Unfortunately the servers closed down some years ago.
However, I have seen a revival at https://battlefield2142.co/
But it will be nothing like it was.
Edit:spelling
1942 > 2142 > 2 > BC2
1942 just had it all for it's time and it will never be beat imo, I always loved 2142 but it never quite beat 1942 but was damn close.
It was just so ahead of it's time, the flying was so fun and felt amazing, taking the island to get the torpedo planes to bomb the carrier was perfect.
Am I old for thinking any games from Bad Company and beyond are not “classic Battlefield”?
2142 may have been my favorite overall. I wish I could still play it (I know about the reclamation thing but I want full servers if I’m playing this game). I thought about and played that game an unreasonable amount growing up lol. Both Bad Company games are also near the top for me. Everything about them felt really special and unique. And that fucking sound design👌🏻👌🏻
Ya - there is a bit of a circle jerk for BF 3/4 (which is fine - to each their own) but minus not being able to go prone, the BC series just felt so great to play.
I am weird for liking the no prone part. It felt like the strong sniper class was forced to position better, and were easier to spot in general.
Nowadays we have scope glint giving pinpoint accuracy the moment a sniper so much as looks in your general direction, and I feel that takes a bit away from the class. Map design should limit snipers, not giving them a massive "I’m here" beacon
More of the modern player base was introduced through bad company or BF3 just due to the expansion of the gaming industry at the time. The frostbite engine definitely did wonders for the series with the graphics and destruction being top notch for the time. The marketing was also just far more significant. BF3 release was extremely hyped after the monstrous success of BFBC2 and the long wait.
The refractor engine games definitely have more of a classic feel of course but most players haven’t touched them. Even as a huge BF fan myself I only experienced them through BF2 modern combat, and subsequently going back to try out BF2 years later (and I think BF play4free was that engine aswell).
I just keep hoping they reboot 2142 but I know it’s a pipe dream at best lol (plus not sure it would play worth shit given where EA/Dice are these days…)
As much as I've wanted 2143 for years, I don't know if they could resist abusing the setting to fill it with completely over the top and gimmicky gadgets and gameplay. 2142 somehow felt more grounded than 2042 does.
I haven't played that and I bet it's great but before that, it's time for a BF4 or BF3 remaster or some other present time game. We've only had futuristic or WW1/WW2 games now for 8 years and I miss using the actual current issued (and prototype) weapons and stuff. It's our turn now but after that, I bet 2142 would play better than any of the last three games. I know a lot of people like BF1 but I honestly feel like the last three games all had 1-3 guns that once unlocked, the game was over and just a stupid meta grind unless you want to get stomped. In BFV, it's the tanks, in BF1, it's the Hellriegel, the trench gun, one or two bolt actions and two or three medic guns that are all so OP that you're wasting your time with everything else.
I'm not saying battlefield is realistic (because it's not) but 2042 is a disgrace to what battlefield once was with the over the top movement and abilities. No thanks.
I love that with every one these games you have here, each iteration something got added on or was done better.
BF2 and 2142 were the classic and gave you that teamplay, grandscale warfare.
BC1&2 added destruction but scaled the warfare a bit down compared to previous ones.
BF3 took previous titles and just merged them together and finetuned gunplay and movement in the perfect BF game where BF4 knew it had the winning formula and just expanded on it.
For me personally, BF2142 or BF3.
Nice Thing! God i spend so much time in 2142. Came home from school at 2pm, turned on PC and played until 3am. Some fun ESL times.
You remember the Special Ranks that were given out on a weekly basis (think they were based on Points Made)? I managed to get top 4 world wide for 5 weeks.
Yeah good times, with big clans and flooding servers with them playing like crazy, never gonna be back, we have to carry on. Times change, people change, games change, the world changes, nothing stays the same. I cannot find myself in these new games. I feel alone and left behind there is nothing for me to enjoy.
Yessss finally. I loved the transfer vehicle that had rocket escape pods. Get in one of those on the Berlin map and hop on the train tracks to snipe. I was 10.
Zeller-H from 2142 was the best sniper in Battlefield history and nothing has come close.
Titan mode was a ton of fun too.
Bad Company 2 still my personal favorite though.
My classic favourites are 1942, 2 and Vietnam.
