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Title: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: BCBrent on April 13, 2006, 04:14:53 PM
I think I see some similarities between BF2142 and Planetside

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v394/NoneSuchL/0322_pc_yan_Battlefield_01.jpg)(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v394/NoneSuchL/76706.jpg)

The vehicles in the BF2142 scream planetside.

Plus,

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v394/NoneSuchL/image-o-matic.jpg)

Kinda looks like a deli mixed w/ an ant


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: Hawkes on April 13, 2006, 04:54:32 PM
I noticed that too when I watched the video.... unfortuantely it's EA. 


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: therealfragger on April 13, 2006, 07:18:29 PM
so?

At times its hard to make things look "futuristic" you can also argue that the planes look like the Hunter/Seekers in the Terminator series but whatever.  Shit will always look like something else


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: BCBrent on April 13, 2006, 08:52:23 PM
Woah woah.. settle down junior.  Just pointing it out.  I mean I can see the vehicles but come on the posters for christs sake, they have pretty much the same expression!


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: Arctic on April 13, 2006, 10:01:37 PM
If you reall want to argue it , They both look like the Battle Tech univ. with the mechs, VOTL, Lazers, game a game, Lets just see if the multi player can hold up to the scale of Planetside.


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: therealfragger on April 14, 2006, 08:36:39 PM
its called a  "War" expression

(http://www.gamestop.com/common/images/lbox/646080b.jpg)

and on the scale . . its going to be like BF2 with 64 player matches.  Plus its also going to be like BF2 in the way you can Level and unlock new weapons


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: JackelMaster on May 12, 2006, 03:47:39 AM
Just watch this video(its on the page)

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/battlefield2142/index.html (http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/battlefield2142/index.html)


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: ch0wdah on May 12, 2006, 08:25:34 PM
That's funny as shit, Brent.  What's the smiley for sneering war face? (With mech and wheeled veh in background)


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: therealfragger on August 19, 2006, 12:26:34 AM
I have to say this game rocks some serious shit

PS . . im in its beta weee!


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: Hawkes on August 25, 2006, 07:20:49 PM
Beta is open to Fileplanet/GameSpy/IGn subscribers right now for a limited time.... get in if you have any interest.  I'm gonna try to jump in when I get home tonight.


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: Shafman on August 25, 2006, 08:33:54 PM
I got in the beta late thursday night, it's pretty fun, there are some obvious issues but nonetheless it is still fun. Titan raiding doesn't get old for me, although the ground combat kind of does. I need a bro to play this game with.


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: Hawkes on August 25, 2006, 09:42:47 PM
I'm in Shaf.... downloading now.  What's your nick?  Shafman?


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: Shafman on August 26, 2006, 01:32:57 AM
Believe it or not, yes. Once the full game comes out I'll be using the one I used for Battlefield 2, Fujisawa.

I take it yours will be Hawkes. I hope the in-game friend list works.

The account name I'm using is shafmantr though, but the character you'll see me as is Shafman.


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: Hawkes on August 26, 2006, 05:47:41 AM
I sent you a request for the buddy list... SgtHawkes.

So far it has the feel of BF2, but with cool weapons and armor.  I love the hover tank.  It's just like a magrider, but with better control I think.  I did well with it for the short couple rounds I played.  Anyway, it's late and I gotta get some sleep.  Tomorrow I'll try to get some fraps captures for everyone.


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: AlexFirestorm on August 26, 2006, 09:35:21 PM
There any place you dont have to pay to get into the beta. I got a account threw fileplanet but its not one of those monthly fee ones.


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: Hawkes on August 26, 2006, 10:59:18 PM
No it's just the paid subscriptions.


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: Shafman on August 26, 2006, 11:11:46 PM
The next wave is rumored to be the one that's open to the general public.


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: AlexFirestorm on August 26, 2006, 11:57:48 PM
Ah bummer lol. Well I watched some of the game play video's that I found off I think IGN but who ever recorded it wasnt that great but still the game looks neat for what little there was. I have it pre ordered but thats about it.


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: AlexFirestorm on August 27, 2006, 02:01:14 AM
Any ways how is the game? I seen a short vid of the hovertank and for the most part it does look like the mag in performance/handleing.  And the mechs they serve any purpose or are they sort of like the bfrs where they use to be nasty killing machines hard to take out.

What type of combat classes are there is it simular to BF2? Or are they set up differnlty.


