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Battlefield 2042 | Review Thread

Seen a fix on the game's subreddit that makes the GPU further utilised. Could help for some but it helped for me. When playing in 1080p, My 2070 Super was only 40% utilised and CPU was high which caused stutters and struggled to go past 70FPS. The game felt awful to play. Now, in 1440p I am easily getting 90 to 100FPS on average and the game feels a lot better to play, not perfect but still a big improvement. This is mainly for Nvidia GPUs.

1. Go to Nivdia control panel
2. Manage 3D settings (Make sure this is on global)
3. Look for DSR - factors and enable at 1.78x (native resolution)
4. Look for DSR - smoothness and set to 33%
5. Look for power management and select "prefer maximum performance"
6. Make sure to apply
7. Go to GeForce Experience
8. Click on Battlefield 2042 icon
9. Click on the spanner/wrench icon
10. Set the resolution to 2560x1440 and make sure display mode is set to full screen, leave the slider below
11. Click apply.
12. Load up BF2042, make sure the in game resolution is set to 2560 x 1440.

I've also read that disabling Ryzen SMT via your bios also improves the game performance, video below.

 

Stooky

Banned
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I was looking foward to BF. After playing for a few hours........mehhh....... might check back in 6 months to see where its at.......... wtf did they do, day 1 patch will not fix this.
 
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Croatoan

They/Them A-10 Warthog
Finally managed to play a little bit and yeesh. I was perfectly fine with the beta minus some things they could've fixed, but this... what did they do? They fucked up the gunplay and guns and the maps are too big. Whatever that open beta map was, with the rocket launch was a fine size. Big enough but with areas of nicely sized fire fights.
play breakthrough
 
Finally really dug into this game over the weekend.

-Breakthrough sucks. Its just pure chaos and the player count is a detriment in this mode.
-Operator system sucks, I want my classes back
-On a technical level the game is in a much better place than the beta, though I did see some glitches like players not being labeled as friendly or foe.
-The gameplay feels closer to COD than previous Battlefields. Its really really fast by comparison. I dont care for it but take it how you want.
-Vehicles are godlike now. Turrets on vehicles finally kill people relatively quick instead of being pea shooters like in previous games
-Maps are big but also kinda empty a lot of the time. There are definitely huge swaths of the levels that basically make you easy pickings for snipers or vehicles if you are on foot.

I dont think its a bad game so far but BF4 is better still.
 

DeaDPo0L84

Member
Game is really good and 100 times more fun than BFV

Fuck the haters. Seriously. People praising BFV have no clue how V was when it launched, missing half of its features, broken maps, broken systems, broken gameplay and bugs bugs bugs

This game feels more polished (albeit still a buggy mess but when it comes to Battlefield launches this one has been the smoothest so far)

The two real problems right now are server stability and performance.

I see many people not being able to play the game rn bc its poorly optimized and servers like to die often, especially in Breakthrough when the entire server is focused on one zone.

I suggest to stay away from Breakthrough until devs fixed that server issue
This post right here is exactly the reason why we will continue to get shitty AAA releases at launch, cause customers will willingly hand over their money and then defend the broken product funnily enough against their own former WORSE shitty product, can't make this shit up.
 
comparing apples to oranges

different games, different modes, different scopes


I'll get and play both
You might, but not everyone will have the time for both, and the F2P one is more appealing at first glance than the full priced release which has lukewarm receptions.
 
Completely disagree with this point.

The matches in Breakthrough are large scale chaos, but it's intense fun for a straight 20-40 minutes. The larger player count allows for attackers and defenders to better split up their objective pushes and holds compared to BFV.

To each their own but this part is a problem for me. BFV sucked.
 
So much this. It’s BF Bad Company 3 we needed or a remake of 2.
Smaller maps with destructible environments. BF destruction has been in decline since BFBC2.

