Battlefield 2142 Demo

Why is PUNK BUSTER KICKING ME I DONT KNOW HOW TO UP DATE IT ITS SUCH A PAIN!!

The zip file wont open...used Firefox...so i used IE to download..and again i cant open it...any advice?

OK so we all bought BF1942 because it (and is) awesome.

And a lot of us bought BFV because we thought it would be awesome. Reception is mixed.

And most of us bought BF2 since when it works it's awesome but when it doesn't it REALLY doesn't.

Now it looks like we have BVF142 which is to BFV what BF1942 is to BF2. Looks like a lot of us will not be rushing out to buy this one, both because we've been burned in various ways twice now (and this one looks to burn people in all of them) - do we think this game will still sell a ton or is this the game that breaks the trend?

I kinda figure this game will break the trend since a lot of the market for this game is hardcore (and are willing to wait and see if they support this one better than BF2) and even the casual gamers will tire of crashing to desktop. Or will this one still sell a ton based off of momentum alone?

Better than the Beta (Save the fact there are no Grenades/Defibs) but still unpolished, generic and very Mod-Like feel. I'll pass (until its 19.99 maybe, I did like the Mechs ;))

This demo is BORRRRRRRRRING!
It is like doing it with my sister.
But she is nice, I KNOW!
HIGH FIVE!

when i played quakewars @ quakecon, within 5 mins i knew the game was all kinds of awsome.

but i played about 30mins of 2142 and blah, it was slow and boring.
infantry combat felt weird. plus, my key bindings kept reseting for some reason and loading a level too waaaay too long to load. and i though bf2 was slow to load a map, geez

the game felt bargain bin material to me imo

I'm a total BF noob - played BF2 - didn't like it much (planes were so hard to fly and they were always fucking killing me)

I tried this out and I must say I am enjoying it. Still it seems that in the big games, the first people to spawn grab all the rides and off they go - leaving me to walk.

any tips for a complete noob?

TO EA's credit....Titan Mode is more fun than Conquest. Thw vehicles are pretty damn cool. The sound is great. The menu navigation is smooth and non-laggy like BF2 was.

My only real complaints are the EA Master Server disconnects, the unlocks...why would u have grenades locked in the gdamn demo. I WANT TO TRY THEM. And the map itself is very generic. But im sure theres much better maps in this game.

2142 really isnt as bad as you people are making it out to be. Just wait for officially reviews. If GameSpot gives it a 8.5 or higher i'll look into this.

1 hour spent in the queue to download the demo
1 hour to download the 1.08 gigabyte demo
5 minutes of gameplay to realize what utter and complete garbage this is
15 seconds to uninstall

After 7 restarts I finally manage to come so far as to load a map.

But then it hangs. Restart, try again. It hangs.

Fuck you EA! Fucketi fuck you in the ass.

How does this game play on older hardware? I'm running on a laptop with an Athlon 3200+ and Radeon 9600 64MB. Will it be playable if I put the quality settings down?

Does it crash to the desktop a few minutes in for anyone else? Always does for me :'(

What has really pissed me off to no end is what they did to the heavy MG. In the beta it was a wonderfully functional, though not overpowered, default weapon. What happened? Evidently too many people found it enjoyable to use so they promptly implemented a drifting crosshair with a a sprinkler head firing pattern. unless you a.) go prone and b.) wait almost 8 seconds for the outer crosshairs to settle down you will hit NOTHING.

I swear I almost never criticise the EA/DICE cluster fuck but this just stinks of pandering to the hardest of the hardcore clan/competetive playerbase. I was hoping to start off maxing out my heavy weapons guy but now I won't even touch the fucking thing.

I'm starting to think that EA/DICE deserves every bit of the grief it gets from its players.

god these master disconnects are bullshit, i cant play for 10 minutes without this happening

I'm a huge fan of BF2. I fired it up for the first time just now and I have to say, it's pretty good so far. Very impressive for a demo.

http://oatmela1.shackspace.com/fun.JPG

wow, this game blows.. awesome bugs, and nice lag.

The battlefield series is dead

I wanted to try this out over lunch but I couldn't get past the login screen. And by that I mean none of the "accounts" I know of got in and I couldn't be bothered to have it send me an email like I was logging into Hotmail or something.

I waited nearly a year to buy BF2, I can wait for this one too

I just got done playing for about 2 hours and I had a good time. The walker mech is pretty badass. I'm predicting this game isn't going to be that great in the long run though. It's cool right now because there's all this new shit to check out, but it doesn't have a very solid feel overall. The combat is kind of wonky and imprecise. I'll still have fun with it for a couple weeks, probably, but not much more than that.

How many minutes does it take to load a map.

God, that sounds like trolling, but multiple minute loads were the norm for bf2. The main bug was always the terribly optimized engine. Is there any change on that front?

SYNOPSIS: Pass.

so if i played the beta - should i just at this point uninstall it now and install the demo?

I haven't had any technical problems thank God.

Playing with no unlocks at all is frustrating. With no grenades or special abilities the game seems very strangly paced.

Withouth the real-world setting it seems very blah art wise, but I'm going to keep playing and hope it grows on me.

So far though, BF2 seems to be a much better game then this.

