

BF5's harshest critics from 2018 aren't necessarily the people playing and talking about it today. This seemingly widespread change of heart comes in part from all the improvements DICE has made to Battlefield 5, but probably also has to do with audience turnover. In a popular Reddit comment from this week, for instance, a fan laments that Battlefield 2042 lacks features that were present in previous Battlefields, including building sandbag walls in Battlefield 5-a feature I don't recall anyone seriously caring about after BF5 launched. Most surprisingly, the once-reviled Battlefield 5 is now good according to a seemingly large number of players. Other players complained that Battlefield 1 was too much like Call of Duty and that no one was reviving them, complaints which are exactly mirrored in some of today's criticisms of the Battlefield 2042 beta. "I thought was ridiculous and won't be buying it, even though I am a fan of BF4," said one commenter in 2016.

No Battlefield game can be truly loved until the successor has had a buggy beta. There are ammo crates, but who wants anything other than rockets and missiles and C5? (That's futuristic C4, I believe.)

A sniper can have anti-tank rockets, an LMG user can have anti-air missiles. Unlike Siege operators, they can otherwise carry any gun and equipment loadout. Like Rainbow Six Siege operators, specialists are characters who carry unique gadgets such as a healing pistol and grappling hook. Another big target of criticism are Battlefield 2042's new specialists, which replace the usual classes.

Not everyone is convinced that the spacetime anomalies they experienced in the beta will be resolved by launch, though.Īnd even if the launch were wholly bug free (unlikely), plenty of design complaints would remain for players like Xfactor. The beta was also very limited: One map and mode accessible through a stripped down UI. DICE says that some of the issues that were present in the beta are already fixed in the version of Battlefield 2042 that's being prepped for November.
