Battlefield 2142 Open Beta

[Archangelus]

Rumor has it sometime tomorrow, DICE/EA is opening up the Battlefield 2142 Beta to the Public (before you could only get it if you were a FilePlanet Subscriber).

News will probably be announced either at the official BF2142 site or FilePlanet:

http://www.battlefield.ea.com/battlefie ... fault.aspx

http://www.fileplanet.com

[BadAsh]

From what I've heard it's just Battlefield 2 with PEWPEWLAZORS!!!!!

meh.

[Neo-Lobo]

And mechs

[XoR]

Heh, I'm ok with BF2 with PEWPEWS. I think that DICE will deliver the goods. Like BF2, persistant stats and rankings is what makes this so cool, but now it's better. Also you can customize stuff.

I think you're gonna hear some bad reviews in the beginning because people think they have a fast PC. Betas like this one are gonna slug on even "better than average" machines. "OMG THIS GAME BLOWS" will be a common theme in the beta.

The more I play BF2, the better it gets, so I'm really looking forward to 2142.

[DenKirson]

Not even mechs. They're just tanks with feet.
Driver has the tank controls, 360° cannons and guns.
The secondary has AA guns which hurts aircraft and ruinates footmen.

2142 pandered to the whores and condensed the seven classes into four.
Scout sniper can be invisible while he camps.
Assault is now a medic, Spec Ops and Anti-Vehicle all in one.
Engineer still has a wrench, 'cept now he trades a shotgun for Anti-Tank rockets. Won't see him used much, huh.
Support is still Mr. Bulletbags, but now has an automated turret and a handy wallhacking tool so cheaters have less work to do.

And did you hear this? EA is pairing up with IGA to put in dynamic advertisements in the game, and they will be monitoring the actual attention it gets! As in: ads, mostly other EA games like Need For Speed, in-game, playing on virtual billboards, will clock and monitor if you are staring at, or even glance across the ad. While playing. What the fuck?
"Die you infidel!"
"Aha! Got you now-"
"ALWAYS COCA-COLA"


Oh, and the public beta is out:
http://www.fileplanet.com/166539/160000 ... [Updated!]

For a Key (have to have an account, but not a paying one):
http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/bf ... ening.aspx

[Undead_Mercenary]

Closed already? Damn.

[BadAsh]

If the server browser still sucks as bad as the one in BF2 I ain't touching it with a 10 ft pole.

[Neo-Lobo]

Not even mechs. They're just tanks with feet.
Driver has the tank controls, 360° cannons and guns.
The secondary has AA guns which hurts aircraft and ruinates footmen.

2142 pandered to the whores and condensed the seven classes into four.
Scout sniper can be invisible while he camps.
Assault is now a medic, Spec Ops and Anti-Vehicle all in one.
Engineer still has a wrench, 'cept now he trades a shotgun for Anti-Tank rockets. Won't see him used much, huh.
Support is still Mr. Bulletbags, but now has an automated turret and a handy wallhacking tool so cheaters have less work to do.

And did you hear this? EA is pairing up with IGA to put in dynamic advertisements in the game, and they will be monitoring the actual attention it gets! As in: ads, mostly other EA games like Need For Speed, in-game, playing on virtual billboards, will clock and monitor if you are staring at, or even glance across the ad. While playing. What the fuck?
"Die you infidel!"
"Aha! Got you now-"
"ALWAYS COCA-COLA"


Oh, and the public beta is out:
http://www.fileplanet.com/166539/160000 ... [Updated!]

For a Key (have to have an account, but not a paying one):
http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/bf ... ening.aspx

I will be one of three , scout, assault, or engineer(also in the tank with legs as secondary so i can blame the primary's piloting for us getting destroyed).
And as for the advertisement part, thank you. I got a good laugh off of that one. Good job den.

[Indignant]

I had high hopes for this title. But the more I hear about it, the less I want to play. If all it is is a reskinning of BF2, I'll pass.

As for the advertising: As much as the idea just sounds greedy, I know where it comes from and it is unfortunately becomming a necessity in gaming. Games, on average, don't make near the amount of profit other forms of media do. Granted, there are exceptions, but most games are lucky to break even. This is from money from sales alone. Being able to get advertising dollars would really save some games from getting cancelled. Now, I'd prefer it to be a bit less blatant, but if the game is good, I'll deal with an add for a product on a bill board. The irony, the biggest advertising game I ever played was "Crazy Taxi." In that game, the advertising was the objective of the game. But I don't recall anyone complaining about it. Just comes to show ya, good game can hide almost anything.

[DenKirson]

After a few hours, time for a Crazy Den Review.

Already you know the four classes, and what guns they'd probably have.

Recon: Fuck that guy, they get a few ranks and unlock the AWP of 2142, as well as the cloaking thing. Ranks take about half a round to make if you get in a people-killer-machine.