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: Hawkes on August 27, 2006, 02:16:56 AM
Well I've just been working with the hover tank right now and I love it.  The mechs I haven't found yet... seen them, but since I have been focused on the tank, I haven't spawned at different locations yet.  The game requires a relatively beefy machine such as yours.  I have a p4 2.66 with 1.5 gig and a geforce 6800 wiuth 128mb and its playable.  Running fraps tonight killed me due to stutter on screen.  I'm gonna turn down some of the video stuff and see how it goes.  There is a kit you can get that cloaks 90% of your body... pretty sweet.  Seen some of them lurking around, but I'd have to focus on recon for that one.


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: Shafman on August 27, 2006, 03:44:18 AM
Well the game itself plays much like Battlefield 2, there are some good differences in gameplay. First of all, you only have four kits, Recon, Assault, Engineer, Support. This doesn't mean that diversity got cut out, you can customize these kitsm a new feature in BF2142. You can have a squad leader item, one of three rifles (You only have one per kit when you start out) and two extra class-specific items, plus the ability to equip heavy body armor.

Who here remembers the ships in Battlefield 1942!? You can move the aircraft carrier! A big disappointment for me in BF2 was that you could not do that. What's the good part about BF2142? This game's version of an Aircraft Carrier is the Titan, and it's massive, and it can be moved around the map!

My most favorite thing of all, I really, REALLY hate to admit, is how badass the buggies are.. SHIT those things are fast, but frail, but still, HOLY SHIT.


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: Hawkes on August 27, 2006, 02:49:36 PM
Those buggies move way too fast for my system.  I'm doing a complete reinstall of XP anyway.... been a long time.  We'll see how things run after that.  I really need to hook up with you to understand the gameflow better.  The servers I've been on, it's every man for himself with no real tactics.


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: Shafman on August 27, 2006, 06:43:16 PM
Hawkes, one of the thigns I've noticed is that BF2142's graphics are far more resource-intensive than they are for BF2. Switch your settings to medium if you're around the high mark and you WILL notice a significant increase in performance, for me it reduced every single bit of lag for some stupid reason. There's still some FPS drops, but that's it.


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: AlexFirestorm on August 27, 2006, 09:09:32 PM
Okay I broke down and got a fileplanet account bought for the download lol. Im downloading the beta client now :/


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: Shafman on August 27, 2006, 10:03:56 PM
Nice, when you finally create your account after you get the client, add SgtHawkes and Shafman to your friends list on it.


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: AlexFirestorm on August 28, 2006, 12:13:18 AM
Well I played for about 2 hours before I took a break about 96% done on my rank. So far I only seen one map and not sure if there are other maps or not.

Not gotten to take part in a titan fight or even gotten to be up on one yet. Cant figure out how to spawn up there or jump up to it. I played around with the armor with the hover tank and the main tanks and the armor transports.

I not really seen much troop vs troop its been more of a armor vs armor or inf vs armor most conflicts i seen.


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: therealfragger on August 28, 2006, 02:07:06 AM
add TheRealFragger to get me


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: Hawkes on August 28, 2006, 02:33:48 PM
The only map and mode is available is Verdun in Titan mode.  You're playing it Alex, you just need a good squad to show you the ropes as I do.  So late Saturday night I was having some sluggishness with my PC and did a complete reinstall on my OS not thinking that the beta key gets locked out after the first time it is entered.  I had a really hard time trying to find the account I had my sub under (I have 3 accts under the IGN network.... don't ask why).  I finally found it this morning on a total guess, but that's not what is important.  So the key is still invalid.  I sent an email asking if they can release the beta key or if I should just try for another.  We'll see how it goes.

On a side note, this OS reformat which should have taken me all of about 1-2 hours turned into a friggin nightmare.  I have just about everything back in now so I'll be making an image of the desktop so the next time I don't have to deal with the BS I went through.  What a bitch of a time I had.  Ugh.


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: Hawkes on August 28, 2006, 03:00:43 PM
You know... the more I think about this, the more I think we should start up the BF2142 Wolverine clan.  I've been putting WOLV as my clan tag when I play and I think we could all benefit from helping each other out in respect to gameplay.  Thoughts everyone?


