Is the patch on the way?

spooky donkey

We all know its comming out soon, but I tried to log in and play just there now and I couldent log into my BF2 account. I could about 2 hours ago and I rember the last time the patch came out bfhq went down for a few hours.

Well I hope this is the case now. Any one else getting this.

Well I guess its some BFV for me now so.

Ponster

Hmm, I don't think so. The beta3 server went online only yesterday and patches *never* get released on weekends, Tuesdays or Fridays.

spooky donkey

Well it was friday night but I was able to get into bfhq about an hour after I posted that so it must have just been a problem with the login.

Gone West

spooky, theyre at the usual shíte.
Todays excuse it that they dont have enough people playtesting the beta patch servers...

spooky donkey

Well I dont care really whats in the patch I just wana see that crash bug fixed its killing servers.

Gone West

spooky donkey wrote:

Well I dont care really whats in the patch I just wana see that crash bug fixed its killing servers.

yup, the games reliability leaves a lot to be desired...
but tbh, theres little point in me saying this on the bf forum, since you all know this allready

Ponster

spooky donkey wrote:

Well I dont care really whats in the patch I just wana see that crash bug fixed its killing servers.

The CTD's and server crashes have been fixed.

jonski

Ponster wrote:

The CTD's and server crashes have been fixed.

Any idea when we are going to see this , we are holding off getting a server again until it happens .

Ponster

We should know Monday if there's going to be a final round (beta3).

jonski

Ponster wrote:

We should know Monday if there's going to be a final round (beta3).

Any update on this today .

Ponster

Nope. zero update. The latest beta3 1.4 servers have been pretty busy all of last week (not a public beta patch) and enpty yesterday/today so I'm guessing that something is ready to be released or we're off to beta4 !


An interesting post on EA UK though is this one from yesterday. It's a list of suggested gameplay changes by the 1.4 beta testers. My guess is that none will actually happen but it shows you the way that things get added to patches that others claim no one asked for




Gameplay Feedback

- Some are suggesting accuracy delays instead of time delays on going prone and standing up.
- Jalalabad is nice but a little too hard to defend by MEC as there are too many ways to get in.
- each kit should be able to pick up what they deployed, e.g. Sniper and claymores.
- Double sprint capacity means people practically run all the time, it might be a better idea to up speed and keep stamina the same, sprint should be used for rushing from cover to cover, not almost all travel. Crouching and going prone should also speed up stamina recovery.
- Medics should only get +1 point for revive and not +2 as this means they rank far faster than engineers.
- Vehicles blowing up again once destroyed will too often end up in an annoying team kill, they should not do so.
- Tags should be visible for players on the same team but not enemies.
- It'd be nice to have a system to opt out of in-game messages such as "ammo here".
- There's been a fair amount of backlash on a bullet point from a previous report. Many would prefer that mine FF stay as is (off by default) otherwise they feel they will no longer be used, as was previously the case. Others feel it's stupid if friendlies can just drive over them.
- They'd like SF to be fully integrated in BF2 so you don't have to shut down and restart to switch from a vanilla to SF server.
- Sometimes when spotting a tank it will show up as a question mark. Spotting jets sometimes doesn't show up an icon even though you received the message.
- To clarify another previous comment, the J10 needs rebalancing rather than improving, though if it gets rebalanced it should not be the only jet to get some attention. For example, the F35 has a huge collision and hit box on the read as well as the slowest yaw and pitch, it is frequently bested by the MiG on Oman.
- How about adding an AA gun behind the US TV station on Sharqi to make it a bit more defensible to the hovering MEC choppers.
- Pistols are far too accurate over long ranges
- Health in choppers should be linked to stop griefers who fly the back end into the out of bounds area to kill their co-pilot.
- There should be some method instantly to fire rockets without using the guidance, or cheating by switching weapons.
- Tank noise should be increased, often you can't hear them approaching
- One poster suggested a no-jets mode.
- It should be possible to join a password protected game from outside the game

As ever, none of this is guaranteed to be fixed but I know every point has been read and duly considered or investigated by the studio guys. Nothing to announce regarding the 1.4 patch just yet.

d22ontour

1.4 patch will be free as part of the 2142 release.

Sure why not , they have fecked us about long enough with all the other patches.

spooky donkey

Intresing point about reducine the amount of points medics get, i think this might happen. If I want high scores I play medic, playing engineer is so pointless as repair points are so hard to get.

Wacked

You get too few points for killing a tank or APC. It should be at least 4

AnCapaillMor

Definately agree with the vehicles kills, taking out a tank with C4 is a hell of a lot harder, than killing some whilst in a tank and yet both get 2 points for both.

Goddam i can't wait to get my GFX card back.

jonski

CKMCPlayer wrote:

I suppose I should be flattered to have some one spoof a comment by me.

Though I am a little sad they did such a poor job of emulating my communication style.

Worth a good laugh while working late so Cheers for that! Though seriously.....a patch release on a saturday?


There will be an announcement about the 1.4 release this Friday.

This guy works for ea/dice

http://forum.eagames.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=27550&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15