Devs are useless, and somehow more incompetent than EA and DICE.
BF2042 isn't as bad as this game, at least you can get past the initial loading screen.

"Open Beta" (also known as "The 53%", "USER TOKEN EXPIRED. RESTART THE GAME", "USER AUTHENTICATION EXPIRED" and "Servers Are Down For Maintenance" Era), which was already 7 MONTHS LATE since they promised it would happen at the start of the year, is complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Let's all go over the ♥♥♥♥ that has been happening and maybe then Farm53% will understand the monumental ♥♥♥♥ up that this is.

1. 3 day headstart - Yeah, no. No one managed to play this ♥♥♥♥ for any meaningful amount of time. 3 day headstart, more like 3 hour, at most. Wow, double XP, pretty useful when you CAN'T PLAY THE GAME, EH?

2. Horrible, just horrible errors that not even the incompetent ♥♥♥♥♥ at DICE managed to ♥♥♥♥ up this bad, yet - Examples:
- Initial loading for everything just stopped at 53% and would simply not do anything when you try to reload again. You're forever stuck at that screen until the "User Authentication Ticket" expires and the game tells you to go ♥♥♥♥ yourself and go back to the sometimes 2k+ person queue in the launcher by closing itself, which would take another 10 minutes, at least.
- Zombie lobbies (game loaded you into a lobby and when the match started, you were booted to another one by yourself, alone and could not enter another game unless you went and manually changed your game selection, which made "Quick Play" pretty much useless.
- "Error 151: Something went wrong" Yeah, no ♥♥♥♥, tell us WHAT WENT WRONG AND WHAT YOU ARE DOING TO FIX IT.
- Constant "timeouts", even while in matches, which would sometimes crash the game, AND GUESS WHAT? THERE YOU GO, TO THE BACK OF THAT LINE AGAIN, SUCKER!
- Abnormal stuttering. I don't know if this was a problem with anyone else, but the game would sometimes stutter at the weirdest times. Walking around the map, stutters. Entering an objective, stutter. Got a kill? Well, after the text vanishes, stutter. Bruh, is this game a downloadable memory leak?
- Many other smaller/less common errors that happen all the time.

3. Servers were crashing constantly - Seriously, if you managed to get more than like 5 hours in during the headstart, congratu-♥♥♥♥♥♥-lations. Servers were down constantly, either because of crashes or "Maintenance" (which I seriously believe they used as an excuse to mask how much crashing there really was, judging by how incompetent they seem to be at EVERYTHING). And after the headstart, it somehow got even worse. Even the inventory servers were down. IT'S NOT EVEN THE GAME SERVERS!


Like, c'mon, guys, admit it. Tarkov on WIPE DAY has like 100k+ players all trying to download and play the game at the same time, and it's not even 5% of the level of awful that this is.

If they don't fix this monumental ♥♥♥♥ up, the industry will shun all of these developers, or at least they should, because they showed they don't give a ♥♥♥♥ about the game, or the players. OH, YEAH, AND THE SHOP IS STILL UP! YOU CAN BUY ♥♥♥♥ IN A GAME YOU CAN'T EVEN ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ PLAY! Talk about money hungry devs, huh? Oh, yeah, and if you bought ♥♥♥♥ on the shop, it won't show up in your inventory because, remember, the inventory system is ALSO ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

And yes, I did pay for Early Access before this ♥♥♥♥ game became even more ♥♥♥♥ in these last few days, regretting it more every day that passes. Oh, have I also mentioned they didn't even offer any sort of compensation for this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥? Yeah, none, zilch, nada.

If you think I'm being too hard or exaggerating, go to their Twitter or Discord server. There's even more ♥♥♥♥ there than I covered here.

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Here is an edit, made around 2 hours after the original review went up.

Game is "playable". Still has errors, still has infinite loading in lobbies, menus and matches. Error 151 and 53% is still a thing. BUT you can indeed log in. Sometimes. Still ♥♥♥♥, hope that changes.

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Another edit, made 30 minutes after the previous edit.
Servers are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ themselves, all errors are back, 53% is our Lord and Saviour, all Hail Error 151 [SOMETHING WENT WRONG], and the Holy [AUTHENTICATION TICKET EXPIRED], the Holy Trinity, amen.

Somehow even more ♥♥♥♥. Devs are more incompetent than previously thought.
0/10
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Another edit, made 07/10/2022, a couple days after the last edit.

