Re: A Handful of servers

I'd chalk it up to two things.

1) Battlefield 2142 has a much smaller player base than Battlefield 2

2) The initial release (pre-patch) had frequent enough crash issues that there was quite a bit of bad word spread about the stability of the mod on forums and download comments sections

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Re: A Handful of servers

Hey, FS is free and FUN! I got tired of running around the same old maps on 2142. FS is a nice breath of fresh air.

The Dev's have done a great job and are still hard at work. Thank's to them for all the hard work!

CoD4 will be a huge draw next month. Will probably hear a big sucking sound in the FPS world.

Re: A Handful of servers

Mega_Death wrote:

Hey, FS is free and FUN! I got tired of running around the same old maps on 2142. FS is a nice breath of fresh air.

The Dev's have done a great job and are still hard at work. Thank's to them for all the hard work!

CoD4 will be a huge draw next month. Will probably hear a big sucking sound in the FPS world.

dude its like getting a new mouse pad after wearing out your old one completely tongue

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Re: A Handful of servers

I think the biggest competition out there right now is Firstly, The orange box, and secondly Halo 3, but soon enough people will get bored with them.

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Re: A Handful of servers

I think FS needs more publicity.  Perhaps people should start saying things in vanilla BF2142 and/or BF2 like, "This game is too boring.  Come over and play FS", or maybe something that doesn't sound like spam, "First strike is better than this", and then tell them about it.

Try and target those who say, "BF2142 sucks!  I hate it so much!"  Those are probably the people who would like to see a decent change in the original Battlefield formula.

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Re: A Handful of servers

Guys , I think a great deal of the problem lies in certain incompatibilities with some people's rigs. A hardware issue, I have a friend who can play in any infantry maps, but CTDs on the space maps .
I have another friend who cant play at all , but his rig works fine with Vanilla 2142 . Address these problems , and the MOD will get more populated.

Re: A Handful of servers

Better and clearer publicity is needed from my viewpoint.

Firstly there is very little in the way of public knowledge,( I only found out about it whilst searching for random Starwars related stuff about a year ago ) apart from the usual mod sites and a few fan sites there is no exposure except word of mouth , and from the comments I have been recieving back when I chat to people its that the game is seriously unstable (i.e. crashes and freezes).So this is the message we have to presume they pass on to everybody they speak too,and there is no more powerfull tool  than the word of mouth.

Secondly of the people I ask about FS that havent tried it there is a massive fear of the installation of a mod .Many have had bad problems before or are harbouring deep doubts as to wether the vanilla version will still function correctly and/or get them banned from the vanilla format of the game.

It has been a very unfortunate start for the mod in the fact that only the really hardcore fans would stick through the initial teething problems we have had to encounter (the shaders problem, the finding servers problem, the ctd's, the freezing and the lag issues),many have suffered atleast one if not all of these problems and even to the us devout followers its been tough at times.Many think this is the final game so are not willing to stick around and many of my clan and friends are waiting till the game has more content and the initial problems are almost completely erradicated.