Battlefield 2142 Features Revealed!

[WarGimp]

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I wanna see what they have up their sleaves for their fighter planes (and bombers?). Nothing mentioned in the artical and Dice said elsewhere that they're waiting to get some tweaks done before the unveil it. Could be a damned cool thing.


Also very curious about their parachute replacement. They said they're going to be replacing 'chutes with something new... and it's NOT jetpacks. Hmm... ropes would be cool.

The other element that hasn't been displayed is the new tanks. The artical said that Mechs are NOT a tank replacement... so maybe that means that there will be conventional tracked tanks in there too.

[[2bit]Modmaven]

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Quake wars quake wars quake wars blah.

screw qw.

If there is another game I am looking forward to besides 2142 its Unreal 2007.

THAT my friends.. will be a killer game!


One thing I love about bf2 is all the vehicles.. then I realized.. I had the same thing in ut2k4. just futuristic ones. (and less buggy) ... (well there WAS a buggy.. but that isn't what I was talking about.. wait.. nevermind.. I digress.)
yeah.

Yeah, there were definitely some good times in Unreal.....I totally want those blades on the jeeps in BF2. What was really cool was that you could play like 10 different game types all in one game....capture the flag, deathmatch, invasion, assault, all sorts. UT2k7 is going to be a must buy.

Looks like everything will be future based, Quake Wars, BF2142 and UT2k7...

[denali333]

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Please let there be jetpacks like Tribes (and skiing) i would love a popular version (rip-off) of the tribes series again, T2 is still probably my overall favourite game of all time but the online numbers were always disapointing.

I so agree with you. T2's death by Vengence totally p.m.o. Shazbot I hope they have jet packs in 2142. Defending flags I miss the most in T2. BF2 has helped take the edge off but T2 was still the greatest. I had to make a new computer just to play BF2 and the funny thing is, on the one or two servers that are still running T2 I can't even play it with my new computer.

Did you ever play on HV or MV?

Oh the memories.
Late

[vbl]

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Also very curious about their parachute replacement. They said they're going to be replacing 'chutes with something new... and it's NOT jetpacks. Hmm... ropes would be cool.

I vote for deployable gliders. A more futuristic version of this combined with this.

The other element that hasn't been displayed is the new tanks. The artical said that Mechs are NOT a tank replacement... so maybe that means that there will be conventional tracked tanks in there too.

Or hover tanks. Planetside has all of the above - tracked tanks, hover tanks, and larger mech walkers.

[imported_[ECGN]_DarkGhost]

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:) ..

[WarGimp]

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I hope not on the hovertanks thing. There's some very good reasons for using tracks even in the future. Tracked tanks have near unbeatable ground contact and thus are about as stable as you can make a vehicle. This alows for the mounting of BIG guns. Mounting a big arse cannon on a hover vehicle would result in some major recoil issues.

BOOM!
Wheeeeeee! (as the hover tank flys off a cliff)

Side note: If anyone's particularly interested in futuristic, yet realistic games, there's a freeware (yup, FREE!) Babylon 5 game out that accuratly models physics over here: http://ifh.firstones.com/
Since it's freeware, it doesn't have the polish of a comercial release, but it's rather cool to check out. I'll warn ya tho... it's HARD! Dealing with non-Lucasian space flight is a strain on the brain and this game makes no bones about it being a hardcore SIM.

[snuggnads]

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i canjust imagine the amount of complaints about the assault class.... grenade launchers that turn into mines:|:

They might as well nerf the assault class for BF2142 now making it worthless. Why wait until the game is released and all the BFcrybabies will....cry and get it changed anyway, just like BF2.

No, not angry, just amused.

[vbl]

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I hope not on the hovertanks thing. There's some very good reasons for using tracks even in the future. Tracked tanks have near unbeatable ground contact and thus are about as stable as you can make a vehicle. This alows for the mounting of BIG guns. Mounting a big arse cannon on a hover vehicle would result in some major recoil issues.

The hover tanks in Planetside use recoilless energy cannons vs the solid matter shells used by the tracked tanks.

They obviously considered the physics of it, at least a little :)

[l=lCoBrAl=l]

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Since most everyone (and myself) is looking forward to quakewars more than 2142, I think that Dice should just drop the game, and help out Splash Damage to make quake wars sooner. That way they don't have to compete and they can both split the profits. I know this wont happen. But I think it would be awesome because that would mean we get the game faster.

[VC_Resurrected]

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Lads lads lads, this looks like it will be one sweet game, cant say i expected a futuristic move, but hey, its like Aliens, Predator and Mechwarrior all rolled into a game! How can it go wrong??

[WarGimp]

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The hover tanks in Planetside use recoilless energy cannons vs the solid matter shells used by the tracked tanks.

They obviously considered the physics of it, at least a little :)

Yeah, but thus far BF2142 seems to be avoiding energy based weapons. That's a plus in my book. There's something very attractive to good old fashioned kinetic weapons.

Since most everyone (and myself) is looking forward to quakewars more than 2142, I think that Dice should just drop the game, and help out Splash Damage to make quake wars sooner. That way they don't have to compete and they can both split the profits. I know this wont happen. But I think it would be awesome because that would mean we get the game faster.

Get over yourself.

Just because you are more interested in QW doesn't mean your opinion is representitive of the masses. Even these boards are representitve of said masses.

Plenty of players who suffered through the absolutly CRAP net code in DoomIII and Quake 4 couldn't give a rat's rear oriface about Quake Wars.

Beyond that, these are VERY different games at the design level. BF2142 is about basing gameplay on possible future-tech. QW is just more fantisy-sci-fi drivel with magic based weapons and tech. Been there, done that... for about 25 years. I'm looking forward to a sci-fi game that keeps a nodding aquatance to plausibility for a change.

[Bigtime834]

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Some good stuff there, very interesting indeed! However I will probably be more drawn towards quake wars, depends on wether EA balls this up or not

At first I really wasen't to into all this BF2142 but now hereing all this info makes me want to try it out and play it bit. But yea I am really looking forward to what Quake Wars brings the table to compete against BF2142. Thanks for the article information!

[colony]

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well thats a bummer

Why? cuz you like to camp as a sniper on the hills or on top of buildings? stupid noobs

[Spartan42]

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While sniper camping is cheap, annoying, and n00bish it is a reality and a part of modern warfare so get used to it.

having said that, i agree hes a little snipe noob

[colony]

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I wanna see what they have up their sleaves for their fighter planes (and bombers?). Nothing mentioned in the artical and Dice said elsewhere that they're waiting to get some tweaks done before the unveil it. Could be a damned cool thing.

You said it. UFO like jets (hey dont we already have that with the J10? :laugh: )