I've got 2 hours of BF2142 under my belt....impressions

[Sanborn]

First off, this game in its current stage once you start playing is less buggy than BF2 was a year after its release. And I am not making that up....the only annoying SINGLE defect you will encounter is that sometimes the server will tell you a "version missmatch" type error when you join. Also the Commander screen is a bit laggy but thats about it.

BF2142 is AMAZING, unless you absolutely hate BF games than you will enjoy 2142. In contrast to what every lamer on the web has told you, it does not feel identical to BF2 with futuristic skins.

The Interface:
For the first time EVER...and I really mean EVER, the menus in a battlefield game work perfectly. All buttons are responsive and the server browser is lightning quick. After you get past the loading movies (Dice,EA) you can get into a server of choice in under a minute. The login system is much more refined than BF2, even allowing you to enter in a Clan tag to append to the front of your name without having to make a new login. The game features an in-game stats tracking system complete with graphs that completely blows BF2 away. I tried to take some pics but aparently F12 only works in-game for me. I'm very pleased with what DICE has done with the menus and their performance over BF2.

Graphics: Other than some lighting issues (might be my specs, i have all of the options on LOW) it looks pretty good. It is a step up from BF2 but don't expect huge changed. The weapon effects are top notch and I swear your jaw will drop the first time you get hit by an EMP bomb (Its better than interference effects in most movies/games (way better than GRAW). I really like the explosions and the futuristic look

Vehicles: Let me tell you guys something....don't be afraid of vehicles in BF2142. Everyone was flipping out over the walkers and tank varients....EMP grenades are FANTASTIC. With enough skill/luck you can completely disable a vehicle and escape/blow it up. The flying mechanics of BF2142 have been improved +100 over BF2. Its completely possible to fly with a keyboard/mouse. Overall since the devs weren't forced to be realistic I think they really came through and made sets of vehicles that feel "right" and never seem rediculous.

Classes/squads: Boy....its about time they cut out the fluff classes. having only 4 classes is great, in my squad I played in for about 45 min I felt there was a lot more versatility. We didn't even have any unlocks and I felt like I was fighting with a balanced group. Stock sniper rifle = awesome, Support minigun = amazing, Engineer rockets/guns = sweet, Assault machine gun = feels perfect. The new squad additions are really neat too, its much easier to work together and spot enemies. I also don't know if this is specific to the beta test but you can actually spawn in any vehicle on the map on your team....regardless of squad. This way you are never out of action and always in a vehicle with someone cooperating (atleast in the 2 hours I played). Also, medic boxes and ammo boxes are actually useful in this game, you lay them down and they emit the benefits to anyone in the area (also to enemy).

Map(s): I've only played Verdun (is that the only beta map?) and it rivals the best of BF2 maps. It has wide open spaces and tight quarters all together. We invaded the enemies Titan and its incredible fighting inside on large scale battles. I was a support gunner and I ran around a corner, laid down, and blasted the hell out of 3 people. Unfortunatly one of our assult guys laid down a medic box and I think he started to heal the other team so they raped us.

Sound: I'm playing on an Audigy 1 with medium effects and the sound effects are much cleaner than anything that exists in BF2. The voices from your team voice commands are actually audible too....it no longer sounds like a middle eastern guy screaming through cardboard.

Coolest feature ever: Dogtags.......dogtags......dogtags................ .The knife is seriously the best "feeling" knife of any FPS i've ever played and you can tell DICE has been working on it to make sure the dogtag system keeps people playing. Its the same reason play WoW for fame/honor, its the same reason why people play on counter strike Ranked servers: having a list of everyone you have ever gut along with their name on your character permanently is the ultimate bragging right. I know I am going to be obsessed with cloaking and stabbing people.

http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/8182/screen000tk9.jpg

This is the absolute best BF game that has existed and in its Beta Tuning state is more bug free than Battlefield 2 probably is right now. I can't wait for October

And for anyone that needs to know:
Im playing it in 1280x1024 with all options on low no AA and no AF
2.4 Pentium4
1gig DDR ram
9800pro 128

At these settings its smooth, I bet I could put them on medium.

[CPLB]

Wow, sounds great Sanborn. I'll definately be picking up a copy. Thanks for your in-depth perspective.

[Sanborn]

I just want to add, before anyone makes a comment on it..........

I am a large DICE fanboy (not an EA fanboy, I don't like 95% of their developed and published games) because I have been playing their games since Codename Eagle. This fact however, DOES NOT INTERFERE WITH MY PERSPECTIVE ON THE GAME.

I know what a problematic game is (BFV, BF2 for example) and BF2142 isn't even in the same league as those games.

I also found out today that the "version mismatch" problem I was getting is actually a problem with the non-EA servers sponsored by some clan/company called WOLF. Which means there are 0 game breaking bugs that I encounted in my 2 hours. I'm not saying there aren;t any (because every software has them) but I haven't found them yet !!!!