I bought this game. Portal is a blast and I like Hardzone, but everything else feels like a wasted opportunity.
They could've remade Bad Company 2 with updated assets and new maps and I'd be over the moon happy with it labelled as Bad Company 3. Lots of fans have been asking for a Bad Company 3 for years now.
Either way will probably not play this as much. Just waiting for Halo now.
 

MaKTaiL

Member
Hazard Zone is so frustrating. Start a match, fail in 5 minutes for try-hards, wait 15 minutes to start another match, hence and repeat. The fact that DICE thought it was a good idea to lock 3 trophies/achievements behind this god awful mode makes it even worse.
 
So this is basically the OT?

anyone in ausgaf want to team up and fly some choppers? I will fly and I’m looking for a decent gunner. Or if someone is a decent to good pilot I’m happy to rep for them in the little bird. I just want to play with a squad member I can rely on and who isn’t going to steal my heli when I switch seats.

Hazard Zone is so frustrating. Start a match, fail in 5 minutes for try-hards, wait 15 minutes to start another match, hence and repeat. The fact that DICE thought it was a good idea to lock 3 trophies/achievements behind this god awful mode makes it even worse.

i doubt I will ever even open the game mode.
 
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R6Rider

Gold Member
Can’t someone change the title to make this the OT?
I'd rather have a new topic so the people who clearly don't like it or won't buy it can move on. So many OT's become negative so fast. That discussion is fine for this page, but even then it's now less about reviews.

Which by the way the game is currently at an 80% rating on OpenCritic with a 70% recommendation rating.
 

R6Rider

Gold Member
About how my bullets go when using a DMR yet on the other end is a pro sniper returning fire.


Yeah it's a bug that deals with hipfire spread being applied when aiming.

Not sure what causes it, but I haven't had it myself using the DMRs. They've actually been the most accurate for me overall. ARs have a similar bug that can occur, which I have had several times.
 
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HeisenbergFX4

Gold Member
Yeah it's a bug that deals with hipfire spread being applied when aiming.

Not sure what causes it, but I haven't had it myself using the DMRs. They've actually been the most accurate for me overall. ARs have a similar bug that can occur, which I have had several times.
Yeah its not regular for me either didn't know it was a hip fire bug wonder if just reaiming down sight fixes it, have to try it next time though I usually die anyhow when it happens
 

Putonahappyface

Gold Member
Well this was the soul reason for me renewing my Playstation Plus this month. No chance of that now as this game clearly needs more work before I part with my cash.☹
 

Valedix

Member
Seen a fix on the game's subreddit that makes the GPU further utilised. Could help for some but it helped for me. When playing in 1080p, My 2070 Super was only 40% utilised and CPU was high which caused stutters and struggled to go past 70FPS. The game felt awful to play. Now, in 1440p I am easily getting 90 to 100FPS on average and the game feels a lot better to play, not perfect but still a big improvement. This is mainly for Nvidia GPUs.

1. Go to Nivdia control panel
2. Manage 3D settings (Make sure this is on global)
3. Look for DSR - factors and enable at 1.78x (native resolution)
4. Look for DSR - smoothness and set to 33%
5. Look for power management and select "prefer maximum performance"
6. Make sure to apply
7. Go to GeForce Experience
8. Click on Battlefield 2042 icon
9. Click on the spanner/wrench icon
10. Set the resolution to 2560x1440 and make sure display mode is set to full screen, leave the slider below
11. Click apply.
12. Load up BF2042, make sure the in game resolution is set to 2560 x 1440.

