I didn't talk a whole lot about weapons in the video because I think most players are excited for the G36C and I don't want to make comments on it until the spread is fixed. Thanks for watching everyone!
Outside of the spread I think it's a fair criticism that the AOW attachments available on most the ARs is pretty bad. The M16A3 made out the best, but for some reason lost its red dot 1.25x sight while the rest of the ARs have one or multiple areas of attachments that are almost unchanged or only offer a small amount of attachments that in some cases make zero sense. Some may point to the M416 have quite a few underbarrel options but it is stuffed with most grenade or shotgun under barrel options that I don't even see used often. The amount of guns missing staples like the BCG light grip, MGL laser sight, or common barrel attachments is honestly pathetic. Edit: to also know that we lost out of more vault weapons for this low effort attempt at bringing vault weapons "up to" AOW standards makes it even more frustrating.
1:33 well, content isn't everything. Yes this season was low on content, but it added SO MUCH quality of life improvements im absolutely in love with it! The option to decouple tank turrets from turning, jet's rocket pods, the range nerf for the Wildcat, vault weapon attachments and cosmetics, AR's aren't laserbeams at most ranges, no more heavy cannons for light transports, better feeling soldier movements and such I am honestly in favor of the spread increase for AR's. Its to prevent full auto spam at long ranges, and barely makes a difference in their intended rsnge. If you burst or tap fire, AR's can still be fantastic at range. I used to always use single-fire mode at ranges before the update and it still works well now as well. Now that i think about it, it feels like single-fire mode actually lowers your recoil compared to tapping in full auto mode
Played for 10 hours today and had a mostly enjoyable time. The map is great although I’m thinking breakthrough would be better with no vehicles. The vault ARs feel refreshing and will definitely shake up the meta. Good changes just wish we had more.
I’m disappointed dice removed the portal bf3 holographic sight from the bf3 m-416 for no reason, while M-16 does have it and I don’t understand why it was specifically the M-416
I'm not as optimistic as you are about this season. I know you mostly play BT, but with CQ is objectively not in a good spot on this map. The US side has a terrible disadvantage compared to the RU side. The AA gun is made of paper mache, in too contested of an area, and is ineffective if not a death sentence against any competent pilot. The vehicles dominate the space and the only real relief from them is the D flag which is not a heavily contested area as the C1 and C2 flags grab the attention. Fighting on the C flags can feel at times over chaotic as there is a mirage of cover on this map IMO. There are so many wholes, verticality, and insufficient cover that at anytime you could get shot from any direction and not really have a good explanation for how you could have approached it differently. The vault weapon AOW attachments are a disappointment to put it lightly. Its like DICE completed work on the M16A3 and then decided the rest of the weapons were not worth the same amount of effort. The lack of barrel and underbarrel options on most of the vault ARs is extremely disappointing. The extended mags are nice, but they don't even visually have a difference between them. The ACW-R extended mag states 36 rounds but it is actually 40. Add those two things together and IMO you get a microcosm of the amount of effort they put into adding AOW attachments to vault weapons. One of my friends tested the two muzzle brakes and could not visual see a difference in the spreads so I'm not even sure if every attachments were fully implemented. Then we get to the weapon attachments for vehicles. I shouldn't be, but I'm shocked DICE could actually think removing the 30mm and 50mm canons from LATVs while adding an auto 20mm shotgun weapon is somehow allowing LATVs to fulfill the role of "transportation." I don't know how DICE could think explosive spam would get better with the nerf to Irish and the amount of spam vehicles like the CAV Brawler are capable of. Overall for first impressions day one drops I'd say I'm disappointed with the direction the update took us, not because I think it's all bad, but because I think the execution is poor and not well thought out.
Reclaimed feels like ass, defense barely has time to set up first sector and the cover is so sporadic and so many angles makes defending and attacking annoying
@@halouwu I haven't played BT on it as I don't really like BT, but on CQ I said to a friend there is a mirage of cover because every spot in the main choke points has so many openings that you end up getting shot from what feels like all directions. RU side has a height advantage over US and a cap zone that isn't bothered by vehicles while US spawn caps are wide open to vehicles. Feels like if the US doesn't back cap immediately the RU side wins by 200-300 tickets by default.
