Battlefield 2042 Benchmarked: 30+ GPUs Tested

Interesting to see Vega56 do so well, my guesstimate would be heavy on GPU compute power (relative to it's contemporary competitors), and it could also explain Amperes high end dominance.
 
Agree on Portal but the rest of the game is horrendous and there is no free to play Battle Royale which is just insane at this point.
I don't think the game is bad - Just needs work and optimization. I'm having a good time with friends. Last night I had 80+ kills on a Conquest. Laughing hard the entire match. People that don't have fun in this game, must suck at it.

No F2P = Way less cheating. Warzone suffers from massive cheating because it is F2P and people just make a new account and spoof their IP and HW IDs and continue to use aimbot and wallhack without even hiding the fact they cheat bigtime. Aimbotters driving around on top of cars and do headshots across the entire map... Haha yeah, F2P is great if you want to attract cheaters.

Once again, most people WHINING and CRYING about BF 2042 have not even played the full game or more than a few hours. They played the BETA or bought EA PLAY to get 10 hours of gametime and now they spend their time writing shiit about it because they cant play it anyway 😂 Besides, there has been serverissues, meaning some matchen run like crap while others run okay and some even great.

The game releases in 2 days. Day one patch is coming and you have seen very little of things to come; Battle/Season pass, more game modes, more maps, more specialists. Portal gets more and more content all the time too, even day to day. This game is made to AGE WELL, obviously, and this is nothing new if you actually read stuff about the game and whats to come.
 
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So, like most BF games the engine is at least decently optimized at launch. Frostbite is some impressiv etech.

Sadly being saddled to EA's platform and company policies ruins it for me. I wont be buying it.

Hey, if you like it, good for you. Some people really liked fallout 76 and NMS at launch too. But it is undeniable there are a LOT of missing features for previosu games, which is rather inexcusable for a game from a company as big as EA and one running on an upgraded version of the same game engine.


OH, now it makes sense.

Incorrect, this game is made for you to consoom, preferably with the most expensive edition, which you can then fund further with microtransactions fo a few years until the NEXT battlefield comes out, then you can repeat the cycle.

No multiplayer game without player hosted servers is "made to last". OG battlefield 2? THAT was made to last.

What are you talking about. It makes sense because I got the game for free? Ehh.. I got the game for free, meaning I don't feel the need to play it, because I paid. But I still play it, meaning the game is good. Logic 101.

You can find hosted servers in the ingame serverbrowser...

By made to last, I am talking about everything that has yet to come. They are doing the same as every other big games; Keep releasing content and DLC, Season passes, buy it or not, no-one forces you.

If a game is good tho, I will gladly buy stuff if it's worth it. It's peanuts anyway.
Some people on this forum seems to think that 10 dollars is alot of money 😂
 
The game is a total train wreck. This list from Reddit shows off all the stuff wrong/left out of the game.

GENERAL

Plus system is clunky dog ****

UI is clunky dog **** wrapped in cat ****. Might be the least intuitive I've ever seen

No Campaign

Lack of game modes

No hardcore

No military ranks associated with numerical ranks

Audio is poorly mixed

The maps, while stunning from both a scale and visuals perspective, lack any real flow for infantry combat.

Non-removable profanity filter

Lack of promised destruction/levelution

Faction locked weapons and gadgets in Portal

No rule editor support for objective based game modes

No server browser outside of Portal

No private/rented servers

Doesn't just roll into the next map after a game in AoW, back to matchmaking peasant

Cannot join friends already in a match (pretty sure I could do this in beta??)

Cutscenes all over the place

Cringe 'look at me' after a match

Cannot customize loadouts before joining a game.

Cannot select loadout or operator before joining a server which, in certain situations, spawn you directly into the game with whatever you had last game. This happens when joining a fresh breakthrough game, mostly.

BFV and Battlefront 2 were gutted to make this **** lol

No mouse and keyboard support for console

Options and description for kill sounds changed from beta. During beta it showed you would be able to choose between BF2042 and BF1 kill sounds. This same option now only lets you choose between BF2042 sounds or no sounds.

