Battlefield 2142 Exclusive Beta on FilePlanet

[StoneGut]

No mention on the date only that it's "coming soon" and will feature:

Titan Mode
Wage epic-scale war to defeat your opponent’s Titan, a massive flying warship, controlled by the team’s commander. Players must destroy the Titan’s shields, board the craft, fight to its reactor core and detonate it from the inside – all while defending their own Titan.

64-Players Online
Experience all-out war with Battlefield’s legendary multiplayer for up to 64 players.


Visit the Subscriber Only Beta information page here (http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/bf2142/).

[Heretic Machine]

Titan Mode sounds awesome...

[Zeal]

Wow, sounds fun as hell.

EDIT: Someone let me borrow their Fileplanet account.

[Savok]

I wouldn't get too excited, if anyone can fuck Titan mode, it's EA.

[Malovech]

EA sucks don't get pulled in by their crapfest.

[GigaFuzz]

Titan mode does sound like fun (a little like UT Assault mode, only with two bases, maybe).

However, after BF2 (even now I can't get into it, little problems keep bugging me) I'll wait and see what other people think before leaping.

[markster3000]

Titan Mode = Coral Sea!
(with a few improvements, I suppose)

[51|RandoM]

I'm still beta testing BF2.

[captainstrombosis]

Titan Mode = Coral Sea!
(with a few improvements, I suppose)

Coral Sea was a badass map! So I don't mind them stealing the idea ;D

[vash]

if there is payment involved to get a few more maps and generic new models i sure as hell will not buy it ;) that was the reason i didnt buy bf2 although i quite enjoyed the beta.
also consider that quake wars and tf2 will be available in the near future.

on a sidenote id like to point out that i detest fileplanet suscriber exclusives ;)

[The Continental]

This will hold me over till Quake Wars. Whip it out FilePlanet, it's not like any findings of this "beta test" are going to affect the ship date of BF2142.

[UnderHero5]

I'm still beta testing BF2.
Haha. It's early still, but I'm declaring that the best quote of the day.

[bean19]

Played this at E3.

Yes, you still need a vehicle to be worth a damn.

Anyway, I'm sure it will be great for the legion of fans who love this series, but if you are like me, then you will find the game's reliance on vehicles and relative weakness of infantry really obnoxious. I wish they would find the same balance of power that UT2K4 found. . . I thought that they didn't do so before because they wanted to avoid fictionalizing their settings too much. . . However, this is a future setting that is inately fictional and infantry still got hosed and vehicles didn't spawn often enough to let everyone play in them.

[KorbinDallas]

You know...I might just have a bit more faith if I hadn't been through this twice before. 3 months before BF Vietnam comes out, and not a peep out of EA and DICE about support for BF42. We went 2 months before EA shows back up...apologizing for ignoring their customer base and vowing to not let it happen again. They rig up a patch (a good patch, no less) and release a mappack with about 5 really good maps, and then turn around and release Battlefield Vietnam. Which turns out to be a complete Alpha build.

After about 2 patches for BFV, no more support or updates from EA/DICE. Again, seems like nobody's home at the head office. People getting pissed off, angry at EA, talking about a BF2 boycott. EA/DICE shows back up just before BF2 is released and guess what? They rig up a patch (a good patch, no less) and release multiple new good maps, and then turn around and release Battlefield 2. Which isn't a bad game, but they simply have to tweak it so that any amoeba that can reflexively click a mouse button can excel at the game...profit margins and all.

So where are we now? EA and DICE are falling all over themselves apologizing for the poor support. They're working on a new patch that all signs point to being a good one. There's a new map in the works, and it'll probably be pretty fun. And BF2142 will be released in October. Just what do you think will happen with this game this time around? Something different than the last two times? EA and DICE do a great job of listening to the community...for the 2-3 months before a new game hits the shelves. The rest of the time the public is a wallet with legs. Before BF2 came out, I remember making the comment that after the ridiculous balance issues that BFV had, EA needed to get it right with BF2. They came close...the original version of BF2 wasn't too bad, other than some few issues. But instead of correcting those issues, they noobed the game up, and now it's simply an exercise in frustration. I just don't see that my vision of an FPS and EA/DICE's vision of it will ever truly meet. I want to play a game where skill is important and reflex, speed and intellegence really do count for something. EA wants us to "roll to see if we killed the helicopter". I just can't enjoy a game where you can do everything right and still end up dying by the hand of some snot-nosed, thumb sucking, inbred imbecile who will then proceed to type gibberish into chat for 5 minutes about his "1337 pwnz0r1ng sk177zorz!!".

