Rumor: Battlefield 2042 Originally Meant to Have 'Earthquakes, Fire Tornadoes, Tsunamis, and Volcanoes' - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 March 2022 / 2,435 Views
Battlefield 2042 has had a rocky launch with features missing that were in previous Battlefield titles and plenty of bugs. It now looks like new features that were originally planned for the multiplayer first-person shooter were also cut.
Journalist and insider Tom Henderson took to Twitter to reveal that a presentation for the game in Summer 2020 revealed the game was going to have earthquakes, volcano eruptions, tsunamis, and fire tornadoes. However, none of these made it into the final release.
"A summer 2020 presentation of Battlefield 2042 contained earthquakes, fire tornadoes, tsunamis, and volcano eruptions - But due to lack of time, they needed to just focus on the twister," said Henderson.
Henderson has also claimed that the post launch plans he originally revealed have all changed as the developer is focused on fixing on bugs and other issues with the game.
However, without any official work from EA or DICE this should be treated as a rumor until confirmed.
Battlefield 2042 is available on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
Also, post-launch plans for the title are completely fucked. So everything I said about all the post-launch plans before the game was released... Just ignore it.
— Tom Henderson (@_Tom_Henderson_) December 19, 2021
These past couple of months have been exhausting... And I'm not even a dev! pic.twitter.com/oPw8u0Hc6N
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So is EA already putting the game on life support?!?
Then what's the meaning behind this?
"Also, post-launch plans for the title are completely fucked. So everything I said about all the post-launch plans before the game was released... Just ignore it."
They won't be able to keep the game going for long if post-launch support is little to none.
I feel sad for people who still buy EA games at launch.
They should have delayed it by at least a year.
Sounds like the game didn't so so hot, so EA's putting it on life support, far earlier than what they did with BF5.
This is why I'm not gonna bother all that much with 3rd party AAA shooters as much, because they expect to sell more and find success by doing less, then when they don't get what they want, they kill off the game's support early on. There's hardly any benefit for BF players at this point.
I'm seeing ppl on Steam forums actually asking to play with ppl, and I'm like "oh lordy, oh no", because when someone has to make a thread or two like that, you know the game is in bad shape for player count.
Also doesn't help that the user reviews are still overwhelmingly negative, which is causing the game to plummet further and further down the list, while also appearing to less people on the storefront as a result (though they recently just held a free weekend and a sale, which immediately brings it back to the front page, and I'm sure they did that specifically because it was dropping so fast from line of sight).
I think this is the fasted I've ever seen a BF game tank, and even V got it's own backlash, but some folks warmed up to it after like 4-6 months. This doesn't look like it's even going to manage V's level of retention.
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