Battlefield™ 2042

Good job adding a "secure-boot" requirement, after the game being out for 4 Years and locking out a majority of the few remaining Players. Can't wait for EA's Downfall

got over 800 hour and i can t play the game anymore because of some security sh it f battlefield 2042 shit show since the start gave EA the chance to to get better oh boy did i get f in the butt never again question everything dont trust the goverment

[h1]Secure Boot shouldn't be a requirement.[/h1] It's the developers' job to prevent cheating - not the players'. If their anti-cheat system isn't working properly, they need to find a real solution instead of pushing the problem onto the community. [h3]As players, here's what we need:[/h3] • [b]Easy access.[/b] We just want to launch the game and play — no hassle. • [b]No tech gymnastics.[/b] We shouldn't have to tweak system settings just to log in. See point #1. • [b]You handle the cheaters.[/b] It's your game — it's your job to protect it. We'll keep playing if it's fair and no hassle for us, regular players. • [b]Stop making your problems ours.[/b] Don't push broken systems or workarounds onto the players. Fix them.

This is the best battlefield to do vs bots. I picked it up last night for the 4 of us and there isn't a lot of customization (if it's there I didn't notice it) but it has maybe 10 maps that are the 64 player versions of the regular hold the point style stuff from past battlefields. It also has the same maps in the newer version of battlefields with the "breakthrough" mode where the maps focus on 1 or 2 points at a time that really makes the combat more action packed. The bots themselves on beginner/intermediate are very fair and they play like actual new humans to the game/don't cheat. There's plenty of times where you can get the drop on them as if they were real humans, vs the aim bot just sniping you as soon as you're in their vision range. The 4 of us already put like 5 hours into this mode in less than 24 hours, it was a lot of fun and you are no heavily penalized on the XP in this mode so that you unlock stuff very quickly too. We're already level 10/11ish. For the price of admission, less than $15 for the 4 of us, absolutely a must buy!

Over 400 hours put into this game and now I'm locked out for a "secure boot" option in my PC's bios being disabled? Nah, EA doesn't tell me how to run my PC, nor do they have the right to take away the ability to play a game behind my bios. DO NOT PURCHASE. Anti cheat is a problem for the developers, not the players, so if you can't handle it you make it the player's problem? EA should just stop making games if they are going to ruin the player's experience and refuse to use an anti cheat that functions without looking into the bios of the player's PC for a setting that literally will brick your PC unless it stays left alone. New low in the gaming industry as EA is fighting for Ubisoft's top spot of the biggest morons to date.

Never touched the game on launch, however decided to pick it up when it went on sale recently. It really is not as bad as people make out, the game has clearly improved alot, does it have its flaws? yes, but the game is still pretty fun and having to enable secure boot is not as terrible as it seems.