Assault/Medic: Thirty round accurate machinegun and Medpacks at first, then he unlocks attachments to his gun, including a mini-rocket launcher and underbarrel shotgun. Very useful dude, I saw about 70% using them.

Engineer: Of course, few people used the engy, and those that did sure as hell never used his wrench. His rockets are weak, but unlock his tier to the Anti-vehicle rifle, and he's a pretty lethal psuedo-sniper and sapper. Also, he has a really sweet submachinegun instead of a pistol.

Support: Unusual guys, them. The LMGs Support have are uniquely accurate, alebit weak. The unique accuracy is that the accuracy tightens when you fire extended, but then the overheat lasts only fifteen rounds. Support's turret is weak, but a good distraction, they also throw down a little portable shield to make a quick bit of cover. These were the other 25% (scout the other 5).

In the game, diving to prone has been handled. When prone, the crosshair spreads way out and recovery takes a long time. This way, soldiers are encouraged to crouch instead. Crouching offers a quick accuracy increase, but not as much as waiting for prone to zero in. Course, aiming down the sights makes the Assault and Engineer rifle/smg tight immediately. A well-enough balance to keep the 'many bullets' or 'one big bullet' guys in league with the other two.

It seems they removed Bullet Drop, shooting through walls and several other things that made BF2 super laggy. And if my ping does deceive me, they either went to Client side hit detection or are just using generic hitscans to speed up the bullets and require almost no leading. I've stabbed several guys and got their dogtags without problem (unlike previous BFs where a knife fight could go on for hours), individual shinies that show every guy I've knifed.

I don't know a damn thing about vehicles, since I usually end up respawning and dying immediately under the hover thrusters of enemy tanks. Aside from the mechs being kinda fast and kinda weak, the other vehicles are what you would think. Also infantry don't stand a chance.
APC's with the jumpjet thing and the Transport choppers create moving spawnpoints, regardless of being in a squad.

Titans do move, expressly controlled by the commander. And the way they went around to making the Titan inside smooth is what appears to be a seperate field, teleporting everybody who goes through the hangar doors into an instance away from the battlefield, so fighting in there isn't a issue with a moving ship. Though, the transition between outside and Titan are really choppy.

Titan gamemode is a circlejerk Conquest. After about ten minutes of gradually depleting both Titan shields, there's an immediate Zerg Rush on the Titan and all you'll see are nobody defending, everybody shooting at the terminals and core to blow it up. HOPEFULLY before the shield, for whatever reason, recharges, and makes the conquest thing happen all over again before the soldiers can jump back in an finish the job.

The game as a game, with its mechanics and style, is okay, good even.
But DiCE has to get this stupid flag "ring around the rosie" shit out of here.
There is no team cohesion in that type of gametype.
There needs to be linearity, a focus so everybody is fighting in the same spot.

I'm hoping BF2 1.4 doesn't blow up my computer, and we can all play Point of Existence 2.

[z3r07w0]

This is why i never download a beta.......I am the smart guy that waits to read Dens summary. Thx man!

[DenKirson]

Here's a screenshot of mine.
What I'm looking at right there is the Titan. This is one of the Titan's many bugs.
This bug happens on an individual basis, If you get near or fly over the Titan the wrong way, the game will make the whole Titan model vanish and draw everything inside the Titan as though you were in there. This happening, along with still drawing the outside field, makes the controls choppy in that my character will skip back and forth and the camera will not turn, even though everybody else is moving properly, making me a sitting duck.

Other bugs include:
On depleting the shield or one of the four terminals in the Titan, the Titan...
1) Suddenly kills everybody of the opposing team inside and the shield jumps back to full power.
2) Explodes! Everybody falls to the ground below and the Titan reappears a minute later in its previous state.
Sometimes throwing the medic or ammo pack makes the item disappear from your inventory entirely, not even a slot in the HUD. You need to then wait for a long time or die to get it back.

Oh, and searching in the game files, I found that not only could this download have been much smaller in filesize (a whole lot of files from standard BF2 that are certaintly unecessary and duplicates of almost everything), but I found the Best Buy Gun!
<img src="http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/3562 ... ob5.png">I guess it's one of those preorder deals, Best Buy gives you a beta key that unlocks this gun.
<img src="http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/9318 ... .png">Cool looking. Checked the tweak and it is actually weaker than the normal guns.
Oh well. Nobody playing will probably notice anyway.

[Aiur]

If anyone is still playing this my nick is: Dmntd

[midnightservice]

hey dmntd add me midnightsrvice, no E between s and r

[I.D.O.]

Me too.... DarthVaderOwnz Damn it.... I must never be on at the same time you guys are on.... I have mid, XoR and few others as buddies.....