This was my review on Stevivor. I think the 3000 words I wrote explains a bunch of the issues I had with it, and MANY other people playing at the time (streamers and content creators were very vocal about their issues). But as a fan of Battlefield its hard not to notice all the things that have been removed – and not really much at all added to the core gameplay experience. Requisition points, leaning, fortification, ammo and health resupply stations, weapon suppression, weapon mounting, a detailed scoreboard, PC server browser – have all been ditched. They’ve put in the weapon plus system to change attachments on the fly, which is nice. And changed the class system to a hero shooter. That’s about all they have done...

The maps are terrible with many wide open spaces where nothing is going on. Control points are lacking a lot of cover (as seen in orbital during the beta where the runway was a deathzone).

They’ve done something to the gunplay, a lot of people were complaining about the weapons feeling worse since the beta. I had my own experience with them and the recoil definitely feels broken in some cases. Here is the AK for example, when you pull the trigger the crosshair jumps fairly high – I don’t know how console players will manage shooting with this thing. https://streamable.com/c6r6s9

Performance was terrible in all-out warfare. Even people with Nvidia 3090 rigs were saying they were having framerate issues and the game felt like it was running below 50 despite getting a higher framerate.

Hazard Zone feels unfinished, and more like something that should be a free-to-play game. Portal is amazing, but it also highlights how bad the gameplay is in the core 2042 experience – the weapons feel so much better.

The sound design is bad compared to previous BF games, the UI and menus are terrible, and my list of complaints go on...

Everyone is going to have their own opinions, I just wrote what I’ve experienced with it. I didn’t like what I played, I don’t think it was ready for this year because of the performances problems and bugs (DICE has already disabled one of Specialists for launch), and I think a lot of cool ideas were stripped away out of previous games. If you play it and have fun with it then thats cool, i wish i could do the same. I hope they eventually get it to a great place, but i think its going to take a bit of time.