I bought this game on 2022 , Played a lot even though the game was not perfect , it had flaws it was Ok . Played on Portal servers which are player hosted and has At least 1 mod on the servers 24/7 So cheaters were almost never present whatsoever . Recently they made changes to the patch notes which required secure boot enabled . Which after 3-4 years or so is baffling to make such changes THROUGH A PATCH that they DO NOT even bother to mention , I found it out when the game was having issues to launch and I had to contact the Ea support to fix the issue . No hate to Ea support they have helped me in past when the game had Matchmaking issues and had almost no players on some regions except on portal servers . I simply do not like the fact that they did not made such changes before the game launched and mentioned us before hand . This also has its Own problems even when I enabled the secure boot finally with their help the game Still refused to start had to contact ea support again regarding the matters they could not do anything despite their best efforts , their live chat support is decent . I simply wont recommend support the fact that they are actually saying this is done to combat cheaters which is blatant lie and baffling cause I have seen a individuals cheat on some regions for months and despite being MANUALLY reported over 30 times by ME alone imagine how many else did they never got banned and other day those same players were cheating on that same account with that exact same name like that is just so weird , players blame the anti cheat but that is not the only problem when I confronted ea support regarding this issue with proof and their names and what do we do in such cases they simply told us to report us in game that is the best they can do right now . Like when someone reports a player 5-6 times at least have a basic report done , how a GUY WITH 95% ACCURACY ON LMG AND 90% head shot rate and a DPS rate ( tracked using 3rd party site called battlefield tracker ) which exceeds 1000 is not even investigated , even when he is reported live on twitch on another stream and atleast 100 ppl report him at once nothing happens . How can u even blame the cheaters at this point when they get free reign at doing what they want . Not to mention player counts have dwindled even more after the last significant season has passed and even when i had secure boot enabled game was like having an identity crisis and simply still refused to work even showed it to Ea support with detailed explanation he could not do anything . NO , I am simply done with 2042 after this last nail in the coffin , I did like 2042 it had flaws but was fun and ok if bought on sale UNTIL that sneaky changes in the patch notes , the railgun introduced in 2042 was an Art was one of my 5 th MOST USED weapons in my entire battlefield history ( over 2000+ hours on all bf combined ) and I still have insane exp with it . Please DO not Support this shit ever Even if the intentions were Noble making such a drastic changes which stops players from playing the game , even though it worked fine for 2-3 years before is baffling , if players had so much cheater issues they could simply go and play on portal player hosted servers where always at least 1 or more admin is always present to check such stuff which I mostly did after that miserable cheater experience on random matchmaking from region this was never about making the game a better experience or about dealing with cheaters they would have answered my reports even when their own support accepted that fact but could not do anything . This was all about a decision which even though was Noble at core was not properly executed not to mention this does not have any issues on those who are cheating they still cheat as remember no anti cheat can block any and all cheats . Also this could have been easily resolved if they actually bothered to check the report history when someone gets mass reported , they simply cant be bothered to allocate resources to this matter that is what triggered this . When a Functioning product stops working after more then 2 years just cause they decided something stupid I simply WONT AND CANT recommend it , despite being a decent game " When it DID work " . Thanks a lot for taking the time to read my entire life history of battlefield .

[b]Battlefield™ 2042 is probably one of the most disappointing games I’ve ever picked up, and that’s saying a lot considering how much hype surrounded it before launch. As someone who grew up loving the Battlefield series, from the chaos of Bad Company 2 to the unforgettable moments in Battlefield 4, I went into 2042 hoping for that same adrenaline-pumping sandbox experience. What I got instead was a half-baked mess that seems to justify all those “Mostly Negative” reviews you see plastered across its Steam page. Right from the start, the game felt unfinished. Basic features you’d expect from a Battlefield game, like a working scoreboard at launch or proper server browsing, were either missing or implemented poorly later on. Gunplay feels inconsistent, vehicle balancing is a joke, and don’t even get me started on the specialists system. Trading classic classes for these quirky hero-type characters completely breaks immersion and seems more like a cash grab for skins than something that fits the gritty tone of Battlefield. It feels like they were chasing trends rather than sticking to what made the series great. Performance issues and bugs are another giant slap in the face. Even after multiple patches, rubberbanding, hit-reg problems, and weird graphical glitches are all too common. Maps are huge but often feel empty and soulless, lacking that tight, well-designed flow that made past Battlefield maps legendary. And without proper destruction physics on the level of Battlefield 1 or even 4, it’s hard to find those epic “only in Battlefield” moments that used to define the franchise. I really tried to give Battlefield 2042 a fair shot, but after dozens of hours hoping it would click, I’ve come to accept that it just doesn’t live up to its predecessors. The game feels like it was rushed out the door to meet deadlines, leaving longtime fans with a hollow experience that doesn’t respect the series’ legacy. If you’re looking at the sea of negative reviews on Steam and wondering if they’re exaggerating, trust me, they’re not. As much as it pains me to say it, I’d recommend steering clear of this one unless major overhauls turn it into the Battlefield we all hoped for.[/b]

Need improvements and updates but still very good game. Scale of the battle is huge. Portal mode turns you back to old games vehicles, weapons etc. Deserves its price on sale.

