Battlefield 2 Official 1.03 Patch Information

[DrunkenPirate]

Information on the upcoming and eagerly anticipated 1.03 patch has been posted on <a href="http://www.eagames.com/official/battlefield/battlefield2/us/home.jsp">EA's official Battlefield 2 website</a>.<blockquote>That's right, troops. Barring any last minute issues, the 1.03 Update is
only a few days from release now. We thought this occasion warranted a
post covering the major features and fixes coming in 1.03, so settle
back and enjoy.<br><br>The 1.03 update bundles the first Official map release
from EA and DICE. In this case the map is a modern-era update of one of
the most popular maps from Battlefield 1942 -- Wake Island.</blockquote><center><a href="http://www.totalbf2.com/images.php?img=news/images/Wake1.jpg"><img src="/news/images/thumb_Wake1.jpg"></a> <a href="http://www.totalbf2.com/images.php?img=news/images/Wake2.jpg"><img src="/news/images/thumb_Wake2.jpg"></a></center><br>For a full list of the features & tweaks of this patch such as the nickname prefix, commander asset points and for more information, read the full article <a href="http://www.eagames.com/official/battlefield/battlefield2/us/editorial.jsp?src=communityupdate_093005">here</a>.

[bjack]

I guess whoever called October 3 was right on.

[pastorjames]

Wow, Wake island is going to kick ***.

[Reign]

I would rather have that Urban Warfare map from DC then wake island. For got the name

[Jesse]

*sighs* I'm still not impressed with all this-...wait a minute, we're not getting another Special Forces plug and actually getting an update on the patch? FINALLY! WOO! :D

Vehicle tweaks - No more accidental kills from bumping a friend with
your tank (try to avoid hitting him at speed though) and no more
struggling uphill in an APC. Also no more improper TK allocation from
vehicle explosions.
Thank God for that one...now maybe the n00bs who try to get a tank by standing in front of it will also be discouraged. Killing two birds with one stone, hopefully.

Commander scoring - No more TKs from Artillery!
This is...good? I think, that is until the n00bs abuse it and arty that last spawn point their team has only to wipe out 20 teammates on purpose..

Anti-Air Missiles - These are now much more effective against fast-movers.
I hope the flare reload rate on the planes was increased just a tad to counter-balance this, otherwise if they fixed them as well as they should be, but the flares take forever, the planes are going to start collecting dust. I just hope the missiles are affective as in they stay on their original target, not break off and veer toward a teammate...gotta wait to see this fix before I pass final judgement.

Server Favorites and History - find your favorite servers that much
easier. No more searching for them through the main server list!
Took'em this long to COMPLETE this feature? It'll be a welcome one though.

Nickname Prefix - Add and change your clan tag to your account name at
will. No more creating alternate account names to cover the changes in
your competitive lifestyle!
Only thing I have against this is the people who ALREADY have their clan tags in their names. They should have a way to correct their names and then add the tag. It's a good start, otherwise. (suffixes would be interesting, as well as more characters than 6)

[lisp]

Heh. What did they say abt the problem with commander being able to repair arty with supply drop. If this isnt fixed - ill shoot myself! :mad: :mad: :mad:

[jdogg88-Fed]

Anti-Air Missiles - These are now much more effective against fast-movers.
I hope the flare reload rate on the planes was increased just a tad to counter-balance this, otherwise if they fixed them as well as they should be, but the flares take forever, the planes are going to start collecting dust. I just hope the missiles are affective as in they stay on their original target, not break off and veer toward a teammate...gotta wait to see this fix before I pass final judgement.

ok why so most of the times it takes 3 or 4 AA hits to take out a chopper plus the smoke seems to go on and on with quick reloads in the attack choppers

[lcplsickoll]

After reading the article I'm a little nervous about "No more arty TK's". That's not a good thing if you ask me. I can see spamming arty on flags now.

[SPC_Zotchman]

After reading the article I'm a little nervous about
"No more arty TK's". That's not a good thing if you ask me. I can see
spamming arty on flags now.
No, the players still die, but CO doesn't get the TK penalty.

[Ogrt48]

Oh god, this no tks from arty is going to suck..

[bjack]

No, the players still die, but CO doesn't get the TK penalty.

Wow... uhh... doesn't that just open up a big can of abuse?

[the creepa]

I wonder how many points sf troops will get for destroying arty, etc?

And why does it say specialist next to my name when I am only a lance corporal?

[BigBadBob]

Heh. What did they say abt the problem with commander being able to repair arty with supply drop. If this isnt fixed - ill shoot myself! :mad: :mad: :mad:

what problem? It repairs just fine.

[the creepa]

I wonder how many points sf troops will get for destroying arty, etc?

And why does it say specialist next to my name when I am only a lance corporal?

Oh yeh, and have they tweaked the vote system? It's nearly impossible to get enough votes to kick a repeat tk'er or a mutiny vote against a horrible commander.

[DeathGiver]

The new Wake Island map comes to you free of charge thanks to Fileplanet's new Battlefield 2 Channel.

Well duh. Think we would have to pay for it. :rolleyes: >>>>> EA?Dice

[DrunkenPirate]

I wonder how many points sf troops will get for destroying arty, etc?

And why does it say specialist next to my name when I am only a lance corporal?
Forum rank is post count related, it has nothing to do with your BF2 stats.

[Jesse]

ok why so most of the times it takes 3 or 4 AA hits to take out a chopper plus the smoke seems to go on and on with quick reloads in the attack choppers
No no, JUST on the planes. The helicopters need to be left alone, they're already flare machines as it. 2 AA missiles should take out a chopper, end of story. The planes take much longer for flares though, and in some maps they won't have much of a chance at all if the AA missiles are actually effective. Now if they have 3 AA placements firing at them at once, I wouldn't expect them to, but the maps are so small it's going to be interesting to see what happens with this tweak. Definately going to add a new aspect to the role of anyone in the air, so I guess we'll have to see JUST how effective they are. :p

[Harmor]

Uh...why didn't you guys link directly to the EA UK site here instead:

http://forum.eagames.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=6673

[predatorMC]

Im scared, the commander used to have to be cautious or kicked, but now...


Anti-Air Missiles - These are now much more effective against fast-movers.

I think thats a good thing, at the moment if you have a decent pilot in the planes the only thing that can bring them down is another decent pilot.

Only thing I have against this is the people who ALREADY have their clan tags in their names. They should have a way to correct their names and then add the tag. It's a good start, otherwise. (suffixes would be interesting, as well as more characters than 6)

Agreed.

[MrChris_CJ]

patch looks neat...

am i the only one that thinks wake island will ****ing pwn serious *** that map is gonna be amazing! :D

[Spuddy]

The remake of Wake Island looks beautiful, can't wait to get back there, espcially as it was one of my favourite maps (although played alittle too much of it)

Like most people though not happy about the no arty tk's! The commander is going to be firing arty strikes non-stop, with no consideration for his team and destroying everything without thinking - bad move!

[AFEDslayer]

My opinion is both good and bad. Dont get me wrong wake island will be great, but i would have liked a new city map instead. And about the no commander artilery tks, its going to get abused, and abused and abused etc... There will be comanders dropping artilery down on there own troops just to kill the enemies that are near.. but all and all i am pretty happy about the fixes in the patch..

[Kronicle]

I really love that downed Zero on that WakeIsland pic. Nice plug in.

[AFEDslayer]

agreed.

[Seal]

That map looks very Nice!

[Hoss]

To their credit the anti air and vehicle physics are getting fixed...


I dont care about a remake of wake island. I dont care about TK's for the commander, I can live a little longer without Favorites, stats compare and a reload bar for flares. What I can't stand is bunny hopping, the noob tube nade launcher that shouldn't be Close Quarter Combat weapons, and "insta-prone". Or how about even the bugs where good guys show up as enemies? IMO ,let's fix some of the major gameplay issues before the stupid "fluff"

[goochball]

Will wake island be a ranked map?