No Practice/Test Range


IN GAME

Zoom issues with sniper scopes

No zeroing sniper scopes, starting scope (not sure about the others) has no hash marks on reticle for references

Biggest maps we've ever seen, highest scope magnification is 10x

No holding shift/stick click to steady a sniper shot

No leaning

22 guns total lol

No ‘All’ chat

Enemies look the same as friendlies

Bullet spread / weapon inaccuracy outside of rock throwing range

Have to opt out of revive every death, no idea who can actually revive me anyway

Have to re-select spawn location every spawn

No resizable minimap

Cannot move while prone and ADS

Damage dealt numbers, e.g. "VEHICLE HIT 28" after hitting a tank with a rocket, have been removed. This applies to both infantry and vehicles.

Weapons can't have different sets of attachments in different loadout presets. Meaning if you want to have a suppressor on the one semi-auto pistol in the game for one preset, you can't have it without a suppressor in your other presets.

No fixed heavy weapons

AA rocket damage appears inconsistent

BF5 movement mechanics removed

Obnoxious voice overs, operators are incredibly vocal, every time you do an action they say a line.

Melee takedown animations have been gutted. All enemies are brought to a standing position before one specific kill is performed.

Cannot dive underwater

UI elements do not have transparency element and distant 2D/3D map markers and UI elements do not fade out by distance and cannot be scaled up or down

Good luck finding your marker on the map


TEAMPLAY/SCORING

No VoIP

No real scoreboard

No stats page

No commander

Cannot join, create, or lock a squad

Cannot switch teams

Repairing vehicles does not give XP

No squad points for issuing orders or following them

No marksman headshot bonus for long range snipes

'Assist Counts as Kill' has been removed

No vehicle kill assists

Spotting system is contextual and misses a lot of the time. For example, if you press Q over an enemy tank it doesn't always spot it, but places a go-to marker on that area.

The team/squad order menu (or whatever it's called) is a pile of garbage. It covers the entire screen, it requires using the mouse to select the options, but not clicking on them for some reason, you have to depress Q. This needs to be redesigned into a friendlier and smaller semi-transparent wheel. Plus, it's not contextual at all and it doesn't seem to have an impact to other players, I requested ammo constantly and nobody even saw my request.


VEHICLES

No separate Heli & Jet controls.

Horizontal pitch (or yaw) when set to mouse movement is inverted by design and cannot be inverted again like vertical pitch can. So your aircraft goes the other way than your mouse does.

No HOTAS support

Vehicle crosshairs are pixelated as ****

Vehicle entry and exit animations have been removed

Option for 'Vehicle Aim Relative Control' missing

Unnecessary changes to the aircraft flight characteristics from BF4 models

No maps with water and thusly no boats.. despite there being a big *** boat on the loading screen.

Cannot tell if there is room to enter a friendly vehicle without trying to get in it. To elaborate, you used to be able to see (from both a reasonable distance and, if memory serves, from the spawn in screen) that 'That APC over there' had [2/4] under the driver's name... so you instantly knew that the main gunner seat was most likely occupied and there was no reason to get in unless you wanted to hitch a ride.

When in tank, you don't have the little tank outline which tells you where the driver and gunner are looking at.

On the spawn screen tanks/helis use the same icon, you simply cannot tell if that's a transport or attack heli that you are spawning into.


BUGS

Unable to load persistent data

Grappling Hook is afraid of smoke

Bullets are afraid of power lines and tree leaves

Planes are afraid of landing lights on takeoff

No enemy footsteps / footsteps can be heard across the map

Revive is glitched when downed teammate's head is too close to something.

From what I can see, DLSS is not working properly or not making any difference

Crossplay issues on Xbox. Crossplay toggle is greyed out (defaulted to 'On') in game menu, but can still be toggled off in console settings (DICE has told Xbox players they need to do it this way, but that only helps the people that look into it.). People that have turned it off cannot find a match because no one else knows it is possible.

Last gen console performance is worse than beta

Poor hardware optimization on PC (my FPS is trash with a 5900X and 3080), crashing and overheating on console reported in multiple comments below.

Several people have mentioned being unable to rebind certain keys, or to have remapped them in the options menu and not actually have them move.

Several reports of changing crosshair and hit marker colors have all defaulted to black and will not stay the colors picked.

