Battlefield 2142

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Battlefield 2142
Battlefield 2142 box art
Developer(s)	Digital Illusions CE (DICE Stockholm)
Publisher(s)	Electronic Arts
Distributor(s)	Electronic Arts
Series	Battlefield series
Engine	Modified Refractor 2[1]
Version	1.5 / May 30, 2008
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X
Release date	NA October 18, 2006 AUS October 18, 2006 EU October 20, 2006 JPN October 20, 2006
Genre(s)	Online first-person shooter
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer
Rating(s)	ESRB: Teen (T) PEGI: 16+
Media	DVD, download (via the EA Link)
System requirements	Windows XP or Mac OS X operating system, 1.7 GHz processor, 128 MB DirectX compliant video card with Pixel shader 2.0 and above (AGP and PCIe only), 512 MB RAM, DirectX 9.0c or higher, broadband internet connection
Input methods	Keyboard, mouse, joystick (optional), microphone (optional)

Battlefield 2142 is a first-person shooter computer game developed by Digital Illusions CE and is the fourth game in the Battlefield series. It is set in the 22nd century, during a new ice age which sees two military superpowers – the European Union (EU) and Рan Asian Coalition (PAC) – battle for survival.^[2]

The game was designed primarily for multiplayer gameplay, allowing a maximum of 64 players on a server or a maximum of 16 players in single player mode against bots on Conquest mode. It has its own ranking system to keep track of the user's stats similar to the one used in its predecessor, Battlefield 2. It also opens up new categories of vehicles and weapons not seen in Battlefield 2. Battlefield 2142 has an unlock system allowing the player to choose a new unlock every time they achieve a new rank rather than making them purchase the item. EA Games has also released a booster pack called Northern Strike, which contains new maps, unlocks, and vehicles.

Contents 1 Gameplay 1.1 Classes 1.2 Conquest 1.3 Titan 1.4 Maps 1.5 Statistics tracking 1.6 Ranks 1.7 Awards 1.8 Unlocks 2 Development 2.1 Advertising components 2.2 Updates 3 Release 3.1 Demo 3.2 Retail bonuses 4 Reception 5 Northern Strike booster pack 5.1 Awards and unlocks 5.2 Maps 5.3 Assault Lines 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Gameplay

Battlefield 2142 includes two gameplay modes, Conquest and Titan,^[3] the latter of which can only be played online in multiplayer maps. Both modes support varying numbers of players, up to 64, depending upon the server a player chooses to join online. The single player mode consists of a maximum of 16 players, which includes 15 AI bots.

[edit] Classes

Battlefield 2142 features four different playable kits. Each kit has different weapons and equipment that can only be used when you choose the specified kit. Each kit contains a basic weapon and secondary weapon to increase your options you must gain rank and get unlocks which you can use either to support your teammates or to help in any way possible. Battlefield 2142 now has customization so you can now use more unlocks using the one kit which makes it more effective. Each class has two unlockable weapons and one passive unlock which upgrades the soldier's helmet, each helmet upgrade having different functions. The benefits of one soldier's helmet upgrade will also be shared with his or her squadmates.

• Assault: The Assault and Medic classes from Battlefield 2 are combined as the Assault kit in Battlefield 2142. The main weapons are assault rifles with unlockable rocket or shotgun add-ons. Other unlocks include advanced first-aid kits which can be deployed to restore the health of anyone standing close to it, smoke grenades for screening, and a defibrillator for reviving fallen comrades. The Assault kit's helmet upgrade allows soldiers to determine what type of kit the enemy soldier is using, and assigns the appropriate icon above the "enemy spotted" marker.
• Recon: The Sniper and Special Forces classes from Battlefield 2 are combined as the Recon kit in Battlefield 2142. The main weapons are sniper rifles, while there is also an unlockable carbine for close-range encounters. This class can unlock a variety of explosives, including APMs and remote-detonated RDX charges for destroying machinery, both of which can kill infantry upon detonation, and the latter can also be used for destroying enemy vehicles and assests. Another unlockable item is the Active Camo system, which makes the user mostly invisible to other soldiers. The Recon kit's helmet upgrade increases the time the "enemy spotted" marker stays on the HUD.
• Engineer: The Anti-Tank and Anti-Air classes from Battlefield 2 are combined as the Engineer kit in Battlefield 2142. The default weapon for this class is a directable anti-vehicle rocket launcher. Other unlockable main weapons include a high-velocity missile launcher lacking guidance systems and an anti-air missile launcher with guidance systems. The equipment unlocks include motion-sensitive anti-vehicle mines, a vehicle repair kit, and a defusing device for enemy explosives. While the other classes carry a pistol as their sidearm, the Engineer class has a submachine gun to compensate for its lack of an anti-infantry weapon. The Engineer's helmet upgrade works similarly to the Assault kit's, but identifies and assigns icons for vehicles instead of infantry.
• Support: The Support class from Battlefield 2 remains fairly unchanged for the Support kit in Battlefield 2142. The default weapon is a light machine gun. Unlike other weapons, this machine gun becomes more accurate the longer you fire it. Other unlockable main weapons are a heavy machine gun and a shotgun. The equipment for this class includes ammunition hubs, deployable sentry guns, a sonar device to locate enemy infantry, EMP grenades, and individual deployable energy shields. The Support kit's helmet upgrade passively spots any enemy within a certain range that starts using the Active Camo. The cloaked enemy's marker will appear on both the HUD and the mini-map, and both will track as long as the enemy is within the Support's line of sight.