@@DustySticks My main problem with the map is just it feels...well too small... No cover for helis and idk how to describe this but, on C1/2 their are the sides you can push to flank and cover against the high ground, but at the end towards the Russian spawn they have a giant hill that watches the entire side and it makes playing there so bad, idk I feel like I'll grow on it but it doesn't need a rework just tweaks to certain positions. You never feel safe in this map no matter where you are due to fifty angles, nooks and crannies watching you
@@halouwu you can get a flank on “the giant hill” if you’re coming from the US side push the left edge of the map. There’s a spot you can go out of bounds up the hill and make it back in with 2-3 seconds to spare.
I’ve just been taping and or holding until full load and stopping and taping. Just panting around and it could probably be tweaked but so far I’ve been still getting bout same amount of kills
Nice review! Thanks for the summary. Can’t confirm the AR nerf issue though. Tried the RM68 to check the nerf and it felt still very accurate and overpowered. Actually I couldn’t really tell it’s nerfed.
This map is the prettiest and the most Classic BF map. Works very well on BT but as a conquest player I can’t say this is favorite map. Its very chaotique and the visibility is Bad. I’m not sure about the flow in conquest. Got to play more. I also enjoy 128 players on 2042 maps. But by chance this one only has 64. I feel like there is 256. I really don’t hate Flashpoint. I actually enjoy it. As a conquest player I think I prefer Spearhead, stranded and even The new discarded rework. But it is no doubt a great addition to 2042. Im very anxious to play on hourglass 2.0
I played the hell out of BF4,BF1,BFV but I can’t get into 2042 like I could the others. I think the gun play is just not nearly as polished as the last couple games which really makes it hard to grind out .. they also need like 5 more sniper rifles as well
I don’t care about specialist or vault weapons. That’s not the content we need. Just make the existing specialist and weapons fun and useable which is the direction they’re going in. New map is the best map they’ve added. Guns feel great at the moment. New anti grenades actually make engineers feel like they can actually take out vehicles now. It’s the best season so far.
Don't know why the vault weapons have a random assortment of sights, M16 has shitty sight options. MTAR doesn't have many attachments at all. Personally haven't noticed the spread changes much. Enjoying the new map, abit chaotic at times. SMGs really need there HS multiplier increased again, the just feel so weak, barely use them anymore as RM68 scrubs are everywhere. Oh and no RM68 nerf...wtf DICE.
LATV 30 and 50mm remove is really good. I mainly play Conquest and hate needing transport and don't have one because some is camping at the edge of the map or on a roof... BUT seeing this shotgun things and AA... I laugh. DICE : "Transport vehicle should not be use mainly for weapon" Also DICE "Here is fresh new weapons for transport vehicle", What's wrong with them ? As someone state about vault weapons, all their effort goes to M16A3. They don't even give new sights for FM XM-8 (LMG), wasn't it suppose to be for all vault weapons ?? Because I play Conquest, I don't see much difference for Irish (Yes it is a nerf not a "change"). Dozer buff is welcome. Straf is ok, Run speed is ok, but Shield swap to Weapon is still slow IMHO
The optimization is still bad. My Pc is by no means good but at medium settings 60 fps average where never a problem (yea its ass but im used to it). I always had bugs for a 1-2 min after joining a server but since yesterdays update its even worse, for example it takes about 5 minutes to load the ground of the map after I deployed and I also get kicked out of games randomly without any error or crashlog. Tried changing settings and updated drivers but it didnt help. It really sucks now that the game has more content, is getting better maps and is actually fun now because the frame it was build on is still awful, this game could have been not only good but great. Bf4 looks almost as good if not better and my Pc easily got 120+ frames on max settings even when the whole building explodes around you
I am not a big AR guy but I certainly don't share your opinion about ARs. They literally feel so much better than whatever those laser beams were before. I even think some of them still need slightly more recoil, because they are still too good
@@CatalystHD Not getting you wrong. Don't get me wrong too, current implementation isn't perfect and dice clearly said it's not final. They will be balancing it in every patch. But saying that 15% more spread killed ARs is an overreaction.
I dont think he said 15% spread ruined it. He said burst fire does not seem to be resetting spread and said he thinks I'd it did, things would be solid.
Ahhh nerf the AR spread okay ill just use smgs and beam just as hard wtf was the point that was kinda dumb but im in love with everything else right now
Ngl for the season with the least amount of content they don't get any praise if they manage to create a good map amongst the lack of content. They had 3 years before release and 1,5 years since release and only managed to give us 2 acceptable maps and one clsoe to mediocre map. If they keep this up, they can finally reach "Dice-from-10-years-ago" level. JK current Dice couldn't even come close.
