Call me old school but battle passes have no right being in full priced games, especially when new content like weapons and vehicles are locked behind grinding a battle pass instead of vehicles being available to everyone on the maps allowed and weapons being unlocked through assignments.
I will forever point to deep rock galactic as a shining example of how to implement a battlepass in a paid game especially after the Season 5 update.
@@heistingcrusader_ad3223 hell yeah man i already have almost 800 hours on that game, whenever i tell people that’s the way battle passes should be in paid games I get told i have unreasonable opinions or that it’s unrealistic and bad lol
Grabs popcorn and tissues
Never beat my meat with popcorn before, but that sounds like a fun time. 👌
Congratulations on 60,000 channel subscribers!
From fans in Japan.
I have still nightmares of the bolt with the 30 mm attack heli canon. I couldnt believe why they thought it was a good idea to put a light, fast tank with infantry shredding canon in the transport class and remember there could be as many as 7 of these vehicles per team.
I still remember when the Beta dropped and a bunch of people kept defending this trash. The amount of copium was just over the top... Anyone with a brain could tell this was not Battlefield
That infamous damage control lie where they said the beta was old version, I really wanted to see the faces of loyal fans at launch who believed it.
“Don't be sad this is just how it works out sometimes.”
Seriously, i dont even want them to be creative anymore just because they will mess it up. Do a remake with the best mechanics from BF3/4, adjust the graphics, add new weapons (maybe new vehicles but not necessary), add new maps and focus on 3-4 gamemodes (TDM, Domination, Rush, CTF with a all sorts of mixes like infantry only, hardcore etc.). Thats literally everything they need to do. Implement a good code and fix your bugs prior to release. I seriously I dont trust their creative process anymore which is sad.
I think a lot of People liked BFV at the Moment the Game was cancelled. Especially after the Pacific Launch. Then Everything was shut down and Cut from Live Support. Every Ressource and possible Dev Studio was working on the new BF. But after the Realisation how Bad the actual State of the new BF is ,there was only Disapointment . No Love ,No Passion was Put into the new Game. 😢
I think bfv ended really well, kind of like swbf2. I just wish they did more with it
Grab your drinks and snacks and let the rant unleash. Ah... Good times, Good f*cking times
I can't for the life of me think why they thought puting an objective at the top of a buildings coupled with being able to drop in vehicles a good idea..and on 3 MAPS hourglass, kaleidescope and orbital 99% of the time you lost but the few times using the hover craft and literally hopping from building to building climbing the side and catching the enemy team and vehicles all fixated on the elevator off guard and winning was super satisfying. Only launch worse than this was cyberpunks.
Honestly, all Battlefield 2042 has taught me is that every live service gets shut down as soon as it gets good. Battlefield 5, Battlefield 2042, Halo Infinite, Red Dead Online, Starbound, all CoD games right before the next one releases. All of these games started to show real potential but then got shut down and abandoned.
I'm honestly starting to think gaming execs are afraid that if their live service game gets too good, no one will buy the next installment...
I put ketchup on my pancakes
Naaaaaah
Perfect way to start of a sunday
This is great Enders. Appreciate especially the clips covering from prelaunch to end of support
23:50 - BF2 also had jump peeking, strafing etc. The movement glitches were quite extent in that game with what you could do. Not as broken as Bf4 but yea. There are guides out there if you want to know more.
You didn't mention the "love letter to the fans" lol....
This is was I thought about during the conclusion. I remember playing BF5 and being annoyed about the gunplay, skins, small number of maps etc. and basically everyone around me thought the same: They could not f up the next game. Just do what the fans wanted, and the trailer promised that. But they managed to f it up big time.
@@TheIIIJulianIIIWhat's your initial thoughts on black ops 6
can't forgot the stopping of releasing battlfefront 3 for this atrocity
Civvie 11: "Gimme a crosshair and make the bullets go there!"
EA: "NO"
Also congratulations on 60 subs. You deserve it, bro.
A REAL campaign, no more BS short stories! BF4 style training area! Keep it modern not retro or “near future” speculative crap! IMHO😊
Spot-on review and awesome closer statements. 👍🏽👍🏽 See ya on the next one.
The next 2 titles to bridge the gap for me will be Space Marine & Gears.
Bring back Dorritos!
I think removing 3D spotting for the whole team, as a default was a big mistake. There was a greater sense of battle lines in older games. You could be in the firing line as an infantry, or if you wanted to flank you had an idea what you were flanking.
Now it just feels like you can be absolutely melted from any direction, or any bush.
Bring back Dorritos!
Wow didn’t expect it to be this in depth and of this length.
Agreed. And with the horrific state of FPS in general, BF2042 has still been the best offering out there in the last 2+ years….😢
Love it. Bro called the Junkers 88a the Jubba
As a diehard battlefield pilot, the only thing I'm asking for in the next game is for the jet/heli physics to not be goofy as hell like they are in 2042.
