I really can't see this franchise lasting much longer beyond this particularly entry. Every single DICE game since Battlefield 4 has launched in a miserable state and the fact that Battlefield 2042 isn't even salvageable after 2 years of updates is the straw to break the camel's back I think. It'd be a miracle if the next Battlefield game met any baseline for expectations either critically or commercially.
@Retrofire-475 ай бұрын
why? the game is selling well, by all metrics, and has a healthy playerbase too
@GazDaLad5 ай бұрын
theres only been one game that has released really well since bf4 and that is bf1. so your comment is BS m8.
@DWTerminator5 ай бұрын
Considering modern audiences seem to gobble up terrible games all the time (ex. Fallout 76 somehow managed to be a success despite being utterly atrocious even after all the updates), I doubt this spells the end of the Battlefield series.
@Thedefenses5 ай бұрын
Depends, if the next bf really is a good title, everything will be forgotten. If it falls flat like the last 2 did, the franchise will not die but will be knocked out of the big shooters club.
@GazDaLad5 ай бұрын
@@Thedefenses it's been knocked out of that for a while m8
@RichardPhillips10665 ай бұрын
No ones talking about the obvious collapse in technical quality in AAA , watching mainstream KZfaqrs, you would think everything is fine
@DWTerminator5 ай бұрын
Mainstream media of any kind is in a perpetual state of the "this is fine" meme.
@TheAlanReviews4 ай бұрын
There are some KZfaqrs that are critical of Battlefield 2042.
@RichardPhillips10664 ай бұрын
@@TheAlanReviews that's because it was obviously bad
@goosefraba75102 ай бұрын
Yea I rarely hear the KZfaqrs talk about how lack luster the gun play is, how less impactful it feels/sounds/looks to even just shoot a gun. Jets Tanks., map design it was so well crafted. Bf3/Bf1 (even bf4) were peak casual milsim. It felt real and true to a war like environment while retaining the casual nature of something like a call of duty or halo. 2042s guns feel like I'm shooting bbs out of a plastic 2 pound gun the size of your torso. It's wild man.
@UnchainedEruptionАй бұрын
@@DWTerminator Mainstream media in my experience is quite the reverse. 24/7 Doom and Gloom. Everything is the most "unprecedented" and "historic" while also being an "existential threat."
@jcrebel185 ай бұрын
I like how you did the robotic voice for the people who support the game.
@michaelbuehler38975 ай бұрын
That was the best part of the video.
@DWTerminator5 ай бұрын
So what you're saying is I should use that as my "NPC voice" going forward, eh?
@jcrebel185 ай бұрын
@@DWTerminatorwell, since you're role playing as another player or NPC in this case, you can pretty much use whatever voice you think fits the most.
@TheAlanReviews4 ай бұрын
@@DWTerminatorHow did you do the robotic voice?
@TheAlanReviews4 ай бұрын
@@michaelbuehler3897 I agree!
@samz86915 ай бұрын
I am baffled COD CW realized that "Hey, different teams should have different operators" yet somehow this game didn't. At this point it seems them porting Battlefield 1943 (the 360/PS3 digital download only game.) to PC would have been better but of course they shut that game down instead.
@brickproduction18155 ай бұрын
To be fair, DW really is being rational here people. Let's not be blind for the cooperate overlords
@BicBoi19845 ай бұрын
Just FYI when it comes to the general gunplay feeling shit. A lot of it is due to the fact that the mouse/controller input are still bugged to this day so your sensitivity can change mid gunfight. With the recent patch, they even re-introduced a separate previously fixed recoil bug that affects most guns.
@DWTerminator5 ай бұрын
Can't say I'm surprised.
@michaelbuehler38975 ай бұрын
I been noticing a lot lately that most AAA games seem to keep having the same issues.
@j19aiden915 ай бұрын
That's cause AAA devs are trapped in a horrible business models.
@DWTerminator5 ай бұрын
The AAA space is full of severe project mismanagement, corporate interference, and extremely high employee turnover. It's no wonder the games are increasingly turning out like this.