[edit] Conquest

Main article: Conquest (gametype)

Conquest mode, similar to its predecessors, involves two teams of players fighting each other while working to capture and defend spawnpoints. Spawnpoints are represented by flags and display the color of the controlling faction. Holding a simple majority of flags will initiate a ticket drain on the opposing faction. Both teams begin the match with a preset number of respawn tickets. Each time a soldier dies, a respawn ticket is removed from their team. Players have the opportunity to reduce their number of lost tickets by reviving their "critically wounded" teammates with the Assault class' defibrillator. By reviving a teammate within 15 seconds, no ticket is lost and the player does not need to respawn. When one team has no respawn tickets or no places to spawn and no one alive, loses the match.

There are several types of Conquest modes: Head-on, Assault, Assault Lines, and Double Assault Lines, Conquest Assault, No Vehicles.

• In Head-on, both teams start with one flag that cannot be captured. The rest of the flags are neutral.
• In Assault, PAC starts with one uncapturable flag, while EU gets the remainder of the flags. There is only one exception: Office Ruins in the map Cerbere Landing is neither owned by the PAC nor EU.
• In Assault Lines, the EU starts with one flag that cannot be captured and the PAC starts with all of the other flags, one of which (called the Home Base) can only be captured once the EU have taken all of the other flags. Assault Lines mode is only playable with Northern Strike.
• In Double Assault Lines, each team has one base that cannot be captured until all other flags have been taken.
• Highway Tampa and Operation Shingle are the only maps apart from the Northern Strike maps that can be played in either of the Assault Lines mode.
• In Conquest Assault, PAC starts with one uncapturable flag (an immobile titan), while EU starts off with the rest of the flags and an immobile titan which can be captured by PAC
• In Conquest: No Vehicles, is the infantry only option. No vehicles will spawn.

[edit] Titan

Main article: Titan (Battlefield 2142)

The Titan mode involves players from opposing teams whose objective is to destroy the other team's Titan,^[4] while trying to defend their own. Titans are massive, heavily-armored, flying warships, which have powerful force fields protecting them from enemy intrusion or conventional weapons fire. As the force fields are up during the first part of a battle, players must fight to control the anti-Titan missile silos scattered about the battlefield on the ground. Titans can be moved around the battlefield, but only by the team's Commander. Each Titan can defend itself and contribute to the fight on the ground with 4 anti-ground guns and 2 anti-air guns. Moving the Titans can cause latency issues, so some players prefer not to move them at all.

The Titan can only be boarded in any manner once the force field is completely destroyed. Titans can be boarded by infantry via "assault pods" launched from an APC or from a rival Titan, by air-drop from a Squad Leader Spawn Beacon signal, or by landing an air transport on top of the Titan. Players must then damage the hull by either destroying four reactor security consoles and then the reactor core itself, or by holding onto enough the anti-Titan missile silos. Both methods work together to damage the Titan. When the Titan's hull fails, players have 30 seconds to abandon the Titan before the reactor core explodes, destroying the Titan and everyone trapped inside.