The worst part about all this is that I will still most likely try out the demo...apparently out of a severe masochistic streak. There isn't anything else out in the world of video gaming that doesn't make me want to projectile vomit when I think about playing it, and without any other options at all, I may be forced to suck at the EA teat for another go-around. That thought alone makes me want to hop in the bathtub with a nice razor blade and pick out a handy vein. If only there was one product that could compete with this tripe...but no. There's nothing else out there, so we keep coming back to line up and have grinning 12 year olds beat the crap out of us. Yay. God I hate EA.

In case you missed it, this line: "An exclusive war dance animation that you can use in-game to taunt/pwn other players" was the sound made by DICE officially running the BF series into the ground. But DICE is now simply pandering to 12 year olds with this crap now. I'm disgusted and shocked that the developer of the game really believes that this is the direction to take with this franchise. DICE's dancing has just jumped the shark...how the hell can anyone take this game seriously now?

[captainstrombosis]

I like BF1942, I like BF2 (well...sometimes.)

I just don't think BF2142 is going to be worth my money. I'm sure it will come down to Vehicle whoring or grenade spamming and not much in between like BF2 is a lot of the time.

[michaelwhite]

All I need is a demo to experience everything this game will have to offer. I will not make the mistake of purchasing another Battlefield: Vietnam. I put more faith into Quake Wars but I doubt I'll be purchasing it either if a quality demo is released.

[Shifteh]

I'm still beta testing BF2.
Hahahhahaa, thank you! I'm laughing my ass off at work, and it's EA.
*Bows*, *chuckles*, thank you again, good sir.

[Shifteh]

Yes, you still need a vehicle to be worth a damn.
Thanks, you just saved me $60.

[Malovech]

...DICE's dancing has just jumped the shark...how the hell can anyone take this game seriously now?

Well put KorbinDallas, well put. I for one, am not falling for their shit again. EA is dead to me.

[AversionFX]

The entire lure of the Battlefield series is vehicles! You people are retarded!

If you DON'T want to get vehicle whored play a game in which the entire BASIS does NOT include vehicles, like CS/S, or some other run-of-the-mill multiplayer game.

I for one am signing up for this. Titan mode brings back the glory days of Tribes (more specifically maps like Broadside).

[01010]

I don't speak for BF2 PC but I do know on the Xbox version I was a goddamn vehicle destroyer as an engineer, ideally with a guy for backup but even solo I was a tanks worst nightmare.

[Magnanimous Gnome]

I can't believe people fall for this shit over and over again. EA has SHITTY support for their games - I stopped buying their shit after Dungeon Keeper 2 was screwed over. They do the same thing with the Battlefield series and all of their other titles, but people still line up for it and then complain after EA already has their money. EA is not Blizzard, and they don't give a shit about their "fans."

[Savok]

Blizzard's stopped caring as well though.

[AversionFX]

I don't speak for BF2 PC but I do know on the Xbox version I was a goddamn vehicle destroyer as an engineer, ideally with a guy for backup but even solo I was a tanks worst nightmare.


People don't understand that vehicles are an integral part of the game, and therefore don't understand that you have to be a class that can destroy vehicles. Otherwise, you get chowned without mercy.

If you want to be a jack of all trades, go play CSS.

[bean19]

Blizzard's stopped caring as well though.

Bullshit (http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16222&highlight=blizzard).

Read your news Savok.

[bean19]

People don't understand that vehicles are an integral part of the game, and therefore don't understand that you have to be a class that can destroy vehicles. Otherwise, you get chowned without mercy.

If you want to be a jack of all trades, go play CSS.

Actually, people who are good at the game know that the most winning strategy for them personally is to whore air vehicles and rape people with them and to play as a sniper so that in the unlikely event that the other team has a crack pilot and somehow can get off the ground even with you routinely taking out their airstrip as part of your normal run, you can then spawn camp the enemy team for maximum kills.

The only way to be the best at the game is to play in a very unfriendly way - at least as a pub. My understanding is that the game plays really well if you join a clan - but that even clan matches are often decided by who wins the first aerial dogfight and can keep the other team's airstrip bombed out.

Sorry, I'll go play UT2K4 where the vehicles are extremely important, but where I always have an answer for them (though good players can still avoid my fire) as infantry.

[Demize99]

Eh, fileplanet is not having an exclusive on this beta.
"EA & DICE will be distributing codes through our regional managers that will allow players direct and free access to the Tuning Beta." Source: http://www.totalbf2142.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1302

@Vehicles, You played at E3, which means you played a map designed specifically to highlight vehicles. You played 1 map. You played for maybe what, 15min max? So you probably never fought on the Titan, where vehicles cannot tread. Nor did you ever fight in the streets of Belgrade, Berlin, Camp Gibralter, Tunis Harbor or Cerbere Landing. Hence, you are not anywhere near qualified to declare that the game belongs to vehicles. I assure you, infantry are quite powerful in this game, they just can't go up against a tank with an assault rifle and expect to win.

