Patch 1.03 Released!

[Philihase]

Re: Patch 1.03 Released!

After playing today and watching everyone get rank everytime they sneezed, I have no desire to play this game anymore (I had all but three weapons unlocked before the 1.03 patch). It seemed like EA just shot themselves in the foot just to give the ADD kids instant gratification. Once people unlock all the weapons there won't be any reason to play the game and will move on. Thus I can see the demand for this game dropping even faster now. Too bad this patch would have been perfect if it hadn't been for this. Oh well Neverwinter 2 should be out sometime next year, I can hold off until then.

I thought this was a tactical warfare sort of game not a version of world of warfare with tanks and guns. I didn´t realize the point of the game was to advance Yourself thru the ranks until you have every medal rank and weapon and then give up and move to something new.
I did however think that it was a team based game where you try and capture ground and hold it not for yourself but for the team and win for the team. In my view its no good being the highest point scorer in the game if your team has lost!!
Stop moaning about the new rank system and play the game how its supposed to be played maybe in a further patch they will bring out new ranks like The Wizard Of Ozz to keep everyone happy till then concentrate on taking and holdin flags and trying to help the team out!!
First post here in this forum so I´d also like to say hi!!. Hi

[Hairstylist]

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Helooi !

I'd like to se a rank called the Shampooist

[Redh3lix]

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I thought this was a tactical warfare sort of game not a version of world of warfare with tanks and guns. I didn´t realize the point of the game was to advance Yourself thru the ranks until you have every medal rank and weapon and then give up and move to something new.
I did however think that it was a team based game where you try and capture ground and hold it not for yourself but for the team and win for the team. In my view its no good being the highest point scorer in the game if your team has lost!!
Stop moaning about the new rank system and play the game how its supposed to be played maybe in a further patch they will bring out new ranks like The Wizard Of Ozz to keep everyone happy till then concentrate on taking and holdin flags and trying to help the team out!!
First post here in this forum so I´d also like to say hi!!. Hi

His first post and I agree with this man entirely. It's only new weapons (not necessarily better weapons either). The game's not ALL about ranks and weapons, it's about gameplay and teamplay.

[Mal]

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Once people unlock all the weapons there won't be any reason to play the game

don't let me keep you if that's all the game's about in your eyes...
I'm starting to really like the patch.

I thought this was a tactical warfare sort of game not a version of world of warfare with tanks and guns. I didn´t realize the point of the game was to advance Yourself thru the ranks until you have every medal rank and weapon and then give up and move to something new.
I did however think that it was a team based game where you try and capture ground and hold it not for yourself but for the team and win for the team. In my view its no good being the highest point scorer in the game if your team has lost!!
Stop moaning about the new rank system and play the game how its supposed to be played maybe in a further patch they will bring out new ranks like The Wizard Of Ozz to keep everyone happy till then concentrate on taking and holdin flags and trying to help the team out!!
First post here in this forum so I´d also like to say hi!!. Hi

agreed, 100%. lo btw :)

[imported_goya]

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other than the new map and the empty popup that takes me to a dead website i do not see any differences from the prior release. don't these bozos test anything. how can they put up an empty popup then tell me that their are messages from them and wich i click the button to take me to their website it takes me to an empty website.?

[dyslexixboy]

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other than the new map and the empty popup that takes me to a dead website i do not see any differences from the prior release. don't these bozos test anything. how can they put up an empty popup then tell me that their are messages from them and wich i click the button to take me to their website it takes me to an empty website.?

goya what the hell are u talking about empty popups and dead websites play the f'ing game and never mind about that crap and quit complaining

[PurpleBarney]

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the high ranks are still where most people won't get them.

If you played BF2 all over again I think you'd feel the rank system was ok.

[Trademark -DA-]

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Well, there only seems to be a few but very annoying bugs left. I believe this is a huge positive step. Special Forces can now get 1 assist point for blowing up commander resources...this alone makes many of the other problems "feel" minor. I dont see much of a huge difference with the aircraft but I have not messed with the chopper much so Ill have to test that out. It is a little bit more difficult to evade stingers but it should be this way because before I used to laugh at players sticking around in the stinger nest only for me to get an easy chain gun kill in a jet. As a pilot, I have to work harder to not only stay alive but to provide air support via strafe runs on that forward CP.

Over all...if your a player who plays all classes and all vehicles, though you have a favorite, I believe the patch is suitable. I noticed we have a 2lt rank now...does this mean we can actually get up to General? If this is the case...no one should be worried about ranks. The unlocks need to be provided early in the games life, IMHO, because players like having options. Rank shouldnt be all about those unlocks...its about how much time and points your able to achieve. So having a good weapon makes you want to spend more time and should assist with getting more points...right?

