Battlefield 5 vs Battlefield 2042 - Attention to Detail Comparison 

Battlefield 2042: 20 years in the future, 10 years back in gameplay.

BF5: Actually fun game to play with terrible marketing. BF2042: Terrible game with marketing that did overhype the game.

When your really look at these side by side, you can tell the only thing connecting these 2 games is the engine they were built on. The way they were created and designed were done by completely different people and teams and you can tell.

My favourite detail in BF5 is how soldiers have stumble animations to break up their running animations and also when they run slightly into an object on the side the soldier will react to it accordingly. Same with explosives and I think suppressive bullets while running. Really broke up the running animations and made them seem genuine and always as cinematic as a trailer

2042 is a major step back for the franchise in so many ways. The massive 128 player maps lack intricacies and really seemed to bring down immersion I believe.

I thought the tech behind bf1 and bf5 was incredible. Every single moment in those games felt like a movie scene. I don't understand why they downgraded for 2042.

One of the many things I love about battlefield 5 is the game literally turning into a movie scene in some situations

Downgrades are always a sad thing because it preceeds the death of a studio. I read that all the team behind graphics were new members, and nothing was left by the previous team who knew all the secrets of Frostbite. Not a simple note. The new team was totally unable to manipulate the graphic until 1,5 year on the 3 of development. Moral : when a team change, the entire game change. Like you know everything about Rubiks Cube, u give it to someone who knows nothing ... then leave ...

It's almost like they deliberately made Battlefield 2042 bad. Self sabotage.

Despite the marketing and controversial decisions, it was a good game, in my opinion. BFV had the features and materials to make a perfect Battlefield game. Beautiful graphics, models, animations, movement, attrition, customization, etc. But for some reason, DICE decided not to use those things and instead created a literal downgraded version of Battlefield. Like, just how can someone screw up *that* bad?

Best thing about BF 2042 ? People started to appreciate BF V more :D I was always on the other side of the barricade - for me BF V was always a blast from the very beginning, one of the best BFs made. BF 2042 is a giant step back in many, many aspects and I'm not gonna buy it even when it's on a huge discount - maybe I'll give it a try when it goes F2P.

I’ll never forget the first time I played Conquest on Iwo Jima in BFV. Waiting for the ramp to drop and charging out while getting pinned down by Japanese bunkers, looking behind me only to see an LVT get absolutely destroyed before it even hits the beach, and seeing Ki-45’s getting downed by Corsairs is something that every historical game needs. Same thing goes for literally every other pacific map in the game. BF2042 was such a letdown. And the V-1 rocket. Oh the V-1 rocket. Hearing a buzzing getting louder and louder, until it all goes silent. Seconds later, and *BANG*. The entire enemy team and your own is dead. Just watching the A.I. on the outskirts of the maps make it incredibly immersive. Like your really storming the beaches of Iwo Jima and the Solomon Islands. And seeing the ships in the distance, firing off salvos at the island, and the carrier launching aircraft into the air, damn. There really isn’t any WW2 game like it. And before anyone says “Hey, there wasn’t any female soldiers!”, or “Why is the American carrying an MG-42?!”. Just remember, it’s a video game. It’s made to be fun, not entirely accurate. And personally, I think BFV hit it in all the right ways. Sure, some balancing issues here and there, and a few glitches and bugs, but nothing game-changing. Unless you get dive-bombed by a Stuka. That’s a different story lmao

I went back to Battlefield 5 and I’ve been having a blast. It’s still such a good game. I know it could have had more content but the quality is so much better than 2042.

Battlefield 1 was nearly perfect. Awesome campaign, OPERATIONS MODE, and maps. The only thing I didn't like was how difficult it was to unlock new weapons and those damn loot boxes.

The smoke fading away with the wind direction in 2042, like the dust generated by the tank tracks at 5:40, is a nice subtle detail though. Makes the weather elements more believable. Don't know if that's there in BFV?

I think details are very important for battlefield. I always classified battlefield to not be just a FPS, but its more of a War Simulator. It feels so different, compare to CoD or other first person shooter games. For this reason, I think they should pay more attention towards realism and details.

