anyone played the BF2142 demo?

#61

Rick Dangerous on amiga 500 and a joystick on a 21" tv in your own room. Thats everyones boy dream :slight_smile:

(DG) #62

Pass the time while we wait? Periods are our friends btw.[/quote]
bane of the month more like

(Got-JuicE) #63

I can’t get past the part with the ladder at the first part, danm this game is hard.

(Evil69) #64

Allow me to shed a little more light on what is 2142 and ill even suggest the real reason why ETQW is delayed.

Before I begin, its important to note that I am not a battlefield fanboy, I have been playing BF2 in a comp the last year basically due to boredom, but my background is simple, quake, rtcw and et, sadly
I had to pick up bf2 as the clan did.

Anyway, downloaded the 2142 demo, thought it wouldnt hurt to have a look, installed it and here is the next 45 minutes highlited for you.

1 - joined server after 10 minutes of optimizing shaders, not bad considering my rig is pretty darn good
2 - joined a team, selected the engineer kit, ran 3 feet and got disconnected from the ea master server
3 - rejoined server
4 - played 1 minute, disconnected from ea master server

I wont go on, but the above went on for a while, eventually after smashing the keyboard I left and went and watched blackhawk down for the 3rd time.

Next day, few clan mates were on ventrilo and playing the demo, so I tried again.

This time I lasted an hour before the disconnection from ea server kicked in… so heres the game in a nutshell.

Its bf2 with some new models, skins and maps, all the bugs present in bf2 are here in 2142, titan mode is a little more interesting than cap the dam flag but typically they only half got it right, should have made it a must to board the thing, not a if you want to win quicker, the weapons are seriously spray and pray and completely noobified, you can go prone, into iron sight and drill someone from 5 feet at their head, even using burst fire and half the time they dont die. The aircraft are noobified and flyable by anyone that can manage to move a mouse, the graphics are pretty ordinary, even on my pc with settings on high its still pretty rank, the lighting is ordinary as well, in fact, who ever developed the models and textures needs to realise this is not 1998.

When I heard that ETQW was delayed I was somewhat surprised, I thought it would be out in time to kill of 2142, a early release would have to bump up ETQW sales, but its now obvious whats happened, SD have managed to be part of the 2142 beta and realised its crap, that day they announced that ETQW would be delayed, after all, why throw in the over time when your at no risk at all of the competition beating you.

That said, be nice if you gents released the ETQW demo soon, with all the battlefield fans waiting for the final version, a demo now would stop many buying 2142 and have them playing the ETQW demo instead, hell even if the full version of ETQW takes another 3 plus months, it would beat having to play 2142, I am sure thousands world wide would agree there.

(rancid_elf) #65

Well at the moment SD are gamers making games…It always starts like that.

I started programming games back in 1982 and I have seen so many companies go the same way. If you dont sell out and do as the publishers want they will shut you down. Something along those lines happened to one of the great companies I worked for…Sensible Software…It always happens… Sell out or be pushed out.

Give it a few years and you might even be saying the same about SD when there is a big publisher behind them pushing for results. Developing games these days is serious money. Development houses need teh backing of the publishers to do that development because not many of the indipendant companies can afford full development themselves. When this happens they recieve funding from teh publishes on mile stones set out…even then in most cases teh publishes will give stiff milestones and you have to follow them.

Thats why most companies end up selling out because the end result is not a massive profit for the developers so the founders ( after many years of hard graft ) see that nice pot at the end of the rainbow in a sell out deal and thats sorted their pensions & mansion & big cars :slight_smile:

There really are not many people nowadays still have the clout to decide what they are going to put in a game and how long it will take. Thankfully SD has a big backer and one that understands. There are people like Peter Molonuex also who did once sell out but that put him in a position to decide when and how he could develop games as Lionhead.

God why cant we go back to the days of small teams and bedroom games…O and assembly…hummmmm assembly

(Nail) #66

This is not an EA/Dice forum, none of the BF series are SD games, why are you wasting my time with this crap ?
Do you think bashing someone else’s game will make you look like heroes to SD ?
I tire of all this whining, if the series was as bad as the spoiled little brats keep saying it is, no one would play it. As it is, thousands do.
Just get over it.

:moo:

(Joe999) #67

as i see it, the demo will come when it’s time for it to be released and not earlier. SD haven’t put 3 years into work to rush out a game only to compete with another EA/Dice piece of crap that was put together within a few months to get the game out for the christmas holiday sales. QW’s time will come and it will uber-pwn :tapir:

edit: and what Nail said :smiley:

(Shopkeeper) #68

The ETQW demo (If it’s actually will be one), will probably not be released until about 3 or 4 weeks before release. Anyway, I play the BF2142 Demo and will buy BF2142 simply because it will be the best game with that setting on the market atm. ET:QW will probably be released in March 2007 and I need some games to play until then. :wink:

(kamikazee) #69

“Best” is relative…
And I can’t stop to sugest W:ET, it’s still one of the better games. You just need to find a server which fits you.

(Joe999) #70

definitely not best in gameplay. so i’m curious: best in what? which setting?

(Pytox) #71

Does anybody want a BF 2142 demo video to have a laugh? :stuck_out_tongue:

(madness) #72

sure we do.

(Brandon) #73

The Banny Hill theme song would fit in very nicely :stuck_out_tongue:

(SCDS_reyalP) #74

You are the one choosing to read and post in a thread with BF2142 in the title, so you are the one responsible for any of your time it might have wasted.

If the SD guys thought it didn’t belong in the forum, I’m sure they’d let us know. Absent that, you certainly aren’t in a position to say what belongs here.

Many of us enjoy talking about our experiences in different FPS games. Because it has a similar theme, BF2142 invites comparison to ET:QW. Reading what another RTCW/ET player thinks about BF2142 gives me different perspective than reading what a dedicated BF player thinks about it. There is also a feeling that, since the games will be in competition, if we let SD know the things we do and don’t like about BF2142, it might affect how ET:QW comes out.

I do agree that the posts that consist of OMGZ IT SUX with no elaboration don’t add anything to the discussion.

(Got-JuicE) #75

Agreed

(TheKaiser) #76

Hmm, I thought this was the general discussion section of the forums?

(Nail) #77

Fair enough, considering some of the SD guys play the BF series, but all I’ve seen is whine, whine, bitch, bitch. They are completely different games, I see no comparison other than guns and the future, UT has the same. I played BF2 demo for a while and thought it was fun, unfortunately only the tank was at all accurate and even then having a shell arc over 200 meters was very unrealistic for something with a 5 km range, I decided it wasn’t my cup of tea. My apologies to all the people I’ve somehow offended by being tired of thread after thread after thread of BF nonsense in a SD forum, you guys go ahead, but once, just once I’d like to hear anything that wasn’t “OMG it Succzors, QW is so much better” (as if we didn’t already know that)

btw, I still reserve the right to bitch about what I perceive to be nonsense

:moo:

#78

The purpose of a boycott is to repeat the story to other people, till the thing you are boycotting for is changed

So as long the thread is about BF, and as long as EA makes low quality, get used to hearing people telling they are not happy with it.

Do you say “shut it” “or get over it” to ankers on TV when they tell you about war in the world?

(Nail) #79

absotively, that and much more, and all in capitals

(Eddmarkus) #80

damn, it was shit! it was just like bf2, exacly the same xpt the models and sounds, and its a new game?! never, its a freakin bf2 mod!!!

FU EA!