If you play with inverted controls and get into someone else's vehicle(friend, copilot or foe) you adopt their preference for inverted controls or not.

BFV's respawn bug

From this copy/paste I can clearly see you have not played the game outside of beta. Stop spreading misinformation.
 
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Whats amazing to me is even at 2021 my 8gb rx 570 I got for like 120 bucks a long time ago still holds up fine in both this and FH5, given the caveat 30 FPS is fine for me (yes, you read that right) and I use a 1440P monitor.

Both are getting over 30 FPS on highest settings at 1440P according to benchmarks I've read. Well in this case the 580 is a proxy, as the 570 is only a little slower. Maybe I'd have to turn down a setting or two.

All hypothetical because PC gaming really sucks and I may never do it again.

Also, yet another title to add to the 5 million pile that RT is a Nvidia gimmick. Literally almost not a single game uses RT to good effect after all this time. well they say Metro Exodus, but that game is boring as crap anyway. Thats ONE crappy game out of 5,000. And I played it with RT on Series X. It looks nice I GUESS, but I couldn't really tell you that lighting couldn't be done without RT. maybe it cant, just saying I dont know.
 
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Whats amazing to me is even at 2021 my 8gb rx 570 I got for like 120 bucks a long time ago still holds up fine in both this and FH5, given the caveat 30 FPS is fine for me (yes, you read that right) and I use a 1440P monitor.

Both are getting over 30 FPS on highest settings at 1440P according to benchmarks I've read. Well in this case the 580 is a proxy, as the 570 is only a little slower. Maybe I'd have to turn down a setting or two.

All hypothetical because PC gaming really sucks and I may never do it again.

Also, yet another title to add to the 5 million pile that RT is a Nvidia gimmick. Literally almost not a single game uses RT to good effect after all this time. well they say Metro Exodus, but that game is boring as crap anyway. Thats ONE crappy game out of 5,000. And I played it with RT on Series X. It looks nice I GUESS, but I couldn't really tell you that lighting couldn't be done without RT.

If 30 fps is your goal, a mid-end PC gaming build would easily last 10+ years. I don't understand why you think it is amazing that a 2017 GPU still can do 30 fps in 2021? 30 fps is very easy to archieve. Thats why console mostly targets this.

RT on console is nothing like RT on PC. Ampere and Nvidia are years ahead of AMD when it comes to RT, however DLSS is the true magic of RTX cards. RT can look amazing but fps drawback is too big for me to bother anyway, because I want 100+ fps minimum on my PC.

RT is needed going forward, it is the future 100%. SSR - Screen Space Reflections - What we use today in most games for reflections can be decent but have issues that can't be fixed (flaws in tech, ruining immersion). As you can see here;

In some years good RT performance will probably be a requirement because dev's will move away from using SSR for reflections. We have already seen titles that requires RT capaple GPUs and more will come. PS5 and XSX will not really see true RT because they can't handle true RT loads. Not even AMDs top desktop GPU's can handle high RT loads (ie. 3070 is beating 6900XT when RT is maxed most of the time and 3060 Ti beats 6800XT)

RT + DLSS and 60 fps is not really hard to archieve even today.
FSR helps AMDs card too but not really enough and FSR is way more blurry than DLSS 2.x

There is tons of RT + DLSS enabled games out today, 100+ by now.
 
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3060 withouth dlss was cpu limited in 4k with my 3600 +16gb 3200cl16 ram so I fear a lot of this is meaningless. My gpu sits around 60-75% in he whole match and it stutters like crazy
 
3060 withouth dlss was cpu limited in 4k with my 3600 +16gb 3200cl16 ram so I fear a lot of this is meaningless. My gpu sits around 60-75% in he whole match and it stutters like crazy

I get full GPU usage at 1440p with both my 5900X and 9900K. Hovers at 95-99% GPU usage in an entire match. 95% lowest recorded. 3080 Ti and 3070.

Your CPU is not the fastest and your memory speed and timings are not optimal either. Why a 3060 for 4K/UHD? 😑
 
From this copy/paste I can clearly see you have not played the game outside of beta. Stop spreading misinformation.
this was from gameplay found this week, after the early release on the 12th...I have also been playing, as an EA Pro member. Look on the Reddit BF 2042, and you will see post after post echoing the issues raised in my list.
 
this was from gameplay found this week, after the early release on the 12th...I have also been playing, as an EA Pro member. Look on the Reddit BF 2042, and you will see post after post echoing the issues raised in my list.
No it's not, several of those things are already fixed. They never were included in the version that launched Nov 12.