BFV had great attention to details, I loved how soldiers were so flexible like prone running and natural looking turns when lying on the ground etc. And animations when entering or getting out of vehicles. Gunplay was good. It was a good game in the end, it’s sad they killed it right after Pacific because I think game was going on the right direction. 2042 soldiers are stiff and animations… Well aren’t much of them. And it surely lacks details. I wonder if people who despised BFV back then now can appreciate it more now when we see what 2042 turned out to be.

This is why we loved these games some moment’s especially in BF1 I legit thought I was in a real war or in a movie it can be so cinematic it’s special. They legit took all of it away. You notice all these things removed but you don’t notice them when they’re in it just blends in and makes it perfect.

You never miss something until it’s gone this is a amazing example of that all the little details are dust in the wind on 2042 it’s gone

If they really wanted to give their specialists more personality, they could have given them unique lines when in close proximity to a grenade. Or just more unique lines in general.

Battlefield V deserved so much more life and content. Yes, the marketing was terrible. However, I've been loving the game.

Battlefield 5 is amazing but this video made me appreciate it more. I didn't know it had so many little details like this , a lot of stuff I missed

i dont understand why bf 5 got so much hate

This is exactly what i mentioned in a discussion with battlefield developers on twitter. This video just shows the evidence. Awesome work!

OLD BF Game: We have physics BF2042: Physics? what is that?

For me battlefield was amazing because of all the small pieces. Sure when a bullet hits a window and the window cracks and the bullet hits the wall behind it that seems innocuous and trivial when on its own. Maybe the same thing when there's an explosion and a quasi fox hole is made. It's when all these things happen all at once that the madness and chaos take over. Glass flying everywhere, bullets whizzing by, tank tracks grinding on bricks, the sounds of your squad mates boots. For me it's the totality of the small things that make battlefield unique

It would be nice for the game developers to add motion to the snow when your crawling in it. Every little detail just makes the game feel real and filled in in ever crack and corner.

I remember when we thought bf5 was a step-down, then we all loved it when the pacific got added, so sad that it was so short live

Now suddenly everyone loves BFV, i have been hearing all sorts of things about this game in the past 3 years while i loved It, but now after the disaster called BF2042 everyone loves BFV.

Forgot about one of the more incredible details in bf5, being that player soldiers crash against walls for cover, react to scaling terrain, stick to walls if you run alongside them, etc. All in real time

It’s clear that lots of corners needed to be cut due to 1. The fact that they insisted on making this game 128 players 2. If I remember correctly A SIZABLE portion of the DICE devs since the dawn of time left during or after Battlefield V Though I think 2042 is salvageable and is in a significantly better state since the start of the first season, I’d love to see Battlefield get back to the level of attention to detail and atmospheric excellence the last two games in the series were on. Battlefield 1 was, in every metric, my favorite game in the series since Bad Company, and although I had significant issues with Battlefield V’s gameplay, the improvements they made everywhere else were very welcome. Time will tell if the series can get back to THAT level….

how did people hate BF5??? i never understood it, it was my overall favorite BF specfically for the PACE. tanks had weight and meaning, there was more than 1 per map and they were scary but slow. airplanes actually dogfought not just flying around waiting for a helicopter to spawn in for an easy kill. NO LOCK ON weapons. I swear man, modern games are not as fun as WWI-Vietnam era games

In battlefield . Soldiers look at each other. Noticed that in all bFs i played. Except 2042

Battlefield 5 totally deserved criticism but not as much as it got, the main complaint was the lack of content and player visibility but now the gameplay is solid the graphics are great

You could tell a lot of the development time with pre-2042 installments went into the art and technology. 2042 felt like a halfhearted pivot to de-emphasizing this focus but without clear direction for the gameplay.

2:49 LOL, the effect of dirt getting in eyes or "camera" is so hilaroius

What's crazy is I remember hearing there was no campaign in 2042 which I was thrilled with because the vast majority of players only care about Battlefield for the MP. So I was thinking it was great news because that meant that they can take people away from working on a campaign most people only play once just because they bought and it came with the game so why not play it once and use those people to make the MP even better. What happened with this game. Maybe campaign was actually cut because the MP would have been even worse somehow with it.