During the beta release of the game, players who managed to escape the destroyed Titan before the 30-second timer ended received an award. In the retail game, the round ends when the Titan is destroyed, and because player deaths triggered by the end of a round do not count, the evacuation of the Titan had little significance aside from inciting a rush in the player. In patch 1.05, DICE reinstated the award for those attacking players who escaped the destruction in the "Titan Survival Pin." However, receiving the pin requires very precise timing to land on the ground, causing confusion amongst players initially.^[5]

[edit] Maps

Battlefield 2142 comes with ten maps. Three new maps were included in the Northern Strike booster pack. Another new map, Highway Tampa, was included in the 1.40 update.^[6] Two new community maps are out through the v1.50 patch.^[7]

Theatre	Map	Game mode
		Conquest	Titan	Assault Lines	Conquest Assault	No Vehicles
European	Belgrade	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
	Cerbere Landing	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
	Fall of Berlin	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
	Minsk	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
	Verdun	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
African	Camp Gibraltar¹	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
	Suez Canal	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
	Shuhia Taiba	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
	Sidi Power Plant	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
	Tunis Harbour	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
	Operation Shingle³	No	No	Yes	No	Yes
Northern Strike	Port Bavaria	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Bridge at Remagen	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Liberation of Leipzig	No	No	Yes	No	No
Middle East	Highway Tampa²	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
Pacific	Wake Island 2142³	No	No	No	Yes	No

¹Camp Gibraltar is not based in the current British overseas territory of Gibraltar, but is actually set in a refugee camp in North Africa.
²Available through the v1.40 Update.
³Available through the v1.50 Update.

[edit] Statistics tracking

The ranking and points system of Battlefield 2142 is similar to Battlefield 2, however, different ranks are featured. As with Battlefield 2, a key feature of the game is "Character Persistence", which saves and tracks almost every aspect of gameplay for players. Unlike Battlefield 2, however, the user is given the option to create up to four soldiers, as opposed to Battlefield 2's limitation of one per account. When playing the game in online multiplayer mode on specified servers, a master server tracks player points, ranks, equipment, and other statistics.

[edit] Ranks

The Battlefield 2142 rank system is comprised of a number of partially fictitious, partially realistic military ranks, and are (for the most part) each divided by a silver/gold format, with players attaining the silver version of the rank (e.g. Corporal Silver) before reaching the gold rank (e.g. Corporal Gold). New ranks are earned by attaining experience points, which can be earned for actions on a ranked server such as killing an enemy soldier/vehicle, healing/resupplying teammates, capturing/neutralizing control points/missile silos, assisting in kills (such as piloting a gunship) or carrying out orders given by the Squad Leader/Commander (negative points may be earned by actions such as teamkilling).

The rank system is designed to be progressive so ranks are earned faster when a player begins (for example, 40 points are needed to climb from the lowest to the 2nd lowest rank while 3600 points are needed to advance from the 2nd highest to the highest rank). This provides new players with a number of unlocks straight away to give them an edge (as well as ambition). Later ranks require more effort, time, and skill from the player as the extremely high amount of points can usually be attained only through awards (which may give up to 2000 points apiece). The final three ranks of the game are only given to a certain number of players at a time, with Major General given to 50 players, Lieutenant General given to 25 players, and the highest rank, Supreme Commander, given to only one player at a time. These top three are brevet ranks; players retain those ranks until other players surpass them.

[edit] Awards

Awards can be earned only in multiplayer mode, with each award having its own specific criteria. Most awards typically have two to five criteria, composed of In A Round (IAR) criteria and Global criteria. IAR criteria must be accomplished within a single round, not through multiple rounds. Global criteria is accumulated by playing on a ranked server. For example, the Titan Commander badge (silver) requires a player to be the commander in Titan mode for twenty minutes in one round after accumulating 1000 commander points in Titan mode globally. Each award (with the exception of medals, which are more for prestige, since they are the hardest to obtain) delivers a certain amount of experience points, which go towards attaining a new rank. Badges, which have three levels of achievement (bronze, silver, and gold), and ribbons deliver the most points, while pins offer very few points since they are relatively easy to get, and may be obtained more than once.

[edit] Unlocks

In Battlefield 2142, every time a player earns a new rank, they are able to choose a new unlock. Players with the Northern Strike Booster Pack are also able to earn unlocks by earning the badge or ribbon awards associated with Northern Strike. There are a total of 50 unlocks (40 Battlefield 2142 Core Game, 10 Northern Strike) and there are different categories of unlocks including class unlocks, squad unlocks, and ability unlocks. Class unlocks are specific to the class type which is being used. Ability unlocks are universal for all the classes. Squad unlocks can be equipped by anybody but they may only be used by squad leaders who have the required number of people in their squad. Unlocks are in tiers and require the player to progress up through the tree to unlock higher-level equipment. The player can test the other unlocks by picking up a dead soldier's equipment.