Thats probably because they are the only classics i played, it really seems like they released banger after banger back then.
Battlefield 2 and Vietnam are my personal favs. Vietnam's gunplay is my fav and the vehicular gameplay of 2 is spot on. You can even drive the cars with a steering wheel and the planes with a joy and still have the same kind of fun as with a keyboard
People have two opinions on 2142. Either they loved it or they never played it. It was such an interesting take on battlefield but still stayed well within the formula.
I'm going to have to go 2142, then bf1, 1942, bf2.
It's rare to see the standalone Northern Strike case, I know it just has a download code and no disc.
Does it have anything else in the case aside from the code?
As single finished product. BF3 has to be the best imo.
2142 was good but i also think people look back on older games with "rose tinted glasses". The nostalgia effect. During the time of the older bf games no other games were similar.
Personally i dont think 2142 would sell well to a wider audience outside a core bf vets and others who like futuristic combat. Unless done really well. It has to be grounded in realism but still a realistic arcade shooter. None of the goofiness of bf2042. Gritty with destruction. But knowing EA, it'll be riddled with nonsense skins, battle passes and packs.
Even tho battle passes keep the community together it started the down fall of bf. I miss premium 😭
2142 was special to me as well. I flew transport for my sponsored clan in a weekly national tournament way before eSports and streaming took off. Flying into the breach of an enemy carrier to drop off boarding parties was always a blast.
The lack of responses about 1942 are disturbing.
Even though it released 1 year after I was born I have many memories playing it at my grandads house taking in turns with my brother because that’s all they had along with Enemy Territory Quake Wars. Good times
BF2, BF2142, Badcompany 1 and 2, BF3.
BF2142 just sticks out across the franchise for its innovation. It was so different but my god was it good. Glad to see another citizen of culture.
My personal ranking:
5. Battlefield 2(i never actually played it but Ive seen eneugh gameplay to draw conclusions and i hope future games will be more like that)
4. Battlefield 5 ( i liked some of the maps ik its flawed but i think it was overhated)
3. Battlefield 3(it was amazing and it blew me away when i first saw it)
2. Battlefield 1 same as battlefield 3 but even crazier its one of the most unique shooter games out there)
1. Bad company 2 (i actually started here and its still my favorite and i will explain why the sound design was and is peak the maps were all good some better then others but they were all fun. You had conquest and rush but they both have their own maps the rush maps were amazing.
Also i wanna add in the end i think i could boot up ANY battlefield and if it still active i can enjoy myself quite easily also in 2042 or hardline.
2142 is where I started. I spent a lot of time in 4 but have spent the most time in 2042. I’m still here hoping they make 2143. Hell my dad at one point actually tried to burn the game onto another disc so I could play it with him because he saw just how enthralled I was by it when I was a kid. But in order my favorites are 2142, 2042, and 4.
Didn’t like 5 and eventually got so bored I camped the flak guns to remove ace pilots as the hate messages I got were super amusing, and side note I had booted up 5 at one points few months ago to see if it was actually better than 2042 like everyone kept claiming(it wasn’t) I got in a flak cannon and the first plane I shot down was a guy I used to go back and forth with a lot with kills as I recognized his GT, I killed him once and he left the server, so I guess he remembered me 😆. I thought 1 was pretty and a cool idea but felt unbalanced with the gunplay.
I played an unhealthy amount of 2142. By god that was so much fun. Like 2, but distilled down to the best bits, and then Titan mode added on was amazing. Full of jank, grenade spam, but amazing.
Nothing's ever topped being in a full squad, podding up to a Titan, boarding, infiltrating and wrecking the thing in one go.
BF3 purely for the MK3A1. If the next BF game has it, I'd cry and maybe pre-order the game. Which is not likely since I'm sure the devs forgot the gun existed since bf3, nor do I know what the next game would be set in.
1942 was an incredible opening salvo
BF Vietnam was a worthy successor
BF2 set the bar even higher
2142 was peak BF.
BF Bad Company 2 was epically fun (as was BC on the PS 3)
BF3 stubbed it’s toe a bit in the beginning
BF4 made it to the heights of 2142
…. And then the tragic fall. Actually fall part two because there were some other really bad early iterations that were absolute trash.
