More 1.4 Beta Testers Needed

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This is Bugs list from Polish community. We created this many weeks ago . I have send this list to EA and get "thanks" from them for that. it was before first 1.4 info. Please tell me how many bugs from this list(some of those are exploits) was fixed in 1.4 beta 2 ? As i wrote in last post, 3 ! They don't care about BF2 anymore. 1.4 will be the last patch and it will not fix even 1% of all bugs...

1) Sometimes „Join Game” screen appears again although we're already in the game.
2) When Squad Leader is in place where he can’t stand up, squad members can’t respawn on him but respawn icon is still green.
3) Sometimes supply drop doesn’t appear at all.
4) Type 85 can shot only in auto mode.
5) Sometimes gunner can’t control TV rocket.
6) Red/Blue name tag bug is still here.
7) Sometimes nothing happens after firing a TV rocket, instead it just loads next one.
8 ) Some bullets don’t hit target. You can shoot whole clip to an enemy but he will survive. It happens in tanks too.
9) Changing sits in a helicopter disturbs AA rockets' locking on you. Locking on should continue even when you change place in a vehicle.
10) Sometimes ammo packs and health packs fall inside the map. It affects C4 also, moreover they fall inside vehicles too.
11) Sometimes instead of one, we throw two ammo packs, health packs, grenades at once. After few seconds one disappears.
12) Commander is able to spot an enemy even without Scan or UAV. He should have spotting ability only while scan is in progress. When scan is over and info about enemy had disappeared, he should not be able to spot enemies until next scan/UAV.
13) In some cases revived player doesn't have his kit.
14) Sometimes when you change back to TV mode after some time, instead of ready rocket you will find that it's reloading again.
15) Sometimes rockets go through objects. It happens to all types of rockets.
16) Game doesn’t show other players' animation properly. When you change to stand/crouch position very fast while being behind a wall etc., you will be able to see and shoot enemy behind it but enemy won’t see you for short time. Also going to prone position takes more time for animation than for hitboxes.
17) Jeep drop should work like supply drop. It shouldn’t drop exactly in pointed place.
18 ) Planes shouldn’t be able to slow down so much, that they are able to shoot down helicopters with gun only and then fly away using boost. They should fall down and crash.
19) Sometimes claymores don’t work at all, in other situations they blow up when we are few meters away from them.
20) When player is laying behind obstacle his legs stick out on the other side.
21) Jeeps shouldn't be allowed to be dropped on buildings, etc.
22) AK guns should be less accurate. Often they win fight on long distance with M16 and on short they overpower it with better damage and auto mode.
23) Game crashes too often.
24) After TK with claymore/mine both players should get negative scores.
25) After 1.3 servers are crashing more often.
26) Vehicles lose hp even when they pull off from small hill.
27) Player loses hit points when he runs downstairs.
28 ) You can’t control your character for a moment after running on top of the stairs. Many players fall down from Construction building on Sharqi Peninsula because of that.
29) Sometimes you must use defibrillator 2-3 times to revive someone.
30) Shooting sound loops sometimes. It happens usually with unlocked weapons.
31) Server browser doesn’t show information properly.
32) Sometimes vehicles on mini map have player icon.
33) When player gets in dropped jeep he will have “drop” icon over his head.
34) Sometimes zoom in sniper rifles, AT changes back to normal mode. Even if we don’t click at all.
35) Spawn map appears again even if we close it using “X”.
36) J10 maneuverability should be decreased or AA rockets should be much more effective against it.
37) F15 maneuverability should be increased.
38 ) AA rockets should be a bit more effective against F18.
39) Plane cannons should be more effective against other planes.
40) Planes can destroy AA turrets before they are in their sight. They shouldn’t be able to attack so precisely before they see their target.
41) Sometimes enemy unit spotted by commander is displayed with green icon or is not displayed at all.
42) Vehicle drop can destroy artillery or other vehicles.
43) In 1.3 logging and map loading take more time.
44) Disconnecting without any reasons.
45) Sometimes Stinger can lock on enemy chopper from further than normal distance. You can get lock on Sharqi Peninsula by Stinger from MEC base when you are near TV Station.
46) Player can get inside some buildings like Hotel on Strike At Karkand.
47) Sometimes you need to press fire button few times when you are sitting in TOW to shoot.
48 ) Sometimes enemy helicopter is not showed on map after being spotted.
49) UAVs shouldn’t fly on the same altitude. They sometimes destroy each other.
50) When you are shooting with M4 at people in MEC/China jeeps bullets go through them without making any damage.
51) Defibrillator should have shorter range. Medic should crouch next to wounded guy to help him.
52) Planes and choppers are crashing when they hit parachute.
53) When player is lying on a building and looks downwards it looks like he is looking forward. You should crouch to look down when being on edge of building etc.
54) Medic heals himself when he is in a vehicle.
55) Sometimes artillery doesn’t do any damage even when it hits near the target.
56) Medic should be able to revive other player only after he calls for medic.
57) Claymores should be destroyable with grenades
58 ) Player should be able to change squad when he is dead but after that game should add time to respawn, maybe 10s.
59) Players should be able to write in chat in pause mode.
60) Alternative server browsers like All Seeing Eye should work without any problems.
61) Vehicle moving from the respawn place should push away other players, not kill them.
62) Server information menu in game is always showing standard port.
63) Commander can use his menu even when he is dead. He just opens squads' menu and clicks right mouse button few times on the map.
64) Smoke grenades should works longer and be more effective.
65) Assault should have two smoke grenades.
66) Sometimes game identifies us as Privates although we have higher rank.

