5 Things Battlefield 2042 Must Learn From Battlefield V’s Mistakes

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If you’re a Battlefield or a shooter fan, chances are, you already know that Battlefield V (Battlefield 5) wasn’t exactly the best entry in the franchise. While that might be the case, all signs point to this year’s Battlefield 2042, as the one to win franchise fans and gamers back. However, if it’s doing that, DICE and EA need to show gamers that it has learned from Battlefield V’s missteps.

With that in mind, we’ce listed down five things Battlefield 2042 must learn from Battlefield V’s mistakes.

Rent a Server

For some reason or another, EA decided to take away an extra revenue stream in Battlefield V by not allowing players to rent their own servers. Remember how some people made their own tournaments in Battlefield 4? Or what about joining an Operation Metro 24/7 server with 300% tickets? Yeah, that was insane, right? Well, EA took that out for some reason for Battlefield V, and we want rent-a-servers back!

EA earns money by players renting, and players can choose which maps they want to play on, and so on. Win-win, right?

Visibility Should Be Better

While getting 100% visibility in multiplayer shooters is nigh impossible given the chaos happening, BFV had it bad in the sense that players actually blended into the environments! Don’t believe me? Check it out for yourself here.

Yeah, it’s not fun NOT being able to see enemies that are shootig you, and we’re hoping DICE has thought of this in Battlefield 2042, and that it’ll be a non-issue.

No Attrition or Gameplay Mechanic That Discourages Players From Engaging

Do you like running out of bullets often when engaging enemies? What about health? You want to constantly be running back and forth between ammo stations and Medics/Supports in order to heal yourself fully, or just to resupply? Yeah, not fun, right? Why DICE decided that limiting or discouraging players from engaging with the enemy is a good idea, we don’t know why.

Hopefully, this is an experiment that was tested with BFV, and ends with BFV. Just let us shoot people in the face without needing to go back to ammo depots every few seconds, OK, DICE?

No MMG & Prone Meta

If you’ve played BFV, chances are you’ve been killed by those damn MMGs and Support players lying on their stomaches while firing concealed by bushes and whatnot. Yeah, it made certain levels a grindfest, and just not fun since it slowed down the action considerably.

Will we see this meta again in Battlefield 2042? We certainly hope not.

Content Must Be Continuous and Consistent

EA has already confirmed that Battlefield 2042 will ship with only seven maps at launch, which is a super short number of maps for a game that’s multiplayer-only, and being sold at full price. If EA can somehow keep the content coming regularly, then this shouldn’t be an issue. However, given what we saw with BFV’s “Tides of War” offerings, we’re a bit worried that we’ll see the same content drought with Battlefield 2042.

If there’s one thing that drove players away from BFV, it’s how the content roll out was sporadic, and the communication unclear. It was the developer’s first foray into the “live service” model, and it didn’t exactly live up to expectations. We’re really hoping that with BFV not selling as well as it should have, that EA has learned from this specific mistake, and that we’ll see a constant stream of content! Be it new maps, new Operators, weapons, events, we just want MORE!


There you have it! These are the top five things Battlefield 2042 must learn from Battlefield V! Do you agree? Did we miss anything? Sound off in the comments below.

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Brian
Brian
2 years ago

No one played BFV so no one can compare it. As long as they don’t do the whole womyn social justice dont like it dont buy it we hate white men BS then we’re good

CyrylTheWolf
Reply to  Brian
2 years ago

What…the literal FUCK…are you talking about? Tons of people played BFV.

Crabman
Crabman
Reply to  Brian
2 years ago

Millions of people played bfv. Just because your panties are still in a twist 3 years later at the most bogus of things.

There’s female characters in the game which you have the amazing ability to never play as. If you don’t like something you don’t buy; pretty common sense no?
Literally the most prevalent thing in bfv are white males so…

Gregor Ebert
Gregor Ebert
Reply to  Crabman
2 years ago

100% agree ^^

Brian
Brian
Reply to  Crabman
2 years ago

dude, the game was one of the biggest flops in gaming history. you can keep shilling for it i guess but it doesn’t change the fact. it undersold by millions and was universally loathed. it got a few players sure but has less players than BF4 lol.

