>>534836574
2142 either wasn't properly playtested or DICE had never actually properly playtested anything and just got lucky with
1.1943 being such a new concept that people were just happy with the novelty of it
And 2. They had lightning in a bottle with BF2 and got lucky with it being as good as it was.

2142 literally feels like something a high school student sketched out and planned instead of paying attention in math class. Entire modes sound kino on paper but don't play out well. Pic related was supposed to be a massive mode about boarding enemy flying fortresses and sabatoging them, but most of the time it was just a chokehold clusterfuck and you'd have to start all over every time you died. Pandemic's Star Wars Battlefront II, a literal Battlefield ripoff game, did it better.

As far as 2042 goes, it was just too ambitious and should have never been forced to be released on Gen 8 hardware. It will probably never be a "great" game, but I've already had more fun in it than I ever did in 2142. And I say this as a Refractorbab.