battlefield 2142 vs battlefield 2

BF 2142 vs BF 2

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Might as well make a poll if you are interested in helping me out. Since I haven't played either I was thinking about picking one up since I have enjoyed the other BF games.
 
bf2 is fun. But its plagued by many bugs. CTD are common. People use exploits and glitches to win. EA most likely wont fix any of them since they now have bf2142 to mess up on. But If I would choose one it would be bf2. I didnt like the combat pace of 2142.
 
I didn't like BF2 at all, while I never encountered any hackers in the month I played, I was always getting raped, so it wasn't fun, and besdies, the graphics suck.
I played BF2142 demo for like 30 minutes and liked it a lot more, but I never liked the slow gameplay style of the BF series, so I went back to CS:S :D
 
BF2142 is more polished. Titan mode makes the game more interesting.
For BF2142, I did have lots of problems with memory leak and CTD. But it was a video driver problem. I had to go all the way back to forceware 81.94 to resolve the issues. I also have not seen CTD in BF2 since.
 
Is it me or does the titan Mode just suck ass. I hate servers that play this mode. No realy team work get accomplished. I just prefer the old fashion conquest.
 
Even thoug I've moved on from BF2, I still like it more than BF2142. The only reason i'm playing bf2142 now is because my friends are there. You get rewarded quite a bit with unlocks in the beginning though, which can be an incentive. But most people will view it as cumbersome and annoying.
 
I'm a BF2 guy but mostly because I've put so much time into it and have accumulated many awards/unlocks/ranks, etc...

Neither game was very buggy for me except for a CTD now and then. I don't play BF2142 much because most of my online buds play BF2. Both games are best enjoyed with some fellow peeps you can communicate with and work as a team. There's nothing better than being in squad of 4 or 5 guys and absolutely dominating a map because of your squad. :D

OP - Just download the demo for both and play them. They're good representations of the full game. (but BF2 would be even more stable then the demo)
 
WhyYouLoveMe said:
I'm a BF2 guy but mostly because I've put so much time into it and have accumulated many awards/unlocks/ranks, etc...

Neither game was very buggy for me except for a CTD now and then. I don't play BF2142 much because most of my online buds play BF2. Both games are best enjoyed with some fellow peeps you can communicate with and work as a team. There's nothing better than being in squad of 4 or 5 guys and absolutely dominating a map because of your squad. :D
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Back OT, I haven't tried 2142, but I absolutely love BF2. Every now and then I'll run into a glitch, but hardly ever does it affect my gameplay. I'll be playing BF2 at least until I get my bars :).
 
I haven't played BF2142 nor do I care to. BF2 for me...I've don't have many issues with bugs and generally I like the gameplay. There's no need for me to move on to BF2142.
 
I don't have any of the issues with bugs and crashes that you people claim you do with either game. My system is not a house of cards waiting for the first thing to bring it down as some of your systems seem to be.

Based SOLEY on the games themselves, since I am not afflicted with these mysterious bugs and crashes, BF2142 is much funner in my opinion. I like to play conquest in Belgrade, Berlin, Cerbere Landing, and Tunisia Port. Great fun. Titan mode is not my thing. but if you are a point whore, that's the game mode to play.
 
I enjoy both BF2 and BF2142 but right now I play BF2142 a lot more. I don't know where people are saying that BF2 or BF2142 have a lot of bugs because I hardly ever run into anything I would even classify as a bug.
 
I haven't played BF2142, but I can recommend BF2 if this is indeed the type of game you're interested in. Many of the stability issues have been cleared up as of the 1.4 patch (I couldn't play at all during 1.3) and the game is quite fun, but really is best when you have a group of friends to play with. I suspect that's true for most multiplayer games though.

My one concern with recommending BF2 over BF2142 is that 2142 is indeed the newer game and as such will probably have better support in the future. EA hasn't said anything about it, but there have been numerous rumors about them completely dropping support for BF2. I think it's unlikely to happen any time soon, but it will invariably occur before it happens to 2142 so if you're looking to play for an extended period of time, 2142 might be a better choice.
 
