BF2 1.03 Details Leaked**

[-Ryu^-]

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Glasseye's post seems to be the real deal as I have seen that post as well on the EA forums. It was a thread posted by one the EA admins in informing us on what exactly the new patch will be fixing for sure. Things like BH whoring was not specified in the patch nore name changing as they are not of higher priority.

[David Champion]

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Cool but October! Gull-Dang!

Plus I am sure they are not devulging all the tweaks, said previously , 140 Fixes?
Hope thats not all there is that's highlighted.

[Habloc]

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No info on Commanders repairing their assets, with the magic boxes falling from the sky...?

[-Ryu^-]

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Tbh if they remove things like that Habloc then they will be making the game too 'real'. If they choose not to allow magic boxes to repair artillery and usually squad members don't listen to commander suggesting them to repair artillery then I don't see any reason to adjust the whole game altogether. Make snipers one shot one kills, heashots death with any gun including pistols instant kills etc.

[David Champion]

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The primary reason to put stock in news from an official source is that you can be almost 100% certain it is totally accurate. Information given out during early to mid stages of development of a patch, game, demo or whatever tend to be inaccurate when compared with the final release, so we always wait to give you information until we're as certain as possible it is accurate.

Release dates are exactly the same in this respect. Any date we gave you now would undoubtedly be wrong, and while the wait is frustrating it is better not to be given incorrect information. We will however confirm the stage the patch is at, and at present it's in the mid stages of development.

This means that they've identified the majority of the issues which will be fixed and have got a decent way through the final patch list. There is refinement and improvement to go yet, before it is finalised and tested. Once it's through all of that it'll be released.

I for one would very much like to give you a 100% accurate list of fixes with a 100% accurate release date, but that's not information we have. We've seen proposed fix lists and potential changes but to release those in any official capacity would be misleading, so for the time being we cannot confirm any of the changes you may have seen on unofficial sites.

Again, apologies for the delay and I understand the frustration at a lack of concrete information.

So the dates could be wrong as well as content... Take it for what it's worth.

[imported_fvbyfv]

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If it comes out Oct 3rd they would have set a date that is a month late, I would be fired if I set a date I was going to have something done and end up getting it down a month after I said I would. Plus it goes to show you how badly Dice works, their work ethic.

[Spr1ngY]

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THE NEW RANKING SYSTEM BIT.... WTF???? i well dont understand it!!!

[imported_Spuddy]

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So the dates could be wrong as well as content... Take it for what it's worth.

Well considering it says "We will however confirm the stage the patch is at, and at present it's in the mid stages of development." the October release date is probably pretty accurate.

[imported_Zach]

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October?!? Oh, man, I hope that doesn't come true. (I don't believe the OP's "leaked" notes, but given we are already close to mid-September, it looks like that part might be true.)

I mean, there are four games coming out in October I intend to play, so if the patch doesn't come out this month, then it won't do me any good since BF2 will most likely get shelved (for a good, long while). :cry:

Black & White 2, 10/4/2005
Quake 4, 10/11/2005
Age of Empires III, 10/18/2005
Call of Duty 2, 10/25/2005

[sincles]

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Rank/Awards· Criteria for gaining ranks and awards has been changed.



seriously if the medals hour requirements of 5000 arent reduced or if the war college ribbon aint changed...ima gonna be mad

[jamesg5000]

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It seems common in all reports that they are fixing the Blackhawk overpower issue. I will be happy to see it fixed. I dont even play some maps any more as i hate even being on the US side watching teammates expoit the BH to take all flags in 2 minutes.

Sometimes I take the BH and park it somewhere far away just to keep it from my own team

[SpeedyGonzales]

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There are so many exploits and bugs that this game needs, too many to list..

Im sure, though, as always with EA... they WILL disappoint.. NEVER hold your
breath with EA..

It is apparent that the game we bought was still in beta form.. therefore we have
all been paying beta testers for the past couple months..

This game will likely be on my shelf by the end of the week.. It had potential,
it had some cool stuff, but it has some real LAMENESS to it also, that turns
me off..

[Donkey]

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I really dont see them removing the ability to repair in mid flight since this has been in the BF series for a long time...

As for a new map...thats nothing new either...Looks like a lot of people jumped on the BF bandwagon when BF2 came out...pitty they seem to be almost ruining the game bringing there other fanboy games into comparison and not the BF series...

Just my opnion

[Cardini]

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If it comes out Oct 3rd they would have set a date that is a month late, I would be fired if I set a date I was going to have something done and end up getting it down a month after I said I would. Plus it goes to show you how badly Dice works, their work ethic.

I would fire you for being this naive. In my 25 years of software development I have seen projects of various complexities and sizes delayed for all kinds of reasons. In most cases the people setting the release dates are NOT the developers/programmers themselves. In this particular case, to demean someone's work ethic without knowing the real facts behind the dates and the delay is unjustly judgmental. I'm pretty sure that when your boss asked you to clean the deep frier at McDonald's you knew fairly accurately how long it would take. GG

[Wheelcipher]

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More than 160 server- and clientside bugfixes.