And trust me.............

I've been doing software testing day in and out at my summer internship on outsourced developed programs, I can spot bugs/defects a mile away now.

[Sanborn]

I played for another 30 mins while I was at home on lunch break, I can't get enough of this game. Its very refreshing compared to previous installments of BF.

Most of the bases have anti-vehicle weapons that are 100% uber. One is a gigantic laser that charges up and hits vehicles, I was blowing up tanks left and right (with several shots)

[zac]

I played for another 30 mins while I was at home on lunch break, I can't get enough of this game. Its very refreshing compared to previous installments of BF.

Most of the bases have anti-vehicle weapons that are 100% uber. One is a gigantic laser that charges up and hits vehicles, I was blowing up tanks left and right (with several shots)

Is the game out now thought it was out next year ?????????????

[Sanborn]

beta test off fileplanet.com for being a subscriber. It comes out October 10th btw.

[zac]

beta test off fileplanet.com for being a subscriber. It comes out October 10th btw.
Cheers Thanks

[CandymanCan]

Looks like a modd'd BF2 to me. the mini map up top even has the same symbols and stuff. and the game overall doesnt look any different to me besides new vehicals and stuff. Dont get me wrong i like BF games but meh mechwarrior..

[ge|atinousfury]

Cool, review...sounds as if BF2142 is gonna be really fun!!

Definitely gonna be picking this one up upon release

[outcast623]

right now if you subscribe to fileplanet you can get the 2142 beta, my buddy did it the game looks awsome.

I LOVE being able to zoom with the tank cannon!:D

[aussie_guy00000]

So there's no medic class now????? From the screen shot, all the trees and scenery look exactly like BF2, in fact I thought I was looking at BF2 when I first saw it. But I shall reserve judgement for when they release a demo or the beta to the public. I do how ever still feel a bit cheated that they spent a heap of time making sure that BF2142 ran smoothly without many bugs, when my copy of BF2 still crashes constantly and has more bugs then a 7 day old corpse in a forest :mad: .

[Sanborn]

Aussie:

Medic and Assauly have been combined (you don't start off with revive kit tho)
Sniper and Spec Op have been combined (you dont start out with demo pack)

So basically when you pick assault class you can pick unlocks that make you a medic, assault, or a sort of battle medic that is average at both.

Or you can do the same with snipers and spec ops

The classes are great, and yes it does have the same map/commander system/UI as BF2 but I believe that has more to do with a re-used engine than it being the same game modded.

This is not BF2, and its aparent the first time you play a Titan game and realize whats going on.

[Sanborn]

^^ I think thats a server parameters so it could be ever changing.

Tonight I snagged 3 dogtags from what I think is probably 3 ppl in the same squad. They all lined up against this wall and I literally turn the corner and ran thru them knifing.

[Jodiuh]

Oh snap! I'm dling now...can't wait!!

[mr_knowitall15]

im looking forward to this. Hopefully all the promises of less bugs than BF2 are true (as if thats hard to do) if they spend just 5 minutes testing this game its got a damn good chance of being less buggy than bf2...:slapass: :slap:

[Jodiuh]

No time to chat, must get back to game. Enjoy.

MECH.wmv - 9MB, 30 Seconds (http://www.thenicetech.com/MECH.wmv)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/jodiuh/Battlefield/MECH.jpg

[Jodiuh]

Sneaky Boom.wmv - 2MB, 12 Seconds (http://www.thenicetech.com/Sneaky%20Boom.wmv)

[Sanborn]

awesome videos

[FLMJIGGY]

ok, looking good.

Thanks guys

[Sanborn]

I'm very close to my next rankup (4th rank) then I will have the upgraded sniper rifle.

Woot, through the BF2142 veteran program and gamespot preorder I will be rank 3 on launch day.

The good thing about BF2142 is the amount of upgrade options, Each class has two weapons to upgrade to along with 6 individual accessories or mini-capabilities. For instance: Right now I have upgraded sniper class so I have the claymore upgrade, an extra 4x zoom on my rifle, and a scope steady addition that works by holding down shift while zoomed.

Because each class has 2 upgrade paths you sort of get mixed classes within a class. As a sniper class (im not sure if that is the technical name) I can buy the upgraded sniper rifle but I can also pick the cloaking device from the spec-ops branch since they combined the two classes.

Also, there are general upgrades which look passive and I'm not sure but the way the upgrade page is laid out ti looks like they unlock for all classes at once:

these include: frag grenades, extra sprint, emp bomb, and about 3 others.

And there is a THIRD unlock branch that are squad leader unlocks. The only two I can remember is a drone that follows you around and auto shoots enemies and a beacon you can lay ANYWHERE that allows your teammates to spawn at that point. SO really, if you are a squad leader you can run into an enemy Titan, lay down a spawn beacon and even if you die they can still spawn there.

