Recent reviews by Petpower

I hate BF 2042. I´m now going back to playing BF 2042 after enduring the "Skill Based" everything of this game.

* Skill based hit detection
* Skill based gun jamming, yup you heard that right
* Skill based slowing down or speeding up of the game
* Skill based enemies (you get to only play against cheaters for 2-3 games if you had one "too good" game

*The game lacks "soul" for me. It feels like it was made by a bunch of programming teams/studios all doing different tasks they were specifically tasked to then another team came and just glued it all together. Like frankensteins monster maybe. I´m sure at least some people had good ideas and intentions when making this game but maybe they should ask themselves: Where is the fun part?, Where is the focus on a good experience for the player? To me it feels like some bosses at EA just decided what "the players" should want/accept, and then just went ahead with that. You could have just copied the concepts from BF 4, 3, or even BFBC2 and it would feel better than this.

*Extreme rubberbanding making it unplayable, despite Wifi 5 connection tested to reach 600 Mbit down and 400 Mbit upload speeds and around 45 ms ping in most other games, that all work fine.

*I can´t even play the single player mode without extreme rubberbanding and lag, yes single player is hosted at EA servers aparently, so u must have good connection for single player, it´s so bad that in 1 hour of playing against bots I had zero, "0", kills, and this is not a joke, unfortunately. Using cable during another session of roughly 1 hour I killed over 40 bots and didn´t die once, so its not me, its the Bf2042<->Wifi combination.

* They removed the Rushed mode in featured gameplay. Which was my favourite mode..

*My old favourite Bad Company 2 is not the same in the custom game portal, lighting/visibility of the characters is not as it should and it just doesnt flow when running and shooting, feels laggy (even with cable).

*There is no hardcore mode and the weapons are weak, so you have to empty a whole magazine into people to kill them.

*The weapons have bad recoil and the recoil is not controllable/realistic as in for example Arma 3 or CS:GO, in those games you can learn to control a burst of fire/spray, but in BF 2042 it doesnt matter how you try to control it, it just shoots very randomly unless you ADS/zoom, and even then its not so good.

*No easy way to join my friends and play together, and talk in game together. If some are using console we have to use chatting apps like Whatsapp or Skype to communicate.

FPS, Flight-sim, Tank-sim, all in one, what more can you ask for.
With replicas of real world islands and 100 player matches it still can bring my modern PC to its knees.

*Very imbalanced.

*Pay To Win.

*If you dont get the "upgrades" the people who do get them have a unfair advantage.

*For example you can shoot them many times with rocket launcher, even when you have the Quad Damage, and they still won´t die due to some stupid armor upgrade.

*Depending you your team has enough players that have paid to get these kind of "upgrades" you´r team will win or loose the matches.

This could have been a classic like Quake 1, 2 and 3. But they just had to ruin it.

Well, its their loss since now not many people want to play it.

If you were after maximum profit just sell the game for 30$ and then stop this Pay To Win crap. Oh and fix the bugs like the game suddenly crashing to desktop. Then millions more would play this, I think.