Pre-Order Battlefield 2142: Northern Strike Today!

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  1. #1
    Pre-Order Battlefield 2142: Northern Strike Today!
    Ensure you're the first to the front by pre-ordering Battlefield 2142: Northern Strike, available now on EA LINK!
  2. #2
    Paladin wrote:
    Pre-Order Battlefield 2142: Northern Strike Today!
    Ensure you're the first to the front by pre-ordering Battlefield 2142: Northern Strike, available now on EA LINK!


    I'll get right on that. . . 🙂
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    Anyone get this?
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    Hymen_Slaughter wrote:
    Anyone get this?



    Yes I did. Already played a bunch of rounds in it as Vertical Finger has it running on their Sloppy thirds server..

    The main two vehicles they added are really cool actually. They added a glider that is kind of like a snow mobile but has guns on it etc.. it is kind of cool. Small and fast but has a nice gun on top.

    They also added a Goliath which has a big tank that repairs itself. It has 6 or 8, I cannot remember, blue plates on it that you have to destroy to take it out or just damage it faster than it can heal itself. It is big and very very slow moving. You can run faster than it. It can be destroyed so it is not a HUGE advantage but if it is moving through a base with good gunners an backup it can be deadly. So it takes good teamwork to defend against it as well as use one against the other team.

    There are a few cool new unlocks that I like and I got extra unlocks when I got promoted the last time. Well worth the $10. Hell I just paid $300 for a vet bill for basically nothing. $85 just for an X-Ray, fu&^! I also pay $5 JUST for popcorn when I go to a movie so the hours of fun I already got out of the booster was worth it. 😉
    Assault Lines game mode has been added which is nice.

    2142 really promotes team work and I really like that.

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    http://battlefield.ea.com/battlefield/bf21...hernStrike.aspx

    A few years into the most desperate struggle in the history of mankind, and with the conflict focused around the Mediterranean, the Pan Asian Coalition (PAC) seizes the chance to claim the undefended natural resources beneath the ice of mainland Europe. By the time the EU is aware of their presence, the enemy is firmly entrenched in the continent’s harsh ice fields, among abandoned city ruins and soaring mountain peaks. Only fierce close-quarters infantry battles along claustrophobic city streets and narrow rocky passes will eject the PAC forces from their well-defended positions and push them back towards the sea.

    Three new maps provide the setting for the Booster Pack. High up in the Alps the EU uses launch pods to assault a PAC Titan docking harbour in the map Port Bavaria. Bridge at Remagen, the scene for one of WWII’s major battles, is once again the setting for intense battles as both sides fight to secure the bridge. Finally, night has fallen when the EU launches their assault on the city in the Liberation of Leipzig.

    Battlefield 2142™: Northern Strike introduces two new vehicle types. The heavy IFV Goliath is a massive, slow-moving firing platform available to the EU. It is used to provide cover, as well as health and ammunition, to nearby infantry. The fast-moving hovering light IFV Hachimoto, available to the defending PAC only, is an efficient vehicle killer when staffed by a well coordinated pilot/gunner team.

    With ten new unlocks and ten new awards, Battlefield 2142™: Northern Strike offers unprecedented persistence for a Booster Pack. The epic Titan mode introduced in Battlefield 2142™ is available on two maps, and for the first time in an urban setting. All maps also feature Conquest mode with the Conquest Assault Lines set-up, in which the attacking army now has to conquer all control points before taking the enemy’s main base.

    Key Features
    Fast–paced, infantry-focused gameplay boosts the intensity of the all-out war experience.
    Three new maps set in Europe, where snow-covered post-apocalyptic cities and a ridge in the Alps become the new battlegrounds.
    Two brand-new vehicles designed to support infantry combat available in an asymmetrical set-up, with the hovering light IFV Hachimoto available to the PAC and the massive heavy IFV Goliath available to the EU.
    Increased persistence. Ten new rewards, one new pin and ten new unlock items at the top of the unlocks trees, available also on core game maps, take persistence to new levels. Unlock credits earned in the booster pack can also be used in the core game.
    Epic Titan mode available on two maps, and for the first time in a urban setting, for more intense Titan gameplay.
    Tweaked Conquest-assault gameplay (Assault Lines game mode) on all three maps creates more choke points and more heated battles.
    Horizontal podding gives infantry additional ways of moving across the maps quickly
  5. #5
    Paladin wrote:

    There are a few cool new unlocks that I like and I got extra unlocks when I got promoted the last time. Well worth the $10. Hell I just paid $300 for a vet bill for basically nothing. $85 just for an X-Ray, fu&^!



