The 48 hour exclusivity window for the release of the Battlefield 2 demo on the EA Downloader and then some select partner sites has ended at 5pm today and the demo is now available from a host of fine file services, including ours.

but i do feel sorry for you adsl boys out there

Why?

Most decent ISPs (eg. Internode and iiNet) provide free-traffic mirrors for their customers, and some on ADSL2+ can pull well over 1MB/s.

for the 256/512/1500 peeps out there it will take ages.

In other news, walking is somewhat difficult for paraplegics.

Well after giving it a bash for a bit i reckon it sucks dogs balls..bring on quake wars

ga file server rocks, speed never dropped below 1740kB/s on iinet dsl2+ for me

getting 600k on cable from ga is crap, id have a whinge to my isp about that if it was my connection (even though it sounds like the file servers throughput at the time)

it sucks dogs balls..bring on quake wars

qft

last edited by Freewheelin at 08:59:36 08/Oct/06

and some on ADSL2+ can pull well over 1MB/s.

In other news, walking is somewhat difficult for paraplegics.

paraplegics seem to have the majority!

Well after giving it a bash for a bit i reckon it sucks dogs balls..bring on quake wars

I also find myself agreeing with psycho... another rehashed EA poo pile to bleed more money from gamers.

Nothing beats that qgl where everyone was playing the bf1942 demo of wake island before the game was released - it was a f***ing brilliant game for its time, now its just more of the same.

I also find myself agreeing with psycho... another rehashed EA poo pile to bleed more money from gamers.

I did a few hours yesterday and again last night. It is ok. I won't be rushing out and buying it though which means i probably won't end up buying it at all.

but i do feel sorry for you adsl boys out there.

ADSL2+ here... huge download speeds and 128KB (not Kb) upload speeds :P I feel sorry for cable users with their 16KB or 32KB upload speeds.

cos 128KB is really rockin

i lost connection @ 80% complete:(

im a bit suprised theres not an ausgamers torrent up for this considering the size of the file and amount of people likely to have dramas downloading the demo with a web browser

theres this though
www.filerush.com/torrents/Battlefield_2_Demo.exe.torrent

last edited by Freewheelin at 17:39:59 08/Oct/06

I just get a black screen when trying to launch it.
Got latest drivers/, latest directx etc.
Only solution I found to it was that supposedly some directx dll needed to be in windows system dir which I already had.

Then supposedly only a certain few cards are supported in the demo..
6600 is one of them, and I have the 6600 GT and it doesn't seem to work...

f***s me, but if it requires that much effort for a demo to work limits to only a handful of certain cards it's hopeless already imo.

Sounds like the problem every version of battlefield has had since 1942, it doesnt like refresh rate locking programs.

I only have my refresh rate set through windows (properties settings by right click on desktop).

Just tried putting desktop in 60hz and no go either.

how long have you let it sit on the black screen for?

mine was just a black screen at first but i walked away to answer the phone, when i came back it was working. no idea how long it was black for, but it was more than 10 seconds

Hrm, probably longer than 10 seconds Freewheelin.
It seems like it stops loading anything.
I'll give it another shot though after this southpark WoW episode :)

I really see no reason what so ever to own this game. It seems more of a mod then a full priced game.

The concept of hovering battle tanks just seems to have slowed down play soo much its a pain, yes defienately more of a huge mod rather than anything new. It runs great on my machine but even at 1280x960 it still looked arse??have they borked the engine or what?

Freewheelin: that worked, went and fed the dog and came back and it was in.
But I can't create an account, just sits on "contacting ea master server".

Might not like me being behind network/router

My biggest complaint is the retarded sifting through all of the new maps that will be available in the full version an all the associated ingame advertising that you are forced to go through at a map restart.

It takes too long to "optimze shaders" .... It's very boring once in game as well, well multiplayer.

all the associated ingame advertising that you are forced to go

Please elaborate for all those who haven't played the demo ...

Adds about a full minute or so of crap of screencaps of the maps along with a couple more images of what you will can expect to see in the full game. Just a waste of time if you ask me, EA: STFU an load the map already. At least you can still dump all the movies from the start.

Well after giving it a bash for a bit i reckon it sucks dogs balls..bring on quake wars

after playing the Quakewars beta I now understand why iD is now getting out of FPS games.

It seems more of a mod then a full priced game.

every first person shooter is merely a quake mod. You could say the same for each version of Windows you run on your computer

It runs great on my machine but even at 1280x960 it still looked arse??

I was very impressed with how much better the game runs and looks compared to the old BF2. My crummy old 7600 looks and runs like a 7900 with this program =) The optimisations are amazing coming from BF2 on a mid-range system. I'm seriously wondering why EA didn't get BF2 working this well!

Can't connect to EA Master Server to create an account.
What balls.
Tried a dozen times, left it till it timed out a dozen times, no go.

Koopz, do you work for EA man?

