Talk:Battlefield 2142

message: Someone has been changing all the "amour" to "armor" and "theatre" to Theatre". This seems like someones nit-picking. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Laconia (talk • contribs) 
:Agreed.  Normally I wouldn't but considering the game is made by a eurpoean developer and has no coverage of North America as a location or a faction, it might as well maintain the Eurpoean English.--Oni Ookami AlfadorTalk|@ 15:01, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well the first one would be more correct term (I doubt there's much lovin' goin on in 2142 ;) ) Riffraffselbow 23:06, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  American English spellings 

message: I cleaned up the Updates section, as the prior version was utter shit.
I added: bullets, consistency in certain punctuation (hyphens, colons, periods), and added headings to make it more navigable. tildetildetildetilde
Addendum: Whether the whole Updates section kind of bloats the article and is unneeded is not my concern; I merely cleaned it up. tildetildetildetilde
Nice work, it was pretty much a piece of cr*p.  Please try to sign your posts, please. --Putmalk 23:28, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updates section 

message: It was removed because not a single piece of information in it was sourced, and some claims aren't even actual bugs.  If any of it can be sourced then it probably belongs back in but ONLY if that is done.--Oni Ookami AlfadorTalk|@ 04:24, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bug section 

message: Really? Has this game planes or jets? I could not find anywhere a refference about this. I use this sentence "Try before buy".
82.114.81.149 12:15, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It has two aircraft. The first is a fast VTOL Gunship with heat seeking missiles, a gattling gun and TV guided missiles. The second is a troop transporter carries 6 troops and has two side mounted gattling guns. You musn't have been looking to hard. If you want more choice, get BF2, which has lots more aircraft. --Simpsons fan 66 23:18, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Planes? 

message: I think your wrong, I live in Australia and recently bought BF2142 from JB HIFI. And it  has  advertising, as shown in a screenshot i took here. This was in single player by the way.
andrewrox424 Bleep 00:04, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  No Australian Advertisments? 

message: Someone claimed that BF2142 was the first game in the series, NOT to feature the "Wake Island" Map, even though i've never played it, i'm pretty sure that "Battlefield Vietnam" didn't have Wake Island as a map.
There was an official mod for BFV that redid the BF1942 maps Iwo Jima and Wake Island. Poss 23:38, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Wake Island" Statement 

message: This article has been reviewed as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force in an effort to ensure all listed Good articles continue to meet the Good article criteria. In reviewing the article, I have found there are some issues that may need to be addressed.
*The lede is a) non-compelling, b) does not give a good overview of the subject as a whole (aka, its reception, development, et al), and c) appears to be have some errors (a Mac version was announced in 2007 and released in 2006?)
*Generally, unsourced. Game manuals are a good place to find info, or even looking in the reviews for the game, but from Story to Expansion packs, there are only six refs, tops, for nearly 30KB of straight prose. 
I will check back in no less than seven days. If progress is being made and issues are addressed, the article will remain listed as a Good article. Otherwise, it may be delisted (such a decision may be challenged through WP:GAR). If improved after it has been delisted, it may be nominated at WP:GAN. Feel free to drop a message on my talk page if you have any questions, and many thanks for all the hard work that has gone into this article thus far. Regards, David Fuchs (talk) 00:53, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA Sweeps (on hold) 

message: Who did the voices for 2142? The Pan Asian Coalition Titan's security computer sounds a lot like 'Ellen McLain' the voice for Portal's psychopathic computer. ~ Swanston  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.85.165.195 (talk) 00:47, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Voice Actors? 

message: There was some talk around March (from the date stamps) about adding descriptions to the maps section for each map. While I do support this I would suggest focusing on the story elements and how the locations in the game are different from the current layout of the areas. For example the current addendum about camp Gibraltar having no relation to the real life location of Gibraltar or something about the massive ice sheet that makes up the edge of maps like Fall of Berlin and Verdun.
Also I propose that the current maps section under Northern Strike be merged with the general maps section, the Northern Strike maps be removed from the general section, or the Northern Strike maps section be refocused on differences between Northern Strike maps in general and the previous maps.
Lastly should the "All maps are playable in Conquest." note at the top of the general Maps section be removed? To the best of my knowledge Assault Lines is its own distinct game type and not a new type of Conquest. I do not have any definitive information one way of the other and due to events in real life I do not have the time to go out and research the matter myself. Also could someone provide a citation for the different types of conquest. As far as I know there are just different maps with their own spawn point arrangements.--EpicWizard 18:01, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maps 

message: per this discussion. Blnguyen  (bananabucket) 05:28, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA removed 

message: Well this was going to talk about the impending release of 1.40 and Highway Tampa... Since I just checked and both of these are now out it seemed stupid to talk about them in the future tense. We now need to do a major overhaul of the Updates section of this article and decide how the 1.40 beta stuff and the final release are going to be merged. We may want to just not mention things from the time leading up to the 1.40 final release beyond dates of testing phases and any important changes made during this time. We also need to update the Maps section and the Game Modes references to reflect Dual Assault Lines. I really don't have time right now to do more than make this post and link to the patch let alone play it or make serious and detailed revisions to this article. Here is a link to the official news for your enjoyment.--EpicWizard 03:27, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Patch 1.40 

