Battlefield 2142: Northern Strike Announced

Did someone mention Tribes? =)

God how I miss Tribes. And in regards to the jetpack conversation earlier, jetpacks in Tribes rocked. It was a key component that made the game so unique even today. The beauty is that the jetpack could allow for large varying maps, without the issue of traversing the map. Yes Tribes had vehicles and such, but everyone had the immediate ability to traverse large areas without the game getting boring from trying to walk or run from one area of the map to another, or waiting on limited vehicles.

Today, You'll notice all the other game franchises trying to work around the issue of traversing large maps without the game getting too boring or handle things like getting up to an air base etc. 2142 added the Pod for Titan mode, Halo3 has mention of a man cannon (lol), and Quake Wars will have the icarus which is similiar to a jetpack. I think all of these franchises want to have jetpak type of abilites, but the first guy to do it will get immediate comparison to Tribes. I think they all would hate to admit to that. The other things like voice binds etc, command console etc are easier to use without the comparisons.

Jetpack in large warfare fps was brilliant. The quake deathmatch crew just dont get it because they have been fighting indors for so long.

I wonder how feasible it would be to allow people without an expansion pack to play on the same servers just not be able to use the new stuff.

For example, on a map they haven't purchased they can only spectate or they can't board new vehicles or access new weapons. It would have the added effect of enticing people to buy by seeing the new stuff in action.

This would prevent the community from splitting and probably help sales of the expansion. MMOS do it, I don't see why BF couldn't.

Yup, I'll be getting this.. BF2142 owns. I just hope they add more aerial units soon.

And so it begins...was hoping for Tribes-style jetpacks at least but Titan mode in an urban setting sounds interesting.

This game is selling crazy well. I guess people don't mind in-game ads after all!

everyone who wants to play this with other shackers add your in game 2142 account name into http://shackers.gamewith.us/finder/battlefield-2142

thats the shackmap/gamewith.us page for us shackers who have 2142

also add your xfire alias to your profiles

definitely gonna buy! 140 hours in and i still love every second of it

And here I was just getting used to 2142 having given up on BF2 due to the number of people buying new weaponry through expansions I refused to buy.

So I guess this won't be free despite the advertising.

It might be interesting if squads could set up field teleporters...like a nydus canal type thing.