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Battlefield 2142

A last minute decision to have a boys gaming weekend led us to all going out and purchasing Battlefield 2142.

Bare in mind that this game was loaded onto 3 very different systems ranging from a old single core unit, my Ultra 20, and finally my mates AMD dual core unit, the whole set up was a disaster, up to the point where the 3 of us just sat there with a blank screen for over 10 minutes.

So what was wrong, well the software loaded with out issue onto each of the local machines, it was at the point where the software started to authenticate against EA's server where everything ground to a halt.

A quick google indicated there was a patch out already (when will they release a fully working game) so of we went and downloaded and installed the 1.1 thinking this could be causing the performance issue, but no, the EA server was taking ages per screen shot.

After at least 30 minutes two of us had given up and we were talking about returning the disks. So there was only one action left, Pizza and beer.

Bored with the EA server we played Flat Out for a bit and during a break I decided to get Battlefield one last chance. The difference was incredible, I was connected to the server and authenticated in seconds, and straight onto selecting an on line game. What was wrong before ? Who knows, but EA must have had some serious server issues as I have had no problems since setting things up or is there a serious issues with performance in setting up an EA account and logging the game ?

All I know is that the game is great, a bit like Star Wars in places but a cracking on line game which I have played for 2 days know and I am loving every minute.

Posted at 04:50PM Oct 30, 2006 by Simon Bullen in Gaming  |  Comments[2]