Four reasons do not buy Battlefield 2042! (detailed analysis of the minuses of the game)
With regard to the Battlefield series of games, I probably went through all stages of grief with anger in Battlefield 1, bargaining in Battlefield 4 and accepting Battlefield v ! But my expectations from the new part of Battlefield were high, because, firstly, we returned from the setting of the past to the future, which did not happen with the series for a long time, and, secondly, quite a lot of time and many fans have passed since the release of the last part.h. And I, already literally, missed something new. But no matter how it is, Battlefield 2042 was able to please me, and, unfortunately, very much in many ways to disappoint! Therefore, I decided to devote the release of the new part of BF A whole cycle of posts (this is the 1st out of 2), in which we separately analyze its pros and cons of it!
Well, in this article I will tell you about the four reasons not to buy a new Battlefield 2042! Pleasant acquaintance!
Article in video format
Time codes to the video: 01:20 – Technical problems; 04:12 – game modes; 11:36 – weapons, equipment; 14:57 – experts; 18:37 – conclusions.
Article in text format
The technical condition of the game
From the moment of the open beta testing of the BF 2042, I had a huge number of questions for the technical condition of the game. A huge number of bugs, glitches and disadvantages of the network code greatly spoiled my first impression of the game! But to the release was the hope that Dice would pick up themselves and at least correct something. And they corrected somewhere, and somewhere they broke. Such a number of bugs as during the test was certainly not observed, but late loading textures, errors in animations continue to catch the eye! The network code deserves special attention, I have already shown in my Review for a beta test a footage that eloquently talked about the registration of hits in the game! Then everyone laughed and said: "Well, this is a whiten! What do you want, will correct the release!". Corrected? But no!
Well, a bug with a trip of an air cushion boat on a vertical wall of 90 degrees – this is rather not a bug, but a separate feature.
And if bugs and a bad network code can be called an appendage to the release of almost any new game of the series, then the inability to join the official servers of the game, or errors in the course of the game, this is already too much! The fact is that when trying to go into the regime breakthrough, You join the server, and then everything! The server does not respond to your actions, there is a constant load and so you can sit throughout 10-20 minutes Without any result! I sincerely hope that this is the problem of an exclusively preliminary build of the game and now at this moment when I write this text, Dice is already actively correcting all the bugs and errors available in the game! But now, the current technical condition of the game is able to force many players to refuse to buy a game.
Game modes
The game provides three game clusters: this Global war, which contains only two game modes, Hazard Zone, which is positioned by the developers as an independent game mode, as well as the sensational Portal, which is inherently a kind of tool for creating content players themselves, using cards, modes and equipment both from the new part of the BF and some previous ones.
And in words it all sounds very attractive: We have as many as three diverse games in one, And even with a tool that gives fans the opportunity to realize their creative ideas and ideas, while creating something new and unique. But in practice, everything is much sadder.
Let’s start with Hazard Zone. In fact, bingositesnotongamstop.co.uk this is a kind of symbiosis from Defmatcha and the Royal Battle. Several detachments try to stay in service as long as possible, while trying to destroy opponents and collect sources of information scattered on the map. But, firstly, due to the unpopularity of this regime in it, there are simply a huge number of bots that vanshopt you, standing a half-side on the other end of the map. Secondly, this regime suggests a very coordinated action of the team and it makes no sense to come here with randomes, t.To. This is a 90%guarantee to drain the fight with a team of players who, even if they play worse, but who have a voice connection. And my last claim to this regime – Broken economy. Judge for yourself, for two unsuccessful rollers you can pick up your coins for the opening of a new weapon or a perk with equipment. Yes, there is no usual pumping, as in other modes, there is its casino with coins and nudity. And such a “earnings” does not motivate players to fight for victory or survive in the game, because you should spend 2-3 hours on a mode, then the right perks and weapons are already open to you and, as it were, the goal of playing and pump further. And if the developers at least not change something in this mode, then I’m afraid he will have forgotten already in the first year of the life of the game, but it is very unfortunate, since this regime, as for me, has quite a good e-sports potential.
Global war. This is the main game cluster. It is here that players should spend most of their time. And what do we have on the release?! Only two! Two, his mother, regime!