WTB neither option, or maybe rather have another hole in the head option.
 
saan44 said:
My one concern with recommending BF2 over BF2142 is that 2142 is indeed the newer game and as such will probably have better support in the future. EA hasn't said anything about it, but there have been numerous rumors about them completely dropping support for BF2. I think it's unlikely to happen any time soon, but it will invariably occur before it happens to 2142 so if you're looking to play for an extended period of time, 2142 might be a better choice.
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According to GameSpy's stats BF2 is still played more than 2142.

http://archive.gamespy.com/stats/

By quite a bit - 3,000+ players at the time of this posting.

EDIT: FYI - EA hasn't said anything about dropping BF2 support but common sense does say it will end before 2142 support would. (but they do run the same engine) So far it's just rumors like saan said.
 
BF2142 is better balanced then BF2.
I still play BF2 often, but I cannot recall the last time I played on a map with jets in it. I got so sick of being constantly bombed many times by jet whores and not being able to do anything about it. The AAs are a joke against good pilots who know how to evade them.
In BF2142, There is no class/vehicle that dominates. The helos are not the flying tanks they are in BF2. Even the mighty battlewalkers can be easily dealt with if you know how to do it.
 
Where's the "I liked BF2 but have since sold it and don't ever care to bother with another BF series game ever again" poll choice?
 
It was originally under the "NOBODY CARES, SORRY" radio button, but has since been removed as it goes without saying.

I think I might be one of the minority when I make this comment having actually played and loved both 2142 and BF2 for some time; I prefer 2142, largely because of the balance tweaks afforded by the fictional vehicles/weapons (no having to adhere to realism) and due to the abundance of unlocks and tweakability of your soldier to create an amalgamation of classes, a spec-ops with claymores, for example.
 
WhyYouLoveMe said:
Kinda like the jets in BF2.
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Then why one some maps like Wake did I see people with 40:1 kills-to-death score? Cuz they cant be caught by the AAs.
 
Karkand and the jallalallallaaballalad map were ground based.

With the new patch u had the ability to have no air and no vehichles if you chose. I did not like 2142 at all. BF2 hands down.
 
GlimmerMan said:
Then why one some maps like Wake did I see people with 40:1 kills-to-death score? Cuz they cant be caught by the AAs.
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Get a man or two on AAs, put up a jet or two, lure them into AA traps. This ain't rocket science. Any lone 40-1 pilot can be dealt with - just not one on one. Which, strangely enough, is not the way to play BF2 - OR 2142.

Get a engineer in a mech in 2142 running around and he can get a 40-1 round, too, if no one works together to take him out. It's all about the teamwork.

Besides, a 40-1 jet round in BF2 can be largely credited to spawn raping.
 
WhyYouLoveMe said:
Get a man or two on AAs, put up a jet or two, lure them into AA traps. This ain't rocket science. Any lone 40-1 pilot can be dealt with - just not one on one. Which, strangely enough, is not the way to play BF2 - OR 2142.

Get a engineer in a mech in 2142 running around and he can get a 40-1 round, too, if no one works together to take him out. It's all about the teamwork.

Besides, a 40-1 jet round in BF2 can be largely credited to spawn raping.
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It also doesn't help that the jets are imbalanced between themselves. A F-35 isn't a match in a dogfight for a J-10, an the AA is laugable. Any pilot with an hours of practice can dodge a AA nest and even turn around and kill the gunner before the thing reloads. On top of that it usually takes more than one shot to kill a jet with a SAM.

I found BF2142 to be much more balanced as a whole in relationship between vehicles and infantry. But I didn't buy it, only played at a friends house.
 
WhyYouLoveMe said:
Get a man or two on AAs, put up a jet or two, lure them into AA traps.
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The good pilots take out the AAs in the area first. You cant hit the jet on its way in, you have to wait till it passes to fire at it. But you'll never get that chance against a good pilot. Even if he misses and you're able get to lock and fire, he'll just head towards the sun and the missiles will never get him.