Koopz, do you work for EA man?

nah - I'm just a little bitter that an awesome company like iD who had the world in their palm for years, had ther technology, yet wouldn't pull the finger out and push the envelope! they gave it all away to the competition on a platter, opting to instead release some very average single-player FPS games.


all the same, I got back onto broadband just a few weeks ago (after being on dialup for 2 years). BF is a lot of fun - it's definately a stronger direction than iD's pittiful offerings since Q3a

even if you remove id from this argument, bf2142 is still a piece of s***

f***ing f***ity.

I've given this piece of s*** more than ample opportunity to redeem itself.
I managed to actually get all in and as soon as I load, I see the game for about 1-2 seconds then I just get crashed back to desktop with "battlefield 2142 has caused an error blah blah blah send/don't send" s***.

I give up, I liked the sound of the gameplay/futuristic style, and despite everyone saying it's s*** wanted to give it a go for myself.
But given BF's previous buggy-as s*** even out of beta, and the probems I'm having with this piece of s*** (didn't have probs with 1942 or BF2 tho), going to go with skipping it.

Game devs releasing such pitiful demo's are really only shooting themselves in the foot imo.


last edited by Loki at 22:30:22 08/Oct/06

Also, the walkers take about 20 seconds to kill a human even launching 10 missles in their direciton and showering them in bullets they rocket launch you to death.

f***ing... after very obscure hidden in the deep recesses of the internet on some board I found the solution

:VO-IP (Voice over IP) disable it in optoins and bink, works now.

as s*** even out of beta

Are you implying that Battlefield's engine has left beta status sometime over the years?

Ok f***it, I give up.
I can get it to the point it's stable enough to sit there choose my kit etc. stable as a rock.
As soon as I click spawn, crash to desktop.

Uninstalled.

game wouldn't even install on my work PC - installer just dies when it starts copying files with an error.

Sounds like you guys are having fun.

8-)

My expectations were low, I'm not surprised to see they weren't exceeded :)

I've played it twice, and thats where its gonna end. Really the gameplay on public servers is just complete ass...

Inf battles, 9/10 times when shooting at some pleb hes flailing around jumping and proning as fast as he can and I still end up killing them. It just looks retarded and gets boring fast.

Aircraft half the time the pilot just suddenly decides to bail really close to an object or ground and weeeee the rest of the crew who don't realise go kaboom.

Vehicles - most nubes just jump in and proceed to speed off (probably only to ram into the nearest solid object and explode). Do they wait for a gunner or passengers? Of course not! That leaves half the team on foot to try and run to the next objective... most of the time which results in being mown down by some other opposing vehicle... woohoo funnnnnntastic!


I guess it kinda has potential for organised clan play but really if it can't do some entertaining pub play I aint gonna bother with it.


I also personally think it looks crap... with a 7900GT - recommended settings gave me pretty much high all in 1024, and sure it plays smooth enough but the text/HUD looks like poo in a non-native res on LCD. Graphics wise not really sure what it is exactly but it didn't really impress... it is on high detail and just looks pretty bland to me, although I spose it is just BF2 with new models after all.


Im out.

last edited by rubba-chikin at 23:33:39 08/Oct/06

I'm following Rubba ^^

:P

once again EA can lick my chocolate salty balls. They screwed us on bf2. I am not buying or playing this crap.

btw i am thoroughly enjoying Company of Heroes online

omg 10 and a half hours on 50k/s

Come on and install adsl2+ stupid tpg

although I spose it is just BF2 with new models after all.

hehe looks at the directory structure

\Battlefield 2142 Demo\mods\bf2142

They may as well just have sold it as an expansion for bf2

Boring as s***. I anticipate 2142 will be another unsupported game.

Who would have thought?

it probably makes sense to have the dir structure like that though, otherwise you'd probably have to program special cases for everything when you weren't using a mod

Company of Heroes online

f***ing hey!

otherwise you'd probably have to program special cases for everything when you weren't using a mod

Well it's a good thing EA primarily makes mods otherwise they'd have to worry about things like "special cases"!

It's interesting to note, by the way: that the installed DIR of BF1942 is nearly 200mb smaller than the installer file :)

what?!

It's interesting to note, by the way: that the installed DIR of BF1942 is nearly 200mb smaller than the installer file :)

It's only 786mb if you delete those annoying videos

It's interesting to note, by the way: that the installed DIR of BF1942 is nearly 200mb smaller than the installer file :)

ell to tha oh to tha ell. omg. I know they are hopeless, but that is just fantastic.

isn't this game more about the depth of the unlocks then anything else. It's still a battlefield title, if they changed it you people would bitching and moaning saying it sux and they should change it back to the old way.

i hate EA as much as teh next guy but rating a game that really doesn't open up until you start unlocking items is kinda pointless isn't it?

a demo is supposed to be about rating it and the evidence is that it sux?

if they changed it you people would bitching and moaning saying it sux

They don't need to change anything because it already sucks.

You know what else sucks?!

A f***EN vacuum cleaner.

i have same missing dll problem, that's the end of my bf days ... which began and ended 5 minutes ago

Here's an interesting review of the demo:

http://www.k-rad.hk/?p=138

Summary:

Total time spent downloading, installing, and trying to get the game to work: 3 days. Total time spent in an actual game: 10 minutes.

