

While he says there are still some over-the-top moments to be had, the beta suggests the game is in too rough of a state to go out this November. Norton cites a myriad of visual bugs and unbalanced audio. "After playing several rounds today, my gut check is that it’s a whole lot like a Battlefield set in any other year."ĭexerto: Writer Brad Norton didn't hold back punches in his Battlefield 2042 beta first impressions article, going as far as asking EA for another delay. There is also a not-so-favorable comparison to the Halo Infinite beta with Battlefield dubbed a "rehash." Kotaku: The headline says it all here: "Battlefield 2042 Beta Feels Wild, Yet Somehow Plays It Safe." Kotaku staff writer Ari Notis wrote about some of the new additions BF2042 brings (tornados, 128 players, etc) to the franchise but says it ultimately feels like a Battlefield game set in a different era. Henderson says "EVERYTHING IS THERE to make the game absolutely stellar" but that his experience on PS5 has been horrific to the point of saying the beta feels more like an alpha. In short, Battlefield 2042 has potential, but the current product is a major disappointment. Tom Henderson: The most esteemed leaker of Battlefield and COD information has been quite vocal on Twitter about his feelings for the game in its current state.
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Saed goes into much deeper detail, breaking down everything he noticed in the beta, so I recommend reading the full article over at VG247.
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The skull icon that shows up when you kill someone has a very low resolution compared to the rest of the image, and doesn’t come with any distinct ping."

"Certain parts of the UI for example, such as the announcements about gaining/losing sector majority descend from the top in a way that’s somehow distracting, and not eventful enough. He goes on to say that Battlefield 2042's gameplay is fun, but not perfect, and that it seems as if some elements were slapped together at the last moment. VG247: After playing three hours of the beta, VG247 staff writer Sherif Saed assures readers that BF2042 feels very much like a Battlefield game. Most prominently, I started up each of my matches with an invisible weapon - just my soldier's hand floating out there in the ether, cradling a muzzle that simply did not exist." "I was unable to pull up my full map, and the corpses of blown-apart vehicles would freeze in the air and flicker to the ground at single-digit frame rates in the distance. Those technical glitches were quite prevalent in the beta. He wrote that Battlefield 2042 has the "potential to be the first great shooter of the new generation" so long as the bugs get ironed out. IGN: In a mostly positive writeup, Luke Winkie at IGN praises the new customization options that let you change your weapon on the fly. Having played a lot of non-Call of Duty style shooters lately like Destiny 2, returning to a pretty fast time-to-kill in Battlefield made me feel powerful, and combining the freestyle loadouts with the new specialists made me curious to experiment, letting me revel in the boons that each specialist brings with them," David said. "The combat felt snappy with adrenaline-fueled firefights. He was optimistic, calling the beta "pretty good" and summing his play session up as "fun." Gamespot: The legacy video game website posted an embedded video revealing David Ahmadi's take on the beta.