I've also read that disabling Ryzen SMT via your bios also improves the game performance, video below.


imagine paying $60 to do all of that to fix some shit lmao
 
I LOVE Battlefield series. Played every game from 1942 to V. Was super looking forward to 2042. Tried it with 10-hour EAPlay trial. I'm absolutely heartbroken. Portal is the best part of this game and even that is spoiled for me with that cringelord end of the round bragging posing.
the end of round screen, ruined Portal for u?
not the minimap, map or UI/HUD? I mean even those things aren't enough to ruin it...but end of round u can just like...closed ur eyes lol
 

EDMIX

Writes a lot, says very little
I haven't played Halo Infinite MP yet, but if it turns out solid, I can see it REALLY harming BF2042, given the negative sentiment and mostly poor reactions from players.

lol

good luck if you really think the most extreme complaints represent the whole community or something. People like this get triggered from fucking anything. I mean shit, you think you are not fucking going to hear that SAME SHIT from Halo? We are hearing that right now with the beta sir.... using that logic, don't buy that either. Lots of folks complaining about the new Call Of Duty too....so buy no games if you are really only buying or not based on um "poor reactions from players" . They also tend to exaggerate a fuck ton and some of them literally posted a list of lies about shit that wasn't in the game, that literally could be proven pretty fast.

Be like "number 14 less destruction"



lol I kid you not, some list on Reddit fucking made this claim. I'll trust the actual fucking game vs this shit.
I hope they add wake island to portal sometime I love that map!

We all know that shit coming lol Metro and Karkand too, lots of community favorites i see happening.
People love saying this and it's complete bullshit.

And the narrative that the game is in a terrible state right now is also bullshit. Game performance is great on PS5 and Series X (I've read that PC version has some optimization problems) and other than the server issues yesterday I have had no issues outside of minor bugs.

This is nothing compared to BF4's launch. It's far from perfect, but it's also far off from being terrible.

lol its funny cause this shit happens like every release, Bad Company comes out and be like "Single player? no bots, no prone? da faq? BF IS DEAD"

BFBC2 comes out "how the fuc....I thought this shit was dead, looks like it will be MO DEAD"

BF3 comes out be like "its an end of an era boys, BF is DEAD, da fukz it has TD, its Call Of Duty clone now bruvs"

BF4 comes out, "ok...NOW its dead, this launch shows it will kill DICE and its over and da maps small"

BF1 comes out "wooooow slow azz gunz, slow TTK BBQBBWPWNZ no server options"

BFV comes out "WOKE, its officially over, dead, nothing more, character customization for inclusion = woke"

BF 2042 comes out with bots, server option, larger maps, larger player count, free maps, portal etc "woooooow with those operators now everyone will look da same, if only they had customization as I'd like that, omgz BBQ SSN they go rid of TD...no SP, this series is done NOW BRUVz, da maps TOO BIG" lol


I genuinely don't really know what to say to people like this because we've heard complaints about so many different things that even when they're resolved some people will go back to arguing about something else or even complaining about the feature removed that other people complained about being included..

So to hear people complain about Rush and say true Battlefield is about Conquest only to then complain about the removal of Rush is too hilarious but that's no different than what we saw when Bad Company released with a single player many people kept calling it a clone of Call of Duty and now they remove the single-player and suddenly the game doesn't have enough "content"

People complained about small Maps they go on to make the biggest maps in Battlefield history and now people complain that the map is too big and ask for small maps

The funniest thing I think I read in a while are the people who complain that the specialist will simply look like clones and then completely ignore that the majority of the series has not actually had any type of unique customization up until the recent releases lol. I remember people even complaining about customization when it was in Battlefield 5, only to then complain about specialist.
 

BLAUcopter

Gold Member
Any word on upcoming patches? The longer they leave it in this state, the harder it's going to be to hold people's interest including mine.
 

EDMIX

Writes a lot, says very little
Any word on upcoming patches? The longer they leave it in this state, the harder it's going to be to hold people's interest including mine.

lol you'll be ok, the official release hasn't even happened yet. None of this even sounds as bad as BF4 where that shit was broken for quite some time. Seeing what they've corrected, returned and included, its clear they are indeed listening to feedback. I don't see them not updating or supporting it long term post launch. If BF4 can turn out the way it did after that launch and even charge people for maps and still be ok, BF 2042 will do just fine with free maps, weapons, vehicles etc over its life. So I'm less worried for this compared to how I felt with BF4's launch.