I don't remember. Maybe I said it deserves to die. Even though I dislike the game overall, I don't want to see the game die, otherwise I would have no game to make content on.
I didn't talk a whole lot about weapons in the video because I think most players are excited for the G36C and I don't want to make comments on it until the spread is fixed. Thanks for watching everyone!
Outside of the spread I think it's a fair criticism that the AOW attachments available on most the ARs is pretty bad. The M16A3 made out the best, but for some reason lost its red dot 1.25x sight while the rest of the ARs have one or multiple areas of attachments that are almost unchanged or only offer a small amount of attachments that in some cases make zero sense. Some may point to the M416 have quite a few underbarrel options but it is stuffed with most grenade or shotgun under barrel options that I don't even see used often. The amount of guns missing staples like the BCG light grip, MGL laser sight, or common barrel attachments is honestly pathetic.
Edit: to also know that we lost out of more vault weapons for this low effort attempt at bringing vault weapons "up to" AOW standards makes it even more frustrating.
@@DustySticks I hate that they removed heavy barrel from m16a3 and red dot sight and gave us the "T" shaped sight instead...
Enders tested the spread and they fucked the ar’s
@@GabrielLogan3 cobra sights easier to use imo
@@joshthemigpro1733 I also liked cobra in bf4 on certain weapons yep.
1:33 well, content isn't everything. Yes this season was low on content, but it added SO MUCH quality of life improvements im absolutely in love with it!
The option to decouple tank turrets from turning, jet's rocket pods, the range nerf for the Wildcat, vault weapon attachments and cosmetics, AR's aren't laserbeams at most ranges, no more heavy cannons for light transports, better feeling soldier movements and such
I am honestly in favor of the spread increase for AR's. Its to prevent full auto spam at long ranges, and barely makes a difference in their intended rsnge. If you burst or tap fire, AR's can still be fantastic at range. I used to always use single-fire mode at ranges before the update and it still works well now as well.
Now that i think about it, it feels like single-fire mode actually lowers your recoil compared to tapping in full auto mode
Bought the game on launch and never touched it but played for the first time in s5 and I’ve been loving it.
Played for 10 hours today and had a mostly enjoyable time. The map is great although I’m thinking breakthrough would be better with no vehicles. The vault ARs feel refreshing and will definitely shake up the meta. Good changes just wish we had more.
Ten hours?! Dude where do you get that free time during a work day?
I’m disappointed dice removed the portal bf3 holographic sight from the bf3 m-416 for no reason, while M-16 does have it and I don’t understand why it was specifically the M-416
The portal sights should've never been removed.
@@imnotusingmyrealname4566 somebody understands
I knew there was something up with assault rifle spread. Using my M416 felt awful in this new patch… time to switch to LMG lol
By "felt awful" you mean "my ar finally felt like it wasn't good past its intended range"?
I mean yeah, the nerf was against full auto spamming. I used it yesterday, and as long as you tap or burst at range, its still pretty great
@@CrispyMuffin2 u need to stop shooting completely for it reset the spread😊m
I'm not as optimistic as you are about this season. I know you mostly play BT, but with CQ is objectively not in a good spot on this map. The US side has a terrible disadvantage compared to the RU side. The AA gun is made of paper mache, in too contested of an area, and is ineffective if not a death sentence against any competent pilot. The vehicles dominate the space and the only real relief from them is the D flag which is not a heavily contested area as the C1 and C2 flags grab the attention. Fighting on the C flags can feel at times over chaotic as there is a mirage of cover on this map IMO. There are so many wholes, verticality, and insufficient cover that at anytime you could get shot from any direction and not really have a good explanation for how you could have approached it differently.
The vault weapon AOW attachments are a disappointment to put it lightly. Its like DICE completed work on the M16A3 and then decided the rest of the weapons were not worth the same amount of effort. The lack of barrel and underbarrel options on most of the vault ARs is extremely disappointing. The extended mags are nice, but they don't even visually have a difference between them. The ACW-R extended mag states 36 rounds but it is actually 40. Add those two things together and IMO you get a microcosm of the amount of effort they put into adding AOW attachments to vault weapons. One of my friends tested the two muzzle brakes and could not visual see a difference in the spreads so I'm not even sure if every attachments were fully implemented.
