A return to my efforts to have game access to Battlefield 2142.
I recognize this product edition was not a hit. EA and Origin have canceled Main Server access for login and registration. Yet there are Single Player "work arounds" to gain access to a limited number of scenarios.
1) I have obliterated my hard disk install and ensure deletion by going to delete on the Control Panel.
2) I have reinstalled the program, Battlefield 2142 deluxe, and its patches: 150 and 151.
3) Apart from MODs, I installed the after market Single Player 1.1 and 1.2 whose origins are relics of the past.
The program will launch through its opening menu. The login screen is a problem. As it is impossible to create a new identity or retrieve a past identity because the link to the Main Server is non-functional, I "cleverly" select SinglePlayer as an identity followed by a random password.
After providing basic information, a launch is set. After a few minutes, the link times-out. Sometime, I can select Okay and playoff line. Sometimes and frequently, the link will time out and refuse my identity as not being on record, sending me back to the general login page.
Such are my frustrations (again) for this day in August. Apart from throwing stones at the game, or myself, I simply ask whether the pool of SimHQ knowledge has any simple operational steps for rendering an admittedly poor product, functional in an offline-single player format.
Thank you.