I would like to play, but it keeps crashing on me........

ok so im just gonna lay down my feelings on this demo. and this come from someone who, despite all the drama around bf2, likes the game [bf2].

i didn't play the beta, i didnt really followed the marketing of this game. i just saw one or 2 movies, read alot of comments on the beta testing like, crap, bugs, sucky, lame, loser, a couple ok's, but in the end didn't really care for those comments.

So, 4 hours later playing this game i'm very impressed with the stability but somewhat not satisfied with the gameplay.

First, on with the achievements. I was really impressed with the interface. No more feeling of being dragged over or lag in the whole menu, specially the multiplayer. Everything works smoothly, even the mouse cursor seems to be on a different layer because it never slows down.

The same goes with the loadings. Fkin-a. It's very fast, in comparison with BF2. HOWEVER, i'm cautious on this one. In the BF2 demo the loading wasn't that bad either but then in the full game it was something.

I also think that servers didnt have battlerecorder (can't remember), but if they didn't, then that could also be a reason for faster loading; battle recorder greatly increases the loading times (and this boggles my mind on why just about every public server has this option turned on, when a very small minority uses it and in the end it only screws the loading times, both on connecting and when intially entering the server).

So, and pending some inquiry, the loading times excelled my projections.

The graphics had a overhaul i believe, the explosions look cool.

Now on to the gameplay. One word: weird. It seems like i have to learn how to fire a gun again. Weapons fire weird, hit weird, and i never know what the hell is happening. In a way it kinda draws you into full trigger on someone, but then you'll be missing all the way. What also screws it up is that everytime you shoot it's like the 4th of july. fking HUGE ricochet EVERYWHERE. what a MESS!!

The camera shake that is turned on by default is also a big mess. When i first started to play it seemed like everything was crazy. Thankfully you can turn it off.

The sniper gun, wth? that constant motion screws it up. Too much realism.

Now on to the titan mode. I like it. Sadly, people don't seem to know how to actually play it, and considering it's just been released, i'll give it a discount. Bad games so far. The enemy titan is with no shield and where is everyone? In the grounds, fighting for the silos. lol come on!!!

Or then, the enemy just breached our titan and where is everyone? in the grounds!!

I like that sense of being in a ship though, and those 6 spots you can fill in the titan, 4 artillery, 2 AA, are awesome.

So, and can't remember more for now, i'm somewhat divided on buying or not. For one, the titan mode is cool. Some of the unlocks look ok, but i have yet to learn more about them as in do i need to reach general or something to fully have the 43 unlocks? This kinda makes you into making different specialized characters, pretty much like a mmorpg, but this is NOT a fking RPG. This is a FPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The new vehicles and the new weapons are the ones that are balancing my decision, negatively. The fact that BF2's weapons worked great were because they were REAL. There was some factual data behind each weapon. But on these, they are just made up shit very unrealistic. It's hard to kill anyone, and like i mentioned before, everytime you hit the trigger is the 4th of july.

So, i don't know. The game seems very unbalanced. I was thinking on buying the game, but now, i need to play more on this demo and see if the problem is in me or the game.

As for the bugs, eh. it's a demo. just released and i'm pretty sure they'll deal with it because it's not just a small issue, it's a core issue that can detract you from playing the game (the disconnect thing).

oh well. thumbs up for titan. thumbs down for gameplay. Quite a match!

I'm sure most of the people bad mouthing the demo haven't even played it and are just trying to push their anti EA agenda.

On another note, does anyone have a link that explains the functions of all the weapons and armor? Sorta like a "players guide"? I'd like to look over that shit while I work on this website. Fucking doing a website on Friday night. That's bunk.

so, are there no hand grenades? or am i missing something?

Wow so much ShackHate .. you would think George Bush made this game.

I wonder what this game classifies as "kill"... Because according to this screen, I have massacred a bunch of people using a titan:
http://img100.imageshack.us/my.php?image=untitleduh8.jpg

I love the Hint Tip:

Despite what people will tell you in chat or over VoIP, pressing Alt and F4 at the same time is not how to get an unluck in the game.


Otherwise, I'm glad they released a demo, I don't much care for it. Excessive screen bobbing while walking/running pretty much kills any FPS for me..

What gives with the "Disconnected from the EA Master Server" bullshit? First try I got booted back to the login screen in about 3 minutes. Second try I actually got a full round in, but got booted out at the start of the second.

Is this a mod? Or is this a retail game?

No unlocks and one of the dullest maps ever made.

Well i played it

Be nice if my Controls would stay bound instead of some of them just stop working and i have to rebind them. I was running around and all of a sudden my gun would not fire anymore, It looks like total ass maybe the preset visuals are just set to low.

I really try to give every game a chance but not knowing what all the EA hate was about i know can see where some of it comes from

Any widescreen monitor support yet? (1680x1050)

In before someone trashes it with comparison to a vaguely similar game that isn't expected for months.

any patche out for the demo yet


I can't even install it says i am missing a file D3DX9_29.dll

So I've read 114 posts, and these 4 are the only remotely positive ones:

http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=12995510
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=12996464
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=12996349
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=12996312

How do you get passed the whole gameplay scene after the EA and DICE ads? I press enter, first button mouse, esc, to no avail.

Maybe im an idiot but, help?

buggy as crap.. also now with even more disconnects, this time from EA's master server.