A "Field Upgrade" is a temporary unlock which can be awarded to all members of a squad if they follow orders directed by the squad leader and heal or resupply their team mates. The Field Upgrade is a sort of 'try before you buy' feature (while having your own customizable inventory), allowing players to experience certain unlocks before they use one of their hard earned unlock credits to unlock it. They only allow players to test the equipment one level higher on their original unlock tree. Field Upgrades will be available to the player until the player disconnects from the server. If a player unlocks a new item which they have already Field Upgraded on their current server, the next unlock will not become available to them for a Field Upgrade until they leave the server. Certain unlocks are only available after purchasing the Northern Strike booster pack, and they are on top of all the other unlocks in the unlock trees of the core game. Field Upgrades also allow players without Northern Strike to have temporary access to the upgrades that are only available in Northern Strike. Field Upgrades are only applicable on ranked servers.

[edit] Development

Battlefield 2142 was rumored to be in development ever since a 30 second video was leaked to the Internet in January 2006. The video described itself as an "internal test." The proof of concept depicts the game's various vehicles storming through a futuristic city. A photo depicting the walker was taken from this video and subsequently used in marketing for the game.

The rumors began in earnest following a February 2006 interview with Dan Blackstone, a senior producer from EA, in which he mentioned:

“

We're about to announce something very big, so stay tuned. One other interviewer asked this and I gave him a hint, so it's only fair that I do the same for you: 3213/3*2. Or said another way: S.R. 4588164.[8]

”

The S.R. (Square Root) of 4588164 is 2142 (3213÷3×2 equals 2142 as well), hence the rumors. The only proof of existence was the cover story of the PC Gamer magazine and the trailer, published on the very same magazine, until March 21, 2006, when EA/DICE announced that, the next game in the Battlefield series would be Battlefield 2142, in their March 21, 2006 Community Update.^[9] In the Battlefield 2 Armored Fury Booster Pack map Midnight Sun, there was a drivable muscle car with license plate number 2142. Additionally in Armored Fury, there was a billboard advertising a digital wrist watch, which displays '21:42' as the time, and a Mushroom cloud with the caption message, "Watch For The Future." Additionally in Armored Fury, the drivable semi-truck had a magazine on the passenger seat that reads "Ice Age Approaches."

Battlefield 2142 was officially announced and playable at E3 2006."^[10][11]

The Battlefield 2142 beta was released in the third week of August, after generating immense hype.^[12] However, it was revealed that the beta was not a complete "open" beta upon its release, which disappointed many fans. At first, the general belief was that it was to be a FilePlanet subscriber-only beta,^[13] but it was later revealed to additionally have an invite system. At that time the beta was only available to certain Fileplanet subscribers (keys were given out on a first-come, first-serve basis) and those who were invited. Some fansites had been holding contests giving out invitations to the BF2142 beta as prizes. On August 31, a large number of keys were given out by Fileplanet for free, and the beta client was upgraded. The Fileplanet beta ended on September 12, 2006.

At the 2007 WWDC, it was announced that Battlefield 2142 would be released for Macintosh computers in July 2007.^[14] It was released on August 28, 2007, for Macintosh. Since the game uses Cedega it will only work with Intel based Macintosh systems and not PowerPC.

[edit] Advertising components

Battlefield 2142 shipped with dynamic in-game advertising provided by IGA Worldwide. A similar system is featured in games such as Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, and SWAT 4.^[15] The system changes advertisements on objects such as billboards in-game. These in-game advertisements have been dubbed adware by some, and there has been a vocal backlash against this element of the game.^[16] Some players also alleged that the game contained spyware that monitors the user's web-browsing habits. However, DICE employees have claimed on the game's forums that the game only reports what in-game advertisements the player look at, and for how long.^[17] The Australian version of 2142 did lack the Dynamic Advertising feature^[18] as it was believed to be illegal under the Australian Spyware Act. However, Australian players are now subject to in-game advertisements while playing Battlefield 2142.^[19] Additionally, recently much of the "advertising space" has been used to show propaganda for new in game features and helping to feed rumors of a new game type in the works. Intel has advertised in the game, and recently the Discovery Channel has placed advertising in the game for their Future Weapons series. More recently advertisements for the DVD release of the movie Ghost Rider have appeared. The current one is advertising the DVD and Blu-Ray release of I Am Legend.

