Your thoughts about BF 2142's Demo

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As most of you know the new BF 2142 demo just came out about two days ago. Ive been playing it non stop since I've downloaded it. :D I would really like to know how you guys WHO HAVE PLAYED THE DEMO feel about the game so far. I think it has a great chance on being another huge BF2 war game. The demo still has its moments where some of the weapons do almost no damage to vehicles.

So my guess it this game is leaning a lil more to vehicle combat (due to the air vehicles being ALOT easier to fly and the addition of plenty of vehicles to choose from). Now I can be wrong because of the fact that we can only play the game on one map. But overall I like this new version of BF.

I've also found that it asks for alot more out of your computer then BF2 does. With my sig rig I was getting about 90+ Fps in BF2 (only dropping to 70 FPS in huge battles on high settings), but now with the same settings, BF2142 only gets about 80 FPS and drops below 50 FPS sometimes...I had to drop most of the settings to medium to get a good average framerate.

Please share your opinions (with reasons why) on the new demo.
 
Played it, dont like it, not buying it.

Based on what I have read on this and other forums I think alot of people who had bought previous iterations of battlefield will not be buying this game. :cool:
 
Honestly, I couldn't get it to work properly, didn't like my settings, didn't like staying connected to servers, its like BF Vietnam all over again, BF:V was great and all but it took the work of a religious deity to get it working properly and I am not going to go through that again so I'll pass on it
 
I love it. Very intense if you're not actually wandering around like a dildo doing nothing useful, as I see many people doing, only two crashes for me, which I can live with (to be fair, a demo shouldn't really have these issues - but it's not the first) and runs acceptably. Very good getting on Ventrilo or TS2 with a few mates and assaulting the titan and such, and I absolutely adore the support weapons. Definite buy for me, i'm just not cool enough to do otherwise :D
 
I definitely like the fact that they made it very important to join squads. Titan play is very cool (bording it towards the end of a game makes me feel like a futuristic pirate :D).

They definitely need to fix some of the balancing issues with most of the weps, some of them are way too strong.
 
2nd that. Its too little, too soon. To me its at attempt by EA to rush something out the door to try to derail ETQW and nothing more (as evident by the lack of a new game engine, etc).

I am waiting till ETQW comes and out to get the real thing.
 
IMO Infantry Combat > Vehicle Combat(I was an America's Army addict for years), so I'll be sticking with POE2 until another great ground war game is released.
 
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I've found that 2142 is very infantry-oriented; squads and titan modes mean that i've only spent about two minutes total in each of the tanks, and five in the walker (out of 2 and a half hours total so far). More so than BF2 was, I find.
 
It's unfortunate to see infantry is totaly worthless in the future.
They're so slow they can't run anyhwere, even with sprint and no heavy armor it's almost impossible to move around the map without a vehicle.
At times it feels like the engineer is throwing rocks the enemy vehicles, I believe I shot 4 rocket volleys into the back of a heavy mech that was blasting one of our spawn points without any effect.

But that can be ok, Battlefield has always been about vehicles, and if 2142 wants to make infantry pointless - ok fine.

My biggest problem so far is that everything about the game screams: generic scifi shooter. It would be one thing if they had taken the BF2 gameplay and refined it, expanded on it, and tried to innovate, then applied a scifi skin to the game. Instead it feels like the same BF2 game, with a decent scifi total conversion mod. It's like Dice/EA saw the success of desert combat, and decided they could do the same thing this time around and sell it for $50.
There's just too little new, creative and/or different as far as gameplay goes for me to even consider this until it hits the bargain bin. And by them, I'm likley to be playing quake wars (unless Splash Damage screws it up).
 
Nova69ssfan said:
As most of you know the new BF 2142 demo just came out about two days ago. Ive been playing it non stop since I've downloaded it. :D I would really like to know how you guys WHO HAVE PLAYED THE DEMO feel about the game so far. I think it has a great chance on being another huge BF2 war game. The demo still has its moments where some of the weapons do almost no damage to vehicles.
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Hulk said:
I think I'll wait till ETQW.
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I think i'll have chicken for dinner.
I love this.
 
