Thread: What Ive learned from BF2142

There are American voices on the E.U. side. This game was made by Europeons. I think an American army is intentionally left out because, in the 2142 time line, U.S.A. isn't a world power anymore. I'm sure the developers have imagined a world void of U.S political influences. Probably due to catastrophic natural disasters or the war on terror finally leading our nation to its demise. Where are the Arabs in all of this? We probably nuked each other so the only nations intact are the E.U. with a few remaining Americans, and the PAC which obviously consists of the Russians and the Chinese. A brave new world indeed. Would be interested to see what they really had in mind by leaving us out of it.

I disagree. If you watch the trailers, you'll see that North America is still lit up with plenty of cities as the ice slowly covers the continent. I'm thinking probably the USA (And what's left of the population of Canada) are busy trying to seize Mexico and central America. They're too busy trying to survive to send any real help across the pond to Europe.

yeah i'm with bob on this one...

as for metal knives...it'd be interesting if they took like a planetside-esq approach and had the knives have a switchable vibro mode.

Knives aren't used only for fighting i'd imagine. And even if it were possible to make lightsabres, what would you use them for?

I've got a glowly heat stick in a fire fight!

Yeah, talk about a bullet magnet. Without the Force to aid in your defense, you'd be the perfect meat shield (although your squadmates probably won't thank you for drawing attention to them)

And does a LightSaber do anything against a bullet anyways? I suppose it could melt it, but I challenge even a Jedi to block the 600 shots a second that the Voss puts out. Or the 900ish that the SMG puts out.

Anyone else notice that the guns in Star Wars all shoot really, really slow?

could you imagine coming up to knife someone with a lightsaber? You see the prey, you draw your saber plenty of distance so that they don't hear the metal sliding sound on it sheath...you get closer, suddenly they hear the whirring of the saber, they turn and shoot...never again can sneak up on a person...

I like knives

Hey, if you've ever played Dark Forces or its follow-ons, you will note that Stormtroopers are idiots who always seem to shoot with their guns on single fire mode. I believe in the Rock and Roll method of pest removal

Yeah, I love how "the most elite force in the empire" can't fight for shit. In games or in movies.