2142 Demo available

Ponster

It's on the EA Downloader (at least for me) !

You'll need the latest version of Directx9.0c to install which of course won't work should you have a naughty version of Windows installed


http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2DA43D38-DB71-4C1B-BC6A-9B6652CD92A3&displaylang=en

You'll need 2 accounts to log in. The first is your EA account (used on ea.com and in the EA Downloader) and the other is your BF2142 account.

PrivateSmokey

1.1GB for a Demo:eek:

Ponster

Yeah. it's the full game but with only 2 maps. I'm told that the core of the game is so big as to make maps smaller but we'll have to wait and see if that's the case.

hairball

half way on download now

Nietzschean

you can get latest version of directx 9.0c redistributable without using WGA iirc

Ponster

Nietzschean wrote:

you can get latest version of directx 9.0c redistributable without using WGA iirc

Spoilsport

http://www.threelights.de/index.php?page=projects/d3dx9_xx_dll_files.php

Spear

Ponster wrote:

It's on the EA Downloader (at least for me) !

After a round a few thoughts

The soldiers all look alike, the lack of a blue nametag seems to be the only way to tell who's who.

No 1280x1024 support in this day and age?

There's no atmosphere like BF2, BFV or 1942. The flags are just two bars of apparently random colours, no red commie stars, EU blue etc.

And the end of first ever round, going top of the leader board it disconnected just a few tickets before match end claiming it had lost connection to the EA master server, rather than the acutal game server.

Getting the dogtags of those I'd stabbed was nice. Credit to whoever Mooseh is for being to willing to have a knifefight with me.

cobrophy

Downloaded and installed double clicked icon and...error message

I had a problem got an "unable to locate componant" error message saying that the application could not start because d3dx9_29.dlll was not found.

anyone else get this or know what it's about? It says reinstalling may fix the problem but it didn't.

Spear

cobrophy wrote:

Downloaded and installed double clicked icon and...error message

I had a problem got an "unable to locate componant" error message saying that the application could not start because d3dx9_29.dlll was not found.

anyone else get this or know what it's about? It says reinstalling may fix the problem but it didn't.

Sounds like one of the files that was part of the updates to DirectX9c. There were various later releases by date. Think the last one was the August release.

Ponster

cobrophy wrote:

anyone else get this or know what it's about? It says reinstalling may fix the problem but it didn't.

Did you even see my post?

doubledown

All the download servers are busy now. My EA Downloader is telling me that my estimated time for download to begin is 18 mins 11 secs. God, I hope it's not 18 hours, 11 minutes!!!

KdjaCL

Its a mod made with the source code, nothing special about if it was POE people wouldnt play it but as its EA people will buy it



kdjac

hairball

KdjaCL wrote:

Its a mod made with the source code, nothing special about if it was POE people wouldnt play it but as its EA people will buy it



kdjac

aye, thats a good point alright kdjacl, but it's still very entertaining...i'm enjoying it anyways, i do wish more people would realise just how good poe2 is tho.

cobrophy

[edit] sorted problem thanks for the help. only problem now is not being able to log onto the ea master server guess thats to be expected first day of demo release

CyberGhost

hairball wrote:

aye, thats a good point alright kdjacl, but it's still very entertaining...i'm enjoying it anyways, i do wish more people would realise just how good poe2 is tho.

+1(although I haven't played POE(I will after reading this))

Been playing it a lot day,

It is fun, but the game kinda looks "funny", in BF2, everything is more "real", I mean guns and everything has a more real feel/look to it, in BF2142 it is a bit different, and titan lags as hell too, I like the air vehicles though, but again it feels like a cartoon, maybe it's because of the map?(dark yellow colours)? apcs and tanks are not in correct proportions I think(I think they're too big)

Personally I enjoyed flying a lot(although the gunship's rockets aren't as powerful as in BF2, and it's impossible to hit anything with a TGM), and using a battle walker, but didn't enjoy guns(you get bored with them pretty fast) and sniper gun is annoying with it's swaying, atleast in call of duty it's more logical, when you prone it sways less, but not in 2142

Auvers

Some download links

http://www.filecloud.com/file/3897/Battlefield+2142+Demo/
http://www.4players.de/4players.php/download_info/PC-CDROM/Download/45573.html
http://www.gamespot.com/demos/battlefield2142/index.php?tag=bf2142_csbox_hp

h2s

Another half -baked effort from EA. I thought it was rubbish:(

R0ot

I whole heartedly do not endorse this product, EA can go suck on my ass

Blazer

R0ot wrote:

I whole heartedly do not endorse this product, EA can go suck on my ass

comment of the day!!