Congratulations to the developer team. The game is now what I could classify as "Playable", though performance seems rather decreased. Could be just because of the last maintenance, needs a few days to see if it'll remain like this or return to normal.

Errors still happen somewhat often (still way too often by any real industry standards), game still doesn't let you log in sometimes (often cites "too many players", doubtful, and likely means they haven't really improved the servers in any real capacity), simply allowing your "user token" to expire and then kicks you back out forcing you to relaunch their horrible launcher that they should have ditched the moment after they started using it and it became clear it was ♥♥♥♥.

Still very little communication from the devs, resuming simply to "Server Maintenance at XX:XX time" and "Servers are back online", sometimes with a short list of what they fixed. 1/10 on that front. Better than zero communication, but still completely unacceptable.

You can get a few matches in before an Error possibly kicks you out of the game.

Congratulations, score increased to a 2/10; polished turd for now. Still no trust left in Farm53%.
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Well, look at that! Today is October 9th, 2022.

The game is not only playable, but they have managed to lower the frequency that the errors show up! Performance is still a bit... eh? It's still somewhat lower than before the Open Beta, and now the servers themselves seem to be having slight latency problems, with many people experiencing unstable connections, but that seems to be a mostly temporary problem that can be fixed with the existence of more servers in more locations, something which has been a thing since the game entered Alpha and Beta all those years ago, so it can't be blamed on the latest ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Farm53% still seems to be at a standstill on that front.

Still little to no communication, mostly, as their social media is still only about Maintenance times and durations, but I've seen them being more active in the comments, responding to users, so... That's good!

Hope this upwards trajectory continues until this game is genuinely good, and the devs honor their promises. But my trust in them is still zero. 4 years to fix problems that they knew existed, and they fixed nothing in that time, only added and changed the contents of the game, basically. They only got to fixing them once they realized they were up to their neck in ♥♥♥♥ and the fans made their hatred for their ♥♥♥♥♥♥ actions known.

In summary:
Connection to the game seems to be somewhat unstable, still little communication from devs, but is an improvement, as they do respond to comments on social media, you can now log in most times and enter matches relatively quickly, suffering little with errors and crashes, though performance still seems a little laggy sometimes.

4/10, not a turd! On the way to become a good game worth the time. Still no Twitch Drops or compensating the people who paid for this game and couldn't play because of this whole ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, but I hope they do make it right.

