Battlefield 2042 | Development Update - August 2022

DICE: We hear what you're saying and the answer is NO IM GOING TO PUT EVEN MORE THINGS IN THE IRAC

And 2042 classes

I honestly love the battlepass, it offers so much just for a small price and skins are sexy, sooooo i don't mind. It was the thing, that kept me playing it everyday.😁Also agree with adding new guns, we need at least one new pistol and like two assault rifles. I would really be happy for the return of M4 or I dunno maybe MP5 which is submachine gun, but still. But well then weapon balance is another thing to do. And speaking of new maps, I think one would be enough if it will be just as good as Exposure. We don't need like 5 new bad maps in a row like on BF2042 launch.

@@Avaelon a good game doesn't need a battlepas

Too bad you are getting the Halloween skins early only 19.99

cuz it's using only 60% of GPU, plus bad Netcode

I can't say bringing in late 1990s-early 2000s weapons into 2042 is a fix to the problem

bro you guys and your classes; honestly not that big of a deal much better with specialist YOU CAN PICK ANY GUN, ANY GADGET WITH EVERY SPECIALIST why would you want to change or limit those options because of a class?! bro is just good at whining

Be smarter just to make a AOW with all the classes from portal as well...I'd love to have claymore from Battlefield 3 and some guns from Bad Company 2😁

@@dmytroliubych1422 Don't see why not. I'd certainly enjoy using an m1 garand or a thompson in AOW. It adds something like 50 weapon options. My gripe about it is they are dripfeeding them instead of coming up with challenges for all the portal weapons and implementing them as soon as possible. My guess is the real problem there is a modelling issue. BF3 and BC2 weapons aren't modelled with 2042 attachments. They will probably also be coming in with new attachments (Like the BSV coming in with a new scope) that needs to be modeled on all the other weapons. It would make all the work involved much harder, as well as figuring out if they are going to come with all portal attachments unlocked or if the portal attachments will come later.

@@antoniocastillo9801 because that freedom of choice is hurting the game balance You are part of the obvious problem

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Just leave. Game is awesome!

@@akaunderdog4223 based 💯👏🏼

@@_Fyodor_Dostoevsky_ I work at Dice lol 😂

@@akaunderdog4223 cope

+ bringing back the old classes system and removing specialists

@@meshal7924 spec is fine, just add a new slot for gadget and bring class system to those and oc a lot of new weapons unless you want only 3 or 4 guns to choose from within a class

Mate they’re gonna do the bare minimum to appease the people who bought the special edition and then they’re gonna drop this game like a sack of bricks.

Es kommt leider nur eine Karte, das wurde schon bestätigt.

@@CountJoe1 sack of bricks? more like discharge in a toilet. I m only fantasying. I know the end of this tale

+1

Then they should also remove the intro voice lines, since they are suggesting that the two parties clash the first time there.

@@BR14Nx Or they could modify them, I like the intro lines.

@@brayanmartinez9063 Yeah

+1

Totally agree this this, I remember the back to karkland map pack that dropped it was perfect, they need to tone down the massive multiplayer experience and focus on the maps tight gritty feel, in an APV driving down a Tehran street not knowing in someone is gonna pop out with an RPG or not was such good gameplay, bf3 was my favourite by far

Mine was since BF3. And yes, I am not sure whose direction the team had to follow for BF2042, a great potential hit, but instead of adding “new” contents, it’s more of patching it up.

You're comment hit home man, I'm in the same boat. However I am being tempted to finally pick 2042 up and give it a chance. These updates do seem to be in the right direction,however we need a TRUE class.system not specialist divided.

I have to also agree. They dropped the ball with this title.. what they should do is release a 5-hour trial to see if they could get ppl to try the new season before they buy the full game. They could see a big wave of ppl download the trail. And! maybe even buy the game if it's a step in the right direction.

I dont have nothing more to add jajaja. Im complete agree with you, now im in battlefield 4 and 1 and there servers are full of people. It means a lot😅

Battlefield ready in 2042

Its not a name Its a release date

Who cares. Plenty of good games coming later on anyway

@@haki3353 a lot of people

@@haki3353 I do care, i don't want Battlefield to die because unfortunately it's unique in it's class.

