The times where I would use these 'Gadgets,' as the abilities are formally called, to help shift the tide of a certain battle were essentially nonexistent.

Most of the Specialists contain abilities that I often didn't find myself using because they just weren't that handy. In a general sense, I think the idea of Specialists is fine here in Battlefield 2042, but it's the way they've been implemented that I don't love. Each of these characters has their own class association that has been seen in other Battlefield games (Assault, Engineer, Support, Recon) to go along with their own unique abilities to set them apart. Rather than giving you a generic soldier to play as, the game offers up 10 different Specialists that you can select from. One of the other big changes that Battlefield 2042 has made comes with the addition of Specialists. This choice was seemingly done to make matches even more chaotic and outlandish than ever before, but instead, the opposite rings true. Rather than featuring 64 total players in a match like we have seen in previous Battlefield titles, Battlefield 2042 doubles that number to 128. Likely the most notable thing that DICE got wrong with Battlefield 2042 came with the decision to scale up. Some of these problems have continued to linger since then, but the game has become a bit more stable in my own experience following a handful of new updates.Įven outside of the launch window problems that Battlefield 2042 has featured, it's everything else in the game that I'm greatly disappointed by. It was difficult for me to get into matches, and even when I would find a game, I was constantly met with stuttering or drastic slowdown that made it feel as if I was moving through molasses. When it launched via early access, I practically found the game unplayable in my first few days with it. To get this out of the way up front, the process of playing Battlefield 2042 in recent weeks has been a slog.

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