[aznsensation18]

Seems like a good patch to me.

[AFEDslayer]

ofcourse it will be. well atleast it better be.

[CrimsonBlaze]

Will wake island be a ranked map?
You betcha'

[sturmvogel]

Its nice that we have a new Chinese vs Marines map. I play on Karkand a lot because of the fast pace and action, I think I'll find myself playing as the Chinese a lot more on Wake.

[Roy_(NL)]

I actually like the no-TKs change.
Now, if you have a good commander, he'll often get kicked because of some idiots who drive a full Vodnik into it on purpose...

Of course there'll be some people absuing it too, but maybe they change something to the kick-votes too.

[Spuddy]

Its nice that we have a new Chinese vs Marines map. I play on Karkand a lot because of the fast pace and action, I think I'll find myself playing as the Chinese a lot more on Wake.

:laugh: Just thinking this will probably be the first chinese map in BF2 that I actually like playing! :cool:

[^Garf*uk*]

great news:banana: :banana: :banana: :D

[||Animal||]

patch looks neat...

am i the only one that thinks wake island will ****ing pwn serious *** that map is gonna be amazing! :D
Way to back that up with some reasons. I just love the morons that get all pumped up because they see something familiar that they liked in the past... "Wake is gonna B ub3rl337. I no cuz it roxors my boxors on 42. Woot pwn blah blah blah..." I think that the map looks nice but I will reserve judgement on it until I play a few dozen rounds on it. As far as the fixes that they listed, they all sound decent. The only one that I'm not sure about yet is the no tk punish for arty. It's decent because commanders shouldn't be punished for a TK when morons don't roll out when they hear the arty warning. However, I still kinda think that the artillery strike (or NoSkillery Strike) should be taken out since it's just a lame point padder for commanders. Hopefully with the points for destroying commander assets, we'll see alot less artillery in game...

[Jesse]

Way to back that up with some reasons. I just love the morons that get all pumped up because they see something familiar that they liked in the past... "Wake is gonna B ub3rl337. I no cuz it roxors my boxors on 42. Woot pwn blah blah blah..." I think that the map looks nice but I will reserve judgement on it until I play a few dozen rounds on it. As far as the fixes that they listed, they all sound decent. The only one that I'm not sure about yet is the no tk punish for arty. It's decent because commanders shouldn't be punished for a TK when morons don't roll out when they hear the arty warning. However, I still kinda think that the artillery strike (or NoSkillery Strike) should be taken out since it's just a lame point padder for commanders. Hopefully with the points for destroying commander assets, we'll see alot less artillery in game...
Agree on the arty. And as far as Wake...eh, it looks nicely done, but I agree the judgement should be passed only after it's release as an official map. The gameplay is what matters, and we won't be able to see how it'll play out until having a few rounds of chaos on it. I'm looking forward to the change in scenery though.

[Dre]

I'm looking forward to all the gameplay tweaks, but having to play Wake Island again is a let down. I appreciate EA/Dice's work, but recycling an old map doesn't do it for me. But that's just me.

[CommanderD]

Amazing map, I remember the 42 version.

[Cicchetti]

Awsome............

[King Cockery]

I have a bad feeling about wake. It has quite narrow roads for vehicles so they'll be like sitting ducks to the jet machinegun fire.

[BigBadBob]

The remake of Wake Island looks beautiful, can't wait to get back there, espcially as it was one of my favourite maps (although played alittle too much of it)

Like most people though not happy about the no arty tk's! The commander is going to be firing arty strikes non-stop, with no consideration for his team and destroying everything without thinking - bad move!

if he can't kill teammates, why worry about it? Hell, i'll let a teammate shoot me all day if he can't kill me.

[BigBadBob]

I actually like the no-TKs change.
Now, if you have a good commander, he'll often get kicked because of some idiots who drive a full Vodnik into it on purpose...

Of course there'll be some people absuing it too, but maybe they change something to the kick-votes too.

i prefer to play on servers that have that **** turned off.

Either way, i have it opted out on my end, so i've never seen a kick message.

[dBs]

Think Ill wait till someone else puts it up for d/l, never liked having to sign up to use stuff =P

[Cicchetti]

Is Wake Island coming with the patch or do we have to dl it ourselfs jw? if anyone knows

[imported_Gue]

Nice !!!!!!!!!

[Snake101]

Sweeet! Can't wait!
WOOOOT :D

[Private Waxa]

Can't wait for this, with all the other fixes in too then things should be smoother now, as for the arty tk thing, I'll wait before I pass judgement.

As a sir member earlier pointed out the jets on this map will be interesting but with the new improved AA missile accuracy I'm sure they'll get whats comin to 'em too:D

[mr_o]

now THAT is wake!

[DeathGiver]

For once they did something right.

[`danny]

So is wake 2007 already out and this patch is going to rock!

[DoubleVee]

YaY Patch --- finally....the map is going to pwn....I love the destroyed zero on the ground

btw. is Wake 2007 going to be ranked?....it better be

[B=E=N=C=H]

This Wake Island looks good, I wish they did some of Desert Combat's urban maps.

BTW,what happened to the 200+ fixes?

[Cicchetti]

I thought it was 140 fixes.....its not out yet i guess when its out they will list every single fix

[DrunkenPirate]

This Wake Island looks good, I wish they did some of Desert Combat's urban maps.

BTW,what happened to the 200+ fixes?
Show me where "200+" was posted and I'll give you the patch now. :p

The number was between 130 and 140 and not all of them are worthy of news entries as most are insignificant tweaks or alterations.

[BRUTALITEEEEEEEEE]

is there performance/optimization tweaks I hope :(

[=[AOD]=Ken]

Looks like most of the changes will be good, but the jury is still out on the ARTY!

The AA tweak will help with those good pilots that keep me in the “waiting to respawn”(hehe) before I can shoot down a helo or get lucky and shoot one of the jets down.



Things that are missing on the list:

- Friendly red name tags.

- Mine not counting as a TK or a change in colors for the Mines vs C4 or a better warning for the mines ie. audible warning as you get near them.

- Repair rate on the BH/ transport Helo in flight.

- Control Point cap bug (ie. flag goes up but doesn’t count on the mini map or as a spawn point or a flag that doesn’t even go up with half your side next to it with enemies in sight.)

I’m sure there is a few more, but I’m drawing a blank right now.

Maybe some of those will be in the “…and, of course, more. Look for the patch soon.”


Why do people have to flame someone for just saying he likes the Wake Island map?
I think that any map that they add will rock, because all of the stock maps rock now.
Of course some people will like to only play city maps, and that’s cool. I personally like playing all of them; it makes for a good change of pace and tactics.

Happy pawning…;)

[machstem]

The patch doesn't seem too bad from the post's description. As mentioned previously, I hope the client performance and server performance issues will be resolved.

The vehicle TKing will be a nice change.

The AA being more effective against enemy jets will be great, about time there is something a AA unit can do against them, pretty useless normally, only useful against helos.

As I previously posted though, I could care less about the "new" map and other unimportant issues.

PEACE

[imported_Gue]

Lets wait till we see full list of changes !!!

[PeaceKeeper]

...and much, much more!Now stop bitching and let the patch come out... then ***** some more if you feel like it

[Drifter]

I guess whoever called October 3 was right on.
ooooh me

[Bravo Six]

Commander scoring - No more TKs from Artillery!
Does this mean friendly artillery no longer injures/kills teamates? Regardless I think it's a terrible idea, encourages artillery spamming and careless use of said artillery.

[robbradford]

The new Wake Island map comes to you free of charge thanks to Fileplanet's new Battlefield 2 Channel.