[b]Battlefield™ 2042 is one of those games I was seriously hyped for, but after putting in some hours, I can understand why it’s sitting with mostly negative reviews on Steam. From the trailers to the massive player counts and futuristic setting, everything looked like it was going to be a next-level Battlefield experience. Sadly, once you actually dive in, it quickly becomes clear that this game launched missing some of the heart and polish that made the older titles classics. The biggest issue? It feels unfinished. Bugs, glitches, rubberbanding, name it, and 2042 probably has it. I’ve seen hovercrafts scaling skyscrapers, characters freezing mid-animation, and hit registration that makes landing shots a gamble. Even beyond the technical mess, basic features like a scoreboard were absent at launch, which feels almost unthinkable for a Battlefield game. It’s these missing fundamentals that left long-time fans shaking their heads. Then there’s the gameplay itself, which is a mixed bag. The specialists system replaced the classic class structure, and while I get what they were going for, it kinda kills teamwork and identity. Everyone running around with whatever gadget they want just leads to chaotic messes instead of those memorable coordinated pushes that older Battlefields nailed. Combined with maps that are way too big and feel oddly empty despite 128 players, it’s not hard to see why people felt let down. In the end, Battlefield™ 2042 seems more like a rushed experiment than the solid Battlefield we were all hoping for. It has moments of fun, like when chaos erupts with tanks, helicopters, and infantry all clashing, but those are too rare and buried under issues. I really wanted to love this game, but in its current state, it’s hard to recommend. Hopefully, with enough patches and updates, it’ll grow into something worthy of the Battlefield name, but right now, the negative reviews make a lot of sense.[/b]

As an EA game, this title includes the "standard EA harassment experience," which begins the moment you double-click the Battlefield icon. First, it installs a useless and unnecessary app called the EA App on your system. Even though you bought the game on Steam, the app tells you that their servers are not available in your region. Once you use a VPN to proceed to the next steps, it starts the second phase of harassment by informing you of extra, unnecessary steps required to play the game. It told me the game cannot run while I have a virtual controller (I use a PS4 controller) and that I must disable the controller. It may even instruct you to go into your BIOS and enable Secure Boot, among other unnecessary steps. Once you finally manage to launch the game, it informs you that it will collect all your data while you use the app. After that, once you're in a match, hackers kill you left and right to complete your EA experience. Not recommended.

It was fun while it lasted. I am not poking around in my BIOS just to play a game. You are loosing fans. Maybe one day I'll come back. Uninstalling now.

After purchasing the supporter edition, dropping 1k hours into this game, purchasing SEVERAL COPIES for friends and family, EA has pulled the rug and bricked this game on my PC. I am not going to mess around with BIOS settings to play your game. I have been a Battlefield player since BF1942 when I was a teenager. I stood by for the horrendous launch of this game. I was there for each season and brought my friends along for Friday Night Battlefield week after week. Consider me a lost customer for whatever trash you put out next.

cant play anymore, EA is asking me to mess around the bios, flash my GPU firmware to play this trash game

Suddenly can't play game because of a BIOS feature isn't enabled for "security" and "anti-cheat" but doesn't consider the reasons why some advanced users won't have SecureBoot enabled. Uninstalled.

I was having a great time playing this game with friends until the Secure Boot requirement update. It completely bricked my Gigabyte Z390 Designare Rev. 1.0. I wasn't even able to flash my bios by thumb drive. As far as I'm concerned, EA owes me compensation for destroying hardware just to try playing a fucking video game. Beyond tired of your guys shit. I spent near $600 upgrading my PC because some idiot over at EA decided Secure Boot is required despite vastly misunderstanding what it even is.

It's not a game. It’s an interactive lesson in coping with disappointment.

Really cool update you got here EA. This game now need secure boot to be able to play. This is beyond stupid. If I have to open command prompts and change system settings and boot into bios just to play your FPS I am just going to play one of the thousand other FPS games on the market. Unless they undo this change I CANNOT recommend you play anything else more. A game on steam should just be download and play. If you can't do that then don't even bother.

