boycotting 2142? or too cheap?

[oddANGRYshot]

2142 Forum- the_bruce_Lee
At first, I was very pleased with it. It was incredibly fun, the game ran well, didn't really have any problems with the game. Now, the game is running like trash for some reason, and it's become a bore fest. I can't believe I would ever be calling a BF game bore fest, but this is what it is to me now. I guess the thing is, all you do in this game now is kill people, there's no tactics. See, the thing is, this games infantry combat is NOT good enough for that kind of game. The games that are just based around killing people are done to perfection. The infantry combat is designed specifically for that, that's why you can play those games so long. BF2's engine is pretty good for a BF type of game. However, BF2142 is just all out action. BF2 was a superb game because tactics, the action and everything was balanced so well. In this game, it's just action. The idea of a game to just have nothing but action isn't bad, but the problem is this isn't suppose to be based on action 100% of the time. This engine isn't good for that type of game. That's why I guess it's getting so boring now. BF2's excitement didn't last forever, but it didn't really get boring over time. It was always fun, maybe not as fun as when you first got it, but it always stayed fun. This game, was very exciting at first, now it just seems flat. I rather have dice remake BF1942 with better graphics, and just enhance the feel of weapons and vehicles and everything, but keep the maps and the whole idea of the game the same. that means no stats and ranks and medals, this is also leading to people just trying to get points...

I played the demo and knew it was cr@p.
Stat padders, point whores, patches/bugs galore... thanks but its as obvious as dog balls on a kitten that its a piece of EA/Dice $hite.

[Chris_Redfield]

You are a metal gear solid lover, and by the name im guessing resident evil lover aswell, right on my friend, right on they rule do those games, back to topic though.....

We, the people who care about games with interesting content which makes you think, need to stick together and breed as much as possible :laugh: .

The biggest grudge against BF2142 is... it didnt deliver what it supposed to.

[Garabaldi]

I'd rather not support a bug filled, ad ridden mindless shooting game - especially one which is just BF2 in a new coat of paint.

OMG NEW COLOURS!

[Delphian=FFL=]

SF crap,, EF crap,,, AF crap,,,, im not going to pay 50 bucks to find out once again we have crap, they should keep adding new maps for bf2 instead of wasting time on more crap

[Gun slinger]

they should keep adding new maps for bf2 instead of wasting time on more crap

it would be nice if USER made maps were allowed on ranked servers, I made some really cool maps for UT99 and UT2K4, if ranked servers were allowed to host them, Id definetly be willing to sharpen my BF2 map creating skills as I got several ideas for some maps that I think people would really like

[Radar-C}{G-]

For me it is about the boycott.. not for the adware they included (although that is an enticing reason to boycott alone) but rather for the way they (EA/Dice) have treated me as a consumer in the past (BFV support failure, BF2 patching and lack of or delays in critical fixes, BF1942 patching and mod community impact). This is why I am boycotting it.

[TotalBF2er]

heyhey,

So you're boycotting BF2142? Or you're just not into the "space" theme. Well I have a news for you.

Boycotting it. I like science fiction and futuristic battle type games, but this falls short of what I hoped it would be. As it's been stated by many gamers, 2142 acts like a mod of BF2. So no, I'm not paying $65 for a mod.

[hebrewhammer14]

I'd rather not support a bug filled, ad ridden mindless shooting game - especially one which is just BF2 in a new coat of paint.

OMG NEW COLOURS!

ditto

[Hippodog]

Meh, picked it up, played it, ranked up 4 times in a few hours, got bored of a game that revolved more around getting kills, then actually capping. That's pretty much all you do in BF2142:Kill people. There is just simply no strategy, and if you're not dealing with spawnrapers from the get-go padding their stats, you're having to contend with APCs you can barely scratch, due to seemingly how ineffective the rockets are in the starter kit for Engineer.

The colors are awful, and the way things move in that enviroment drive my senses batty. I can't help but to think that it's just BF2 with new skins. They could have made a mod out of it, and just released it like that. It doesn't even feel futuristic, really. It's a really poor attempt at sci-fi grunge, and it just doesn't manage to convey the desperate, apocalyptic fight it tries to present in the map briefings.

It moves too quick to be strategic, to be honest. It's just exchanging mad rushes at each other with kits that have too much individual power and firepower. Assault and Medic should be seperate. So should Sniper and Spec Ops, and Engineer and Anti-Tank. That's where BF2 found it's balance. It was just slow enough to make you think and fight as a squad to win, and it spread out the necessary jobs amongst enough people that you could have balanced squads, instead of this madness of Assault with powerful weapons, and the ability to heal and revive.

The only thing that would have seperated BF2142 from BF2, would have been Titan mode, and I played that...yeah.......it was crap when the Titan started to get crowded, and once the Titan got crowded, the whole game would go downhill from there, and would sputter and creak until it crashed. Nevermind that you can't even play one round now without a assured CTD.

I'm going back to BF2, and 2142 is going back to EBgames where I got it(Receipt!), so nuts to that. I'll load up Call of Duty if I want that kind of mindless killing frenzies. I play Battlefield for Conquest mode and teamwork.

[Jumintiger]

Well it looks very crappy from the videos I've seen. It sounds crappy from what most people say. And then I hear about adware. The verdict: It's in my sig.