@abenormal30705 ай бұрын
game is good for people with low standards. so it has definitely its audience. ea is safe for years to come with pumping out cash grabs
@DWTerminator5 ай бұрын
Given the state of modern gaming, it seems *most* people have pathetically low standards these days.
@TheAlanReviews4 ай бұрын
@@DWTerminator I don't have low standards for some games.
@saisameer87715 ай бұрын
This game really is the whole AAA industry in a nutshell. According to a quick google search, it apparently cost a ridiculous $2 billion to make, and somehow came out broken at launch and needed 2 whole years of updates just to be playable. Even with all the micro transactions and battle passes and what not the game still didn't meet sales expectations because of how ludicrously costly it was to make.
@DWTerminator5 ай бұрын
Prime example of how the AAA space is rapidly falling apart due to horrendously overblown budgets, severe project mismanagement, "revolving door" staffing, and focusing on monetization over all else.
@DedAlexFive4 ай бұрын
21:30 Oh that was good stuff man
@666kingdrummer5 ай бұрын
When the best argument for a game being good is, "Well, Its finally Playable", than you know something is seriously wrong.
@TheAlanReviews4 ай бұрын
I agree.
@BlueBEAZY455 ай бұрын
Last time I played this a few months ago the hitboxes were still inconsistent. The most basic thing a shooter has to nail EA managed to FUBAR that.
@SandCannon19 күн бұрын
I think most of us agree with you about being dumped into the action upon first boot instead of going to the menu to adjust options. However, the reason they do this is because menu options may be too overwhelming or confusing or off-putting for many casual or newbie players which could be a significant chunk of the consumers of certain mainstream titles. That certainly doesn't apply to you or I, but we are seasoned and savvy, and of course these big budget AAA console games, such as Battlefield, are not necessarily built and marketed to our kind. I wish that practice would burn in a fire, but I just wanted to share some insight into why that abomination of design exists.
@DWTerminator19 күн бұрын
"too overwhelming or confusing or off-putting for many casual or newbie players" - Frankly if you're overwhelmed/confused/off-put by having to click a button to jump into singleplayer/matchmaking instead of immediately being thrown into it, then you shouldn't be playing video games at all and should just stick with movies and TV shows.
@introvertplays61625 ай бұрын
HAHAHA! I think I will forever hear Levelcapgaming speaking in this cadence now.
@fabians85933 ай бұрын
60 fps with an RTX 3080 gaming at 1080p is ridiculous.
@KirillNeko5 ай бұрын
"But DW, your pc sucks - it doesn't habe 7800X3D".... Sorry - had to ) Thanks for an update.
@johndiddilyjoe62585 ай бұрын
I was so happy when they announced it wasn't going to be another world war whatever title. Even the trailer looked so good. But this game is just ek
@holygooff5 ай бұрын
You're right about the keyboard annoyances when starting up a game. I always have to check it. Annoyingly enough it's not always clear if the setup will be right or wrong. In old games (around 2000 or a little later) the keys were linked to the letters. So my azerty-layout always needed adjustment for at least z and q, but often for some other keys as well. Some later games (2008-2014 or so, I haven't played that many games after that time) could sometimes detect the keyboard though, or perhaps the configuration was linked to the place of keys rather thanj their value. So it's always confusing, but I defiitely need to check to make sure it's okay.
@UnchainedEruption4 ай бұрын
Pretty sad to see EA ditch Bad Company 2, a way greater game, but of course they have no problem mooching off of its success and trying to get people to play 2042 by marketing to nostalgia with the Portal mode. Portal mode was the best thing about 2042, and it was basically a glorified demo for the real Battlefield games.
@DWTerminator4 ай бұрын
Sad part is they basically abandoned Portal mode too. It's only used by players for XP bot farms now.
@TheAlanReviews4 ай бұрын
How did DWTerminator create the robotic voice starting at 27:10 ?
@DWTerminator4 ай бұрын
No special effects or anything. Just putting on a goofy voice.
@TheAlanReviews4 ай бұрын
@@DWTerminator Thank you for the clarification!
@TheAlanReviewsАй бұрын
@@DWTerminator I was thinking the same thing too.