    Fred or Ethel? Hairballs?
  6. #6
    Buying unlocks. How much different from WoW can that be??

    How can you spend one dime extra when your control key issues remain??


    I hope to God UTIII doesn't try to pull these type of antics.
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    lexx wrote:
    Buying unlocks. How much different from WoW can that be??

    How can you spend one dime extra when your control key issues remain??
    I hope to God UTIII doesn't try to pull these type of antics.



    Lexx I understand your frustrations etc.. But you know what man, the game is GREAT! For me at least. The game itself far out weighs the small negatives I have for it. Same with BF2. Would I like things different, sure, but overall it is a damn good game and I have a ton of fun playing it.

    I have say $100 invested in BF2 with SF and the booster packs. I got 450+hours out of BF2 so far and that is about .22 cents per hour.

    I have 20+ hours in 2142 so far and even if I get only 60 hours out of playing it, that $1 per hour is worth it to me.

    No other game series has been as good for me multi player wise. UT is fun but it gets old real fast for me man.

    I LOVE the Battlefield series.

    I spent $50 on UT2003 for it to simply go away the next year. No support. Sure they gave you some money off on 2004 but still it was not a good deal overall.

    I have purchased other games like Diablo that I never even played past a few hours. I spent money on a lot of games over the 25+ years we have been playing them. Those are just computer games. I spent a lot of money back in the day on console games for my Atari and Coleco Vision. They were not cheap. Some were lame so you just did not play them. Money waisted really. Shit happens, move on. 😉

    I tell you what else man. I have purchased other things over the years that frustrated me a lot more for the money believe me. How many things have we spent money on at computer fairs, only to get the home and they not work or never really got used?
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    I'm glad you like it. EA must do this with everygame they control. I've been hit up enough times for expansion packs for the Sims2 game. The buck is in the extras, but it alienates half your base..

    Kinda hard to have a team game that half the team won't or can't afford.
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    I had no idea I was getting an unlock when I bought it.
    As far as controls I haven't a problem. I know some of you do but is it really that hard to change the keys? I know its a bitch but you are probably 3-7% of players that have eccentric control set ups. I don't mean to piss anyone off here but if you don't want wet pants you need to unzip right. Just some things you've got to do to get the desired effects. Although in the end I do agree that they should fix it to accommodated all configurations.
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    Hymen_Slaughter wrote:
    I had no idea I was getting an unlock when I bought it.
    As far as controls I haven't a problem. I know some of you do but is it really that hard to change the keys? I know its a bitch but you are probably 3-7% of players that have eccentric control set ups. I don't mean to piss anyone off here but if you don't want wet pants you need to unzip right. Just some things you've got to do to get the desired effects. Although in the end I do agree that they should fix it to accommodated all configurations.



    Hymen, in my case it is not that hard, it takes me about 10-20 seconds to re-assign the one key that is different from the norm.

    There is still no excuse for this at all. My email to EA is how I feel about it. It is a damn config file and should save the damn keys. 😉

    I hate the fact that they do not care for something like this. That will not cause me not to every buy an EA game though. Lexx, do you have any idea how bad Apple is as a company as far as user tech support? Many many people bought Ipods( and laptops etc...) only for the HD to fail soon after and Apples support has been reported to be horrible when trying to solve the issue even within the warranty period. Yet people buy the damn things like candy....

    As you mentioned WOW charges $15 each and every month; for what???? At least EA is not pay as you play.... yet 😉
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    Well if you think key prob is bad with these games. The Software I use to program the machines I run has such bad flaws in it that it will actually crash the machine. I have complained to QC many times about the numerous problems with it. I don't even get a response on certain areas. Other areas they will respond. Sorry for being vague but it would be pages to explain unless your in this industry. I actually lost very high paying job because of these software flaws!! The company was told it could do one thing and I thought it could as well until I tried.