A new Battlefield 2042 hotfix is available today, addressing “areas of game instability”. But this will be the final update until early March, when developer DICE will deploy a “refreshed scoreboard”. The company had previously communicated that this update would be available in mid-February, but this week it announced some fairly serious changes to the title’s roadmap, including a delay to its first season.
Among the things that the developer is working on are better End of Round reporting screens and improved Player Profiles – incredible, really, for a title that launched last year. EA said that the first-person shooter has underperformed, and its concurrent players have dropped like a rock: there are currently more people playing Battlefield V on Steam than there are DICE’s newest entry. All of this means that EA is even allegedly considering making the release free-to-play.
Those who bought the Gold or Ultimate Editions of the game will be able to look forward to some additional in-game goodies as recompense for the botched launch, but as we’ve reported previously, this brand’s fanbase is up in arms right now. Many feel that, in addition to being buggy and unfinished, Battlefield 2042 is simply not good enough – and it’s going to be extremely difficult to revive the release’s reputation at this point.
[source twitter.com]
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Wow. What is going on where they had to delay something as basic as a scoreboard?
EA really needs to just let DICE do the single player stuff and have another team do the multiplayer. Every Battlefield launch since 4 has been terrible. Why wasnt there a scoreboard at launch? Thats a basic thing in multiplayer. Sure i dont like looking at it because I suck but I like to make sure im not dead last ya know lol
Half a year to copy paste battlefield 4 scoreboard.
How can you, with a straight face, call yourself a AAA studio when you can’t manage your hundreds of employees and virtually limitless money pit to push out a sodding scoreboard on time? The worst part is, the devs definitely knew this was going to be a shambles, and have just been jerked around by management. No wonder so many end up choosing to go independent.
Im NOT a game dev, but if I full control over this project. These are some of the things that I would have done differently from the very beginning of development.
Scoreboard day one, no durr.
I would have kept the old classes but you could have given them a few hero perks to each class. Assault-grappling hook, support-wing suit for example.
I would have either kept traditional map sizes and slightly improved the player count, or, kept the 128 and made the maps smaller. I’m not going to get into how the maps should have been improved, if you’ve played or watched YouTube videos, then you know.
Created a walk around lobby similar to other games that way you can show off your gear, skins, etc.
And a traditional battle pass of a more serious tone with the intention of running MULTIPLE IN-GAME surveys that discuss desired general improvements and desires cosmetics. The gameplay surveys would arrive quickly and often. The cosmetic survey would arrive at the beginning of season 2 to see if the players want the cosmetic direction changed. If the surveys were made up of multiple choice, then it would be easy to calculate what your customers want, and way faster. Also, your game direction is then directly dictated by your customers and not a loud group here or there on different sites or Twitter.
I’m not naïve to think it’s all as simple as that though.
A scoreboard lol ..shouldn't take take like 1 minute to sort out
This is the worst timeline. It still hasn't really hit me that they ***** up Battlefield 2042 so much... feel like I'm still shellshocked one of my favorite franchises ever is just so ruined.
Yeah well BF was allways known for rocky releases. BF1 was the only one in my memory that had a decent launch. I dont really understand people buying this on launch day. Or even worse, after launch when they were warned.
@Constable_What
Honestly I believe the reason the scored board was not in was a conscious decision because someone in management deemed it may upset snowflakes and it causes people to troll each other. Little Timmy might not be able to handle his position.
I'm old but the world is crazy to me. Nearly all my friends online were once people I met and we through insults at each other and kept trying to out do each other. 10 or so years later we still have so much fun together and we're still so cutting with each other.
Our group will hardly ever grow now as we are always in private parties so we don't offend the eternally offended brigade.
Unbelievable?! Let’s just not trust them with anything from this point forwards.
@oconnoclast
Great comment. I've never insulted anyone more than my mates and never been insulted more by anyone than my friends. I don't want to play in a world of introverts and people lacking charisma who struggle with social interaction. The plenty of variety of games for them anyway. They need to stop making homogeneous games
this game has changed from the potential cod killer into an absolute garbage fire, not looking good at all.
This game is trash. They need to let it die and start back over.
It was the only time in my life that I bought a game and returned it after just a few hours of play.
This is not a Battlefield game. No matter what they add to it, it will never be a Battlefield game.
Game sucks. Was soundly beaten by COD’s effort this year and that’s sad. Move on.
@marnelljm And not because COD that great.
@Danloaded
Since BF3*
Well, at least EA hasn't effed up Apex yet. There's a lack of Titanfall, but oh well. Can't expect much from EA
this is hilarious 🤣😂
Maybe they lost the tech, like they lost the tech for Bad Company style destruction. Scoreboard tech was ahead of it's time.
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