I would love to see you do a breakdown shredding each map and discussing what works in other Battlefield maps
For. Real. What were they thinking? On top of all of this. Every charater is a hero. Why?! Stop selling jank Call of duty Character skins. Just make battlebit but with 2042 graphics! Get rid of the Call of duty movements and sliding (@23:25 why do you think this game has sucked for the last decade? Also No. movement is not needed for a skill gap. ) Why is that so difficult. Scrap the Crazy weather every single map. It comes at the same time every map and it feels like a Déjà vu. Lighten it up at least! Its become a fast and furious game with all the over the top cringe.
Movement is absolutely 100% needed for a skill gap. It’s not up for debate. It’s literally how you MOVE in the game
@@EndersFPS It needs to have a cool down then. You can't have sweaty (Like myself) players slide cancelling past corners and going crazy in a non sbmm games. Dolphin diving came at a cost. you landed and had to get back up. Slide cancelling has given all games the unrealistic overboard feel. I've been Playing fps for a longgg time. In no game should you be able to slide around like a crack addict over and over and over again its a literal joke. It takes out any sort of realism. In what situation have you been able to power slide yourself out of a real life event once or twice.. let alone 6+ times in a gunfight lol. Just because you and I are good at it doesn't mean it should be in-game. We're gear'd up with all this weight and guns and awkward.. and you expect me to want that physic. I dont know if you've worn a plate carrier irl but you wont be sliding and jumping like a maniac after about 10 seconds. I do love that you've called out all the other problems with the game though thanks for the time and effort you put into this.
Played BF1 and BFV religiously over thousand hours. BF2042 i gave them 2 years was completely bored. Only good maps was on portal lol
I agree, BF2042 and BFV were big letdowns.
You mentioned the guns and the dismally low recoil, leading to laser behaviour, and I think there's a pretty good solution to this for the next game that would be much more in line with how people want Battlefield to play. Physicalise the weapons. I've been playing a lot of Helldivers and some Insurgency Sandstorm, and both games treat the gun as a physics oblect with real interaction with the environment. This allows recoil to be properly simulated by imparting a force onto a physics object, and means that projectiles leave the barrel properly, instead of coming from the sight or the player's face. This would then make attachments even more useful, because they could change the effect of the recoil physics in a simulated manner, rather than just as numbers on a spreadsheet. It would also make hip-fire a lot more intuitive, because the bullets would actually just go where the barrel is pointing, not wherever in a crosshair on screen.
This is only viable in milsims because it adds a host of complications like larger weapons getting hung up on tight corridors and just sucks for fast-paced gameplay. Really they just need BF4's post-update system where bullets come out of your torso, so you can't headglitch, and more agressive recoil and/or spread
@@KekusMagnus I get your point, but I don't think it would be as much of a problem as you say it does. The prison map in Sandstorm is basically just Operation Locker, and with a full server, it can get pretty chaotic in there, but I've never seen the weapons get stuck on anything or really cause issues. Helldivers, by comparison, is very arcade-y, and I spend just as much time running away from giant bugs or leaping off hills as I do shooting and calling in airstrikes, but the guns have never been a problem for me during. The only time Helldivers' weapons have been an issue is when I need to shoot a bug up close, and that's only because the laser/third person sight get a bit funky at melee range. Mostly, the developers of both games seem to get around it by carefully animating the characters so that the weapons don't clip through things or cause problems, which is something Dice has always been good at. I understand your point that doing it like BF4 would be the best option, but I think the Battlefield playerbase would actually appreciate a total change to the way the guns work, after how bad weapon handling and recoil has been in 2042.
5:50 plane when “nah I’m good”
60k! Also insane like to view ratio already on this video
BFV effectively started the destruction.
BF1 did tbh
I miss the tank gameplay from Battlefield 5. It felt more team based and you had to be somewhat smart with tanks to use them effectively because of ammo limitations and general team support
For me, it was the immersion or lack of that killed the game. BF1 as much as it had it's gunplay and balance problems, the atmosphere was unmatched. There were so many little details that showed the devs cared. Battlefield used to be known for the most accurate depictions of firearms and always showcasing strange unique weapons but with 2042 there are so many basic errors, it's painful.
DICE take notes
Dolphin diving is not the same as jumping around like some rabbit on crack with ADD.
Agreed. You can sorta do it too in BFV and that ones movement was top tier. At least there if you tried bunny hopping and shooting at the same time your aim would suffer for it. They should have at least kept that part.
Ever played BF2?
@@eliasboegel I have a little.
@@sirdetmist3204 The dolphin diving does look like rabbits on crack with ADD even in that game.
@@eliasboegel But is that because its an old game with terrible animations?
Gotta love the dramatic seriousnes that is in enders voice talking about this game.
another thing to add to the fuel with your vehicle section in bfv there was a bug before the round started tank players could move back wards when they spawned in so you could get the similar effect as the jets
Was a good review until you started screeching about dice banning military simulation servers cause you don't have fun playing them. Not everything you don't like needs to be banned, just play a differant server.
(And no I'm not some military stimulator nut, I'm just sick of the childish mentality that everything you don't enjoy needs to be removed)
It’s slop. Unplayable slop actually. It shouldn’t be a part of Battlefield and I stand by that.