Then we get to the weapon attachments for vehicles. I shouldn't be, but I'm shocked DICE could actually think removing the 30mm and 50mm canons from LATVs while adding an auto 20mm shotgun weapon is somehow allowing LATVs to fulfill the role of "transportation." I don't know how DICE could think explosive spam would get better with the nerf to Irish and the amount of spam vehicles like the CAV Brawler are capable of.
Overall for first impressions day one drops I'd say I'm disappointed with the direction the update took us, not because I think it's all bad, but because I think the execution is poor and not well thought out.
I couldn't have said it better
Reclaimed feels like ass, defense barely has time to set up first sector and the cover is so sporadic and so many angles makes defending and attacking annoying
@@halouwu I haven't played BT on it as I don't really like BT, but on CQ I said to a friend there is a mirage of cover because every spot in the main choke points has so many openings that you end up getting shot from what feels like all directions. RU side has a height advantage over US and a cap zone that isn't bothered by vehicles while US spawn caps are wide open to vehicles. Feels like if the US doesn't back cap immediately the RU side wins by 200-300 tickets by default.
@@DustySticks My main problem with the map is just it feels...well too small... No cover for helis and idk how to describe this but, on C1/2 their are the sides you can push to flank and cover against the high ground, but at the end towards the Russian spawn they have a giant hill that watches the entire side and it makes playing there so bad, idk I feel like I'll grow on it but it doesn't need a rework just tweaks to certain positions. You never feel safe in this map no matter where you are due to fifty angles, nooks and crannies watching you
@@halouwu you can get a flank on “the giant hill” if you’re coming from the US side push the left edge of the map. There’s a spot you can go out of bounds up the hill and make it back in with 2-3 seconds to spare.
how do you get weapon charms i am now an so8 and only have one charm ?
i like last season map most. what is it flashpoint
Dice forgot to add Hardcore 2042 match making playlist.
I’ve just been taping and or holding until full load and stopping and taping. Just panting around and it could probably be tweaked but so far I’ve been still getting bout same amount of kills
Nice review! Thanks for the summary. Can’t confirm the AR nerf issue though. Tried the RM68 to check the nerf and it felt still very accurate and overpowered. Actually I couldn’t really tell it’s nerfed.
Dirty RM68 users will still kill people in 3 frames flat. They just cant beam at 100 meters now.
128 mistake made many chain issues in 2042.
64 always fits and makes bf very great.
I’m loving how the movement is now! It feels good.
This map is the prettiest and the most Classic BF map. Works very well on BT but as a conquest player I can’t say this is favorite map. Its very chaotique and the visibility is Bad. I’m not sure about the flow in conquest. Got to play more. I also enjoy 128 players on 2042 maps. But by chance this one only has 64. I feel like there is 256. I really don’t hate Flashpoint. I actually enjoy it. As a conquest player I think I prefer Spearhead, stranded and even The new discarded rework. But it is no doubt a great addition to 2042. Im very anxious to play on hourglass 2.0
The map is great but breakthrough with the tanks on reclaimed is outright annoying af. They just camp bunkers and points.
OMG! 100% agree with all what you said! You are so right and I hope Dice will hear it!
It's a good map but:
1. No destruction
2. Not enough vehicles
3. Too linear
I played the hell out of BF4,BF1,BFV but I can’t get into 2042 like I could the others. I think the gun play is just not nearly as polished as the last couple games which really makes it hard to grind out .. they also need like 5 more sniper rifles as well
LMGs have stuff added to them as well
I don’t care about specialist or vault weapons. That’s not the content we need. Just make the existing specialist and weapons fun and useable which is the direction they’re going in. New map is the best map they’ve added. Guns feel great at the moment. New anti grenades actually make engineers feel like they can actually take out vehicles now. It’s the best season so far.
Well done review. .. Haven't hopped on S5 yet but looking forward to it. I'm most excited to try out how the assault vault weapons are working
I got 2042 when it was free on ps5. It's awesome imo and hopefully seasons keep going. Buy microtransactions everyone! Except me
Don't know why the vault weapons have a random assortment of sights, M16 has shitty sight options. MTAR doesn't have many attachments at all. Personally haven't noticed the spread changes much. Enjoying the new map, abit chaotic at times. SMGs really need there HS multiplier increased again, the just feel so weak, barely use them anymore as RM68 scrubs are everywhere. Oh and no RM68 nerf...wtf DICE.
