Battlefield 2142

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Battlefield 2142
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Battlefield 2142 box art
Developer(s)Digital Illusions CE (DICE Stockholm)
Publisher(s)Electronic Arts
SeriesThe Battlefield series
EngineModified Battlefield 2 engine
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows
Release




Genre(s)Online First Person Shooter
Mode(s)Single player, multiplayer

Battlefield 2142 is a first-person shooter computer game designed by Digital Illusions CE and is the fourth game in the Battlefield series. It is set in the 22nd century, during a new ice age. Currently, there have been over one million rounds played since its release.[1]

The game was built primarily for multiplayer use allowing a maximum 64 players on a server and allows a single player mode with AI bots on Conquest mode with a maximum up 16 players. It has its own ranking system to keep track of the user's stats similar to the one used in its predecessor, Battlefield 2. It additionally opens up a new field of vehicles not seen in Battlefield 2 as well as new futuristic weapons the player is able to use. Battlefield 2142 has an unlock system allowing the player to choose a new unlock every time they achieve a new rank rather than making them purchase the item. EA Games has also released an booster pack called Northern Strike, which contains 3 new maps, 10 new unlocks, and 2 new vehicles.

Story

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A PAC T-39 Bogatyr as seen in the opening sequence of the game

In 2106, the world froze. After a hundred years of debate and dissension, the world's governments were forced to face the reality of global warming—that the next Ice Age had arrived.

As snow and storms swept down from the north, the encroaching ice swallowed living spaces and resources and a frantic battle for survival began across the globe. Small-scale conflicts bloomed into major confrontations, as desperate nations united to form new superpowers-- the European-led EU forces and the Russo-Asian PAC army. With the formation of these coalitions came the consolidation of brains and resources needed to develop deadly new battlefront technologies: the Titans, vast dreadnoughts with the colossal destructive power to dominate the skies, and lethal, armoured Battlewalkers, designed to outpace and outgun infantry.

By early 2138, the world's six factions were heavily fortified, ready to battle over the world's remaining land and resources due to the northern lands being covered in a layer of ice. Tensions rose between factions to compete over the last lands suitable for human resources. Expecting an invasion by the Pan Asian Coalition (PAC) into the agriculture-rich plains of Northern Africa, the European Union concentrated its resources along the Mediterranean, ready to assist the Union of African States. A foray by two PAC battalions into Egypt seemed to confirm their suspicions, but the attacks were merely feints, meant to distract the world from the PAC's primary objective—to destroy the military might of the EU's premiere units still located in Europe.

Following the defeat of the EU army in Europe, the stage was set for the Pan Asian Coalition military to force its way into the EU-occupied African mainland. In February 2142, the EU formed 'The Mediterranean Wall', a line of defences along the North African coast from Morocco to Egypt. Meanwhile, the Pan Asian Coalition was drawing up a series of deception plans under the code names Kupalo, Dazhbog and Perun. These exercises were designed to preoccupy and divide the EU forces in preparation for the PAC's primary mission, Operation Motherland, a comprehensive, multi-pronged assault on the African continent.

Gameplay

Battlefield 2142 uses its own game engine.[2] and is the first game in the series to not include the United States as a playable faction.[3] Battlefield 2142 includes two gameplay modes, Conquest and Titan[4], the latter of which can only be played online in multiplayer maps. The Conquest mode supports up to 64 players online, while the Titan mode normally supports 48 due to performance concerns. However, the Titan mode can be modified to support 64 players as well. The single player mode consists of a maximum of 16 players, which include the 15 AI bots.

Battlefield 2142 features four different playable kits for the EU and PAC forces: Assault, Support, Engineer, and Recon. All of the kits have different weapon and equipment combinations, however they share several core weapons and abilities. The player is able to choose the armour type when selecting their kit prior to spawning. Heavy armour (the default) offers greater protection but reduces the distance that the player can sprint. Light armour offers less protection but allows the player to sprint further and recuperate faster.