CyrylTheWolf
Reply to  Brian
2 years ago

You’re making hyperbolic exaggeration here. But the sentiment is correct.

Brian
Brian
Reply to  CyrylTheWolf
2 years ago

If you read some of the early articles and data it almost put the main studio out of business. I think they closed down an Austin studio if im not mistaken. The CEO of EA (the one who said if you didn’t like it dont buy it) stepped down. If they didn’t right the ship with the next battlefield they were done. “In history” might be a bit hyperbolic but it’s certainly in the top

CyrylTheWolf
Reply to  Brian
2 years ago

Your approach in your argument certainly needs work. In today’s social climate, making a scene about what you referred to as “social justice” is eschewed on a much broader scale than it once was. It’s a very real thing and it’s incredibly important.

What I don’t understand – for your part – is… WHY get so loud about it in regard to a video game? Failed or not… It’s a game. If you wanted to make an argument concerning a game then you should probably have left the “social justice” bit out of it as it’s not really relevant in the least bit to the quality of the game itself.

Yeah. EA/DICE really fucked up in terms of historical accuracy. But the INCLUSION of women and minorities in what ended up being a game that is NOT entirely based on historical accuracy is NOT a bad thing…and it costs YOU nothing at all. Because, at the end of the day, you’re just shooting at them anyway – regardless of gender or skin color. So what did that even matter?

It just seemed like a real mess of a topic the way you started it.

Bob_The_30000
Bob_The_30000
Reply to  CyrylTheWolf
2 years ago

While i agree with the messed up historical accuracy at some parts, the inclusion of women in the game was far from historical inaccuracy.
All of the women in my family were in Partisans (the army in Yugoslavia, aka the only non-allied army to have defeated the Axis, for those who wonder) or part of the “illegals”, my uncle’s sister was a grenadier and highly awarded soldier, both of my grandmothers were POWs, thousands of women just in the Balkans..

Now sure enough Axis and especially some Allied nations definitely skipped the females, but french resistance for instance had large number of women.

Crabman
Crabman
Reply to  Brian
2 years ago

Bfv? A flop? Yeah think you might need to go back to the dictionary if bfv is a “flop”. It was still a successful title despite the reactionary people such as yourself screaming about wahman and minorities (like they didn’t do anything in ww2…) and was supported for longer then previous titles are even despite a global pandemic hampering that.

I don’t know how stating fact is “shilling” but I guess I never expect anything from people such as yourself to make coherent sense anyhow.

Lawbreakers is an example of a game that flopped (and hard) whilst bfv another entry into a near 20 year old franchise went on strong and is still going. People will still be playing it when Bf2042 comes out just like every previous title before it. I can’t wait to see people praise bfv as the best thing since sliced bread when bf2042 launches just like they do with every previous title in the franchise’s history. When bfv launched bf1 was the best thing ever and bfv was bad, when bf1 launched BF4 was the best thing ever and bf1 was bad; repeat till bf1942.

Brian
Brian
Reply to  Crabman
2 years ago

i could go link to the articles, videos, posts etc all showing this game tanked, but i can tell it’s pointless with how long your rant is (which i just skimmed). go with christ bro

Pig Skins Have No Lips
Pig Skins Have No Lips
Reply to  Brian
2 years ago

“Everting should be whiiiiiite boooooiiiiiiis only!!!!” LMAO

Brian
Brian
Reply to  Pig Skins Have No Lips
2 years ago

yup. make your black man game if you want

Michael Willis
Michael Willis
2 years ago

I agree with all of these, but another has to be figuring out a way to fix a player playing on lower settings for an advantage.
Such as Foliage comment image (From reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/BattlefieldV/comments/a0g1jn/undergrowth_quality_high_vs_low_this_shouldnt_be/)

Not really a problem on console as everyone plays with the same/similar settings.

