I don't really know how EA managed to go from Battlefield V to this. It is (And I'm gonna put a 'so far' here because who knows with EA, always managing to beat my expectations!) the worst Battlefield of all time SO FAR, as a person who's played all of them up until this point. Ignore the fact that instead of it barely being a Battlefield, it's some stupid hero shooter BS instead, but just look at how many BASIC FEATURES were missing, and still are. There's still no server browser? Bro? People at EA are on lithium or something. Do yourselves a favour and avoid this game at all costs. I've managed to get 80 hours squeezed in, which may seem like a lot, but any game is fun when playing it with friends and in those rare moments it was enjoyable - when it worked, which is still hardly EVER. I'd wager about 25% of my time played has been trying to get into a server with a friend, maybe more than that.

Game resets after every map, you cannot join squads, if you want to play with a friend you need to leave your squad, then press the 'random' button until you're hopefully put in with them, scoreboard ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sucks (hopefully it actually exists by now in a functional state), NO SERVER BROWSER?! So many other ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ pieces of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that amount to this manure-infested dunghill of a game. EA could ♥♥♥♥ down their customers mouths and their customers would be happy about it at the end of the day - no longer.

As for gameplay, well it's fairly simple, every single gun in the game is essentially a lazer gun. There's barely any recoil on ANY weapon save for maybe the largest of the snipers or something. They sound absolutely terrible, especially when compared to the glorious sound of Battlefield V and One. What's even more hilarious is that they've eventually added in some copies of the rail-rifles from BF 2142 which have literally zero recoil, so if you want to play the most basic of point-and-clicks in a shooter, now ya can.

Want to play as a class? Nah ♥♥♥♥ you. Pick your favourite hero with their special abilities and use them instead. Engineer? Nope. You can play as Sundancer or Moonfairy or X-Wing@240 or whatever else the other heroes are named. The characters have zero personality at all, so I don't really understand why the need to push for players to play as them - Oh, no, wait, it's literally all about how many skins they can sell for them. Nothing else. There is literally nothing else to these characters whole aesthetic save for attempting to sell as many skins as possible. Nothing else about them. Maybe two videos where some minor aspect of lore is shared, but the world building is so beyond garbage that I think the only person who would ever stop and think 'Hey, that's pretty good' is Uwe ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Boll. The world building is straight from the edgy-♥♥♥♥ period of the early to late 2000s.

You wanna look cool? Yeah just pay us another $60 on top of the game cost. The game's monetisation is tied into every. Single. Aspect of the game. Well, aren't all hero shooters like that? You may ask. Well the difference is that those games don't charge TRIPLE A prices for this collective dump of senile granny ♥♥♥♥. Not only that, but you can purchase advantages in this game through paying for levels in a battlepass. 'Well every game lets you purchase more levels in the battlepass' - Those levels do not affect gameplay. No matter what level you are in Valorant, you aren't buying new guns in their pass. They aren't incentivising you to spend money to PLAY BETTER. They are incentivising you to spend money because your monkey brain wants to look cool all dressed up. Not the same with Battlefield. They realised a long time ago they can fleece people for more money through skins, and that separating the community through map-packs wasn't good, because the game would struggle to retain population until they could ♥♥♥♥ out the next Battlefield, so what's the solution? Well ♥♥♥♥ your private servers, first of all. EA decides when a game is meant to be dead or not. Do you realise why Battlefield 4 is still the most popular Battlefield? Because people have private servers for the community to join, with bot APIs that allow you to edit and write your own rules and flags. What'd EA do after they cannibalised that system? They added in their own monetized server system, a straight downgrade designed to stop you from playing the game as soon as they ♥♥♥♥ out the new Battlefield onto your chest and make a fist to try and shirk you of your dollars.

Cut to a year or two later, I don't know, and we're still begging Dice for basic features from Battlefield. The community is SO HAPPY that they've added classes INTO BATTLEFIELD. Like people are you aware of how much faeces is safely edible before you begin to suffer from chronic cirrhosis? Because I worry about anyone who still defends Dice at this point with ♥♥♥♥♥♥ excuses like 'Well they're listening to the community now' - yeah, after they sharted through both of your nostrils so hard it came out like a regular fart on the other side of you. Stop defending these scam-artists and spend your money elsewhere. Stop thanking Dice for re-adding in the most basic of features that have been present in every other Battlefield up until this point. They do not give a single flying ♥♥♥♥ about you and would probably eat you alive if it meant another dollar went into their pockets.

I'm too lazy to add a paragraph about the crappy mechanics and game-design. 128 player map were a mistake, not because 128 players on a single map is a bad idea, but because the map design is terrible for it. There's one map where it's done well, and then never again. The net-code is the worst of all Battlefields (SO FAR). I have no idea how EA managed to regress from Battlefield V and One's net-code to this. It is such a downgrade that I tried to refund this game within the first week because I felt like it was a scam. I hope you enjoy shooting people with laser-guns, and missing half of the time, not because you're bad but because of the broken region-based matchmaking and lag compensation combining you're gonna be shooting at ghosts.

'THANK YOU DICE FOR ADDING IN A SCOREBOARD. WOW. THANK YOU, DICE YOU ARE THE BEST, WE ONLY HAD TO WAIT TWO YEARS! PLEASE ♥♥♥♥ ON OUR FACES MORE' - Average Battlefield 2042 enjoyer. This game's a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ joke folks. Avoid it at all cost, never pre-order from EA/DICE, LEARN FROM MY MISTAKES. Battlefield is dead, it was brutally murdered by EA and their executives and they feasted on the corpse.