I feel ya man, grenades that don’t harm bushes let alone a Sheetrock wall is really bogus. No mentions about gameplay quality other than it includes some fixes. Like floating dead bodies and 1 vs 2 tanks, two personnel vehicles, 1 air transport and attack chopper vehicles is really unfair and unbalanced regardless of what cover they add the only destruction will be the sand bags.

Look, destruction ain’t happening at this point. Destruction is a HUGE developmental undertaking that would take months and months of reworking and optimization to get working decently. It’s way too late for something like that.

Yeah, that was what I thinked too, specialist are a good idea, but not instead of the class system, merging them both are a good way, hoping that like gadget, there will be some category for weapon too for each class, like no more Mackay using sniper, or some thing like that, each class have access to their own category of weapon+ the weapon available for everyone (like we had in previous game) Using every weapon and gadget with every character to make the stuff you want is a good idea on the paper, but in fact, that remove mostly the need to play in team, what it make battlefield

@@tomviron6338 I disagree that it removed the need for teamplay. Solo players don't win games in 32vs32. The teamplay complaints are still mostly from the beta, where there was literally no way to communicate in any way except firing your gun in morse code or drawing on walls. Now we have squad VOIP, team and squad chat, the commorose and squad orders, as well as the game informing you who has ammo when you call for ammo and who has health when your HP is low. A team or squad working together will always perform better than when they work alone. Or maybe it's just because I pretty much only play breakthrough and so backcapping individuals have almost no impact.

It would increase the importance of teamwork for sure. Not having any restrictions results in funny interactions like Angel being able to have a launcher in his gadget slot and also give himself an infinite supply of launcher ammo with his own loadout crate, rather than needing teammates to help refill that ammo.

and classes without specialists

One can only dream.

We can imagine all we want since it ain't happening lol

Yeah I imagine lol but they already confirmed 1 map only for season 2. We'll see whats up.

its gonna be 1 new map. this game is on life support sadly they are still lying

i hope i will get a beta code, i look forward to full release next year xDDD unbelievable that a battlefield can have a worse start than bf 4 and bf5

Don't let them lie to you!

Remember! Ea is company of liars!

Nice fantasy

Not gonna happen

Imagine there was world peace: just as unlikely

Hopefully not, boring.

@@curtis6861 opinion of the year right here... get a grip

Honestly, I think it's because they ignored the backlash and player opinions for so long. They had the mindset "we're right, the player base is wrong" and I think that all changed once the player count dropped drastically.

With only 4 seasons I kinda still think this game is dead. But with the new management at Dice and EA and with them asking all sorts of questions about the next BF I have hope for BF6

Imagine if they actually delayed the game for one year, and somehow managed to implement the map changes they got from current feedback (which if they had decent playtesters or more experienced map designers in the first place would have identified earlier problems and shifted fixes to more-or-less what we're seeing here), then the hypothetical launch later this year would have seen a much better reception.

WHERE IS LEVOLUTION???? BUILDINGS FALLING??!?

I’m surprised y’all still play

Lol😅

there is one

portal is trash, playing BF3 in portal is like playing a knock off version of the original

@@bigshobe Which is still a better game than base 2042.

@@bigshobe idk i disagree, the customization and amount of abilities is really fun.

@@LionidasL10 who said it wasn't, but why not just play regular BF3 then lol

Thats the thing about the old classes system. It was a well balanced version of rock-paper-scissors. It was well polished and worked wonderfully for encouraging squad dynamics... This specialist system was complete unbalanced rubbish that encouraged lone wolf gameplay.

@@Klaaism Too much cover and character/ map rework, not enough guns and its 2 seasons in and showing “content” thats wont be here till season 3 as if you want the fanbase to show you pity. Premium DLC from previous battlefields gave us more content then this; PREMIUM: 10 Weapons, 6 Gadgets, 4 new maps, New vehicles. It is clear and its time to accept that this is not the same Dice team we’ve all known and love, but a new dev team over at Dice that was hired who have no idea what Battlefield is and only know how to make hero shooters and live service games and are there just to make money. DICE and Battlefield are dead. THE END

Honestly, because they said many times they won’t get rid of specialists, they should at least try to make the specialists have a US, Russian and China version of those specialist. So that we can identify much easier and also if they restrict the type of guns and gadgets they can have it would be much better

@@Klaaism specialists where designed for hazard zone, afterwards they added the other bf stuff where it doesnt work, they should copy the battlefront system for all out warfare etc

Well NoPats are actually mercenaries. They are not citizens of any country hence Non-Patriated designation. It’s still weird to see “clones” on both teams.