Meurik
Meurik
Reply to  Michael Willis
2 years ago

Wow! Reminds me of the original BFV (Vietnam, not 5). Where players hiding in the tall grass, would have their own vision obscured by the foliage, but snipers at long range wouldn’t even see the foliage that was concealing their targets. For snipers, they’d simply see players laying on a flat surface in full view.

Michael Willis
Michael Willis
Reply to  Meurik
2 years ago

Exactly that. Whether you are an recon searching for a good perch or an engineer looking for a well hidden spot to launch tracking rockets. Few things are more maddening like when trying to figure out how someone saw you from two miles away, over a hill, and behind a boulder. Either someone marked you or what you thought was cover didn’t render in for the other player.

Alex Co
Reply to  Michael Willis
2 years ago

Yeah. That is bad.

Giovanni Andrew Roverso
Giovanni Andrew Roverso
Reply to  Michael Willis
2 years ago

In all BF games you have to turn undergrowth quality to low to compete in these scenarios

Giovanni Andrew Roverso
Giovanni Andrew Roverso
Reply to  Michael Willis
2 years ago

In all BF games you have to turn undergrowth quality to low to compete in these scenarios

Henry Co
Henry Co
2 years ago

Hopefully the LMG or MMG aren’t laser focus as you hold fire like in 2142..

I remembered battlefield 2 and having my settings to low, no shadows, no bush. Where you going to hide?

Hopefully TTK isn’t messed with too much and is balanced, they’ve have so many years into this franchise…

Add me on origin, maybe we can game it out. ZWhiteShadow

Alex Co
Reply to  Henry Co
2 years ago

I think (or hope) DICE learned their lesson in handling TTK. I mean, they kept changing it so much that you’d wonder if they even needed to do it if they stuck to how it worked before.

CyrylTheWolf
2 years ago

What? No mention of the sheer number of TANKS constantly lurking around every fucking place you spawn? I could pay for the game itself with a penny for every fucking time I’ve been spawned DIRECTLY in the path of a tank.

Armor period in BFV was just OUTRAGEOUSLY overpowered and ubiquitous.

Gregor Ebert
Gregor Ebert
Reply to  CyrylTheWolf
2 years ago

Dear CyrylTheWolf, in that case you start again as an engineer and try to get rid of one of them. You CAN manage one tank by yourself, but with some more anti-tank guys you can take out 2 or 3, é viola – problem solved! 🙂

CyrylTheWolf
Reply to  Gregor Ebert
2 years ago

HOLY FUCKING SHIT… Why didn’t *I* fucking think of that!?!?

Man… I know how to play the fucking game. I’ve only been playing since the first one. Do you really think if it was THAT fucking easy that it would be a problem?

The issue is that the anti-tank weapons are weak as fuck. It’s VERY difficult to take out a tank being one guy. Hell… Half of the tanks take more explosives than you can carry in one life. Numerous times I have put out ALL of the dynamite, rockets and AT grenade…then watched the son of a bitch just roll off and repair. (Assuming they don’t just kill you anyway.)

It is not often that you CAN get multiple people to work together on taking out the tanks. EVEN THEN they just respawn quickly and are right back up your ass in no time.

On that note there are simply TOO MANY of them. Look at Wake Island for example. Even AFTER supposed ‘adjustments’ that they made after releasing that map, you STILL get boxed in on your spawn on the NW tip of the island…by TANKS.

Do you not understand the problem? Do you PLAY the game, even? JFC.

CyrylTheWolf
Reply to  Gregor Ebert
2 years ago

HOLY FUCKING SHIT… Why didn’t *I* fucking think of that!?!?

Man… I know how to play the fucking game. I’ve only been playing since the first one. Do you really think if it was THAT fucking easy that it would be a problem?

The issue is that the anti-tank weapons are weak as fuck. It’s VERY difficult to take out a tank being one guy. Hell… Half of the tanks take more explosives than you can carry in one life. Numerous times I have put out ALL of the dynamite, rockets and AT grenade…then watched the son of a bitch just roll off and repair. (Assuming they don’t just kill you anyway.)

It is not often that you CAN get multiple people to work together on taking out the tanks. EVEN THEN they just respawn quickly and are right back up your ass in no time.

