From September 23rd onwards, the Revive BF2 team will launch Revive BF2142, which will join forces with the Dethklok clan to have unified stats & ranking. I stand to be corrected, but at the moment, it looks like this merger will start off with three 64-player servers and one 48-player server, which include the Titan mode among others.
Same here. One thing I discovered was the BF games I disliked (or even hated) the most initially, are my most favorite games now. I was never into futuristic themes, hence why 2142 wasn’t love at first sight and took ages for me to really like it.
Above all, 2142 even though futuristic, is still a simple straight old school style no-frills BF - no wall/ultra jumps or fancy warp laser stupid moves and all that rubbish.
Now 2142 is one of my most favorite, alongside BF2 and BFBC2.
The yet-to-be-launched Revive 2142 will work in the same way with Revive BF2 → just download the small Revive launcher, and starting your BF2 via the launcher will make the game connect to the new Revive network (instead of encountering previous errors from the game by default trying to connect to the already non-existent Gamespy network).
After that it is just playing the game.
All the files from the Revive website are safe - this service is a non-profit community created project running from the developers’ own pockets (and donations), which have been in service since 2014. All these time, there have never been any complaints of hanky panky with any of the files obtained from the Revive website. The thousands of current users of the service can also attest to this
To avoid going tldr here (also I’m not the technical expert), for even further information, feel free to drop by the Revive 2142 discussion forum. The admins/mods/community are proactive in helping out and answering questions.
*Since the Revive BF 2142 website is still work in progress, the current 2142 forum board including the 2142 section is pretty much the Revive BF2 forum board as well. Things will gradually be built in stages.
@JacobtheSmartGuy Thanks for reporting! I think I saw your post and a few others having the same issue. I’m no techie, so I have also directed your queries to the devs via discord. Will update you once I get something from them.
Despite early post-launch issues for some, numbers playing online on five servers have gone up to about 270 within the first 12 hours post-launch. The devs are working hard to iron out any problems.
Just found this thread and noticed that this video actually perfectly depicts how I felt that morning at 6am when everything was finally online and I thought it was FINALLY okay to fall asleep after being up for 32hrs… until I woke up to servers crashing every single round Did not expect such an incredible turnout for such an old dead game. Got it fixed pretty quickly after waking up though
Bravo to you guys for the hard work driven purely by passion - the impressive rate things are further improving makes it feel like the team haven’t slept since launch
In one week → exceeded 800 players online with servers in 5 continents
Now how about Reviving Revive launcher? I do know a legal means under US Copyright law to bring back all those games. It’s under exemptions. One exemption is for preservation, especially when an old media is no longer available. EA sold those games on CDs or DVDs. That media for distributing games is dying off. Downloads is the future.
In addition putting new servers bakc up is another means to preserve the game un the exemption since the GameSpy ones were shutdown.