One of them is the capture, which was somewhat redesigned by the developers, the introduction of large zones, consisting of two or three points, which must be simultaneously captured to reduce the support points of the enemy team. But this is all the same good -good capture, it does not give anything new to the old fans of the series, and it can bother with new ones for a few dozen of the played watch.
The second mode is the next “innovation” from Dice: a breakthrough mode, which is also the processed and well -known fans of the Battlefield series Storm (Bf 4) or lovers of “penny” or “five”, where this regime has already been presented. Here we have two teams, one of them attacking, and the other defending. And only if earlier (in BF 4) it was necessary to protect the transmitters so that the attacking side would not blow them up, now two control zones came to replace these transmitters, which the attackers should be captured and at the same time hold during a short period of time. Yes, now the defending team There is an opportunity to make a certain "Cumbek", Returning himself a lost point, which only gives a certain interestingness to the game, but this is inherently the same old regime! And on this literally all! Here, at the moment, there is not a single default infantry regime, like a defmatovich or superiority! Or a regime that could become something new or unique for this part of the game. But no, Dice, apparently, in seriousness, decided to limit themselves to two slightly slightly changed, but inherently old modes, and present them as a new game experience mainly by the game cluster Battlefield 2042! And what is it called? Laziness, greed or something else? The answer to this question, unfortunately, only knows the developers of the game!
And the last game cluster, on which I personally laid great hope – this Portal. As I said earlier, the portal is a kind of tool with which a community can provide itself with content for a very, very long time. In your hands there will be cards, weapons and models from various parts of Battlefield, and you can create completely different modes in theory, including repeating those that were unfairly deprived in this part of Battlefield. But the problem is that at the moment there are very few servers with custom and interesting modes!
The following information presented is relevant for the console versions of the game. I would like to believe that the situation is better on the PC!
Basically, everything comes down to the use of old cards from Battlefield 1942 or Bad Company 2, which uses a weapon completely unsuitable for these cards. Of course, no one will balance the weapon for old cards on which weapons were used with a completely different range of defeat (of course, no one will overbound new weapons!). But this is only my nagging! I would like to say thanks to the guys who meticulously recreate various suitable game modes from the past parts of the series! But I have a more question for Dice! Why it was impossible to configure several presets to use them in setting up your server? Make a couple of completely crazy modes, on the likeness of those that were shown in the release video of the game, and the community itself would have improved these modes! But no, here you understand the tool yourself as you want. Therefore, at the moment, the portal to the eyeballs Cutted with server with each other like two drops of water by modes, with a huge number of bots and some kind of cosmic ping.
Actually, closing the topic of modes, I want to say that I have no desire to spend time in the game for more than 5 hours a week, because I have once seen all this, but something new and interesting from the game modes if it appears once, but it is unlikely that it will be soon. Can all be hooked a new player, unfamiliar with a series of games Battlefield? Yes, quite, but for a long time? This is a question. What can we say about the veterans of the series, who most likely drops this game and go back to their favorite part, roll their next match in it.
Weapons and equipment
The number of weapons content present in the game is my main claim to the game, if you can still measure the technical flaws and some scarcity of game modes, and so that the game series, which has long been famous for the variety of weapons, equipment and equipment, rolled up to dull 22 units of weapons Personally, I can’t come to terms! All that you see on the screen is what is present in the game at the time of time, excluding weapons from other parts presented in the portal.
A small amount of weapons in the game forced Swedish developers refuse to pump each type of weapons separately, This is when using, for example, the machine gun, you pumped a branch of machine guns accordingly and thereby could access another unit of weapons, as it was in BF 4, or, in extreme cases, the purchase of weapons to earned glasses in the game, as it was in the BF 5 and is implemented in Hazard Zone mode. But no, the scarcity of the diversity of equipment forced Dice to tie the opening of a new unit of weapons to the level of the character. This is bad for two reasons, firstly, the lack of interest to play weapons determined by the class to open the barrel interesting to you personally, t.e. The game immediately loses some challenge or call. Secondly, this type of pumping of weapons is characteristic of a series of Call of Duty games, which has already been perceived in bayonets with different orthodox, so to speak, fans of Battlefield fans. By the way, the BF curtsies towards their implacable opponent are visible to the naked look, for this it is enough to go into the weapon configuration mode and look at the stylistics in which information about weapons is presented, as well as about the module used. Everything, starting from the font, ending with banal visualization of the pluses and minuses of use on weapons of a certain module, was borrowed from the 19th Call of Duty, which clearly does not give BF 2042 points in the eyes of fans.