*and a bunch of bundles and a completely irrelevant battle pass because we still believe someone would actually put any money into the game

@@reney9290 pretty sure u don’t pay for the battle pass

@@amitydestroyer338 Ain't no way Einstein

I feel this, I wouldn’t mind waiting longer if it meant that they released a game that wasn’t so bare and buggy like how 2042 launched.

They need to change the theme song or remix it most of it is trash

Battlefield 1 apocalypse is better

Yep :(

But it does look like their trying to fix things and revive the series to an extent

or rather the skin that will be different in each of the teams)))

I really wish they'd make specialists like how battlefront 2 is with heros

They need a specialist “US MARINE” and “RUSSIAN GROUND FORCE” in each class with unique abilities like all other specialist. That way they can actually still have value in playing them.

Just split them into the two teams and delete the laser tag lights, problem solved

@@mcombuster That wouldn't be balanced though because of their dumb unique abilities. One team being able to use riot shields while the other can't would be terrible, same with the wall hacks, flying squirrel, and pretty much all of them.

This is actually really good constructive criticism, but to me the main issue is still the server browser, persistent official servers, proper vehicle balance and new maps.

were getting new guns we get 2 every season so we will have a total of 8 NEW weapons but the fact that theyre offering to put in the vault wepons is a huuuuuge step forward. the constant whining about needing more weapons is getting addressed yet seems like people still arent happy i like youre idea of 2-3 variations for 64 player maps that would be nice and just have them all on random gernation so you never know what youre getting

@@ImTheOGslowski That is a good point. I think just the initial number of base game weapons was underwhelming for me. But yes, moving forward with new weapons every season will eventually fill in the gaps. Like in BF1 after the additional DLCs basically doubled the amount of weapons in the game. However, I still think that the vault weapons should stay in portal, but that's just my opinion. and thank you! It would add a lot of variety with minimal effort on their part to split them up.

Ever since they released exodus i cant remember the last time i played 120 conquest.

NOOO, Correction: NEED ALL VAULT WEAPONS AND NEW GUNS!!

comm UNITY

Continue?

They failed to do that. I have seen only a miniscule amount of things that have been asked to be delivered

What deliver, 2042 is death, they are now poorly fixing It. No content, is death. Liars, you stole my money...

More of an echo chamber but ok

DICE needs to step up their game big time.

The Beta was 10 months ago. They don't get praise for taking almost a year to listen. I'm not buying another game unless I see gameplay of it first (day one gameplay, not a beta that's an "old version of the game").

@@AllHailNannerpuss better than what they did with anthem

I really like the direction it's going with the classes and map additions. There is hope after all.

@@Itsshaunbewarned That was not Dice, that was BioWare

goals

I don't remember for sure but back when I played at launch I remember something about the Lee being massively off. Like the wrong number of rounds in the mag or something like that but I can't remember I want BFV level Lee in 2042. That'd bring me back

Kerel ga je schamen met zo'n comment lol, we moeten wapens hebben en maps...

Hello good Sir :D

TBAG!!!!!!!!

@@Poppaai die dude zit aan de ballen te zuigen van Dice.

You got one of the best channels on KZhead!

Do you mean 'revive'?

No let it die. Let them try again with the next Battlefield

No way

@@Hiraeth-0X this game WAS them letting the last one die so they could give us the "love letter to bf fans".

@@Daniel-ty2ke this Game basically only Had one year of development since it Took over a year to Update the Frostbite engine and for the devs to get used to it

@John Smith Lot of the best dice developers left after bf1. Those who worked on it are hella rich

@hussain bohos this time, bf is finally listening on what we want in battlefield game or the next one. Something I really want is just having atmosphere like bf1, body mechanics from bfV and destruction from bf3

@@randomyoutubeacts6mviews2y6 bfv has better destruction than bf3 also bfv and 2042 have the same destruction system

@@ramiere1412 everything in bfV feels like they are made of legos then buildings

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This game should be dead i give up i really boring easily the season 1 it not even better.

@@jamesbezon510 yes i dindt liked this game at all from the start! only liked portal a littlebit but got bored fast. never had this before! im a battlefield player from the start 1942

We're getting the content of a single DLC spread out over a year while they sell season passes for each quarter of that single DLC. Absolute rip off, exacerbated by the fact the game is still a buggy, boring, mess.

@@Anci3nTKnowledg3 I tried to play this game without head and I realized what i’m doing just to suffered?

I remember Battlefield 3 when pretty much everyone had it

O yes, battlefield 1s soundtrack was absolutely amazing. Always got u pumped up and excited

bf5 had great music

Assault class in BF1 was also like this, infantry focused guns and the ability to take on vehicles but didn't have much else to offer to the team.

@UCxtAQ2oWyjR_rPFVI0XtOcQ You were going strong until you added Support was less important.

Sad but they will not gonna implement anything to make bf good EA only hear money

You really are hitting the spot. Also the jets have to be reworked. Starting from: -the flying physiks -their crosshair -weapons Everything else

I feel like you should swap Assault and Support because to me Support felt like keeping allies alive while Assault kept them stocked and keep going.

Couldn't agree more. Specialists completely ruin the immersion. They tried to hard to incorporate elements of a hero shooter that no Battlefield fan wants, and by design, that fundamentally changed the way the games core mechanics functioned. Worst decision ever.

The nameless characters won't return, they've said that already. But I do wish that the class silhouettes are implemented.

I think a possible rework that uses a point system like in Battlefront 2 might work really well, instead of treating specialists as the normal soldiers, they could then become well, specialists, characters you get to play as by doing well

I agree with you friend I used to love them generic default characters and NPC from the story mode like 007 golden eye N64 oh yeah that's what made it memorable

@@swappinqentertainment Battlefield 5 was alright at launch, and became great over time. It's kind of a blend between BF4's gunplay, Battlefield 1's atmosphere and Battlefield Hardline's variety of gadgets. Worth buying when it's on sale.

too late

@@yanghang9589 It's not too late lmao.

Thank you!

We need this absolutely

How about specialist is Team leader role and rest of their teammate as regular infantry, hows that sound ?

@@riezki4086 I don't think everyone would like that as much because it doesn't let the whole squad tailor the experience to their preference. It's better to refrain from limiting options as much as possible.

@@riezki4086 Or they could do “Russian” version of outfits or even create Russian Operators. Most of actual outfis are very NATO a-like.

If they bother with one... After all, if everyone says they won't buy the last 2 games of your series, why not invest time and money into something new?

I am not so sure that they will give up on the specialists. Classes which are only used to group the specialists up, are of little use. Weapons have to be limited to certain classes again like in provious Battlefield. This brings back some sense into the classes. The way they plan to do it now, it is still possible to be an antitank with a sniper rifle. Were ist the improvement? And if we accepted this here, it sure as hell will also be in the next BF (and sure as hell I will also not buy it)

open ur eyes ....

@@celsi5563 exactly

@@celsi5563 And what exactly is the problem with that? Literally what is the problem of having a rocket launcher and a sniper rifle? How is that worse than having a rocket launcher and a DMR, an available combination in bf4? If you wanted to say ammo and sniper rifle, I can see you potentially having a point. But the classes will probably mean that stops being possible, at least with the mobility specialists that most benefit from the combination. On the other hand, SOFLAM and an smg? Do you have an issue with that combination? Assault rifle and ammo? You might have a point if all the portal weapons were in AOW, but there's a whole 2 shotguns, 4 DMRs, 3 sniper rifles, 2 LMGs etc. There's simply not enough tools for people right now to immediately go back to bf4 classes. And if you want classes as soon as possible, there won't be when classes are implemented.

It’s funny how you guys go from disrespecting BF2042 to being appreciated. This happens all the time with BF games lol

@@jumpman6524 maybe one day they will release a finished game lmao

The beta was proof that it needed to be delayed.

Exactly. Battlefield 4 they gave us 4-5 maps every season. This 2 new maps a year is trash considering they took story mode away. Took away traditional game modes(portal is a big miss overall so the modes in it don't count to me). Just missing so much.

U also payed big money for those maps

@@JCDenton0451 I had battlefield premium just like I have the best version of this current game. For the money this is less than half the game I got in the past.

