Battlefield 2142 -- do people still play it online?

[WhipperSnapper]

So, do people still play Battlefield 2142 online? What are the player counts like?

 

[TheJTrain]

Yes, and I've found that the experience (as pertains to server "fullness") hasn't changed appreciably. There are fewer players total, but also fewer servers, but as you may expect those players have gravitated together so that it's still pretty easy to find a full or mostly-full server to play on.

Then again, I haven't played in the last couple of months since BC2 (and beta before it) - I imagine there's quite an overlap in playerbase.

 

[Capt Caveman]

This is from Xfire - http://www.xfire.com/games/bf2142/Battlefield_2142/

 

[Childs]

There are still a lot of BF2 players and servers, so I would think 2142 would still be active.

I dont know how good this site is, but looking at a couple of similar sites it looks reasonable:

http://www.game-monitor.com/search.php?=undefined&vars=&game=bf2142

 

[WhipperSnapper]

Is the Northern Strike expansion a free download now (like the BF2 expansions)?

 

[HeXen]

hell no, bad company 2 is out

 

[EvilComputer92]

hell no, bad company 2 is out

That's not going to take away the player base of 2142. 2142 in many ways is a superior game to Bad Company 2, and is just overall a different experience. Your not going to find anything like Titan mode in any other game.

 

[TheJTrain]

That's not going to take away the player base of 2142. 2142 in many ways is a superior game to Bad Company 2, and is just overall a different experience. Your not going to find anything like Titan mode in any other game.

Seconded (not so much for the "superior", but for the "different"), especially for Titan mode (my fave). Given the difference in the setting (modern vs. sci-fi) I can certainly see a Venn diagram with three circles representing the playerbases of all three games (BF2, BF2142, BFBC2), with a larger percentage of the BF2 circle overlapping the BFBC2 circle than that of BF2142 (but with a non-negligible triple-overlap of fans of all three).

 

[caboob]

Yup. Titan mode was so fun. I would love to see this game updated graphically.

 

[GullyFoyle]

Is the Northern Strike expansion a free download now (like the BF2 expansions)?

It will be when the next patch is released: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=28947916#post28947916

 

[scooterlibby]

Yup. Titan mode was so fun. I would love to see this game updated graphically.

+1

I loved that mode and it would be stunning if they just re-skinned the game using Frostbite.

Anyone remember the secret Doom level that was a Wolfenstein re-skin? So good.

 

[BladeVenom]

There are still a lot of BF2 players and servers, so I would think 2142 would still be active.

I dont know how good this site is, but looking at a couple of similar sites it looks reasonable:

http://www.game-monitor.com/search.php?=undefined&vars=&game=bf2142

Battlefield 2 is a lot more popular than 2142.

 

[Childs]

Battlefield 2 is a lot more popular than 2142.

No doubt, but BF2 is older, and if people are playing that there should still be people playing 2142. There are more than enough people playing 2142 to have good games. I tried BF2 last weekend, and there were still lots of servers, but I think most of the popular ones were outside the US. My pings were always around 200, and I got auto-booted for it.