WhyYouLoveMe said:
Get a engineer in a mech in 2142 running around and he can get a 40-1 round, too, if no one works together to take him out.
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But the mech is not untouchable and people can work together to take them out. Where in BF2, the only counter to a good pilot is another good pilot. Which sucks for your team if you don't have one.
 
GlimmerMan said:
But the mech is not untouchable and people can work together to take them out. Where in BF2, the only counter to a good pilot is another good pilot. Which sucks for your team if you don't have one.
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I can take out a mech single handly by myself. Just walk up under it, which is pretty easy as most mecher's have tunnel vision and have no clue to what is going on around them except right in front of them, and shoot it in the tail pipe. Problem solved.

I got so sick of the BF2 one sided rape fests with the jets. Total waste of time.

What screwed BF2 up started back with BFV. When BFV came out, you actually had to have some skill to fly the choppers. Well, EA welfared patched the game in the first patch to make it easier to fly the choppers which let every dipschitt (lowest common denominator) that played the game to be able to pilot without having to spend the time to learn some skill at it. What ended up was a rape fest with the Huey gunships running around the map killing everything they came accross at will. Well, time for another welfare patch from EA, this time to make it so the choppers can't shoot as often. WTF? Why not just leave it the way it was and make it take some skill to fly them. Then we have BF2 where the choppers are like flying houses... unresponsive and sluggish, but hella easy for even the noobiest of players to hop in and fly around with. Just Lame. I want my Cobra to be hard to fly and to take some practice, but when I finally learn how, I want to be able spin it around on a dime, not take half the damn map to do a 180. And of course 2142's flying contraptions... I don't think you even need hands to be able to pilot them.

I liked no vehicles on Karkland and Jalalabad. Pure fun, but I haven't touched BF2 since 2142 came out. I think I will have the post office forward my mail to Belgrade.
 
BF2 is better for Conquest, 2142 has titan mode which is a blast, I am of split opinion.
 
The walkers in 2142 arent even as good as the tanks were in BF2, just because there is nothing as devastating as that coaxial mg and no powerful shell that can easily clip guys hiding behind obstacles. And the tank, unlike the walker, can easily nail guys while on the move. With two crew the walker does have the advantage of a decent flak suite and an extra pair of eyes. Tanks in 2142 with two crew still arent anywhere near as good as tanks in BF2.

The jets in BF2 are way way way more formidable
 
I much prefer BF2...I enjoy the more infantry based combat than in 2142..everything moves so slow I find.

Patch 1.4 has worked flawlessly for me so far...not one CTD.
 
BF2 is much more accurate of the two, especailly the weapons, both games are buggy but the more you play it the better they get. I am a captain in BF2 and a gold commissoner in BF2142. BF2142 is more vehicle based and does not really come down to skill.

Conquest is better then titan mode coz peeps dont give a FOOK if they lose the titan they just want kills or try to get badges.

BF2 is the better over all game.
 
I'm surprised no one mentioned the mods available for BF2? Get BF2, add mods, presto: whole new experience: new maps, new vehicles, new weapons. If you get tired of playing on noob public servers, join a tournament for some organized action. Nothing better than 32vs32 organized players with clear tactics and assigned roles.

Some Mods:
http://realitymod.com
http://www.pointofexistence.com
http://www.opkmod.com
http://forgottenhope.bf1942files.com
http://www.desert-conflict.org

Lots of people putting in a lot of hours to extend BF2s capability with great results. I vote BF2. :)
 
After playing the BF2142 demo for a little bit I found the infantry combat horribly sluggish, just plain not fun. Once I get back into BF2 being on foot just felt so much more intense.
 
BF2142 gives many more rewards in the beginning and after that, gameplay becomes repetitive, but it is easy to gain ranks and unlocks quickly. BF2 takes longer to achive rewards and unlocks, but for me is much more fun and is not as repetitve as BF2142 in the long run.
 
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