This game sucked.
Where did you get that assumption kind sir?
We are blessed to have Enders !
A truly well done review! Good job Enders
Thanks!
Ty
Best Battlefield hands down in history baby
That first part of that video has been happening a lot to me and its annoying as heck. I might try to spawn in an air vehicle and all of a sudden I'm underwater under the map and I can't do anything with my vehicle. So annoying
No matchmaking is a crime
Battlefield community deserves nothing.
Something must have happened during the development that made this game change course, cause so many things point to that this was at some point in time intended to be a followup to BF3 & BF4. Just look at the trailer; The rendezook, the Damavand basejump, the noshair containers - it all screamed BF3 & BF4. Heck, even Pac and Irish was in one trailer. It looked dark, gritty and like a true followup to the proper battlefield-games, and what we then got was something completely different.
Excellent review. Well done. spot on.
Battlefield 2042 was exclusive made with Hazard Zone in mind. The huge maps, the range on weapons, the "heroes" and lack of a class system where you can use any equipment and weapon, the non existence scoreboard, the ciclones... Everything fits the Hazard Zone mode, and that's pretty obvious that DICE was fully invested in it.
I feel like using aircraft in Bf2042 is pointless. Like trying to take out a tank with an Apache is virtually impossible because you need to land 3 direct lock-on missiles or a whole payload of AT missiles on a tank before you can kill it. Not to mention most of the time that is interrupted by an AA system that only needs to lock on to you and fire only 2 missiles. In BF 3 you could have a meaningful impact on the battlefield and change the course of battle where as in 2042 it seems as if you make zero impact because you either get shot down immediately or 75% of the airspace is gridlocked by an AA system.
Buddy were making popcorn for this one for sure.
Good video man!
awesome and very in depth video
Battlefield 2042 will become a testament to video games, ON WHAT EXACTLY NOT TO DO. I believe Battlefield is having an Identity Crisis; Battlefield has had it since BFV. Who remembers BFV’s terrible Battle Royale mode? And of course Hazard Zone in 2042. What Dice needs to stop doing is invest in developing and adding game modes that the core player base never asked for.
But, the biggest problem with 2042 wasn’t touched on here: LACK OF CAMPAIGN.
Ask Black Ops 4 how no campaign turned out for them. How am I supposed to know where I am, who I am fighting, who I am fighting for, when all of this context is added with voice over dialogues before the match??? Say what you want about Battlefield single players, at least I knew why I was in China in BF4, I knew why I was in the Middle East in BF3, and I knew why I was in Norway in BFV.
TLDR; Dice doing things we never wanted, no single makes it confusing to know what the multiplayer is about, why should I give a damn when they don’t about a location or theme.
Seeing all the old maps and GUIs again is kinda hilarious. The game got decent after season 3, I'm about done with it til the next one tho
I remember buying the game only for portal, I had made a basic custom breakthrough mod more similar to BF1 operations before another guy made a great template for everyone to use, I had also made a kind of frontline mode but without mcoms because those were absent, and once they were available they were bugged.
I also had another idea for a custom mode where teams would gains buffs from certain flags, like vehicles more powerful weapons or even more tickets, but I wasn't able to do make this one because I'm bad.
Can't wait to pre-order next Battlefield, i hope it's $100+ for base game. Can't wait.
There is another point, that came to my mind watching your review Enders.
I doubt Dice and EA will go from the year 2042, back to the year 1980…
It is much more likely that they are moving forward in time, to Battlefield 2142 2.
A couple of things in BF 2042 suggest this direction.
1) The game Title
2) The effort that developers at Dice put into post apocalyptic, future weather and map designe.
3) The Snow/Ice map in BF2042
4) Walkers and VTOL‘s seem to function really well on the frostbite engine.
Just my opinion and i think another modern warfare game would hurt them even more as the momentum for this scenario, is completly lost.
I actually think it’s more likely they go back in time, but we shall see.
the mouse input issue is tied up with the unfinished version of frostbite used for the game, DICE devs wanted to delay it 1 year to fix it and release the game with a fully working version of the graphics engine, they werent allowed by EA.
The Baronox jet kills were something I was not aware of. That is nuts and hilarious
This has been a long time coming. Glad to see it's finally here!
what un amazing video, worth the wait, good job 👊
Love the review, Enders. Kept it short and to the point. Keep up the good work!
Forgot to mention the pre nerf G57 Pistol that everyone gets for their first pistol.
*Grey Matter mentioned
So little craftsmanship and care went into this game, you can literally see the result of all the veteran developers quitting DICE everywhere you look.
I have put hundreds or thousands of hours into each battlefield from Bad Company 2 to BF1. Battlefield 5 got maybe 50-60 hours. 2042 I think I played for like 3 hours and put it down. My favorite franchise and I just couldn't do it. I still bought it, so they won in that respect but I'll be very cautious to buy the next one.
Strong work Enders. Thanks for the review through thick and thin.
also have you ever looked into star citizen ?
3 years, and finally i can see it, thanks enders