Battlefield 2042

I quite like the way they have handled the weapons. You can use any of them on any class, but you might as well use the one that gives you a bonus. The bonuses aren't so essential that it makes the flexibility pointless and maybe the bonuses could be a little more beneficial, but I feel it is a good approach.

I still feel the gadgets are a bit weak. Some more variety there would be good. Also, all BF games are improved with a mortar gadget.

Hmmm, yeah I'd have to agree here. There's a lot of stuff going on 2042 but I've never felt I was making a tangible contribution, especially as on console there's an absolute dearth of teamwork as well as people resupplying and reviving. It's incredibly easy to be one of the MVP's for revives.

Same experience here. Breakthrough is usually a bit more cohesive (as is co-op vs bots) but player squads acting like squads seem few and far between.

I still think squads can make difference. There just isn't a huge incentive to play like that, so no one does. It used to be that the support players would rack up huge amount of points, so it was always attractive to fulfill those roles.

I would also say that individuals have never really been able to make that much difference, but I would also have to admit to always having been a bit crap at BF, which might have more to do with that.

I've got far too many games on the go atm, but worth noting the new season (S5) has started. Only dived briefly into the new map (Reclaimed), which is locked at 64 players and is much more CQC focused.

What I would say is that performance is SO much better now than it ever was. I'm comfortably sitting at 110-120 FPS at all times, which makes the whole experience far more enjoyable.

Think they've also confirmed that there will be a Season 6 coming too.

It's one of the few constant's on my hard drive. BF is in a really good place right now, the team have done a good job. I'm guessing the launch date was originally far too ambitious given the change in working practices through covid and it cost them.

Yeah, I've basically kept up with the weekly missions/bonuses in order to max out each season's standard battle pass (which I've always only unlocked with the currency earned in-game in the previous season, etc.).

I still enjoy it a lot when I do play, and the improved performance definitely helps.

Not sure if anyone here can help, but I've recently attempted to play BF2042 again, but running into tech issues on PC.

I'm getting what feels like some extreme input lag, even in the menus. I have to hold a button down for about 2-3 seconds before it will react. Mouse movement in the menus seems fine and clicking on menu items seems fine. In game, I will have all the commands delayed by the same 2-3 seconds, but this will also include mouse inputs too, making it completely unplayable (again, mouse seems fine in the menus even in game, such as the spawn menu). Movement will have the same 2-3 second delay before reacting and will continue when I release the button for another 2-3 seconds. Moving the camera around will just jerk and jump around. Everything else appears to be running flawlessly, performance-wise, with everyone else moving normally and the environments all moving about at a normal frame rate (don't seem to be able to bring up the console to bring up performance details, but seems fine to the eye). I'm not getting any of the error icons appearing to indicate any issues with frame rate, dropped packets, high ping or anything like that.

I've tried closing everything that isn't Battlefield, disabling the EA overlay, turning off Nvidia Reflex, turning off DLSS, turning off future frame generation, putting the settings to minimum, changing the polling rate of my mouse and even using a controller instead of keyboard and mouse, but nothing seemed to have much of an effect (I thought changing the Reflex options might have had an effect on the time of the delay, but it was negligible if it did and still unplayable). Searching online I can't find anything besides the things I've already tried and most of the posts date back over a year.

It's been a while since I last played (maybe around season 3 time), but didn't have any issues. Only system change I have made since then would be my GPU, which is now a ludicrous 4090, so would be surprised if that is causing an issue.

Any ideas?

Edit - in case anyone stumbled into this post with the same issue, turned out I had my arcade stick plugged in and it must have been causing some interference. Unplugging solved the issue completely. Only discovered this as I also had an issue with Cocoon picking up my controller, for the same reason.

The announcement basically is "It's Battlefield, just like all those ones you liked!" Not really much other info, but hopefully we will see some footage soon.

Not really that fussed on it being modern. Much prefer it to either be historic or something completely sci-fi (like 2142, not that half-arsed 2042 future that is really just modern without needing to pretend it is realistic).

That sounds like everything I want except BC2 levels of destruction - really hope they follow through with it.

I miss playing Battlefield with a group of mates and in general really. Had some amazing times on the PC, 360 and PS4 with 1942, BC2 and BF4 respectively.

Let Battlefield be Battlefield and stop trying to chase other trends or games.

I'm semi-interested.
Got into BF with BC2 and the EGGMILF crew. Then I quite enjoyed BF3. I've always been shit at the quick reaction shooting part of the game, but I like supporting my squad and according to some online stat tracker I was in the top 500 players in the world for chucking out either medpacks or ammo. Whereas my K/D ratio was shockingly bad.

I'm similar and it's one of the main reasons I love(d) Battlefield - you can still contribute massively to your team without being a crackshot. Most of the fun I had was supporting my team.

Edit alastair

On setting, you are right it doesn't massively matter. If it is a good game then it will still be a good game no matter whatever "lore" they stick in to explain why we are all shooting each other. Personally though, I just find modern settings a bit of a turn off. See enough of those sort of warzones on the TV and it all feels a bit like fetishizing military. There are of course complications with portraying past wars, but even with problematic conflicts like Vietnam you can have a disconnect.

Plus, if you go full sci-fi, it does open up extra gadgets and gameplay ideas that you can't include in either modern or historic settings.

As for the player count, I still will say that the increased count is fine. The launch maps were shit though and that was the problem. The ones they added later were all pretty great and worked well with 128 players.

You definitely can't just increase the player count on maps that were designed for 64 players, but if you have that in mind from the start than it can work (launch maps were shit no matter how many players were playing). You may even have to change gameplay and perhaps you end up with something less recognisably Battlefield (such as more like Planetside). Plenty of games that are similar to Battlefield have even higher player counts that manage it though.

My main issue with the 128 player count is that felt it more of a back of the box point rather than being used for anything transformative. It never added to the game, with the butchered class system it became more lopsided and I never once saw anything team oriented from people even in a squad. The last time I played it was a ton of people at base controlling drones, snipers all lined up never moving and a stealth chopper doing circles and people refusing to attempt to shoot it down.