As of now I CANNOT recoomend this game and EA was actually doing right for a while. This new update requires secureboot to be enabled at the BIOS level. Im sorry EA, you dont get to tell me what to do with my hardware to get your game to run, I know I may get called out "oh you must be a cheater" Absolutly not I detest cheaters in multiplayer games. I just looked up the error I was getting, saw this secureboot needing to be enabled, and saw the horror posts of people computer bricking and fixing and STILL not getting the game to run. If EA rolls this back THEN I will chang my post, otherwise i CANNOT recoomnd this game right now.,

Was decent until they wanted you to change BIOS settings to play the game. No thanks.

after the recent update #8.8.0 i get the secure boot error. like most PC players i prefer to not mess around in my bios. update made the game unplayable so i guess this is the end for me and 2042. i do not recommend this game to any PC users

I did not listen to the negative reviews that were on this game, thinking "Can it really be that bad?" The short answer is yes - This game runs worse than any other game I've ever played. Star Citizen, Arma, any game you can think of runs better than this garbage. Even the 95% sale at $3 is not worth it. I will pay you $3 to never play this game

Tried starting up the game again after taking a break for a while. Well nope, i guess you have to turn on ''SecureBoot'' or something like that in the BIOS. I tried to do that didnt work tried again didnt work again gave up. Gonna play a other game. End of story.

The fact that a AAA Game company is incapable of making their own anticheat to the point where you have to launch your bios and open windows in secure boot is a literal war crime and this game should be removed for that very reason what an absolute failure and disgrace of a AAA company mine as well just throw in the towel and tell the modding community to take over because they don't know what they're doing

Good game but Secure Boot ruined it. Should not have to change my system that much to play a game. This is not the norm and greatly disappointing.

i see a lot of bad comments from this game bit in my opinion this game is 100% worth the 3 dollar deal but if the game is like at 60 or 70 dollars i dont really reccomend

Just reinstalled this (90gigabitties) to find out they have patched it in a way you have to (on pc) go into your BOH to the BIOS, do multi-restarts and start changing settings ive never had to worry about in 20+years of gaming, sick fix guys even if this game was good (it wasn't) i wouldn't go that far, christ i hope you do so much of a better job on the next one, will probs be a slopfest anyway, Hoick Pteh!

The developer added a "secure boot" requirement which I am not willing to comply with. If they are unable to implement a good anti cheat it should not be my responsibility to change my bios/hardware to fix their problems. This practice seems shady at best to me. A game that forces you to change BIOS settings just to keep playing is putting users at risk of destroying their whole rig. I have effectively been locked out of playing a game i enjoyed and even spent money on in app purchases. This should in no way be acceptable and Steam should take a clear stance on whether they allow this on their platform or not.

6900xt if you have newer drivers it crashes when you die. Also having issues with boot needing to be open. Disgraceful.

Since we have to have the use of secure boot now, i can not because i do not have the option in my bios. The makers of Battlefield have made a very horrible decision and now have lost player count and trying to pawn this game off for 3 bucks now for the steam sale. your game isn't even worth a dollar. The future of battlefield has now been compromised to the future player base.

With 8.8.0 and newer I can no longer play the game as it requires Secure Boot, which I don't have enabled as I intentionally multi-boot. So instead I'll just uninstall Battlefield 2042.

Do not buy this game even for 3 dollars. There is a good chance you or a friend will not be able to play the game because of the secure boot requirement. In fact, a friend of mine bricked his PC trying to enable secure boot, and I had to show him how to remove the battery from the motherboard to reset his bios to factory settings. It’s just not worth the hassle and no amount of money should support this initiative.

This game worked fine and met my expectation until the most recent update - when EA decided to introduce a requirement that the user must put their PC into SecureBoot, which could potentially brick my entire computer, just to launch the game into a singleplayer mode - which is how I play the game. I feel like this is deceptive business practices to not even allow someone to play a paid game without significantly altering their personal system. EA knows this is an ongoing problem and has neglected to respond or fix it. I am tired of their business practices and kindly request a refund of their product Battlefield 2042 since I cannot play it anymore.

Maybe is just the nostalgia talking but I remember when trying to troubleshoot my games didn't involve bricking my PC and having to restore Windows and still being unable to play the godamn game. BOHICA

The option allowing you to play against bots is amazing. A much easier gamplay to a part time player like me, i can finally play battlefield without diyng in the first 2 seconds after spawning.

crazy game cant use my mouse cos of my razer keyboard ea cant code games and cant make anti cheat, you have to use safeboot to play, i pray for the day ea gets hit by a 1 gigaton nuke Crazy when the game works it will crash randomly when you get killed. game crashes for no reason no error or warning.

