Oh no… BF2 hasn’t even been out for a year yet…
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Here are some quotes from the article:
…the game is being built on the same core technology that powers Battlefield 2, but is being taken to a whole new setting with completely new weapons, vehicles, and maps, plus various physics and visual enhancements.
Which means BF 2142 is a mod on top of the same BF2 resource hungry and buggy engine.
DICE’s Stockholm, Sweden, team…started work on BF 2142 immediately after BF 2 shipped.
You mean “rushed”.
Thanks to DICE’s use of this existing engine, the team has been able to focus on designing new units, intense playtesting, and meticulous balancing of the increasingly ambitious and complex features they’ve been adding (and continue to add) during the development process.
Now you know where all that playtesting on the Battlefield 2 patches went to.
Squad leaders can deploy a beacon that lets the team respawn at its location even if the leader is killed…
Beacon campers are born!
…just think of what you’ll be able to do with that invisibility mode!
Crash to desktop?
…but nothing in the game will survive the all-mighty artillery barrage.
Get rid of that already.
Release Date: 2006
Considering BF2 was behind schedule but still rushed out the door 6 months too early…BF 2142 might be a polished product.
Here’s another quote for the “Assault Class”:
Its secondary firing option will still launch grenades, but these futuristic pineapples won’t detonate on impact unless you hit a live target. Otherwise, the grenades cleverly convert into proximity mines.
Very clever…and probably annoying!
This is for the “Support Class”:
The engineer will be able to deploy a hovering drone pet that automatically spots and fires on nearby enemy troops.
At least this will make the engineer a desired class.
Another quote:
Another tactic is to emply BF 2142’s new complement of mines, such as the Chaser anti-tank mine. Plant a few of these babies and wait for a Mech (or any other vehicle, for that matter) to pass nearby and the mines will lock on, hover, and chase after the target.
Flying Mines!!! Oh the Page Up button on my keyboard will be busted off within the first 10 minutes of playing BF 2142 for dishing out TK punishes.