BF2S Forums Dissapointed with BF2142 demo? That makes two of us.

2142 is cool bf2 iscoool 1942 is coool FPS are cool . Its a game it crashes they fix it you buy ,and play it . 2142 Is in my opinon a good FPS from what I saw in Beta , and Demo .  So go play bf2 if you hate it , and why do all these assholes even look at the 2142 chatter if they love bf2 so much? Ask yourself  this ? before you even post.

The demo is worse than the beta -- no unlocks in the demo.
(I wanna know what moron decided to put absolutely no equipment in the demo)

Last edited by -TL- (2006-10-10 14:17:55)

mooncricket wrote:

It seems all the noobs have gone to 2142...and btw, it isn't even that good. Not bad by any shot, mechs are kinda fun......

But who's bright idea was it to make a stun gun for the chopper? I'm flyin around and all of a sudden I fall to the ground and get owned by a mech...WTF

oh the bloody irony.

disappointed.....



that is an understatement you damn noob.. im pissed that i spent my time and energy for battlefield 2 and those fools at DICE and EA turned an awsome game into a pile of crap. then they make 2142 as an excuse for not fixing battlefield 2.

mad_jester813 wrote:

Man, I played the demo today and it totally did not live up to my expectations. It lagged so much my DSL felt like dial-up. It was a server full of noobs and everything that took off seemed to fly into the ground upsie down seconds later. My experience was not fun. The noobs were annoying enough, but the lag is my biggest complaint. Titan mode has potetial, but the APC's are too hard to find to lauch you up there...and everyone knows that finding a plane without a noob camping it is about as likely as finding a sniper that everybody loves.

Anyone else out there feel like the demo let you down? Or did you already expect something pretty crappy?

Fix your settings. Once I fixed mine I was lag-free (and I was on a 'dial-up' speed).

Needs more cars on that map. It'll be better once we get unlocks (and nades!)

Played the demo for 2 hours or so,  and i hated it.
The weapons are so underpowerd,   it feels like you have to shoot a milion times to kill some1.
I play the game all maxed out on 1600x1200,  and i love how it looks,   but that isn't going to be enough
for me.
ill just stick with poe2.

Greetz

I can't make a decision yet. I do however refuse to preorder. The reasons for this is it's unplayable for me. I lag so hard I can't take a step without jumping 10 or even do a 180° turn without doing a 360°. I don't know what it is. I doubt it's my hardware and I don't believe it's my connection.

Hardware:

AMD 3800+ Venice
4 Gigs of OCZ Platinum DDR400
2 x1900's in Crossfire (Running single card at the moment as my crossfire cable died. <_<)
SB Audigy 2 ZS

Connection:
Comcast Cable


I mean it's horrible. I run all graphics on high 1280x940@75 with AA at 4x.
I also get a ping that varies between 160-600. (Yes that is NOT a typo!)

This makes me think it's my connection but I don't have this problem in any other game.
I alt-tabbed and check my processes and 2142 was pulling 650,000kb of system memory and everything non-essential was closed except Fraps and Xfire. At first I thought it was TS but it kept going after I closed it.


Anyone have any ideas?

I was pretty disappointed to be honest; it was just like playing UT-Assault again.

The game play seems slow, like wading through treacle.
The HUD effects slow the system down and act as a distraction for no good reason.
Everyone seems to play Engineer or Assault.
Getting vehicles is still a nightmare and when they do they handle so easily they require no skill to be good with them.
The soldiers look the same so you can't tell who you are shooting half the time.
The initial lack of 'nades means that if you are in a good position you have the jump on almost everyone.
Most players don't want to play in a team - stop forcing them to do so.
Team points are pretty random.
Random deaths occur when you try to enter a vehicle.
The hanger bay forcefield on the titans is lame. Make it hard to enter the hanger bay and let players slug it out if they want to.

Ok, so it will be good for the kids (does it have a lower age rating?) but I still think they missed the mark if they were trying to create a gaming experience as good as BF2 (including all its bugs, niggles, etc).

Okay I downloaded the demo when it was released to the public.  Gave it some time, play numerous rounds, and gave it a chance.  Yesterday I removed it from my computer. 
It does really feel sluggish.   
Lack of any equipment to test with does not help the cause.  If a demo is a sample to entice you to buy.  Give a little variety to make the consumer want more.
Lack of good squad leaders.  I like that EA is pushing for teamwork, but it is hard to find a good squad leader to help you get all of those points.
If you get the game.  I hope you enjoy.

I haven the same problem with movement. It feels wierd just to walk around.

I'll tell the truth, while I occasionally loved BF2, it was without question the worst made and supported game I've ever played--going back to Asteroids on the Atari 2600.  Never in my life have I seen a patch (1.3) make a game that much more unstable, and I certainly never saw such a patch become the status quo for over a hundred days.

But, I thought, who knows?  Maybe all that time they spent not fixing BF2 was spent making 2142 stable.  So I loaded it up, jumped into a game and...

"There is a problem with your connection."

That's all I need to know, right there.  Obviously, the net code still sucks, and in two hours of play I managed to crash it twice.  There is nothing at all wrong with my system... or my connection.  That's the game.  It's doing exactly what BF2 1.3 did (and those problems for the most part went away with 1.4, which is one of the ways I know for certain it's the game, not my system).

This is a demo, not a beta.  It's supposed to be a working example of how the game plays, and it plays precisely as I would expect a DICE game to play: terribly.

The only reason I'm writing this is in the hopes that someone out there reads what I say and takes it to heart.  DICE's track record absolutely must be taken into account when considering buying this game, and it's a terrible track record.  You can EXPECT more instability, more exploits, more rampant cheating, more nickel-and-diming, more monkeying with balance, and more neglect. 

Why?  Because they got away with it with BF2.  Unless you vote with your wallet and stay away, they'll do it to you again.  I guarantee it.

What I like about 2142 is perfomance. Loading times are really low. They've eventually learned how to handle the engine.
I also love the PAC voiceover. Very very good Russian spelling with no crappy accents.
What I don't like is... a lot.
Weapons: shitty sniper rifles with higly unnecessary deviation given that the zoom is little and they are not 1-shot-kill anyway, assault rifles about as effective as smg's in BF2, support guns absolutely raping (the longer you spray the more accurate they get).
Vehicles: Way too n00b-friendly air vehicles. Nothing impressive in terms of fun & effectiveness found in ground vehicles.
Maps: The two maps I got to play were... err.. boring.
Kits: Emptyness. No nades, so shockpaddles, no explosives. I feel sorry for the soldiers of the future. The only useful item in their kits is a knife.

So... no. EA is not getting my money for this poorly made mod.
I'll keep playing BF2 & Point of Existence 2 instead.