BF1 and V never hooked me and 2042 drove me away.
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BF2142, not only cuz i was really good at it (was part of its short, but very competitive Esport run) but overall it was the most fun i've had playing.
Started solo bf2 and bf vietnam. Then switch to ps3 because of friends didnt have pcs at the time. So Bfbc2 then bf 3, was peak for me and my squad we played togheter almost every day. Started ps3 then when bf3 came out everyone built pc and switched togheter.
1942 and Vietnam. Nowadays my favourite thing about these games is that you didn't have to unlovk stuff. You bought the game and had access to everything the game has to offer.
I don’t see 1942 in this picture, I’m really disappointed in you…😤
Can’t believe they shut down the servers of 1942 in Dec. I’d play 1942 over Battlefield 2042 always….Such a shame.
BF2 back when they didn't squish the 7 classes into 4 because some suit said they were getting feedback that snipers felt bad because they couldn't blow up tanks.
Bf2142, bf2 and 1942 - in that order
havent played 2142 but love scifi type games. is it worth buying now? As in is the multiplayer still somewhat active?
Unfortunately the servers closed down some years ago. However, I have seen a revival at https://battlefield2142.co/ But it will be nothing like it was. Edit:spelling
No US players online :( bummer
Not sure what time it is there, but might be an evening or so weekend kind of thing
Bf2, bfv, bf1942 for me brother
1942 > 2142 > 2 > BC2 1942 just had it all for it's time and it will never be beat imo, I always loved 2142 but it never quite beat 1942 but was damn close.
1942 is where I learnt to fly planes in game. First bf I ever bought. Best time ever.
It was just so ahead of it's time, the flying was so fun and felt amazing, taking the island to get the torpedo planes to bomb the carrier was perfect.
Good taste.
Bfbc2 all day
Am I old for thinking any games from Bad Company and beyond are not “classic Battlefield”? 2142 may have been my favorite overall. I wish I could still play it (I know about the reclamation thing but I want full servers if I’m playing this game). I thought about and played that game an unreasonable amount growing up lol. Both Bad Company games are also near the top for me. Everything about them felt really special and unique. And that fucking sound design👌🏻👌🏻
Ya - there is a bit of a circle jerk for BF 3/4 (which is fine - to each their own) but minus not being able to go prone, the BC series just felt so great to play.
I am weird for liking the no prone part. It felt like the strong sniper class was forced to position better, and were easier to spot in general. Nowadays we have scope glint giving pinpoint accuracy the moment a sniper so much as looks in your general direction, and I feel that takes a bit away from the class. Map design should limit snipers, not giving them a massive "I’m here" beacon
Yeah they ruined that class. The occasional glint would be fine I guess, but idk
If you’re on at the right time reclamation does have a decent number on the servers, enough to play properly
I don’t know if I still have my old copy, might look into trying it out. Would love to play again
Agreed. 1942, Vietnam, BF2, 2142. And I’ll throw in modern combat and bfbc1 for the console guys. This man is crazy
They’re not. I consider them the beginning of the mainstream age
More of the modern player base was introduced through bad company or BF3 just due to the expansion of the gaming industry at the time. The frostbite engine definitely did wonders for the series with the graphics and destruction being top notch for the time. The marketing was also just far more significant. BF3 release was extremely hyped after the monstrous success of BFBC2 and the long wait. The refractor engine games definitely have more of a classic feel of course but most players haven’t touched them. Even as a huge BF fan myself I only experienced them through BF2 modern combat, and subsequently going back to try out BF2 years later (and I think BF play4free was that engine aswell).
I just keep hoping they reboot 2142 but I know it’s a pipe dream at best lol (plus not sure it would play worth shit given where EA/Dice are these days…)
As much as I've wanted 2143 for years, I don't know if they could resist abusing the setting to fill it with completely over the top and gimmicky gadgets and gameplay. 2142 somehow felt more grounded than 2042 does.
Exactly my worry too….
