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.

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.

match making instead of a server browser is the worst punishment to any video game

I'm not going to lie. The shitty hovercraft was so damn funny

The Battlefield vs COD discussions went from which one was the best, to which one is the worst 💀

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.

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.

2042 broke me. I spiral into a deep depression every time I think about it.

"Don't be sad, this is just how it works out sometimes." - that quote pretty much sums up the 2042 expirience.

EA should rent a theater and force all DICE devs to watch this.

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

Worth noting that modders for BF2 (Forgotten Hope 2) had 128 player servers running as early as 2012. This was without any official support. They were somewhat unstable though and required a restart 1-2 times an evening so they dialed them back to 100 players. Those 100pop servers have been running stable for over a decade now

How to save Battlefield ? Sell the IP to someone who can make a BF game...

BF4 is rolling in its grave

Civvie 11: "Gimme a crosshair and make the bullets go there!" EA: "NO"

Battlefield 1 was badass I seriously don't know why people hated that game. The atmosphere of that game was spectacular

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”.

The fact that you put out this level of Truth on Battlefield 2042 and these other Million subscriber KZfaq 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.🤯

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 would love to see a ww2 era battlefield game with bf1 level immersion and proper post launch support, it really sucks that bf5 got one dlc and got left to die

What a disaster of a videogame. DON'T LET THEM COOK EVER AGAIN

finally. the trailer team carries this franchise at this point.

“Don't be sad this is just how it works out sometimes.”

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.

Love letter to battlefield fans.

This game is a biblical fuck up.

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.

Imagine taking over capture point on top of a tower, losing lots of men, only to here your mate say, “Hey guys, you might wanna see this”, and seeing multiple Hover-crafts climbing there ass up the tower with them fully stocked with players, coming to fuck you up.

Excellent work Enders. Genuinely think the higher ups at DICE need to see this

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.

30:10 I can 110% attest to this, In the BF3 days I was a transport chopper pilot. I had so many service stars with it I lost count and I was dedicated to flying a choppergunner and as a mobile spawnpoint over an objective till the bird went down. I loved doing nothing more rhan flying death donuts above a capture point and dammit I was good at it. My team loved me for it too, man those were the days..

I remember back in BFV, when people complained about the glacial dev time of new maps and such, that the whole "but they're free now, whereas older Battlefield titles had paid maps, so don't complain" argument was often used to retort that. But, one of the things DICE mentioned was that the idea behind going free maps with a MTX focus was that they could then offer the same amount of maps as before, but that they'd all be free. And that would avoid a problem with older BF games, where their DLC maps were often not popular in servers, because you could only join a server that ran maps you owned. Even back then, DICE promised that the move would give as much, if not more, content that would remain free so that they could use MTX for their revenue instead. And this is all forgetting that EA is earning way, way more from MTX than they ever did the previous DLC packs. So there's really no excuse for that.

IT'S HERE! IT'S FINALLY HERE!

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

19:52 “this is how guns work bro” if you can full auto a rifle at a target 150m away and hit every bullet without a issue then I’ll eat my hat.

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.

FRUSTRATION 🎈 is my one word description of BF 2042 Thank you Enders for your effort

We got Enders definitive 2042 review before Gta 6

Best decision I ever made was realizing within 20 minutes of playing on release day that it was identical to the beta game. Refunded it on xbox immediately. Never played it again.

As you mentioned the marketing team that created that trailer were top tier

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

No matchmaking is a crime

6:19 - 6:31 - that just sound like a regular battlefield launch happens every time since BF4

Grabs popcorn and tissues

can't forgot the stopping of releasing battlfefront 3 for this atrocity

The DEI iceberg is staring to surface across industries.

Bad Company and Battlefield 3 are my cousins favorites, mf was legit number one player in the world at one point. I tell you no lies and that’s to say he was ABSOLUTELY devastated when the game released. I bought it cuz I liked 4 and figured me and cuz could have sum to play together other than gta lmaoo. Anyways we played it day one, waited a few weeks for patches and kept playing up until season one started and according to him he just couldn’t play it cuz it wasn’t the Battlefield he knew and loved. It was actually quite sad to witness it he still plays 4 on his pc every now and then so it does satisfy that itch he got lol.

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. 😢

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.

I still cannot believe that in a year that saw Battlefield, Call of Duty and Halo go head to head for the first time since 2015, Call of Duty VANGUARD was the game I enjoyed the most...

What scares me is once the next Battlefield releases, and is inevitably a pile of shit, people will claim that 2042 was a "misunderstood gem" that people "treated too harshly." like they do now with CoD Ghosts and the like.

You didn't mention the "love letter to the fans" lol....

Congratulations on 60,000 channel subscribers! From fans in Japan.

The reason is because they hired people not qualified for the job, but check certain diversity boxes and had no idea what they were doing and ruined one of the best franchises in FPS history

This game was seriously the most disappointed I’ve ever been at a video game release. I’m sick of how modern FPS games have come out. The sliding/ slide cancelling, bunny hopping, etc. I seriously think the hardcore FPS games will flourish in the next few years because of it. Games like 6 days in Fallujah, rising storm 2, HLL have given such a different way to play an FPS without the coked out sweatyness. But at the very least just make a game that plays like BF3

Dolphin diving is not the same as jumping around like some rabbit on crack with ADD.

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.

In battlefield 2 maps would have specific boundaries for 16,24,32 and 64 player settings. Ever since battlefield 3 they just have conquest and conquest large for 48 and 64 which at the time of 7th gen consoles was basically a way to make a console version and a pc version. The 8th generation of consoles should have fixed this but they seemingly just kept these versions. It reeks of modern game dev laziness compared to the past.

