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Re: Uh-oh.. another newbie with questions

sadwhalesong wrote:

First off, I want to say the whole reason I bought BF2142 is because of this mod. I have been playing X-wing Alliance for several years (with the updated mods... very cool) and Battlefront I & II.

Welcome! I'm in the same boat, I've played X-wing Alliance since the Zone was still up. I came to First Strike for the fighter combat and stayed because I love the ground maps too!

sadwhalesong wrote:

2. Where can I go to get "training" so that I don't get my butt totally kicked on-line?

Short term, easiest thing to do is to join a large squad in game and follow their lead. Chances are people will be quite helpful and you can copy what they do anyway.
If you'd like though, you could join a clan that supports First Strike and learn tips and tricks from your clanmates. Squadplay is definitely the way to go in any battlefield game but clan play is a whole other level of fun.

I may be biased but I'd suggest joining the Rebel Special Forces wink

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9 Reply by sadwhalesong (edited by sadwhalesong 2008-06-17 18:00:59)

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Re: Uh-oh.. another newbie with questions

OK.. I've got everything installed, but now the game keeps crashing...

I read in the forum here that v1.2 should be installed before v1.25? Is this necessary if I originally downloaded 1.2 full release?

Also.. I got kicked out of multi-player because of punkbuster... why? I don't think I have cheats or anything enabled...

Thanks again for all the help

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Re: Uh-oh.. another newbie with questions

sadwhalesong wrote:

OK.. I've got everything installed, but now the game keeps crashing...

I read in the forum here that v1.2 should be installed before v1.25? Is this necessary if I originally downloaded 1.2 full release?

Also.. I got kicked out of multi-player because of punkbuster... why? I don't think I have cheats or anything enabled...

Thanks again for all the help

Where does the game crash, and what does the error message say when you get kicked out of mp from pb?

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11 Reply by sadwhalesong (edited by sadwhalesong 2008-06-17 20:36:06)

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Re: Uh-oh.. another newbie with questions

The game takes forever to load, then when it finally does, I click on DEPLOY and it hangs there for about 5 minutes, then I get the "Windows is searching for the problem" box, then after that, my whole PC is very slow...

when I got kicked out of multi-player, I got to the character selection screen, then it said "you have been kicked out due to punkbuster" or something to that effect...

I found on this forum where Bandu suggested installing in this order:

1. BF2142
2. FS 1.2 Full
3. FS 1.25 patch
4. BF 1.5 patch

Here goes.. will let you know if I was successful.. oh, and I also did the punkbuster update, so hopefully I fixed that problem too!

It's amazing what you can find when you are looking for something else!


OK... I've done all the above... Things seem to work a bit faster now, but when I try to play single player, I get to where the level ALMOST starts, then it freezes with the "BF2142 caused an error" box. This happens in multi-player as well

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Re: Uh-oh.. another newbie with questions

You may want to run the FS installs after 1.5 vanilla.

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Re: Uh-oh.. another newbie with questions

vanilla?

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14 Reply by Krowmaet (edited by Krowmaet 2008-06-17 22:04:24)

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Re: Uh-oh.. another newbie with questions

he means you gots to run your firststrike install after installing patch 1.5 for bf2142 original, vanilla i think.

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