I haven't played that and I bet it's great but before that, it's time for a BF4 or BF3 remaster or some other present time game. We've only had futuristic or WW1/WW2 games now for 8 years and I miss using the actual current issued (and prototype) weapons and stuff. It's our turn now but after that, I bet 2142 would play better than any of the last three games. I know a lot of people like BF1 but I honestly feel like the last three games all had 1-3 guns that once unlocked, the game was over and just a stupid meta grind unless you want to get stomped. In BFV, it's the tanks, in BF1, it's the Hellriegel, the trench gun, one or two bolt actions and two or three medic guns that are all so OP that you're wasting your time with everything else. I'm not saying battlefield is realistic (because it's not) but 2042 is a disgrace to what battlefield once was with the over the top movement and abilities. No thanks.
BF3 and BC2
BC2 was the best title of all time IMO
To me it's like this: - BF3 is my favorite Battlefield game. - but BC2 is the most fun I've ever had in a multiplayer shooter
Rush on BC2 was so Flippin intense
BC1 was more polished IMO
In what way? Never played it so I can't tell
BF2
BF 4 💪🫶
The fact that you have Northern Strike as a standalone case makes me very happy. They are pretty rare these days compared to the deluxe edition.
yeah, no cd though, just a download code but yeah, sold in a jewel case back in the day
2142
Walker spotted!
bF4 was excellent and I started on with BF42
2142 will always have a special place in my heart
Knife only lobby dolphin diving about the dirty floors of Fall of Berlin
Knifing in general just hit different. Nothing more satisfying than getting those dog tags
I love that with every one these games you have here, each iteration something got added on or was done better. BF2 and 2142 were the classic and gave you that teamplay, grandscale warfare. BC1&2 added destruction but scaled the warfare a bit down compared to previous ones. BF3 took previous titles and just merged them together and finetuned gunplay and movement in the perfect BF game where BF4 knew it had the winning formula and just expanded on it. For me personally, BF2142 or BF3.
I started with 1942 but vietnam was the one where my Fandom started
Same for me 2142, I was top 3 in the world with the Zeller, I've played all BF games, next for me Bf BC and BC2, Bf 2, 3 and 4. Best regards!
Nice Thing! God i spend so much time in 2142. Came home from school at 2pm, turned on PC and played until 3am. Some fun ESL times. You remember the Special Ranks that were given out on a weekly basis (think they were based on Points Made)? I managed to get top 4 world wide for 5 weeks.
Yeah good times, with big clans and flooding servers with them playing like crazy, never gonna be back, we have to carry on. Times change, people change, games change, the world changes, nothing stays the same. I cannot find myself in these new games. I feel alone and left behind there is nothing for me to enjoy.
1942, BF2, 2142, BC2, BF1 has been my run (yes I'm old)
Vietnam
Battlefield 1942
Yessss finally. I loved the transfer vehicle that had rocket escape pods. Get in one of those on the Berlin map and hop on the train tracks to snipe. I was 10.
I still listen to the soundtrack.
Battlefield 2142, bf2 and badcompamy Vietnam in that order
Bad Company 2 and Battlefield 1943
bf3, 4, and then bc2. bf3 for me is series defining.
I wish I got to play 2142
1943 is my favorite of the "classics" if it counts :P
Battlefield Bad Company 2 is my favorite, I have great memories playing together with my older brother.
"tHeReS GOLD iN ThEm ThAr HilLs!!!" -Haggard, Professional Hillbilly
BF3
Cheatingfield
every time someone brings up 2142 i think they're talking about 2042 for a split second lol
BC2
BF3, BFBC2, BF4, BFBC
I've enjoyed them all but if I had to try to reconstruct a list: 2042, Bf2, 2142, V, 3, 1942, 4, 1.
BF2: MC PS2
Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4 and Bad company 2.
BFBC2. Only answer
I unlock everything in BF Bad Company 2 multiplayer, good memories.
Zeller-H from 2142 was the best sniper in Battlefield history and nothing has come close. Titan mode was a ton of fun too. Bad Company 2 still my personal favorite though.
Bad company 2. First battlefield with destructive buildings. It was amazing when it first came out. A total chaos..
Bfbc2!!!!
1) Bad Company 2 2) BF4 3) BF3 4) BF2
3
waoooowwww
It was always one of my favorites, always wished they would go back to that period.
2142 was my first BF game, so I have the best memories there
Battlefield 2 and Bad Company 2!
My classic favourites are 1942, 2 and Vietnam. Thats probably because they are the only classics i played, it really seems like they released banger after banger back then.