Also, alot of stuff on that list is subjective.

Anyway there's a huge 10GB patch coming. Day one patch. The game has NOT officially launched yet. It's early access. I will judge the game AFTER this patch is out.

And retesting should be done too - CPU tests included.

Most of the rant on reddit comes from playing who played the beta and still talks ****. Keeps repeating bugs that are already fixed. Pointless to even mention reddit in this regard. This is always the case.

I played pretty much every BF in the series and there is always tons of bugs on release. Still fun.
 
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No it's not, several of those things are already fixed. They never were included in the version that launched Nov 12.

Also, alot of stuff on that list is subjective.

Anyway there's a huge 10GB patch coming. Day one patch. The game has NOT officially launched yet. It's early access. I will judge the game AFTER this patch is out.

And retesting should be done too - CPU tests included.

Most of the rant on reddit comes from playing who played the beta and still talks ****. Keeps repeating bugs that are already fixed. Pointless to even mention reddit in this regard. This is always the case.

I played pretty much every BF in the series and there is always tons of bugs on release. Still fun.
The beta last month, which was a several month old build, was better than the crap they dished out on the 12th. Looking forward to no gun plus, no specialists, a scoreboard, no gun bloom, and real maps with proper infantry flow after the "huge" 10gb patch.

Lol, these guys are almost rivalling Cyberpunk with their incompetency.

Better to wait for a game from the real Battlefield devs, not this fake trash.
 
The beta last month, which was a several month old build, was better than the crap they dished out on the 12th. Looking forward to no gun plus, no specialists, a scoreboard, no gun bloom, and real maps with proper infantry flow after the "huge" 10gb patch.

Lol, these guys are almost rivalling Cyberpunk with their incompetency.

Better to wait for a game from the real Battlefield devs, not this fake trash.
No it was not you troll 🤣 Sigh.

You lost all credibility when you just copy pasted old bugs, many of them are not even present in the Nov 12 version.

If you expected COD gunplay in BF then you are too naive. BF has always been about all out warfare.

I have 50+ kills in most matches and broke 80+ several times - maybe you should just git gud instead of crying hard.
 
No it was not you troll 🤣 Sigh.

You lost all credibility when you just copy pasted old bugs, many of them are not even present in the Nov 12 version.
nope, this was all discussed in a post after the launch on the 12th...which bugs are not currently present?
 
nope, this was all discussed in a post after the launch on the 12th...which bugs are not currently present?
Do you think I want to use 20 mins of writing which issues YOU WROTE that are not preset haha.

Sniper scope can easily be steadied for one. Shift... Which blind dog reported this? Even worked in the beta.
 
Do you think I want to use 20 mins of writing which issues YOU WROTE that are not preset haha.

Sniper scope can easily be steadied for one. Shift... Which blind dog reported this? Even worked in the beta.
if you can't refute them, no problem. Looks like we have another EA shill. Looking forward to the game made by real BF devs, not these lame ones that can't even let people know the in-game scoreboard, or post a simple comment in global chat.
 
if you can't refute them, no problem. Looks like we have another EA shill. Looking forward to the game made by real BF devs, not these lame ones that can't even let people know the in-game scoreboard, or post a simple comment in global chat.
Just did with scope steadying, works just fine 🤣

Why the **** do you need an ALL chat, so you can troll in games too? Sigh.

I bet you have not played the game at all outside of beta like most reddit plebs. And this is why I know most of the "bugs" on that list is from the beta.
 
Just did with scope steadying, works just fine 🤣

Why the **** do you need an ALL chat, so you can troll in games too? Sigh.

I bet you have not played the game at all outside of beta like most reddit plebs. And this is why I know most of the "bugs" on that list is from the beta.
Why remove it. Why remove the scoreboard.? Why have a "look at me" lame Apex style jerk off at the end of every round? The whole game is literally the antithesis of what a Battlefield game should be, and it the result of literally no devs being left over from the BF2,3,4 days. Now, it's a bunch of punks who wanna transform it into some apex style hero shooter where people fly all the way across the map on a wing suit and hover crafts run up the side of walls.
 