This is wild lol



 
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SatansReverence

Hipster Princess
lol you'll be ok, the official release hasn't even happened yet. None of this even sounds as bad as BF4 where that shit was broken for quite some time. Seeing what they've corrected, returned and included, its clear they are indeed listening to feedback. I don't see them not updating or supporting it long term post launch. If BF4 can turn out the way it did after that launch and even charge people for maps and still be ok, BF 2042 will do just fine with free maps, weapons, vehicles etc over its life. So I'm less worried for this compared to how I felt with BF4's launch.


This is wild lol





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343i of all developersd just showed it's entirely possible to launch a game without it being a broken mess, for free no less.

Stop defending this shit.
 
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BadBurger

Many “Whelps”! Handle It!
Is this basically the OT now?

Been playing tonight with my friend. This is actually pretty good. Buggy, but good. I am surprised at how well the weapons handle after being let down with all of the bizarre recoil and aiming issues I experienced in BF1 and BFV. This feels a lot like BF3 and I am digging it.

Marksman rifle seems bugged. Doesn't seem to be doing enough damage, and despite I can see my shots landing it doesn't seem to register past a certain range, and that range is rather short as far as marksman rifles should be concerned.

Anyway, I ran a guy over as I was driving off a bridge, landed in a pod of enemies holed up in the wreckage of a building, scoring three or four more roadkills. I then hopped out of the car and ran in time to avoid someone kamikazzing me with their jet - but the dude had lept from his jet prior to crashing and killed me with a bazooka. Battlefield is back.
 

EDMIX

Writes a lot, says very little
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343i of all developersd just showed it's entirely possible to launch a game without it being a broken mess, for free no less.

Stop defending this shit.
and it's a shit game.

No Fullscreen option
No option to disable motion blur
No option to disable chromatic abberation.



Be like "stop defending this shit"

I don't see any MP game coming out perfect bud. Like zero, I don't even have a fucking example of a MP title that came out and just had zero fucking issues lol Have fun with that lie buddy. The point is simply that people will bitch about Battlefield, Call Of Duty, Halo etc at launch or at all regardless. To put it simply, IDGAF. I'll play it my fucking self to see how I feel about it vs neckbeard exaggerations. I'd suggest you do the same with Halo btw as I'm pretty sure you are not going to just take Galactic's view on it and not buy the game. Many might might shit on it, many might like it, but you need to see and play for yourself.

WIth this logic, Halo, Call Of Duty and BF are not worth it to play, but shit we could have said that about any of the releases as zero online MP title is releasing with 100% all saying they LOVE it and it has ZERO issues lol I don't fall for bullshit and I don't fall for hyperbole, I need to see it myself, look it up myself and investigate it myself before just randomly believing anyones shit about any of those titles. Some people making it sound like its shit, are the same ones that told us it doesn't have destruction, they are going on a copy and paste list of lies for attention, but lots of major MP titles have people that do that, I don't fucking buy games based on.


Only sheep do...


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JoeBudden

Member
Played Halo Infinite for a few hours this evening, and as broken and janky as this game is, this is easily the best shooter this fall.
 

BadBurger

Many “Whelps”! Handle It!
Congratulations on quoting someone who was spouting complete and utter bullshit.

borderless window hasn't been a problem since 2015

The motion blur can be disabled

The chromatic aberration can be disabled

Try harder, lick more EA boots.

I don't really like kicking up static on the boards, but if you're so angry about this game then maybe stop discussing it? Ignore the thread? I myself am enjoying both this and Halo Infinite. They're both fun and look good. Enjoy yourself!
 
Game is really good and 100 times more fun than BFV

Fuck the haters. Seriously. People praising BFV have no clue how V was when it launched, missing half of its features, broken maps, broken systems, broken gameplay and bugs bugs bugs

This game feels more polished (albeit still a buggy mess but when it comes to Battlefield launches this one has been the smoothest so far)

The two real problems right now are server stability and performance.