Billboards without paid advertisements generally have recruitment posters for the factions, and ads for "DICE Travel." These travel ads sell the reader into going to the various maps, such as Verdun or Berlin, for ₤2142, with taglines such as "Gun not included" and "One-way." Some billboard ads recently added after the new year can be found during the gameplay saying "Happy 2143 EU Soldiers!" Additionally there is a reference to the sci-fi film Starship Troopers, and by extension, World War II recruitment posters, on billboards featuring the slogan - "He's Doing His Part. Are You?"

Ads have also recently appeared for the Northern Strike booster pack, displaying pictures like those of the Goliath, with a tag line of "A soldier's best friend", and PAC propaganda posters with the faction flag and a line reading "Европа завоёвана!" ("Europe is conquered!"), in Russian. In the UK, ads consist almost entirely of ads for Intel Core 2 Duo which states "Battle-Tested" and EA's own Northern Strike. More recently in Britain (August 2007), the bank Lloyds TSB placed adverts in-game showing various accounts and products available from them. Also recently, billboards sporting ads for Battlefield: Bad Company have been popping up.

[edit] Updates

EA Games has released five updates for Battlefield 2142 to date. These have addressed various issues in-game, some of which are causes of minor imbalance (for example, a bug causing the missiles of one faction's gunships to be homing while the other faction's gunship had "dumb" missiles). However some players have complained that minor issues (such as small bullet deviation adjustments to guns) were repeatedly tweaked while major issues (exploits which allowed sentry guns to locate players behind walls, allowed critically wounded players to "see through" the whole Titan, and "Pod Surfing" which would allow players who altered their controls to extend the APCs' and Squad Leader Beacons' drop pod range almost infinitely) remained unaddressed. Certain fixes have also created more problems. For instance, an exploit that allows players to reach normally inaccessible locations such as high rooftops was remedied in the 1.25 update. However, the fix has had repercussions in the form of equipment that can kill the player or become stuck on map geometry. Patch 1.4 fixed many of these exploits and enhanced certain features of the game. Three major additions (in 1.40) are the new map Highway Tampa, and an auto save feature that saves the last kit layout used for each class (although there have been noted problems). The 1.40 update allows a second gunship to spawn on each titan after the first one has taken off. In the Highway Tampa map, there are a total of three gunships per faction. Patch 1.5 was released on friday, May 30th, 2008 at noon EST. This will be the last patch for BF2142. Patch 1.5 includes 2 new maps - Wake Island, and Operation Shingle as well as numerous bug fixes and game enhancements.

[edit] Release

[edit] Demo

EA released an online-only standalone demo of the retail game, featuring the Sidi Power Plant map with either conquest or Titan modes. Demo versions are limited to demo-only servers, of which a few are official EA-run. Points cannot be earned on the demo. The demo has not been updated in parallel with the complete game, and so several exploitable glitches remain.

[edit] Retail bonuses

• Collector's Edition: A Collector's Edition of the game was released on DVD, which came in a numbered metal box. This edition came with a Battlefield 2142 chain and handphone strap, as well as a free rank.
• Best Buy: Players who pre-ordered Battlefield 2142 from Best Buy were not only given a free 64MB dog tag styled flash drive, but also a free "downloadable assault weapon", which replaced the existing standard EU assault rifle (Scar 11), with the "Bofors Defense Machine Gun", which was a reskinned version of the same weapon. While some players like the replacement, it has been criticized by others for the excessive size of the gun taking up around one quarter of the screen and potentially blocking out enemies.^[20] There is currently no way to restore the original assault rifle apart from asking EA support to deactivate your old CD key and issue a new one on a new account without existing stats, unlocks or rewards. Electronic Arts customer service currently has no way to remove the pre-order key from an EA account, which would restore the original skin.^[21] On March 23, 2007, EA community management posted a locked and stickied thread on the Battlefield 2142 forums, acknowledging customers' dissatisfaction with the promotional weapon skin, and that EA and DICE were discussing the best way to implement an option to remove the skin for those who did not want it. The forum post was never updated with information from either company. As of June 20, 2007, the forum thread has been removed. There is still no option to disable the weapon skin.^[22]
• GameStop: Players who pre-ordered Battlefield 2142 from Game Stop received a free in-game rank. This rank was stackable with the Battlefield 2 Veteran's Program promotion, allowing players to begin halfway through the second rank upon release of the retail game.
• BF2 Veterans Program: People that played Battlefield 2 could participate in a "Veterans Program" that let them reserve their name for Battlefield 2142 before launch, get an immediate in-game rank-up, receive an in-game notification icon that lets other players know they played Battlefield 2, and receive exclusive verbal taunts to use against other players in Battlefield 2.^[23]