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: BCBrent on August 28, 2006, 03:08:18 PM
Installing it tonight, I'd really like to meet up with other wolvies to play


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: Hawkes on August 28, 2006, 03:14:41 PM
If anyone is a BF2 player, you can reserve your BF2 soldier name for the official release in October (or any other name for that matter).  Go to the EA page...

http://www.battlefield.ea.com/battlefield/bf2142/veteran.aspx

I locked in SgtHawkes as my BF soldier name.  You'll need your EA account name and PW and your BF2 soldier name and PW.

Also, the 2142 site has some great info on the character types and the unlocks available to each one and as Shaf said earlier, you can customize you character if you don't like to cookie cutter version.



Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: Krogoth on August 28, 2006, 03:31:13 PM
I cant seem to remember my EA name/pass (or if I even have one)....and when I go to make a new one, it tells me BCKrogoth is already taken, but when I go to "forgot your password" and enter BCKrogoth, it tells me the information I have entered is invalid, and wont send me the email. wtf?!


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: AlexFirestorm on August 28, 2006, 04:47:37 PM
Well I gave the game a real real long play last night and for the most part got everything figured out. Not impressed with the mech does almost 0 dmg to tanks at least the version i keep getting into lol. I just wish there was more then just that one map im sort of starting to get bored with it. Figured otu how to get on titans though I wish It was a bit easyer to get up and defend your titans then it currently is with out having to die.

The titans main guns seem a tad to weak sept for the aircraft guns and the titans themself seem to easy to take out basicly one guy could take one out in a mater of minutes giving no time for defenders unless they where already set up way before the shield died. I noticed the titan slowly moveing around after the shields get to a point but I have no figured out how to controll the ship itself if it can be controlled. I am also still trying to figure out how to get the shield system on tanks to function I see other people fireing them off but I not figured the golden trick yet I guess.

Anyhow im off to play again almost to another rank lol.


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: Hawkes on August 28, 2006, 05:21:03 PM
The tank's countermeasures are activated by hitting x.

Keep in mind Alex that you are playing beta.  There will be other maps and gameplay changes as it progresses, but you have to submit your feedback otherwise it's a waste of time.

Krogoth did you play BF2?  If so, you should have an EA account.  Remember, it's two usernames and passwords.  Also, go to EA.com's account support site and try to look it up there.

https://account.ea.com/login/napd-login.jsp?locale=en_US&site=eaco&skin=eacom&parsid=1743676


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: Hawkes on August 28, 2006, 07:37:41 PM
Check out the dev diary here... http://pc.ign.com/articles/717/717236p1.html.  He breaks down their theories on some things and how to get on the titan without the air transport.

I'm still waiting to hear back from someone on the key.  I just may try to get it again and see what happens.

Applied again and received the same beta key.....


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: AlexFirestorm on August 28, 2006, 08:07:00 PM
Yea I figured out most of the stuff. Im about 75 points from Corp gold and been playing eng primary though I might start doing another class soon. The gun the end has is just weak and has trouble killing most guys it seems like. AV needs some fine tuneing as sometimes I fire it at a tank in the rear section or on the side and it does little to no dmg almost point blank.

Alot of the stuff the engineer gets for unlocks are preatty sad for the most part. The one mine you get before the anti air weapon as far as I can tell has yet to even attack anything let alone do dmg and its movement speed is extremly slow the one time I seen it go after a vech. The Emp mine is okay if they actully hit it but most time its not even worth putting it down. Alot of these mines/emp mines and what not friendlys trigger them so its difficult to set up any type of defence area as people just dont pay attention and drive over them.

I like the armored personal carriers as you can actully launch the transport pods from them (one way to get to the titan from the ground) but mainly people use them as fast travel to other flags. I seen that stealth suit alot lately (keep getting knifed in the back by them) but I wish there was some way to reveal them or defend against them cause they basicly throw the suit up and have free rain of the area.

Theres alot of things that just scream PS when you look at the game and how things are set up. I am probly going to work on getting engineer done unlock wise to test out the AV rifle and the anti air rocket soon. I got about 3 unlocks to go for the rifle I should of did the points differnt orignaly but oh well to late now.


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: therealfragger on August 28, 2006, 08:29:51 PM
i play as suport and one of the unlocks is to give the cloakers an outline, makes them much easier to see


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: BCBrent on August 29, 2006, 12:39:03 AM
Warlord140 is my Soldier name, I'll be using WOLV as my clan tag

come find me in game


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: Hawkes on August 29, 2006, 12:59:06 AM
well I'm fucking hosed for now.  EA responds to my ticket talking about my soldier name.... friggin asshole never read my ticket.... I didn't mention my soldier name... asshat.

