Ranks/Unlocks change with 1.1 patch

[[SAJ]Korvin]

I picked this info from EA UK forums but it is quite interesting. One guy in thread http://forum.eagames.co.uk/viewtopic...=6989&start=15 mentioned seeing "JohnnyButane" playing on EARS test server where new patch is tested. If you check his stats http://bf2tracker.com/bf2_userawdsta...bf2id=43700333 you'll see that he is First Sergeant but his global score indicates that he should still be a Corporal. It is like -126% for Next Rank. And strangest of all he does have 6 weapons unlocked with only 23,771 points.

Maybe this is indication what new patch will bring. Less points for Ranks and unlocks?

[imported_Spuddy]

Re: Ranks/Unlocks change with 1.1 patch

As I posted over there, I hope this is wrong. If not, the requirements have been reduced way too far.

[Combined]

Re: Ranks/Unlocks change with 1.1 patch

As I posted over there, I hope this is wrong. If not, the requirements have been reduced way too far.

And that's a bad thing how?

[« R²» HKS]

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That would mean instead of the 3 unlocks now I would have 6. Thats all I care about, stats mean nothing other than getting another unlock. I'm not going to play for 10,000+ hours just to get certain badges/medals thats a joke.

[imported_Spuddy]

Re: Ranks/Unlocks change with 1.1 patch

And that's a bad thing how?

It's a nice little incentive, if they've been heavily reduced I'll probably end up being Sergeant Major on patch day. I wouldn't even see much point in playing on ranked servers any longer either.

[Sgt. York]

Re: Ranks/Unlocks change with 1.1 patch

Well, maybe they are adding ranks. Maybe officer ranks are in the works and more unlocks are in store when SF is released.

[imported_Spuddy]

Re: Ranks/Unlocks change with 1.1 patch

Well, maybe they are adding ranks. Maybe officer ranks are in the works and more unlocks are in store.

Now if that happened, the extreme requirement reduction would be understandable.

[Combined]

Re: Ranks/Unlocks change with 1.1 patch

It's a nice little incentive, if they've been heavily reduced I'll probably end up being Sergeant Major on patch day. I wouldn't even see much point in playing on ranked servers any longer either.

Why not? you still have your stats and the general ranking, you can still progress through ranks (not the titles but the numbers) even though it's practically impossible to catch up to the guys who play 24/7 hehe. And even if you stop playing on ranked servers altogether, the game itself is still fun so it's all good.

[j4k3]

Re: Ranks/Unlocks change with 1.1 patch

i don't really care about the ranks. i do, however, care about the unlocks 'cos it brings variety to the game...

[YelloPL]

Re: Ranks/Unlocks change with 1.1 patch

I guess that reducing rank requirements is a sound thing - in the end I don't think too many people will ever get above 20.000 points, which means they would only get 2-3 unlocks in their BF2 experience. Of course their is a dedicated community of players, who will stay with that game for a long, long time, but quite a few people will move to CoD2 and many other games.

When I saw the rank requirements for the first time I was quite frustrated, so I see a point here. I don't care about it anymore, as I have the 2 unlocks I really wanted, the rest are nice-to-haves.

IMHO the best solution would be to reduce the requirements for the current ranks, but add a few more, so that players would be still rewarded for getting 100.000, 200.000 ... or more points.

Anyways, no matter what they do I will keep playing this game until I get bored or find something else, but I doubt if I can get any higher than a plain sergeant with the current requirements.

[big_sammy_b]

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That would mean instead of the 3 unlocks now I would have 6. Thats all I care about, stats mean nothing other than getting another unlock. I'm not going to play for 10,000+ hours just to get certain badges/medals thats a joke.

Yeah same for me i did play for ages to get my corperal rank but i only did that so i could unlock the pkm. So it would be nice if they reduce the required points and i get another gun too unlock :)

[DakotaDoc64]

Re: Ranks/Unlocks change with 1.1 patch

I picked this info from EA UK forums but it is quite interesting. One guy in thread http://forum.eagames.co.uk/viewtopic...=6989&start=15 mentioned seeing "JohnnyButane" playing on EARS test server where new patch is tested. If you check his stats http://bf2tracker.com/bf2_userawdsta...bf2id=43700333 you'll see that he is First Sergeant but his global score indicates that he should still be a Corporal. It is like -126% for Next Rank. And strangest of all he does have 6 weapons unlocked with only 23,771 points.

Maybe this is indication what new patch will bring. Less points for Ranks and unlocks?

Some thing is fishy. If you go to BF2s.com with his PID number it currently does not show this like BF2Tracker does. http://bf2s.com/player/43700333/

So if all his stats have changed they have done it in the past 24 hours.
The 3 other places I know to get stats that update faster show this new rank and unlock also.

[jumpin]

Re: Ranks/Unlocks change with 1.1 patch

Certainly, something needs to change with regard to the steps for promotion, if only to lower the 1,000 -> 10,500 gap or maybe introduce something inbetween.

I play on average maybe 2 to 3 hours per night, and I'd say this is a reasonable amount of gamplay for a casual gamer. It's estimated (by BF2S) that it'll likely take over 250 days to reach my next rank, and that just feels unreachable right now.

Sure, the gaps should "widen" as the ranks grow, but getting above Lance Corporal shouldn't be so huge. Really this is about weapon unlocks.

JJ

[[SAJ]Sentinel]

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i don't really care about the ranks. i do, however, care about the unlocks 'cos it brings variety to the game...

Exactly.

I'd be the happiest person on the planet if they'd kill ranking alltogether, and let us all use unlocked weapons.

I hate having to logoff and login with another account, just so that I can use M95 which I unlocked on another account. Sometimes I just feel like sniping (pilots in the choppers ), and then I have to logoff, login again and hope server is not full.

Then, sometimes I feel like being AT (which I play most of the time), so I have to switch back/forth for DAO (which I love).

I really don't want to spend 8 hours/day playing BF2, just to reach amount of points that gives me next unlock. I want to do other things in life besides BF2...

[Johnny Butane]

Re: Ranks/Unlocks change with 1.1 patch

As far as I know most people should not see a such a huge jump. They may perhaps go from Lance Corporal to Corporal but that's all. My status does not reflect the new ranking changes. Sorry. :)