Battlefield 2042 hasn’t “officially” been out very long, but many are currently quite upset with the game. Battlefield 2042’s Steam reviews went straight to mostly negative online, and some have been upset over missing features, bugs, and the like.
Some Battlefield 2042 players are also upset about the early removal of a key progression feature. Essentially, players were promised they could play in solo or co-op against bots to earn progression on weapons, attachments, emblems, skins, and so on. This feature ended up being swiftly removed due to Battlefield Portal’s early XP farming, so for the time being, players will be unable to progress these features in this way.
The reason behind this may not be DICE or EA’s fault. Players were almost immediately able to figure out how to use Battlefield Portal to create XP farming servers, putting others at a severe disadvantage. Disabling this feature prevents this from happening, but it also prevents players from progressing in solo or co-op play. Notably, these “ temporary measures” as described by Battlefield 2042 social media accounts were put in place ahead of time, but it was a small, easy-to-miss announcement.
EA Help did confirm it is working on this, suggesting fans pay attention to social media pages and forums for a potential update. It is an incredibly important feature, so hopefully, Battlefield 2042 will be able to add this back in, as promised, “ASAP.” Beyond just this, however, Battlefield 2042 continues to prove itself divisive. There have been issues over problematic in-game references, issues with some of the soldier’s voice lines, disappointing weapon counts, frame rate issues, crashes on specific platforms, and that’s just on the surface. While this is catching some players off-guard, there have been issues players have highlighted since Battlefield 2042’s initial October beta.
Indeed, many issues were present in the beta (although it wasn’t the most current up-to-date-build), and this resulted in a few online calls for Battlefield 2042 to be delayed again. This would have been to give the game more time to prepare and polish up for launch, but obviously, this didn’t happen. The full launch of the game has proven to be as problematic, if not more so, than the beta.
The overwhelming negative reviews of Battlefield 2042 prove this, and at this moment, it’ll be interesting to see where EA and DICE go from here. Obviously, issues like this bot progression may be fixed sooner than some of the bigger problems, but Battlefield 2042 has a long way to go in many eyes.
Battlefield 2042 is available now for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.
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