Firstly, personally I think It's sad people defend this game. I WANT this game to be good, very badly, I did spend $140 AUD for the ultimate edition since the beta felt really good, better than this main release somehow. So I've been here playing the base game for a while, and now you don't have to spend any money. I played 30 hours so YOU don't have to. Firstly I don't care about $140, to the people in the comments, you manage your money and I'll manage mine, you're not my accountant. Based on the 3000 + helpful votes I've stopped over 100+ people spending money on this game so It's 100% worth it, I've made EA and Dice lose more money I than I've given them (Not that they'd care), use common sense before you comment. Will also attach some videos down the bottom to show / prove what I talk about in this review.

This game has much potential, but in its current state it’s frustrating, badly optimised and doesn’t function as it should. Most of the time when I'm shooting I feel like a stormtrooper. I often find this game being more annoying than exciting with the current build and bugs. This should not have been released yet in my honest opinion, I'll elaborate further after the pros and cons and attach short video proof of the issues I am experiencing.

Pros:
1. Has great potential
2. Gun play feels "okay"
3. Has a decently classic battlefield feel
4. Funny ♥♥♥♥ happens here and there, as it should with battlefield
5. You can do cool stuff like the previous games (For example wingsuit, cancel it mid-air, pull out a launcher and blast someone, then continue to wingsuit again I'll attach a video down the bottom of what I mean)

Cons:
1. Bloom, the bloom is horrible, just find out yourself if you dare. Bloom takes away any skill and makes fights come down to luck which is just horrible for anyone who is half decent at aiming.
2. Hit registration doesn’t work (Proof below)
3. Feels more like a beta
4. Has barley any guns or vehicles
5. Specialist challenges are just unreasonable
6. No specific classes, so everyone can just run whatever they want, it doesn’t feel right and it’s annoying because every has lock on rockets now, not just engineers
7. Horribly optimised, there are some fixes, and I am now at 200+ fps, but THESE DON'T WORK FOR EVERYONE , some 3090 systems are struggling to get 100 fps. (Fix will be attached down the bottom with other vids)
8. It’s currently a buggy mess, like any EA game in the early stages
9. It doesn’t have a 2.4 user review out of 10 because it’s currently good
10. No scoreboards (Someone on reddit made a fully working one for 2042 like the old games in 3 hours... That's pathetic Dice, may as well be Skyrim at this point and let the community make your game better...
11. No classes
12. No destruction
13. No servers
14. No stats (Proper ones like the old games)
15. No all chat
16. Connection errors (lots) this will be even worse at main launch
17. I think cars and hovercrafts are too strong, it's 3 C4 or known as (C5) in this game to destroy one
18. Character customization is so bad, such a missed opportunity, the AI looks so much cooler than the snowflake characters
19. Pretty much every under barrel attachment does the SAME thing, (4 of them have the same stats)

It tries to be a mix of Warzone, Fortnite, R6 Siege, Apex and so on, and it’s kind of failed. This is an unfinished, unpolished and broken game as of now.

There are bugs all over the place, glitching through the ground, airborne tanks, crab walking infantry, and ground sniffing soldiers moving at breakneck speed. (I’ll attach the glitching through walls vid too, it’s not even good like cod because you can’t even shoot people)

I'm a little taken aback by how awful this game is. There is no scoreboard, only four firearms per class, mediocre specialists who take away the sense of true customisation, terrible servers, unreliable controls, the inability to resuscitate friends for no apparent reason. This game was far from ready for release.

The sound is horrible, and you can't tell where someone is approaching.

I actually think this will be a really good game, eventually. But for now, steer clear if you want my completely honest opinion…

Another classic example of greedy corporate people pushing out a half-baked game to meet their $$$ quota, that know nothing about the game, I actually feel sorry for the developers. No developer would in their right mind would release this, they must have tested it I mean come on.

Do not buy this until everything is fixed!

P.S The portal mode is fun though! If your hits register


I did a basic video review with some game play here: https://youtu.be/fB2emraNRzI

Bloom and bad hit reg example: https://youtu.be/dWs8ly-PR4A

FPS FIX (Worked for me): https://youtu.be/U721tEc-VSM

The wingsuit thing I mentioned in the Pros, like I said it has potential to be a fun battlefield game, it just isn't at the moment, there's way cooler clips than this out there: https://youtu.be/hbhMoTx3pK0

How the AI looks cooler than us: https://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield2042/comments/qvzbac/so_sad/

Glitching through walls (Happens often with wingsuit): https://youtu.be/SDWwAflHQIM

Feel free to agree or disagree with me in the comments, curious as to what you guys thought if you played the early access.

Once the game is in working order, I'll mark this review positive and change the heading

To people in the comments personally attacking people over opinions and money, if you can't see anything wrong with that you may find a recourse to help you here: https://checkpointorg.com/global/