Why remove it. Why remove the scoreboard.? Why have a "look at me" lame Apex style jerk off at the end of every round? The whole game is literally the antithesis of what a Battlefield game should be, and it the result of literally no devs being left over from the BF2,3,4 days. Now, it's a bunch of punks who wanna transform it into some apex style hero shooter where people fly all the way across the map on a wing suit and hover crafts run up the side of walls.

Because the "all" chat is only used for toxicity and crap like "ez" anyway, who the f cares. Scoreboard sucks in its current form, yes. However I am mostly in 1st squad 😆

Still want the old back, as I said I will judge the game properly in a few weeks, starting from Nov 19. If they don't make the game work it was my last EA game anyway, they have nothing on Origin I want to play outside of this, untill Dragon Age 4 comes out, in a few years...
 
Because the "all" chat is only used for toxicity and crap like "ez" anyway, who the f cares. Scoreboard sucks in its current form, yes. However I am mostly in 1st squad 😆

Still want the old back, as I said I will judge the game properly in a few weeks, starting from Nov 19. If they don't make the game work it was my last EA game anyway, they have nothing on Origin I want to play outside of this, untill Dragon Age 4 comes out, in a few years...
And yet they have cocky expat soldiers who say **** like that after every round anyways. Indeed, I gave it a go on 12-14th...then decided to wait until 19th to see if my feeling has changed. I hopped back onto BF4 after 2042, and it just felt instantly better....I really hope 2042 can be steered in the same direction as that.
 
I'd like to see a CPU comparison for BF2042 as the game seems to be more bottle-necked by CPUs than it is GPUs.
 
I don't think the game is bad - Just needs work and optimization. I'm having a good time with friends. Last night I had 80+ kills on a Conquest. Laughing hard the entire match. People that don't have fun in this game, must suck at it.

No F2P = Way less cheating. Warzone suffers from massive cheating because it is F2P and people just make a new account and spoof their IP and HW IDs and continue to use aimbot and wallhack without even hiding the fact they cheat bigtime. Aimbotters driving around on top of cars and do headshots across the entire map... Haha yeah, F2P is great if you want to attract cheaters.

Once again, most people WHINING and CRYING about BF 2042 have not even played the full game or more than a few hours. They played the BETA or bought EA PLAY to get 10 hours of gametime and now they spend their time writing shiit about it because they cant play it anyway 😂 Besides, there has been serverissues, meaning some matchen run like crap while others run okay and some even great.

The game releases in 2 days. Day one patch is coming and you have seen very little of things to come; Battle/Season pass, more game modes, more maps, more specialists. Portal gets more and more content all the time too, even day to day. This game is made to AGE WELL, obviously, and this is nothing new if you actually read stuff about the game and whats to come.
I've actually played it quite a bit. Portal is excellent, I love the old maps and I applaud Dice for it but the most important part of the game for me is Hazard Zone and it's absolutely awful. The bots must be removed and it needs to be free to play. Conquest bores me to tears just like every other mp shooter. I can't fathom why they didn't make a F2P BR to accompany the base game. COD has proven you can sell millions of copies of a terrible multi-player shooter (vanguard and Cold war) just so people can level up their guns for warzone.
 
I've actually played it quite a bit. Portal is excellent, I love the old maps and I applaud Dice for it but the most important part of the game for me is Hazard Zone and it's absolutely awful. The bots must be removed and it needs to be free to play. Conquest bores me to tears just like every other mp shooter. I can't fathom why they didn't make a F2P BR to accompany the base game. COD has proven you can sell millions of copies of a terrible multi-player shooter (vanguard and Cold war) just so people can level up their guns for warzone.
HZ needs serious work, I only tried it about 3 times. Top kills 19 and did not escape in any of the matches because my team were 100% clueless and 2/3 console users; Did not hit anything and did not even supply team with health or ammo.

Seems like a rushed mode. Has potential tho.

10GB day one patch is coming tomorrow. I hope some bugs are ironed out and things are changed for the better.