FilePlanet hasn't responded yet..... fucktards.

Customer service has gotten awful everywhere you go..... isn't there someone in this world who still thinks the customer pays their paycheck?


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: AlexFirestorm on August 29, 2006, 01:51:09 AM
Sure there is sadly they are not the ones who can do a damn thing about it.


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: Phazis on August 29, 2006, 02:50:23 PM
I'm playing to. I like it so far but there are so many holes in the game its amazing I hope they can fix that shit for the release. I found so far a way to be a GOD while commander and 3 different holes into enemy ship while the shields are up. Air needs some serious work as well I crashed with no reason way to many times.

cheers

If you want your ass to get kicked by me you know how to find me in Xfire


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: BCBrent on August 29, 2006, 03:11:27 PM
I attempted to play yesterday.  I got into one game and I was driving in some sort of vehicle I could shoot from too looking for someone to rip apart, and while I was driving I hit the tab key and my computer rebooted.  So I try to get back into game and it loads all the way, then after the bar is done I get the walking mech animation and then it tells me it can't find my connection.  So then I try again and the game just shuts off.   

So..  I went to update my display drivers looking on ATIs site and I can't find the ones I should download to match mine (9600SE) and I got bored and decided to play games on Xbox Live


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: Ott on August 29, 2006, 04:36:30 PM
I heard there are only 4 kits in BF2142 instead of 7. Whats the deal with that? Are the kits consolidated for more like one man army type stuff?


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: Phazis on August 29, 2006, 05:11:45 PM
Yeah you get to build your own class with unlocks so for example assault class get medical equipment. Engineer can unlock all kinda of AT, recon can get all kinds of cloaking crap etc.


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: Hawkes on August 29, 2006, 06:16:16 PM
And you can customize kits too... haven't tried this yet though.


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: Phazis on August 29, 2006, 07:01:24 PM
And you can customize kits too... haven't tried this yet though.

They way it works is that you have for example 2 belt slots and 3 possible unlocked kits you can pick. So you need to customize if you going into the ship in a squad or commanding unit in a field etc


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: therealfragger on August 29, 2006, 09:09:09 PM
i should be on tonight, if i can get off the damn radio (damn slackers not taking it from me)


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: Hawkes on August 29, 2006, 10:05:23 PM
YEAH BABY!!!!! I'M BACK IN!!!!!!!!!!!!


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: AlexFirestorm on August 29, 2006, 11:30:25 PM
Well I think eather im going to stop playing for a while or till they patch the game right now it just feels like theres to many "good" players in the lines of posible hackers but I cant prove it. Theres also a ton of people who are now starting to use exploits inside the titans (cliping and what not) so its starting to create problems where its becoming unfun to play.


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: Hawkes on August 30, 2006, 01:38:42 AM
Phazis wtf is your name in game bro?  I tried Phazis and deepnozier... no luck.


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: Phazis on August 31, 2006, 02:15:47 PM
deepnoizer and I accepted your request


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: Hawkes on September 01, 2006, 01:50:23 AM
OK... new beta up guys... downloading it now.  1.36G so about 35 minutes depending on your connection speed.

Also, fileplanet is giving out an additional 12,000 keys or so to anyone. The site says it is closed, but I don't think they released them yet.  EA will also be giving out about 10,000 keys.  So watch fileplanet for your chance to jump in without a sub.



Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: Phazis on September 01, 2006, 01:30:32 PM
22000 more people on 30 or so 32 people servers???? jezussss


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: JackelMaster on September 01, 2006, 02:36:41 PM
y0 sup Phazis


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: Hawkes on September 01, 2006, 02:40:14 PM
Oddly enough, there were 72,000+ downloads on the beta client.  Hmmmmm......



Oh and that bitch ass Alex WTF pawned me last night with his friggin tank.


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: therealfragger on September 04, 2006, 04:36:34 PM
so is this new version much more stable or what, i had to leave for a while and never had a chance to try it


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: AlexFirestorm on September 04, 2006, 07:06:12 PM
Honestly its probly worse off then the last one being stable. CTD's still happen fairly often if not even more and the servers themself crash almost on a regular basis.


Title: Re: Battlefield 2142 vs Planetside
Post by: JackelMaster on September 06, 2006, 06:38:46 PM
http://www.gametrailers.com/gamepage.php?id=2501

Finally some1 does it like PS


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