Well duh. Think we would have to pay for it. :rolleyes: >>>>> EA?Dice

That I am affraid is not the official version of Wake Island. It's someones version of it.

Nice to see the patch is almost with us. There is lots of nice feature that I am sure will help gameplay no end.. Especailly the Command TK fix..

The only thing that slightly conserns me is the re-hash of Wake Island for BF2. It's all very well and good that it was one of the most popular maps for BF42, but at least with BF42 we got three brand new maps (Operation Aberdeen, Battle of Britain and Corel Sea). I would have much rather have seen something a bit more original. Or if they had to recreate an older map, what about some of the Desert Combat maps, like Lost Village, Urban Siege or Basrah's edge, considering that Trauma was involved and BF2. It would have been a much more fitting addition and at least in someway related to the era of battle.

This is a bit of the slap in the face in my opinion. But that's not to say that the patch isn't welcome. EA please do us proud and release some decent urban maps for BF2, as there is only so many times you can play Mashtuur, Karkand and Sharqi.

[-(PK)-DarkIllusion]

Commander scoring - No more TKs from Artillery!
Does this mean friendly artillery no longer injures/kills teamates? Regardless I think it's a terrible idea, encourages artillery spamming and careless use of said artillery.
TAKE SOME TIME TO READ THE POST BUDDy... arty will kill teamates... but it wont be counted as a tk against the commander...:hmm:

[PanzerGhost]

<O:p</O:p
Well duh. Think we would have to pay for it.>> EA?Dice <O:p></O:p>
well, actually, EA wants to be where we have to pay for new maps for BF2. When you first install BF2, and get an e-mail after registering the product. The e-mail asks if you'd like to help them by completing survey. In the Survey most of the questions are how much would you spend on new maps and things. I saw prices even up to $4.99 for like a couple maps. Which is absurd. I will never pay for maps, and I don't think anyone else should either. <O:p</O:p
<O:p</O:p

I think it would destroy the community. Because you as a gamer have to wait till the people who have servers buy the extra maps to enjoy the new maps. If the server admins don't buy them then you can't use the new maps. Which then divides the amount of free ranked servers you can join into a bunch of fractions. <O:p</O:p
I will never buy products that depend on other peoples purchase decisions to allow me to play what I bought.<O:p</O:p

[nazgul-krq]

it's one thing playing wake island in bf1942 when you have slow ww2 planes but with high speed jets it won't be as much fun:confused:

[5150 Joker]

An urban siege remake for BF2 would have ****in owned!

[gungho]

Wake Island :) Memories of BF42 MP demo come flooding back, gr8 fun. gotta agree with 5150 Joke - Urban Seige was uber!

[IndiQa]

The clan tag thingy is a good and a much needed feature. Question is will we be able to remove the clan tags we have NOW which is part of the player name? I don't want to remove the entire name just the clan tag.

Also I have to agree with PanzerGhost. Buying "Expansions" is basically BS. Try to be like a GOOD game developer ->Epic<- releases many map packs for the life cycle of their UR product line(s). FREE !!!!! No problem with servers not having them they are free for them as well.

Indi

[Drifter]

can you change Just your Clan tag, or be able to change your whole name? i hope just clan tag

[mr_o]

im sick of urban maps. give us basra and lost village then bash in some of the large open desert maps, el al, desert shield etc

[JumpinJimmy]

F%$@ YA thats all i can say :) [/B][/I]:) :) :)

[Josh]

Heh. What did they say abt the problem with commander being able to repair arty with supply drop. If this isnt fixed - ill shoot myself! :mad: :mad: :mad:

Thats not a problem at all, its just the way the supplies work.
...imp theres nothing wrong with it.

[Josh]

Wow... uhh... doesn't that just open up a big can of abuse?

Only if your too lazy to take a gander at the arty icon, then yeah.
( But, yeah I suppose this does build a problem. )

It would be cool ( imp ) If they made it so only the offending team recieves deaths from the artillary. ( But I guess thats unrealistic. )

[dragon159753]

o glasseye, in your FACE i know that was a little childish, anyways, told you there was a patch.............anyways, glad EA has been looking over our requests

[-R|F-Glitch]

Everyone is to attached to their stats to even care what normal people come out with maps. :confused:

btw. is Wake 2007 going to be ranked?....it better be
Will wake island be a ranked map?

I think I did pretty good on it. Not being able to use a height map and making it from scratch.<BR>
<img src="http://www.2and2.net/Uploads/Images/wake13.jpg"></img><img src="http://www.2and2.net/Uploads/Images/wake12.jpg"></img>

[MackTheKnifeAU]

Yeah, you made a cool map, it would suck to have it swept from under you like that, but keep going.

Make a 73 easting remake.

You know what, EA should (when their full map maker gets up and running), have a system where it is possible for maps to get added to the ranked stuff.

[DoubleVee]

Glitch, your Wake kind of sucked

[-(PK)-DarkIllusion]

Glitch, your Wake kind of sucked
thats not a very nice thing to say to a person who tried making the game more fun for u... he's doing u a favor, dont like it? u should keep ur rude comments away unless they're for some reason helpful

[ace203]

looks good, but you know... no one is gonna play it if you cant play it on ranked

[flashing larry]

Good to see that DICE didn't waste any time fixing the crap that needs to be fixed.

Looks like I can still be punished because some jackass walked into my line of fire or wanted to pet my claymore even though they get a warning.

The game needs a 3-5 second god mode at spawn time so the players can figure out where the hell they are instead of just getting torn to shreds because the enemy started firing before the player even sees them.... or if they spawn in front of a moving vehicle.. or in the middle of a firefight. It sucks to spend 5 minutes of a timed game just jumping from one spawn point to another because the enemy is either spawn camping or the game spawns you into $hit areas.

I would also love to have the ability to do things in my server browser like filter out any servers that are actually populated or not full or pretty much any of the options that you can select...have them work or pull them from the game. Find some better beta testers because the current crop should have caught that crap.

Un-screw the VOIP so it works.

Why the hell does the game take the time to load a map and then end that round before anyone can spawn?

[{A}10th{B}Dill0n]

What I can't stand is bunny hopping, the noob tube nade launcher that shouldn't be Close Quarter Combat weapons, and "insta-prone". Or how about even the bugs where good guys show up as enemies? IMO ,let's fix some of the major gameplay issues before the stupid "fluff"

BEST QUOTE SAID IN THIS ENTIRE FORUM! VERY NICE!

sending you $100000 through paypal.

nah only joking, but your exactly right about that. If only one more thing got changed, I would choose the 203's to get fixed. I die like 1/3 the time on Karkand from 203's/gp-30's so it's quite stupid and so fake. Hurts the game a ton.

[PsychoSnowMan]

When you look at that map you can see how much further you can see in BF2 compared to BF1942, makes you notice how much bigger the maps are. Now a whole new generation of BF aces can earn their wings by flying under the bridge from the wake demo. :P

As for the bug fixes and new features, they look nice but it's mostly just stuff that should have been fixed in beta testing before the game was released, stuff like the vehicle collisions with players is rediculous that it got into the release.
I hope some tweaking to the TK punish is in the part that wasn't mentioned, I don't know why they would think they could trust the average BF player with that. I wouldn't trust one with a glass of water.

