How to get the BF2142 beta

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » August 31st, 2006, 18:36

First Go Here To sign up for a key.

Then Go Here to download the client.

Unfortunately, we can't run a server or shit for this (it's not in the client yet), so we're stuck on the admin-free publics

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » August 31st, 2006, 19:25

woot, upload complete, link now works

shot2bits · Post by **shot2bits** » August 31st, 2006, 19:25

thankyou mr berk

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » August 31st, 2006, 19:31

Woo

Yay

Think I'll be playing this all night then!

Edit for manners: Thankee kindly Dr Berk! I am busy getting now.

Hehulk · Post by **Hehulk** » August 31st, 2006, 19:37

Bah, closed

Duke of Ted · Post by **Duke of Ted** » August 31st, 2006, 20:28

Pnut · Post by **Pnut** » August 31st, 2006, 22:41

rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaagggggggggggggeeeeeeeeeee

Gunslinger42 · Post by **Gunslinger42** » September 1st, 2006, 0:22

Played it for like 20 minutes on some public server. Half of it didn't work, like the class customizing. The half that did work didn't imrpess me at all. It feels kinda.. bad.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » September 1st, 2006, 0:27

Gunslinger42 wrote:Played it for like 20 minutes on some public server. Half of it didn't work, like the class customizing. The half that did work didn't imrpess me at all. It feels kinda.. bad.

I think the class stuff requires ranking up.

either way, I really have no good feelings about 2142 so far.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » September 1st, 2006, 1:44

After some playing, i can happily say there's nothing exactly wrong with 2142, at least on the surface.

However (this is a big however)

There's just something not quite right in there,

For a start the running seems wrong, all a bit too bouncy (not to mention, the stamina seems to be the same as BF2, on maps twice the size)

Hover tanks are utter shite, they really don't handle at all well, *AND* there's no bonus for the fact they just slide around slowly. (no better ability to navigate shite terrain, no ability to get up steeper hills.)

There's at least partly an issue with the timeframe - I'm 136 years in the future, so why do the helicopter-type things still explode when i even look at a tree?

Also, why the sweet fuck did weapons evolve to be more clunky, harder to use, and less effective than current weapons?

In short, there's nothing *wrong* with 2142, it just doesn't feel right. QuakeWars will be better.

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » September 1st, 2006, 9:06

For the whole 10 mins I played last night, I got in a tank, went over two bumps and was down to 56% health on it. Also, like Berk said, if a weapon that far in the future is going to be that big, I want it to have nuclear powers. And the soldiers run like a very fat man rushing to beat closing time at the kebab shop.

Nickface · Post by **Nickface** » September 1st, 2006, 15:58

Lateralus wrote:I got in a tank, went over two bumps and was down to 56% health on it.

Ah, the ol' "Sherman going over railroad tracks" problem from BF1942. Glad to see EA has some sense of tradition...

Gunslinger42 · Post by **Gunslinger42** » September 1st, 2006, 17:30

Yeah, there's plenty about 2142 that just feels wrong. At least I know not to bother spending my money on it

TheJockGit · Post by **TheJockGit** » September 1st, 2006, 17:50

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:QuakeWars will be better.

This

Hard!!

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » September 1st, 2006, 18:27

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:QuakeWars will be better.

I'm beggining to think this will be the case. It would certainly be preferrable to get hooked on a game that's not a re-working of a game I've already spent over 270 hours playing.

shot2bits · Post by **shot2bits** » September 2nd, 2006, 23:12

/beg mode activate

right, i got a beta key and used it obviously, ty also used it and it worked fine, so i told my dad who is a beef fan that he could use it, and hes just spend 2 and a half hours trying to get it to work as the thing that registers your key kept cutting out with no messages, i got him to download the client again, and then the problem kept persisting, eventually it came up with the message that the key had been used on too many machines already. now after poking about the bf2142 registry a bit i cant see anything that will help me so i am pleading (on my knees) to anyone who has a beta key who doesnt want to play it anymore or doesnt mind my dad using it aswell

pleeeeeeaaaaaaaseeeeeeeeeeeeeee

/beg mode off

Fred Woogle · Post by **Fred Woogle** » September 3rd, 2006, 1:15

i told him I would rathrer shoot myself, he wanted it? WTF?

*edit* i will give someone £5 off a la entry if they can profvide me with a key*

Post by **FatherJack** » September 3rd, 2006, 1:28

I signed up and it said approved, but..no key. I thought they'd mail it to me or something.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » September 3rd, 2006, 1:29

http://www.fileplanet.com/betas/keydisplay.aspx should contain the key

Post by **FatherJack** » September 3rd, 2006, 1:33

Bah. Then I haven't got one. Guess I hit the page just at the end of the offer. It said something like 'wait an hour', and gave me the finger when I tried later on.