Battlefield 2042

Well, Bad company was innovator with the destructive environments, the squad system and the types of soldiers (Medic, Chewbaka Sniper, Support and Engineer).
Plus, it was set in South America (represented bad... Very bad). *Triggered Chilean*

 BF4 is fine, it adds more support vehicles to the mix (rocket launchers, boats, bombers, etc...), Now BF3, that was the stuff, but, the vehicles were lame there (get incap if your life is under 50%... such BS)

Valparaiso? it was like if Dice slapped a generic brazilian favela and called it done...

Well, in BF4, if you have a decent team, you can easily counter any weapon,tank or aircraft.

Ugh, now Metro was a MeatGrinder, the first team that captures B wins. (that or having a lot of dudes spamming smoke grenades to advance)

Seems a little more inspired than usual.
I might even be tempted...

cogconnected.com/feature/10-battlefield-v-features-revolutionize-world-war-ii/3/

That was the total turn off for me. I mean:

That is not WW2

Not really.
Only the russian army allowed woman to fight in the frontlines. In all other cases woman worked in the army in non cambatant roles. And I get the feeling the same case was for amputee people.
I don't expect works of fiction to have high ammounts of historical accuracy, but this just completely kills all suspension of disbelief. What an stepdown from battlefield 1.

DICE have to determine who their audience is.

They clearly feel a WWII combat simulation will not be as successful as
a 'heroic fun' WWII action game.

If that's not your preference, that's a shame.
That doesn't make the game bad, just different and not to your taste.

I get it.

I felt the same way about Myst V, though that was a few years ago... 

I play BF4 once in a while, mostly for the multiplayer when I'm in the mood for a fairly simple "run/drive around and blow things up" experience. I'm not the best when it comes to quick reactions and aiming, so I usually end up playing more of a supplemental role focused on setting traps, painting laser targets, and launching rockets at vehicles. I never really could get the hang of the aerial combat - any time I tried to use a plane or a helicopter, I ended up dead pretty quickly.

The one annoying thing about it, aside from the usual "trash talk" in the chat window, was that a match could just get ridiculously lopsided. The servers were sometimes slow to balance when one team had a lot more active players, and there was one map (maybe "Gulf of Oman"?) where one team starts on land and the other starts a fair distance out in the water, and the team starting on land would almost always win.

And I take people were talking positively about the game?

Was able to watch the trailer today, since yesterday I had to spend most of my day installing windows on a different drive since my fucking main HDD is near death all of a sudden, it seems. Aweseome. But I digress...

So, the trailer. Absolute trash, this is not what I expect from DICE and BF in terms of trailers Game could still be awesome, I sure as hell hope so since I skipped on BF1 and I haven't played a MP game for real since ME3 and BF4.
Trailer went too much in the "Hollywood" scale of the balance, everything exploding and the character looking left and right, it was a sicknees motion simulator.
Wary of the robot arm girl, I hope they haven't fall in the "diversity" shit that seems to be trend of late.

I don't have a problem with the setting being WWII, I'd love to fly some good old WWII planes, add the Japanese to the fray and things could be awesome indeed.
Then, I find myself asking "what's the catch?" no premium, they said no P2W, but loot boxes sure are creeping one way or the other, and if there's one thing I despise in gaming...

Wondering that myself.

Out of joke, let's hope not.

I don't get all the whining, Most of them cries "Muh war simulator is ruined by DICE/EA's SJWs", Dude... it's a fucking game with a WWII setup, if you want something close to a war simulator, play ARMA III or join the Army.
It looks amazing and from what joe says:

This promises a buttload of new stuff.

About the microtransactions, i'm expecting the same battlepacks that we've seen before, but the "No paid DLC" gets me nervous about the quantity and quality of the future "expansions" of the game.