[edit] Reception

Battlefield 2142 generally received positive reviews from game-rating communities but lower than those of its predecessors^[24] IGN rated Battlefield 2142 an 8.4^[25] and GameSpot rated Battlefield 2142 an 8.1.^[26] WorthPlaying gave Battlefield 2142 an 8.9 out of 10 and said "Battlefield 2142 continues the tradition of combining ground forces, land and air vehicles, and huge, wide-open maps in an addictive, wholly entertaining package that sets the bar high for competitors to follow."^[27] Game Rankings's average rating for the game is at 80%.^[28]

However, consumers of the game (particularly Mac users) were quite disgruntled due to the game's very buggy initial release. Many of these consumer reviews are found on Amazon.com (for the PC and Mac versions), and on the online Apple Store for the Mac version. Months after the buggy initial release, EA released a patch which resolved most of the game's bugs; widescreen support didn't come until the 1.5 patch was released for the PC version of the game. There is yet to be a Mac-compatible version of this patch released.

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[edit] Northern Strike booster pack

On March 8, 2007, Electronic Arts released the Northern Strike booster pack for the Battlefield 2142 game.^[29] However, in the UK, retailers are selling empty Northern Strike game boxes containing a download code for those who wish to purchase the booster pack in a slightly more material form.

In Northern Strike, the battle moves to northern and central Europe in 2145, three years after the war began. The PAC has set up strongholds in the urban areas left abandoned due to their constant assault, and the advancing ice sheets. The EU launches an offensive to take back its land from the PAC. This fictional invasion greatly resembles the 1944 invasion of Normandy, whereas Europe was finally reclaimed by Allied Forces after an invasion expedition had arrived.

The booster pack contains ten new unlocks, three new maps, two new vehicles, and a new game mode called Assault Lines. The booster pack was exclusively available through the EA Link for $10.00 USD; Since January of 2008, Battlefield 2142 Deluxe Edition contains Northern Strike. It is now available from retailers outside the U.S..^[30]

[edit] Awards and unlocks

Northern Strike contains eleven new awards: Four new ribbons, two new badges (with three ranks each), and a new pin. Each new award in Northern Strike is worth one equipment unlock credit including each level of the badges for a total of ten unlock credits (except the pin, which is worth 10 career points toward a player's in-game rank). While these unlocks can be used to unlock Northern Strike items, they can also be used to unlock items from the core game. While it is not possible to permanently acquire Northern Strike unlocks without purchasing the expansion, they can be chosen as Field Upgrades if the unlocks preceding them are unlocked, or can be used by picking up the equipment of a fallen soldier if that soldier had a Northern Strike unlock equipped when he died.

[edit] Maps

Northern Strike offers three new maps, Bridge at Remagen, Liberation of Leipzig, and Port Bavaria. The new maps, which are the only available maps for Assault Lines (excepting the Highway Tampa map, obtained through the 1.40 patch), are the only maps that spawn either of the new vehicles, and feature relatively large numbers of Battlewalkers but no tanks and little air support outside of Titan Mode, which is also available on the Port Bavaria and Bridge at Remagen maps. They also feature a new "Horizontal Pod Launcher" structure that functions similarly to the Pod Launchers found on the Titans (but with reduced range and a maximum time after the player gets in until the pod is automatically launched).

[edit] Assault Lines

Assault Lines mode is similar to Conquest, but with a couple of major differences. Most asymmetrical Conquest maps feature the PAC as the attacking force with the EU defending, whereas Assault Lines reverses the roles. In Assault Lines, all APCs and the Goliath are spawn points for troops, much like they are in Titan mode, however the Goliath may not be stolen by the other team. Finally, the PAC home base cannot be captured until every other base on the map belongs to the EU team before they can begin claiming the base as their own. Completion of this awards a pin to those playing as EU at the time, players who switch teams after the home base has been captured do not receive the pin. If the PAC successfully recaptures the base and controls at least one other point on the map then it becomes locked again while the EU can not lock this point even through controlling all other points on the map.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official Battlefield 2142 website
• Northern Strike Complete Info. Site

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