BF2 is now a 'slow' game...

[Strega]

So I played last night for a good while, and the game is now slow and the maps take longer to finish. Why you ask?? Squad hopping is gone.

I noticed this with a bunch of my teammates last night. Everyone spends their time running from the 'nearest' flag, which on bigger maps, is kinda far. More time is spent walking, less is spent actually fighting. It wouldn't be so bad if every commander was actually trying to help his team with vehicles, but most of them are dropping them on runways, roof tops, on snipers, etc.

Sure these changes might be a good idea for competition play where your ENTIRE team is working together for a common goal, but for the average pub all star, this patch is horrific. This game can still be rectified!

Fixes that are needed:
- FOCUS ON BUG FIXES, NOT NEW FEATURES!
- Make squad hopping a server side option
- Make vehicle dropping a server side option
- Fix the server browser
- Fix the CTD issues so many people are having
- Claymores should have a way to be disabled

Bugs:
- Can't see who's in a server from the browser
- Refresh button is gone
- Voip doesn't work on some servers
- Artillery has a loop bug so you can deploy it anytime
- Red/Blue bug still in and more noticable now
- Sound loop bug still exists
- Hit Boxes still have issues
- TOW and AT Rockets still go through armor at times
- Server Joining is awful, many times you join a different server than you selected
- CTD when clicking "Join Game"


I think the QA department REALLY failed the dev team on this one. Who in their right mind would sign off on a patch like this with SOOOO many issues??? If my company released a patch like this, the community would riot (As they typically do). I know first hand what a 'bad patch' can do to the community.

[Black_lagon]

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they sad they will only nerf squadhopping but instead they nerfed sqyadcycling also

[imported_DwarfVader]

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I have noticed that the really screwed up the browser... Beyond belief.

[The_Misfit]

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I agreed 100%. I think in time, people will notice 2 things - slower play, and more spawncamping.

I played w/one clanmate on the Straferight.com server last night, only the 2 of us in a squad. We were on Mashtur City, which has good infantry action, but most of it is in the area between the backyard, mosque, and hill. We didn't have any of those flags, so we were stuck going Hotel > Mosque on foot most of the time, and if one of us died - no cycling between 2 people, so the 2nd guy had to respawn back @ the hotel flag.

This hurt any attacks on the flag by the both of us, and meant that one of us either waited for the other to spawn, or we ended up going solo in that direction. I hope all the crybabies over squad-hoping got what they asked for, 'cause now the game will have a pace not unlike that of a riviting game of Checkers.

[baroque]

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totally agree, i really dont understand why they removed squadjumping, i hope all you with no arguments but "i want an exploitfree game" is happy with this now so DAMN SLOW piece of ****.

and in clangames its totally devastated, you cant even play infwars anymore.
10 000 clangamers even signed a petition to save the squadjumping, and here it is released, NO ONE is happy, it brought totally nothing, you just destroyed the fun for alot of people, GG dice and EA.

[DeadlyMACD]

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If its really this bad, and it sounds like it is, won't their be enough demand for the community to play and support an older version? It doesn't sound like their are any reasons to play this patch over the previous ones.

[unununium]

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If its really this bad, and it sounds like it is, won't their be enough demand for the community to play and support an older version? It doesn't sound like their are any reasons to play this patch over the previous ones.

There should be, too bad there's more people playing the game than complaining about it.

[Strega]

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If its really this bad, and it sounds like it is, won't their be enough demand for the community to play and support an older version? It doesn't sound like their are any reasons to play this patch over the previous ones.

I'm sure EA probably forces all it's partners that run Ranked Servers to keep the server at the most current patch state. I'd REALLY like to see server owners tell their hosts to "Revert to 1.2".

[Hookey]

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If its really this bad, and it sounds like it is, won't their be enough demand for the community to play and support an older version? It doesn't sound like their are any reasons to play this patch over the previous ones.

Unfortunately, if you want to play on a ranked server, you'll have to patch. You're right that clans could carry on playing private matches on 1.22, but you don't play clan games all the time and who's going to want to roll back their version every time they play a clan match?

[[CR]K|Cpt.TwinSpire]

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I agreed 100%. I think in time, people will notice 2 things - slower play, and more spawncamping.

I played w/one clanmate on the Straferight.com server last night, only the 2 of us in a squad. We were on Mashtur City, which has good infantry action, but most of it is in the area between the backyard, mosque, and hill. We didn't have any of those flags, so we were stuck going Hotel > Mosque on foot most of the time, and if one of us died - no cycling between 2 people, so the 2nd guy had to respawn back @ the hotel flag.

This hurt any attacks on the flag by the both of us, and meant that one of us either waited for the other to spawn, or we ended up going solo in that direction. I hope all the crybabies over squad-hoping got what they asked for, 'cause now the game will have a pace not unlike that of a riviting game of Checkers.

hmmm maybe the SL shouldn't have died or better yet you should have joined a bigger squad... or became a sniper team or defend a back point...

There are plenty of options for small squads.

I believe the biggest problem was SL cycling, they could have fixed that by not allowing the SL to leave the squad while dead...

Squad hopping per se isn't really that bad unless its used to SL cycle (with 2 squads) or "teleport" a whole team to an island like wake.

[Black_lagon]

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hmmm maybe the SL shouldn't have died or better yet you should have joined a bigger squad... or became a sniper team or defend a back point...

There are plenty of options for small squads.

I believe the biggest problem was SL cycling, they could have fixed that by not allowing the SL to leave the squad while dead...

Squad hopping per se isn't really that bad unless its used to SL cycle (with 2 squads) or "teleport" a whole team to an island like wake.

noob you are if you don't know the benefit for small squads

[sdm151]

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I stopped joining a squad after about 2 hours of time on the new patch. When I did try to play in a squad, the SL was dead more often than not. Not too many people are going to be willing to stay back as a good SL. I think the change will be good for competition, but it totally wrecked pub play.

[Strega]

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I stopped joining a squad after about 2 hours of time on the new patch. When I did try to play in a squad, the SL was dead more often than not. Not too many people are going to be willing to stay back as a good SL. I think the change will be good for competition, but it totally wrecked pub play.

Which is why I like the idea have squad hopping a SERVER SIDE option.
Currently, there is ZERO benefit to being a SL.

[The_Misfit]

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noob you are if you don't know the benefit for small squads

Ahmen brother....

A sniper squad? ffs, I have maybe 14 hrs with that kit lol, most spent running as fast as I can for a helo.

The particular person I was playing with is an infantry whore like myself. With me as Assualt, and him Medic, we can roll full squads, but thanks EA, won't be able to cycle and do so

[Rambo-82(NOR)]

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i cant wait to read this in a server : "- vehicle dropping on snipers,rooftops,runways,enemies and uncappable bases is PROHIBITHED! Road ONLY" ,"And Squad jumping is lame" "Do this and you will be banned/kicked!" So... :p