I enjoy V. Wish they focused more on V than 2042. Would’ve loved to see the Eastern front or more from the pacific theatre (Japan’s attack on the British pacific colonies, Hong Kong, etc.)

Me looking back on Battlefield V. "Perhaps I have treated you too harshly."

It’s truly incredible how many steps back 2042 has taken

It’s honestly impressive how bad they fucked up 2042

Ive been a diehard Battlefield fan ever since Battlefield 2142. I loved and played every single release since then either on PC or playstation. The fact that theres no voice chat and no leaderboard in 2042 just did it for me. Its a prime exemple of how corporate greed is able to suck out the soul out of what is meant to be a piece of art. I dont blame the dedicated worker who put a lot of effort in this game, I blame the shareholders and the greedy CEOs for pushing what is an obviously unfinished product for the sake of making a quick buck. Unfortunately the gaming community has been fooled enough time and wont forgive nor forget. Its a sad thing, truly, I loved BF and my fondest and most fun gaming memories will forever be of BF moments, sadly 2042 is nothing but a shell of what a true Battlefield game is meant to be. I hope another game is able to fill up the gap left by this travesty.

I reckon it’s about time that Dice make a Battlefield title that last a good few years, rather than the new title every two. It’s incredibly frustrating that previous titles become unplayable due to player base moving on from those games. Considering the majority of player base loving BF3 and BF4s modern setting, it could still very well be maintained as a game today. All they would need to do is introduce more maps and or weapons where they can for it to last as long as 3 titles before giving it a well deserved engine upgrade and all-round update.

That moment when the devs can’t even use assets that are already created correctly.

Wonder if the team even noticed they were leaving this out

Here is what confuses me. They went on to create new details in BF2042, like the gunshot through the car windows, before they made sure that all those previous features they had in BF5 were added. It's like, how does that line of thought work?

A awesome detail in battlefield V is in the magazine’s of automatic weapons you can hear the magazine spring rattle around more as it goes up

I’ve always insisted that BFV is the most complete and superior Battlefield game ever, in terms of its visual and gameplay aspects. It’s my favorite Battlefield title thus far!

Tbh the most thing I want added to this game is detail. More map design to fit the idea of future war, to the smallest little details remake the experience, make it more immersive.

Imagine if the next battlefield comes out in 2 years and we will look back to 2042 and say: ,,2042 was actually not bad”

The movements and overall gaming experience and effects in Bf5 is🔥🔥🔥 should've put the same into 2042

Looking back at Battlefield V: Perhaps we have treated you too harshly

First thing I noticed when I played 2042 for the first time was the graphics. I was expecting an upgrade not a downgrade. It’s not all bad still an impressive game but bfv seemed better especially with the vehicle destruction 100%

I've never played either of these games, but spectated a lot of hours of both on Twitch. BFV is, for me, definitely a more immersive and fun experience. And now that I see this video, I understand why. The subconscious will pick up on these things even if the conscious mind doesn't. It's like when a food brand changes the recipe for your favourite snack and they think no one will notice. But then one day you eat it and say to yourself, "I don't know what it is, but it just doesn't taste the same."

I believe the coughing detail was added due to the poor ventilation of ww2 tanks, and it does make sense why the ventilation would be better in the 2042 tanks. However, I still believe it was an oversight in 2042, not left out on purpose

for my opinion Battlefield 2042 actually cut down most of the physics due performance issue, mean BF2042 has so many heavy load textures and renders in the game but if DICE add the old(or the og physics) it will require much more power than it does right now, their recommended pc requirements are -i7 4790 or Ryzen 7 2700X + RTX 3060 or RX 6600XT and 8GB VRAM required + 16GB RAM and all of that just to run BF2042 at 900p-1080p High-Medium settings barely 60-80 FPS Smooth-ish gameplay im not typing the minimum requirements because game devs set Minimum requirements are for Lowest settings with lowest resolution at 30-40 FPS gameplay DICE made average 128player game wanted but not many people has that powerful i9 or i7 latest gen, ryzen 3000x or 5000x pc with high end GPU PCs thats why they cut down physics and additional extras from the game and released for mid-range to high-end pc users

I think what they were trying to do was optimize 2042 for the bigger battles they'd hoped to have created. Whereas bfv was enhanced to use higher end graphics that most people turned off anyway (often to the detriment of the game since allowing foliage to be turned low gave a huge advantage in spotting people on several maps) Sadly all that optimization was a 1 step forward , 2 steps back situation.

