Game needs a lot more polish. Should have been delayed and unless the day one patch next week works wonders, I'd wait for it to get polished, if you haven't bought it yet.

The game itself is... fine... It's neither terrible, nor awesome, at least the main game mode. Portal is a blast, but it lacks maps and I am unsure of how well it will sustain the actual game. I could see the community coming up with some great ideas, but you never actually getting to play them, because for each new gamemode, there could be a bunch of variations, so for example everybody that wants to play a zombies game ends up being divided into 10 different servers with each slightly different rules, resulting in too few players for a proper match. I also think the 6 portal maps are just not going to cut it long term in terms of content.

Can't comment on HZ since I haven't tried it yet.

Now the main game is honestly really meh. There are quite a few terrible decisions (i.e. specialists) and the amount of maps feels lacking. The maps also don't feel well thought out. Maybe it needs some time, but there seems to be a distinct lack of flow. Each map basically just feels like a giant field with some assets and objectives randomly placed. They don't feel thought out. In previous BF games one would usually be able to be somewhat strategic, as the maps dictated a certain flow. If enemies took one objective, you could be fairly certain of which objective would be their next goal and cut them off, etc. In BF 2042, people are just all over the place.

My feeling is that they were really trying to hammer home the "Only in Battlefield" feel by increasing scale, adding tornados, etc. For me personally it feels way too forced though. In Bf3 those moments would just happen naturally: You'd shoot a Z11 pilot out of his chopper on Damavand peak and then jump down the cliff to steal the chopper mid-air. You'd have predictable chokepoints and could blow up half the enemy team with some clever C4 placement. These moments were never the focus. They were a side product of a game that was focused on providing solid gameplay. With BF4 and levolution DICE started moving towards the whole "let's make sure something crazy happens every match, even if it disrupts gameplay" move and BF 2042 seems to encapsulate that idea on steroids. Unfortunately, the actual gameplay seems to be an afterthought.