Bf2 still my fave
Yes.
Battlefield 2 and Vietnam are my personal favs. Vietnam's gunplay is my fav and the vehicular gameplay of 2 is spot on. You can even drive the cars with a steering wheel and the planes with a joy and still have the same kind of fun as with a keyboard
That’s a tough one! I’d say BFBC2 > BF2/BF2142 (tie for me) > BF3 > BF4
can you play these online without the ea account and shity launcher
People have two opinions on 2142. Either they loved it or they never played it. It was such an interesting take on battlefield but still stayed well within the formula. I'm going to have to go 2142, then bf1, 1942, bf2.
Battlefield 3 premium edition had shiny cover art i always loved
It's rare to see the standalone Northern Strike case, I know it just has a download code and no disc. Does it have anything else in the case aside from the code?
na just the code and that's it, it's still cool though ha
2142 is still my fav bf game. Imo the best scifi setting ever.
BF2 is GOAT
2142!!!!!
I'd just love to see a remake of 2142 with levelution and destruction engine from BFs 3 and 4.
2142 and BF2. They were the peak IMO.
Started with BC1, didn't care for the multiplayer. For me, BF4 was peak MP while BC1 was peak campaign.
As single finished product. BF3 has to be the best imo. 2142 was good but i also think people look back on older games with "rose tinted glasses". The nostalgia effect. During the time of the older bf games no other games were similar. Personally i dont think 2142 would sell well to a wider audience outside a core bf vets and others who like futuristic combat. Unless done really well. It has to be grounded in realism but still a realistic arcade shooter. None of the goofiness of bf2042. Gritty with destruction. But knowing EA, it'll be riddled with nonsense skins, battle passes and packs. Even tho battle passes keep the community together it started the down fall of bf. I miss premium 😭
2142 was special to me as well. I flew transport for my sponsored clan in a weekly national tournament way before eSports and streaming took off. Flying into the breach of an enemy carrier to drop off boarding parties was always a blast.
BF4 was in PS3???
Bf2, bf1, bf4.
The lack of responses about 1942 are disturbing. Even though it released 1 year after I was born I have many memories playing it at my grandads house taking in turns with my brother because that’s all they had along with Enemy Territory Quake Wars. Good times
1, 3, 4 in that order
BF2, BF2142, Badcompany 1 and 2, BF3. BF2142 just sticks out across the franchise for its innovation. It was so different but my god was it good. Glad to see another citizen of culture.
My personal ranking: 5. Battlefield 2(i never actually played it but Ive seen eneugh gameplay to draw conclusions and i hope future games will be more like that) 4. Battlefield 5 ( i liked some of the maps ik its flawed but i think it was overhated) 3. Battlefield 3(it was amazing and it blew me away when i first saw it) 2. Battlefield 1 same as battlefield 3 but even crazier its one of the most unique shooter games out there) 1. Bad company 2 (i actually started here and its still my favorite and i will explain why the sound design was and is peak the maps were all good some better then others but they were all fun. You had conquest and rush but they both have their own maps the rush maps were amazing. Also i wanna add in the end i think i could boot up ANY battlefield and if it still active i can enjoy myself quite easily also in 2042 or hardline.
BF2 Is forever GOATED
Bad company VIETNAM will forever be my favorite. Miss playing it so much
Bad company 2 & bf3
2142 is where I started. I spent a lot of time in 4 but have spent the most time in 2042. I’m still here hoping they make 2143. Hell my dad at one point actually tried to burn the game onto another disc so I could play it with him because he saw just how enthralled I was by it when I was a kid. But in order my favorites are 2142, 2042, and 4. Didn’t like 5 and eventually got so bored I camped the flak guns to remove ace pilots as the hate messages I got were super amusing, and side note I had booted up 5 at one points few months ago to see if it was actually better than 2042 like everyone kept claiming(it wasn’t) I got in a flak cannon and the first plane I shot down was a guy I used to go back and forth with a lot with kills as I recognized his GT, I killed him once and he left the server, so I guess he remembered me 😆. I thought 1 was pretty and a cool idea but felt unbalanced with the gunplay.