And it’s good if the trunks among themselves were at least somehow strikingly different, so no. Take, for example, a machine gun deprived from the DICE class, where there are only two copies of them. You think they are somehow strikingly different among themselves? One light assault, and the second heavy siege? No! They have a difference in literally a few parameters and a modeling weapon itself and all, t.e. In fact, get some unique game experience, playing with a machine gun, you will not succeed. And here you can express many similar claims to different classes of weapons, but then this post will stretch on 30 sheets!
Specialists
Specialists are probably, one of the most controversial innovations, which were invented and implemented by DICE in the new part of BF. Now we do not have such a thing as a class: you choose a certain specialist who has a conditional role – support, attack or intelligence, as well as a unique ability, by the type of use of intelligence, the deployment of barricades, treatment with the help of a medical gun and the like.
Also to specialists the possibility of using a certain type of weapon is not attached or additional equipment, t.e. Equip a conditional physician with a medical gun with a sniper rifle, an ammunition box and send it to the very end of the card, fill the keel to the very end of the round is not a terrible dream of an avid Batelfielder, but a very reality. Remember I said that each specialist has a conditional role? Why is she conditional? Yes, because we wiped off a specific fighting role and the need for work in the team faded into the background. Personally, I experienced this on myself.
I took a specialist – Falk (This is the same honey with the attending gun), gave her a machine gun in his hands, took additional equipment in the form of armor of the plates. And here I am a self -sufficient combat unit, because I do not need support in the form of additional armor or medical care, t.To. With the help of the same pistol, you can engage in self -senses, and cartridges can be selected from the killed enemies.
And okay, if the perks of specialists demanded command interaction from you, there. You can treat yourself with a gun, use the plates armor on yourself, use intelligence on your needs, etc. Ave. By the way, these perks themselves are a dubious innovation for the Battlefield series, firstly, in the dynamics of the battles you sometimes stupidly forget in someone to kiss the same honey with a pistol, where it is easier to throw the needley first-aid kit and run on. And, secondly, all sorts of barricades and turrets are generally useless in conditions of a huge size of cards and the scale of the battles unfolding on them, t.To. Go to the rear of some dug up the square and chop it with a lead or puff a 50-mm shell from the tank-will not be difficult. So it turns out that the introduction of specialists and the abolition of classes completely leveles the need to coordinate their actions with other players. After all, here, as if some Call of Duty Each for himself "Rimbao" And you alone can provide yourself with everything necessary in the course of development of the battle, they would still give equipment for self -realization and all – other players simply do not need.
All this is of course very sad, because the peculiarity of Battlefield was precisely that you are not a warrior in the field and that you need to stay near your squad in any case, so that at the right time you will not be left without cartridges or hp. And what DICE offers us now only more annoying Battlefield fans due to the fact that all this brings a series closer to Call of Duty. And the new players, dying for the hundredth time from the lack of cartridges or the lack of the necessary support from their team, most likely switch to something else, even if the most Call of Duty is on the same, in which, due to the scale of the battles, the individual skill and skill solve the outcome of the battle much more often than work in the team.
And these were all four reasons that, in my opinion, can scare away many players from the purchase of Battlefield 2042! I could still tell about some kind of wild price in the area of 5k on the old generation console and in 3k on a PC, but I think that we have been accustomed to such pricing for a long time. In general, you must understand that None of the cods given is irreparable: Content can start, correct bugs, and specialists? Well, make more playable.
But at the moment BF 2042 for full-psex is pointless to buy, Well, only if you are not a frenzy fan of the series or you do not have, hungry five cats, wife or mortgages. Here everything has already led me somewhere in the wrong place, which means it’s time to finish. Thank you for reading to the end! Maxim was with you, see you in the following posts or videos, good luck and so far.