Another review (amusing):

http://www.desinc.net/bf2142_review

last edited by parabol at 20:33:08 09/Oct/06

i have same missing dll problem,

Missing dll is related to direcX not being included in the demo itself. If you re-install directX that's that particular problem solved.

i have same missing dll problem, that's the end of my bf days ... which began and ended 5 minutes ago

They didn't include the latest version of DirectX with the demo to cut down on the size. Install the latest version and you should be good to go

You can say that again.

One more time everybody

Good to see the hate isn't just confined to this forum. Hopefully EA may finally get the message that you can't keep churning out reused s***e and anyone to pay for it when half the pre-orders are returned and refunded...

Just had a little play around on it.
Flying the planes into people is pretty fun.
The guns are pretty gay, but I can't see what all the hate is about.
I did read this thread before playing it though, so mebbe my expectations much lower.

They didn't include the latest version of DirectX with the demo to cut down on the size

Thats pretty f***ing funny considering the demo is 1.07gig and directx is up to 24mb according to the ms site(2% of the total file size?) That's about 15 seconds or less to download on a modern connection and pushing the file size out to a significantly larger 1.094gig.

If they admitted they forgot it, they'd not only look even more stupid, they'd also look like they don't have any QA. Of course everyone already knew this was the case anyway.

They didn't include the latest version of DirectX with the demo to cut down on the size

bulls***..


they didn't include the latest DX9 online because it costs an absolute s***load of MS dollars to do so - way more so than getting to cost of dodgey drivers WHQL'd. Given the amount of f***ing around it takes just to get the demo actually working for most gamers out there with illegal installs of XP (ie.. MOST OF YOU), it's little wonder so many people "hate" this demo out of the box.


We won't be seeing the newest version of DX ship with a demo game unless MS deem it in their best interests to do so. Why give you a free upgrade for your dodgy XP install when you could be made to goto the MS site and be forced to verify your install?

last edited by koopz at 21:53:34 10/Oct/06

If they wanted to do a good release all the had to do was include:

. the "myriad of unlocks" feature
. the new game types feature
. a few new maps
. a few bug fixes

on top of the old game and i would've bought it. I'm still playing BF2 and loving it, but this new space one is just BS.

they didn't include the latest DX9 online because it costs an absolute s***load of MS dollars to do so

Huh? I'm not sure why you think that, the DirectX installer is one of the few Microsoft software packages that is freely redistributable - specifically so developers can bundle it with their application.

There is of course an EULA that states under what circumstances this can be used, but the fact that the DirectX installer is present in the vast majority of games and game demos should indicate that it's not a problem.

Can't blame Microsoft for this one.

Does BF2142 have that same feeling the other BF's do while running around, sort of like you are wading through a bucket of invisible molasses? It gets even worse when you step into a building. Do you get decent feedback when firing rifles and other hand held weapons, or does it still feel like your pointing a sprite and clicking a mouse button?

Toll, I never get that feeling from BF2. Prolly helps that I play on a GS7800 an listen through the Gigaworks S750's so the sub kicks in on anything more than 10hz =) and the full on surround sound is incredibly immersive.

You know what else sucks?!

A f***EN vacuum cleaner.

Wrong. Vacuum cleaners actually BLOW, not suck. The effect of the air being blown is what causes the vacuum.

Meh, anyway, back to the thread, All I get is more of the same probs the Beta had. Console commands that refused to be the way I want and constant drops from the server. "Connection to EA host lost". I'm not wasting more time on this game.

yeah bf seems to be the only of the fps's that has that molasses feeling to it ...

I found a dead curloo in a molasses feeding tray once, does that count?

Not even if you let them dry and paint them gold, still looks wrong.

You'd have to polish it first...

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2006/20061011.jpg

not funny?

The funny is in the first frame an I don't have anything to chop it out on it's own.

Meh, I've been made redundant today so I'm kinda apathetic to everything.
f***in Americans...

I've gotta say I'm really happy with the demo... I'm using it on systems that 'seem' to have very random/infrequent faults. While most diagnostics I throw at machines like this mark the machine as fault-free... the Battlefield demo shows up perfections in a system's software and hardware configuration like moles on a porn-star's titties.


thank God for 1st person shooters ;) It's like Q1 all over again =)

last edited by koopz at 20:24:06 14/Oct/06

My son likes it, and apparently has the golden touch when logging in and playing it. I watched him for a while, and it seemed ok. BF2 with funky modern stuff.

When I get on, I get on a map, it loads, I "lose contact with the EA master server" and when I try again.. kicked to desktop. I connected once and it said I needed an unmodified version... it's the f***ing demo! There's only one version! I tried again tonight, it loaded, the map finished, it showed me everyone was called "Buddy Name" with 1 point and then kicked me to the desktop. I am yet to successfully even get in a vehicle or walk more than 5 steps before something stops me playing.

Is this "release" software?