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I don't find it likely that they'll be putting in new microtransactional fare - it's just not going to get bought (which is how it should always be). When your game is in need of as many technical updates and reworks, and you state that the next Battlefield is already on the horizon, nobody is going to waste their money on this.

Nevertheless, they need to work on fixing it if they want to smooth relations over with their community and instill confidence that any future Battlefields won't just be a buggy boondoggle that's pushed to the side for a mainline entry in less than a year.
 
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This week's Weekly Mission is for a skin, that is useable on all weapons, for a change.
 
That Chris Guy said:
instill confidence that any future Battlefields won't just be a buggy boondoggle that's pushed to the side for a mainline entry in less than a year.
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you mean like pretty much every battlefield, which retards still preordered? how much did 2042 sell despite V?

Thiletonomics said:
It's very telling that even games like Battleborn, LawBreakers, Paragon, Dirty Bomb and Evolve (I think), etc., even had R34 made of their characters, where as BF2042 R34 doesn't exist, yet.
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most evolve r34 was about wraith of all things. for reference:
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so yeah, people rather jerk it to some alien monster than 2042's specialist snowflakes.
 
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Thiletonomics said:
Battlefield 2042 will be added to Xbox Game Pass on May 5. I can't think of a reason why someone would get Game Pass, just to be able to play BF2042.

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Some more assets about the possible new map Exposure, and some player cards which may be associated with this map, have been data mined in the 4.0 patch.
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Any mark stupid enough to spend money on this game has already been tapped. Putting it on game pass could possibly prop up the dead player base, and give them possibly an opportunity to sell microtransactions to new suckers with poor impulse control.
 
Thiletonomics said:
Battlefield 2042 will be added to Xbox Game Pass on May 5. I can't think of a reason why someone would get Game Pass, just to be able to play BF2042.

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You already had a 10 hour trial available if you had EA Play, which comes with Game Pass Ultimate, I spent around 10 minutes on the game before uninstalling it, this will probably just expose how shitty 2042 is to more people.
 
Info about the possible next Specialist has been datamined, her name (assuming that DICE doesn't go full on gender soup again) is apparently Lis, but her appearance and abilities are unknown. Also, some unused traits, gadgets, and specialties have also been datamined:

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When I first saw this leak, I thought Lis was going to be a Life is Strange reference, even moreso if she ends up looking like a LiS character.
 
Thiletonomics said:
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The BC2 Medic in Portal appears to be using the same face model as a SWBF2 Officer.
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Not sure if that's a creative way to reuse assets, or a sign of how haphazardly the game was made. Regardless, I thought a reason the game had such a rough development was DICE spending half the development time getting Frostbite more up to date in terms of rendering, using an asset from a four year old game (albeit a damn good looking one) sort of defeats the point.
 
Vault Boy said:
Not sure if that's a creative way to reuse assets, or a sign of how haphazardly the game was made. Regardless, I thought a reason the game had such a rough development was DICE spending half the development time getting Frostbite more up to date in terms of rendering, using an asset from a four year old game (albeit a damn good looking one) sort of defeats the point.
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what's there to update tho? frostbite always looked damn good and 2042 doesn't really do anything more than bf3 did 10 fucking years ago.
I assume either the engine is such a mess that it's a PITA to change it (but even a fucking 1:1 asset swap would better than what we got) and/or anyone who could manage it quit given what a shithole DICE apparently to work at is (since they're now sucking unreal cock seems to be the most logical case). what a fall from grace.
 
Thiletonomics said:
In today's EA earnings call, CEO Andrew Wilson claims that BF2042 has not been given up yet, and Vince Zampella says that the game is using the 'Vince Zampella-slash-Respawn model'.

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The latter statement comes off as they're already working on the next Battlefield game.
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I think they screwed themselves with selling a season pass, that obligates them to make some form of content instead of scuttling this lost cause. Not sure why they haven't considered giving out vouchers for a number of EA games to ensure that the poor bastards that bought the pass get something, but I guess they're fine with having this albatross hang from their necks.

It's not like Halo Infinite where that game at least had solid gameplay that kept people around for a number of months (not much of an advantage with them forcing another six month season, but that's on 343 for being incompetent), barely anyone liked this game enough to stick with it beyond the first two weeks. Beyond fulfilling the obligation for the season pass, who is this game for anymore?
 
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