@silver_splinter36335 ай бұрын
You can exit the tutorial match and head straight to the menu. Still inexcusable but at least it can be skipped.
@DWTerminator5 ай бұрын
Sure you can, but the average player will probably just play through it anyway.
@brickproduction18155 ай бұрын
For the story contrast, It's like Starship troopers. The world was dark and giddy but the soldiers were like punk boys or something.
@DWTerminator5 ай бұрын
The film Starship Troopers was satire... such obvious satire, in fact, that it's utterly baffling anyone doesn't pick up on it. BF2042 takes itself seriously and is just awful.
@brickproduction18155 ай бұрын
@@DWTerminator yup... I thought Dice was like leaning to that
@DachshundDogStarluck194 ай бұрын
Game development companies need to have autonomy, so they can develop amazing, best-selling games with well-managed, healthy game-like budgets for gamers once again and publishers should stop turning AAA video games into gambling machines with broken gameplay mechanics!!
@Edmundostudios4 ай бұрын
And 2 weeks later they have now dropped content support for the game
@DWTerminator4 ай бұрын
Note my lack of surprise.
@RichardPhillips10665 ай бұрын
Folks have forgotten how terrible the characters were :)
@thebrodator5 ай бұрын
In Killzone 2 and Garden Warfare your health only regenerated 50% so only through healers could you regain 100% health. I think they should have done something like that in 2042.
@Thedefenses5 ай бұрын
No
@DWTerminator5 ай бұрын
In the Battlefield games before console took over, you didn't regenerate health at all. You had a dedicated medic class that could heal and revive. Maybe if they brought that back, players wouldn't run around acting like the game is Call of Duty: Big Maps Edition.
@Thedefenses5 ай бұрын
@@DWTerminator probably not, BF5 had a system where you only regenerated 40 hp back, no matter how much damage you took and everyone played the same.
@majav15mg5 ай бұрын
I bet you're craving for Fable 4 LFMAO
@DWTerminator5 ай бұрын
ಠ_ಠ
@III_Stray_III5 ай бұрын
I think you lost your way with this review, while i agree with the majority of your points i felt that i was being told things i already knew tbh, i bought this for 5 dollars last year, i played the beta and went nope, im out. However ive tried season 7 and 6 previously and tbh honest despite the glaring flaws this game has gone through from the drawing board until now ive had small reminders while playing of what battlefield used to be. I play this to literally take my brain out and shoot stuff and play the objective, also lately ive noticed a few games where the tickets have really come down to the wire! which is great because you dont know which way the battles gonna swing. Despite all that i enjoyed your video it was good. Perhaps you could do a video with reasons why you should play this? after all the players make the experience, its easy to hate these days its harder to be positive. While i dont LOVE this game! its still got something to it and battlefield is still there underneath the rubble somewhere here, and in my experience it shows itself in the really close matches.
@DWTerminator5 ай бұрын
"Perhaps you could do a video with reasons why you should play this?" - There are none. It's a soulless cash grab by EA. Buying and playing it is endorsing their terrible behavior and only serves to encourage them to keep releasing increasingly awful, increasingly broken, increasingly money-grubbing games.
@III_Stray_III5 ай бұрын
@DWTerminator I know, I think its good to bear in mind I myself only paid 5 dollars for admittance here so I am less jaded than those who paid full price and more, and, I understand how you feel and the rest of the battlefield community feel also it sucks, but since I have tried it recently I was merely trying yo point out that actually in its current state it is playable and at times enjoyable, and just so we understand my angle, I'm hoping we get a return to form in the next installment in the franchise, thanks for replying at least, and I hope I didn't set you off
@pacmikey17635 ай бұрын
Surprised you didnt mention the choppers, they make the Apache from BF4 look like a paper toy, its not uncommon to see a chopper pilot with 100+ kills in 1 game with 0 deaths farming infantry, with an almosy infinite amount of flares
@DWTerminator5 ай бұрын
Weirdly enough, choppers weren't much of an issue during my time with the game. Probably wasn't running into competent pilots.
