It seems that with the introduction of 1.3 clan matches (and i presume all unranked servers) cannot use the unlocks. I played a clan match the other night, expecting to use the unlocks, only to find that we were forced to go back to using the M16's and MP5's that none of us had used in months. I can't understand a logical reason for EA/DICE only allowing unlocks on ranked servers. Does anyone know why they'd do this? Was it intentional or just a mistake?
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Re: EA has intentionally stopped unlocks in clan matches with 1.3?
My first guess would be that the flag AllowGlobalUnlocks is set to 0 by default and the server you were playing on had forgotten to change it.
Just a guess.
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Nope, unlocks were enabled, both the clan im in and the clan we were playing against tried several times on our servers. Nothing happening
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Re: EA has intentionally stopped unlocks in clan matches with 1.3?
I haven't seen this being mentioned elsewhere but doubt that EA have removed unlocks from unranked servers.
If the server can't connect to the master server and you join via your favourites list then will it just have the default weapons?Comment
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Re: EA has intentionally stopped unlocks in clan matches with 1.3?
I joined via the 'Connect to IP' button, not favourites. It seems that its not a local problem:
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Well that's annoying.
I'll do some digging tomorrow.Comment
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CheersComment
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Re: EA has intentionally stopped unlocks in clan matches with 1.3?
While I was talking to our server provider they have informed me the all unranked servers do not allow unlocks in game.
This was EA intentions from the start, so you could only use the unlocks on Ranked servers.
If you have an unranked, modded, clan match, lan party, or anything that classifies the server as unranked, you will not be able to use unlocks.
The way they have set it is that if you change your server settings for the Global unlocks to 1 ( so they are turned on). That setting will just be ignored.Comment
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Hmmm, well AFAIK EA never had anything against unranked servers using unlocks. What they didn't like was unranked servers offering people *all* the unlocks, even the ones they had yet to earn, by redirecting the traffic from Gamespy to a different server via the HOSTS file.
Looks like it's not just you though Walker.
Why then was the "Global unlock" setting ever introduced in the first place if it wasn't to let people play on unranked servers with the weapons they had unlocked?Originally posted by [BIA]_RicoComment
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Re: EA has intentionally stopped unlocks in clan matches with 1.3?
I dont know. This is what our clans server provider ( Multiplay.co.uk ) told me. They worked on it for about 4 hours to try and bypass it, but it will only let them do it if they refer back to the previous patch.
Patch 1.3 is causing this and the server providers are up in arms contacting EA to find out why they are doing this.Comment
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Yep, noticed this to.
We played an internal game last night on our ranked server. It was passworded thus it became unranked, and as soon as it was passworded NO unlocks were available.Comment
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Yes no unlocks for unranked servers We have the same problem in our practice server.
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I think it has something to do with certain rank/stat tracking programmes used by unranked servers i.e http://www.battlefieldranking.net
They say its to do with security issues but im not quite sure why all of a sudden its not usable?Comment
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Well that sucks arse there now screwing over unranked servers so you've got to play on a ranked server to use unlocks .Comment
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I'm sure somebody will come up with a hack...Comment
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