

Things will explode – although destruction feels lacking – and the whole time jets buzz overhead, helicopters rain down death, and soldiers roll from place to place like an undulating tide of mayhem. The flexibility to Battlefield’s new loadout system means it’s not unreasonable to be clutching enough weapons to single-handedly turn the tide of a small war. The shooting is good, with guns feeling weighty, and grenades having real oomph. The player jumped out and gunned three of us down as we were stunned with confusion. During my hands-on, a jeep smashed into some rubble in front of me and flipped into the sky.

You don’t see helicopters fall from the sky, spewing commandos as they plummet to the ground in a fireball. This means you get the same combined arms gunplay as infantry and vehicles plow into each other. It was a pretty good outage.īattlefield 2042 is Battlefield.

I took the time to order a Souvlaki wrap. Admittedly one hour was spent in a Discord chatting with two other players, because Facebook’s earth-shaking service outage seemed to also knock out BF2042’s servers and force us to kick about. What I really wanted was to experience a brutal tornado.Īnd it never happened, throughout four hours of play. That’s all present and correct here with a few changes.

I’ve played several Battlefield games, and I kind of know what to expect at this point: you capture a point, you shoot some bad guys, you ride around in a vehicle.
