BF2S Forums Played it? Liked it?

Well, guess I'm a bit of a hypocrite. I'd like to quit playing because of all the glitches, but I continue anyway since it still has that BF-flame (some of it at least) I fell in love with in 1942.

Well, both lists of likes and dislikes feels almost infinite.

Likes:
. You actually get points for commanding your troops as squad leader (and they get for following orders)
. Nekomata (hover tank) - Being able to dodge projectiles and still facing your front to your enemy is very valuable
. You play a walker right and you're almost an unstoppable force, play it wrong and you get whacked immediately - very good balancing
. Even though the glitches, I find infantry combat exciting

Dislikes:
- Bugs/glitches:
. Infantry is like running in a huge bowl of cream
. You still have to jump over very small obstacles (curbs, etc.)
. They still haven't fixed the friction - Incapacitated infantry (can't crawl up a little slope)
. You still can't climb/jump and grab hold of something
. Dancing in the titan - I mean, it was easier to wingwalk in 1942 than it is to walk a straight line on the titan

- Balance issues:
. Amount damage repaired/points earned is still out of balance. 70% engineer, 20% assault (just recently unlocked defibrillator, so now I get advanced med hub as field upgrade) but I still have more healing than repair points
. Pilum H-AVR's projectiles are insanely slow - Since they're a bullet (not rocket-propelled) they should be going considerably faster
. Stationary railguns(?) have ridiculously low accuracy
. Weak grenades - After 100 years you would think they've become stronger, apparently not (ever felt the shockwave of a grenade from the distance of a few meters?)

- Misc:
. Why do PAC and EU have identical titans? (in every significant aspect) Same vendor? Don't think so. Feels like laziness for not creating at least two diffirent

Last edited by 213_Sel (2006-11-26 10:24:39)

chuyskywalker wrote:

Like: It got the spit shine it needed since the beta. New awards are a nice refreshing hook.
Dislike: The ever-present "battlefield dance" on any surface still exists and drives me NUTS on the titans. The plane/chopper monstrosities are aweful.

Overall, I'll hit up a game once in a while, but I'm probably going to stick with BF2 more often than not. I just think that in 150ish years, we ought to have some f'ing lasers (if not with dolphins).

I thought it was genetically-modified bad tempered sea bass.

Fenris_GreyClaw wrote:

Dislike: the fact that it's a mod that you have to pay for, those who put in the time are now 5x'leet'er than the average player thanks to 10mil unlocks and i hate every weapon there is in that game.

The problem is that I could counter that by saying that, besides points, nothing you do in BF2 matters. Got a ribbon, got a badge, got a medal....so what. It doesn't help you any. I've learned the best way to advance is to just kill. Screw teams, screw orders, screw everyone else but yourself. (Not that I play like that. I am a team player. I'm just using that as an example.)
In BF2142 however, you get more rewards by playing as a team. Command your team as a leader, or follow orders as a member, you get rewarded even more.
PS.....It's not a mod. There were no hover tanks, battle walkers, sentry guns, active camo,................etc etc etc...............in BF2. So those are new additions, not just MODIFICATIONS, to the game. If they added those to the game, the entire game would have had to be changed.

Hey Hey to the above statement....But there is a good side to this  ...all the noobs have flocked to 2142 in there droves and left Bf2 a better place.. Anybody want to buy my copy of 2142 ...It is a legal copy ? , lucky i did not pay for it, got it as a gift from my wife.

For those keeping up with developments check this site out, there is some good stuff to look at::


http://www.crysis-online.com/Media/

Peace out

I played it and liked it.
Things I love: Titan, new unlock system, new class system, TV-guided missiles
Things I dislike: Ammount of claymore spamming/turret placement at the entrances to the Titan, APCs aren't as good as before, EMP strike scares me every time

-konfusion

fatherted13 wrote:

Dislike--stat AA guns still suck, projectiles fire to slow

What are you talking about? The static guns destroy gunships very quickly, and nothing is more annoying than those tracking emp make-you-crash-and-no-one-gets-kills-for-it rockets.