[Death Touch]

I am happy about the server history and server browser fix. The BF2 server browser is one of the biggest POSs I have ever had the misfortune to have to use.
I am happy no more Helo Spawn whoring.
I am happy FINALLY they got the message that there was NO way to take down aircraft and their AA sucked major you know what.
I am glad flares have a reload bar now. Now I have an idea of what the hell is actually happening.
I am also happy that they finally realized how stupid it was to not include player names in your vehicle. You had NO idea who the hell was in your vehicle. I am getting tired of hearing over Comms:"Who's in here riding with me? Who's driving???! Who is on the gun?"
Finally, it will be over.
I am happy SpecOPs will get credit for destroying Commander assests. I have NO clue WHY in the world DICE didn't think of that in the ALPHA version!
I mean, come on! How could you exempt gaining experience points for something as important as that??!!
Finally, I will have a location on where the Supply Drop will be. It is so annoying and hard to get someone to even get you one, and you could sometimes never find it!!!
I mean , NO Icon, nothing. I mean how many times have I been looking up into the sky looking for the Supply Crate and can't find the damn thing?
Now, this will be changed. Finally.
Unintentional vehicle TKing has gotten a little better under control now. A lot of people have learned, but it is still kind of dumb to makeit so that even if you're a foot away, you get killed.If it just rubs you, you die. Very dumb. Didn't they test this stuff first???!
Glad the vehicle physics are improved. Struggling uphill on every single Godforsaken hill with APCs and Tanks is ...........SO................Damn...........ANNOYI NG!
Didn't they test THIS too?? What the hell were they smoking??
I tell you, I am NOT HAPPY that there WON'T be Artillery TKs now. This IMHO is a very bad , bad move.
It is going to get even more "Hollywood" Outer Space now.Where are my Jump Boots and my Dual FlameThrower Napalm Guns with my Powered Armor Suit???!!! I mean will that be in the next patch???!! Or how about I want super Spiderman like skills where I can climb walls and stuff? How about that, huh???!! What's next??? "Bullet time"????!
I guess now I can just stand there out in the middle of an Artillery Strike with a grin on my face as the shells pulverize everything around me but me.
How dumb........

And they STILL haven't done anything about the 10 foot in the air Quake 3 bunny hopping and the "instaprone" crap!
And the ERYX intentionally MISSING aircraft? Have you guys seen that yet?Where there is a helo close enough for you to hit it with the Eryx but just at the last second it veers off in a crazy unnatural way intentionally missing the Helo. Or when there's a Helo close to you doing there Helo Whoring routine and you fire an Eryx right at the cockpit and nothing happens?
And finally, while I am no fan of Wake Island I can understand when the community overwhelmingly WANTS an URBAN MAP, they put out an

ISLAND MAP???
Er, which Planet Earth is DICE/Sweden on? They must be in some sort of parallel universe or something. Because this is so way off mark, I don't know what to think.
Look at Monolith and the details and effort they put into F.E.A.R. It's not perfect, but it's noticeably much more well thought out.

[{A}10th{B}Dill0n]

dont forget death patch that it will still tk you, just that the commander doesn't get a negative score for it.


They should have done the same with the claymores though...

Plus again I say TAKE OUT THE 203's!!!!!! nah messing, but make them more realistic where they have a distance to blow up.

[~US~Riggs-]

1) what about the people that are already in clans and have there tags on, we should be able to change a permanate name once then never again or something to get rid of the tags to use the new prefix thing.
2)nothing about fixing noob tubers and/or bunny hoppers
4) YAY wake island (i hated that map)
5)OCT release really worked well...
6) if comanders dont get tk points for arty TKs then the team mates getting killed shouldent get a death count from them being tked by arty
as long as the wait was worth it then it will be fine but my guess is that most people will be complaning because they have tag on already and are corp and up... im just barley a corp i sure as hell aint startin over.

dident seam like a list of 140 fixes eh?

[Redh3lix]

Severly dissapointed there's no mention of an extra game mode in their current listing :( EA could have cornered a nice little niche in the FPS market if this game had more game modes.

Like many other games that realised this, Joint Ops, Unreal Tournament etc, they should have included the mode in which you capture the flags in a certain order. This would have made the game much more intense and closely faught and above all, open up the game to more competitive play. I find it unbelievable they havn't included more game modes :mad:

As for all the other bug fixes, they should have been put in place the first time around quite simply :confused:

[Hugh G. Wrection]

Like many other games that realised this, Joint Ops, Unreal Tournament etc, they should have included the mode in which you capture the flags in a certain order. This would have made the game much more intense and closely faught and above all, open up the game to more competitive play. I find it unbelievable they havn't included more game modes :mad:


Yeah, I agree. If the control points had to be taken sequentially, you'd get some really fun huge battles. As it is now in BF2, all you get for a whole map is just a series of minor skirmishes...

[Hairstylist]

"Auto Team Balance tweaks - Commanders and Squad Leaders now immune to team switch" - AH THANK GOD ! I played as Commander once, and got killed. Then I woke up as a grunt for the opposing team WTF. Glad it's fixed.

And another thing, what does this mean : "Point Farming changes - DICE has implemented functionality that makes it significantly harder to point farm on Ranked Servers"

[Hannez]

I would also love to have the ability to do things in my server browser like filter out any servers that are actually populated or not full or pretty much any of the options that you can select...have them work or pull them from the game. Find some better beta testers because the current crop should have caught that crap.

I agree, when i filter "not full" there appears some servers, which have 30/32 players, and when i try to join it, it says its full! That just sucks.

Un-screw the VOIP so it works.

What do you mean? VOIP works very well with me.

What I can't stand is bunny hopping, the noob tube nade launcher that shouldn't be Close Quarter Combat weapons, and "insta-prone". Or how about even the bugs where good guys show up as enemies? IMO ,let's fix some of the major gameplay issues before the stupid "fluff"

Now thats what im talking about too, i remember that the bunnyhopping should have been fixed in the first patch, but it didnt, and its still in the game. Dice, fix those things, bunny hopping and insta-prone looks stupid.

Last words for the people: read all the posts before you ask anything!

PS. The clantag change and Wake Island sounds great!

Peace :salute:

[Kloever]

I think this patch will do good for us..Only the non TK on arty is bothering me a bit...but after all...its gonna be a good patch(i hope)

[jonnysanchez]

The game needs a 3-5 second god mode at spawn time so the players can figure out where the hell they are instead of just getting torn to shreds because the enemy started firing before the player even sees them.... or if they spawn in front of a moving vehicle.. or in the middle of a firefight. It sucks to spend 5 minutes of a timed game just jumping from one spawn point to another because the enemy is either spawn camping or the game spawns you into $hit areas.

welcome to battlefield

I would also love to have the ability to do things in my server browser like filter out any servers that are actually populated or not full or pretty much any of the options that you can select...have them work or pull them from the game. Find some better beta testers because the current crop should have caught that crap.

type in the boxes at the top of the server list. for example if you want a server with at least 10 players type 10 in box above the player amount column. if you only want XYZ servers to show up type XYZ in the box above the server name column

[Hairstylist]

I wonder if they've put in some easter eggs for us too on the Wake map....

[imported_fvbyfv]

Im still not liking how they havent told us anything on whats going to be in the patch...I mean yeah they told us the map and the others things they told us before....out of the so called "140+ fixes" they have to get repeating the same 5 or 6?

[Fishw0rk]

Im still not liking how they havent told us anything on whats going to be in the patch...I mean yeah they told us the map and the others things they told us before....out of the so called "140+ fixes" they have to get repeating the same 5 or 6?

Yeah I know. I REALLY want a FULL changelog when the patch is released, but I bet we won't get one. :rolleyes:

I really hate when new mods/patches come out and they give like 5 changes in the log and say "AND MUCH MORE!!!" at the bottom. Give me everything dammit.

[grrr]

planetcombat and their affiliates are testing the new patch this weekend on request from Dice, and all i can say is, its awsome, Wake is by far the best map to date.
Ohh the ranking point system has changed so expect to get promoted a bit sooner then normal.

[Spuddy]

planetcombat and their affiliates are testing the new patch this weekend on request from Dice, and all i can say is, its awsome, Wake is by far the best map to date.
Ohh the ranking point system has changed so expect to get promoted a bit sooner then normal.

