BF2 Patch Plans

The Battlefield 2 Website (thanks Voodoo Extreme) has details on plans for a version 1.03 patch for Battlefield 2, expected around the end of August. Here's an outline of planned changes:
Towards the end of August, we will be releasing a new patch, 1.03. This patch is currently underway and will undergo thorough testing before it goes out to avoid the problems that have occurred in the past. There are over 140 fixes and improvements in this patch. Here are just a few of them:
Server and Client performance improvements.

    • Improved Server Browser - added Favorites and History Lists.

    • Point-farming prevention - game will stop Support/Medic/Engineer point farming exploits.

    • Squads - locked squad leader will get a message if someone wants to join.

    • Many HUD improvements - see the names of others in your vehicle, zoom level changing depending on vehicle, map zoom depending on map setup (16, 32 or 64 player map) etc.

    • Teamkilling changes - the logic of how teamkills are tracked will be changed.

    • Gameplay tweaks - the way transport helicopters work will be tweaked.

    • Additional scoring changes - players who destroy an enemy commander's assets will be given points.

There are many, many more fixes that will be included in the patch but we’re looking forward to everyone moving to 1.03 to get the best BF2 experience out there on a level, cheat-free playing field.
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Jul 23, 2005, 09:53
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Jul 23, 2005, 09:53
 
I just want them to fix the terrain morphing/melting, I mean if the computer sets everything at high, then why am I seeing this? And even on lower settings it's worse like the ramps will have gaps in them until you get close enough but still ya gotta be pretty close for them not to show up.

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Jul 23, 2005, 09:46
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Jul 23, 2005, 09:46
 
I think the game is balanced fairly well. With the exception of the jets. The only way I can take a jet down is by getting in one myself.

I use the AA vehicles against choppers and tanks all the time. They work surprisingly well. However, I think the helicopter missiles should dish out more damage. I swear I have hit enemy copters with several missiles before it starts to take any real damage.

Capping in a chopper should be allowed. It is a viable tactic. If you have a tank or another vehicle roll in that chopper will leave quickly. I guess the people complaining about this never played BF:V? We did this all the time. I think the people are really upset with the blackhawk repair exploit when they complain about this.

And yeah people do not know how to fly just yet... I'm still learning the harrier myself.

I like the idea of the rank applying to vehicles.

Supply drops fix everything else why not the commander equipment? It only makes sense...

My list of fixes:

Update the GUI for the fucking browser. It's 2005! Give me a favorites, buddy lists, etc....

Running teammates over is too sensitive.

My vehicle blowing up and killing a teammate should not count as a TK.

Allow Blue to run the game in 1600x1200!

And finally, I'd like to see the addition of jetpacks, skiing, and spinfusers!

Mmm coffee.

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Re: No subject
Jul 23, 2005, 09:45
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Jul 23, 2005, 09:45
 
Well, I'm glad I put off purchase if this is the extent of the problems. New machine coming on monday (Inspiron XPS Gen2 - for uni, ofc) so I might give in and buy when this patch comes. After all, my main grievance with EA was their banning no timelimit demo servers, but since there's still one or two running I guess they gave up on that particular line of idiocy.

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Jul 23, 2005, 08:34
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Jul 23, 2005, 08:34
 
Space Captain being almost an exclusive Spec Ops or Flying the attack heli's as a Engineer, you are very wrong. AA Vehicles can tear up a helicopter in a few seconds. Hell the AA Vehicles can stand toe to toe with the Tanks and survive. And the deaths I get from Jets are typically suicide runs or jet gangbangs.

But I do agree that vehicles should NOT be allowed to capture flags like in Battlefront.

My biggest complaint about vehicles is still that people do NOT know how to operate them or what they are capable of and shouldn't be allowed near them. I cannot fly a jet very well and if I every get in one it's to get from point A to point B, and I don't feel bad about taking it to do that. Why? Cause the jet will crash shortly after I bail out and will respawn back at base.

I Also wish that the Ranking system would also allow you to commandere a vehicle as well, example if a private is in the pilot seat of a chopper I should be able to get in the chopper and take his position being that I am a Lance Corporal. Either that or have some way of letting some of the awards/ribbons alow people to have first shot at some of the vehicles, and the same for Commander.

But they are supposidly fixing 140 bugs so I guess we will have to wait for a patch log or the patch itself to find out what all is being changed.

