bf2142 beta

**Mr.Jello** · 09-21-06, 03:16 AM

It's a complete game.

**nmeboat** · 09-21-06, 07:08 AM

Originally Posted by KombatFORCE

My 2 main BF2142 questions are...
What classes are combined together & what are they?
Is the game an expansion needing BF2 to be installed or its own game?

i havent figured that one out 100%...from what i can tell/remember, there are 4 classes: recon, assault, engineer, support. recon seems to be a combination of sniper and spec ops, as the default gun is a sniper rifle, and some of the unlocks you can get are claymores and explosives. assault seems to be a combination of assault and medic, as this class carries a healing kit and one of the unlocks is a defib (yes...you have to get hte defib unlocked :? ). i havent played much/any engineer, but i think they they are a combination of engineer and antitank, as they can repair things, have mines and can unlock a rocketlauncher. and support i think is a combination of support and antitank as well, because they have the support weapon/box and i think they can unlock a rocketlauncher as well. ill have to look later and maybe get some screenshots :P

and jello already answered question 2...its its own separate game. some have even theorized that ea/dice have intentionally put out poor patches for bf2 in order to sabatage it, so they wouldnt have two competing products and trying to ween people over to 2142... :-s :P

imo, overall its a decent game. i personally have never been a fan of the 'futuristic' laser guns/weapons, but they seem to be kind of a hybrid, in that they behave and sound like bullets, but the muzzle flash give it that laser weapon appearance. the one thing that i will say i like so far is the titan mode (the beta is only one map and its a titan mode map)...its like 2 different battles w/in the same game.

the unlocks took a bit to get used to as well, because you have to actively select which unlocks you want to play with...sorta like a rpg where you can use a bow instead of a sword...you just have to rememebr to select it from your inventory :P

**Consultant** · 09-21-06, 07:20 AM

I had the 2142 beta, and it was good.....if you never played BF2. Apart from that, it's a professionally done mod. Seriously, when Forgotten Hope 2 comes out (the full port WW2 mod for BF2) it will be just as impressive. The only difference between 2142 and FH2 is that 2142 is "official" and will have online tracked stats.

I'll probably get 2142 but ONLY because of the veterans program and pre-order deals available... the managed to market the game well to BF2 players but the problem is that BF2 players have seen their game ripped to shreds by the shoddy EA QA and Patch department... BF2 1.2 was the best itteration of the game in my opinion, and they FUBAR'd it since then a fair amount.

2142 will be fun, but it's gonna look way too similar to BF2.

The explosion effects in 2142 are quite impressive, and titan mode is fun...but it's nothing they havent done before... look at the Coral Sea map on BF1942, right? Sink the carrier... destroy the floating spaceship.... its all the same.

I would give the beta a 8/10 for execution and a 4/10 for originality.

**Consultant** · 09-21-06, 07:29 AM

Originally Posted by KombatFORCE

My 2 main BF2142 questions are...
What classes are combined together & what are they?
Is the game an expansion needing BF2 to be installed or its own game?

Medic & Assault = 1 class (Assault)

Sniper & Special Forces = i class (Recon)

AT & Engineer = 1 class (Engineer)

Support = a hybrid of suport/AT sort of.

I do enjoy the pleothora of unlocks though, have you seen the ranks? There are FORTY-FOUR of them!

http://bf2142.com/content/Ranks

If there's unlocks available at each of those, thats a lot. You can also unlock abilities like "Extra grenade", "Expanded pistol clip" and "Longer sprint"

**MooMasterCowman** · 09-22-06, 03:43 AM

40 unlocks...

what pisses me off about the unlocks, though, is they got to that number by forcing you to unlock things the previous two games started you with: repair tool, defib, c4, claymore, smoke grenades, and the standard frag grenade. YOU HAVE TO UNLOCK THE STANDARD FUCKING FRAG NADES!! that, so far, is the one aspect of the game that worries me, the unlock system. to get ALL of the unlocks... you need to hit 232,692 points (brigadier general). to get all of bf2's unlocks, you only needed 50,000.

**nmeboat** · 09-22-06, 01:20 PM

oh, another 'good' thing about it is that it gives extra points for certain things...like if youre a squad memeber and have orders to 'attack/defend here', then you get an extra squad point for following thru...somehting like if you get a kill within a certain radius of the order marker. same with the titan...you get extra points for doing things on the titan (attacking/defending/etc). so theres a coupla things introduced that can help promote teamplay, etc.

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