Ooo an insider, any more info? How about AA?

I notice your stats are a little weird aswell. Your global score (according to BF2Tracker) is 14,841 and yet you are a Gunnery Sergeant. Have you received that only while testing?

[grrr]

Yeah I know. I REALLY want a FULL changelog when the patch is released, but I bet we won't get one. :rolleyes:

I really hate when new mods/patches come out and they give like 5 changes in the log and say "AND MUCH MORE!!!" at the bottom. Give me everything dammit.

Change log is complete, once u install the patch u will see for your self.

[DMC]

Ooo an insider, any more info? How about AA?

I notice your stats are a little weird aswell. Your global score (according to BF2Tracker) is 14,841 and yet you are a Gunnery Sergeant. Have you received that only while testing?
Rank-up levels have been changed. :)

[sav112]

Change log is complete, once u install the patch u will see for your self.


I know you’re on a disclosure but you’ve already stressed it great.

In your opinion does the game run better with less lag etc.

Is there the mentioned 140+ fixes?


And most off all please tell me I can kill personnel with a tank blast radius.:rolleyes:



On a add on note it would be better if the commander could not pick up the sniper on the satellite I cant use the sniper gun at all and don’t play that class but I’ve killed countless players with Artillery when the poor sniper is waiting and taking up position, :eek:

[Tyl3n0L]

Yea FIXES are nice but like sav112 I'd like to know if the game run better with the newest patch? Please.

Thanks!

[Hairstylist]

inside info is worth a free haircut in my book ;)

[gx.]

what about claymore kills?!? as a sniper i put them down alot and ppl dont get it or theink its c4.

[TITAN126]

I wonder if they've put in some easter eggs for us too on the Wake map....

Where are these Easter eggs that everyone keeps talking about?

[-R|F-Glitch]

Severly dissapointed there's no mention of an extra game mode in their current listing :(
Don't worry you will get your new gamemodes, but they're going to cost you 30 bucks.

[TITAN126]

Rank-up levels have been changed. :)

What have they been changed to? Also, have they changed any of the criterea for awards? Because that War College Ribbon is starting to frustrate me...

[Spuddy]

Because that War College Ribbon is starting to frustrate me...

Starting to? I'm waaaaaay past that point. :mad:

I take it nothing else will be let slip now. :( Still so long to wait. :(

[Wreck0]

Good stuff. No TKs for artillery is surprising, though.

Pro: no complete point total wipeage when some blind jeep driver with a full load wanders into the artillery zone. No intentional acts like this to kick the commander.

Con: artillery is powerful, and I like having to be cautious with it, and having to be in touch with your troops. And of course might be prone to abuse.

However, commanders want to win to get the 2x bonus, so they'll try to avoid wasting our own tickets to that end.

[#eDiablo|Doedel]

Well, up until now I had nothing but hatred for DICE/EA but... well, this patch could be better, but it could also be a lot, lot worse. So I'm happy they're finally getting things done. Though judging by the list of tweaks and features I have to ask why it took so ****in long for so few changes..

[flashing larry]

6) if comanders dont get tk points for arty TKs then the team mates getting killed shouldent get a death count from them being tked by arty

Hell yeah! AND there should not be a full 15 second respawn countdown.


I bet all of the half assed stuff going into this is because they are too busy with the $pecOp$ expan$$ion pack.

Something that always bugged me is when the enemy commander uses artillery like a handgun and blows the crap out of an area over and over...but the surrounding geography is in perfect condition. They should have added destructable buildings and wall in addition to the bridges.


While I'm on a rant.

HOW ABOUT SNIPERS THAT HAVE GHILLIE SUITS THAT ACTUALLY ARE CLOSE TO THE TERRAIN OF THAT MAP. Right now it looks like the Swampthing running through a desert. More roof clutter and ledges would be great for them.

[flashing larry]

What do you mean? VOIP works very well with me.



I meant the huge number of people that 1.02 screwed up the VOIP for. I know quite a few people that it doesn't work in-game for. Mine works until I start a map. My VOIP settings in the game are fine, I can test the mice. Once the game starts the mic never transmits. I can hear the slight feedback that a headphone/mic gives to let you know it is working.

[grrr]

The game looks and feel much better with the patch, they did something with the shaders, and yes the rank point system has been changed, i got promoted 3 times in 5 min:)

[Spuddy]

The game looks and feel much better with the patch, they did something with the shaders, and yes the rank point system has been changed, i got promoted 3 times in 5 min:)

So you really now are a Gunnery Sergeant? Wow, that's some major big changes! :eek: I'll probably be Sergeant Major. :laugh:

Just a few more days, just a few more days, just a few more days...

[{A}10th{B}Dill0n]

The game looks and feel much better with the patch, they did something with the shaders, and yes the rank point system has been changed, i got promoted 3 times in 5 min:)

woh that's awesome but.... How do you already have the patch :)


PLEASE FIX THE 203/gp-30 if nothing else!!!!!!!

[AFEDslayer]

Read all the post before posting, his company or team got to test the patch out , and he is telling us some things.

[TITAN126]

The game looks and feel much better with the patch, they did something with the shaders, and yes the rank point system has been changed, i got promoted 3 times in 5 min:)

Did they add any new ranks? Because right now they only have the enlisted ranks, no warrant officer or officer ranks. Also, did you get to unlock any new guns because you got promoted three times? Or did they change the unlock requirements?

[DeathFromAbove]

Wait up wait up so how has the ranking system changed? are the requierment lower or is getting points easy?

[Greasy_Mullet]

The no Tk for Arty is gonna be bad... very very bad...

What they should have done is decreased the radius of the arty strikes and found a way to give the commander a 3-5 TK buffer where is first couple TK's were free.

or

Made it so that only people in the radius of the arty strike once the strike is ordered, would be considered a TK.

[gungho]

im sick of urban maps. give us basra and lost village then bash in some of the large open desert maps, el al, desert shield etc


El Al has been done for BF2 -
http://www.filecloud.com/files/file.php?user_file_id=54348

[=CC=Serpentor]

Can't wait!!

[Redh3lix]

Don't worry you will get your new gamemodes, but they're going to cost you 30 bucks.

Care to elaborate?

[PsychoSnowMan]

He was making a joke, referring to how they're probably going to try and milk us dry for money to buy some addon with new game modes.

[EB ..S8..]

EDIT: i saw a posting allready about this subject!

[Lawnsdale]

I think no CO tk's will be good. It only affects your score, teammates still die and i assume they still get to punish you, but that way you have some room to move and not worry about ruining your whole rounds score with a bad arty placment.

[True2Kill]

I like this thread.

[Giuliano]

I'm pretty satisfied with these changes, can't expect them to fix everything with one patch.

[Hairstylist]

Will they put in the sub on Wake Island this time ?

[grrr]

No subs, but its the best patch in the series to date in my humble opinion, it makes the game play complete.
But then again u can't please everyone, so some will still expect more.

[geddeth]

How long is "a few days" anyway .. (I can hardly wait).

[AFEDslayer]

rank up 3 times in 5 minits, ughh, sounds way to easy... lol- and did you get unlocks for those rank ups?

[sav112]

The game looks and feel much better with the patch, they did something with the shaders, and yes the rank point system has been changed, i got promoted 3 times in 5 min:)


Sorry just like to thank the guy for this info as I’d asked if the game ran better in his opinion.

Big thanks mate

[QuakerOatz]

We can infer a ton of info about the new stats system by loking at Grr's stats:
http://bf2s.com/player/%5Bplanetcombat%5DGrrr/

He's just over 15000 global score.
Yet hes a Gunnery Sergeant which used to require a 75000 global score!:laugh:
http://ubar.bf2s.com/ranks.php

He also has 5 weapons unlocked! Which is normal for Gunery Sgt.

