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Hah, you probably didnt like 2142 because they disabled "noob" kills and you had to work for your kills. It fixed a lot of issues that were present in the BF2 like the endless rain of grenades and such. It did however introduce other issues but those were minor inconveniences compared to some of the ridiculousness of BF2. BF2142 was much more team oriented since the motherships (forgot what they were called, its been a long time) added a new layer of strategy unlike the one-man-killtrains in BF2. There was a lot less camping room on 2142 as well since it featured large open areas with little cover while BF2 had lots of places to hide and stalk. And then there were the ridiculous grenades in BF2 which made the game utterly stupid. But i guess those same crappy grenades were apparently the highlight of the game.
Edit: One example of problems they added was the conquering of those "ships". People just overloaded every corner with remote detonating charges and boom, entire team dead, boom entire team dead. That was kinda fucked up but everything leading to that point was much better balanced than BF2. 2142 was probably just ahead of its time.
The Bad Company series, to me, is DICE understanding that many of their players don't want ultrarealism, just good uncut fun. Kinda like TF2, which started development as a very standard realistic class-based military shooter but gradually evolved into what it is now because the devs noticed that people weren't having fun in the initial builds (also for recognizability issues - kaki is kaki is kaki).