message: In the "Collectors' Edition" paragraph, it mentions a "handphone strap". Is this meant to be a headphone strap? Although this would be an actual word, it wouldn't make sense, since headphones don't need straps.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Huey45 (talk • contribs) 20:28, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Handphone is an actual word too altho I'm not sure if it is what was meant Nil Einne (talk) 07:01, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  handphone 

message: Although it has been mentioned in many places, the Spyware Bill 2005 is actually still before the senate, and as such, has not been passed as Australian law yet. Also, there is actually no such bill as the 'Australian Spyware Act' which is mentioned in the BF2142 article. Spik3balloon (talk) 06:44, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Australia: Spyware Bill 2005 is NOT law 

message: There's a blurb in the section on Northern Strike describing new vehicles added, but no section about the actual vehicles in the original game.  There should be one.  siafu (talk) 00:49, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Vehicles

message: Its worth noting in the article that, much like its predecessor Battlefield 2, Battlefield 2142 is laden with little glitches, bugs, and querks.  For instance, the sentry guns can shoot you through walls.  While thats realistic, that still seems like they didnt want it to do that.  Or being able to see everyone through the titan ship walls when you die, that is definately a glitch.  There are too many to list there.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.119.185.104 (talk) 20:10, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Glitches and Bugs 

message: I think we should reorganize the Maps chart into:
Column 1: Theatre
Column 2: Map Name
Column 3: Conquest Mode Type
Column 4: Titan Mode Availability (Yes/No)
Column 5: No Vehicles Option Availability (Yes/No)
I think we can cut down on columns and make it a little neater if we combine the Conquest sections, instead of giving each type of conquest mode its own column, as we are doing with Conquest Assault and Assualt Lines. Plus, it'd give more information on each map about what type of conquest mode each of the other maps use, since all the maps have some form of conquest anyway.
What do you guys think?
Breaker475 (talk) 19:54, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Do it! Besides, I've looked at the code and Conquest Assault (that only Wake uses) has the exact same code as ordinary Conquest.. SBIT (talk) 09:13, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Alright, I've changed it. However, I'm not entirely sure about what maps have the 'No Vehicles' option; I based it on what the table said before (which for some reason was broken when I started to work on it....). Feel free to change the 'No Vehicles' section if you guys find something contrary.Breaker475 (talk) 17:43, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Concerning the Maps section 

message: There is little mention of the factions playable in this game. I think somebody should do something about that; missing such an important aspect of the game makes this article seem very incomplete. --SaintDaveUK (talk) 11:34, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Factions 

message: I didn't know where to post this information when I found this out. Most BF2142 forums are jammed with loads of faults, but some are more common than others and instead of just trawling through them all to fish out the most frequent ones, and thought I'd compile them here. I hope to progressively update as I find more. Hope no-one minds.
Problem                                                                               	Cause                                                             	Solution
Fuzzy/hazy screen, occasional artifacts, screen going black when using cloaking device	Nvidia drivers 180.48, AA problem, currently being fixed by Nvidia	turn off AA
Can't get resolution I want (usually 1280 x 1024)                                     	not supported, unknown reason                                     	right click on BF2142 shortcut, go to properties, in target box, type after the other commands:
 +szx 1280 +sxy 1024
can be applied to other resolutions as well.
eg: 1920x1200
If you wish to look into some tweaks to get the game running more smoothly, then visit here at tweaksguides.com
Hardware performance guides
uk.gamespot.com
You can find some troubleshooting tips:
Tweaksguides.com
tacticalgamer.com
I hope this helps ease some frustration.
--Wouse101 (talk) 13:44, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Problems, Crashes, Solutions to them and tweaks

message: I don't know how to link cite notes, so the info is here. Maildiver (talk) 02:32, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Patch 1.51 

