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Bf2142
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I like my BF, never bothered with SF though, is 2142 any good? Worth the buy? Many servers about for it?
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Sucks :-(
Vista is going t obe adhit to be honest! I ain't gonna bother with it. I do want 2142 tohough , I love battlefield! Gonna have tpo buy it to ply online I guess. Oh well.
1942 - netcoding was so bad that pings of 999 was incredibly frequent. Infact, I was playing on a 2 man server and we both had pings of 300. Ridiculous!
vietnam - too many to list here, but problems with balancing (US basically had superweapons i.e. the M60 which was more accurate than a sniper rifle and could take out anything, and you could have an rpg in your kit along with it making you the uber trooper), more netcoding bugs and problems with a lot of the basic coding that let to weird things happening
battlefield 2 - netcoding was still a problem and on the demo 16 man servers were difficult to play on, but it wasnt too bad - but then again abttlefield 2 is just a reskinned battlefield vietnam I think, with a few extras such as commander tools implemented. This was unbalanced again though, as if you got 6 people together in a squad, put them in a blackhawk, had some as medics (constant healing to everyone in the chopper), some as mechanics (who coudl repair), some as support (to rearm) and then just fly and shoot. The chaingun things suffered the same problems as vietnams m60 - incredibly high rate of fire, incredibly high accuracy, incredibly high damage (could take out APCs with them quite easily).
It took 3/4 rpgs to take a blackhawk down, a similar amount of tank shells, so you were pretty invulnerable as you could repair faster than take damage, so you hover over the flag, capture the flag = 2 pts for flag capture + 1 pt for being in the same vehicle as someone who captured the flag and you kept doing that till your score was ridiculously high.
Of course, some people overcame it by getting the crappy MEC transport (is it a hind?) and attatching C4 to the bottom of it (and lots of c4), flying over one of these uber-blackhawk-tanks and then switching to a passenger position and blowing everything to kingdom come. 12 points in one go, or 18 if they were in the middle of flag capture.
EA typically uses it's customers as it's Beta testers, which is off IMO.
I'd give it another 12 months
I downloaded the full 1.4 patch and have uninstalled the game and reinstalled and redownloaded the patch twice from different sites including EA's official site.
And when I run it it will only patch to version 1.12.
Gay.
I think it's high time games companies stopped mass producing shit, to be blunt. Of course costs escalate but the games industry makes more money than hollywood, it's not an excuse to put out products that are substandard. We pay £35 a game (well, £27 something off Amazon.co.uk IIRC
Steam for example, has never, ever worked on my computer, even to this day, even though it's been patched. I have to press ctrl-alt-delete and change the properties of steam.exe process to 'lowest priority' otherwise it will crash my computer.
Rome: Total War was crappy to start with too, and there are still stupid bugs in it - wardogs are uber units who can kill anything, and will respawn to full health after 1 turn. Velites who are on foot with javelins - 130 upkeep per turn. Light auxilia who are the same dudes on horses - 120 upkeep per turn + fast movement + can harass fleeing enemies.
I could rant all day, but this is about battlefield 2142. I might get it, but from what I've seen it just looks like a mod of BF2 (I thought it was, at first).
Downloaded Medieval II: Total War Demo.
Guess what?
Yea, it doesn't work on AMD processors.
Surely, at this late in the game, they would realise that it didn't work on AMD processors?? That's got to be well over 50% of the gaming market I would have thought. 'tards.
Muppets.
Another demo has been released. First time I've ever heard of patching a demo.
This one works... heehee yay! I would buy the game but now I'm a member of the uni LAN society I can just DC++ anything
One guy had about 600GB of Porn on his fileserver!
Impressive, man.
Thats like... extreme. How the fuck did he manage that one?! Thats ALOT of pr0n time.
as for bf2142.. ive only tried the demo and wasnt too impressed.. runs like shite too .. its more of the same and you couldnt really justify spending 30 odd quid on it.. i dont think ill be buying it any time soon anyway
Pre patch it had a lot more armour and was a very common occurence (maybe I was just unlucky with the servers I chose...), they've changed it now though, and they are a lot easier to take down now. You can get in a jeep and use the machine gun lol :-).
You need a leet system though