Community Update from EAUK (Squad Hopping)

[Swoosher]

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Until they do away with artillery, those who stick together in squads will be indirectly punished for playing together, as they represent a juicy blob of red dots for the commander to prey on.

Those who play one are rarely targeted, why drop arty on a single dot?

Until EA/DICE realizes this, the arty feature will continue to work against teamplay in BF2.

I never thought of it like that, but that is true... :hmm:

Arty is a cool thing to have, but when your squad is the only squad on the server that's working together you are always going to be getting all the arty. At those times, when I hear the enemy arty firing I often warn my squad and 9/10 times it comes in on us.

As far as this whole "squad exploit" thing - it doesn't bother me at all - I like it - keep it how it is for cryin' out loud...!

[aren55555]

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totally stupid crap from EA!

[Greasy_Mullet]

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110% support this fix in 1.3! Great job Dice for taking note of this problem and fixing it for us.

Also with some of the other posts, I totally agree that arty needs an overhaul... especially with the amount of time it reloads. Right now it reloads every min... so how about double that and make it take 2 min to reload... and thus less lame arty spam. While you are at it please drop UAV to half the time live and double the time to recharge.

[=Yes=Overkill]

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It's not something that you change after so many months.It completely changes game play...In stead of adressing real problems and bugs now we will have change of game play...no comment

[Daz]

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Oh my lord.

Am I reading right?

I swear to god WHAT IS WITH EA.

What the **** are they thinking, every single patch they totally bugger up the game and we all are forced to adapt.

Yeah I understand people hop but jesus christ thats not even a problem, when has ANYONE ever even complained of that, thats ****ing bollocks. But removing squad leader spawning totally buggers up squads and if your squad wasnt green there would be not one use for squads.

They say its stopping teamwork, thats true, but its increasing squadwork. I thought good working squads WAS teamwork.

Even if there is a way to stop the so called 'exploit' without stopping us from spawning on squad leaders ( like you can spawn on your leader if the squad is locked ) it isnt even needed, and doesnt cause any problems in the game. Jesus christ.

This is completely moronic.

[Talus]

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They should have changed this in v1.01.

I totally agree with the change though and I'm glad it's happening...I was SO surprised the first day I started playing BF2 and I realized that people could squad hop this way...

To have waited a year is just gonna get people ticked. People can't see the big picture..they only see that their favourite exploit has been removed.

[derrickkolba]

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lol how is this an exploit when everyone could do it.........such a stupid idea imo

don't they have more gameplay bugs to decide on instead of this supposed cheat?

I think monkeys are running the asylum over there

utter stupidity imo

hi how about the colored name bug?? AF???? morons

I have been saying that a lot about game makers! they seem to go off course to do what they will and not what they should. they didnt fix jack,and they want to come out with 21**?&%$@ whatever! just wait till that comes out,even less support then now!:cussing:

[Sepp_Dietrich]

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Don't you wish just once they'd fix something we asked them to? <cough> Red/Blue still harking things up.<cough>

Oh wait, they corrected the afterburner animation on the A-10 in AF, silly me...

They DO listen after all.


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[The Defeatest]

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I personally hate this move and feel that it is another thing that EA and DICE has done to dumb down this game to the newb user.

Excuse me , I'm not a newb user! And I find it very funny that you need to "cheat" in competitive play, and what I mean by this is that you hop around in squads as many times as you want , just to win a match? Well thats not good gameplay to me. Thats exploiting the game. Once people find an exploit- and thats what this is- god forbid you take it away from them.It's sad that that's what competitive gameplay is all about in a war game.
Anyway my point is that clans will adapt and so will all the competitive game players. Man you guys act like they are removing the entire squad system.
And for all the "****ed off great players"screw you! go play something else and good luck finding something else better that the BF series.

long live BF

[imported_Devolutionist]

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(you can't change squads or join one while dead)

That's exactly what it is. This just means that more focus will be on protecting the squad leader. I was REALLY against this when it was announced, but the more I think about it, the more sense it makes. Being squad leader now will mean something.

[imported_Soda]

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How come everyone starts complaining about something they haven't tried yet? Yes, I know, new things haven't been very great for some in past patches, but common people, test it out first, then complain. Please.

[HowieMandel]

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Personally..........i cant see how anyone wouldnt like this idea.

You got to understand, that this isnt a "new" idea. This is how the game was supposed to be played anyways. And to be honest, im willing to bet that folks didnt do this, for the first few months the game was out. Meaning after some thought, and some good amounts of playtime, folks said.....ahhhh hahh.
Again, this isnt anything new. Its just alot of players now shift the focus on teamplay, to self play. And guess what folks, BF2 is about teamplay.
I mean, seriously, the community wanted more teamplay items to be put into BF2 versus 42. DICE came through. HOwever, now, everyone is getting away from the very tools, that were put into the game, to promote teamplay.
Again, SelfPlay.
Tell me you havn't yourself, or witnessed many times, someone leave a perfectly good squad, only to spawn on someone at a flag. Collect their points, then respawn back with their original squad. Please, you have done it, or seen it done, many times, in one round x100. This is not how teams or squads/ were supposed to operate.
So, i repeat, anyone not liking this change (its hardly a change really) cant possibly enjoy BF2 for what it is. ANd if thats the case, go play another self centered game. UT anyone?

[imported_DANK]

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I think this change will make Euro Force a lot better. Considering that the maps physical terrain becomes useless when you have that one guy who sneaks by(ME!); than turns into a mobile spawn.

To make it better I make sure that I am in a fast vehicle and that people are always spawning on me; so I will drive by a flag real quick unload some infantry and drive off to let them handle the direct fire and seize the flag.

This is just gonna force me to maybe be a squad leader for a lot longer. Maybe as soon as I spawn on the one squad leader I will look for another squad farther ahead and than change while I am alive.

This is good they are fixing this because I like to exploit it myself and deep down inside you guys know it is a shady and cheesy manuever. Just gotta step up and take the heat for awhile; but I am sure that we 'superior players' will find another way to work with squads and those of us who use the mic to talk.

[imported_JerseyBricklayer]

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lol how is this an exploit when everyone could do it.........such a stupid idea imo

don't they have more gameplay bugs to decide on instead of this supposed cheat?

I think monkeys are running the asylum over there

utter stupidity imo

hi how about the colored name bug?? AF???? morons

what ppl are doing is making squads.... waiting in the spawn screen till thiere buddy gets to a flag , the 5 ppl waiting spawn in... and instantly theres a whole squad

[imported_Grudge]

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Dice, leave the game alone and keep to fixing the numerous technical bugs that have plagued this game. Squad hopping has never been a problem that I've ever talked about with my clanmates or ever seen discussed on any forums. BF2 is a great game the way it is and it should be left alone. Stick to fixing the tech bugs and keep the game the same as it is. Enough is enough. G