Community Update - 2/20/06

[Spawndemon]

There is some news posted today over at the <a href="http://www.ea.com/official/battlefield/battlefield2/us/home.jsp" target="_blank">Official Battlefield 2</a> website. They speak of a hotfix coming for the latest patch and a delay for the upcoming booster pack. Take a look:<blockquote>Listen up Troops,

Although patch 1.2 included several fixes that we know were eagerly awaited, it unfortunately introduced some new issues. These are being addressed immediately and we are working around the clock to resolve those. Patch 1.21 (coming soon) will be tested in a limited beta with select Battlefield community members starting as early as this week. We’re doing this to ensure a clean release of 1.21. In addition, we have decided to postpone the Euro Force Booster Pack until sometime after the release of the updated 1.21 patch.

Stick to this web space for additional information soon.

On a more pleasant note, Battlefield 2 hit somewhat of a milestone last night with over 52,000 simultaneous players. This is the highest number of players we’ve seen at one time for Battlefield 2 and almost 4 times more than the peak number of Battlefield 1942.

Thanks in advance for your patience.

The team at DICE and EA</blockquote>Glad to see they are working hard for a fix to the patch, but sad to hear about the delay for Euro Force. Stay tuned for more news.

[Jofaba]

Re: Community Update - 2/20/06

I'm not sad for the delay but I bet they are. This is the second time it's been delayed and surely with each delay there's people who will decide not to get it. With talk of a new patch coming out every week and building up only to fall short, I worry about how much support the boosters will have on servers. Since they're going to be integrated into the map rotation, unless everyone is happy wtih 1.21 and buys the booster, how many servers will actually include them? Doing so could really hurt server attendance.

Glad to see that my last post about them was correct:

http://www.totalbf2.com/forums/showpost.php?p=713214&postcount=63

Hopefully everything evens out and people can start enjoying the game again.

PS. Awesome decision on allowing community beta testing. I know that it's to a select few and the vast majority of us won't be involved, but it's a good direction to be traveling for future patch work.
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edit: Without viewing that link this post might sound negative. I am not smashing EA/DICE's work. Please read the linked post.

[B=E=N=C=H]

Re: Community Update - 2/20/06

why cant they have an auto update like in Steam/CS?


Also I think it's better to move BF2 to a new engine like Crytek2 instead of making another BF3. I think BF2 engine is what's causing all these bug and only way they can optimise is by lowering details and cutting features.

[WTurbiasz]

Re: Community Update - 2/20/06

Glad to see that they are taking a little more of a pro-cative approach to this, this time around. I didnt hate the patch and thankfully it didnt cause my system to respond poorly. However I do feel for those that can no longer play the game. Lets hope that this time around the patch will be a little better balance between the first and the second.

[Jesse]

Re: Community Update - 2/20/06

why cant they have an auto update like in Steam/CS?


Also I think it's better to move BF2 to a new engine like Crytek2 instead of making another BF3. I think BF2 engine is what's causing all these bug and only way they can optimise is by lowering details and cutting features.

Agreed. The BF2 engine simply is, for lack of a better analogy, held together by some bubblegum and scotch tape. There's so much potential with it, but the concentrations seem to be on expansion packs instead of fixing the engine (which by no means should have been released in the state it was, or even is now). However, if you keep building on a crumbling structure, you're going to cause it to collapse pre-maturely.

[imported_bigpappa]

Re: Community Update - 2/20/06

its a good thing DICE dont make planes

[Greasy_Mullet]

Re: Community Update - 2/20/06

I dont get where they get the 52,000 number. In general, the number of BF2 players is way way down to its lowest since release. I would like to know more of where they got that number.

I am glad to see they are looking to fix these new issues right away and that they are fully aware of all of the new issues as its easy to let some things fall through the cracks with so many posts out there.

[Eglaerinion]

Re: Community Update - 2/20/06

Another example of the lackluster in house testing, most mods have a better testing team than EA has.

[derrickkolba]

Re: Community Update - 2/20/06

im so mad->again! why cant they keep to what they say? maybe if they didnt cut jobs and started hireing people we might get things done! they best get there crap togther or there going to get alot of people more mad then they are now..me being one of them. anyone else notice that the first demo seemed to be the best gameplay since the games release?

[GanjaTron]

Re: Community Update - 2/20/06

haha yeah i do too Greasy.. last timed I checked the server/player count was a lot lower than I can remember. Please don't start lying to us now about user count, DICE. After reading Jesse's post I understand now why this game is falling apart the more they mess with it.. always had that feeling. Just give me mods, and Ill be happy.

[MarkHawk]

Re: Community Update - 2/20/06

glad to hear but then again iwas glad to hear the last patch. O well if it comes out (the patch) in 2 weeks Ill be happy.

[mr_o]

Re: Community Update - 2/20/06

Im interested about that 52000 too. on release i think i had to scan 9000 servers. now thats down to 3 and a half K. someones sums dont add up

[imported_Soda]

Re: Community Update - 2/20/06

Im interested about that 52000 too. on release i think i had to scan 9000 servers. now thats down to 3 and a half K. someones sums dont add up

It's 52,000 people not servers.

[DoubleVee]

Re: Community Update - 2/20/06

its a good thing DICE dont make planes

Yeah...:laugh:

[Jofaba]

Re: Community Update - 2/20/06

You turned that into your signature already? I hope some qoute by me never turns into someones sig. Then my idiocy will travel further than the thread it was intended for...

Making fun of myself more then you bigpappa so please don't kill me =P