Here's my take on BF2042, played on PS4 Pro.
Pros
- big battles are chaos, which is fun
- nice variety of ways to play, fun vehicles
- changing attachments & ammo on the fly
- ammo types are nice idea
- like the modern setting & tech
- audio quality sounds good
- grapple hook is fun, robo dog is fun
- ziplines are useful
- dynamic weather, the big storm was a cool moment
- the rocket taking off randomly in the match was neat
Cons
- switching into 3rd person when downed is dumb
- gunplay isn't great (yet its an FPS)
- bullet drop is weirdly inconsistent
- framerate is shit. bad.
- animation is janky and mediocre
- visuals are bad, in many ways
- depth of field effect is shitty
- audio mix is off, enemies don't make much noise (until your dead)
- specialists are dumb, just use classes
- when switching specialists, needs to remember last class used with it
- map is too big for 64 players
- shitty level design, not good for fun combat
- very few incentives for team play
- menu to deploy is annoying
And its buggy as fuck. Funny tho.
No way this game ships in November in a remotely polished state.
And maybe they should cut the PS4/XBO version back further in scope. IDK, but it looks bad. Tons of detail missing. Maybe they can improve that with time.
Definitely a skip until I get my PS5.