Battlefield 2142From EncyClanPedia
StoryIce has covered the earth and now the two superpowers are competing for the lands in between. The Pan Asian Coalition (PAC) and European Union (EU) have taken fighting over the last parts of earth for their very survival. Features
ClassesBattlefield 2142 offers 4 predefined classes to select from. This is a significant reduction from the 7 classes of its predecessor, Battlefield 2, but due to the greater customizability the 4 classes can still fulfil the same roles as the 7 classes from BF2.
The assault kit is armed with an assault rifle. It also comes equipped with a medical hub, allowing him to heal him and his teammates with the hub in hand. Once the hub is dropped, anyone can be healed by it. One of the unlocks available is a defibrillator, which makes it possible to play this class as a traditional medic. Healing teammates will give teamwork points, but the ability to revive can be crucial in conquest games, where it can prevent ticket loss. His rifle rockets replace the grenade launcher from BF2.
Sniper and Recon has been combined into the Recon class in BF2142. Depending on the unlocks selected, the Recon user have access to tools suited for both roles, be it cloaking devices and plastic explosives, or enhanced scopes with stabilizer. It is the most effective class for taking down assets and Titan components since no other class carry demolition charges. However, the Recon class is also the only on which does not have a ability to support teammates with ammo, health , or repairs, which can be a setback point-wise.
The Engineer of BF2142 can be played both as Anti-Tank and as a traditional Engineer. Permanently equipped with a repair tool, the Engineer can gain points by repairing assets and manned friendly vehicles. He can also lay down unlockable anti-vehicle motion mines.Contrary to his predecessor from BF2, he also comes equipped with an anti-tank weapon. An anti-air launcher is availble to be unlocked, effectively changing this class from anti-tank to anti-air, though he can still lay mines and repair vehicles. The Engineer has a SMG as a sidearm, to compensate for the lack of a main anti-personnel weapon.
The Support class is the machine gunner of BF2142. In contrast to the other weapons in the game, his gun will become more accurate the longer it fires. This serves to simulate the effect of suppressive fire from a real machine-gun. The support class also carries a ammo hub which allow him to resupply himself and his teammates. This effectively means that a support user will never run out of ammunition. One of the unlocks available to this class is a shotgun, which can change the way the class is played. WeaponsEngineer
AssaultSupportReconEquipmentNote: Items marked with (NS) are only available through field unlocks if you do not have Northern Strike, if you do, they can be unlocked normally with both rank-up and Northern Strike award unlock points. Items maked (P) are passive unlocks, meaning they are always equipped and do not take a customize slot. Engineer
Assault
Support
Recon
Squad LeaderNetBatNetBat is a built in targeting system in the soldiers' helmets. It puts a red diamond around spotted targets and shares this information with squad members. The Otus Each class has a different upgrade available that will display additional info depending on your class:
VehiclesLike the previous Battlefield games, BF 2142 contains a number of fully controllable vehicles. EU
PAC
MapsBattlefield 2142 ships with 10 maps. Maps with a (T) are playable in Titan mode.
Northern Strike Maps3 maps are included with the booster pack Northern Strike Highway TampaHighway Tampa was included in patch 1.40, sponsored by Intel with advertisements and containers sporting the Intel logo placed throughout the map. Game TypesThere are 3 main types of gameplay in Battlefield 2142: Titan, Conquest, and Assault Lines. TitanIn the titan mode, both teams have hovering assault ships called titans. In order to win, your team must destroy the opposing team's titan. To destroy the opposing team's titan, your team must first disable the titan's shields, then destroy the hull. To disable the opposing team's shields your team must capture missile silos that are spread across the map. Capturing silos requires set amount of time to first neutralize it if the enemy is controlling it, and then retarget the missile to the enemy titan. More teammates will allow you to neutralize and capture a silo faster. After the enemy titan's shields are down, you must then destroy the enemy titan hull. This can be done in 2 ways, either by boarding the enemy titan and destroying the reactor consoles then the reactor core or by letting the ground missiles destroy the titan's hull. The round is won by the team that destroys the enemy team's titan first. ConquestIn the conquest game mode, teams fight for flags (also known as outposts or control points)that are placed around the map. Each team starts out with a predetermined amount of tickets. Each death costs one ticket. In Double Assault and Head-on maps, if your team controls less than half of the flags on the map your tickets will decrease depending on how many flags you have. In Assault maps, if one team holds all the capturableflags, then the other team's tickets will decrease. The round ends when time runs out or a team's tickets reaches zero. Assault LinesThe EU side will start with just there own uncaptureable base to begin with, while the PAC side will start with all of the other control points and a partially capable main base. Differently from Conquest, EU must capture all of the PAC control points before they can go on to capture the last base. This heightens the tension of the match and presents more of a challenge to the EU side as most of the time they can have the upper hand by attacking from any direction. Booster PacksNorthern StrikeDICE and EA released the Northern Strike Booster pack in early March. Continuing on with its persistent unlocking system, the Northern Strike Booster pack includes 10 new unlocks, 3 new maps and 2 vehicles. The booster pack also introduced the new game mode known as Assault Lines. The booster pack was available only through EA Link, for a price of $10.00. VehiclesThe expansion adds two new vehicles (IFVs, or Infantry Fighting Vehicles): the Hachimoto IFV for the PAC, and the Goliath IFV, a heavily armored urban warfare vehicle, for the EU. Type 36 Hachimoto Though it may seem the infantry inside a Hachimoto cannot be hit, the gunner and the driver are considerably exposed, the driver has protection from the front and rear, but none on the sides, the gunner on the other hand is fully exposed, apart from the lower front body. A3 Goliath IFV (Infantry Fighting Vehicle) Strategies, Guides and FAQMain article Battlefield 2142 Strategies Server Maintenance WindowsMain article Battlefield server maintenance times PatchesThe current patch of Battlefield 2142 is 1.4. It can be downloaded from EA´s main Battlefield site: http://largedownloads.ea.com/pub/patches/BF2142/1.40/BF2142_Update_1.40.exe If needed, it is possible to have different versions of Battlefield 2142 installed simultaneously. See Having different versions of Battlefield coexist.
When installing BF2142 and the Northern Strike booster from scratch, it is actually necessary to patch twice.This is because Northern Strike requires at least version 1.25 before it will install.
However it is not necessary to obtain patch 1.25 since the latest patch will work just as well.
The sequence should be:
System RequirementsMinimum
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