@Mitchell_Gant5 ай бұрын
This just looks like a haphazardly cobbled together playground, instead of a combined arms military game. Then again, every Battlefield since Hardline seemed like that too.
@DWTerminator5 ай бұрын
It's sad when even the likes of Bad Company 1 & 2 seem more like "proper" combined arms military shooters than more recent, "serious" entries in the series.
@budgetbrick51244 ай бұрын
Bf 2042 is just a game that feels so lost in what it wants to be. It's not a battlefield game since it basically takes most of its identity with only a few mechanics that resembles bf. The other mode don't really have much to it since portal is just okay and the hazard zone was completely abandoned. The specialist are bare bones with most with pretty useless abilities with a few of them being the better option. It's just a game lost in what it wants to be
@jhonayo48875 ай бұрын
First! Hey Dw could you do a Brutal Doom thoughts on or review?
@DWTerminator5 ай бұрын
I don't review mods and there are currently no plans to cover Brutal Doom beyond the E1 playthroughs I did years ago.
@jhonayo48875 ай бұрын
@@DWTerminator oh okay. Overall do you enjoy/approve of the mod?
@DWTerminator5 ай бұрын
It's decent for what it is. Most of the time, I'd rather just play regular Doom or a total conversion.
@Ghost_Of_SAS5 ай бұрын
I played a lot of it when it was free on PS+ about a year ago and had a lot of fun. There is a lot to dislike in the GAAS aspects of it, but the game itself it really good, now that it's actually mostly functional. I won't hate on it.
@DWTerminator5 ай бұрын
The game itself is garbage. Being less garbage than launch doesn't magically make it good.
@RichardPhillips10665 ай бұрын
@@DWTerminatorthe problem is AAA has been bad so long now folks have got used to it , they no longer have a frame of reference
@ninochaosdrache31895 ай бұрын
I think it's better, but still far away from what Battlefield 3 or 4 were
@RichardPhillips10665 ай бұрын
I remember folks going back to battlefield 4 , cause they hated the new game:)
@DWTerminator5 ай бұрын
Probably because, despite its *many* problems, BF4 is actually a complete game that generally runs well, has a lot of content, and allows community-run servers.
@Raauuul5 ай бұрын
Season 7 added visual recoil and that messed up gunplay mostly and RUSH game mode is in game, but yeah the game has had too little new content and most big updates come with new bugs.
@ninochaosdrache31895 ай бұрын
I agree, this game is still a far cry from earlier, better Battlefields and I don't have much hope for the next installment if EA doesn't pull DICE from it and give the franchise to somebody else. Even the so called class system is only half assed, because every Specialist can still use every weapon and isn't restricted like in the previous games. The maps are still bad and way too open, there is no proper city map, the vehicle limit is way too strict for the amount of players in a match and the only good thing about this game is Portal mode.
@thebrodator4 ай бұрын
Is this the worst game in the Battlefield series?
@DWTerminator4 ай бұрын
So far.
@hayden1990lmjm5 ай бұрын
The gun play is awful same as pretty much every map they don't play well. I load the game up and go why play when bf5,bf1 and battlefront is better. Shame the player base ent that big anymore and what happened to platoons?
@BicBoi19845 ай бұрын
It's worth it on sale if you've never played
@DWTerminator5 ай бұрын
Do not buy this game under any circumstances. I don't care if it's down to $0.01. Giving EA *any* money for this game is enabling their terrible behavior.
@BicBoi19845 ай бұрын
Can't argue against that really lol
@TheGXDivider5 ай бұрын
This video is sponsored by sweet baby inc.
@DWTerminator5 ай бұрын
Far as I'm aware the only game I've covered that they've had a hand in is D&D Dark Alliance.