Get ready for a weapons shopping spree boyz!!:D

[AFEDslayer]

this cant be true, it just cant be- i mean its WAY to easy- im up to 35k and who knows what rank ill get to now.. lol.. g3- and dao-12 here i come.

[TITAN126]

Is it certain that the patch is going to be released Monday? And if it is, what time of day (EST)?

[AFEDslayer]

most likely, no idea what time.

[pastorjames]

I bet 12 pm Pacific time

[NeoVipeR]

With the lower score and time requirements, looks like UBAR will be busy again.

i.e. Good Conduct Ribbon-IAR: 14 kills
IAR: No Team kills/damage/vehicle damage
250h Total time played
according to UBAR, yet grrr received his and only has 134 hours played.

[-(PK)-DarkIllusion]

rankin system changed? cool, but ppl will probably get bored once they got all the unlocks, they should add more.. to make it more interesting...

[PsychoSnowMan]

Monday would be nice, but doesn't EA usually release patches on fridays?

[TITAN126]

Monday would be nice, but doesn't EA usually release patches on fridays?

I hope not. I don't think I can wait another week! :laugh:

[Cicchetti]

I hope not. I don't think I can wait another week! :laugh:

no kiddin ...........lol nice picture ..................

[-(PK)-DarkIllusion]

looks like even the requirements for the badges have changed. Grr's total time wit spec ops is 81 hrs. n he has veteran spec ops badge wich requires 250hrs

[AFEDslayer]

I hope not. I don't think I can wait another week! :laugh:


me either- i would go CRAZY.

[TITAN126]

no kiddin ...........lol nice picture ..................

ty...remember: Big Papi for MVP!

[TeKnO_CaLiTY]

For any of you that didnt play Bf1942 - Wake Island was the most popular map for that game, just like strike at karkand is to bf2. I DEFFINATLY welcome this map to the arsenal and i cant wait to play it.


That SS of the downed Jap Zero on Wake Island has my mouth drooling. People keep saying this patch is gonna be released Monday? How do you guys know this? I havent seen any such date posted at EA?:eek:

[PoorYorick]

There was a "leaked" set of patch notes from a few weeks ago that had Oct 3rd as a provisional release date. Nobody really knew if those notes were real or not, but most everything from them has been right on.

[Sniper_13]

omg its 12:04 am why isnt it out yet omg

[Neat_Hedgehog]

The rank requirment changes are already going into effect. I have 810 points, and it says I'm only 62% to Lance Corporal. It's coming soon.

[SneakyPete67]

[quote=
I would also love to have the ability to do things in my server browser like filter out any servers that are actually populated or not full or pretty much any of the options that you can select...have them work or pull them from the game. Find some better beta testers because the current crop should have caught that crap.[/quote]


You still use the in game browser?....dude use the all seeing eye: http://videogames.yahoo.com/multiplayer

[MEGALADON]

Hard to believe Wake beat out El Al or 73 Easting. Just going to ramble on a bit here maybe a sujestion for the next update....

1. Different mods for the game like CTF & so on.
2. A Ping limiter would be nice.
To keep out some of thoes higher ( 200+ & 400+ ) pings
3. Two ( YES 2 ) new classes of warrior. ( In addition to the ones we already have ) Say one APG & the other Stinger (Shoulder Launched)
4. Morter's would be nice to have again. ( Like the one's in DC )

Just Some thoughts.

Oh & I can't weight for the 1.03 Good Job.
Maybe now squads/players will pay more attention to where arty is falling.

:evil: :mad: :evil:

[imported_Drewsome]

Hey Mega are you the one from arena lan? and i would like to have the morters back lol

[Napstaz]

OMFG when does it come out!!!!!! its 3:25 Pm - 3rd oct

( in syd australia) AHHHH

[Cicchetti]

i know wtf ............ it should have came out at 12AM here

[Cicchetti]

ty...remember: Big Papi for MVP!

damn right bostons going to the playoffs again muhahaha

[Sydog]

OMFG when does it come out!!!!!! its 3:25 Pm - 3rd oct

( in syd australia) AHHHH

you're livin' in the past budday :P
6:45 here, I hope to wake up tomorrow with this patch ready to be downloaded :)

[-(PK)-DarkIllusion]

2 am here.. i'm a go to sleep... see if its out 5 hours from now.. lol :D

[MontereyJack]

I've heard the patch will be released Friday, October 7th. Here is a link to what a beta tester of the new patch says about it. http://www.bf2.se/page.php?id=288

[Widkidone]

MontereyJack where does it say the 7th???? I checked that site. Other sites have metion Monday Oct. 3rd.

[MontereyJack]

http://www.bfnation.net/
Read through the second announcement. I'm not sure where they got their information.

[MEGALADON]

Yea Drew it's me former [TAG] KILLER WABBIT. Waz up?? Good to see ya, it's been a while.

:evil: :mad: :evil:

[Poppa]

Yeah, I agree. If the control points had to be taken sequentially, you'd get some really fun huge battles. As it is now in BF2, all you get for a whole map is just a series of minor skirmishes...

That would be incredibly lame. What you are asking for is having deathmatch at the spawnpoints. I like the idea that BF2 has strategy, and that you have to think a little.

There was something about a supply-line mode, which sounds cool. So you'd have to defend all of your spawn points. Too many games are like Whack-a-mole right now, although it's gotten better lately.

[OafyC]

Greasy_Mullet']The no Tk for Arty is gonna be bad... very very bad...

I think everyone is misunderstanding the no TK for arty change, or maybe I am. The way I understand it is that commanders will still get TKs for artilery, but people won't have the option of punishing for it.

[Cicchetti]

thats right

[Spuddy]

http://www.bfnation.net/
Read through the second announcement. I'm not sure where they got their information.

Looks like they've made that part up. And the first annoucement says a possibility of today from the source we've all seen.

I think it's safe to say, possibly today but don't hold your breath on it.

[Xicer]

They said it will probably some out today, 9 PM GMT.

[Cicchetti]

Lets all hope it is today

[PurpleBarney]

7:30 pm aus time, no patch

[vice]

When the heck is 9 PM GMT? Its 4:45Am CST here<!-- / message --><!-- sig -->

[geddeth]

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

(That would be 10 hours from now (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=10&day=3&year=2005&hour=21&min=0&sec=0&p1=136&sort=1).)

[vice]

Its almost noon is Sweden...I'm waiting ever so patiently. Well, not really.

[Hairstylist]

I got the patch !

No wait, something's happening.....it's a virus ! My PC is infected, nooooo !!

[vice]

You had me go'in there for a second but I realized if you got the patch you would be palying insted of posting.

[Napstaz]

LOL


OMG ITS OUT!!!!!! OMG!!!!




JOKES!

need somthing to keep me amused while i WAIT!!

[turbous]

Sweet as

[Trademark -DA-]

The real question: " Do the changes reflect concern for the noobs or concern for noobs robbing the skilled?"

hmm...

[Stouf]

Mmmmm.... According to EA, i really doubt it'll be out today... I keep caping flags in my APC and BH whoring for the moment... :)

[Stouf]

:ar15: :banana: :wall: .......

[Hairstylist]

APC up-hill is a drag, glad they fixed that. The Humvee is kinda slow too....

[MiniMizer]

I don't get the whole APC uphill fix: Will it now be possible to drive full speed uphill in an APC, or impossible to drive uphill at all? Frankly I think the APC's speed is pretty realistic, both uphill and downhill...

[Hairstylist]

The APC shifts gears so often you'll think none of the combatants ever got their drivers license....

The patch'll make the APC go alittle faster, not full speed.

