Coffee Break Annoyance!

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  • Philosopharrior

    #1

    Coffee Break Annoyance!

    I'll paint a little picture.......

    You have been blowing things up and shooting people for a few hours, maybe it's getting late. It is time for a coffee and maybe a sandwich too. Your next death you press the Enter key and click on a random space on the map, just to avoid any random accidental spawns, and off you go to make your snacks.

    Upon your return you sit down and want to watch the action whilst drinking and munching away, but every 7 seconds the flippin spawn screen keeps popping up.

    Drink, slurp, munch, lick fingers, tap Enter.
    Drink, slurp, munch, lick fingers, tap Enter
    Drink, slurp, munch, lick fingers, tap Enter.

    Does anyone else find this repetition very annoying. Don't you just wish that you could toggle the spawn screen 'on' or 'off'.

    I know we shouldn't encourage people to join servers and just sit back and watch the action taking up someones valuable space and robbing them of their playfull mayhem. But sometimes you just need a break and it would be sooo good to be able to watch some uninterupted violence.

    Please EA and Dice, hear my pleas can Patch 1.4 address this issue and if not, can you ensure that BF2142, that I am eagerly awaiting, doesn't have this annoyance.

    Anyone else that feels the same post on!

    Hopefully EA will hear our pleas and we can all enjoy watching someone sneak up on a poor sniper who promptly gets his guts stabbed out, without having to tap Enter.
  • P_Static_2

    #2
    Re: Coffee Break Annoyance!

    I know exactly what you mean. Ive become used to it though, I would rather it not pop up like that so I could really further my entertainment of watching a noob getting ownt....but I cant. Oh well, I feel ya philo...

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    • barz26

      #3
      Re: Coffee Break Annoyance!

      you can, click the X at the top right and it disappears until you press enter

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      • sknight

        #4
        Re: Coffee Break Annoyance!

        haha. Funny thread. Yeah you could have been enjoying more sandwhiches and coffees had you known about the little 'X' trick. Similar in the other Battlefield games.

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        • CDN-SMOKEJUMPER

          #5
          Re: Coffee Break Annoyance!

          Oh god i've been playing since February and I just learn this now? Go figure.

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          • Gav

            #6
            Re: Coffee Break Annoyance!

            Damn... I've been playing since last August, and I didn't know about that either! Although granted I never walk off mid-round, so I would never use it.

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            • batdoguk

              #7
              Re: Coffee Break Annoyance!

              Not sure if I dreamt it - or I'm getting confused with America's Army - but last week after I died I happened to press something (was it the right mouse button?) and I then started to cycle through all the other (surviving) guys in my team, so I could see what they were up to. Is this right? And if so, can someone confirm what I need to press.

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              • spitsfreeman

                #8
                Re: Coffee Break Annoyance!

                yeah the lovley "X" took me a while to find it :)

                Originally posted by batdoguk
                but last week after I died I happened to press something (was it the right mouse button?) and I then started to cycle through all the other (surviving) guys in my team, .
                I belive you only need to press the C key

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                • dontshoot@bob

                  #9
                  Re: Coffee Break Annoyance!

                  Originally posted by batdoguk
                  Not sure if I dreamt it - or I'm getting confused with America's Army - but last week after I died I happened to press something (was it the right mouse button?) and I then started to cycle through all the other (surviving) guys in my team, so I could see what they were up to. Is this right? And if so, can someone confirm what I need to press.
                  When you are dead you can cycle through the remaining players by pressing 'c' (default)
                  I don't often use this though, apart from when i die and there is no flags to spawn on. You can you use this to see if any one is taking a flag - usually watch them die!! lol

                  But i didn't know about the 'x' thing, v. handy for when i have to answer the door

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                  • Philosopharrior

                    #10
                    Re: Coffee Break Annoyance!

                    I don't bloody believe it.

                    Is it really so simple, all I must do is press the flippin X tab.

                    Ha ha ha. How funny is that. And to think I went through all that finger licking. Man I feel stupid.

                    Thanks guys I shall continue eating my sandwiches uninterupted and happily watch snipers guts spill!

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                    • Desertfox

                      #11
                      Re: Coffee Break Annoyance!

                      Deselect spawn, hit X wait for 15 seconds hit space and you can ghost also

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                      • Timewarp

                        #12
                        Re: Coffee Break Annoyance!

                        good 2 know.... you learn something new everyday!!!!

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                        • sm007h
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                          • Jun 2006
                          • 75

                          #13
                          Re: Coffee Break Annoyance!

                          Originally posted by Philosopharrior
                          I don't bloody believe it.

                          Is it really so simple, all I must do is press the flippin X tab.

                          Ha ha ha. How funny is that. And to think I went through all that finger licking. Man I feel stupid.

                          Thanks guys I shall continue eating my sandwiches uninterupted and happily watch snipers guts spill!
                          ...at least until you get kicked for being idle

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                          • barz26

                            #14
                            Re: Coffee Break Annoyance!

                            Anyone got any other little hints and tips regarding controls we might not know?

                            seems as good a time to ask:)

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                            • Beerman

                              #15
                              Re: Coffee Break Annoyance!

                              Ya I seen some ppl do something using that. One guy would invisibly fly around and tell his squad where every1 was.

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