The Death of a Legacy - Battlefield 1942 - Battlefield 2142

[Consultant01]

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If I were to add something to the history, I think it's important to mention that BF1942 raised the bar. There had never been a serious attempt before (and perhaps not since..lol) to create a true combined-arms game that incorporated land, air & sea in a somewhat balanced fashion. Only Desert Combat ever managed to achieve balance.

A less popular game that accomplished the same thing was Planetside. It was futuristic though, and they DID have laser-guns (energy weapons).

It was also an MMOFPS so there was a $10/month subscription fee in exchange for a persistent environment to fight in and over.

It was actually a really fun game. I played of for more than a year before it finally got a little boring and they introduced BFRs (Mech-warrior things) that were totally out of balance.

I'm still waiting for somebody to come along and make a true MMOFPS to followup on Planetside...

Imagine a continent 10 times the size of Kubra Dam with 10 bases on it, being faught over by 3 armies, each with their own technology and style... Player-organized armies of Tanks, Fighter Aircraft, Light Bombers, Heavy bombers, troop transports, Light tanks, mobile spawn points (cloaked mobile spawn points)..... then imagine the total number of enemies on a continent is somewhere around 500 players... It was the craziest war environment I ever saw in any game.

The BF Franchise did it first, but Planetside did it bigger.

But yeah.... anyway, I'm totally off track... lol.

I miss planetside.

[L3adcannon]

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Propably one of the best posts in this forums, Radar.

But IO was requested by some, if I remember right, and IO ain`t that bad of a feature you know. Other than that, well done.

BUT when it comes to war simulators, then OFP and RO clearly beat the s*it out of BF when it comes to combined arms, inf or just air to air combat

[MantaMan]

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EA is a company I love to hate. Simple as that.

[imported_Floonds]

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They make patches to fix bugs - the patches EA make create bugs.

- There should be one patch that keeps updating. Then, one day, that patch might be stable enough to play the game safely and properly.

[stilla-killa]

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like i said if u dont like it u dont have to play it so get the hell out we wont miss u

[AnotherEd]

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Boy Mr. 2 Post, you sure wasted a lot of time and effort just to say "EA Sux"

QFT

i can't believe people sign up just to complain about EA. how the F cares you hate some megalomaniacal corporate publishing company? we all do. and i'll still be playing BF and enjoying it while you are wasting your time posting about how much it sucks.

never ceases to amaze me just how much time people will spend on hate.

[StalkerZERO]

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im buying bf2142 just to smite you =)

Don't you mean to SPITE him?

[CATIA]

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excellent post Radar. i’d be careful though, you're being way to logical, and are using far to much common sense for this place. it could be dangerous.

[Galiega]

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EXELENT POST, Great veiw of the History of Battlefield 2 and other games.

Al ya gtta do now is add the Ranks on Battlefield 2 edit that into your post about stat padders and servers, also the first time the game was released the points was required to rank up!

[Chris_Redfield]

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Excellent post man, interesting to read. I joined BF franchise since BF2 so I cant comment on the history much, these kind of posts really shed some light though-.

[Consultant01]

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i smell lurkers.

Ignore the FACTS, deal with opinions as if they are facts, and offer no solutions...

this place reminds me more and more of the democratic party every day.

(Sorry, its the only analogy that works, I'm a registered Democrat, so back off)

[imported_matgn03]

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The games are still incredibly fun and thats really all I care about. And it really isnt fair for ppl who have hundreds of hours played to claim they were ripped out of 50 dollars, but oh well.

Your thoughts about 1.4 are incorrect, they have fixed the crashing bug and I havnt CTD'd since using it. My gameplay as a whole is a lot smoother. The Beta 2 only improved on Beta 1.

[KristianSax]

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The author has done a great job, even though I tend to dissagree with the conclusion.

There seem to be many ppl here who have the same opinion. I think I'm also going to get me one BF2142 even though initially I was opposed to the idea of future warfare and would have preferred something like the Pirates mod is introducing to BF2. But since I became my clan's news editor and have closely followed the news releases, I've actualy grown a fond of it and can't wait to (al least) try out the demo version.

So many seem to be demanding perfection however what is perfect in one's eyes could be total bull in another's. I don't think that there are many things in the world that are perfect for everyone (I can't think of any at the moment so any input is welcome).

I haven't had any major problems playing the game and I like it, maybe too much since spending 400 hours on a game does sound a bit over the line (i know, i know, many of you have served under the EA rule for a lot longer, but i'm talking from my own perspective). What has bothered me is the gameplay adjustments I had to get used to after the game was patched. I did get a little bit flamed at EA for removing squadhopping (we had to redo our whole clan play) but it seems that has remained optional, some servers have it some don't. The loading screen actually should show more information, i.e. ff on mines and claymores. When I start playing sniper i usually test my own claymore to see whether it has ff turned off or not.

Most of the "problems" in the game are caused by players, others see those acts (whatever they might be) as problems since they cannot match them, C4 chucking for example. I hope that headshots are not removed for that same reason. I never really got a hang of the C4 thing, but then again I like a slower rate of gameplaying.

I wonder what are the constant complainers doing about real life? Real life is full of "bugs" and "glitches" and those who abuse them. (take the legislation for example) Most people adjust themselves to it and well those that don't, well they probably lead frustrated lives complaining. I use the same idea in BF, I just try to adjust to what takes place and not work myself up over it and enjoy the game.

So PPL, get over it! DICE developers are also only human (i'm not one of them, DICE developers that is) and I'm pretty sure that the more popular issues (red-nametag, AT passing through vehicles, etc) have been addressed but no solution has been found.

[Michael]

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The Battlefield series is not dying and most definetly will not unless 2142 is absolutely awful.

[FFOLKES]

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The executives at EA/DICE fail to realize the more they support the mod community the more money they could actually make.

Think about it...if EA/DICE would give full access to all the things the mod community has been requesting since 2005 there would be so many more mods and the number of BF2 copies sold would skyrocket.

As stated in the original post, it's EA's failed business/marketing decisions that have caused the BF2 to suffer. Not only have they allowed/forced DICE to release a game riddled with bugs but also they failed miserably in supporting the mod and single player community.

FFOLKES