DICE on TotalBF2 - Game Feedback Answered

[Spawndemon]

Over the past few weeks, a number of you have participated in our DICE on TotalBF2 section to help out the testing and feedback process for the latest beta patches. We know a lot of you don't have the time to search through every single thread and find replies made by DICE employee Colin Clarke, so we decided to make a one stop page with all his posts. Here is one of the many questions/answers you will find:

Adamfool99 (Repair Points): I think the repair points should come more than they do now. It is easy to get heal points and ammo points but it is a pain in the ace to get even 5 repair points in one round. You have to literally do nothing BUT repair to get the Expert Engineer Badge. I think Repair Points should come more often.

Colin Clarke: Hi guys, there are not going to be any changes to the current scoring system. While I love the engineer kit, and some of the ideas I have seem posted are pretty entertaining (throwing land mines), any changes to the scoring system at this time would require a full overall evaluation.

Click here to check them all out!

So to those that are still skeptical as to whether DICE actually reads the forum, we hope this puts that rumor to rest. We would like to thank Colin Clarke for being a part of our forum community and taking the time to read through all the threads and post some replies. It's great to see a community difference being put into this latest patch and we wish all the luck to DICE for a successful release!

Have a question of your own? Feel free to post all your comments/thoughts right here. We will continue to update the page as more answers come in.

[Sir. Legolas]

Re: DICE on TotalBF2 - Game Feedback Answered

cool good thing!

[kenof2142]

Re: DICE on TotalBF2 - Game Feedback Answered

I'm actually suprised they're answering some of the questions...usually it's a blanket statement to cover all aspects mainly for a "just in case".

*breaks out dice voodoo action figurine*

[Hurricane.CAD]

Re: DICE on TotalBF2 - Game Feedback Answered

Repair points SHOULD come easier I see on need to 'evaluate' that.

The J-10 imbalance has been called on ever since 1.2, saying it MIGHT be fixed if there's enough time is INEXCUSABLE. Fix the bugs and gameplay issues that have plagued the game for a long time before adding useless things like vehicle drops, and killing squad switching.

[sknight]

Re: DICE on TotalBF2 - Game Feedback Answered

The only problem is that for most of the suggestions, he answered negatively. "No we can't do more repair points," "we MAY change the J10 (but probably not)," "we won't add transports to vehicle only mode", "we won't give the squad leader extra points" and etc...

[imported_Tren]

Re: DICE on TotalBF2 - Game Feedback Answered

"Oh and I am coming close to offering a couple free AF codes to anyone who can get me a screenshot of the nametag bug in 1.4."

LOL!

Anyways...I am really glad EA is actually reading all of this stuff, now acting on it...that's a different story. I guess we will see.

[JonnyMacFred102]

Re: DICE on TotalBF2 - Game Feedback Answered

It's good to see that, but most of his answers were vague and blanket statements that didn't really explain anything.

[imported_UH60BHPilot]

Re: DICE on TotalBF2 - Game Feedback Answered

That's all DICE/EA has been doing from the very start.

[DoubleVee]

Re: DICE on TotalBF2 - Game Feedback Answered

So many threads(don't know the exact number) and only 9 answers, good job DICE!!...

[Spawndemon]

Re: DICE on TotalBF2 - Game Feedback Answered

So many threads(don't know the exact number) and only 9 answers, good job DICE!!...

Just because there aren't answers to everything does that mean that the DICE guys don't look at it? That they don't take it into consideration? I mean come on...think about it for a minute. No answer doesn't automatically mean it wasn't seen.

[Zap_Branigan]

Re: DICE on TotalBF2 - Game Feedback Answered

after 1 year of trying to fix this nametag problem im not optimistic it will be fixed this time around.

the repair points issue is something that does need fixing and i would imagine that it would be very easy to just double the number of repair points engineer get.

dice are putting up the facade of listening to the community but when they keep responding with 'no', 'maybe' and 'we'll see' its obvious they arent.

we've played this game for over a year with all its bugs which you cant fix and you wont give us what we want (J10) but insist on adding crap we couldnt care less about (visible UAV, inf only mode).

[Maniac-47]

Re: DICE on TotalBF2 - Game Feedback Answered

It's good to see that, but most of his answers were vague and blanket statements that didn't really explain anything.

lol, that was my first reaction to reading the "answers" as well.
Also, a few answers were just a more polite way of saying "We hear ya, but no."

FPS_Player (Squad Leader Points): I would like to see some point system for the squad leader - maybe something similar to how the commander gets points...

Colin Clarke: We are always looking for ways to re-enforce the team work systems in Battlefield. This idea is right in line with some of the things we are thinking however the catch is we can’t always predict how some players will look to exploit any system introduced.

So, put more simply, "No way."
<p>Also, is he actually agreeing in saying BF2's Infantry Only Mode really does make BF2 mediocre??

PlaneWhore (Infantry only mode, worst idea ever):...Just as important, the Battlefield series defining characteristic is vehicle and infantry interaction. Battlefield without vehicles is like cereal without milk, it just doesn't make sense. Without vehicles (and to a lesser extent commanders, class balance ect…) <b>Battlefield 2 is nothing more than a mediocre shooter.</b>

Colin Clarke: So the no vehicles option will be exactly that.

And that thing about proof of the nametag bug?? How about he tries a little thing called READING to see that this isn't some new mythical bug a few people have reported. Blue turns up Red, its that simple. We all know it exists, it has existed for ages, do something about it.

I am not too thrilled about this attempt at listening to the public...

[Stalker-NSDQ]

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Hi DICE
So far what I found and want to gripe about. Well first of all I agree on increasing the REPAIR POINTS. It takes definately to long to rack up some. In EURO FORCE there is a bug where first of all the TIGER HAP drops into the ground when you try to land to get repairs, result is instant death. Also when you swtich from regular view to TV GUIDED screen and back the crosshair is stuck and you cannot change the camera again, so pretty much you are screwed trying to gun something down. All this I have noticed on OPERATION SMOKE SCREEN. ARMORED FURY - Well like mentioned before, the recon choppers are way to heavy armed. It's kinda ridiculous when you are in a AH1Z or a MI-28 and get shot down in less than 10 seconds. MIDNIGHT SUN could take less AA SITES, makes flying damn near impossible if all AA Vehicles and AA SITES are up. SPECIAL FORCES - Only one complain so far are the choppers as well. Please put the TV GUIDED screens on the same level as in BATTLEFIELD 2. When you are in the HIND you almost have to fly reverse cause you have to put the nose up so high. LONGBOW is not so bad but still you have to tilt back quiet a lot. So far I am pretty satisfied, btw I will not gripe about the red name bug, CTD crashes and such since we all know they exist so far.

Thanx for your time

STALKER-NSDQ

[imoody]

Re: DICE on TotalBF2 - Game Feedback Answered

It seems to me that DICE isn't particularly interested in doing anything other than fixing the CTD's at this point, which is frustrating, particularly because there are so many other high profile bugs that have been around for a very long time.

[Metalbolt]

Re: DICE on TotalBF2 - Game Feedback Answered

It seems to me that DICE isn't particularly interested in doing anything other than fixing the CTD's at this point, which is frustrating, particularly because there are so many other high profile bugs that have been around for a very long time.

And who wants to bet the only reason they are interested in fixing that is because 2142 probably uses the same netcode, and they want to get that bug out of it. They're too busy with 2142 to really care about BF2, hence all of the "yeah, but no," answers.