Holy crap, I just bought BF 2142, it's WAY better than people said it was. I heard it was shitty from SO many people, but it's wicked, the BF2 feel is still there, the look and feel of the futuristic stuff is great, reminiscent of Starship Troopers kind of... But yeah, it's great, the only thing I don't like is that there are only 2 factions, they condensed the kits into 4, and unlocks are harder to get. There are LOTS of unlocks though, and the vehicles are amazing. Anyone who's debating buying 2142 should just do it, it's worth it!


Hopefully I'll still find time to play BF2, lol, worked hard enough on BF2 that I don't want to give it up. Plus, 2142 can't replace it, BF2 is totally different, it's realistic combat, and I'll still play.


Counter-strike may get shafted for a while due to lack of time, lol...

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boooooooo 2142. It doesn't even feel like a Battlefield game.

I don't want to argue for it's sanctity, but it does feel quite alot like a battlefield game, just way more stylized, and...full of punkbuster kicks...lol, other than that it's good!

Bought 2142. It's okay. BF2 has a much better feel and gameplay and... well, everything.
However, one good thing 2142 has going for it is that it seems to strain the graphics processor LESS than BF2. At least, it seems that way to me...

One thing I'm noticing is now that the classes are all combined and shit, medics are less likely to respond to injured players, and Recon can do friggin EVERYTHING, snipe, c4 things, lay claymores, seems EVERYONE plays as Recon now...

Lol, I've unlocked the whole Support tree, and it seems SO useless...

More on the topic of "Bravo, EA" regarding 2142:

http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=52493

Edit: Ooh, they killed the thread.

Basically, there was supposed to be "titan drop" points that were awarded to the pilot of a dropship whenever a passenger podded out of the dropship onto the enemy titan. Thing is, it turns out the game is coded so that the points are awarded whenever a passenger vacates a seat. This means that if someone in the back just switches seats really fast, you get a point for every switched seat. Soon as this glitch was found, people started using it get around 2000 points a round, easy. So the leaderboard has basically just been a place to show off how badly EA coded the game.

Okay, so what are we going to play tonight? Any suggestions?

I'm up for pretty much anything (having SF, AF, and PoE2). It would be nice to play some expansion/booster packs (I vote for AF), but I wouldn't want to alienate anyone that doesn't have those so we'll only play that if noone that's going to join us is missing them.

Oh, and on a related note, the EF/AF booster packs are getting a retail release for $20 for the two. Next week Best Buy has it on sale for $20 with a free $10 gift card.

1.41 patch is out guys, be sure to grab it. 536mb, fixing the server bug, and ...




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Nothing else... Yes, that's write, 536mb of wasted bandwidth on one server crash bug. Fuck you EA, fuck you.

they finally posted what the 1.41 patch does, got this off fileplanet:
GAMEPLAY TWEAKS

- The vehicle drop has been modified to help prevent exploits such as blocking enemy vehicles, destroying vehicles and commander assets, or as an alternative to artillery.
- C4 tossing distance has been reduced.
- A prone->crouch delay has been added.

BUG FIXES

- Fixed the Linux server hangs when trying to load a Special Forces Co-Op map.
- Another attempt at fixing the Red/Blue nametag bug.
- Fixed the missing server info on the map briefing screen.
- Fixed the server browser issues with updating info.
- Fixed the filter by maps size option in the server browser.
- Fixed a low reproducibility crash bug related to the vehicle drop.
- Fixed a crash in Co-op after a player is revived without a kit.
- Fixed a server crash on Linux 32 when trying to rotate maps in Coop Mode.
- Fixed the occasionnal red distance marker appearing on the ground.
- Fixed the bug that caused the player's arms to become invisible when switching weapons.
- Co-Op bot console commands now function on local servers.
- Fixed the excessive damage taken by the Muscle Car.
- Adjusted the minimum number of players to start the round on ranked servers. The new values for 16, 32 and 64 players are 6, 8 and 8 respectively.
- Re-enabled unlocks on unranked servers.
- Commander options are no longer available whilst commander is dead.
- Fixed bug where a spawn point is shown as selected when it is not if player has spawned in during the preview round.
- Co-Op (Local Server) - Fixed the issue where no other players may join the server if the server host is kicked and banned.
- Ranked Servers now force unlocks.
- Added support for multiple gamemodes in single maplist for mods

so that 536 meg patch makes a little more sense now though they r fixing things they broke and supposedly fixed already...

Looks like the patch is just for people running servers and not for actual players.

It also looks like GFF's downtime two days ago affected our session as well. I logged on but there was nobody on except for Hawke, who was convienantly(sp?)away. Ouch. We'll try again next week.

@Wolf Yea, I happened to get back right when you logged off. :)
btw, I got AF so I'm ready for whenever we play again.

I should be able to join in tonight :)

Cool, more the merrier, I'd say. I guess we can start around 8 or so. Hopefully other people will be around then.

Wow. I was beginning to think that everyone had abandoned BF2 and gone over to the dark side and started on BF2142, guess I was wrong. As for the session tonight, depends on the time ,how I feel, and also, which expansion. Been a long day already so I may not make it, see how things go.

Haha, not this ferret. I'm not interested in BF2142.

Well we're going to start at 8pm EST if enough people are on.

8 EST? So that's ..... about now then?

I'll have to see about adding you to xfire as well.

Yeah, that's right now. There's only 3 people on (including me) right now though. If anyone else wants to play, can you get on X-Fire?

So, anyone going to be playing tonight? No one's on Xfire. =/

Yeah, sorry. I couldn't play tonight. I had dinner with relatives. Then a storm hit and knocked out the power for a good while. So yeah, sorry :(

But hey, just 'cause I can't play doesn't mean the session is off for that day. There's lots of other people in the team.

well, the only other person I saw on was Starman. And...now Jinn is playing BF2, didn't even notice him get on.

Sorry I missed it, a friend of mine's computer bit it, so he was using mine to do some schoolwork. I have been playing a fair amount lately, and I managed to get a new award, veteran transport. I've also been playing around with the assault class a fair amount and getting good with the grenade launcher.

I'm lookin' for a new FPS to play, so I'm going to pick this shit up when I got the dough for it. I'm tired of Day of Defeat: Source and CS:S... so, it's time to move on to greater things I think... =D

Guys, are we having a game tonight? If so, I should be able to make it, had the day off work today so I've not been up since 7am (2am EST)