BF3: They ignore the devs and miss out on esports potential BF4: They ignore the devs and launch a broken game BF Hardline: They ignore the community's input entirely BF1: Can't ignore our devs and community if they all just leave :D BFV: They ignore the existence of Battlefield, cuz they have Apex 2042: Literally just stopped trying

Grab your drinks and snacks and let the rant unleash. Ah... Good times, Good f*cking times

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.

I remember getting BF2042 for Christmas, hating it instantly, and stopped playing when BFV came out on PS plus. Also never knew BFV was hated so much bc when I started playing in 2021 I had tons of fun with it. Especially compared to what I had bought for 70 bucks just a few months earlier

As someone who's played since the glory days (who remembers the Forgotten Hope mod for BF1942?), the closest they got to grasping the true essence of Battlefield was Battlefield 1. I honestly thought it was the beginning of a renaissance. Instead, it was its swan song. If they are to revive Battlefield, they need to look back at Battlefield 1942, and Battlefield 2 - both games of which that truly grasped the essence of Battlefield. I also adored Battlefield Vietnam and Battlefield 2142. For now, at least we have Battlebit; it's the closest we've gotten to reliving Battlefield in its original glory.

Played BF1 and BFV religiously over thousand hours. BF2042 i gave them 2 years was completely bored. Only good maps was on portal lol

Perfect way to start of a sunday

BFV effectively started the destruction.

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.

can't wait to be disappointed again when the next title launch

This is great Enders. Appreciate especially the clips covering from prelaunch to end of support

The funny thing is it was dice la who finished battlefield 4 naking it so perfect

I remember being excited for this getting released and as soon as i played even an hour of the beta i was like: "Alright.... I'm out". Even when it was on sale recently for a stupid low price I still didnt bother buying it.

A REAL campaign, no more BS short stories! BF4 style training area! Keep it modern not retro or “near future” speculative crap! IMHO😊

Love it. Bro called the Junkers 88a the Jubba

BF1 was the last BF game I did enjoy. Soundtrack for the last dlc alone was so dope, 4 horseman of apocalypse was one the best ost ever made.

I miss battlefield 1942 and battlefield 1, so much. Battlefield was my favorite fps series, once upon a time...

I put ketchup on my pancakes

Spot-on review and awesome closer statements. 👍🏽👍🏽 See ya on the next one.

The real change that needs to happen is to stop with the pre order, season pass, in game purchase bs and just make a good game that people want to play.

man I hope DICE & EA are watching these 2-year reviews from big YT names. Levelcap, Enders, Catalyst, Jackfrags. These carry the core audience of BF veterans who share our complaints and feedback. Their next game has to be a 180 or that's it for the franchise

The switch from 2042 footage to BF5 footage was such a whiplash how does BF5 look like 4 times better?

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.

Thing is though, Trailers do matter. Also on launch the gunplay wasn't laserbeam, it was awful spread angle across every weapon except the PP-29 which is why they were rampant with nearly everyone. Only once the fixes went through did beam rifles really take over. Rest of it was accurate though, game was a mess but I had a fun month or so on release until the boredom set in

This is why I think that Bad Company 2 (which I think was made for consoles in particular) worked so well was because with lower player counts they could make smaller, tighter, and better playing maps rather than large, open environments to encompass a ridiculously high player count.

The "Nostalgia bait" Trailer was for people who watched clips of gameplay rather then people who enjoyed the series for decades

This game sucked.

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.

Ladies and gentlemen - the beautiful results of GamerGate presented in 34 minutes and 15 seconds. _Zoe Quinn would be proud._

As a dogfighter in BF titles (learned to dogfight in BF3/4, ending up by having more than 10000 fighter plane kills in BF1, near 20000 kills combined by all planes in BF5), the jet in 2042 is easily the worst in all the series. The control make me feel I'm controlling a paper plane or a piece of fallen leaf instead of a jet fighter, the cannons feel like peeing, and the rocket pod added later is just a pure joke. And also, still no server browser for the main game is one of the worst decisions they had ever made.

I still can't run Battlefield 2042.

Man you unlocked memories at the 30:00 min mark! I used to be the heli pilot in BF BC 2, 3 and 4! Growing up is crazy, but also the current state of gaming has it so far removed from my mind. Fun memories tho! Man we used to dog fight in the choppers always had to have the flairs on deck. What a rush lol

Regarding the scoreboard, somebody actually managed to draw a scoreboard in paint. Guess what the devs said. They said "This looks amazing, we did not think of it". The scoreboard looked very similar to the old ones.

60k! Also insane like to view ratio already on this video

DICE take notes

Lol I do not understand why you would play Battlefield Portal "realism servers" when you can just play something like Squad or Hell Let Loose.

I just love how “Turning point” was the point where they gave up 💀

"You can dolphin dive in BF2" What a false equivalent. That's like saying BO1 is Helldivers because you can dive in it. It makes sense if you ignore everything else around it

Agreed. And with the horrific state of FPS in general, BF2042 has still been the best offering out there in the last 2+ years….😢

Another note to add to the maps section is the fact there are no sea maps at all. What happened to being able to jump into a boat and go island to island or flank around the map?

Hazard zone, the tornado, and the voice lines were absolutely mind blowing to me. They literally could have done nothing at all and it would have been 100% better. The best thing 2042 did was get my old crew back together on BF4 and 1. They need to scrap every idea they had with this game.