Love it so far hello from New Zealand 🇳🇿
LATV 30 and 50mm remove is really good. I mainly play Conquest and hate needing transport and don't have one because some is camping at the edge of the map or on a roof... BUT seeing this shotgun things and AA... I laugh. DICE : "Transport vehicle should not be use mainly for weapon" Also DICE "Here is fresh new weapons for transport vehicle", What's wrong with them ?
As someone state about vault weapons, all their effort goes to M16A3. They don't even give new sights for FM XM-8 (LMG), wasn't it suppose to be for all vault weapons ??
Because I play Conquest, I don't see much difference for Irish (Yes it is a nerf not a "change").
Dozer buff is welcome. Straf is ok, Run speed is ok, but Shield swap to Weapon is still slow IMHO
No, only assault rifles and the gol magnum right now, the rest will come out throughout the other season 5 updates
aa on the recon is perfect, nighthawks have dominated for too long, im glad they wont be having fun anymore
I really don't like the Irish nerf... the nade spam is at an all time high
I’m on Xbox, and played for about 3 hours last night, and I swear I played against all PC players. It was unbearable
Should have gone ps, console only lobbies are always full.
@@godleftelmo7710 I’m seeing that. I turned cross play off and there were 3 people in the custom servers lol
@@JBruceAlmighty unlucky man
The optimization is still bad. My Pc is by no means good but at medium settings 60 fps average where never a problem (yea its ass but im used to it). I always had bugs for a 1-2 min after joining a server but since yesterdays update its even worse, for example it takes about 5 minutes to load the ground of the map after I deployed and I also get kicked out of games randomly without any error or crashlog. Tried changing settings and updated drivers but it didnt help. It really sucks now that the game has more content, is getting better maps and is actually fun now because the frame it was build on is still awful, this game could have been not only good but great. Bf4 looks almost as good if not better and my Pc easily got 120+ frames on max settings even when the whole building explodes around you
I am not a big AR guy but I certainly don't share your opinion about ARs. They literally feel so much better than whatever those laser beams were before. I even think some of them still need slightly more recoil, because they are still too good
Don't misunderstand me, this is definitely better than the laser beam AR's.
@@CatalystHD Not getting you wrong. Don't get me wrong too, current implementation isn't perfect and dice clearly said it's not final. They will be balancing it in every patch. But saying that 15% more spread killed ARs is an overreaction.
I dont think he said 15% spread ruined it. He said burst fire does not seem to be resetting spread and said he thinks I'd it did, things would be solid.
@@TheShawnMower he also said "why are Dice doing that, everybody will start using smgs and lmgs". I don't think that's true either
I mean do we want quality or quantity? I’ll take what we got.the new map feels like a good battle map for sure I had to say it felt like battlefield
Ahhh nerf the AR spread okay ill just use smgs and beam just as hard wtf was the point that was kinda dumb but im in love with everything else right now
Ngl for the season with the least amount of content they don't get any praise if they manage to create a good map amongst the lack of content. They had 3 years before release and 1,5 years since release and only managed to give us 2 acceptable maps and one clsoe to mediocre map. If they keep this up, they can finally reach "Dice-from-10-years-ago" level. JK current Dice couldn't even come close.
Anyone else seem to be on fire a lot more since the update ????? Lol
10:45 you just ruined an entire month of good will.. you know what that means
When they announced season 6 and with season 5 being so good, I immediately thought of you and your vocal desire for this game to die fast lol
????????????? I've always wanted the game to improve, not die.
@Catalyst_HD LOL? You said so in several live streams. Can't you remember or was just momentarily rage talking?
I don't remember. Maybe I said it deserves to die. Even though I dislike the game overall, I don't want to see the game die, otherwise I would have no game to make content on.
@Catalyst_HD And I like your content very much! Just commented on a good sport. I think the game is improving and is almost in an excellent spot!
HOPEFULLY SEASON 6 BRINGS MORE PORTAL MAPS FROM BF1942 BFBC2 BF3 OR PORTAL IS JUST A BUST MAP WISE
All people ever use is assault rifles anyways I'm ok with them getting nerfed. Meta guns are tedious anyways
You want pilots to farm more kills? Who tf understands 2042 fans? The game made it more trash with the vehicle changes the game is beyond stupid now 😂
Man that auto aim bot even over smoke screen.....
How is he aim botting
You're probably the guy on the scoreboard playing 2/14