I played an unhealthy amount of 2142. By god that was so much fun. Like 2, but distilled down to the best bits, and then Titan mode added on was amazing. Full of jank, grenade spam, but amazing. Nothing's ever topped being in a full squad, podding up to a Titan, boarding, infiltrating and wrecking the thing in one go.
2142 for me as well!
2142 by a country mile.
Easily 2142. Miss playing that game. Was ridiculously fun.
BF3 purely for the MK3A1. If the next BF game has it, I'd cry and maybe pre-order the game. Which is not likely since I'm sure the devs forgot the gun existed since bf3, nor do I know what the next game would be set in.
All I ever did in 2142 was go up on to the ship then jump off every single time
BC2 , BF3, then BF4 ! , although I wish I was able to experience 2142!
Where BC1
1942 was an incredible opening salvo BF Vietnam was a worthy successor BF2 set the bar even higher 2142 was peak BF. BF Bad Company 2 was epically fun (as was BC on the PS 3) BF3 stubbed it’s toe a bit in the beginning BF4 made it to the heights of 2142 …. And then the tragic fall. Actually fall part two because there were some other really bad early iterations that were absolute trash. BF1 and V never hooked me and 2042 drove me away. .
Bf1942 desert combat, bf2, bf2142. Desert combat with the boys at the cyber cafe's lock ins were the memories.
BF1, BF4, BF3.
Bf2142 ♥️♥️ bc♥️♥️
BF3, followed closely by BF2.
Bad Company 2 and BF3
BFBC2 + Vietnam
Why is bad company missing?
BF2142, not only cuz i was really good at it (was part of its short, but very competitive Esport run) but overall it was the most fun i've had playing.
Bf2 was the one I have the most nostalgia for on PS2 and in general. Bad company 2 I had the most fun playing
BF3, BC2, BF4 baby
BF3 for sure
* BF2 Special Forces * BF2142 Northern Strike
BF3
1942, for sure. Forgotten Hope making it even better!
BF4 is peak Battlefield. went downhill after that.
I still have my USB and best buy bofors code. Fantastic game.
3
BC2 💞
BC1 then BF3/4
bf 3, bf 4
BATLEFIELD 3 was legendary. BF is OK, the rest are shit.
BF4*
Started solo bf2 and bf vietnam. Then switch to ps3 because of friends didnt have pcs at the time. So Bfbc2 then bf 3, was peak for me and my squad we played togheter almost every day. Started ps3 then when bf3 came out everyone built pc and switched togheter.
BF3, BF4 and Bad company 2 some of the best fps of all time
2142 is my overall favourite. Nothing will ever compare in my mind
BF: modern combat on console back in the day was my shit
BC2, BF3 and BF4 are my favorite.
[Mine fav almost same as op's](https://i.imgur.com/E03cOZA.png). Love that series from it birth to bf4
Bad company 2, hands down the best
Most real life friends played during bf1, such casual game we allll dominated..
BF2 is such a masterpiece
Where's the battlefield Vietnam love.
BF2 and Bad Company
1942 and Vietnam. Nowadays my favourite thing about these games is that you didn't have to unlovk stuff. You bought the game and had access to everything the game has to offer.
BF2 SF will always have a special place in my heart. It added so much great content into an already fantastic base game.
oh shit I still have to complete reading the book Battlefield 3: The Russian
Battlefield 4 is classic Battlefield now? It’s so joever for me
2142 gang gang. Hope we get a remake.
BF4
Titan mode was the business, so sad it never returned.
BF3 > 1942 > Vietnam
I don’t see 1942 in this picture, I’m really disappointed in you…😤 Can’t believe they shut down the servers of 1942 in Dec. I’d play 1942 over Battlefield 2042 always….Such a shame.
The only Battlefield I have ever played is BF4 so guess I'll go with BF4
4 in its 3rd year is peak Battlefield
The original Vietnam with the 60's and 70's soundtrack
Everyone is good and the best part, 2042 isn’t in this pictures
BF2, BFBC2 and BF3. BF2 still my fav cause first one I played but man bad company series had character. I miss those days.
Og BF Vietnam , is the best Battlefield game .
2142 needs a console port.
BF2 back when they didn't squish the 7 classes into 4 because some suit said they were getting feedback that snipers felt bad because they couldn't blow up tanks.