Community Update - 2/20/06

[Widkidone]

Re: Community Update - 2/20/06

i notice that they said that 1.21 is coming soon...... now define "coming soon". They said back in December that 1.2 was "coming soon". So will this be another 2 months for release.

[5150 Joker]

Re: Community Update - 2/20/06

What EA/DICE need to accomplish to satisfy the vocal noob minority once and for all:

-Take away the grenade launcher altogether.
-Take away the ability to aim.
-With the above feature gone, introduce a /roll function into the game. It should entail a queue system where each player types /roll and the system determines randomly if an opponent near them receives damage or not.
-Work on the ranking system more, give players the ability to buy fancy pink armor + bling bling weapons after they have leveled..err..i mean ranked up enough via the new /roll system.
-Remove helicopters from the game, they don't fit into the new noob friendly system anylonger.
-Remove airplanes, see above.
-Remove tanks, see above.

[Uber:Jagermeiter]

Re: Community Update - 2/20/06

i notice that they said that 1.21 is coming soon...... now define "coming soon". They said back in December that 1.2 was "coming soon". So will this be another 2 months for release.

Probably not too long since a game release depends upon it

[Mosstrooper]

Re: Community Update - 2/20/06

I am actually very happy that this news came up. I got screwed over with the new patch ebcause i have an unsupported card that worked with the other patches but not the latest. Hopefully the 1.21 patch will resolve this. It seems EA and DICE are doing a better job at listening to the community and if they need to hold back Euro Force to fix these issues, they should as 1.2 has many bugs and many users were alienated due to the graphics card issue.

[imported_goya]

Re: Community Update - 2/20/06

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.

looks like someone or come people need to be fired at dice/ea... they are single handedly destroying this game...

[imported_goya]

Re: Community Update - 2/20/06

I cant wait to graduate college with my BS in Game design and devlopment! So I can go work for EA and make some real games without bugs.

We havent learned the patch patch technique yet. We usually do learn things so they work the first time...

Is it possible they got the 52,000 number from like gamespy? Or there login server was just counting the people logged in, not nessisaraly playing in a server?

i have some realy bad news for you, most software development, including game development, is moving outside the country.

[imported_goya]

Re: Community Update - 2/20/06

Well I am just mad. If you release a patch usually it does not need a hotfix right away to make it work...seriously. If time was spent more on fixes and making sure that everything works instead of making the website really cool looking and telling us about the upcoming packs to buy that would get more ppl to play. I am just venting here. I know its my decision to buy booster packs but if you want the full effect of the game I think you have to.

this is nothing new to dice... remember the last patch for bf2 and how that went...

[imported_goya]

Re: Community Update - 2/20/06

I just used ASE and it shows 3345 servers with 21776 players.Not bad but a long way from 52,000.

i think that they are counting everyone that is registered.

[imported_Gabe]

Re: Community Update - 2/20/06

I dont have any problems with the new patch however I dont really like the game and dont think ea is doing a good enough job. I was a big BF1942/Desert combat player and we never went though these problems with the patches that came out for 1942. I just started playing desert combat and a little bf1942 wake, sometimes i wish bf1942 was still the ****. maybe once people get over the fact that bf2 isent so great they will come back to dc, oh well who knows, thats my input, maybe some other sole agrees..

[imported_goya]

Re: Community Update - 2/20/06

i think that the reason that we are having all the patch problems, is that like bfv bf2 was abandoned and dice went to do bf2 modern combat and now is working on bf3!

[PanzerGhost]

Re: Community Update - 2/20/06

StarCraft owns. StarCraft 2 would probably own even more if WarCraft 3 is any indication.

[imported_Demize99]

Re: Community Update - 2/20/06

i think that they are counting everyone that is registered.

Then the number would be 1.9 million.

http://global.dice.se/finance/reports/?article=4bdc6d75-07d9-49c4-a16b-ac5dd7df8ce3&page=0

[Hannez]

Re: Community Update - 2/20/06

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

Are you serious? If EA/Dice would create a system like that, it would be so freaking buggy and everytime logging in there, there would pop-up many annoying windows, like: "Preload Euroforce booster-pack and be ready to play it in five days!" or "Screenshot of the day!", where EA/Dice employees could post their comments for the screenshot, like "Photoshopped! 1/10!", "Copy! I took that ss and you stole it from me!".

Also i hate Steam's auto update system. Couple of days ago i installed Steam, HL2 and the other games, so i could play Garry's mod, but blaah. I had to download updates for CS, HL2 and HL2: DM &#189; of my day! Great...

Well, back to topic. Im glad that EA/Dice are really trying to fix this patch. In my opinion this 1.2 patch is yet the best update for Battlefield 2. I haven't seen any bunnyhopping nadetubers at Karkand anymore. I also think that increasing the firepower for the Support weapons is really good thing to do. MG's really should be the most deadly weapons in Battlefield. Oh and the AA's, they are great too (though they are crazy now). Now you can actually blow a plane or a chopper more easier. Im happy with the other fixes too, but the most annoying things are the bad bugs. I hope they are going to be fixed and the 1.21 could be even more better than 1.2 patch.

Shortly said: 1.2 patch made gaming in BF2 more interesting and fun, but the bugs need to be fixed.

Btw, goya stop spamming and use the "Edit"-tool.

[Trevortt]

Re: Community Update - 2/20/06

What EA/DICE need to accomplish to satisfy the vocal noob minority once and for all:

-Take away the grenade launcher altogether.
-Take away the ability to aim.
-With the above feature gone, introduce a /roll function into the game. It should entail a queue system where each player types /roll and the system determines randomly if an opponent near them receives damage or not.
-Work on the ranking system more, give players the ability to buy fancy pink armor + bling bling weapons after they have leveled..err..i mean ranked up enough via the new /roll system.
-Remove helicopters from the game, they don't fit into the new noob friendly system anylonger.
-Remove airplanes, see above.
-Remove tanks, see above.

It aint CounterStrike Mate. When in a real life battlefield can u go up to an invisible market & buy some more armour & weaponary lol

[blackfox]

Re: Community Update - 2/20/06

how would you get to test this beta patch can you submit your name or do they pick any1.