Everything is ugly in the demo even though i have settings set to high. Feels kinda buggy because sometimes when i land on the titan and exit my ship i die. Also i get disconnected from EA master server often, pisses me off.
 
It only crashed for me when I tried to enable X-Fi in the options I got kicked from the server once. So for me at least its basically stable but I hate the game play to much on the vehicles if you dont get a tank or a walker you are just a walking target. To the person that said it feels like desert combat I think your right. Ill just keep playing that for the time being.
 
I must be the only person in the world that BF games don't crash for. I'm a little annoyed that I can't run in a widescreen resolution, but that's a design decision that the battlefield series has made. Weapons in the demo feel a lot more accurate and somehow better than in BF2 - I can't quite place it as to why, but I'm a better shot. Havn't flown the flying vehicles yet - I don't know how and I don't want to pratice in a live game.

Titan mode is cool. I like the assault complex of it. I hope that on other maps there will be the potential for bigger Titans. I'm not sure if I'll buy the game or not (leaning towards not) but for me it seems more fun than regular BF2.
 
Hello i get an error ... "faield to start becuse d3dx9_29.dll not found" how do i fix this... i tied reinstalling same eror... should i just download this dll and put it somewere (and if so were)... thanks!
 
Wally said:
I love it. Very intense if you're actually wandering around like a dildo being useful, as I see many people doing, only two crashes for me, which I can live with (to be fair, a demo shouldn't really have these issues - but it's not the first) and runs acceptably. Very good getting on Ventrilo or TS2 with a few mates and assaulting the titan and such, and I absolutely adore the support weapons. Definite buy for me, i'm just not cool enough to do otherwise :D
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Fixed, dildos are nothing but useful.
 
Malikman said:
Hello i get an error ... "faield to start becuse d3dx9_29.dll not found" how do i fix this... i tied reinstalling same eror... should i just download this dll and put it somewere (and if so were)... thanks!
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Install Dx 9c
 
Was not impressed at all...without good infantry style combat I won't be buying the game.
 
JDMs14 said:
Was not impressed at all...without good infantry style combat I won't be buying the game.
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You have tried Titan mode, right?
 
I probably won't be buying it. The demo really shocked me. I seriously wasn't expecting to actually have to consider not getting it, I just expected it to be great. The movement just feels so slow and clumsy. Tanks seem more limited and less fun. The guns are stupidly inaccurate making infrantry combat utterly unenjoyable.

So yeah as somoene who thoroughly enjoyed BFV and BF2 and never bitched at Dice about patches etc I won't be getting BF2142.
 
I loved bf2 because it was so revolutionary. But 2142 just feels like....a mod. new skins, new weapons, new vehicles, but same gameplay. Sadly, i dont think i will be purchasing this when i comes out. =(

oh...and i cant land the stupid gunship, apparently zero thrust on joystick = hover. :mad:
 
i was actually kinda suprised by the demo. i went into it thinking i was going to hate it, but after a few rounds of titan mode i found it pretty cool. it deffinantly needs some patches right off the bat though, infintry movment is too slow like many have said..
 
Personally I hated BF2, it just felt subpar to other shooters out there, however I really enjoyed this demo. I still probably wont be buying it when it comes out though. Battlefield just isn't as good as it used to be.

BF1942>BFV>BF2142>BF2

-Rannoch

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I'd really like it if it ran as well as BF2 runs on my system...I can run BF2 at everything max, 1680x1050, I can run GRAW at everything max, 1680x1050, but this game...30fps if i'm lucky at 1680x1050 with high/medium settings...
 
Hey i try to connec to a serer and now it's saying connection lost ven tho it's good latency... any reasons also it said (when i connected to my first server) please revert to unmodified bf2142 or something... any ideas?) i hvaen't been able to play at all becuse of htese two problems.
 
Against my better judgement I downloaded the demo knowing full well that it just looked like a damn mod for BF2, for what it's worth here is my experience with the game.

Downloaded and installed the demo with no problems.

Setting up the controls was the first real step in the right direction that hit me, I didnt have to hunt through 6 full screens of keys to unbind a key first before I could use it elsewhere, then it struck me that improving to this is no big thing, it should have been like this in BF2 and that it's expected for them to give the game this kind of usabilty.