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And...
Jul 23, 2005, 08:30
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And... Jul 23, 2005, 08:30
Jul 23, 2005, 08:30
 
Perhaps it will fix the bug where the game goes absurdly choppy for no reason and doesn't stop until you restart the game... but when you quit out the game it hangs on the menu system, then continues playing the music in Windows for 2 minutes and once it finally stops I have to end task the game which hasn't shut itself down.

This bug occurs rarely but when it appears it does so for no reason. As much as I love this game there are too many times when it fucks me right off.

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Jul 23, 2005, 08:06
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Jul 23, 2005, 08:06
 
1) Flying around in a chopper full of engineers capping flags, or
2) Flying around in a jet blowing said helo to kingdom-come and earning yourself six easy kills everytime.

A) Neither, the first is a perfectly viable tactic and the 2nd is an excellent counter.

its only viable because it functionally works - its not conducive to a balanced game...

part of that has to do with a lack of AA weapons for infantry, and the extremely underpowered weapons on the AA vehicles and stationary installations - the 50 cal on the jeep should not do better against a heli than an armored AA vehicle, yet it does

you may think its viable, but clearly DICE agrees with all the people who DONT think its viable - since they are going to change it

Helicoptors should only count as 1 person when flag camping

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Re: About time...
Jul 23, 2005, 05:43
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Re: About time... Jul 23, 2005, 05:43
Jul 23, 2005, 05:43
 

"They also need to fix the supply drop repairing the Commander toys as well."

Christ.... THAT explains why I got my ass handed to me last night. Couldn't figure for the life of me how they kept repairing their UAV so fast.

" I'd be a corporal by now if I had gotten points for blowing up the Commanders toys. "

Yeah.... I hear you. Very frustating. I'm also sick of commanding winning game with negative team points.
Artillery TKs should count a little less for Commanders.
Shit happens.....


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About time...
Jul 23, 2005, 04:25
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About time... Jul 23, 2005, 04:25
Jul 23, 2005, 04:25
 
I'd be a corporal by now if I had gotten points for blowing up the Commanders toys.

They also need to fix the supply drop repairing the Commander toys as well.

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Jul 23, 2005, 03:50
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Jul 23, 2005, 03:50
 
I haven't bought the game and I'm not sorry I didn't. Interesting how they can treat buying customers though...

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Jul 23, 2005, 03:34
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Jul 23, 2005, 03:34
 
It's been a couple of days since I got back online (moved, been without internet for over a month) so I haven't played BF2 online that much.

But this far it's great, I really enjoy the game even though it has it's flaws, this next patch I welcome with open arms.

Ranked servers I don't really like though, I've become such the statwhore and have to basically slap myself so I go ahead and help the team/squad. When I do that the game is probably the best game I've ever played, when you have a good squad the game totally changes.

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Jul 23, 2005, 02:52
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Jul 23, 2005, 02:52
 
Which is more of an exploit?

1) Flying around in a chopper full of engineers capping flags, or
2) Flying around in a jet blowing said helo to kingdom-come and earning yourself six easy kills everytime.

A) Neither, the first is a perfectly viable tactic and the 2nd is an excellent counter.

In fact ive played a game where this was demonstrated to such a degree that the team using the helo lost, becuase they persisted and lost so many tickets, all it took was one pilot in a MiG. It didn't really matter how many flags they capped or how fast, everytime that MiG came around they lost 6 tickets. Or is it 5? I forget. None the less, it is hardly an exploit when there exists such an effetive counter.

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Re: Slap In The Face...
Jul 23, 2005, 01:29
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Re: Slap In The Face... Jul 23, 2005, 01:29
Jul 23, 2005, 01:29
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.its all about money..not about us, the consumer. who makes the business what they are...but im just amazed how dumb we are...buying this stuff up...still.

I didn't buy it and I played BF1942/V almost as much as I played CS and Diablo II. Not because of the ridiculous bugs and balance issues, which help my claim, but because of the "config editors are hackers" debacle. That's just too much.

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Slap In The Face...
Jul 23, 2005, 01:22
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Slap In The Face... Jul 23, 2005, 01:22
Jul 23, 2005, 01:22
 
... that is what the announcement of this expansion is to the people who bought this game.