[AversionFX]

Actually, people who are good at the game know that the most winning strategy for them personally is to whore air vehicles and rape people with them and to play as a sniper so that in the unlikely event that the other team has a crack pilot and somehow can get off the ground even with you routinely taking out their airstrip as part of your normal run, you can then spawn camp the enemy team for maximum kills.

The only way to be the best at the game is to play in a very unfriendly way - at least as a pub. My understanding is that the game plays really well if you join a clan - but that even clan matches are often decided by who wins the first aerial dogfight and can keep the other team's airstrip bombed out.

Sorry, I'll go play UT2K4 where the vehicles are extremely important, but where I always have an answer for them (though good players can still avoid my fire) as infantry.

Winning involves knowing how to play, and doesn't necessarily involve whoring anything. Example:

Tank coming to your base?

The three anti-tank classes are Spec Ops, Engineer and AT. Deploy c4 near the flag, try to conceal it. Tank comes in? Detonate it. Tank dies, you have saved the base.

Engineer, lay mines in a wide radius around the flag. The tank wants the flag more than he wants the vehicle. Most pilots see the mines, stop the vehicle and either a) leave or b) jump out of the vehicle and run into the cap zone. Take this opportunity to a) shoot him to death (or nade, easier) or b) jump in his tank, back up, and gun him down.

The rest of the drivers will not see the mines, and will be killed by them.

Anti-tank. Get cover, pop around corners and launch a rocket at the treads. Rinse and repeat until the tank blows up or the driver gets out. Shoot him to death or run for his tank and jump inside. Hopefully it will have enough health so that you can finish the guy off.

The other classes? Get a vehicle or use grenades.

As for the air-whoring? How baseless. Half the pilots I've seen don't realize that there's only so steep you can dive before you will not be able to recover, and get yourself killed.

Chopper pilots, same thing. Whoring an aircraft takes a lot of skill to use properly and be relatively uncontested.

So, the moral of the Battlefield series is:

Those who can, do. Those who can't, complain.

Learn how to play the game or stop complaining. For every single thing people bitch about, there are two or more ways to counter. If you can't win, it is because you suck and also because you refuse to attempt to get any better.

[bean19]

Eh, fileplanet is not having an exclusive on this beta.
"EA & DICE will be distributing codes through our regional managers that will allow players direct and free access to the Tuning Beta." Source: http://www.totalbf2142.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1302

@Vehicles, You played at E3, which means you played a map designed specifically to highlight vehicles. You played 1 map. You played for maybe what, 15min max? So you probably never fought on the Titan, where vehicles cannot tread. Nor did you ever fight in the streets of Belgrade, Berlin, Camp Gibralter, Tunis Harbor or Cerbere Landing. Hence, you are not anywhere near qualified to declare that the game belongs to vehicles. I assure you, infantry are quite powerful in this game, they just can't go up against a tank with an assault rifle and expect to win.

No, I didn't get to go on the Titan. The demoer did tell me about that though, and it does sound cool, as well as awfully hard to win at (especially since this will have you fighting at their respawn). However, it still looks from that 15 minutes like the game will still be all about whoring vehicles and playing for kills instead of playing for the overall map win. . . or do Titans completely replace the ticket system? Are you with the BF team? I spoke to a hispanic guy (I think named Tim) at the Nvidia booths (your demo was right next to the Gods & Heroes demo - the two games were among the few that pulled a good crowd at the Nvidia booths).

AversionX - What you are saying has nothing to do with the winningest strategy I mentioned. . . I don't talk about tanks being hard to take out. They are not. I mentioned sniper spawn-camping and being a GOOD pilot and hogging the air vehicles as the way to dominate. You haven't played very often if you have not come upon a really good pilot whose side always wins and who has around 100 kills/round.

[space egg bret]

Sorry, I'll go play UT2K4 where the vehicles are extremely important, but where I always have an answer for them (though good players can still avoid my fire) as infantry.

WOOT! I second that. UT2k4 onslaught is the best, the vehicles are fun as hell to drive/fly in, and I love pulling wicked and often hilarious stunts. It's not hopeless to go up vs. them as pedestrians either. Part of the reason I enjoy the UT 'wheels' so much is that they are very rediculous, but have the right balance between realistic and exageration.

The cars in the BF series games of course are more closely based on reality, which doesnt make them bad, but for my tastes, just less interesting and less over the top fun than the alternative (UT onslaught).

I suppose my preference is for somewhere in between fantastic and realistic designs. Maybe 2140 will be exactly my cup of tea.

It would be nice to see the balance testing of BF2140 in the hands of people who are smart or average gamers, perhaps selected through an application process, not just Fileplanet subscribers. I guess its all money, money, money =[.