A
story on Gaming Intel by Tom Henderson has the Battlefield leaker's take on
what's going on with
Battlefield 2042 following the just-concluded beta
test for the military shooter. The article is titled "Battlefield 2042's
Troubled Development and Identity Crisis" which gives an idea of its thrust. Tom
discusses performance of the beta and whether it's plausible that the build is
actually several months old. He also hears from confidential sources within DICE
that the game's resemblance to
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is
intentional, and that this direction and development issues are due to
ineffective management:
Management is allegedly not committed enough to
the project, with creative being simply told to do X, Y, and Z. One of these
management figures was simply described as a “yes man”, and apparently things
have “been s*&t since”.
Problems brought up to management also fall on deaf ears throughout the
development process. Ultimately creating issues that DICE could have solved
earlier in the development process.
As for the lack of creativity, management loved some of Modern Warfare 2019’s
aspects that much, that the studio was supposedly encouraged to create something
similar.