Devs are useless, and somehow more incompetent than EA and DICE. BF2042 isn't as bad as this game, at least you can get past the initial loading screen. "Open Beta" (also known as "The 53%", "USER TOKEN EXPIRED. RESTART THE GAME", "USER AUTHENTICATION EXPIRED" and "Servers Are Down For Maintenance" Era), which was already 7 MONTHS LATE since they promised it would happen at the start of the year, is complete bullshit. Let's all go over the shit that has been happening and maybe then Farm53% will understand the monumental fuck up that this is. 1. 3 day headstart - Yeah, no. No one managed to play this shit for any meaningful amount of time. 3 day headstart, more like 3 hour, at most. Wow, double XP, pretty useful when you CAN'T PLAY THE GAME, EH? 2. Horrible, just horrible errors that not even the incompetent cunts at DICE managed to fuck up this bad, yet - Examples: - Initial loading for everything just stopped at 53% and would simply not do anything when you try to reload again. You're forever stuck at that screen until the "User Authentication Ticket" expires and the game tells you to go fuck yourself and go back to the sometimes 2k+ person queue in the launcher by closing itself, which would take another 10 minutes, at least. - Zombie lobbies (game loaded you into a lobby and when the match started, you were booted to another one by yourself, alone and could not enter another game unless you went and manually changed your game selection, which made "Quick Play" pretty much useless. - "Error 151: Something went wrong" Yeah, no shit, tell us WHAT WENT WRONG AND WHAT YOU ARE DOING TO FIX IT. - Constant "timeouts", even while in matches, which would sometimes crash the game, AND GUESS WHAT? THERE YOU GO, TO THE BACK OF THAT LINE AGAIN, SUCKER! - Abnormal stuttering. I don't know if this was a problem with anyone else, but the game would sometimes stutter at the weirdest times. Walking around the map, stutters. Entering an objective, stutter. Got a kill? Well, after the text vanishes, stutter. Bruh, is this game a downloadable memory leak? - Many other smaller/less common errors that happen all the time. 3. Servers were crashing constantly - Seriously, if you managed to get more than like 5 hours in during the headstart, congratu-FUCKIN-lations. Servers were down constantly, either because of crashes or "Maintenance" (which I seriously believe they used as an excuse to mask how much crashing there really was, judging by how incompetent they seem to be at EVERYTHING). And after the headstart, it somehow got even worse. Even the inventory servers were down. IT'S NOT EVEN THE GAME SERVERS! Like, c'mon, guys, admit it. Tarkov on WIPE DAY has like 100k+ players all trying to download and play the game at the same time, and it's not even 5% of the level of awful that this is. If they don't fix this monumental fuck up, the industry will shun all of these developers, or at least they should, because they showed they don't give a shit about the game, or the players. OH, YEAH, AND THE SHOP IS STILL UP! YOU CAN BUY SHIT IN A GAME YOU CAN'T EVEN FUCKING PLAY! Talk about money hungry devs, huh? Oh, yeah, and if you bought shit on the shop, it won't show up in your inventory because, remember, the inventory system is ALSO FUCKED. And yes, I did pay for Early Access before this shit game became even more shit in these last few days, regretting it more every day that passes. Oh, have I also mentioned they didn't even offer any sort of compensation for this bullshit? Yeah, none, zilch, nada. If you think I'm being too hard or exaggerating, go to their Twitter or Discord server. There's even more shit there than I covered here. _____________________________ Here is an edit, made around 2 hours after the original review went up. Game is "playable". Still has errors, still has infinite loading in lobbies, menus and matches. Error 151 and 53% is still a thing. BUT you can indeed log in. Sometimes. Still shit, hope that changes. _____________________________ Another edit, made 30 minutes after the previous edit. Servers are shitting themselves, all errors are back, 53% is our Lord and Saviour, all Hail Error 151 [SOMETHING WENT WRONG], and the Holy [AUTHENTICATION TICKET EXPIRED], the Holy Trinity, amen. Somehow even more shit. Devs are more incompetent than previously thought. 0/10 _____________________________ Another edit, made 07/10/2022, a couple days after the last edit. Congratulations to the developer team. The game is now what I could classify as "Playable", though performance seems rather decreased. Could be just because of the last maintenance, needs a few days to see if it'll remain like this or return to normal. Errors still happen somewhat often (still way too often by any real industry standards), game still doesn't let you log in sometimes (often cites "too many players", doubtful, and likely means they haven't really improved the servers in any real capacity), simply allowing your "user token" to expire and then kicks you back out forcing you to relaunch their horrible launcher that they should have ditched the moment after they started using it and it became clear it was shit. Still very little communication from the devs, resuming simply to "Server Maintenance at XX:XX time" and "Servers are back online", sometimes with a short list of what they fixed. 1/10 on that front. Better than zero communication, but still completely unacceptable. You can get a few matches in before an Error possibly kicks you out of the game. Congratulations, score increased to a 2/10; polished turd for now. Still no trust left in Farm53%. _____________________________ Well, look at that! Today is October 9th, 2022. The game is not only playable, but they have managed to lower the frequency that the errors show up! Performance is still a bit... eh? It's still somewhat lower than before the Open Beta, and now the servers themselves seem to be having slight latency problems, with many people experiencing unstable connections, but that seems to be a mostly temporary problem that can be fixed with the existence of more servers in more locations, something which has been a thing since the game entered Alpha and Beta all those years ago, so it can't be blamed on the latest shitshow. Farm53% still seems to be at a standstill on that front. Still little to no communication, mostly, as their social media is still only about Maintenance times and durations, but I've seen them being more active in the comments, responding to users, so... That's good! Hope this upwards trajectory continues until this game is genuinely good, and the devs honor their promises. But my trust in them is still zero. 4 years to fix problems that they knew existed, and they fixed nothing in that time, only added and changed the contents of the game, basically. They only got to fixing them once they realized they were up to their neck in shit and the fans made their hatred for their shitty actions known. In summary: Connection to the game seems to be somewhat unstable, still little communication from devs, but is an improvement, as they do respond to comments on social media, you can now log in most times and enter matches relatively quickly, suffering little with errors and crashes, though performance still seems a little laggy sometimes. 4/10, not a turd! On the way to become a good game worth the time. Still no Twitch Drops or compensating the people who paid for this game and couldn't play because of this whole shitshow, but I hope they do make it right.