It shows that Dice was most likely working on this before finishing BF2. I couldn't care less if it's coming from Dice(Sweden), Dice(Canada), or Dice(China). The effort being put into this expansion should have been put into the original product before it shipped. Game balance issues, exploits, and the broken features should have all been addressed during play testing. And most if not all should have been fixed prior to shipping.

The announcement of an expansion before the original is actually patched properly shows a total disregard and lack of respect for the customers who bought BF2 already. And I hope at least half of you have the balls to stand firm and not buy the expansion.

Yes, the game is fun but it's also extremely annoying. They didn't learn much from the issues with 1942 and BFV. But we keep buying up the games because they roll out enough hype to gloss over any and every negative that may be pointed out in previews or during media coverage.

They showed us all the Hollywood style action film videos of in-game footage and most of us never realized it was so heavily doctored until we had already bought the game.

Now we are stuck with Ranks/Unlocks that are set so ridiculously high only the shut-in crack-heads will get more than 3 or 4 unlocks before the game is forgotten. And this whole RANKED SERVER money grab... what a load of shit that is. Not enough that we paid for the game on the front-end now you want us to pay for RANKED Servers on the back-end also?

The thing that makes me most irritated is all the game-play issues. Yeah, the game is fun but it is suppose to be about team-work not gaining points via exploits so that you can level and get your next unlocked weapon.

These main issues are big ones... the chopper exploits, the auto balance, the browser, the TK tracking & punishment system, and the friendly/enemy indicator bug. How in the hell could they miss any of these issues during testing?

As far as the patch... I think late August may be too late.


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Jul 23, 2005, 00:32
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Jul 23, 2005, 00:32
 
I would REALLY like some infantry only maps!!

As I understand it, the expansion pack to be released this fall revolves largely around infantry combat with several additions such as grappling hooks, zip lines, night vision, etc. While I don't know if they intend to make any infantry only maps, there may yet be hope for a server-side switch to turn vehicles spawns on or off so servers can run the current maps without them (although any map sizes larger than the 16-player versions would be absurd).

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Re: tester who?
Jul 22, 2005, 23:40
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Re: tester who? Jul 22, 2005, 23:40
Jul 22, 2005, 23:40
 
i think the testers are ppl who dont speak very good engrish..and are given forms to fill out to explain the bugs in the games at university level essays.

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Re: TK changes
Jul 22, 2005, 23:37
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Re: TK changes Jul 22, 2005, 23:37
Jul 22, 2005, 23:37
 
i honestly can say ive never played CS, other than to give it a shot...decide it was gay..and uninstall it. thats it thats all. next.

Truthfully, if you think games you don't like are "gay" you'd fit right in.



To the guy complaining that everyone will have their stats maxed by the time this comes into being - well, yeah, they'll probably do a stat reset, haha.

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Re: ...
Jul 22, 2005, 23:07
DDI
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Jul 22, 2005, 23:07
DDI
 
Try playing 16 player maps, way fewer vehicles more infantry concentrated.

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Jul 22, 2005, 23:04
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Jul 22, 2005, 23:04
 
Now you know why Tribes players have been so crabby since 1998. We've been dealing with this from Vivendi for the last 7 years. Ever since they folded Dynamix and scooped up the franchise. Many of us do like BF2 lets hope the pacthes can fix the many many problems.

I loved Tribes 2... it was the first game that I actually witnessed teamwork in. It's a shame they fucked it about so much and couldn't resolve the UE's a lot of people were receiving. I hope BF2 is patched more than that, but being EA I'm not that hopeful...

Also, as mentioned by someone earlier, I would REALLY like some infantry only maps!! I'd never thought about it before but that is exactly what the game is missing: variety. Also, maps that have a lot more indoor areas would be great - the indoor areas at the moment are very refreshing but far too simplistic.

It's such a shame that great games like BF2 and Tribes 2 are supported so badly - it means that they never achieve the legendary status they deserve.

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Re: Ripping Commanders
Jul 22, 2005, 22:47
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Re: Ripping Commanders Jul 22, 2005, 22:47
Jul 22, 2005, 22:47
DDI
 
I like how people think if dev studios independently release a game somehow it will be bug free first iteration.

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Jul 22, 2005, 22:45
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Jul 22, 2005, 22:45
 
Gameplay tweaks - the way transport helicopters work will be tweaked.

HELLLLLL YES - that whole thing with the flag ganking in a heli full of people is complete bullshit and totally unbalances the game

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