Battlefield 2042

Just an FYI for anyone playing on console that's as slow as molasses like myself... to put on a scope/foregrip/change ammo type, hold L1 and use the face buttons to choose your options. Took me 2 hours to figure that out, playing (badly) with iron sights was painful.

I had to look it up on the internet, would have thought they would have mapped it to the d-pad, not the buttons. I did see too where they say the spotting button isnt working correctly and dice know about it.

Not available in the Beta unfortunately.

Hard to disagree with that. I miss the old class system, I feel that helped create a 'team' far more than the specialists. No one that I've seen runs with ammo or health crates. No one revives, and squads, for the most part barely stick together.

Im enjoying it so far,

sound does seem off, probably fixed later on

The Engineers AA rockets seem very low damage for direct hits?

Jaysus, some of the bugs are hilarious. Some Vtol exploded and spinning around upside down, sideways, superfast all over the map, for ages.

I enjoy the gun set up changes on the go

Squads coming back?

Maps are huge, be interesting to see smaller versions of the same map

Keyboard mapping did take a fair few minutes so sort out

Im invincible to getting run over (sure its a bug) some lad kept running me over in a jeep thinge, all it did was push me away. He tried again, failed, and again, just pushed me some more. Then I shot him.

I'm playing on console XBOX Series X and it was a bit buggy not too bad though. I was wondering how do you request an order from your squad leader? My squad of randoms were all over the place, no team play at all.

It was late last night when my download completed , so only managed one round of conquest.

While it certainly feels much closer to BF4 that the previous two games, There's something about it that felt a bit off to me, I'm not sure if its like the scale of buildings etc is slightly out of proportion to the player character.

I lost count of the amount of times I opened fire on a friendly, as it was very hard to distinguish the enemy from teammates - hardcore mode is going to be brutal with teamkilling if I cant improve this.

On the gun customization, I'm neither hot or cold on it, it just seems like a weird faff to be doing mid-life, I can't see many swapping optics as they enter buildings etc.

I'll play a few more rounds later, but at the moment, Its not an instant purchase for me.

Loving this on the PS5, any game so far has felt fun, which a lot of recent shooters have failed to be, imo. Unlike others, I'm loving the on the spot customisation, really helps the sniper class. Managed to hold down the rocket by myself at one point, sniping lads as they come up the big open area before it (duh!), and ended yp having to swap weapons multiple times once I killer someone that got up near me. Reckon I killed about 20 before finally dieing. From the same point, using a machine gun, being able to switch between red dot and acog was a literal life saver.

But like others have noted, no one playing medic or engineer. Early days though, and I'm sure people want to get a lay of the land first. It'll only get better with time imo.

Very close to a preorder here. Even with the few bugs (enemies dying and keeping the last posture they were in is my main gripe at the mo, spent enough ammo shooting these floating dead people!

I've not played the beta yet but from the streams I've seen it looks pretty good.

Few complaining about the gun mechanics but that's mainly lads that have played Warzone for the last 12-18moths or so.

Looking forward to giving it a go though, always loved the BF series.

Played a few more games last night, and uninstalled when I was finished,

Still not feeling it on console at least.

Hopefully there will be a full trial on ea access when it launches, but at the moment, Its just not doing it for me.

few more takeaways,

the interface is awful, and the amount of info on screen in terms of kills / points captured etc is excessive, with a bit of luck that can be customised in the final release.

I stand by my statement that its needlessly difficult to tell the difference between the enemies and your teammates, we had a standoff in the tunnel under point D last night and it looked stupid having 3 Maria Falk's on each side shooting at each other.

I think its UP on the dpad.