Thats why I have been so harsh on people that say BF2142 is BF2 reskinned, other than the battlefield name, some similiaries in style and some reused ideas like squads/commanders I consider it a completely different game.

[charlie]

very cool...

digital heroin.

[Smash]

Really awesome:slobber:

@Jodiuh
Give us more pciutures, please!

[Jodiuh]

I'm @ work!!!!!!!

[古強者死神]

Cool, its gonna be hard to justfy buying this game when I just got BF2 and I love it so much.

Is the combat mostly foot based or is everybody in a damn tank/chopper type deal like I find BF2 to be like (wich is why I play special forces maps, less vehicle combat and more man to man action)

edit: wow I just saw the video with the 2 legged walker tank deal... that thing is scary!

the whole game has the BF2 engine but reminds me of unreal tournament for some reason with the high tech weapons, and of course the 2 legged tank deal makes me remember the robocop movies.

[Jodiuh]

in mech.wmv - 5MB, 10 seconds (http://www.thenicetech.com/in%20mech.wmv)

[古強者死神]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Sojg2iw1TXY is a good movie, looks like you have "missions" other than just getting rid of ticket count they destoyed an objective, wich reminds me of UT2004 even more (onslaught mode anybody)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bE_0FcxIOUs is also a good movie.

[Sanborn]

^^ thats Titan mode, you have to capture missle silos that repeatedly shoot missles at an enemy titan (which is a huge flying base) to take down its shield. Once the shield is down you can shoot out of the top of an APC in a pod or be dropped off by a flying vehicle. Once you are inside you have to destroy 4 control panels which are in tight quarters to gain access to the core reactor. Once there........blow that sucka up.

And do your previous question 古強者死神:

It might be just the map the beta is on but there are two flying vehicles in the beta map (we only have one) and from what I've seen they are not even close to being as annoying as they are in BF2. They are a combination between jets and helicoptors but they act more as transport ships than anything. I'm pretty sure in the several hours I've played I've never been killed by a flying vehicle.

Its quite different from BF2, the combination of EMP bombs, sticky mines, and engineer weapons makes the game fairly balanced in terms of vehicles/infantry.

[Der_KHAN]

so is the mech a single seater? what about dual seated vehicles that only really work with two players, like the choppers from bf2?

[Sanborn]

One of the air vehicles on the beta map is like a VTOL aircraft type deal and it has a gunner seat with camera missles like from BF2. Its kinda sorta like a chopper but it really flys more like a jet, hard to explain.

There are several land vehicles that have secondary gunner positions, I know on some of the APCS and tank type things the gunner can fire EMP bombs and stuff, which is cool. APC's actually have guns in the seater positions that can kill someone too (unlike the pea shooters on BF2's apcs).

Wait till you use the buggy, you can hit shift to get a speed boost, its super awesome and very fast.

Everyone concentrated so hard on the mechs when this game was first shown, but they are not a big deal...at all. They have a ton of fire power but can be taken down by EMP bomb and then grenades/mines/explosives fairly easily.

And unlike BF2, 2142 actually has a lot of gun emplacements in every single base (like 2-4) that range from anti-infantry,vehicle,air guns.

The anti-vehicle emplacement is super cool, you can zoom in and shoot a concentrated laser that blows stuff up. Takes about 3 or 4 shots and you can blow up a tank (it recharges)

and a drum roll please for the best vehicle feature................

You can spawn in any transport carrier and any APC regardless of squads/other players as long as your team controls it. So if you want you can literally hide an APC behind a building and use it as a spawn point. They did this because you NEED an APC on the ground to get into the enemy titan, which is a very fun way of doing it. You basically get shot into the air inside a pod and you have to direct the pod on top of the titan where it will crash and pop open.

Another thing I want to mention is they fixed the parachute issues from BF2, All you have to do is jump and his spacebar a second time and your chute opens. I practiced several times jumping off short ledges and it came out every time. Its much much better than having to hit the 9 button or it not responding like in BF2.

[FragTek]

Holy hell this game looks SWEEEEET.

[Smash]

Also got a key :banana: :woot:
Will post something tomorrow...

[Jodiuh]

Anyone else getting the .ogg error? Here's a screenie.

http://home.nyc.rr.com/mtmmp/2142bugs/screen000.jpg

I did my best looking through the posts on the beta forum, but search function's not workin'. :( It happens to my bud and we've both got X-Fi's...use extreme sound option...

[Smash]

I have got that bug, too. But it's nothing special, just a bug:D

I hosted some Screenshots, downlaod it here (http://rapidshare.de/files/31563073/Bf_2142_Screenshots_Volume1.zip.html).

