The clouds pull together over me while I fight with my squad to take a goal to the Russians. Suddenly a flash crashes around us and the air is thin. Something is wrong, but I m not even sure what. My team finally pulls down the Russian flag and when our halfway stands on the flagpole, I see it: a Tornado sweeps through the city center of Kaleidoscope and takes its way directly to our goal.
My teammates race to escape the terrible hurricane. But I stay with it. We fought too long and too hard to assert this point, and in the typical Battlefield style, I am here to play the damn goal.
But just when we claim the sector, the Tornado meets my location. When I m sucked into the swirl, I realize that I m completely overwhelmed — I can not control my limbs and all sorts of debris fly around me. When I make a wrong movement, I m dead. But then — just as I think about my unfortunate end — I will shoot from the Tornado with such force that I m catapulted over half the card. Here I remember that my specialist Sun dance wears a wing suit and I can storm through the air to my team while it is anticipated for a sector controlled by the enemy.
When I land, I m greeting in me — that s the Battlefield I love and that I remember, and I m here.
But if I connect again with my teammates and get back into the turmoil, throw away sectors under the feet of the opposing team, I realize that something is wrong. My squad, which has all selected the same Battlefield 2042 specialists, has not thought about which devices we need. Since Dice has hollowed out the class system in favor of dynamic specialists, which can all have a piece of support, attack, engineering or reconnaissance cake, I realize that we have no ammunition crates — and that is a frightening view in Battlefield 2042.
You see, in modern warfare vehicles are the dominant power and in Battlefield 2042 is no different. If you are on foot to several targets, they are surrounded by all sorts of air and soil vehicles — and the worst of all is the airbag vehicle. At the moment, these sly small vehicles are unbalanced beasts, and if they are without a thrower — or a munition skip to keep their team on fire — they can say goodbye to their positive K / Dr.
And that s exactly what happened to me.
When I rocketed after rocket in this annoying hovercraft fire, which, by the way, only runs around us, will tell me two things: nobody has ammunition for me and I can not even ask for it.
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The absence of voice communication (VoIP) is by far my biggest frustration at Battlefield 2042. It is unclear why DICE thought it would be a good idea to publish a troop-based ego shooter without him, and his omission remains gaping gap in multiplayer mode. If you want to play tactically, especially in Hazard Zone — the high-stakes mode of Battlefield 2042 — you have to jump with its three selected teammates at Discord or the Party Chat. Without this feature, it is impossible to lead a squad to the battle, let alone request replacement missiles.
It is also impossible to judge how well they are prepared in a particular situation. Maybe you have Mackay, Sun dance, Boris and Irish in your squad — and apart from individual chosen properties and gadgets you have no idea about which team gadget you have. In reality, there are no ammunition mules or dedicated paramedics — they only have to inspire it and hope someone releases their backs. Or, as it is so often the case, you can count out and play the role you miss.
This provides something eliminated in Hazard Zone, mainly because they are forced to play as different specialists — but even if they have all the tools to actually play as a team, they are deprived of the possibility to play actually communicating. And it s really a pity, because the mode makes pretty fun. Sure, it s not quite like Escape from Markov, and it has a bit a middle to late pause, but to start such a mode without giving it all the tools he needs to be successful, gives me flashbacks to the shortfall On support, the EA gave firestorm.
At the moment, the lack of communications will change how I play Hazard Zone. If I alone put myself in the queue, I do not care to spend a lot of my Dark Market credits — the currency that you need to build bigger and better loadouts — because I know ultimately that it will be a waste of time. Right now I can stop by, go to the next satellite and off with my bare bones assault rifle as many AI soldiers as possible with my squad. Hell, I ve even wiped out a few enemy troops.
But out of there? That s ridiculous. Without proper communication, the attempt to extract in the danger zone, hell.
In a game my team cut off completely good — we had collected a few drives, deleted a few teams and communicated through a series of pings. But when it came time to enter the second helicopter, it was almost impossible. Every time we approached, was struck down one of us. And for some strange reason your teammates are not highlighted when you are in a down-but-not-out state. So instead of crawling to my teammates, I crawled to the feet of an enemy team. My game — and with it that of my team — was practically over.
If I do not have a full team in Discord- or party chat, I ll hazard zone do not play as it is intended. It s really a shame, because I really think that goal-based hardcore modes, similar to those of Markov, in the future will form a large part of Live services shooters. If DICE finally adds VoIP, this could change.
Unfortunately, my criticisms do not end with hazard zone. Battlefield 2042 is currently without a proper scoreboard. Nothing Player stats were replaced by a list of players on your server, which is totally bizarre, and the menus generally act archaic. If you want to add your gun an essay — unlocking takes forever the way — you have to go into the equipment menu, navigate through multiple options and then manually equip for the next game in your Plus menu. Compared to the menu of Call of Duty: Vanguard and Call of Duty: War zone this system does not come close again.
Despite what was said and done, Battlefield 2042 will enjoy the Battlefield veterans still a solid game. While my heart for the good old days of painful Rush, it s a joy to play all-out warfare, if you have a fully functioning squad that all stands on Discord with you. Hazard zone is also a blast — it just requires a bit more hard work.
Where Battlefield 2042 but really shines is the Battlefield portal. This Fortnite Creative-like mode that hands over the keys to the community, the next, the Battlefield community will ever get to Mods and although the tool has been used only a few days, the modes offered are fantastic. So far I had the absolute pleasure Rush on Bad Company 2 maps, Gun Game and play 128-player free-for-all game.
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The possibilities with Battlefield Portal are almost endless, and I have no doubt that here the new, only be forged in Battlefield moments. This mode is DICE s masterpiece and was developed by the server administrators of past games that have processed the ass in the game to new experiences to offer old games within the limits.
If you are pulled from the conquest, or you have a bad shape in Hazard Zone, I can guarantee you that a few Battlefield Portal games will cheer. I would even go so far as to say that portal of the main mode of Battlefield 2042 is currently — and as soon more people will join in this experience will only get better.
At the moment DICE but still work to do.
Battlefield 2042 is a solid game, but it is undermined by poor design philosophy that has a little undermine the weapons feeling. With time — something that we tired old Battlefield fans are accustomed — I am confident that Battlefield 2042 brought by the development team into shape.
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