Battlefield 2042 is criticized by Battlefield 3's lead designer

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Battlefield 3's chief designer David Goldfarb takes to social platforms to criticize the recently launched Battlefield 2042. He also gives some advice to save Battlefield 2042.

Battlefield 2042 was widely anticipated, however, the game's feedback at debut has led fans and EA to regard it as a huge failure. For weeks, rumors have circulated that the game may become free-to-play, and the game's user base has fallen. Now, the chief designer of the critically successful Battlefield 3 is addressing some of the issues with Battlefield 2042.

Battlefield 3 and Bad Company 2 head designer David Goldfarb recently took to Twitter to criticize Battlefield 2042's development. He didn't play the game or even watch any footage until February 7, 2022, according to reports. After finally catching up on how the new title was doing, he started to question how things had gotten so poor.

Goldfarb stated in a series of tweets that he doesn't understand why many of the design decisions for Battlefield 2042 were made. His first complaint is the lack of smaller infantry maps, which he follows up with a concern about why the game's 128 player limit does not appear to include infantry support. Then he inquired as to why Battlefield 2042 maps were being shipped without detailed art, publicly questioning who was in charge of quality control on the game. Although he predicted difficulties from the top, he has no idea who imagined this game would honor and expand the old Battlefield playground concept.

Really trying to understand why some of these design calls were made. Why are there no smaller infantry maps? Why was 128 player count a thing that didnt seemingly have any accommodation for infantry? why are whole maps shipping without any detail art?

— David Goldfarb #BlackLivesMatter (@locust9) February 8, 2022

He goes on to offer his sympathies to his friends and coworkers on Battlefield 2042. Apart from that, he expresses his excitement at seeing Bad Company 2 and Battlefield 3 revived in their own right through the game's Portal mode, which has been hailed as a key saving grace. However, the fact that so many Battlefield 2042 gamers were dissatisfied with the game has sparked a petition demanding that EA offer refunds money across all platforms be considered.

then again obv wins by remastering bc2/bf3 or doing them in portal I guess, but non-trivial amounts of work

— David Goldfarb #BlackLivesMatter (@locust9) February 11, 2022

DICE's next move, according to Goldfarb, should be to take the Battlefield franchise even further into the future - he chooses 2143 - and try to recover the franchise's main appeal. He calls the series "combined arms badassery" and characterizes it as "a truly distinctive IP."

thinking about this now: but the best thing for DICE’s next would be to make 2143 and go forward in time and reclaim their mantle of combined arms badassery that they built their legacy on alongside a really unique IP they created

— David Goldfarb #BlackLivesMatter (@locust9) February 10, 2022

Many fans have regarded Battlefield 2042 as a poor effort, despite the fact that it got a few things right. When contrasted to Call of Duty: Vanguard, another first-person shooter released around the same period, this is especially evident. Hopefully, the Battlefield 2042 devs will take Goldfarb's advice and come up with a way to save the situation.

 For PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S, Battlefield 2042 is now available.

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