I thought the walkers were clunky and somewhat hard to control. The smaller maps were cluttered and the larger maps had no cover at all between flags. Those damn Magnetic land mines were Horrible. And the invisibility/cloak for Recon class was a hackers best friend. They would stay in cloak the whole map and just walk around killing people. Then there was the Players getting stuck in walls and titans disappearing into thin air lol.
I was playing BF1942 DC, Unreal Tournament 2004 and BF2 at the time and 2142 just felt unrefined and somewhat broken.
My competitive gaming clan was chosen by FilePlanet to host 1 of the East Coast Beta server since we we owned our own servers and our Chicago based server host was about as fast as you could get back. Which it needed to be for CAL and CPL tournaments,practice and scrims. 4 years undefeated in CAL for BF1942 DC and 2 years undefeated in CPL for BF2. So we got a number of free keys and an actual disk image that we had to Burn to disk or mount. I still have my burnt disk but the key is long gone.