@Thedefenses5 ай бұрын
2042 is now days a decent game, its not great, its not terrible, its just ok. if it was you first battlefield and you started with it recently, i would say you could have done better choosing the starting game, but i could see why some one would like it. There are a lot of good ideas in it, held down by shitty decisions around monetization, update style changing to a live service game, abandoning all the good ideas that were tried in past game in an effort to reboot the franchise form BF5 and having a large amount of veteran dev´s leave before the game. The game just feels... standard. it looks fine, it has the same type of cosmetics spam that most current live service games have, it plays like old battlefield, all the stupid shitty gunplay features included, now just having even more weird and obfuscated meters and green texts telling them instead of having just numbers to show what does what, welcome to modern gaming i guess, don´t want the players to be "confused" about big numbers. in the end, 2042 feels soulless, it has nothing it does terribly where i could go and say "this was a terrible idea, who was the idiot that came up with this", especially after the launch´s stupidity has been mostly fixed these days, but nor does it have anything that really makes me think " i hope they keep this mechanic, i use it all the time and it really improves my gameplay experience". Its the most fine BF title currently on the market and thus, has nothing really to sell someone on why they should play it instead of any older BF.
@ninochaosdrache31895 ай бұрын
The only reason to play this over the other Battlefields is that is has Bots.
@DWTerminator5 ай бұрын
You should probably clarify with "modern BF games" as 2142 and prior all had bots. They were never good, but they let you play the games offline and filled in for a lack of players online. There is no reason to play 2042 at all.
@RichardPhillips10665 ай бұрын
Yup the start with out access to settings thing ..is super annoying, im guessing its cause of the consoles
@DWTerminator5 ай бұрын
Even console gamers are annoyed by this, so I really don't know why the industry (particularly the AAA industry) keeps doing it.
@RichardPhillips10665 ай бұрын
@@DWTerminator cause it's cool basically, like a cold opening in a TV show, (just starts no credits or etc)
@slowmercy695 ай бұрын
So they're doing in medias res in Battlefield 😂😂😂
@brickproduction18155 ай бұрын
Play battlebit it's better
@eliasazevedo7774 ай бұрын
A lot of people are saying that BF2042 is way better than MWII & III.
@imacolonelinbf29755 ай бұрын
meds
@jimbe4mxl4105 ай бұрын
BTW i dont like that youre not calling SBI out, i know what you like, and i know how they ruined these games, not exactly them, but activist "developers". "Lets ignore it cs im afraid of my channel" Thats it? The video why "i dont like live service" is connected? :] If you dont speak up, be a AI, thats what youll get, dont cry.
@DWTerminator5 ай бұрын
The only game I've covered on the channel that SBI were even involved with at all is D&D Dark Alliance, and nobody even really knew anything about it at the time I covered the game. They were the least of that piece of shit's problems anyway.
@BicBoi19845 ай бұрын
This game has much more severe technical issues man lol
@jimbe4mxl4105 ай бұрын
@@DWTerminator It pissess me off that people dont talk about this 10 years plus butchering of game studios, forget SBI, the game studios are filled by activists, not devs. Why did you talk about Baldurs Gate 3 that baffles you that all npcs are playersexual, same with Starfield, why almost all storylines are filled with cringe nowadays, CD Projekt Red making videos adressing ESG scores, what was it, 2 years ago? Body picks in games are Body Type 1 and 2, yes even in the "beloved" Elden Ring from jp, show me a newlish game that has a male/female body type in character creation, this sht is going on for YEARS, and i know you know it, but you just say "it baffles me" and shrug it off. SBI and the other groups came out public, Microsoft openly says in letters to make men less masculine, women ugly, Crystal Dynamics "apologizing" for the new Tomb Raider Remaster, they feel "ashamed" for portraying a woman this way and that she steals from "native people". Gosh im sorry, maybe too much screaming on you :) but i know, that you know whats going on in this business, we see it for years, but you dont adress it, or shrug it off and wonder how games became so sht :) "playersexual" - no, its pushing political agendas down your throat. Oi, youve seen that the game devs hate white males lately? Also, you cant be racist against white people.
@jimbe4mxl4105 ай бұрын
BTW i DARE you to play the new Dragons Dogma, will test your new rig :P
@gogolplex745 ай бұрын
He is sick of politics and doesn't want to talk about them
@hellbent6505 ай бұрын
Hardline > 2042 + V = F.Ü.ALL...
@DWTerminator5 ай бұрын
Hardline was a mess. It's still better than 2042 and V.
