Battlefield 2142 roll call!

It ships on the 17th of next month, who's going to be playing?

EBGames has a preorder bonus that gives you one free rank promotion/weapon unlock right off the bat, which isn't too shabby.

Official site.

If you reserve your name on the official site, you get another free rank up, so they stack. Should be a good reason to dust off the gaming PC for a change!

EDIT: added some screens.

System specs?

Lagduf said:

System specs?

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Lifted from EB, so I'm not sure it's 100% correct:


Required


Operating System: Windows XP (32-bit) with Admin rights
Processor: 1.7 GHz Intel Celeron D / Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon XP/ Sempron or greater
RAM: 512 MB of RAM or more
CD-ROM: 8x or faster DVD drive
Hard Drive: 2.3 GB free hard drive space or more
Processor: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
Video Card: 128Mb Video card or more

That's not too ,uch higher than BF2 though, so if you can play BF2 fairly well you should be okay. A gig of RAM will most certainly help speed up loading and performance.

GD said:

Lifted from EB, so I'm not sure it's 100% correct:


Required


Operating System: Windows XP (32-bit) with Admin rights
Processor: 1.7 GHz Intel Celeron D / Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon XP/ Sempron or greater
RAM: 512 MB of RAM or more
CD-ROM: 8x or faster DVD drive
Hard Drive: 2.3 GB free hard drive space or more
Processor: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
Video Card: 128Mb Video card or more

That's not too ,uch higher than BF2 though, so if you can play BF2 fairly well you should be okay. A gig of RAM will most certainly help speed up loading and performance.

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Hmmm....I didnt think to check the EB site.

I didnt see any info on the official site.

I'd like to at least play this, maybe i'll wait for a demo.

I'm broke like it aint no joke this semester, so i'll probably at least be on PSU and maybe this new BF game.

Lagduf said:

Hmmm....I didnt think to check the EB site.

I didnt see any info on the official site.

I'd like to at least play this, maybe i'll wait for a demo.

I'm broke like it aint no joke this semester, so i'll probably at least be on PSU and maybe this new BF game.

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That would be cool man. The wiki site says:

DirectX 9.0c compatible video card (128 MB memory and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 or ATI Radeon 8500 chip set)

That might give you a better idea what kind of performance you will have, as long as your GPU chipset is one of these or better you should be fine.

As good as BF2 is, I haven't played it in forever and a day. Maybe I'm just bored with the maps or something, but this new title with the near-future sci-fi theme is very appealing.

They also made some interesting changes to the core Battlefield gameplay, most prominently the classes. They cut them down to four this time (Recon, Engineer, Assault, Support) with some classes serving dual functions.

The Titan mode with the massive gunships looks badass too, I can't wait to go inside one of those puppies and have some serious room to room firefights.

Am I the only one that gets a slight Killzone vibe when looking at the screens?

It's looking fun, but I currently can't stop playing POE2 (touched regular BF2 maybe twice in the last two months), and the fact that it was free won't make it easier to give EA another $50. I've avoided the likes of Special Forces, Euro Forces, and Armored Fury up until now...I guess I'm having a hard time seeing 2142 as much more than a mod or expansion, even though I'm sure it is a full conversion.

shirt said:

It's looking fun, but I currently can't stop playing POE2 (touched regular BF2 maybe twice in the last two months), and the fact that it was free won't make it easier to give EA another $50. I've avoided the likes of Special Forces, Euro Forces, and Armored Fury up until now...I guess I'm having a hard time seeing 2142 as much more than a mod or expansion, even though I'm sure it is a full conversion.

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I should give PoE a download.

Special Forces was a decent expansion, the new maps were fun and the addition of the night environments and grappling hooks were fun, as were the small number of new vehicles (the HIND rocks). However, some of the maps felt imbalanced for smaller games and didn't have as much replayability as the originals. The group I played BF with just went back to the original maps in the end. The boosters were okay for what they cost, but they should have released both as one expansion.

2142 is going to be a whole new experience, all new maps, futuristic vehicles, all new weapons, Titan gameplay mode... there should be enought there to warrant a purcase I think.

You do not need a dx9.0c compatable card. Only the geforce 6/7 and ati x1k series cards are 9.0c.

You need a shader model 2 (just plain old 9.0b aka ati 9000-800x series, or nvidia fx5000 series) card but must have the latest version of 9.0c installed or it's going to bitch at you for missing a .dll file.

Anyways, I'm having fun with it. It's an improvement over BF2 so far.

It ships today. (I meant tomorrow, it's already the 17th here)

A few of my friends have been playing the demo for a week or so, and they love it. One of the stores here had a demo running on their PC Games floor, so I spent 15 minutes with it. It seems like a great game. The new classes feel pretty refined.

I'll try to pick it up on the 18th.

spyware

I was just reading today on /. about how BF2142 will include spyware used to monitor your web surfing habits in order to deliver in game advertisements.

I *definitely* won't be picking this game up if it is true. Can anyone confirm this? Apparently it's on a document in the box.

I'll be picking this up when I get around to finding a cheap 1GB stick of ram, my machine is barely cutting it for PoE2 with the current 512...

tokengamer said:

I was just reading today on /. about how BF2142 will include spyware used to monitor your web surfing habits in order to deliver in game advertisements.

I *definitely* won't be picking this game up if it is true. Can anyone confirm this? Apparently it's on a document in the box.

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http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/06/10/17/1319235.shtml

$50 for bundled spyware and targeted ads for a bunch of bloated code? Count me in!:chimp:

Seriously, why anyone puts up with EA's bullshit anymore I'll never know.

Phoenix Down said:

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/06/10/17/1319235.shtml

$50 for bundled spyware and targeted ads for a bunch of bloated code? Count me in!:chimp:

Seriously, why anyone puts up with EA's bullshit anymore I'll never know.

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In game advertising I would put up with if the game was $10 or less...but invading my privacy in order to give targeted ads is completely crossing the line. They'd have to pay *me* $50 to play BF2142.