Conquest

The Conquest mode involves players fighting each other, while working to capture and defend spawnpoints, indicated by stationary flags which change colour according to the faction that controls them. There are several types of Conquest modes, Head-on, Double Assault and Conquest. In Head-on, both teams start with one flag that can't be captured. Whichever team has the majority of the flags will initiate a ticket drain on the other team. The ticket drain is constant and cannot be increased by controlling more than a simple majority of the flags. In Double Assault both teams start with one base that cannot be captured by the opposite team. In Conquest, both teams start with one flag, that can be captured and play from there. In all of the conquest modes, every respawn of a soldier takes one ticket.

Titan

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Assault Pods in flight from a PAC APC, headed for an EU Titan.

The Titan mode involves players from opposing teams whose objective is to destroy the other team's Titan,[5] while trying to defend their own. Titans are massive heavily armoured flying warships, which have powerful force fields protecting them from enemy intrusion or conventional weapons fire. As the force fields are up during the first half of a battle, players must fight to control the anti-Titan missile silos scattered about the battlefield on the ground. Titans can only be moved around the battlefield by the team's Commander. Each Titan has anti-ground and anti-air defences that, when used, will contribute to the fight on the ground. Occasionally, Titans are not moved at all, or very little, due to server latency issues, however, they can be (and often are) moved close together. Titans can be boarded by infantry via "assault pods" launched from an APC or from a rival Titan, by air-drop from a Squad Leader Spawn Beacon signal, or by landing an air transport in the cargo bay of the Titan. The Titan can only be boarded in any manner once the force field is completely destroyed. Players must then damage the hull by either destroying four reactor security consoles and then the reactor core itself, or by continuing to control the missile silos that launch at the Titan. Both methods work together to damage the Titan. When the Titan’s hull fails, a 20-second abandon ship timer is triggered, alerting players to evacuate the Titan before the reactor explodes, taking the Titan and all aboard with it. During the beta release of the game, there was an award for those who managed to escape the destroyed Titan before the 20-second timer ended. In the retail game, the round ends when the Titan is destroyed, and because player deaths triggered by the end of a round do not count, the evacuation of the Titan had little significance aside from inciting a rush in the player. In patch 1.05, DICE reinstated the award for those attacking players who escaped the destruction in the "Titan Survival Pin."[6]

Maps

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Belgrade as seen on the map loading screen.

European Theatre

  • Belgrade
  • Cerbere Landing
  • Fall of Berlin
  • Minsk (T)
  • Verdun (T)

African Theatre

  • Camp Gibraltar¹
  • Suez Canal (T)
  • Shuhia Taiba (T)
  • Sidi Power Plant (T)
  • Tunis Harbor

Northern Strike Theatre

  • Port Bavaria (T)
  • Bridge at Remagen (T)
  • Liberation of Leipzig

¹Camp Gibraltar is not actually based in the current British overseas territory of Gibraltar, but is actually set in a refugee camp in North Africa.
(T) Available in titan mode.

Statistics tracking

The ranking and points system of Battlefield 2142 is similar to Battlefield 2, however, different ranks are featured. As with Battlefield 2, a key feature of the game is "Character Persistence", which saves and tracks almost every aspect of gameplay for players. Unlike Battlefield 2, however, the user is given the option to create up to four soldiers, as opposed to Battlefield 2's limitation of one per account. When playing the game in online multiplayer mode on specified servers, a master server tracks player points, ranks, equipment, and other statistics. At the current time statistics information for Battlefield 2142 players is not public except for on EA's Official Battlefield 2142 Website or on third party websites.

Rank

The Battlefield 2142 rank system is comprised of a number of partially fictitious, partially realistic military ranks, and are (for the most part) each divided by a silver/gold format, with players attaining the silver version of the rank (e.g. Corporal silver) before reaching the gold rank (e.g. Corporal gold). New ranks are earned by attaining experience points, which can be earned for just about everything a player does on ranked servers. Everything from earning medals to resupplying or healing team mates to following the Squad Leader’s orders. The first few ranks are easily obtained since they don’t require many points to attain. This is designed to provide new players with a number of unlocks straight away to give them an edge. Later ranks require more and more points to achieve, necessitating more effort and skill from the player.

