Well, I had said many, many times that I would not be giving EA the time of day again, but after much talking and convincing by Cyborg-Ninja, I decided to at least download the Demo and give it a fair shot. I mean, hell, I might even like it. I like BF2 before the patcher's got a hold of it and ran it into the ground. Here is how it went:
Downloaded from Bf2s files:-- No problems. I thought 1.7 gigs was a bit much for an existing engine and 1 map, but whatever.
Installing Battlefield 2142: Goes smooth for about 3 minutes and then crashes. I run the program again and my screen turns white and my mouse stops moving. I go lay down for about 10 minutes, come back, still frozen. Restart installation AGAIN, it finally works.
Loading game: After sitting through the stupid movies, game locks up for about 30 seconds and then lags through the last little movie.
Creating an account: I say creating because my old account conveniently didn't work. So I try to create -=AN=- Cougar. Nope, taken. Cougar84. Nope, taken. pitbullnixcougar1984. Nope, too long. cougarhatesea. Yep, that works.
Setting up settings and controls: Much better. I guess they managed to find SOMETHING to work on and improve.
Connecting to server: Much to my dismay.....green, yellow and red lights? Ok, wait, there is an advanced tab. Now I'm confused, I have 3 different types of ping showing up. -754, 34 and 42532532. I connect to the server with a 34 ping. Sit through 5 minutes of optimizing shaders.........aaaaannnnnd DISCONNECTED. Awesome. Connect to another server. Sit through shaders again, DISCONNECTED. Repeat process about 10 times, all DISCONNECTED. So I go turn off my firewall, skype, xfire, and shut down as many applications as possible. I come back in and manage to load into a map long enough to take three steps and DISCONNECTED. So I decide to try a -743 server. Doesn't even load in. I try a 558725482 server. Doesn't even load in. I finally managed to stay in one server for about 30 seconds before getting disconnected before I said fuck this.
The Game: Well for all 30 seconds I got to see of it, I thought it was shit. My guy ran like he had a backpack full of rocks on his back and the guns looked like tonka toys. I jumped into what looked like a go cart and managed to spin out control and hit a big rock before I got booted.
Unistalling: Multiple errors followed by the install manager crashing. Finally got pissed enough to go in and delete the files manually.
Conclusion: Not worth my time, effort or frustration. EA fails again. I'm still kicking myself for even trying, however, I am thanking my lucky stars I didn't pay $50 for this smoldering sack of dog vomit. If you're reading this and wondering whether or not you want to buy the game, trust me, don't. Demo's are supposed to show you how good the game is before you buy it, so that you will WANT to buy it. The demo showed ME what a piece of shit it was. I suggest waiting for the modders (the REAL professional game makers) to finish the mod which meets the particular genre you are interested in, for BF2. personally, I think I will wait for Forgotten Hope 2.
EA=Worthless, pathetic, failures. Again.
Downloaded from Bf2s files:-- No problems. I thought 1.7 gigs was a bit much for an existing engine and 1 map, but whatever.
Installing Battlefield 2142: Goes smooth for about 3 minutes and then crashes. I run the program again and my screen turns white and my mouse stops moving. I go lay down for about 10 minutes, come back, still frozen. Restart installation AGAIN, it finally works.
Loading game: After sitting through the stupid movies, game locks up for about 30 seconds and then lags through the last little movie.
Creating an account: I say creating because my old account conveniently didn't work. So I try to create -=AN=- Cougar. Nope, taken. Cougar84. Nope, taken. pitbullnixcougar1984. Nope, too long. cougarhatesea. Yep, that works.
Setting up settings and controls: Much better. I guess they managed to find SOMETHING to work on and improve.
Connecting to server: Much to my dismay.....green, yellow and red lights? Ok, wait, there is an advanced tab. Now I'm confused, I have 3 different types of ping showing up. -754, 34 and 42532532. I connect to the server with a 34 ping. Sit through 5 minutes of optimizing shaders.........aaaaannnnnd DISCONNECTED. Awesome. Connect to another server. Sit through shaders again, DISCONNECTED. Repeat process about 10 times, all DISCONNECTED. So I go turn off my firewall, skype, xfire, and shut down as many applications as possible. I come back in and manage to load into a map long enough to take three steps and DISCONNECTED. So I decide to try a -743 server. Doesn't even load in. I try a 558725482 server. Doesn't even load in. I finally managed to stay in one server for about 30 seconds before getting disconnected before I said fuck this.
The Game: Well for all 30 seconds I got to see of it, I thought it was shit. My guy ran like he had a backpack full of rocks on his back and the guns looked like tonka toys. I jumped into what looked like a go cart and managed to spin out control and hit a big rock before I got booted.
Unistalling: Multiple errors followed by the install manager crashing. Finally got pissed enough to go in and delete the files manually.
Conclusion: Not worth my time, effort or frustration. EA fails again. I'm still kicking myself for even trying, however, I am thanking my lucky stars I didn't pay $50 for this smoldering sack of dog vomit. If you're reading this and wondering whether or not you want to buy the game, trust me, don't. Demo's are supposed to show you how good the game is before you buy it, so that you will WANT to buy it. The demo showed ME what a piece of shit it was. I suggest waiting for the modders (the REAL professional game makers) to finish the mod which meets the particular genre you are interested in, for BF2. personally, I think I will wait for Forgotten Hope 2.
EA=Worthless, pathetic, failures. Again.
