Why do you have to load the next map....

[x0pht]

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ALT + F4 solves that problem.

actually that friendly big button on ur computer case does too.

[evilzucchini]

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ok the most annoying thing is actually u need to ridiculously spend the same amount of time to unload resources.

LOFL! My friend and I are dumbfounded as to why this happens. It's not like they have to put the resources BACK onto the harddrive. . . all they have to do is delete the references to them! It should take less than a second yet it takes about a minute. . . what the hell is going on?

[puglous]

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I agree but...

thats about the dumbest, stupidest, moronic thing I have ever seen
in a game...

Either you love to exaggerate or you are playing some REALLY awesome games.

[DrunkenPirate]

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DICE are morons...total, complete, thoughtless idiots.

I thought you said you took BF2 back to the shop?
I thought you said you used the exchange to buy SW Battlefront 2 instead?

Everythread you post is the same old ranting dribble. Seriously

[ConscriptVirus]

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they should include commands like "nextmap" or something

[JonnyMacFred102]

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IMO it is one of the stupidest mistakes DICE could have made and did. It's rediculous. The next map should be stated, in plain English, before you have to load and when you can cancel loading. This is why i avoid random servers because i might be playing strike or wake and it loads some garbage map next. I always exit when the chinese music plays unless i KNOW it is wake island.

[-=4th=-1/2Hawk]

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they should include commands like "nextmap" or something

? This works (as a server admin):

rcon exec admin.runnextlevel

What they need is an rcon command to jump to a particular location in the maplist rotation... If anybody knows how to do that, I'm all ears.

[DrunkenPirate]

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? This works (as a server admin):

rcon exec admin.runnextlevel

What they need is an rcon command to jump to a particular location in the maplist rotation... If anybody knows how to do that, I'm all ears.

No, what he means is a public nextmap command that tells you what the next map is.

In BF:V and '42 it was "!nextmap" the server would then respond in public chat with "the next map is El Alamein" or something.

[Legli]

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Maybe they are trying to get you to play all the maps and enjoy all the hard work they put in to them :P Doesn't bother me, I'll play any of the maps, although sometimes it takes some self control not to scream about the fact that it took me ages to find such a good server on a map I love. I always seem to end up on either Kubra Dam or Dragon Valley no matter what I do, but at least now since I'm better at them I enjoy them.

[kamandor]

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I agree, I noticed it the first time I booted up BF2. BF1942 told you what map is loading, it is ridiculous.

As for the "Menu Loading" thing when you hit escape, I actually really appreciate that feature. It's much better than how it was in BF1942 and BFV, where if you hit escape by accident BOOM the game would seemingly freeze and your computer would chug away loading the menu. At least now you know what you did and you can still shoot and move before being put into the menu.

ON THE OTHER HAND what this game really needs is a menu box that pops up that says "Are you sure you want to go to menu? Yes No " so that you have the option whether you want to go to the menu or not if you hit escape by accident. That would be REALLY EASY TO CODE DICE, why the hell isn't it there in the first place?? Especially since in BF2 you have to hit the F1/F2/F3 keys, etc, to change seats in vehicles, which means you might hit Esc a lot more often than in BF1942/BFV.

Above all else though, Dice needs to fix the mother fu*king in-game browser. THIS IS THE FIFTH PATCH DICE - FIX IT ALREADY!! MOST GAMES ARE RELEASED WITH FUNCTIONING BROWSERS!! THAT MEANS NO BUGS, NO HICK-UPS, AND NO HAVING TO RESTART BF2 WHEN THE SERVER LIST DISAPPEARS.

Rant over.

[Blah56]

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Above all else though, Dice needs to fix the mother fu*king in-game browser. THIS IS THE FIFTH PATCH DICE - FIX IT ALREADY!! MOST GAMES ARE RELEASED WITH FUNCTIONING BROWSERS!! THAT MEANS NO BUGS, NO HICK-UPS, AND NO HAVING TO RESTART BF2 WHEN THE SERVER LIST DISAPPEARS.

Rant over.

5th patch? I don't think so... And restarting the game when the server list disappears, why would you have to do that? It's not impossible to get the list back up.

Anyway, staying on topic, I also don't like how you have to wait for the next map to load before seeing what it is, but then again my games load pretty quickly so it's not a huge problem.

[Second Gunman]

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Fifth patch sounds about right to me..........There was the patch with the memory leak. The patch to fix the memory leak. The patch with Wake Island. SF doesn't really count as a patch, but this could have been fixed there also. Then there was the patch so BF2 and SF can play together. I count four patches and an expansion pack. That makes this either the fifth or sixth chance they've had to fix the browser.

[jdrou]

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5th patch? I don't think so..

The upcoming patch will be the 5th: 1.01, 1.02, 1.03 (a.k.a. 1.1), 1.12, next patch (probably 1.2).

[F.Rabshaw]

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anyone that has played every map more than a few times should be able to tell what map is next by the background scene behind the scoreboards... simple enough for me.

[Retribution.]

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I'm psychic so it never really bothers me.