@@JCDenton0451 yes the pass cost a bit more however the base price for 2042 is more expensive and 2 maps for 1 year is awful compared to over 12 for battlefield 3/4

@@JCDenton0451 yeah but at least we had content

I suggest to wait with celebrating until we really see how classes will be implemented without getting rid of the specialists. I expect some half measure to make us shut up instead of a real improvement. I am pretty sure that they will not restrict the weapons to certain classes which leads the concept of classes ad absurdum by 50% already.

@@celsi5563 this

@@celsi5563 Weapon restrictions make battlefield boring but I wouldn't mind certain limited restrictions and to be honest most of the specialists gadgets are what battlefield was missing

Imagine the size of the failure and scandal that they actually turned around

@@landturtle7470 Sorry, I disagree. Missing weapon restrictions make the game less demanding. You do not have to chose between anti-tank equipment and your favorite sniper rifle - you can have both. That is easy, convenient = boring to me. I play to be challenged, not to go the easy way (no offence intended)

Screw dice and their empty promises. Video games are dying

@@HostmorkeCZ Video games aren't going anywhere. It's the Old Guard that's dying and tbh, good. Indie devs are doing it better anyway.

that would make too much sense and we stopped doing that after 2016

@@BullsMahunny that's as true as it is sad, the fact that small indie developers can do the things better because they are still grounded enough to do this thing, you know the thing that ubi, ea and dice etc. Call devil's work, to LISTEN to a community

@@chloe59k It's clear they wanted to reach a wider audience and compete with WZ, Apex and Fornite. It's a businesses at the end of the day, sadly, content niche players can do more to help your product than disenfranchising them.

I'll be on BF4 until all of their development cycles- er, "Seasons" are finished. Then maybe I'll give it another look.

What you don't like fighting 20 of the same looking people

If the do faction specific uniforms it defeats the mercenary setting they are going for. It's the reason we're called no pats, because we aren't fighting for any nation out of loyalty but instead for money.... speaking of money they also wouldn't be able to sell outfits if they do that

UP

Since day one, I've been thinking they should double the amount of specialist, if they want to keep the whole specialist thing going(monetization), and just make them faction specific. For example, have macay be on the us team and create a new character with a unique look and with macays tools. Keep boris as a russian faction character and create a new character... and so on.

@@MrUser999999 if they made specialists faction specific it again decent the idea of them being mercenaries which is the whole point hence them being no pats

Your right orbital is my favorite map but with this new update it looks amazing.

What class system, is the same system with operators in 4 groups, but still the same...

@@ipsenfury balance

Imo they should just make everyone else look like default soldiers so you aren’t seeing 3 mckays running about. It’s immersion killing and just looks ridiculous.

Faction based specialist you mean? You're right, they could have the same or equivalent gadgets to their opposition counter parts; just different character skin. I doubt it'd be all that hard to pull off.

Do you not realize every battlefield class has always been identical visually to their respective classes, Assault class dominated BF3 and BF4 but you didn't hear anyone complaining about clones then.

@@terryglover6442 Because they looked different...

@@terryglover6442 stop making sense

the class system will arrive in season 3

@@unclefester1991 Yeah, so the new update will actually make the specialist worse

It does I'm so excited, 2 reworked maps and a new map coming season 2 and new weapons

@@unclefester1991 that’s the entire point…

@@unclefester1991 it’s almost as if that’s the point

It is a good battlefield

Dice reply.... "We give you jack pumpkin character skin & Halloween vehicle skins"

@@gutstheblackknight6393 where .....

I hope so 😂@@darthrevanthegreat4189

That's a lot of "want" but well allow it.

Source?

Also more military inspired helmets and skins would be something I’d purchase.

Lol we will be remastering the graphics and animations of the final product of BF4 as well as adding 6 maps

@@DJNefarious447 just imaging rematering bf4 and bf3 toghether, that would be nuts

Orbital rework looks fantastic! Especially the main stretch between the rocket building and the rocket itself. Looks like a battle happened, and this is the final push now.

I know Orbital is best launch map no cap

People still complaining

@@craiglewis8272 welcome to the ERA we are on.

@@craiglewis8272 see I’m very simple to please. I paid $60, I put in more than 60 hours so I’ve DefinTely gotten my moneys worth. Everything else we get for free is just a bonus in my eyes.

@@figgo6309 I think it was the dinosaurs.

@@figgo6309 maybe he meant humor? idk lol

@@figgo6309 HAHA the operators is an horror for sure