Battlefield 2142 Demo And Dedicated Server Download

All hail the mighty demo version for EA's upcoming Battlefiled 2 futuristic MOD Battlefield 2142! Yes, it's huge (at over 1 GB). Yes, it's said to be rather boring. Yes, it has some connection problems and some nasty bugs. But hey, what else did you expect? After all, Electronic Arts have been turning the Battlefield series into another one of their milk-cows, even though Digital Illusions' original BF 1942 was a great game for its time, and the first Desert Combat MOD was also a highly appreciated piece of multiplayer goodness.

Still, if you enjoyed Battlefield 2, you will probably want to give this one a shot as well. The Battlefield 2142 demo weights in at over 1 GB and features a single multiplayer map, called the "Sidi Power Plant". Both the European Union and the Pan Asian Coalition factions are playable, and there are two game modes available: the classic Conquest for up to 64 players, and the new Titan mode, in which you try to penetrate the enemy Titan's defences and blow it out of the sky.

Also noteworthy is the release of a dedicated server for the Battlefield 2142 demo, containing everything needed to run standalone servers of the Sidi Power Plant map, in Titan and Conquest modes.

Both the 1.1 GB demo client and the 56 MB demo server are up for download locally. No LAN support is available for now, so you can only play it over the Internet. Oh, and a warning for the patiently-challenged among you: on the first load after changing the video settings,
you might have to wait around 10 minutes. "Optimizing Shaders" they say...

Look for the final version of Battlefield 2142 on October 17 in North America, and October 20 in Europe.

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