BF2S Forums thoughts about the beta

thnx +1

Last edited by -MIKI3. (2006-08-25 11:38:55)

it's like BF1942 were allies are blue and axis is red...

As far as I can tell, you still have to hold the crouch button down.

I'm going to be honest guys...after playing the beta last night, it is VERY overwhelming if you don't know what you are doing. There are lots of vehicles and stationary objects in various bases that either have multiple mods of fire or three burst of fires.

I still can't figure out how to take out the shields on the Titan. Guess I have to read up more about this game.

The graphics are very solid and I was impressed with the overall look of the game. The only problem is getting to understand how everything works, the teammates issue (colors, etc...) and the vehicles.

ha ha if you take the ult off of your name its majorass

Rumfuddle wrote:

Can you describe the tags a bit better?  I'm confused as to what you're describing when you say enemies show up with different color tags.  Thanks.

One side is always red and the other side is always blue. I wnet into the game and shot the first red person i saw, and i were on the red team. hope that will help.

I posted this in another thread so I'll repost it here. . .

Well I've been playing it (the Tuning-DEMO BETA) for a couple weeks now - and this is my take on it:

1.) Same bugs as BF2 (red-blue-tag bug, missles going through stuff, map-glitches, etc.).

2.) Same exploitable game play + some new ones.
     a.) One new exploit is lay-able spawn points by squad leaders.
     b.) ... and pod-blasting across the map in 2 seconds (everybody is doing it).

3.) Sniping is basically useless (has been combined with spec-ops and called: RECON, the available machine gun unlock - SUCKS). The cross-hair is always FLOAT-ing up and down (new annoying game-mechanics/logic); it is hard to hit a moving target from a long distance when both your crosshairs are moving and the target is moving.

4.) In Titan mode you can move it (the Titan); on some servers this causes unbearable game-play, LAG, and allows map-glitch-ers to glitch into the Titan core.

5.) Over all coordinated team-play can eliminate a Tank, Mech-walker, APC  in 1 second... an EMP (tank can't move anymore) combined with multiple rockets, ground static-av, Titan static-av - MEANS forget about raping with vehicles. . . but at the same time if one side is able to monopolize the vehicles - this equals TOTAL infantry rapage. Same ol, same ol... un-thought-out game-play issues when clans join and monopolize the vehicles - when other players are just joining a server for some fair-play FUN... this stupid issue has never been addressed and probably never will.

6.) The infantry weapons are nearly useless against a monopolizing vehicle hording raping clan members.

7.) Support and Medic-Assault (Assault and Medic are combined into 1 class) are the 2 best classes with weapons/unlocks - that kill fast (infantry that is).

8.) The Titan sometimes is destroyed very fast (and this is on a 32 player server, 64 might even be faster); and you basically get zero points for doing so.

9.) The point system logic is the same as BF2, except that everything is cut in half, 1 point for a Kill (not 2); 0.5 points for a Kill assist - which results in a ZERO point unless you get 2 kill assists or until another half point is accumulated.

10.) The speedy jeep-type vehicles blow up to easily upon collisions with objects; and it doesn’t seem entirely rational either; the ground (impact craters from explosions in the 3-D map mesh) can even cause it to explode from bumping about.

11.) You can get the DEMO-PAK (like C-4) unlock . . . and you still have to basically place it, which can cause it (often even) to fall on the ground and not stay on a tank. If you get to close to a tank even when at an apparent total stop in slight wobble in the 3-D mesh (of the tank) can kill you. . . this happens with all vehicles actually and it happens a lot actually.

12.) Some servers seem to crash almost every time at the end of a round.

13.) For players who like twitchy, super-fast, more arcade-style play - this is IT! The pod-hopping across the map makes for super-fast player movement. If you like to do a minimal amount strategy FORGET about it: it doesn’t exist. If you like sniping FORGET about it.

14.) Most people don’t like the commander-role anymore; the play is to fast air-strikes and supply crates hardly get used.

15.) You can only get a decent No. of Kills with the Talon, if your TEAM owns (monopolizes) the vehicles. . . else one EMP, two EMP. . . you fall out the sky and everybody fires missiles at you.

16.) FORGOT this. . . STUPID punish system - still there; also the same retarded game-logic when figuring team-damage, etc, still there . . . expect a few annoying -(minus) points that get assigned to you seemingly undeserved (also while the +plus points are BF2 cut in half - I think the -minus points are not cut in half).

It is definitely BF2 at the core; of course (DUH, same game engine); all the same issues/bugs as before - plus a few new ones! Overall as negative, as it might seem that I am being about it, I actually like this MOD way better than Special Forces (SF), Armored Fury (AF) or Euro Forces (EF). I am only pointing out the issues that always seem to be there with a BF2 title. . . I will play this (buy this) even if they don’t resolve all the issues. The number of new unlocks, new maps, vehicles, effects, things to do, style of play, etc, is FUN and refreshing - not humdrum like SF, AF and EF. Until Quake Wars comes out I’ll have some FUN with this MOD. . .  but when it (Quake Wars) comes out I have a feeling that it’s bye-bye to BF2 in all its glitchey-buggey incarnations.

Last edited by topal63 (2006-08-25 12:56:21)

Any screenshots?

voodoodolphins wrote:

It is not allowed to post screenshots from BF2142 so no , sorry

It is allowed to play the beta but no screenshots?
We are talking about blueprints of the Pentagon?

Choumichel wrote:

voodoodolphins wrote:

It is not allowed to post screenshots from BF2142 so no , sorry

It is allowed to play the beta but no screenshots?
We are talking about blueprints of the Pentagon?

Yeah i know, but that what it says here

http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=40079

voodoodolphins wrote:

Homeschtar wrote:

What do you mean by pods launching across the map?

I have tryed launching from a vech that was tipping to one side. i just got launched fare in one direction. Im sure this can be used to your advantage.

Oh, I see.

Homeschtar wrote:

What do you mean by pods launching across the map?

The Titan and the APC type transport vehicles have launch-able PODS. On the Titan - its a curved door you press "E" next too and then FIRE (launch) yourself to a BASE (look first in the direction you want to launch yourself). You can basically move from one BASE to another in this manner. After you get off the Titan a transport vehicle will spawn. . . after that base is capped ... then "E" to enter that vehicle and F4 to get into launch-able position and then FIRE (launch) yourself to another BASE. . . another transport will be there (at the next BASE) or will spawn there. . . you steer with "W, S, A, D" like you do when you walk.

Last edited by topal63 (2006-08-25 12:57:20)

voodoodolphins wrote:

Rumfuddle wrote:

Can you describe the tags a bit better?  I'm confused as to what you're describing when you say enemies show up with different color tags.  Thanks.

One side is always red and the other side is always blue. I wnet into the game and shot the first red person i saw, and i were on the red team. hope that will help.

Oh thanks.  That's a really bad idea.  Mongo say red no equal good, many teamkill.