Enjoy the patch and find ways around the annoying bugs that still exist =).

[JakSpd89]

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Being in Europe I had the patch that night on the 3rd? I have played the patch alot and havent had any problems:

- Sound changes for some of the vehicles are a bit wacked (Liked the old ones better)
- Really appriciate the new vehicle collision fix!!!! (I hated being killed when a vehicle twitched while I was wrenching on it!!!)
- Didnt see much difference with the helo and engineer.....we flew around taking damage and fixing it just fine but....AT and SAMs where hitting very hard!
- The Rank system reduction in requirments will enhance gameplay for the simple reason that more people will have access to more unlocks and want to play more....on the flip side the rank system reduction will upset the hardcore player because he will feel slighted for his long hours of play (Those folks need to get over it)
-- The people who had high scores should be able to overcome a few unlocks..my personal opinoin.
- Loved playing on Wake Island (brought back fond memories of the years I played BF1942)
- Glad to see that as a Spec Op guy I had a purpose to go deep other than for harassment!!!! Would have liked to see bridges added as points for both Spec Op and Engineer

Out!

JakSpd89

[12M_Marshall]

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Um, I might be confused here. But you didn't get kills as commander for ARTY in 1.02 either only 1.01.

As far as I know the kills perhaps only increase your commander score.

Wrong...at the end of each round all the kills were there. I'm quite sure of it.

On another note....anyone else seeing teammates as enemy now?
I had it happen twice last night in two different servers on different maps.

Also, one major problem i'm noticing with the instant ranks is this... people seem much more prone to simply ****ing around on the ranked servers now. I had a guy join my squad just to jump into my apc and let me teamkill him until I get kicked. I had to to leave my own squad to keep from being kicked and our squad had been doing extremely well.
On the "new" map, I saw two guys team killing just for fun waiting for their helicopiter to spawn. When I asked WTF.... they said... what difference does it make....I'm a sargent now.

whatever... I stopped last night after the game crashed to the desktop for the second time on the new patch (never happened to me before).
I'm disappointed for sure.

[G3_PT]

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I LIKE the patch

yes , the bug of seeing teammates as enemy´s seems to happens more often.
A lot of people was promoted and as a lot of unlocks ....
So what ? Now you can have a job , play a couple hours per day AND work towards Veteran and Expert badges with some chance of getting them .
You don´t have to play some 400 , 500 or 4000! hours to get them .
Besides ....theres SF comming and with it more ranks and unlocks so ....


Good Job EA (should have been like this from the beginning , but well...)

[Warp]

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After playing today and watching everyone get rank everytime they sneezed, I have no desire to play this game anymore (I had all but three weapons unlocked before the 1.03 patch). It seemed like EA just shot themselves in the foot just to give the ADD kids instant gratification. Once people unlock all the weapons there won't be any reason to play the game and will move on. Thus I can see the demand for this game dropping even faster now. Too bad this patch would have been perfect if it hadn't been for this. Oh well Neverwinter 2 should be out sometime next year, I can hold off until then.

I made the mistake of calling this game 'The WarSim' in one of my previous posts. It's not capable of retaining that title anymore in my opinion.

I just spent 40 minutes commanding a game in which I devoted 100% effort to the command function. For what? lmao 12 points. I killed 37 enemy & not one tk or team damage. I spent the majority of the game repairing the artillery against numerous special forces attacks. I didn't receive a single repair point? Was it cos I was the Commander also? Where is the incentive in that?

Where's the incentive for the 18 singleplayer lonewolves, I found on my team, to make or join a squad? No squads means no uav or supply drop requests.

Take a read of the post I quoted & maybe bear some of that guys points in mind. He's absolutely right.

[ironsides]

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Edit:Nevermind Sargent you need 2500 points.:)

[Kolyma]

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Where's the incentive for the 18 singleplayer lonewolves, I found on my team, to make or join a sqaud? No squads means no uav or supply drop requests.

That's just it, they built BF2 with all these commands, waypoints and such but gave no points for actually following any of these instructions. Commanders should get more points. Squad leaders should get points for their squad doing well, etc...

[12M_Marshall]

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I made the mistake of calling this game 'The WarSim' in one of my previous posts. It's not capable of retaining that title anymore in my opinion....
Where's the incentive for the 18 singleplayer lonewolves, I found on my team, to make or join a squad? No squads means no uav or supply drop requests.

I couldn't agree more.
Don't get me wrong... the game is still good enough IMO to play.
However, maybe it's time to play America's Army. I heard it's version 2.4 and you have to complete exams to play. "keeps the rif raf out".
Supposedly they are using unreal engine 2.5 and it's frickin free. It's squad based and goal based and i hear quite awesome.
Supposedly they don't even openly try to recruit you to the army LOL