With their rate of fire you can keep a gunship grounded indefinately.

Last edited by Mouse315 (2006-12-27 14:22:34)

Its just a leading game with the AAs, if you want straight shot you can use the top seat of the walkers.

Played it today for the first time... pretty disappointed. It barely runs for me.

Like:
- Some of the maps were interesting
- Good kit customization idea, but it really needs to save defaults.

Dislike:
- Lag... how can a modded version of BF2 run at half the framerate of the original? Unplayable for me. 15-20 FPS at lowest possible settings.
- Weapons... brutally inaccurate. They even sound pathetic. Seemed like I was firing an empty nail gun. 7+ shots with the stock Assault gun to kill people? Headshots impossible to land? Also can't stand the little half-circle graphic that replaced the BF2 'X' in the crosshair when you hit someone.
- Medkits... way too slow. Takes years to heal, and they can't be picked up. Also seemed to be zero indication of when you can place another one. I put one down, then ran across a street and got shot. Had to wait for nearly a minute before I could throw out another.
- Graphics... despite being practically the same game engine and running at half the framerate of BF2, the graphics also seemed to be of half the quality. Most textures were just single colours. I felt like I was playing a 10 year old game. The vehicles were pretty pathetic looking too... don't think too much effort went into modeling or texturing them.

Last edited by RiceKrispie (2007-01-06 22:41:00)

I like bf2142, but the pac have a disadvantage in weaponry over the eu, for example the pac's mg is the worst gun I ever tried, I'm lucky enough to get a kill with it. Anyone agree?

fatherted13 wrote:

War Man wrote:

I like bf2142, but the pac have a disadvantage in weaponry over the eu, for example the pac's mg is the worst gun I ever tried, I'm lucky enough to get a kill with it. Anyone agree?

No, PAC sniper is far superior, and their stock assault rifle, is possibly the greatest gun in the game.

Both sides' sniper seem the same, and the assault rifle is cool too but eu's gun fire faster while the pac's does more damage but the mg for the bug really is horrible, and the eu's smg is a nasty little thing much better than the pac's, get what I mean now?

By the way I think the eu's smg would beat the pac's assault rifle in close quarters fight.

Last edited by War Man (2007-02-09 20:36:01)

Had the good fortune to start playing (and bad fortune, at the same time o.O) on the last day of an unlocks weekend.

Three best things for me..

Battlewalkers. Not the walking aspect so much as ... I don't actually know, I just don't care if I die, live, get attacked by horny unicorns... don't care. Too much fun to play around with.

Heartbeat monitor thang. BF2 should've had one, at least in Special Forces, because the tech has been around for quite a while already. Mine worked great at first, although it seemed to stop working on certain servers. Not sure if this was just my imagination at play or what.

Squadplay. People join squads, you just have to invite them. Zomg. Awesome. Fantastic. AT BLOODY LAST. I play for a) fun, b) winning the battle. I don't care if I get points while doing it, but if I can help someone else obtain a goal that helps the team - all the better.

I DON'T like the claymore thangs. The other day some guy spawned on a dropship tranceiver, leapt about hurling APMs, and then ran off before we could kill him. Needless to say the two of us unlucky enough to be capping the flag (rather than covering those capping the flag) were dead no matter where we moved. Seemed ridiculous. Otherwise, they're fun to avoid, and help keep you focused, so not complaining too much.

I don't like the APC grenades. They seem somehow inconsistent. I get killed by an APC hurling grenades at me, and I'm in a tank, something doesn't quite make sense. Those are anti-personnel grenades, not anti-vehicle. This much is obvious from the spread-pattern on firing. APCs should have to run from tanks, never the other way around, even if I'm only on half health. Not saying tanks should have higher hit points, but the grenades should only be effective if very precisely placed. Again, I think there should be some sort of random factor built into the damage of all weapons, to simulate those one-in-a-hundred/one-in-a-million type shots (like in BF2, if you hit the rotors in the right place, it should kill em, but never did - a random element would mean it would just pick a bullet sometimes that got into a particular hitbox and said, hey, I'm that critical hit dude, give me my nice shiny chopper kill, thanks!).