[Redh3lix]

In regards to the weapon unlocks becoming available much faster, I wonder if they have included more weapons to unlock? Maybe that was the idea the first time around and it wasn't implemented. They did say "we're gonna get it right this time around and finish off what we meat to" type thing.

Pure speculation on my part btw.

[tool62]

when is it due this patch?

[DakotaDoc64]

http://www.bfnation.net/
Read through the second announcement. I'm not sure where they got their information.

Here is the announcement. Err or rumer :rolleyes:
Anyway.


BF2NATION.net
BF2 v1.03 release due for today?
Posted at 02:20:37 CST by mrhahn [Permalink]

There are currently rumours circulating that the v1.03 update for Battlefield 2 will be released today - Monday, 3rd October. Apparently an email sent to Trusted Partners (those providing ranked game servers) was leaked, and it contained mention of an October 3rd release date for the patch. If correct, we could be seeing the update by around 9pm GMT tonight.

[Stouf]

Waiting... Waiting... Waiting.... Putting A Case Of Beer In The Fridge Expecting A Long Night Playing.... Running Out Of Patience...

[NocsLostHisPW]

im ****in afraid that this patch is shi* ...

[Stouf]

me too but i think i'll be like a whole new game... after seaching a lot about it, i think some things will be bad, but a majority will had more fun and strategy to the game... we'll see...

[audiomind5]

Will it come out today ?? Will it come out?? I'm sitting here at work and I can't concentrate because i'm so excited about this stinkin patch

[antoine]

Ahh. Wake island, good times during bf42 ! Should be awesome !

[MrChris_CJ]

Wake island ftw soon as i get the patch ill be on it...nothing like a classic well built 1942 map

[TITAN126]

Will it come out today ?? Will it come out?? I'm sitting here at work and I can't concentrate because i'm so excited about this stinkin patch


LOL me too...I'm in school and I can't focus on my work. :D I hope it comes out today. I can't wait anymore!

[Redh3lix]

I never played 1942, so no idea what Wake Island is like :confused: Presume it's good by what people are saying.

[Hairstylist]

OMG people, have patience will ya, it's just a stinkin' patch. And it's got Wake Island in it. Blah who cares

[audiomind5]

It's not just a patch!!!! IT IS THE PATCH OF THE YEAR!!!!!

[DakotaDoc64]

It's not just a patch!!!! IT IS THE PATCH OF THE YEAR!!!!!

ROFLA

Here's to holding my breath. I just hope it works as it should.

[Sniper_13]

if it doesnt come out today who knows when itl come out, and itl become a lie once more

[-(PK)-DarkIllusion]

lol i'm here at school hoping its out when i get home :rolleyes: mostly cuz of the rank changes.. new unloks.. etc

[the_bopps]

It wouldn't be a lie, they never announced an official date.

[||Animal||]

It'd better be the patch of the year if it hopes to turn the game that was supposed to be game of the year into just that... Don't get me wrong, I still like the game alot and even the in-game balance isn't too much of a problem in my estimation, but the browser problems are absolutely inexcusable. Here's hoping that the patch is out in the next few hours and that it fixes the browser and even the other issues that the community is concerned with....

[Cutter]

I am amazed at the very short memories of the EA fan boys that post here on this site seem to possess. Have you completely forgotten what happened with that last patch?

Why don't you wait until the patch is actually out and people have had a chance to play it before you hoot and holler and pat anyone from EA on the back.

:hmm:

[SnuFFeh]

There is a small news update on the official bf2 site, which was posted on the 30th of Sept, claiming that the patch is a few days from release, and its now the 3rd of October. I wouldnt be surprised if it was released tonight.

[Stouf]

It's Out ! It's Out ! It's Out ! It's Out !

[Trademark -DA-]

Did they say they were going to fix the TK/ punish system? I feel it needs an overhaul. They should just remove punish altogether and make it a flat negative point deduction and get it over with. This way...we wont get angry every single round that we accidently bomb someone, run someone over, or shoot the retard that runs right into our line of fire at close quarters.

[Onrust]

It's Out ! It's Out ! It's Out ! It's Out !

Where? Where? Where? Where?

[Stouf]

AHAHAHA !!! I was just joking... I'm tired to wait so i must spend time like i can...
I'm a soooo bad guy.... ;)

[Maverick2201]

I kind of agree with Cutter, though. We're all getting ourselves so excited over something that we don't even know if it's really done yet. And to those who are quoting EA's website... really guys, I don't mean to rain on your parade, but when was the last time EA made a due date? I heard someone once make a statement about EA saying it's a really good thing they don't make big-corporation software because those companies would have EA's head on a platter. There's no reason EA can't meet deadlines like every other halfway-decent software company out there. Anyways, thats my $0.02. Just wait for it to come out, if it ever does, then get excited. I have found that any time I get myself all riled up about something, when it comes to fruition, i'm almost always left disappointed...

[Maverick2201]

Amusing... quite

[lcplsickoll]

AHAHAHA !!! I was just joking... I'm tired to wait so i must spend time like i can...
I'm a soooo bad guy.... ;)Not funny!!!!

[Onrust]

AHAHAHA !!! I was just joking... I'm tired to wait so i must spend time like i can...
I'm a soooo bad guy.... ;)

Thought so... or no; you got me there, almost...

aah whatever, tired of waiting also...

[audiomind5]

This is just like the time when Sony delayed their release of the 2.0 firmware for the psp

[Pitface]

Apparently it will be released today at 21 hours GMT.

This came from a leaked mail from EA to its official hosting partners.

Let's hope and pray it IS tonight :wall:

(source: EA forum)

[imported_Tom|Nbk]

god i love the internet for the little things like this, anticipation everyone hyped up, rumours flying about just remember the demo release INTERNET FTW!

[Stouf]

:wall: too...

[]DKE[ Milio]

@pitface: can you give a link?

[Pitface]

DKE[ Milio']@pitface: can you give a link?

Check this thread out for that leaked EA mail

http://forum.eagames.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=7268

[-(PK)-DarkIllusion]

1 PM eastern time.. 4 mor hours to go :D

[geddeth]

Yeah, well .. the site admin/community manager over at EA UK forums had this to say yesterday (same thread as Pitface's):

Based on information I was given last Friday the patch is not due tomorrow. I will check early on and update you one way or another whether it is coming on the 3rd.

Read it and weep:
http://forum.eagames.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=83398#83398

[Marconus]

Burn in Hell EA. You guys suck.

[lcplsickoll]

You have to wait for the servers to update anyways. What's the rush. I hope it's buggy as hell so all the people that are counting the seconds start flaming. I was anxious earlier today, but I've now realized it's not worth it.

[sav112]

. I hope it's buggy as hell so all the people that are counting the seconds start flaming. I was anxious earlier today, but I've now realized it's not worth it.


You always get some brainless sole don’t you, I actually pit him for that comment.:rolleyes:

Who’s counting seconds, yes most of us have actual life’s and pop in once or twice to see if anything has been released or and new information.

Quite happy to wait here.

[Redh3lix]

As previously said, it really doesn't matter as the servers will need updating. I'm sure they wont wait until the end of the week to release the patch, considering they've posted officially "a few days from now" as said by them on the 30th September. If not today, tommorow I would suspect.

[lcplsickoll]

Thank you, your pity make me feel so much better. Some of us have boring *** jobs that allow us to sit here and browse the net all day and get paid for it.

[Stouf]

on EA UK forums, they say that it should be released at 9:00 GMT (so 10:00 GMT+1 for me, in 1.5 hour now...)... http://forum.eagames.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=7313
Dont know if it's true or false... Anyways, servers won't patch before some times, so keep cool...