First server I tried to join I got an error message telling me I had been kicked for excessive TK's, which is interesting because I'm using an account I used for BF2 and I've never once been kicked for TK's so this has to be a bug.

Second server I tried to join I got an "error" and thats it, no further error text...

Thrid server I tried to join I got in straight away, the loading with the caching of shaders took about 2-3 minutes which I feel is a little harsh since it happens every time you change video settings :/

First thing that smacked me in the face when I actually got in game is how incredibly bland it is, and the performance agains't that was OK, on par with BF2 but with BF2 there was laods of lush grass and foliage in maps like Wake 2007 which even with TSAA on didn't run badly.

Performance VS visuals, this game simply does not deliver.

Next thing I noticed is that approx 60-70% of everyone is in vehciles which was irritating because the best battles in BF2 were infantry.

Approximately 50% of everyone I met up with were going prone the instnat they saw an enemy or were shot at, which is straight from BF2.

Artillery is still there, and as uselessly annoying as it was in BF2, in BF2 there was simply no place for artilary in the game, it wasn't tactical at all, it was always aimed at the largest group of enemies and always came in with no prior warning so no one had any time to get into cover, there is no change here. This game dynamic PUNISHES team play, thats right, stick as a close squad to gain benefits from all diferent types of squad members and you'll get hit by arty, simple as.

The map was vehcile based full stop, there was no cover for infantry to navigate between the silos without coming under heavy fire from vehicles and planes.

All in all very underwhealmed, unimpressed and quite frankly NOT SUPPRISED in the slightest to see things like artilary back which does nothing but spoil the game.

This is no more than a Mod for BF2, different skins, different sounds, a menu that's re-arranged to appear different but at the end of the day this is the same soupy engine with the same bugs, the same problems and EA/Dice's inability to learn from their mistakes or improve upon the brand.

I certainly wont be buying this, in fact EA/Dice couldn't PAY me to play this!

P.S

I'd just like to predict now (so i can do a whole "told you so" post in a years time") that EA/Dice will fail to fix any bugs in this game, cause masses of new ones, the game will be unbalanced and during the patches they will make numerous attempts to fix the problems the game faces but they will fail miserably, we'll see people dolphin diving, instant proning, bunny hopping and all the lame things in BF2, but they're simply not smart enough to fix it any of it, and if they do manage to fix something, they will break something else at the same time.
 
I'd just like to predict now (so i can do a whole "told you so" post in a years time") that EA/Dice will fail to fix any bugs in this game, cause masses of new ones, the game will be unbalanced and during the patches they will make numerous attempts to fix the problems the game faces but they will fail miserably, we'll see people dolphin diving, instant proning, bunny hopping and all the lame things in BF2, but they're simply not smart enough to fix it any of it, and if they do manage to fix something, they will break something else at the same time.

NS!
 
I'm suprised that noones mentioned how utterly ridiculous the english voices sound too.

On the bright side they got one thing going right already, the server browser is already 100x better and more responsive than the BF2 one. Is that something they really couldn't figure out with a years worth of patches?
 
Piece of shit game...i had big hopes for it until i played it...gayest game ever...seriously
 
I played the game as well this weekend. It ran great on my system, seemed almost better than bf2.

I am a huge fan of bf1942, BF2, but NOT 2142. This game is complete poop if you ask me, and I will NOT be buying it. I gave it a fair shot but it's crap. Yes, I played both modes, conquest and titan.

Hover tank - FTL
No guns on tank - FTL
Sniper rifle - FTL
Mech walker - FTW
Jets/choopers - FTL
Performance - FTW
Bugs - FTL
Graphics - FTW
Textures - FTL
Concept - FTL

BF2142 - FTL. Too many bad things about it.
 
I just hate how useless people are, I mean for god sakes they dont even have gernades. If the people could actualy do damage to the tanks it would be awsome but its complete crap! I get disconnected from the servers atleast 20mins after play each time its really annoying, so hopefully the coop option will be intergrated into this game. So angering to see 2142 become completely based on tanks and aircraft if i wanted that i would buy a simulator.
 