I see many people not being able to play the game rn bc its poorly optimized and servers like to die often, especially in Breakthrough when the entire server is focused on one zone.

I suggest to stay away from Breakthrough until devs fixed that server issue

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Yeah it's a bug that deals with hipfire spread being applied when aiming.

Not sure what causes it, but I haven't had it myself using the DMRs. They've actually been the most accurate for me overall. ARs have a similar bug that can occur, which I have had several times.

But someone in this thread said the only problems the game has is server stability and performance 😂😂😂

Encountered a bug several times last night where you're stuck with a weapon choice for the entire match. Weapon loadout is blank as well. Had 2 other guys get the same issue. Both left the match because what's the point if you're getting sniped from on top of a skyscraper and you can't equip weapons to fire back at them.
 
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Portal is amazing. And i luv it. I hope they remaster Backstab, Zavod and Oasis maps eventually

2042 has about as much Battlefield DNA as a tuna from Subway. Idk wtf that game's supposed to be. They could've legit packaged it under a different name and nobody would say that it was a Battlefield clone. It would just be some other thing.
 
Some of you vocal critics want the same game again. Go play COD. I like the innovative changes here. Dice just needs to add VOIP, stat tracking, scoreboard and optimizations. The game is fun and looks next gen on my 3080.
 
Game is really good and 100 times more fun than BFV

Fuck the haters. Seriously. People praising BFV have no clue how V was when it launched, missing half of its features, broken maps, broken systems, broken gameplay and bugs bugs bugs

This game feels more polished (albeit still a buggy mess but when it comes to Battlefield launches this one has been the smoothest so far)

The two real problems right now are server stability and performance.

I see many people not being able to play the game rn bc its poorly optimized and servers like to die often, especially in Breakthrough when the entire server is focused on one zone.

I suggest to stay away from Breakthrough until devs fixed that server issue
I don’t even know where to start here. Firstly, there’s way more at fault here than just performance and server stability.

BFV is infinitely more focused than BF2042 which in my opinion makes it far better. Gunplay in V is better, maps are better and the action is better. More importantly, V feels like a Battlefield game. Just for the record, I didn’t care for BFV all that much

2042 doesn’t know what it is or what it even wants to be. It feels like it wanted to be a BR game (map sizes) and then realised that actually it was better off doing what it was good at but fucked it up in a catastrophic way.

Vehicles are unbalanced with the Hovercraft being an actual nightmare. Guns feel pathetically weak and TTK is all over the place. In addition to this, hit box registration is a complete mess at anything further than 20ft.

Specialists feels to me like DICE thought ‘what can we do that’s different’ and went with the first thing they could think of. They just don’t make sense and the fact that you can mix any gadget with any weapon just diminishes team play and feels like it wants to promote solo play.

Forced cross play on Series X (possibly other consoles?) which is bullshit and even then there isn’t any in game VoIP which again is bullshit.

No scoreboards so I can see how terribly I’m doing and how amazing the mouse and keyboard player is doing.

I could go on for longer but I have actual work to do.

Portal however is awesome, although the framework of the game itself needs fixing for it to truly shine. There are obviously issues with the games within portal such as using attachments on weapons and only shipping with 2 fucking maps per game (wtf DICE?!).

Anyway, as a package, complete rip off at £70. Don’t try telling me it’s cheaper elsewhere, I’m aware of this but EA are asking for £70 officially. Worst game for me personally in the last couple of years.
 
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DonJorginho

Banned
Amazing how some childish cretins in here can't allow or respect the fact that people have their own opinions and are actually enjoying the game.

Just because you hate nasty old EA and aren't enjoying the game doesn't mean everyone has to be tooting the same horn, this game sure ain't perfect but it's hands down some of the best MP fun I've had in a while.