Me looking back at bfv after bf2042 : "Perhaps I treated you too harshly"

Thank you dice for making this game. It ensures battlefield 1 servers will be populated at least until the next title comes out

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Had an eyepatch in the army you could use at shooting range, if you wish, on the not-aim-eye to keep it open but not distracting since for everyone it's simply not possible to shoot with both eyes open due to vison problems and if you spend few hours with one eye closed it affects balance etc

All they need to do is build on top of BFV or BF1, add more features, more weapons, more tanks/planes, more weapons on the map, more customisation, more squad leader commands and reinforcements. That would be insane. It’s all there for them. Crazy decisions made with 2042.

Haha looks like a few corners were cut. Nice work summarizing the slop!

The funny thing is about the grenades in BF42 is that of them all, the C4 is realistically the only one that WOULDN'T explode when shot

Battlefield 3 and Battlefield Bad Company 2 had more attention to detail and allowed the player to interact with the environment more than BF2042! It's like the game went back in time 4 or 5 generations!

I'm glad to see you showed cases where both games are the same. I feel like all too often for the sake of looking more "correct" people will leave stuff out of videos regardless of it being a fair comparison.

If BFV had taken BF1's route (same class system/art direction, plethora of WW2 factions) WHILE retaining all the good about it it would've been an awesome game

There will never be a game like bf1 so perfect, even every single bgm in it. Attention to detail at its finest.

The new frostbite engine is the problem. BF4, 1 and 5 were on frostbite 3 - 2042 is on the new engine frostbite 4 (a guess at the name). It is my belief that the biggest problem with 2042, besides the game play decisions, is the fact that these devs had so little experience with the frostbite engine is that the new one just isn't that good. It would explain a lot of the problems with the game and why they delayed season till summer. They need to fix the engine itself and that I'm sure is a huge undertaking.

What's really frustrating to me is that, historical and single player stuff aside, there was a good three months or so where post launch support for BFV was decent. Bugfixes and patches were coming in pretty steadily, like making the nazi stahlhelms fit the soldiers' heads instead of the little ones it launched with, or adding more authentic-looking cosmetics instead of only the flashier stuff, or rebalancing a few really annoying guns. The vehicles were pretty decent too, and while it's not Ace Combat or anything, I was able to map the flight controls to something I could fly *and* get kills with **and** safely land, which I liked a lot because I've really struggled flying with DICE's control schemes. So it's frustrating to me that the reason they stopped post launch content and fixes was just to allocate a few more burnt out developers for scrambling to make this half-baked pre-alpha quality tech demo hit the shelves. It's frustrating seeing people working their asses off on one thing only to be reassigned before it's finished. And then they work their asses off on the next thing only for it to be ripped from their hands before they're anywhere close to done to fit a release in the financial quarters. It'd be like if a publisher only accepted unedited first drafts for publishing instead of giving writers editors to help refine it, because that way they might save a few weeks' time, at the cost of an unfinished and probably shittier book. Idk, the days of big games being made by some bros in a basement like Wolfenstein or Doom or even recent stuff like Project Wingman, those days are fading pretty fast, and now it all seems to gradually be leaning more towards this kinda direction, and that makes me kinda sad. Rant over; yes I have grass to touch, don't worry.

is there animations when get in vehicle in bf 2042 ?

I've always said. The voice acting in BFV was ELITE!! They actually lit a man on fire and recorded his screams... I loved it

Tell me why Battlefield 2042 thinks water explosions sound like sand 0:39

The little details that you could witness in the past Battlefield is what make them so incredible and immersive, but this one looks like the every year cod.

Battlefield 3 has been my favorite fps game of all time. Idk why its so hard to make a good game anymore

I am a COD fan but seeing BF and its attention to detail mad me amazed. I was gonna buy 2042 because the hype was so good around it but thank god i didn't

I did not know such details exist in Battlefield 5, it's disappointing to see how Battlefield 2042 went for less detail instead of more. Thanks for taking the time to point them out. If I were to choose between one or the other, I would go for Battlefield 5.