It's garbage imo, not just the demo but the whole game. It's mix a Tribes & Mech warrior with Tron-style metal graphics lol. I've played every version of the Battlefield series so far and can say this is some thing I will be avoiding. I rank this up there with my BF:V coaster. The BF series stopped being good after the Desert Combat (mod for bf1942) and simply went downhill from there. They went and took a team of modder's & made BF2 then screwed the pooch with their boosters, ranked servers & a lack of ctf mode. Now it's just a money edition sequel they have with 2142 that targets even more noobs and is nothing but advertising of an old engine in another revision.




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MJCfromCT said:
I'd really like it if it ran as well as BF2 runs on my system...I can run BF2 at everything max, 1680x1050, I can run GRAW at everything max, 1680x1050, but this game...30fps if i'm lucky at 1680x1050 with high/medium settings...
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It won't let me select 1680x1050 as a resolution. Even though my monitor supports that as a native resolution.

I think the game is pretty good. The only complaints I have are with the infantry. They need grenades or some kind of explosives to be useful against anything heavily fortified and especially vehicles.

They need to bring me back my C4 Charges. I miss that with the special ops guy. The guns could be a bit more useful against human targets too.

Finally, the slowness of the soldiers is retarded. They need to be able to run for longer distances.

CrazyJoe said:
It's garbage imo, not just the demo but the whole game. It's mix a Tribes & Mech warrior with Tron-style metal graphics lol. I've played every version of the Battlefield series so far and can say this is some thing I will be avoiding. I rank this up there with my BF:V coaster. The BF series stopped being good after the Desert Combat (mod for bf1942) and simply went downhill from there. They went and took a team of modder's & made BF2 then screwed the pooch with their boosters, ranked servers & a lack of ctf mode. Now it's just a money edition sequel they have with 2142 that targets even more noobs and is nothing but advertising of an old engine in another revision.




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So you liked one game, and have never been a fan of the series? That's what hating all the sequels means.

Anyway, I didn't like the first game at all. I thought the idea behind BF1942 was good, but the execution wasn't there. Fact is WWII stuff doesn't interest me and too many games set in that time period came out that year. I was sick of it.

I never played BF VN, and I probably should have, but I didn't like BF 1942 and didn't give it a chance. The Desert Combat mod was good, but I felt it was limited by the design of the game it was modded to work on. The jets for example didn't have enough room to fly around on.

BF2 was great, but the server browser and the net code needed a lot of work. I also thought that the weapons weren't powerful enough. The pistols and knives were ok, but the rifles should have killed in half the shots. It just took too many rounds to knock a person down.
 
i would like to give my opinion of the demo, but unfortunatly it won't let me into it! whenever i try and creat an account it tells me that user name already exists, yet if i go back to try and login as that username it tells me it doesn't exist, and none of the account retrival things say an account with that name or email exists. so either i'm doing something wrong or something is messed up with their servers. anyone know how to create an account without using the in game one?
 
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So you liked one game, and have never been a fan of the series? That's what hating all the sequels means.

Anyway, I didn't like the first game at all. I thought the idea behind BF1942 was good, but the execution wasn't there. Fact is WWII stuff doesn't interest me and too many games set in that time period came out that year. I was sick of it.

I never played BF VN, and I probably should have, but I didn't like BF 1942 and didn't give it a chance. The Desert Combat mod was good, but I felt it was limited by the design of the game it was modded to work on. The jets for example didn't have enough room to fly around on.

BF2 was great, but the server browser and the net code needed a lot of work. I also thought that the weapons weren't powerful enough. The pistols and knives were ok, but the rifles should have killed in half the shots. It just took too many rounds to knock a person down.
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I said that 2142 was garbage not the entire series, stop reading more into that then there is posted. :) I own every version of it, I had servers for all of them also I might add. I am a fan of the series I just don't like 2142 and & BFV. Our clan (Occupying Force) played the hell out of them & several of the mods for them. The gameplay in BF2 is second to none for teamwork but it's stale for me and others I know. The boosters are a joke and should've been in a patch. I don't see 2142 going any place near bf1942 or BF2 for that matter. I don't agree on EA's marketing or their ability to turn every thing they touch to crap. They rush games out the door more so then most companies and have never ending patches that never seem to resolve bugs. Red tags, dolphin divers... the server browser which is Gamespy's end also just to name a few.
 
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