Not saying you can't criticise/dislike the game btw, you totally can and should voice your opinions, just the way some are childishly coming for those who are enjoying themselves isn't sitting right with me.
 

EDMIX

Writes a lot, says very little
Congratulations on quoting someone who was spouting complete and utter bullshit.

borderless window hasn't been a problem since 2015

The motion blur can be disabled

The chromatic aberration can be disabled

Try harder, lick more EA boots.

Yea bud thats the fucking point. I wasn't quoting to agree with the person.

LOTS of fucking people are stating "complete and utter bullshit". I wasn't staying they are correct, i'm saying we've heard that shit on pretty much all MP games that come out. "lick more EA boots"? I'm not saying zero is wrong with BF 2042, I'm saying anyone can fucking argue some dumb bullshit regarding any of theses launches and exaggerate shit and even to the point of lying.

You too busy foaming at the mouth to even get whats being stated, you think I'm fucking telling you BF 2042 vs Halo or something lol

I'm telling you such things will be stated about all games, even the lies.


Read vs rage post, slow down, breath lol

BadBurger BadBurger Completely agreed. I have no issue with anyone who plays both, likes both etc ,but I'll be damned If I avoid a game based on forum hyperbole. We've seen this over and over with so many releases, but I don't think many comments can even be trusted about the actual issues regarding the games and its easier to just play it yourself as many issues won't be as wide spread and gamers tend to exaggerate the dumbest shit. I agree the scoreboard should be viewable and important, but not enough to not buy the game or make this massive deal over it and server issues that will exist with pretty much all major AAA online titles.

With this logic, none of the titles this fall should be purchased if someone is looking for this perfect, zero issue launch. I've never seen one for a AAA MP title and I'd never argue someone should avoid game based on that concept.

Any popluar game coming out will have a set of "its a shit game" users that exaggerate any issue even to the point of making up issues.
 
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SatansReverence

Hipster Princess
"lick more EA boots"? I'm not saying zero is wrong with BF 2042, I'm saying anyone can fucking argue some dumb bullshit regarding any of theses launches and exaggerate shit and even to the point of lying.
You are literally being that boot licker defending companies releasing broken games.

No one is exaggerating how fucking broken 2042 is.
 

Concern

Member
People can't just agree to disagree? Some of you are acting like your mother was insulted lol.

So much constant bickering on here lately.
 

EDMIX

Writes a lot, says very little
You are literally being that boot licker defending companies releasing broken games.

No one is exaggerating how fucking broken 2042 is.

1. Zero reason for personal attacks as I see no reason to be this triggered.
2. I'd say thats false on both sides bud, you seeing that someone lied about those issues, well we have several post on here making claims about destruction despite many videos clearly showing it exist in the game
3. No one is even debating issues in either game, simply that I don't buy any of em are in the area of "broken". Not any more then any other major AAA online release bud.

So nothing is stopping me from saying some shit like "ZOMG STOP DEFENDING companies releasing broken games" and or "NO ONE is exaggerating dis"


^^^

None of that is brand new to gaming, if you like Halo you are not a "boot licker", those issues might not even be happening for you, stop attacking users on here who don't seem to be having the same issues on BF 2042 or don't care enough to make it sound like its the end of the world. I'd never fucking tell you NOT to buy the game for this or call you a "boot licker" if you do or something.

Simply sounds exaggerative when lots of those same comments will plague Halo anyway, as to why I was say you ignoring that person is no different then me ignoring you bud. You are basically even posting the same stuff about BF 2042 as that other user is posting about Halo lol

ie good ole ignore button. Have a good one =)
 
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Ironbunny

Member
What a buggy POS this game is. The graphics are bland and the visibility at times is your usual DICE crap. Weapons feel numb. Sounds are like you are inside a bottle. The map system with it icos is poorly done. Servers lag. Joystick support is lacking.

This feels like a game in a beta mode. Glad I didnt preorder this shite.
 
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