The text is German, sorry for that.:stick:

[古強者死神]

Hmm not sure what the deal is but the beta jacked my machine up big time.

I installed it and all went well, when I had to enter a key I didnt have one so I googled around for a key and was gonna try my hand at it and it failed so looks like one bad entry and the program locks you out getting some sort of security error.

So being that it was usless to me I went to unintall it and you cant! (the exe keeps running in the background) so you could restart your computer or just close it via task manager and finaly get it out. However since then I have had all sorts of issues I never had before.

My internet was running very very slow when the exe was in the background, certian things are going on reguarding the net, tried playing BF2 and got a socket error, and now my email wont even open (unless hotmail is down as yahoo is still working)

Seems way to out of the blue to not be the prog that did it since I have not done anything else on my machine.

[Jodiuh]

Are they all out of keys then? I thought I read in the beta forums it would be open til the 12th/13th. :confused:

Also, my bro told me he's having mad network issues w/ the beta 2. He said there were only 6 servers last night.

[古強者死神]

Yeah there are no more keys (that I know of) there is a preorder deal going on that I was thinking about but its based on the UK, so not sure if I can do that as a US resident. You get a free rank up, and a special weapon that only pre-order people get.

Not the biggest deal, but its nice to get free extras. I dont like how BF2 gives extras to people with Special Forces, I played normal BF2 today instead of Special Forces (was trying out the armored fury expansion) and the map I choose to play was a normal BF2 map and I got to use that L96 sniper rilfe.... Wow that was fun ^^ nobody beat me in kills except the chopper guy.

Then that oilfield map loaded that I hate to much....

I am still in the thought process of if I really want this game or not, once its out and I can see the street price and have more feedback I can decide.

Untill then I gotta fix what got broken... and will just stick with BF2.

[Jodiuh]

Well, from the 3-4 hours I've played the BF2142 beta, I can safely say it feels a lot less buggy than the 1942 and BF2. It can only get better, right?

[FEEXX]

happy to hear that let's see the final product...

[andyisc00l]

Hey Jodiuh can you post some more videos? friggen awesome..and also are you using maxed out graphics?

[Jodiuh]

Bad TKER!! :nono:

TK Bastard.wmv - 4MB, 19 seconds (http://www.thenicetech.com/TK%20Bastard.wmv)

I blew up his plane tho, hehe.

[eXceededgoku]

The game is awesome, I made a review on Amazon. Waiting for it to go live... If you guys form a clan I may be inclined to ask to join :) - I have 5 hours of play under my belt -

[[cTx]SGT.Viper]

We have a clan already. [cTx] is Xtreme Systems official clan. When game is released we Will be there. Thanks, [cTx]SGT.Viper

[eXceededgoku]

how would I go about joining the clan?

[Buster1]

You can fill out a join us form at http://www.clanteamxtreme.com/ .You must be over 18 and willing to donate.

[Jodiuh]

They took away my game!!! I can't be expected to wait for demo! Must buy BF2 now!! Anyone try POE mod?

[古強者死神]

I may look into joining the clan, just depends on the sever location/ping ^^

I hate how I want to be a more advanced player in BF2 by doing somthing that needs stratagy and planing and I cant get even one person on a public game to help its just mindless run & gun.

For instance I find that NOBODY likes to play anti-tank we can go 3-4 games getting raped by armor and everybody will just start going snipers or somthing to avoide the tanks instead of going anti tank to destroy them. So now that I have a good idea of how to use anti-tank I love to go out and play tag with some armor, its a better feeling knowing you just destroyed this big ol' tank as a foot man than it is getting that 8 mile headshot or stabing sombody with a knife. However I find that I use all my rockets very very fast esp since I am the only anti tank guy and that once I run out I am usless.

So I requested 1 support guy to team up with me or a supplies drop from a commander and out of the last 30 games I have tried this not once did i get support and only 1 commander drop :/


A killer team in warlord would be a anti tank/medic/support. The medic can use that sniper rifle like gun and pick off guys while I handle the armor and blow people up with rockets while the support guy can lob grenades like crazy and we would dominate the map. I play only special forces mostly I didnt really like the few times I tried normal BF2, I only go there to use my L96 sniper rifle somtimes.

[kimbo]

Wow, this game looks intense. I bought the original BF and after playing a few weeks I went back to CS. I heard alot about BF2 but didnt really want to spend the cash for something I might not like. This version looks alot more interesting though, thanks for the vids they were kewl. :clap:

[Jodiuh]

I played some BF2 at a LAN Party yesterday and it only made me mad. Gimme the future!!!!

[[XC] Lead Head]

The reason why this is a closed beta is because people like you keep posting videos and screen shots every 5 minutes. Now If people like you hadn't done that, maby the beta would have been open:slapass:

[Jodiuh]

...and you didn't watch any or look at the pics right. :p: