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

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!

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.

Secure boot requirement should not be a thing, It is the developers responsibility to prevent hacks not the players if they cannot fix their own anti-cheat they should find a way themselves and not punish the players.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

[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]

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.

Played this game for a long time. Then suddenly they added some "Secure Boot" anticheat bullshit that requires me to go change my BIOS settings and system boot procedure, which is none of their f'ing business and which I will absolutely not do. So I paid for this game that I can no longer play. This is the LAST EA game I will ever purchase. Bye.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Change BIOS, active secure-boot to play a game we barely tolerate? No, thank you.

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.

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.

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 saw secure boot and figured id enable it so that I could play the game That was a mistake. Almost bricked my pc :/

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.

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.

Gamewise this game is fine, all fun and pew-pew, but with this recent update I would NOT recommend the game. The point of making game secure against hackers is valid, but having to pay tech people extra to fix it so pc can run the game is not valid in my opinion. A seperate program would be fine as has done in the past by EA. It's like having to pay for the game; Full price, and then go to tech support and pay 50€ extra for them to fix it for you. And don´t get me wrong, I've done alot of this stuff since Windows 95 so I'm fairly knowledgeable but I'm still a leyman.

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.

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.

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

I MUST enable secure boot in bios to play game. I BOUGHT THE GAME, BUT I MUST TO DO SOMETHING IN BIOS! Uninstalled.

Refunded my $5. Not even worth the sale price. Looks and plays like a mobile game. do not waste your time and play bf4/1 instead.

dont buy it, u need to enable secure boot (which i did) and it still wont work. Not only that but other reviews are now mentioning being banned for using background apps. Save ur self some bucks and play BF1-BF4 and review bomb this shit to save ther players some time. If u want a crossplay game with consoles look at Insurgent or Arma Reforger!

I played this game on EA Play for years without issues. I actually purchased the game yesterday and get a message upon launch of the game saying I need to "Learn how to use EA secure boot" and I am unable to play without it? No thanks. Try again EA

Secure boot is turned on, battlefield says it's not. Game is broken. Do not buy until fixed

I've played for 388 hours after getting the game on sale. Was the game worth it on sale? Absolutely. Now the game is useless to me because devs think I'm going to alter my bios settings just to get into this game, which I most definitely am not. Weirdest thing to implement into a game with a community barely hanging on. If they remove the requirement, I'll update my review.

Took a break from this game then one day decided to come back only to find out that secure boot requirement was implemented. As much as I like this game, I am absolutely NEVER coming back to it unless the secure boot requirement gets removed. ABSOLUTE MORONS EA what are we doing

You're now required to have secure boot enabled to play. I simply can't do that with my system so I guess EA just robbed me of my purchase. Yes, I have a ton of time in the game & I enjoyed it but with EA making this decision they just stole any future enjoyment from me & Many others. If you're not aware of how to enable or disable Secure Boot you need to change BIOS settings to do that. Not exactly something I'd be willing to do for this game.

Of all BF games, this one by far has the worst hit reg I've experienced, I might fw a lot of things that are actually garbage, but an awful hit reg ain't one of them. Fk it.