It was a pathetic predicament.īut on the rare occasions that I did get into a game with other PlayStation players, the game did its best to impress me with all its cool elements and attractions. But even so, I sometimes just enable cross-play so that I can step onto the battlefield that I so desperately want to play. But doing so would hamper the gameplay experience greatly because there was just no way I could be meaningfully enjoying my game against the advantage a Mouse and Keyboard user has. It is worth noting that if I had turned on my Cross-Play function, matches are found and played instantly. Some of the games I ended up in had bots fillers anyway, so why can’t this just happen more consistently? That was another question that I found myself repeatedly asking throughout my experience in BF 2042 so far. I also didn’t understand why the game didn’t just start anyway and fill the server with the players that’s already in the queue, and populate the remaining slots with bots while we wait for more players to arrive. Normally, I’d just repeat the matchmaking process that could take me up to 10 times and I still won’t get to play any. Beats me.Īnd that is if I was lucky enough to get into a game after 2-3 tries, each costing around 5-10 minutes worth of waiting. “Why bother starting so many lobbies and make everybody wait in so many different sessions when they could all just be in the same one?”.
Naturally, I wondered “Why didn’t the game just load me into this one in the first place?”. The funniest thing here is sometimes, after my second or third attempt, the game would instantly put me into a match that just started (I could tell because the kill counter was fresh) but it was a different map from the first 2 matches that I waited for. Because we’d be stuck there waiting for 10 minutes before one by one of us would just give up and leave the lobby to restart the matchmaking. There, four of us would stare at each other’s players’ cards and wait for the game to let us in, but that will mostly not happen. The game would then ‘find’ one for me before putting me in a lobby where I could see my assigned squadmates. I would pick a mode and start the matchmaking process, eager to get into it with 127 other players. I played 2042 on the PlayStation 5 and the problem with the game was obvious from early on because matches weren’t starting.
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And if you were to combine these upcoming new features with the fact that Battlefield is one of the longest-running game series like I did, you too would arrive at the conclusion that this was going to be the best Battlefield game ever. This game would come with bigger maps, catering to more players, and with next-gen quality graphics and horsepower.
So, when EA announced the latest game in the series in Battlefield 2042, there were many reasons to celebrate.
I’ve always loved the series since I played the first Battlefield 1942 game. There’s just something irresistible about the large maps and full-scale warfare atmosphere that appeals to me. This is why I love the Battlefield series. The war would go on for at least 20-30 minutes as both sides’ trade kills and blows. The deafening sound of explosions from near and far can be heard.
We’d have Tanks and an assortment of armoured military vehicles rumbling around the battlefield trying to support their fellow soldiers. War choppers hovering a short distance away, shooting barrage after barrage of anti-personnel missiles at enemies brave enough to advance, or defenders foolish enough not to escape. And all these would go on as warplanes from both sides thunder through the sky, strafing any ground and air targets they’d see. Some would push in deeper, attempting to challenge the opponent’s points first and force them to camp in so that they’d stay away from ours. When a round starts, soldiers would head on to different directions, hoping to be the first to arrive at a point to capture it and set up a defensive zone, waiting for the inevitable and imminent arrival of enemy troops.