Battlefield 2142 : Northern Strike booster pack details

by Steven Williamson on 22 January 2007, 08:57

Tags: Battlefield 2142 (PC), Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:EA), FPS

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Key Features



Three new maps provide the setting for the Booster Pack. High up in the Alps the EU uses launch pods to assault a PAC Titan docking harbour in the map Port Bavaria. Bridge at Remagen, the scene for one of WWII’s major battles, is once again the setting for intense battles as both sides fight to secure the bridge. Finally, night has fallen when the EU launches their assault on the city in the Liberation of Leipzig.

Battlefield 2142: Northern Strike introduces two new vehicle types. The heavy IFV Goliath is a massive, slow-moving firing platform available to the EU. It is used to provide cover, as well as health and ammunition, to nearby infantry. The fast-moving hovering light IFV Hachimoto, available to the defending PAC only, is an efficient vehicle killer when staffed by a well coordinated pilot/gunner team.

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With ten new unlocks and ten new awards, Battlefield 2142: Northern Strike offers unprecedented persistence for a Booster Pack. The epic Titan mode introduced in Battlefield 2142 is available on two maps, and for the first time in an urban setting. All maps also feature Conquest mode with the Conquest Assault Lines set-up, in which the attacking army now has to conquer all control points before taking the enemy’s main base.

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Key Features

• Fast–paced, infantry-focused gameplay boosts the intensity of the all-out war experience.
• Three new maps set in Europe, where snow-covered post-apocalyptic cities and a ridge in the Alps become the new battlegrounds.
• Two brand-new vehicles designed to support infantry combat available in an asymmetrical set-up, with the hovering light IFV Hachimoto available to the PAC and the massive heavy IFV Goliath available to the EU.
• Increased persistence. Ten new rewards, one new pin and ten new unlock items at the top of the unlocks trees, available also on core game maps, take persistence to new levels. Unlock credits earned in the booster pack can also be used in the core game.
• Epic Titan mode available on two maps, and for the first time in a urban setting, for more intense Titan gameplay.
• Tweaked Conquest-assault gameplay (Assault Lines game mode) on all three maps creates more choke points and more heated battles.
• Horizontal podding gives infantry additional ways of moving across the maps quickly
* Requires Battlefield 2142 PC to play.
** Internet connection required

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my main question is, how much will this cost us ?

its still bad enough that the game is full of bugs and they dont do a great deal to fix any of the problems.

the booster does not adress any of the in game issues so many of us have to put up with !

EA have taken a wrong turn avoiding fixing there games.
I am intrigued that you think they have taken a ‘wrong turn in not fixing their games’ since Battlefield 2142 has done very well considering the initial and some ongoing problems in BF2. Not forgetting that in itself is not ‘new’ in the sense that from a casual viewers perspective (mine!) it looks very similar and with very similar game mechanics.

I did always think it was a little cheeky to be trying to get you to buy more models for in game objects, without any extra abilities added but it must have been successful or else they wouldn't be continuing the startegy.
they used to patch games and throw in a free map.., all the pay to buy maps do its empty a good server 2 weeks down the line.

i brought both mods for BF2, and safe to say i have not played them in months. due to the 1 or 2 that dont own it when you meet up online to find a server.
I'll end up buying it, the urban titan mode sounds cool to me.

As for bugs I'm sick of people whining, CS has bugs, FEAR has bugs, BF has bugs, Quake has bugs, CoH has bugs. Get over it, i'd rather they didn't grind the production of every future sequel and expansion pack to a halt trying to fix one wall hack or something else just as pathetic.

If you play on a good server with good people you will have fun.
i do have a good server, and a good clan. but it still pisses u off when you get shot and fall through the bloody floor..

its a little 2 early after release to start announcing expansions imho

yeh im still going to end up buying it. :undecided like a moth drawn to a light….