Medals, Badges, Ribbons and Pins

These are awards that each have their own specific criteria that can only be fulfilled in multiplayer mode. Most awards typically have two to five criteria, composed of In A Round (IAR) criteria and Global criteria. IAR criteria must be accomplished within a single round, not through multiple rounds. Global criteria is accumulated whenever you play on a ranked server. For example, the Titan Commander badge (silver) requires you to (IAR) be the commander in Titan mode for twenty minutes and (Global) accumulate 1000 commander points. Each award (with the exception of Medals, which are more for prestige since they are the hardest to obtain) delivers a certain amount of experience points, which go towards attaining a new rank. Badges, which have three levels of achievement (bronze, silver, and gold), and Ribbons deliver the most points, while Pins offer very few points since they are relatively easy to get, and may be obtained more than once.

Troop Transporter Pin

Requiring 10 Titan Air Drops in a single round, this pin has become the most notoriously difficult pin to achieve. Currently, a Titan Air Drop is defined as transporting one or more troops in a Transport air-vehicle from a distance of 500 or more meters to an enemy titan. Once above the titan, the transported troops must bail out in a Transport Pod towards the Titan. The pilot is then rewarded a Titan Air Drop bonus and will receive one teamwork point per troop transported 500 or more meters.

In the initial 2142 build, a negligible minimum transport distance was present, allowing players to pilot transports above the enemy titan, have friendlies spawn within their transport, and then pod down to the titan. This resulted in a large amount of player exploits, and ultimately forced DICE to change the coding for awarding players a Titan Air Drop bonus.

Unlocks

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A support soldier crouching behind an IPS shield

In Battlefield 2142, every time a player earns a new rank, they are able to choose a new unlock. There are a total of 50 unlocks and there are different categories of unlocks including class unlocks, squad unlocks, and ability unlocks. Class unlocks are specific to the kit (Recon, Support, etc.) which is being used. Ability unlocks are universal for all the kits. Squad unlocks can only be used by squad leaders and require a certain amount of people in that players squad to be used. Unlocks are in tiers and require the player to progress up through the tree to unlock higher-level equipment. A temporary unlock can be awarded to all members of a squad if squad members follow orders directed by the squad leader and heal or resupply their team mates. This type of unlock, known as a field upgrade, persists only until the player disconnects from the server, upon which it is removed from the players inventory. The field upgrade is a sort of ‘try before you buy’ feature, allowing players to experience certain unlocks before they use one of their hard earned unlocks. Certain unlocks are only available after purchasing the Northern Strike booster pack.

Updates

EA Games has released five updates for Battlefield 2142 to date — the 1.05 update, the 1.06 update, the 1.10 update, the 1.20 update, and the 1.25 update. All these updates are available from EA’s Official Battlefield 2142 Website. The updates fix numerous crash issues, exploits, hacks, glitches, performance issues and miscellaneous problems. There is some debate about whether the updates address the problems they say they do. For instance, an exploit that allows players to use the Squad Leader drones to access rooftops and other normally inaccessible locations, giving them an unfair advantage, was supposedly remedied in the 1.20 update. However, it is still possible to do this.

Expansions and booster packs

Northern Strike

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A Type36 Hachimoto fast attack vehicle.

On March 8, 2007, Electronic Arts released the Northern Strike booster pack for the Battlefield 2142 game.[7] In Northern Strike, the battle moves to northern and central Europe in 2145, 3 years after the war began. The PAC has set up strongholds in the urban areas left abandoned because of the advancing ice sheets. The EU launches an offensive to take back its land from the PAC.

The booster pack contains ten new unlocks, three new maps, two new vehicles, and a new game mode called Assault Lines. Additionally, Electronic Arts has only announced the booster pack being exclusively available via the EA Link for $10.00 USD instead of being available from a retail store. Northern Strike is available for download as of April 2nd 2007. [8]

Vehicles

The expansion adds two new vehicles: the Hachimoto FAV (Fast Attack Vehicle) for the PAC, and the Goliath IFV (Infantry Fighting Vehicle), a heavily armoured urban warfare vehicle, for the EU.

Hachimoto

The Hachimoto is an extremely fast hover vehicle. Its hover ability, paired with its speed, makes it difficult to control. It shares the FAV's speed boost function, giving it an extra level of speed. It also has very weak armour; it is only impervious to small arms fire. The driver and gunner are also completely exposed to enemy fire. It features driver-operated cannons similar to but much weaker and less accurate than the auto-cannons on the PAC battlewalker, and the gunner seat features a grenade launcher and a remote-guided missile launcher like the one found on gunships.

