Well the Beta is over.
And from what I have been reading on the Beta forums, and other open forums, 2142 is not a hit.
Crashes, Lags, Bad skins, same as BF2 with different skins, bad execution of the unlocks.
Some people rave at how good it is, how much fun it was, etc etc etc. But I think the overall response to EA Dice is, no we don't like it for the above reasons. Now maybe the beta's graphics were scaled back for download size (1.432Gig for a single map...) but they never said that it was not full graphics.
I can honestly say I never got into it. I had a total of 30 - 35 hours in to it.
My longest in seat game was 3 1/2 hours for a single map and other than knowing I had to turn a red silo blue I never got in to the team work or squad aspect of the game. Even though I tried and joined squads, joined beta server TS's but it just didn't get me going.
A typical seat time was 1 - 1 1/2 hours.
I received 4 ranks and 4 unlocks on one character and 2 ranks 2 unlocks on the other character.
I like the engineer best (for the one map they provided) felt that the basic weapons were the hardest hitting.
As you unlocked more weapons, they got lighter so your sprint lasted longer, had smaller rounds that did less damage, but had more available in the magazine and had a faster rate of fire.... so it was balanced.
A good example is the sniper, you had HUGE breathing deviation when zoomed, not the slight movement like BF2 nor did the deviation settle down after a period of time like COD.
Zoom factor was 2x and your 2nd unlock on one of the sniper classes was a zoom magnifier for 4x (interesting thing is that you could use your scroll wheel to adjust the unlock zoom) but a 2X + 4X zoom the deviation was full monitor. You had to time your shots on the pass thru of the target. the final unlock was an image stabilization mod for the sniper rifle. LAME! You should as a sniper be able to control your shots WITH OUT A CLASS 3 UNLOCK DICE!
It's dark, (visually - not in mood) so it is hard to differentiate good guys from bad guys. At least in BF2 you can see a MEC or (removed my use of the word Chink) a little yelow-skinned-slant-eyed-good-for-nothing-over-breeding-no-good-communist-bastard-Chin (er I mean) Dinks from a U.S. guy. In 2142 they had virtually identical uniforms.
To tell the truth I can't recall differentiating other than they had red tags so I shot at them.
It would have been nice to had a second map to try other than Titan mode. Give us a Karkand type map that we can try out as Infantry where engineers are not the predominant class. Give us a slightly broader feel for the game, and maybe we could have forgiven them for the crashing of servers when both Titan commanders started moving their Titans at the same time.
I've changed my mind about 2142, and will not pre-order it. Preferring to wait for Enemy Territory Quake Wars demo before I place any money down for 2142.
Thank you for letting me be a beta tester, but you screwed your selves in the process.
I will not by your re-skinned BF2, as I still have a lot of fun with BF2.
If nothing else I'll buy it on EBay at reduced cost as I do with other games I'm not sure about. But for now, I'll stay with BF2 when 2142 debuts.
And from what I have been reading on the Beta forums, and other open forums, 2142 is not a hit.
Crashes, Lags, Bad skins, same as BF2 with different skins, bad execution of the unlocks.
Some people rave at how good it is, how much fun it was, etc etc etc. But I think the overall response to EA Dice is, no we don't like it for the above reasons. Now maybe the beta's graphics were scaled back for download size (1.432Gig for a single map...) but they never said that it was not full graphics.
I can honestly say I never got into it. I had a total of 30 - 35 hours in to it.
My longest in seat game was 3 1/2 hours for a single map and other than knowing I had to turn a red silo blue I never got in to the team work or squad aspect of the game. Even though I tried and joined squads, joined beta server TS's but it just didn't get me going.
A typical seat time was 1 - 1 1/2 hours.
I received 4 ranks and 4 unlocks on one character and 2 ranks 2 unlocks on the other character.
I like the engineer best (for the one map they provided) felt that the basic weapons were the hardest hitting.
As you unlocked more weapons, they got lighter so your sprint lasted longer, had smaller rounds that did less damage, but had more available in the magazine and had a faster rate of fire.... so it was balanced.
A good example is the sniper, you had HUGE breathing deviation when zoomed, not the slight movement like BF2 nor did the deviation settle down after a period of time like COD.
Zoom factor was 2x and your 2nd unlock on one of the sniper classes was a zoom magnifier for 4x (interesting thing is that you could use your scroll wheel to adjust the unlock zoom) but a 2X + 4X zoom the deviation was full monitor. You had to time your shots on the pass thru of the target. the final unlock was an image stabilization mod for the sniper rifle. LAME! You should as a sniper be able to control your shots WITH OUT A CLASS 3 UNLOCK DICE!
It's dark, (visually - not in mood) so it is hard to differentiate good guys from bad guys. At least in BF2 you can see a MEC or (removed my use of the word Chink) a little yelow-skinned-slant-eyed-good-for-nothing-over-breeding-no-good-communist-bastard-Chin (er I mean) Dinks from a U.S. guy. In 2142 they had virtually identical uniforms.
To tell the truth I can't recall differentiating other than they had red tags so I shot at them.
It would have been nice to had a second map to try other than Titan mode. Give us a Karkand type map that we can try out as Infantry where engineers are not the predominant class. Give us a slightly broader feel for the game, and maybe we could have forgiven them for the crashing of servers when both Titan commanders started moving their Titans at the same time.
I've changed my mind about 2142, and will not pre-order it. Preferring to wait for Enemy Territory Quake Wars demo before I place any money down for 2142.
Thank you for letting me be a beta tester, but you screwed your selves in the process.
I will not by your re-skinned BF2, as I still have a lot of fun with BF2.
If nothing else I'll buy it on EBay at reduced cost as I do with other games I'm not sure about. But for now, I'll stay with BF2 when 2142 debuts.
Last edited by M730A2 (2006-09-12 09:46:31)