There's already a small pre-patch out now. Servers run way better, just did 84 kills in breakthrough 😆 Can't seem to hit 100 kills.

I wish they had an awesome title for 100 kills...
 
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The game is a total train wreck. This list from Reddit shows off all the stuff wrong/left out of the game.

Core Features

  • No single-player story
  • No standard server browser
  • Fewer standardized game modes (Can't even play TDM or smaller scale modes without relying on community servers. Really?)
  • Fewer base game maps than any other title (even including portal the map count is only 13)
  • No persistent lobbies (seriously why do I have to matchmake after EVERY round?)
  • Fewer in-game assignments (none outside of cosmetic unlocks)
  • No class system
  • Less character customization options (than BF5)
  • No profile progress/stats page in the menu
  • No battle log/stats tracker for other players
  • No global leader boards
  • No end of round assignment progress screen
  • No dog tags (they still sort of exist I guess?)
  • No custom emblems
  • Fewer achievements
  • No medals
  • No swelling crescendo of dramatic music near the end of a match (obviously this is the most egregious of the list)
  • Less destruction (only a small handful of destructible buildings on each map)
  • No map altering levolution (There sort of is but the maps are so big, anything that changes doesn't really affect how you play)
  • No cross-game profile screen (BF 4, HL, 1, and V were all linked by a menu if you owned them digitally, was a neat feature.)
  • No spectator mode
  • No permanent community servers (would be useful for clans and events)
Infantry Gameplay

  • Fewer guns (even including all the portal guns, BF4 still had more at launch)
  • Fewer infantry gadgets
  • No manual leaning
  • No diving while swimming
  • No high wall vaulting
  • No crouch sprinting
  • No backwards prone
  • No explosion knockback
  • No rolling after falling from heights
  • No ammo or health pickup off teammates
  • No scope zeroing
  • No thermal optics
  • No indirect fire gadgets
  • Less anti-tank launchers (Come on man only one?)
  • No lock-on launchers (The M5 works with the SOFLAM but that requires 2 people)
  • No AP mines/claymores
  • No static weapon emplacements
  • No fortification building
  • No resupply stations
  • No suppression mechanic (This one I don't mind but I'm including everything)
Vehicles

  • Fewer vehicle types (and separate vehicle progression per faction even though they are functionally identical... why???)
  • No naval vehicles (Except I guess the hovercraft technically)
  • No vehicle gunner direction indicator
  • No lock on direction indicator
  • No vehicle enter/exit animations
  • No tank turret decoupling (This was so great in BF4!)
  • Less vehicle driver/pilot customization options
  • No tank zoom customization options
  • No tank gunner customization options
  • No heli gunner secondary weapons
  • No separate heli/fixed-wing controls
  • No control input while looking behind/free looking in aircraft (BF1 and V pilots, this one is gonna absolutely suck for you guys)
Scoring System

  • No squad wipe scoring
  • No player damage points
  • No vehicle damage points
  • No vehicle kill assist points
  • No headshot bonus
  • No long-range kill bonus
  • No assist counts as kill bonus
  • No squad objective play bonus
  • Oversimplified teamplay scoring (I.e. healing a teammate always gives you +5xp rather than the amount of health you give)
Squad and Teamwork

  • No commander
  • No special squad call-in abilities
  • No squad field upgrades
  • No in-game VOIP
  • Fewer factions (with almost nothing to give the 2 factions any distinction)
  • No cross-team chat
  • No "create new squad" option
  • No "promote to squad leader" option
  • No clans
  • No view of squadmates while in the spawn screen
  • No "Medic incoming" indicator in downed state
  • No rank names/icons, just a number.
UI and Quality of Life
  • Less control customization options
  • Less UI customization options
  • No HUD/icon opacity customization
  • No HUD scaling customization options
  • No gunsight reticle customization options
  • No network performance graph
  • No individual player scoreboard
  • Less detail in the 'who killed you' screen
  • No ultrawide monitor support
  • Very poor friend joining system
  • No console aim assist (big fat **** you to console players there, dice)
Just coming here from watching AngryJoe's rant, I don't know whether to laugh at the sheer ineptitude and incompetence of Dice or to be sad that a formerly great developer that made gems like BF1942 and BF2 has sunk so low.
 
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