Goliath

The Goliath is similar in size and shape to an APC, but has strong armour that continuously regenerates. The armour’s regeneration is generated by seven repair cells located on the front, back and sides of the Goliath. The cells are electric blue and glow while making repairs. Destroying the cells reduces the speed of repairs. In the teaser trailer, the Goliath is shown completely unscathed from an EMP strike, orbital strike, a number of blows from infantry missile launchers, and even a head-on collision with a FAV. The Goliath operates similar to a EU APC, except without the pods; both have a mounted weapon for each passenger. The driver's weapon consists of a scatter-cannon and a launcher for an upgraded motion mine that explodes when a vehicle comes too close, or on contact with an enemy vehicle when fired. The passenger weapons are two normal machine guns in the rear, and two explosive projectile cannons in the front that do not damage armoured vehicles. The Goliath is only available in Assault Lines mode.

Awards and unlocks

Northern Strike contains eleven new awards (including the pin). Each new award in Northern Strike includes an unlock credit (except the pin). While these unlocks can be used to unlock Northern Strike Items, they can also be used to unlock items from the core game. The Northern Strike unlocks are also available for use in the core Battlefield 2142. They can be picked as Field Unlocks if the unlocks preceding them are taken, and can be obtained by stealing someone else's kit.

Assault Lines

Assault Lines mode is similar to Conquest, but with a couple major differences. Most asymmetrical conquest maps feature the PAC as the attacking force with the EU defending, whereas Assault Lines reverses the roles. In Assault Lines, all APCs plus the Goliath are considered spawn points, much like they are in Titan mode. Finally, the PAC home base cannot be captured like a normal flag. Rather, every other spawn point must belong to the EU team before they can begin claiming the spawn as their own. Completion of this rewards a special pin to those in the area of the base.

Maps

Northern Strike offers three new maps, Bridge at Remagen, Liberation of Leipzig, and Port Bavaria. The new maps are the only available maps for Assault Lines, are the only maps that spawn either of the new vehicles, and feature large numbers of Battlewalkers but no tanks. They also feature a new "Horizontal Pod Launcher" structure that functions similarly to the Pod Launchers found on the Titans (but with reduced range).

Battlefield 2142 Demo

EA released a playable online only Demo of the retail game featuring the Sidi Power Plant Map on either conquest or Titan mode. The game is Host to many servers from all over including some official EA servers, all of these are demo only. Points can be earned on the demo but unlocks cannot be achieved or used, the demo also does not update along with the complete game allowing people who take advantage of the glitches to still do so if they have updated their retail version.

Development

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The billboard with a watch and mushroom cloud

Battlefield 2142 had been rumoured to be in development ever since a 30 second video was leaked to the internet in January 2006. The video described itself as an "internal test." The proof of concept depicts the games' various vehicles storming through a futuristic city. A photo depicting the walker was taken from this video and subsequently used in marketing for the game.

The rumours began in earnest following a February 2006 interview with Dan Blackstone, a senior producer from EA, in which he mentioned:

We’re about to announce something very big, so stay tuned. One other interviewer asked this and I gave him a hint, so it’s only fair that I do the same for you: 3213/3*2. Or said another way: S.R. 4588164.[9]

The S.R. (Square Root) of 4588164 is 2142 (3213÷3×2 equals 2142 as well), hence the rumours. The only proof of existence was the cover story of the PC Gamer magazine and the trailer, published on the very same magazine, until March 21, 2006, when EA/DICE announced that, the next game in the Battlefield series would be Battlefield 2142, in their March 21, 2006 Community Update.[10] In the Battlefield 2 Armored Fury Booster Pack map Midnight Sun, there was a drivable muscle car with the license plate number 2142. Additionally in Armored Fury, there was a billboard advertising a digital wrist watch, which displays '21:42' as the time, and a Mushroom cloud with the caption message, "Watch For The Future." Additionally in Armored Fury, the drivable semi-truck had a magazine on the passenger seat that reads "Ice Age Approaches."