Re: More 1.4 Beta Testers Needed

Beta testing isn't my job, that's for DICE to do. The community can hardly be to blame for the fact DICE cannot release a working patch and I have little faith in the idea that the community will be listened to if they report bugs in the game. Instead I see it more as a scapegoat for DICE to fall back on if the next patch is buggy ("hey, you guys got to beta test it too!") and also as a way to take more time on releasing the patch (and freeing up more people to work on 2142 in the hope it'll be better than QW -- which it won't).

Boom!! Thank you.. It isn't our job to find their bugs. You've ****ted on the community enough. Now I'm offically done with the POS game.. you've had over a year to fix this.. but yet you keep screwing the community.

[JonnyMacFred102]

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I don't play on the beta servers any more because there are usually no infantry only ones and if there are, nobody is playing in them. No servers are populated so i find 1.3 ones or mods to play.

you know people whould download it if there was a way to unstall the patch so they can still play current full patch

There is:)

Just create a separate bf2 directory and install both patches at the same time!

Re: More 1.4 Beta Testers Needed

you know people whould download it if there was a way to unstall the patch so they can still play current full patch

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I would gladly test the 1.4 patch, IF i was able to test it on my server also

Re: More 1.4 Beta Testers Needed

Beta testing isn't my job, that's for DICE to do. The community can hardly be to blame for the fact DICE cannot release a working patch and I have little faith in the idea that the community will be listened to if they report bugs in the game. Instead I see it more as a scapegoat for DICE to fall back on if the next patch is buggy ("hey, you guys got to beta test it too!") and also as a way to take more time on releasing the patch (and freeing up more people to work on 2142 in the hope it'll be better than QW -- which it won't).

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From the video i watched of some guy at dice, forgot his name, it was the 40 minutes long interview one. He said that the Beta program for 2142 will be INVITE only.

i heard that in that interview as well ..... but who's to say that if we give them great feedback here...... that it won't change

i know for a fact that if a company gets what tehy are looking for in 1 area .. .why would they leave it to go to another .... lets show them that the community can do this....

all they need. .. is for you to play on the server.

As 1 of the GSP's supplying the equipment i can tell you for certain they are looking at TONS of data on a daily basis ..... from us alone... nevermind what the other gps's are sending them ....

but in that data = empty servers ......... we need YOU in there testing them and making them crash so they can see whats broken and fix it :salute:

EA would be wise to release a 1.4 Linux PATCH for servers seeing how 80% of the servers out there are Linux. Everythime those idiots relese a patch anyone running a Linux BF 2 server has to run the entire installer again via SSH and then reconfigure BF2cc again etc etc etc. SO anyone who knows how to set up a Linux BF2 server knows what Im talking about. Anyone whos never set up a BF2 server (including BF2cc) in Linux via SSH STFU. LOL

all of our server running 1.4 Beta2 are infact *nix based :)

Re: More 1.4 Beta Testers Needed

EA would be wise to release a 1.4 Linux PATCH for servers seeing how 80% of the servers out there are Linux. Everythime those idiots relese a patch anyone running a Linux BF 2 server has to run the entire installer again via SSH and then reconfigure BF2cc again etc etc etc. SO anyone who knows how to set up a Linux BF2 server knows what Im talking about. Anyone whos never set up a BF2 server (including BF2cc) in Linux via SSH STFU. LOL

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I will install it as soon as I find a possibility to gain more space for the backup of the old files... my HD is pretty packed right now. But I do appreciate that there is an open Beta for everyone.

Re: More 1.4 Beta Testers Needed

I've posted several of the bugs that I found in Beta 1 on their official "bug posting" list, and not a single one of them got fixed by the time of Beta 2. The login process is a lot faster in 1.4 Beta 2 then it is in 1.3. But they need to fix stuff like the imbalance of the J10 vs other planes, or the fact that airplanes totally dominate a map vs ground vehicles/units. No "rock/scissors/paper" there anyways.

As for beta's, does anyone know how the 2142 beta is suppose to work? Will it be as open as the patch beta's have been, or do we need to apply to join the beta?

From the video i watched of some guy at dice, forgot his name, it was the 40 minutes long interview one. He said that the Beta program for 2142 will be INVITE only.

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Too Little, Too Late......................

[Scinto]

Re: More 1.4 Beta Testers Needed

Change the BF2 Beta program to be a seperate self/installer executable.

THEN I will beta test, I refuse to horkup my retail installion if something went wrong with the convoulted Beta intstall instructions.

uhm y not just make a copy of the bf2 folder install patch and rename theres a guide to it somewhere,, its not rocket science...

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as for the topic... why test something which in itself is well useless? okay people wanted more maps but not a new game mode, bf2 would be fine if they actually botherd to fix the original problems 1st time around...

kinda reminds me of MS they release a Service Pack to supposedly fix problems when it just ends up making more all so they can just pi$$ you off

Re: More 1.4 Beta Testers Needed

Change the BF2 Beta program to be a seperate self/installer executable.

THEN I will beta test, I refuse to risk destroying my retail installion if something went wrong with the convoulted Beta intstall instructions.

Another reason is the lack of extensive Change List. Indicates a lack of motivation by DICE or EA to really fix BF2 completely before 2142.

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Come work for EA - for free!!!

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I installed it, played it for a while, although part of the reason i dont play anymore is the lack of people, but also its in the second beta now, and all they have given us is IO changes.

I read somewhere that they aren't going to implement any gameplay changes untill the CTD problem is fixed completely. Well when will that be?