V9

I quite enjoyed it, I think the titan mode is very good.

h2s

What's the bet that before Christmas, this year, there will be an announcment of a Patch release to fix some major screw up.

So, next january I predict the following post on the EA Website:

“The news many of you have been hoping for – the long awaited 1.2235621 patch for Battlefield 2142 goes live in two years time. After much anticipation the new patch featuring only the crappiest features you have come to expect from EA will be sponsored by Wilma Dickfit Inc. (Customers should be aware given the complexity of programmming that this patch may need another patch for it to actually function":D

cobrophy

I also enjoyed titan mode. More for the novelty of a new format than anything else. Though while I'm playing it I do keep wondering "is this it?". I expect that novelty would quickly wear off. Titan mode should be used for maybe one or two maps that way you wouldn't get sick of it. Each map should have a "titan mode" of their own. By that I mean a unique way of winning that isn't just hold more flags. That would make me want to buy the game. My idea does sound a bit like ET:QW but a bit of imagination would make it unique. You could argue that it hinders the learning curve of the game but I'd picked up the idea after about 2 rounds (admittedly not everyone had as I was left defending our titan on my own against about 5 boarders) but regardless it's a weak excuse not to make a better game.

PrivateSmokey

R0ot wrote:

I whole heartedly do not endorse this product, EA can go suck on my ass

Agree:D
Said Iv give the Demo ago.... and its crap.Might be a bit better with a good team.Already a lot of CTDs and not just me.On three diffrent servers last night
there were CTDs and lost connections about every 10 mins:mad:

Silverfish

Played for a while today, I really like it.

projectmayhem

downloading now (couldn't get a slot last night)

i really hope this is good, but after so many patches and so much crap from bf2, i don't have a lot of hope left in me

BlackWizard

Ive kept an open mind on this game.

And oh my is it ****e.

Its too easy to capture posts. 10 seconds after capturing a post its already
gone to the enemy. I think thats because everyone has some sort of super
fast transport. The game is like a mixture of Mech Warrior/ HL2 / Bf2 / War World
Tactical Combat

Infact its almost exactly like War World Tactical Comabt except 2142 has infantry
, flying vehicles and more debt.

Well Ill play it again some other day and maybe then Ill understand why people
would like this game. But right now I much prefere Bf2.

Fanny Cradock

It's really like a skin for BF2. Other than the obvious aesthetic differences, the game handles the same; the classes are the same; and the vehicles are the same. Nothing ground breaking here.

projectmayhem

played it now and while it is just a lot of re-skinning, it is better optimised (going inside the titan isn't like entering some sort of FPS suction device) and the menu's are far nicer.

the demo has me sold anyway, even if it feels like the gun sounds were lifted from quake4

Auvers

Spear wrote:

No 1280x1024 support in this day and age?

Here is a fix for you

right click and properties on the shortcut on desktop,

you will see

"D:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\BF2.exe" +menu 1 +fullscreen 1

change it to

"D:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\BF2.exe" +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 +szx 1280 +szy 1024

u can put any resolution you want in there

it will still show as default in the BF2142 options, but as you will see its running a custom res.as you will see its running a custom res.

Keyzer

projectmayhem wrote:

played it now and while it is just a lot of re-skinning, it is better optimised (going inside the titan isn't like entering some sort of FPS suction device) and the menu's are far nicer.

the demo has me sold anyway, even if it feels like the gun sounds were lifted from quake4

Yeah, I'm a sucker for great in game menus.... Think I'll buy 5 copies when it comes out...

Spear

Auvers wrote:

Here is a fix for you


change it to

"D:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\BF2.exe" +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 +szx 1280 +szy 1024

I'm aware of the fix, since I had to use it on the original BF2 as well, before it was added in a patch. Which just makes it very odd that it's missing at all, let alone since we know they specifically added it to the BF2 code in a patch.

Auvers

Spear wrote:

I'm aware of the fix, since I had to use it on the original BF2 as well, before it was added in a patch. Which just makes it very odd that it's missing at all, let alone since we know they specifically added it to the BF2 code in a patch.