On that note there are simply TOO MANY of them. Look at Wake Island for example. Even AFTER supposed ‘adjustments’ that they made after releasing that map, you STILL get boxed in on your spawn on the NW tip of the island…by TANKS.

Do you not understand the problem? Do you PLAY the game, even? JFC.

Gregor Ebert
Gregor Ebert
Reply to  CyrylTheWolf
2 years ago

Well, BF2042 will take place in the future, so everything will be VERY different I guess. New tanks, new anti-tank weapons,…

And: Aim for their back. That helps. 😉

No, seriously: I don’t know on which platform you’re playing, but on PS4/5 servers, tanks aren’t a real pain in the ass. If their are getting too annoying, enough guys respawn as engineers and finish them off.

But of course, SOMETIMES you have rounds when your enemies are just superior and kick your ass badly. But only sometimes.

CyrylTheWolf
Reply to  Gregor Ebert
2 years ago

I play on PC. I’ve not touched the console equivalents so I wonder if that plays a part in your apparent lack of understanding in the situation.

Again… I KNOW how to play the game. I am more than painfully aware of the fact that the REAR (not “back”) of the tanks is the weaker point and, when possible, I do precisely that. But what you do not seem to be comprehending is that you all too frequently don’t have much opportunity to maneuver behind them as such.

As I have repeatedly stated, you are frequently spawned at distance OR directly in front of them and they have more than ample opportunity to see you and make quick work of you – over and over again.

What part of this is NOT registering with you??

I have no idea what the fuck your last comment was supposed to mean. I presume it was a dig of sorts. It’s not relevant if so.

I do so certainly hope that 2042 is VERY different in terms of balance. That is all I have the patience to say.

loser-counter (it's you)
loser-counter (it's you)
Reply to  CyrylTheWolf
2 years ago

Your name should be cry, because you are angsty and bitchy.

CyrylTheWolf
Reply to  loser-counter (it's you)
2 years ago

I bet you think that you’re original. Don’t ya? You adorable little bitch. LOL

Giovanni Andrew Roverso
Giovanni Andrew Roverso
2 years ago

I like the resupply mechanics

Jon Pon
Jon Pon
2 years ago

Article obviously written by COD fanboy. Imagine camouflage actually working? Fk me right?

An mg going prone and supplying suppressive fire? Gtfo (not that they’re hard to out manoeuvre ot anything).

Having to resupply, making you pick your shots and not go ape sh#t crazy with the trigger finger? Ridiculous…

This article so bias it’s crazy…

Alex Co
Reply to  Jon Pon
2 years ago

Wut? I’m a COD fanboy? Really? Er, you don’t know me very well, then. I’m a hardcore BF fan through and through. While I also play a lot of COD, BF is my go-to MP shooter of choice.

bakbest
bakbest
2 years ago

All nice and dandy but did you think bout cheater protection at all? BfV failed also cuz it was running rampant with obvious cheaters..

Pig Skins Have No Lips
Pig Skins Have No Lips
Reply to  bakbest
2 years ago

That’s really a PC issue.

Gregor Ebert
Gregor Ebert
2 years ago

Most things are right, but I don’t agree with the ammunition argument. I play BFV a lot, but rarely run out of ammo. And when it comes to flares or rockets, you just have to be aware of getting new ones as often as possible.

Even if you run out of ammo or health, you can ask for support via that comorose (?) menu and all available ones will blink on your radar AND supporters and medics see that you’re asking for help. IMHO that’s a good think for interaction with other players.

The only thing I think DICE forgot is giving points to people who rebuilt destroyed ammunation (and tank repair) crates when someone uses them afterwards.

TuChinz
TuChinz
2 years ago

I hope they don’t keep the downing feature. Something about getting domed and then crying out for help just irks me.

Graham
Graham
2 years ago

I agree all these points except the mmg & prone one. I mean you can always shoot the mmg player as they are easy to spot with the muzzle flash and noise etc. Use a rifle , at least lying prone they’re an easy target. Suppression from mmg’s doesn’t seem to do much anyway in BFV.

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