What, it was shit because you don't like lazer guns?
NEWSFLASH: no lazer guns featured in 2142.
It was pretty much exactly BF2, only with a (slightly) better patched up engine. Rename M24 -> Moretti. Rename G36E -> Voss. Make it full auto. Boom. The class balance was generally better, some of the maps were cool, and it shared roughly the same amount of retards as BF2.
You can't say that without saying BF2 was the worst game ever, since it's basically a re-skin in the same fashion as CoD4/5/6/7/8. There were a few slight alterations like tanks could go sideways, and you could whip past mines if you were fast enough. but overall...
Infantry had anti-air. Can't argue with that Mr. AH circle of death Z.
About the ONLY drastic change was the fact that it was set in the 'near future', which is apparently too much mind explosion for some munters who can't get past the fact that it snowed on some maps.
I wasn't really a fan of 2142 (I preferred BF2, but 2142 had it's place), but I can pretty much fully agree with that second part of the statement.
Most people that QQ'd about it had nothing of any basis to say and pretty much simply didn't like the new colourscheme.
Indeed. Another drawback of 2142 was that they didn't put enough effort into designing the environments. The guns and stuff were fine and the maps were mostly well designed, but most of the components were just lazy. Those shitty box trucks used worldwide, the puzzlingly stacked office blocks etc.
If 2143 were to be 1943, it might be because it is too much effort to get people who can design an art direction for an entire map in the detail FB2 requires.
2142 was no good because it didn't cater to the crowd who like to argue about the properties of current equipment they have never and will never use, while jacking off to pictures of Barretts.
Playtech were a pretty cool guy to me, got my package to Dunnerz for free overnight, replace out of stock product with a more expensive item, and doesn't afraid of anything.
