Re: Fiirst Impressions on retail

**TheFatKidDeath** · 10-19-2006, 04:20 PM

Originally Posted by jepzilla

Oh, I'm sure you can... but if you want to keep getting new unranks, it's more time on the ranked server. Supposedly it takes hundreds and hundreds of hours of playing to unlock everything. Basically, I've done the gear/level grind in MMORPGs, and I hate that I have to do the same thing in a BF game.

What I would prefer would be more powerful gear, but that is a lot harder to use. Like, jets, and choppers, and artillery pieces in BF2/POE/etc... it takes a while to learn how to use them effectively, and they're all extremely powerfull once you do... but there's nothing really preventing you from trying! I can respect someone who's mastered something tricky and makes great use of it (althouh I might curse them a little

), but it's just frustrating when you lose because someone else has been playing the game longer. If I wanted to deal with that crap I'd PvP in WoW. :P

Keep in mind that there is an away feature that allows you to acquire points if you don't get to play that often. I'm not sure of the specifics but you still can acquire points though it obviously is not as quickly as those who play hours on end. If your playing against a player who plays BF 2142 full time and has all the unlocks, well, use your get a life defense, which doesn't take anytime to unlock.

**Telorn** · 10-19-2006, 04:25 PM

Originally Posted by TheFatKidDeath

Keep in mind that there is an away feature that allows you to acquire points if you don't get to play that often. I'm not sure of the specifics but you still can acquire points though it obviously is not as quickly as those who play hours on end. If your playing against a player who plays BF 2142 full time and has all the unlocks, well, use your get a life defense, which doesn't take anytime to unlock.

And if you fight a guy who plays 24/7, in most likelihood you'd die to him anyways, because he's well practiced and plays all the time

**Red** · 10-19-2006, 04:30 PM

I think the only problem with the unlock system is that it hampers the switch around between all classes in the same game. I got 7 unlocks in 6 hours and thats almost all assault plus some general I then get field upgrades when playing which gives me a couple more temporary.

I really dont see a big problem cocerning having to play a lot to compete with other players. If 6 hours get me to the top unlocks in Assault, anybody should be able to finish up the unlocks on their favorite class in a short time.

I will favor playing Assault / Medic due to my unlocks but thats what I would do in BF2 as I have trained to play with that kit.

**TheFatKidDeath** · 10-19-2006, 04:35 PM

Originally Posted by Telorn

And if you fight a guy who plays 24/7, in most likelihood you'd die to him anyways, because he's well practiced and plays all the time

Well said!

**jepzilla** · 10-20-2006, 11:50 AM

I don't play all the time by any means, but I like to think of the times when I'm not playing as giving everybody else a reprieve, not the other way around. ;-)

**Bisclaveret** · 10-20-2006, 04:16 PM

Originally Posted by RedBane

I got a Opteron 170 at 2.6 Ghz 2 GB memory and a 1900XTX card. Running at 1920*1200 with everything on. The lag only shows up for me when a lot of poeple are on the same titan.

I bow to your mighty computar. I've a 2ghz northwood p4 and 1 gb memory and play bf2 in 800x600 with everything on medium-low. Hopefully i'l be able to play 2142 with the same settings since it's the same engine?

**Telorn** · 10-20-2006, 04:33 PM

Originally Posted by Bisclaveret

I bow to your mighty computar. I've a 2ghz northwood p4 and 1 gb memory and play bf2 in 800x600 with everything on medium-low. Hopefully i'l be able to play 2142 with the same settings since it's the same engine?

It's mainly all about the video card for actual FPS. Now if you're 'studdering' then it can be a lack of CPU/RAM. You may have to turn some settings down more. It is the same engine, but it's slightly enhanced. And the Titans definitely don't make it easier on a video card.

**Bisclaveret** · 10-20-2006, 05:21 PM

the problem is i have a vidcard with the necessary oomph (6800GS 256mb) but it's throttled to 4x agp at the moment until i can find and replace my mobo, which i'm nto sure i can do keeping everything i already have inplace.

**Telorn** · 10-20-2006, 05:42 PM

6800 is getting old, but with my 6800GT OC with an Athlon 3200 and 1GB I was able to run BF2 on 1280 x 1024 with mid settings without AA/AF.

Now I can do pretty much whatever I want with a C2D e6600, 2GB RAM and x1900XTX 512MB.

**experiment626** · 10-20-2006, 05:44 PM

Originally Posted by jepzilla

But that's sort of what frustrates me about the whole thing. Everybody is going to want to play ranked to get the good gear, but we won't have a lot of control over the ranked server... I'm afraid we'll have to deal with a lot of smacktarded behaviour on the ranked server because nobody wants to play unranked.

/

Not if I can help it! This is the reason I volunteered. I really do not mind admining the server for hours if it gives us the playfield we have come to love and expect. When I was on the other day, I thought I reigned them in pretty well. When the server starts rounding our with more TG troops, it will almost police itself. Just going to take some time.

**Maus** · 10-22-2006, 01:25 PM

Hovertanks are awesome! What's especially fun is how I'll be doing pretty well in one then freak out and totally forget how to drive, and end up crashing into everything, being unable to turn, running over teammates, etc before I pull myself together.

I've got a few unlocks in support now, just trying to decide what tree to go up next.

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