Battlefield 2142 was officially announced and playable at E3 2006."[11][12]

The Battlefield 2142 beta was released in the third week of August, after generating immense hype.[13] However, it was revealed that the beta was not a complete "open" beta upon its release, which disappointed many fans. At first, the general belief was that it was to be a FilePlanet subscriber-only beta,[14] but it was later revealed to additionally have an invite system. At that time the beta was only available to certain Fileplanet subscribers (keys were given out on a first-come, first-serve basis) and those who were invited. Some fansites had been holding contests giving out invitations to the BF2142 beta as prizes. On August 31, a large number of keys were given out by Fileplanet for free, and the beta client was upgraded. However, as of September 2, the beta was closed as all the keys had been given out. The Fileplanet beta ended on September 12, 2006.

Retail bonuses

Players who pre-ordered Battlefield 2142 from Best Buy were not only given a free 64MB dog tag styled flash drive, but a free "downloadable assault weapon", which replaced the existing standard EU assault rifle (Scar 11), with the "Bofors Defence Machine Gun", which was a reskinned version of the same weapon. While some players like the replacement, it has been criticized by some for the size of the gun taking up more of the screen and potentially blocking out enemies.[15]. There is currently no way to restore the original assault rifle short of asking EA support to deactivate your old CD key and issue you a new one on a new account which existing stats, unlocks, and rewards do not transfer over to. Electronic Arts customer service currently has no way to remove the pre-order key from an EA account, which would restore the original skin. [16]

Players who pre-ordered Battlefield 2142 from Game Stop received a free in-game rank. This rank was stackable with the Battlefield 2 Veteran's Program promotion, allowing players to begin halfway through the second rank upon release of the retail game.

People that played Battlefield 2 could participate in a "Veterans Program" that let them reserve their name for Battlefield 2142 before launch, get an immediate in-game rank-up, receive an in-game notification icon that lets other players know they played Battlefield 2, and receive exclusive verbal taunts to use against other players in Battlefield 2.[17]

Reception

Battlefield 2142 generally received positive reviews from game-rating communities but lower than these of its predecessors[18] IGN rated Battlefield 2142 an 8.4[19]and GameSpot rated Battlefield 2142 an 8.1.[20]. WorthPlaying gave Battlefield 2142 an 8.9 out of 10 and said "Battlefield 2142 continues the tradition of combining ground forces, land and air vehicles, and huge, wide-open maps in an addictive, wholly entertaining package that sets the bar high for competitors to follow." [21] Game Rankings's average user rating was at 6.6 out of 10.[22]

Advertising components

Battlefield 2142 shipped with dynamic in-game advertising provided by IGA Worldwide. A similar system is featured in games such as Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, and SWAT 4.[23] The system changes advertisements on objects such as billboards in-game. These in-game advertisements have been dubbed adware by some, and there has been a vocal backlash against this element of the game.[24] Some players also alleged that the game contained spyware that monitors the user's web-browsing habits. However, DICE employees have claimed on the game's forums that the game only reports what in-game advertisements the player look at, and for how long.[25] The Australian version of 2142 however lacks the Dynamic Advertising feature[26] as it is believed to be illegal under the Australian Spyware Act.[27] EA/DICE are currently holding a contest to find the best player in-game ad ideas (futuristic ads) to put into the empty billboards in the game. [28] Additionally, recently much of the "advertising space" has been used to show propaganda for new in game features and helping to feed rumours of a new game type in the works. Intel has advertised in the game, and recently the Discovery Channel has placed advertising in the game for their series "Future Weapons" (For games out of the USA).

Billboards without paid advertisements generally have recruitment posters for the factions, and ads for "DICE Travel." These travel ads sell the reader into going to the various maps, such as Verdun or Berlin, for ₤2142, with taglines such as "Gun not included" and "One-way." Some billboard ads recently added after the new year can be found during the gameplay saying "Happy 2143 EU Soldiers!" Additionally there is a reference to the sci-fi film Starship Troopers, and by extension, World War II recruitment posters, on billboards featuring the slogan - "He's Doing His Part. Are You?"

Ads have also recently appeared for the Northern Strike booster pack, displaying pictures like those of the Goliath, with a tag line of "A soldier's best friend". As of 17th March 2007, ads consist almost entirely of ads for Intel Core 2 Duo which states "Battle-Tested" and EA's own Northern Strike.

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