I don't like the ground aspect of Titan mode. There's a little too much room around the central flags, which really doesn't get used but serves as hiding places only for snipers. Since those are not infantry-dense maps, this seems entirely wasteful. If the maps were smaller, there'd be less textures, geometry shaders, etc etc to load, and everything would be a liiiittle bit quicker. Not much smaller, mind, the wide-open ground warfare underneath the Titans makes it a rather different game mode to the more generally tight, infantry-dominated Conquest mode - but in the interest of efficiency, they could be smaller.

Conculsionythang:

Generally speaking I like it. There are some issues, like a light assault rifle out-performing a light machine gun. Sorry, that makes no sense - don't care how accurate it is, if both fire simultaneously, the LMG (headshots, downstroke, or body shots, upstroke, either way - I don't mean pure body shots!) is definitely going to kill the other guy, even if he does get a killing shot on you. There are not enough instances of killing the other guy - but he kills you too. This shouldn't be rife, but statistically it should happen at least occasionally, and it's rare even with the vehicles.

The write-up in-game of the repair unlock needs to be rewritten; it definitely gives the impression of some sort of automated system for repair, which it quite clearly is not.

Infantry-dominated battles are nicely intense, require tactical thinking for supremacy, and offer plenty of cover. Nice. BF2 had far too little cover, was endlessly annoying that you had to run out into the open so damned often.

The major move forward, I think, is the fact that even dull-reflexed persons can think tactically enough to outwit those of you who shoot far faster. Just a little bit of caution suddenly goes a helluva long way, whereas in BF2 caution equally meant you'd get shot in the back by some guy who just spawned. The spawn points at flags/silos seem to be a little bit better thought out, so that they do not open immediately onto the flag, but instead can give the impression that the guy who just shot you might easily have sneaked into the flag compound/area from a direction you just couldn't keep tabs on.

The game allows for longer stretches of life, even if you do get shot at. This means you can often regroup, and realise that you just aren't concentrating enough - and improve yourself accordingly, rather than just an endless, seamless string of deaths discouraging you from learning the best way to play the game.

The major downside is not the Networked Battlefield, however. I've seen some people complain about that, but that level of situational awareness IS even-handed. If people with the most unlocks lead squads, their squad gets the benefit, which is fitting - the most experienced lead, and should, until others have the experience to do so as well. Nor is the heartbeat monitor omgwallhaxx0rz!. The active camo is hardly effective, and those with keen eyes have surely noticed that it's a big advantage to YOU, not the sniper, since he has to change weapons, aim, and shoot, while you just cackle at the silly dance he does while you cut him down with a Bianchi...

Teeheehee.

Yeah, overall I very much like it, huge improvement. But that said - they should've damn well got it right with BF2.

Also, IT IS NOT JUST A MOD. If you can't tell that from playing it - IE that there's been significant recoding on very many aspects of the game - then you are, I'm afraid, too ignorant of programming to comment anyway. No offense - but if you don't know it, don't spout it.

Also, can I suggest a Holography Distraction Projector that projects an image of a bikini clad woman holding a coke can, saying, "MMM, what a big weapon you have!"? EA could get some real advertising revenue on that, because I haven't even -seen- any in-game ads. Which shows how effective they are not. Nor have I rushed out in a frenzy to buy products, so the subliminal thing still isn't working... [/mocking of in-game adverts]

Last edited by Auqakuh2213 (2007-02-22 13:17:22)

Well, to tell you the truth I was skepticle at first.  I played the demo but was not very impressed.  But then, I had some extra money so I bought it.  I am VERY VERY pleased with it.

The graphics are about the same, but there is new graphic effects that make the experience great.  The more dynamic unlocks system is fantastic.  Larger range of rewards.  And the simplified point system is nice.  Also, I like that it has moree interactive type of weapons. I am very glad I gave this game a try.