Let's make a game with modern setting that's everybody is wanting, but remove all the amazing detail feature that where in previous title.

That 1 bullet that got deflected in bf 2045: am i a joke to you?

🥇 Ranking: BF3 > BF4 > BF1 > BFV > BF2042 (comment)

You forgot to compare the animations like when getting in a vehicle. There’s a huge difference. These animations are on BF1 as well as on BFV and they’re super immersive.

I know the same devs that made 1 weren't around when 5 came out, but were the people who worked on 5 also fired by the time 2042 came out? I wouldn't put it past EA to just start firing everyone after a game comes out and replace them entirely. That's the only explanation for how vastly different the games feel after 4.

1:25 “DoN’T bE sAd, ThAt’s jUst hoW It wOrks ouT SomeTImEs!!” 🤪

I think I can answer that. I've wondered too and came to this. BFV was made for older consoles where as 2024 is for newer but for older gen as well, it's held it back. Alot of games for that matter.

Any explanation as to why the dramatic change? Perhaps this was overhauled to a whole new game engine and they didn’t have time to do that and add all of these details? There’s usually a lot more going on behind the scenes than we’re aware of.

I really like bf5 since It released enjoyed it more than 1 the gameplay felt faster, the graphics were better, the gunplay was more fun , I like the building feature it always came in handy for cover and I really liked that squads could build points and the squad leader could call in things like vehicles , smoke barrage and the v1 rocket it made squad leaders feel more important such an underated game but I know its not everyone's taste

The only one that makes some sense is the no panic noise in 2042

Bf5 has been so underrated, I think it is the best version in the franchise with the best game design and mechanics. Bf4 and one are still good too

As a die hard Battlefield fan from childhood, I waited years and years for the franchise to head back to WW2. With each release, Dice and EA have strayed further and further from the original recipe which fans yearned for. The return to WW2 was suppose to be the greatest game in the series because it finally returned to its roots. Fan expectations were high and nostalgia rates were off the charts. Unfortunately, the game came out when the company was arguably at its worst and well they botched their perfect opportunity to win the hearts of fans and remain on top in the shooter market. What we ended up getting is a lifeless, empty, content ridden, woke shooter that had almost nothing to do ww2 and historical accuracy and was just created with the idea in mind to sell cosmetics after release. IMO it is my favorite BF to date solely because it has ww2 vibes with the help of my imagination, gameplay although rather fast paced at times, is still the most interesting as well. In short, it was a wasted opportunity which destroyed childhoods, dreams and expectations. Then we got 2042 which may have been the final nail in the coffin. I hope it wasn't. The hard-core community has a big heart so it will never die but we'll have to see what they come up with next

0:16 to be fair someone didnt throw the grenade at you, as far as scripting goes I'm sure the panic dialogue gets triggered by enemy grenades

Does 2042 run better though in terms of FPS? I don't play this game but seeing all these downgrades seems it might be to improve frames?

In the latest patch I think they added the ability to get your character dirty from mud and snow because when I was playing and went prone my character got all mud and snow on themselves try it.

I’m fairly new to the Battlefield franchise and absolutely love it! Haven’t played 2042, by the sounds of it I shouldn’t

To be honest knowing what I know now I would've happily welcomed a complete overhaul and re-release of BFV. Make it 40v40 beef up everything graphically textures the whole nine yards. Add stuff to the game you wish you could but couldn't because of time or tech constraints. then been given this hot shit sandwich we ended up with in BF2042

128 players really forced them to cut a lot of content, and there doesn’t feel as much team cohesion especially with the map design, 128 players may have been a bad idea for the game

I had pre ordered 2042 I was so hyped ! I played it when it launched and sadly I deleted it after biggest let down I’ve ever experienced

The nostalgia googles people have for Battlefield games is partially why EA thought they could get away with releasing something like 2042…5 had legitimate problems ( which still haunt the game) but they did major improvements before they canceled content for it. Alot of people seem late to the title so yea it’s refined now.

The reloading stations for vehicles like tanks and plains in bf5 was more fun than having unlimited ammo and the explosions animation

1:55 Good ❤️❤️❤️❤️

>Tire print >Shows vehicle without tires What did he mean by this