[Pendarus]

on EA UK forums, they say that it should be released at 9:00 GMT (so 10:00 GMT+1 for me, in 1.5 hour now...)... http://forum.eagames.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=7313
Dont know if it's true or false... Anyways, servers won't patch before some times, so keep cool...


Nice!:D

[Pitface]

BF2 patch 1.03
Alpha - 2 Sept
· Beta - 19 Sept
· Final - 23 Sept
· CQC/ECG Sub - 28 Sept
· Release - 3 Oct

This is the working order for a patch release by EA, so it gives us a little more hopethat it will be tonight at 21.00 GMt or there abouts:D

[lcplsickoll]

Isn't that the same forum that the EAUK site admin stated, as far as he knew the patch wasn't being released today?

[12M_Marshall]

Thank you, your pity make me feel so much better. Some of us have boring *** jobs that allow us to sit here and browse the net all day and get paid for it.

I'm with you bud... isn't it sweet to get paid to browse the net?

[imported_Tom|Nbk]

lads it aint gonna come tnite we would have had some info like the last patch where the server companys were told about it etc

[Talus]

That IS a good point...

[staticflip]

reminding me of the Old Demo threads L:)

[Stu L Tissimus]

Well, to check if it does come out, just keep checking EA's Large Download Patches FTP.

http://largedownloads.ea.com/pub/patches/

[||Animal||]

reminding me of the Old Demo threads L:)
Absolutely reminds me of the demo threads. Let's sit back and think about this for a second. Those people who were ****ing and moaning about the demo not being released fast enough turned into the people who were ****ing and moaning about the flaws in the browser and some of the in-game issues. Now they're the same one's ****ing and moaning about when this patch will come out. So what have we learned??? The more you want it, the greater the chance that you'll be disappointed by it. Well, that and most gamers have ADD and need instant gratification...lol

[DeathGiver]

I dont believe any of it since its all lies.

[boob123]

Who cares it comes out when it comes out!
The game shouldn't have been released when it was anyway.

[Pitface]

Absolutely reminds me of the demo threads. Let's sit back and think about this for a second. Those people who were ****ing and moaning about the demo not being released fast enough turned into the people who were ****ing and moaning about the flaws in the browser and some of the in-game issues. Now they're the same one's ****ing and moaning about when this patch will come out. So what have we learned??? The more you want it, the greater the chance that you'll be disappointed by it. Well, that and most gamers have ADD and need instant gratification...lol

So we are all equal, we all ****ed and moaned about the buggy demo/game after being extatic about the release of it:D So why don't you shut up and have a beer m8:D

[audiomind5]

what are you talking about?

[12M_Marshall]

New article today...

"EA pulls new 1.03 patch due to inadvertant creation of a worm that deletes porn"
New release due Nov. 1.

The good news is that the EA programmers have suddenly increased their disk capacity by more than 13 terabytes.

[-(PK)-DarkIllusion]

lol.......

[sav112]

Thank you, your pity make me feel so much better. Some of us have boring *** jobs that allow us to sit here and browse the net all day and get paid for it.

Well your too witty for me, Getting paid for being bored that’s class I’d rather get paid more and love the Job, but hey.

I see your point sitting refreshing a page might do my nut in as well; I hope the patch is out soon when it’s your occupation.

[||Animal||]

So we are all equal, we all ****ed and moaned about the buggy demo/game after being extatic about the release of it:D So why don't you shut up and have a beer m8:D
Hey, I'm totally relaxed. I've been playing Day of Defeat Source. I'll just stick with that until the patch is released. Oh, and not all of us p!ssed and moaned about the buggy demo. I was pretty pleased with it. Well, yea, all but the browser. I'll take the beer though. A round of Guinness on me while we wait...

[Johnson.50]

Can't wait... must have... 1.03 :dead:

[alextaylor29]

Is it here yet? Are we there yet? :D

[-(PK)-DarkIllusion]

nop not yet....

[12M_Marshall]

You just know there's going to be something DOA when this patch comes through.
Here's a few possibilities....
1. Doesn't work on ATI cards....
2. Doesn't work on NV 6800GT cards
3. doesn't work in SLI mode
4. Commanders automatically get kicked and banned on initiation of mutiny
5. players get switched to opposite team every time they die...and occaisionly mid-battle
6. Black commandos who pick up medic pack...turn white.
7. White medics who pick up commando packs...turn hispanic.
8. Teamkillers with 5 or more team kills automatically swich teams and get credit for kills.

Any others?

[Wingman15]

You just know there's going to be something DOA when this patch comes through.
Here's a few possibilities....
1. Doesn't work on ATI cards....
2. Doesn't work on NV 6800GT cards
3. doesn't work in SLI mode
4. Commanders automatically get kicked and banned on initiation of mutiny
5. players get switched to opposite team every time they die...and occaisionly mid-battle
6. Black commandos who pick up medic pack...turn white.
7. White medics who pick up commando packs...turn hispanic.
8. Teamkillers with 5 or more team kills automatically swich teams and get credit for kills.

Any others?

Hahaha, that made me raff.

[TITAN126]

Almost 6 PM here on the East Coast and still no patch...I don't think its going to be released today. :cry:

[Marconus]

You know...this is pretty damn effed. I know some people want to post on here that the *****ers shouldn't be *****ing because we'll only be disapointed or whatever the reason. But seriously...if you're being promised something that you really want then you're givin a specific date you would expect it on that date right (no matter what has happened before with the promiser, you still expect it when promised)? Since around the end of July (I'm only guessing) this patch has been promised over and over and over on countless dates. First it was the first of Aug., then the end, then, 'Uh oh sorry guys it's not ready yet we found another problem', so then we wait again for their promise of early Sept., still no sign of the patch. 'WOOPS delay again guys, sorry for the inconvenience'. Now, we're notified with so much feedback and inside sources about when this patch is supposed to arrive. And, surprise surprise YET AGAIN, we supposedly have another delay. 'OH NO they found out when we are goign to release the patch, can't have that guys, tell everyone we're delaying it again just to **** them off because this is funny'. Har har i have a wooden leg. Honestly...I don't understand why a team of experts with the game would be taking SO long to hand out this patch. 'Oh well we found another few dozen problems we're going to let you keep the problems you have now and we'll just give you a grand prize when we're done finding EVERY damn problem there is with the game and THEN we'll give you the patch...unless we test the patch first and find a few more dozen problems then we have to take it back to the drawing board.' WRONG. you fix a handful of crap, preferably the most annoying problems, then you go back and add on to it. It's not hard, EA. DURR. Come on boys and girls get with the program.

If this rant has made anyone annoyed, and i'm sure it has, i apologize. Just try to understand that some of us have been checking this forum, and others, every day for 2 to 2 1/2 months now for this patch. Hey...it gets to you *shrugs shoulders*.

[12M_Marshall]

Here Here! A round of Prozac on me.

[HateKILLL™]

if it's taking this long to get a patch that works for BF2. I will not plan on buying SF expansion pack till around march or april of next year. Thank You EA for ruining my day ! We will be lucky if it even comes out this week !

[gamer24]

Pics of Wake Island 2007, Im not kidding:

http://forum.eagames.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=7411 (http://forum.eagames.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=7411)

It looks nice, even like the message it says in one of the pics:

"Only one person in a vehicle can assist in flag capturing. To capture flag faster, all passengers should disembark and secure the area on foot."

Cant wait for the patch.

[cEL]

great pics

[Hound_Dawg]

I don't understand why a team of experts with the game would be taking SO long to hand out this patch.

have you ever looked at C++ code, its not quite as simple as the "paint" program. I'm pumnped for the patch and want it to come out, but to hear you say that, after i took my computer programming class, ticks me off. Code is tough, especially efficient code. Then there is the different parts of the company, and the project managers all orgainizing each other to make the date. Then there are the small mistakes that take a while to look up. It's crazy.