Battlefield 2042 Stadium Preview... 

F&CK that took me longer then it should have to get the joke. Also, good one!

I used to drop boxes on friendly sniper campers then t-bag them.

No, it's not being sad

still didn't get it

@@rwybe dropping boxes

That last Arrrmmorrrrrr, Musick was so done with them

Armor has undoubtedly been a bad addition to the base game of Battlefield. It takes away from predictability as you can never really know how many bullets you need for an enemy. That stuff belongs in a BR game but not in the base game modes like CQ, Rush, etc.

Polo!

I imagine it will be like the other 64 player maps we've gotten in the past few seasons. Meaning it will be 64 player only as far main playlists go so it won't be in the 128 player Conquest playlist ( obviously ). Honestly 64 players is probably too much for this "map".

I think 64 players is already too much for this map size. This was a preview event where we barely had 40 people in the server and it was already getting chaotic at times.

Downsizing 128 rush

This game is the camperfield.

The original version was similar in lighting and shadows although I think they changed the sun placement so other things look a little different but overall it's similar in how visible players were. I'd say at the very least players are more visible than they were in the launch trailer scenes where the original part of the stadium was shown. The sprinkler, smoke, whatever bursting from the pipes above seems to be placed in locations to deter camping in obvious places ( top of the stairs ). Like most of the environmental effects in BF2042 it's mostly a distraction and will probably be seen as annoying or frustrating by players who spend their days on that map because it will probably not handle 3D spotting consistently.

That is probably true but we will always see players that use armor as being weak because they need to rely on something like that.

@@Ravic I did use it for a bit got the mastery for it now I’m use something else once I unlock the mastery for something I always move on

Not in any way I've been able to prove or confirm networking-wise. Desync in this game is pretty bad even when ping/latency is similar between players. It gets worse when the pings get more varied. Season 7's update seemed to make desync or networking worse for the game so it "feels" really bad across the board.

⁠@@Ravicbro s7 i started dying around more walls after i was behind them so much more than any other season.

Because Battlefield is a game where there is supposed to be vehicle vs infantry combat however they never really put in any effort to balance that in BF2042 and that unbalance can occasionally be lessened in 128 player Conquest. However with any lower player count it just gets worse and the unbalance becomes more noticeable and frustrating especially to the random average player who solo queues into games. The power creep for vehicles has been increasing going from BF1 to BFV to BF2042 and DICE has made no effort to address it in the ways they should have.

@@Ravic Hmm respect the reply, but I disagree a bit. I feel like I died to vehicles way more times in BFV, from the aerodrome outskirt tank snipers, to the ridiculous planes, I felt naked without my PIAT. Vehicles never really bothered me too much in this 2042 (aside from launch when it was a bolte/hovercraft apocalypse) and I don't feel the obligation to run anti-tank.

@@Taylorek2011 I never said it was balanced in BF1, BFV, or BF2042. However at least in BFV you could take out a tank by yourself as AT. In BF2042 that isn't the case, it requires multiple people and sometimes multiple squads to take out a single tank ( or flying tank ) because those tanks have way too many armed "seats" and ways to get away. There is no real risk for them in BF2042. BFV that certainly applies to aircraft but as I stated that power creep started in BF1 where planes made of paper were more devastating than anything else in the game and they never addressed the problem then and it's only grown since. If you don't feel obligated to run AT then you must play in a very tame region or everyone else besides you is running AT. Or there are no vehicle mains in your region playing BF2042 in which case lucky you. Because there is no way a single infantry AT in BF2042 is taking out a tank by themselves unless that tank player is AFK and that vehicle vs infantry unbalance becomes worse with lower player counts because less players means less infantry AT which means those vehicles have even less to worry about. I don't think you fully understand how bad it is. There are RAM and CAV squads that roam the entire map and never die even in 128 player Conquest. It's not like they scale the damage inputs and outputs based on player counts so those ridiculously power vehicles that are already too powerful for 128 player just become unkillable in lower player counts to the point that players don't even bother trying to deal with them and just take the death.

Its gonna be released in Mid May if I am not wrong along with the new weapon

For a lot of us we had been expecting them to abandon it a long time ago. I think they are just trying to drag out the extra or excess content they have to lessen the time gap players have to wait for the next Battlefield. The bad part about it though is a lot of players would have preferred or enjoyed the game for that longer period of time if it was abandoned sooner, meaning a lot of DICE's tweaking, breaking, unbalancing things in these recent seasons would have been avoided and the game would have been left in a better state.

@Ravic I see, sadly there new motto appears to be that they abandon things when they realize it's gonna take effort to fix a game😮‍💨

Not really, if that were their motto they would have abandoned it immediately after they completed the legal obligations or the one year of seasons/battle passes. Which I had recommended a few times on stream because I knew what was required to "fix" some of the things and how it would have been a significant undertaking. And since that would have only fixed some of the things it would have still left some things broken so even more work to fix all of it. Based on that assessment my recommendation would have been to cut support as soon as possible to spend more time and resources on the next one because they were already working with something that was never given proper dev time on. I say that because COVID cut into all of that they really only go around 1.5 years of real dev work on the game which is so little for such a large game.

@Ravic Hm well then let me say this do you think they will actually do better or release another buggy mess?

You mean the old part of Hourglass that I played in a few times in the past? It feels the same, a close quarters area where it's mainly just infantry combat. Just a shame people couldn't be bothered to drive or run to that area on the map and instead had to ruin all the base BF2042 maps crying for reworks that weren't needed. It's small, like really small so hopefully all those players that cried are happy and stay on that map, then hopefully they never play any future Battlefield games so they don't ruin those as well. Like the buildings on Spearhead, if you hated having to clear out beacons, you'll absolutely LOVE this map.

@@Ravic agreed 👍🏻

Why would I know

@@co.1157 damn no need to be like that. Still i restarted the app and worked

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Huh?

@@Ravic there was a WOW meltdown video years back where some kids mom erased his entire account he had suck a bad meltdown that he tried to shove a remote up his ass.

Wow, I mean wow, I did not know about that one.

@@Ravic wait there's another one?