message: Hello, I am a long-time fan of the 2142 universe. In the "Maps" table on Battlefield 2142, the map "Camp Gibraltar" is linked to Gibraltar when it is said to be within the African theatre. This is a typical mistake, Camp Gibraltar is named after the location of Gibraltar, but it doesn't mean that it really is in Gibraltar. May I remind you that the location of Gibraltar is not a part of the African continent anyway, it is a part of the European continent. So therefore Camp Gibraltar (if it was really in Gibraltar) wouldn't be within the African theatre, it would be within the European theatre. But as I said, Camp Gibraltar is not in Gibraltar itself. 
There are several points that prove that Camp Gibraltar is not within the location of Gibraltar:
*The geography of Camp Gibraltar's map does not reflect the real life Gibraltar. 
Examples: 
# Camp Gibraltar's coastline is on the northern section of the map, meaning that players will be facing north when they are looking directly at the coast from land. In Gibraltar, there is no northern coastline, only coastlines if you face the east, south or west. 
# There is no Gibraltar rock  (it is possible that the developers of Battlefield 2142, if they were actually making a real location of Gibraltar, could have not bothered to add the rock of Gibraltar because players wouldn't be able to clearly see the rock anyway due to the map having a low draw-distance (the map is very foggy). However, the topography in all Battlefield games is shown on the mini-map and because the rock of Gibraltar is a recognisable land feature, they might have added an inaccurate version of the rock of Gibraltar just for the topographic mini-map, like an easter egg perhaps. 
# The climate of Gibraltar is not desert-like. In Camp Gibraltar, the environment seems to be very deserty, outside the walls of the camp itself, there seems to be a very barren, yet rocky, desert (you could say that this relates to the game's story as the world in under-going a massive climate-shift due to the Ice Age. However I doubt, since that the real Gibraltar is based on the European continent and that Europe is within the northern hemisphere; where the Ice Age is cooling Europe down, that Gibraltar would get hotter rather than colder than it is today. So, I highly doubt it would become barren. 
*It is mentioned within the map's description in the game that it is a "staging point for refugees from the western Mediterranean territories", meaning that refugees are coming from the western Mediterranean, not going from the western Mediterranean which is where the real location of Gibraltar is roughly located. Also, within the game's story, Europeans are travelling from Europe to Africa in search of habitable land, why would there be a staging point for refugees in Europe when nobody is travelling to Europe? Europe hardly needs staging points for refugees because there are no refugees coming to Europe, refugees are coming to Africa. 
*Another point about the story, it mentions that "The attack on Camp Gibraltar was the first deception attack used by the PAC to draw EU forces out of position." The story in Battlefield 2142 mentions that the Pan Asian Coalition forces launched "deception attacks" in Africa in order to make European Union forces think that the PAC's primary goal was to invade and occupy Africa when, what they really wanted to do, was make the EU send more protection to Africa so that the PAC could trample over the EU in Europe. However, when they finally do make the entirety of EU retreat to Africa when they occupy most of Europe, the PAC find out that now the EU have the most habitable land (Africa) because the climate shift is changing Africa into better land than the land in Europe (there is an ice sheet in the northern hemisphere gradually consuming the continent of Europe, and therefore rendering most of the land there uninhabitable). So, since this was a "deception attack", and the deception attacks in the Battlefield 2142 story were in Africa, that means Camp Gibraltar is not in Gibraltar but rather on the continent of Africa. Where in Africa exactly? I do not know, there is no information other than that it is a staging area for refugees from the western Mediterranean.
So, where should Camp Gibraltar be linked to? I would guess it is on the northern coastline of a northern or north-western African country, such as Morocco or Libya since it is a "staging area for refugees from the western Mediterranean". It would make sense that refugees are in the western Mediterranean of southern Europe are diverted to a closer staging area somewhere in the northern or north-western part of Africa if the refugees are coming from the western Mediterranean.
Thank you for reading and I hope that the location link for Camp Gibraltar is changed to a location on the northern or north-western part of the African continent.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jinzor (talk • contribs) 13:28, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: This is all original research.  All the maps are fictional locations, some refer to real places, some refer to World War II battles.  There isn't really any reason for any of them to be linked.  If this link bugs you, there is no reason to make a huge case on the talk page, just remove it, don't link it to some other place based on your own speculation about where this map might be fictionally located. --Daniel 16:54, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

text: I tried getting rid of the links, but someone thought I was sabotaging the article by doing so and put them back in (don't know who, I did it about 9 months ago on another account, long time ago). If people don't want these links gone, I thought "why not come up with better speculation than these people have put in"? I made a case here in the talk page so that if I do edit it, I have backed up my speculation with a good case so that people don't bloody change it. The other map links are speculation anyway, that's why I tried to delete it 9 months ago, but what do you know, it pops up there again. Who knows if Shuhia Taiba really is in southern Egypt? Did they have any evidence to back that up? No they didn't, it doesn't say anywhere that it was located in southern Egypt (quite the opposite, it said the map was located in northern Egypt). So, if this person who added in these links can get away with speculation, why can't my case replace that speculation with better speculation? (NOTE: Well, I wouldn't say I'm extremely bothered by this, I was just bored today so I decided to write an argument for something to pass the time. I was also bored when I decided to edit those links 9 months ago, I hardly go on Wikipedia to edit stuff) --Jinzor 20:15, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I say just get rid of all the links.  They are all speculation. --Daniel 21:11, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Camp Gibraltar - Location 

message: Maybe it achieved mediocre sales figures, but how many thousands of people bought it when it was sold for $20 years later? Is it popular enough for a sequel?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.171.146.230 (talk) 15:26, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  How popular is this game? 

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message: Shouldn't Project Revive (link) be mentioned? It restored the multiplayer mode of the game in October 2016. There are mentions in the press (link). And the team is even putting it on Steam Greenlight, still too early for a result though (link).--Adûnâi (talk) 15:14, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
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