2142 goes gold

http://battlefield2142.ea.com/battlefield/...ews_092206.aspx

EA and DICE are pleased to announce that Battlefield 2142 has gone gold. Meaning that after months of internal testing and balancing, the game has been handed over to the quality assurance team for final testing. Congratulations to everyone involved, and a big thank you to everyone involved in the Beta testing.

the game has been handed over to the quality assurance team for final testing


OH NOES

EA has a quality assurance team???????????? 😳


I saw this yesterday and was not even inspired enough to post about it if that tells you how excited I am about 2142.

See, this statement makes very little sense. This is the definition of going gold.

"Terminology used when software is burned onto a "gold" cd that will be sent to the CD manufacturers to be reproduced.So named because of the CDR burnable CDs are gold backed normally."

That means whatever testing needs to be done has been done. Anything from here forward becomes a patch. So, if EA has sent the master to the presses, then what exactly does quality assurance do?

So, if EA has sent the master to the presses, then what exactly does quality assurance do?

Fug it up like usual.

Atomm wrote:
See, this statement makes very little sense. This is the definition of going gold.

"Terminology used when software is burned onto a "gold" cd that will be sent to the CD manufacturers to be reproduced.So named because of the CDR burnable CDs are gold backed normally."

That means whatever testing needs to be done has been done. Anything from here forward becomes a patch. So, if EA has sent the master to the presses, then what exactly does quality assurance do?

I read it as it has gone GOLD as far as the testing and coding.

Read Gold candidate if you will.

The QAT will probably have to do more testing, put on movies and advertising etc.. Then it will go FINAL GOLD.

I agree this is lame as gold means DONE but whatever! 😉

Who gives a poop... I know I don't
:-)

Sarge wrote:
EA has a quality assurance team???????????? 😳
I saw this yesterday and was not even inspired enough to post about it if that tells you how excited I am about 2142.

I would have to agree. I'm not into futuristic games too much. But I'll have to try the demo before I knock it though.

Maybe I'll wait until 2142 so it wont be futuristic anymore. 🙂

whilst at one of my local wal-marts last night I saw a sign with a realease date of Oct 19th. Not much time to be checking the "quality". 🙄

Mikey wrote:
I would have to agree. I'm not into futuristic games too much. But I'll have to try the demo before I knock it though.

Maybe I'll wait until 2142 so it wont be futuristic anymore. 🙂

It really is more similar to BF2 than a new futuristic game. It plays very similar. Just different looking versions of tanks etc... You shoot energy weapons but they act like normal ones. It is not that drastically different really. Some things I really liked like no arty! Well it is there but does not kill you on foot. There are questions on how certain things will behave during real play but this is a wait and see.

I kind of liked it after I figured out what to do etc..
There are things I do not like, but no more than BF2 so...

It had some bugs but overall it was just the next step to BF2. IF the other game types are cool that will make it even better.

I will buy it no matter what. It is not going to really be any MORE buggy or annoying than BF2 so....
I know it won't be much better either 😉

Just play the demo and see. Only thing I say is give it time to learn it before you judge.

Yes Duck I know you, Atomm and Lexx all hated it!!! 🙂

Some things I really liked like no arty!

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Actually TITAN mode does not have Arty. But according to the BETA forums the other game play modes will have the EMP strike and regular old ART from the commander.

If you played commander in 2142 you would have seen the EMP strike button along with the ARTY button, the EMP was active and the ARTY (though there) was not selectable in TITAN mode. The help voice when you were a commander the first time, said that in TITAN mode only the EMP strike was available.

So 2142 will have high explosive arty, just not in TITAN mode.

And yeah good mod but not worth $50.00 for the game. I'll get it on EBay a few moths after it's out.

🙁 and here I was hoping to find a common ground to be able to play with you guys. Friend of mine told it 2142 would be like if BF and Halo had some freaky sex an popped out a butt baby. I never got into FPS till Halo and I have tried a few after and Halo is the only one I stuck with.


oh well since I haven't actually done any research on it I prolly wouldn't be playing for a long time anyhow. I'm too wraped up in my mmorpg and homework right now.


Paladin once you play a bit you gotta tell me if its worth a Halo freak to make the jump to 😀

burnout_goddess wrote:
🙁 and here I was hoping to find a common ground to be able to play with you guys. Friend of mine told it 2142 would be like if BF and Halo had some freaky sex an popped out a butt baby. I never got into FPS till Halo and I have tried a few after and Halo is the only one I stuck with.
oh well since I haven't actually done any research on it I prolly wouldn't be playing for a long time anyhow. I'm too wraped up in my mmorpg and homework right now.
Paladin once you play a bit you gotta tell me if its worth a Halo freak to make the jump to 😀

I actually did play the PC version of HALO and it was not too bad. For a console game anyway 😉

I say play the demo when it comes out. You can judge for yourself. Games are VERY subjective from person to person.