I would like to see the entire list. What DICE and EA think are small and insignificant to them may not be to the end user. Some of the “smaller” issues may be significant for some users. Hey EA .. I know you read this blog. Please send me a list and I will post it. I promise.

New server browser includes a favorites list and history list for an overview of your last visited servers. There are also better filter options.

This is good news, but the browser will have to be better than BF2 Autoloader, which is an absolute necessity. It is a great program, and the guys who made it have done a great job! If they can’t surpass the quality of BF2AL, they might as well focus on another project.

Squad leaders get notified when someone wants to join their locked squad.

Not sure of the significance of this. Squad is locked for a reason. But, OK. I know when I lock my squad, I don’t want anyone else in… When I want to create a squad with certain people in it, we speak on the phone or via e-mail prior to getting in the game. Furthermore, as squad leader, you can kick people out. So … OK!

Spec Ops get points for destroying enemy assets.

This is a good move. If you’re like me, you hate artillery, and the sooner it gets knocked out, the better. This makes me want to play the SpecOps kit more now. C4, baby! Breakfast of Champions, tools of the Jihad!

Support, Medic and Engineer class get a limit on their teamscore for each player. Meaning that you can only (for example) heal a certain person x amount of times, after which you won’t get any more team points when you heal that same person again. You can keep your kit, and you can still get points for healing other people. This is to prevent stat farming.

Aww yeah. I’ve seen this many times. However, I do believe that instead of limiting the number of times you can heal a person, they should make it where you can only heal that person X times in a certain time frame. (i.e. 2 times per 5 minutes). Anyone who pads stats in this manner is probably a bunny hopper anyway and should be banned. :)

You can see who are sitting in a vehicle with you, and you can see which kit they use.

This is going to be especially helpful in a chopper. I am not sure what other scenario it will work in, but this is a good move. In a chopper, you need a medic, two engineers (until the patch comes out) a supply guy, etc … It’s teamwork. If someone isn’t pulling their weight, you can tell them to move along! Nobody is along for the ride!

The way teamkills are registered and handled will be changed. For example: If you take down a black hawk (enemy) and it crashes into a teammate, it doesn’t count as a teamkill.

There MUST be more to this that we’re not being told. What about intentional TK’s, or accidental TK’s? As I’ve stated before, 99% of the TK’s are accidents, and should not be punished. Yet there are some that insist on doing it because they are morons. I would like to hear more on this. We’ve heard a lot about TK’s being addressed. What more are they going to do? Hopefully eliminate it.

The way transport helicopters work will be changed. The Blackhawk will get less powerful miniguns, and it’ll no longer be possible to repair the BH from the inside.

This is OK, I think. My other suggestion was to put a gas tank on the chopper (so to speak) and have it allocated 10 minutes of fuel before being required to go back to get more gas. But I suppose my option and their “fix” will limit the air time for the flying tank with the cosmic rays of death. If the guns are going to be changed, I hope the same guns are used in the BH that are used on the HUMVEE. It’s a nice gun and more realistic. Making the chopper NOT fixable in the air will put a lot of engineers out of work. I think it should be fixable, but maybe at a slower rate. That would cause more teamwork to happen. It you don’t have 2 engineers on the chopper, you don’t fix as fast.

BF2 Account Tag · You can add a 6-character prefix to your account nickname which will be displayed in-game next to your nametag in the scoresheet, in game messages, and above your player.

Nice feature. This is good for all the 3l33t clan members. I might have to add [0wN3d] to my handle…

Server Reserved Slots· Server admins can define a list of player BF2 account names which will reserve VIP slots on the server.

This is very cool. This alone may cause me to go out and get a server! It will help management of the server for paying members. No need to take time to kick people manually when someone who is paying wants to play on the server.

Engineer/Helicopter· Modified the rate at which engineer can repair a helicopter while sitting in the helicopter. It now takes longer for the engineer to repair the helicopter.

Hahah! As I stated above… They stole my idea. This is an excellent way to fix this problem. Fixing at a slower rate will help facilitate engineer teamwork. Two engineers can fix at the same rate as one engineer does now. This is nice.

Vehicle/Control Point Capture· Only one person in a vehicle counts towards a control point capture. If passengers want to increase the rate of the flag change, they must disembark from the vehicle.

If this is true, it will be the best “fix” for the game. This is totally fair and will help to curb whoring. I really like this idea. The idea of chopper whoring is OK with me. It is somewhat unfair in certain situations (like in Mashtuur when the chopper takes all the flags in the first 2 minutes of the game and the enemy has no place to spawn), but it is a feature. I think this will help the game tremendously. The ONLY thing I don’t like about this is that it will deprive me of launching a M203 grenade into the chopper and seeing the fresh corpses fall out. But I can deal with that on my own time.

Rank/Awards· Criteria for gaining ranks and awards has been changed.

This is cool also. I would like to know how, but I am glad I might not have to play the game for 10 years just to get a certain ribbon or medal.

So goes my highly scientific analysis of this subject. I hope you enjoyed it. Keep in mind that all of this “patch” info may be rumor, thus my analysis is only slightly less accurate. :)