Agreed

Fcukups by EA dont suprise me at all. I am just waiting for quake wars.

projectmayhem

Keyzer wrote:

Yeah, I'm a sucker for great in game menus.... Think I'll buy 5 copies when it comes out...

are you even going to try and say that the menu here is not sleeker, nicer and running 10x better then the bf2 menu was? gone are the days where you double click a server to get absolutely no response for a few moments...

also, i've noticed a lot of people saying that it's an improvement on bf2, and pretty cool as a futuristic game, but the "hardcore" are lashing into it (predictably) for crap like "the flying is all wrong"... well y'all enjoy bf2 then... i'll enjoy 2142, and then enjoy quake wars when that drops...

hairball

agree with that mayhem, i can't understand why people are moaning that something's crap, when in fact it's not that its crap at all, merely different, i'm loving the fact that it takes a little more skill and patience to get good in most of the vehicles and i love the fact that the two tanks handle completely differently, it has, in the limited opinion i've so far been afforded, more variety than bf2 in terms of handling differences and that just makes it all the more enjoyable in my opinion and yes it might be not much more than a very detailed mod, but its a good one and will sit well as a companion to bf2, poe2 and forgotten hope 2 when its out.

KdjaCL

projectmayhem wrote:

are you even going to try and say that the menu here is not sleeker, nicer and running 10x better then the bf2 menu was? gone are the days where you double click a server to get absolutely no response for a few moments...

also, i've noticed a lot of people saying that it's an improvement on bf2, and pretty cool as a futuristic game, but the "hardcore" are lashing into it (predictably) for crap like "the flying is all wrong"... well y'all enjoy bf2 then... i'll enjoy 2142, and then enjoy quake wars when that drops...

Ehh i haven yet to play a full ****ing round,. the menu system can have daisies hanging from i get kicked every ****ing time jesus i have 0 pointsa and have played on 5 servers and yet to even see someone before i get kicked.


kdjac

Silverfish

Well, that must be something with you, because I played twice today, about three full rounds, and had no issues whatsoever.

Titan mode was a bit laggy mind, but that's my pc, not something I'm going to blame EA for.

sirpipalot

what i'm confused is why they waited untill the next game to fix the menus from the last one... which still don't work... hmmm

red dave

have to say i really like it, inside the corridors of the titan has sort of star wars feel about it

jesus_thats_gre

If you want some official EA servers to play on, my mate owns rackage.com

http://www.game-monitor.com/search.php?search=rackage&type=server&game=bf2142

jonski

Silverfish wrote:

Titan mode was a bit laggy mind, but that's my pc, not something I'm going to blame EA for.

I thought your specs were fairly high ?

PrivateSmokey

I'd imagine they sit just above the nose:D

Silverfish

jonski wrote:

I thought your specs were fairly high ?

Our NTL was giving gyp yesterday.

bubonicus

Anybody notice that when your on a moving titan, when you place a command or someone dies. they move as if attached to the stationary scenery outside and not move with the titan. So you have all these dead bodies gliding by you.

Or is it just me.

magick

played it, not impressed, basically a mod u have to pay money for .

oh well theirs always forgotten hope

SeantheMan

I think its absolute crap aswell

But!! ive found a fix for it which made me smile

Go to Control Panel--->Add/remove programs and find BF2142 Demo, then click uninstall
Then load up good ol BF2

magick

Go to Control Panel--->Add/remove programs and find BF2142 Demo, then click uninstall

Brillant!!!!!1

Keyzer

I dont like it at all...

Looks awful, plays awful... I'll leave this one for the kids and stick to BF2.

BlackWizard

Its too arcady for me. Maybe its a good game but its just not my cup of tea right
now.

It reminds me of Hl2 and Halo too much.

Silverfish

Keyzer wrote:

Looks awful, plays awful... I'll leave this one for the kids and stick to BF2.

Kids?

cobrophy

what i want to know is why people think hexagons are futuristic. So many futuristic games use hexagons (star wars being one example which i basically think everyone has ripped off). slightly off topic but its been bugging me.

Dreamcrusher

i havent downloaded it cause over a gig for a demo is taking the piss. But i have to say im not eactly surprised with the largely uniformly negative views so far. I think EA have finally pushed people just a little too far with thier dead horse flogging this time by charging 50 notes for what seems to be essentially a glorified mod. And an ill concieved mod at that