can connect to servers on first attempt now.

[Minmaster]

is it just me or can everyone now connect to servers on the first try? about time they fix this problem!

[Salad Snake]

Confirmation?

I went on a couple hours back but I had to do the double-connect thing.

[Raidyr]

I noticed it too. Thought it was just luck. I will check right now.

[Jacro28]

For me it's always been random. Some days it'll connect first time upon startup, others it'll take 2. It doesn't bother me connecting twice if I have to, though really it should work first go..

[Salad Snake]

Yeah it's never really bothered me, but it'd be a nice touch to fix it.

[Ix_Mac_xI]

The last few attempts I have made I went in first time as well. Time will tell I guess.

[« R²» P§I]

The last few attempts I have made I went in first time as well. Time will tell I guess.

Same here, last night i was shocked i didnt have to click them twice :shock:

[WolfAlmighty]

Yeah it's been better for me this past week, too. I think I only had the double-try thing happen once or twice out of about 10 times connecting to the server, so I'll take 80% over what I was getting for sure.

~Wolfgang

[Biotech2142]

random for me

[imported_Marche]

I contantly have to try to enter a server twice. I dont really care to be honest,

[Porthos]

Random for me as well.

[n3cr0m4nc3r]

I've become so accustomed to having to go twice that I just pick a random server to start off with.


Got kinda anxious the past couple of times when I logged straight onto K&P servers.

[Fingulfin]

I just use that funny little script that someone provided a week or so ago. Not sure if it was posted on TBF2142, but it was on FG. Anyway, the reason you have to join twice is because of some corrupt PB file. If you delete the file before you turn on the game, you can join first try. Problem is, nobody wants to delete some stupid file before they join the game, so one dude made a script that deletes the file for you. Sadly, it was for BF2, so I transposed it to 2142:

@ECHO OFF
:: launch_bf2142.bat
:: Launches BF2142 with command line options to remove pb stray files.
:: geogob, september 2007
:: version 1.0
:: Edited by Fingulfin to support 2142
::
:: EDIT THE PATH TO THE "Battlefiled 2142" DIRECTORY BELOW!
::------------------------------------------------
set BF2142PATH=C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Battlefield 2142\
set BF2142EXEC=BF2142.exe
::------------------------------------------------
::
REM Parameter handling (because usually more than 9)
set PARAMSTR=%1
SHIFT
:BEGIN
IF "%1"=="" GOTO END
set PARAMSTR=%PARAMSTR% %1
SHIFT
GOTO BEGIN
:END
REM PB file maintenance
echo DELETING %BF2142PATH%pb\pbns.dat
DEL /Q /F "%BF2142PATH%pb\pbns.dat"
::
REM launching...
echo launching %BF2142PATH%%BF2142EXEC%
echo with parameters %PARAMSTR%
"%BF2142PATH%%BF2142EXEC%" %PARAMSTR%
::pause
::EOF

Just paste that into a text editor, and save it as something like "launch_bf2142.bat". Then, create a short cut to it on your desktop or something, and run your game through that. I haven't had a single time that I couldn't connect first try since I got this script working Note that if you got the game off of EA Link, you have to change the "set BF2142EXEC=BF2142.exe" to "set BF2142EXEC=BF2142Pace.exe".

[Salad Snake]

Wait so what folder do you save it to?

Nice job BTW, I guess I should visit FG again every once in a while......

[Fingulfin]

Just stick it in your root 2142 folder, although its location doesn't really matter. I then created a shortcut on my desktop (well, Quick Launch for me, but some of you might want to do it on the desktop). Then I changed the ugle BAT file Icon to the 2142 Icon and renamed the shortcut to "2142". Pretty simple actually :)