Here's the thing: Battlefield 2042 is really good now. This game launched in 2021 in the kind of state that made it a punching bag for players and critics alike, but since then DICE has hunkered-down and quietly fixed almost every problem, adding and tweaking judiciously, and as PCG's Morgan Park wrote a few months ago "I'm having as much fun as the glory days of Battlefield 3 and 4".
But "the launch was not easy," producer Nika Bender told us. "Let's be completely honest." Associate producer Alexia Christofi added: "We shot for the moon, and we just missed." The game was forced to delay Season 1 to firefight and, the internet being the internet, the user reviews and general vibes around the game were little short of a disaster. Publisher EA, of course, merely put on a Darth Vader voice and said the game "did not meet expectations".