@hellbent6505 ай бұрын
@@DWTerminator I like u.
@CrashD65 ай бұрын
Battlefield was always like that, the guns are inaccurate and the shotguns go very far, they should've give us more visual/sight recoil instead of random cone spread, it feels like the gun's barrel is made of rubber or gelatin
@DWTerminator5 ай бұрын
The guns haven't been generally inaccurate since BF Vietnam.
@CrashD65 ай бұрын
@@DWTerminator We gotta be sure we are talking about the same thing. I consider "random spread" as inaccurate, random spread was always a part of BF, I could see the tracer rounds spreading since BFBC2, BF3 and BF4, it was annoying but you don't really need a whole mag to kill someone, so it was manageable. With that being sad, is the random spread worse in 2042? For example, I consider Counter Strike and Call of Duty guns as accurate, since the projectile is "predictable" and the recoil of the weapon determines the trajectory, not random chance, that's what I meant.
@DWTerminator5 ай бұрын
The way the bullet spread worked in BC2/BF3/BF4/Hardline/BF1/BF5 is that if you just held down the fire button in full auto, then the shots would gradually start flying all over the place. If you used shorter, controlled bursts, it stayed accurate to the visual recoil. Semi-auto stayed accurate regardless but then you had a slight delay between shots even if your click speed was ridiculously fast. BF2042, on the other hand, has random chance built into all of the automatic weapons even in semi-auto.
@CrashD65 ай бұрын
@@DWTerminator Thanks for clarifying that, I had no idea how bad 2042 was, since I skipped it due to the launch fiasco and disappointment, this bad spread choice sure feels like the cherry on top lol
@user-tx2si2zp1i5 ай бұрын
"medic is useless because you have auto-heal" is such braindead statement. It's like saying "why use 3rd gear in my car if first gear works just fine!" Healing is incredibly strong, so are the revives for the whole team. You have to be blind to not see that. "guns are bad at start" - while some guns do benefit from some attachments which unlock after around 300 kills, starter guns like PBX, M5 are VERY strong and work just fine. Git gud. "High Power ammo does more dmg" - incredibly stupid statement that shows how ignorant you are. HP has better damage fall off, not higher damage. I guess throwing such buzzwords as PTFO, TEAMWORK is more important that undestanding how guns work in a FPS game, right? While you are right about gunplay feeling bad (or rather unintuitive), you actually have to be so bad to not notice how accurate most guns are. SMGs can easlily kill up to 60-80m depending on a gun, ARs can go even beyond that. And speaking broadly, while there are some stronger weapons, most guns can be used with great outcome. "OMG IT'S ANOTHER COD CLONE!!!!1!" - it's really sicking to hear this again and again. CoD and BF have VERY different gameplay loops in regarding to infantry gameplay. Once again, it seems nostalgia about TEAMWORK and BF2 is blinding and more important that undestanding how games work and play.
@jimbe4mxl4105 ай бұрын
Im subbed to you for like 10 years, but, whats the point of this video? There was only Battlefield 2. Rest was sht.
@DWTerminator5 ай бұрын
The point is closure.
@RichardPhillips10665 ай бұрын
There's point a lot of folks are saying this game is fine now
@Thedefenses5 ай бұрын
That is... definitely an opinion, i think if you ask 100 current day battlefield gamers, few have even played BF2, let alone seen any footage or even the cover of it.
@jimbe4mxl4105 ай бұрын
@@ThedefensesWhat the hell are you taliking about? It was the best one :) 32 vs 32, so much corn and griefing, dogfighting :) Then came 2142? Or whats the date? Then 1 decent Bad Company, and is did the bed after :] Saying Battlefield 2 was not known, is like saying Quake 3 was a niche game, or first Halo.
@Thedefenses5 ай бұрын
@@jimbe4mxl410 Niche for its time, no but for today, extremely so. same goes for far cry, 99 out of a 100 people that have played far cry 3 or any game after that have never played the first one. Battlefield has grown immensely since BF2, so most of the new player have never looked at the franchises roots or even seen them.