![]() He’s a man with a grapple hook, and so he can be played by anyone that wants to use that, whether that’s equipped with an assault rifle, light machine gun or anything. However, every Specialist can equip every weapon, gadget and piece of equipment.Īs a result, Mackay isn’t really an Assault. These Specialists are grouped, loosely, into the classes of old: Mackay, a character tooled up with a grapple hook and a baseball cap nice enough to appear in an episode of Succession, is technically an Assault, for example. With that praised, it’s time to touch on the most heinous crime of Battlefield 2042 – the removal of the class and loadout systems, both replaced with Specialists instead. While it’s not common to get caught in Battlefield 2042‘s weather effects directly, it does look the part, and whatever complaints I do have about the game, looks aren’t part of it. It’s a stunning game – and performs well at 4K on my machine no matter how many explosions were going on, probably the result of EA skipping over ray-tracing and instead including Nvidia’s DLSS rendering tech. Indeed, before I get on to everything that doesn’t quite work right in 2042, it is worth giving a shout to the graphics, performance and sound for being solid. ![]() Similarly, when it sheds these bizarre additions, and you can play the traditional class-based Battlefield in the Battlefield Portal, it works. When the game works – and occasionally, in spite of itself, it will – it’s hard not to enjoy the sheer “ Battlefieldiness” of the whole experience, giggling with friends as your little AA tank trawls through skirmish after skirmish, shooting down helicopters and fleeing the “real” battle tanks that can very easily put a hole in you. Elsewhere, every gun in the game is, well, a bit shit and the only way to resolve this is to get kills with them to try and earn the attachments that will make them slightly better. ![]() You’ll spend a lot of the time trying to escape death by helicopter as the skies are full of them, but if you aren’t careful while running away from them, you’ll be killed by hovercrafts, a “light” vehicle that still has enough armaments to single-handedly invade Iceland. ![]() Customising loadouts is hard work, getting your hands on a vehicle is hard work, working out what you’ve unlocked is hard work. I’ve softened on this and, with the servers full of Battlefieldfans and after some time on with the progression system, I think it’s playable, but still a huge misstep for the Battlefield franchise.Īt the simplest level, Battlefield 2042 just feels like a chore.
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