Community Wednesday update #3

[[MyIS]Tim]

This just in from the BF Blog:

Community Wednesday #3




We are on the way to setting up a Game with Devevent that will be taking place on the Xbox 360 console. A total of 8 peoplefrom DICE will be playing Onslaught together with the community. I will keepeveryone posted on the dates the closer we get to the actual event.




We havereceived a lot of feedback from the forums regarding the patch and I would liketo let everyone know that we are working on it. I've also visited a fewteamspeak and ventrilo addresses during the week to speak with the communityand have received some very interesting ideas.






Patch 1.51 for BF 2142 is in development and closed BETA with Combat Testing.Things are progressing but we have no release date for the patch at this time.






A screenmelting BC2 video was sent to me by TheRoyal Rangers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdW-ye5NR7s

Keep the community videos coming! I recommend usingFraps to record your crazy stunts, funny moments and keep me posted :)




Eurodomination is a Battlefield BC2 ladder withlots of teams signed up and a few matches a day :) Check it out at http://www.eurodomination.net/battles_upcoming.php




Also, the $100 tournament at Gamereplays isopen for signup for 2 more days so hurry up everyone and get your game on!



http://www.gamereplays.org/badcompan...news_id=635261






I want to congratulate the Ukrainian teamNikolaev Wildpark for winning the Clanbase Opencup in BF2. Since I was busybeing knifed on the servers I missed your match but from what it was a greatmatch.

Epsilon Esports, as usual, won their ESL OpenCup final to add to their list of Battlefield achievements.




Not much to say this week due to many people being on vacation but I will keep scoutingthe forums looking for your ideas. If I have missed out on your forum orhaven't replied to your post, add me to www.twitter.com/zh1nt0and send me a quick reminder.

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[Dangerdog]

Re: Community Wednesday update #3

http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-bad-company-2-pc/1213608-cm-questionnaire-3.html#post16481994

zh1nt0 got a few questions answered that were posted on the EA UK forums.

I just received the answers and here they are:


1- why was the AT4 nerfed?
Demize99 is on semester at the moment so we need to ask him when he gets back. (not for public) (The person who can answer this is currently on vacation).

2- is the chatbox bug going to be adressed soon?
We know this has been an issue and we are looking into bugs within the last patch including the chatbox issue.

3- what are the ETA´s on the mode packs release?
The map pack release dates will be announced prior to their release for each pack usually at 16:00'clock upon the days of release.

4- does DICE plans to release any new maps at all? and when?
DICE is releasing map packs with new game modes on already existing maps. Vietnam will bring new maps to Bad Company 2.

5- is the all bronze star insignias requirements an error that needs to be adressed or will we have to buy the SPECACT to get them?
It is a bug within the game and SPECACT isn’t required to obtain the insignias. We had to remove SPECACT from the patch due to it was causing problems but we are looking to add it as soon as we locate the problem.

6-is the removal of the revive inv. beeing considered still or is forgotten?
This is something we are investigating on how to best implement a new system for reviving with invulnerability removed.

7- scopes on G3 and M14? yes or no once and for all?
We are receiving many questions about this and Demize99 has already explained they won’t be in there anytime soon and is constantly under review.

8 - How is DICE going to deal with the leaked server files.Will they officially release them,bring down the modified servers or just do nothing?
We are aware of this and are urging everyone not to play on those servers. We are working on bringing down the leaked servers already. Server files will not be officially released.

9 - wasn´t the friends list suposed to be increased to 100 in this last patch?if yes an ETA on the fix?
This is a backend stability limit. When the game released we needed to keep the load down by limiting friends to 20. We may increase the limit in the future but this hasn’t been confirmed yet.

10 - wasn´t the G3 suposed to return to its former glory in the 1.03 patch?is it going to be corrected? when?
There were no plans to return the G3 to what it was but to balance it more with other guns.

11 - any chance of getting friendly mine indicators on the gadget or the mini map like the c4 has?
It is something we haven’t considered adding but is a possible addition in the future. We however don't know when this will happen.

Not a whole lot of meat to the answers, "new" maps aren't going to happen except for the Vietnam DLC pack that will add 4 new ones to the game, I assume it'll be new vehicles and weapons too though.