Game won't run - saw the new crossover stuff about Mass Effect and was interested, wanted to try it out. Can't even open the game because it's detecting my BIOS and system software as cheating software - wants me to uninstall my Dragon Center app which I use to control my fans. Upon looking it up - other people had tried uninstalling them just to be given another error for some other MSI system file. Good job really though - thank Gabe I can still refund it. Not even worth the $2 ( sale ) to keep in my library.

game sucks. secure boot is enabled but battlefield too stupid to tell. broken.

requires changing BIOS setting 'secure boot' just to launch, not worth the risk of messing with boot settings imo

I can't play the game anymore, due to secure boot implementation.

I will not change my bios settings just to play this game. It's not my job, to prevent cheating. Devs. need to worry about this issue, and make sure players can get best experience from this game.

EA now requires players to alter their BIOS settings to play this game, which has resulted in many issues for people who just want to enjoy their fucking games

Its not too bad. My major issue with this game is the inclusion of bots... they kinda take away the fun of massive multiplayer games like battlefield. I hope the next battlefield doesn't have any bots but i'll likely be disappointed.

Requiring secure boot is a minor annoyance. Having the game crash on every death because I decided to have an AMD gpu, and having this be an issue for months without any acknowledgement of it or fixes, is way worse. Downgrading my gpu drivers isn't an answer, Battlefield 2 just worked right after a fresh install a week ago and that hasn't been updated in over a decade. Why is the console version the superior version in all of this?

For all users who see this article. Never buy this game, even if you buy it, you must give a bad review. I only played for 92 hours and only played bots mode, but they banned me in the name of fraud. They don't care about the truth.They just take it for granted that you have a problem.Then they banned you. Never buy it！ Never buy it！！ Never buy it！！！ Fuck you, motherfucker EA！！

New secure boot requirement was the last nail in the coffin for this game. If next battlefield is anything like this, I will not be purchasing. Bad time to be a battlefield fan.

I just bought this game during the summer sale. I was able to play it previously with no issues in the past through EA Play. NOW when i try to play it I am unable to launch it due to an error code wanting me to go into my bios and activate Secure Boot in order for the game to be playable. This is absolutely fucking unacceptable. Fuck these clowns. This game is shit, you pig coward fucks.

Re-downloaded the game after not playing for a year. Now I can't launch the game as it requires Secure Boot being on. Ridiculous change for a 4 year old game that never struggled that heavily with hackers, especially asinine as the next BF is not too far off. I've never been required by any other game to go into my BIOS to allow the game to run. F*** you EA!

It was mediocre, now after the latest update that requires secure boot its completly trash.

Fired up BF2042 after a few months off because hey, Mass Effect event sounded cool. But instead of, you know, a game, I get slapped with a message telling me to enable Secure Boot in my BIOS. What. The. Actual. Fuck This isn’t some early-access indie project run out of a garage — this is a full-priced, AAA game from EA, and now it’s demanding I crawl into my BIOS and flip firmware switches like I'm defusing a bomb, just to launch it? Who the hell thought this was a good idea? Spoiler alert: Enabling Secure Boot isn’t just a cute toggle. If your system wasn't already set up for it, there’s a decent chance you brick your OS, screw up your boot manager, or end up in some nightmare recovery loop. All because EA decided their latest brilliant anti-cheat solution should be "make the player risk their entire PC." EA: if your anti-cheat is so invasive it requires BIOS-level changes, maybe — just maybe — it's hot garbage. I shouldn’t have to break out a screwdriver and a prayer circle to play a damn video game. You know what the worst part is? I was actually looking forward to playing. And now I’m stuck here reading Reddit threads full of horror stories from people who enabled Secure Boot and ended up needing to reinstall Windows. All this because some dev team at EA made a decision that feels more like a prank than an actual security measure. You’ve managed to make returning to your game feel like tech support hell. Bravo. This game can go sit in a pile of dogshit, thanks to EA’s incompetent devs and their inability to make a working anti-cheat without forcing players to risk bricking their rigs.