Patch 1.3
- Thread starter Piacular
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Firstly, I downloaded the patch in five minutes yesterday, then had 3 hours of repeated login attempts before it let me play.
Secondly, Its my opinion that this patch is beginning of the end for battlefield 2.
My reasons for this are simple;
I spend 99% of my time playing BF2 on public servers. If I have to walk for 3 minutes after nearly every death to rejoin the action, I am going to get very bored of this game fast. Only city maps will have my attention. Maps like Wake, Cleansweep, Zatar, Songhua, Fushee + Dragon, I will just refuse to play. Not being able to join another squad that is closer to the action, will bore me to tears. Its bad enough at the moment on publics, with the vehicle whores, and the transport idiots who pick up nobody. But now everybody wants transport, and there are very few people on public servers who play the game with any consideration for others in their Squad/Team.
Only having 3 city maps to play will soon get very very tiresome.
Yes I know the commander can airdrop transport, but there is a long loading time between available drops. And how many competant commanders have you come across recently.
This patch does enhance the gameplay on city maps , but for the rest of them, Forget it.
Secondly, Its my opinion that this patch is beginning of the end for battlefield 2.
My reasons for this are simple;
I spend 99% of my time playing BF2 on public servers. If I have to walk for 3 minutes after nearly every death to rejoin the action, I am going to get very bored of this game fast. Only city maps will have my attention. Maps like Wake, Cleansweep, Zatar, Songhua, Fushee + Dragon, I will just refuse to play. Not being able to join another squad that is closer to the action, will bore me to tears. Its bad enough at the moment on publics, with the vehicle whores, and the transport idiots who pick up nobody. But now everybody wants transport, and there are very few people on public servers who play the game with any consideration for others in their Squad/Team.
Only having 3 city maps to play will soon get very very tiresome.
Yes I know the commander can airdrop transport, but there is a long loading time between available drops. And how many competant commanders have you come across recently.
This patch does enhance the gameplay on city maps , but for the rest of them, Forget it.
Piacular
In Cryo Sleep
My god, so many people are whining about this!
I NEVER SQUAD HOP!
Sure occasionally a squad gets rotated, but geez on any server where we're in a squad it's me leading and you lot spawning. I love the new system, our clan matches will be infinitely more fun and all I have to do is hang back a bit. The infantry cup was going to be a spawning farce, now it's going to be good honest fun.
This patch reinvigorates the community!
Vehicle drops are amusing but coop is where it's at!
Gizmo, Wraith, Bambi and I played on my own server yesterday against 32 bots on Karkand. We got murdered every time, but it was a blast. It's different and loads of fun, even on a packet lots filled 300+ ping 1Mg line server
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Now all I have to do is figure out the rcon commands.
So far I've got sv.coopbotdifficulty [10-100], which works realtime in game.
I've also got sv.coopbotratio [0-100] and sv.coopbotcount [0-48] (both yoinked from the serversettings.con in the profiles directory), which alter the settings in the server file but don't update in game. Restarting the map doesn't update them, nor does changing to another map. Hmmm...
My only gripe with the patch is the coop is still only on 16-player maps, and we can only have 48 bot matches.
When Serenity get's updated prepare for the first THN vs BOTARMYOFDOOM Event.
I NEVER SQUAD HOP!
Sure occasionally a squad gets rotated, but geez on any server where we're in a squad it's me leading and you lot spawning. I love the new system, our clan matches will be infinitely more fun and all I have to do is hang back a bit. The infantry cup was going to be a spawning farce, now it's going to be good honest fun.
This patch reinvigorates the community!
Vehicle drops are amusing but coop is where it's at!
Gizmo, Wraith, Bambi and I played on my own server yesterday against 32 bots on Karkand. We got murdered every time, but it was a blast. It's different and loads of fun, even on a packet lots filled 300+ ping 1Mg line server
.Now all I have to do is figure out the rcon commands.
So far I've got sv.coopbotdifficulty [10-100], which works realtime in game.
I've also got sv.coopbotratio [0-100] and sv.coopbotcount [0-48] (both yoinked from the serversettings.con in the profiles directory), which alter the settings in the server file but don't update in game. Restarting the map doesn't update them, nor does changing to another map. Hmmm...
My only gripe with the patch is the coop is still only on 16-player maps, and we can only have 48 bot matches.
When Serenity get's updated prepare for the first THN vs BOTARMYOFDOOM Event
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elDiablo
Guest
Well, playing the game this morning, I made a squad and got in the attack chopper. Killer-Mk1 joined my squad and spawned next to me IN the chopper's gunners sit... WHILE I was flying over the sea... Orginially he was on the enemy side, and switched to get some gunner practise. So maybe you only have to spawn ONCE in the game before you can squad roll? I dunno, its all confusing
pHatBambi
In Cryo Sleep
No we don't.
Haven is not the man who helps us with BF2 on Serenity, Ronin is.
Pestering Haven will only result in a rude reply and an ear bending for me.
Ronin has posted in this sub forum about when he can update the server for us.
Looks like we are going to have to wait until Sunday TBH.
Haven is not the man who helps us with BF2 on Serenity, Ronin is.
Pestering Haven will only result in a rude reply and an ear bending for me.
Ronin has posted in this sub forum about when he can update the server for us.
Looks like we are going to have to wait until Sunday TBH.
Piacular
In Cryo Sleep
In my continuing quest for bot customisation I have hit a snag (this is all relevant to the THN server)!
You can't add a map with a different game mode to the map list. Conquest (gpm_cq) being the normal one and coop (gpm_coop) being the bot murder. Sooo, being sneaky I nuked the map list with maplist.clear and added in a conquest map, whacked up admin.runnextlevel. It started loading the next level and promptly crashed at ~15%. Tried it again with similar results, d'oh!
What this all means is that Serenity will have to be reset every time we want to play a different coop mode (can’t change bot ratios in game), or have a clan match whilst we've been playing a coop mode. This is a pain for us as we have to hassle the admins, and a massive pain for the admins because we're hassling them .
I wonder how hard it would be to learn the necessary Linux commands...
You can't add a map with a different game mode to the map list. Conquest (gpm_cq) being the normal one and coop (gpm_coop) being the bot murder
. Sooo, being sneaky I nuked the map list with maplist.clear and added in a conquest map, whacked up admin.runnextlevel. It started loading the next level and promptly crashed at ~15%. Tried it again with similar results, d'oh!What this all means is that Serenity will have to be reset every time we want to play a different coop mode (can’t change bot ratios in game
), or have a clan match whilst we've been playing a coop mode. This is a pain for us as we have to hassle the admins, and a massive pain for the admins because we're hassling them .I wonder how hard it would be to learn the necessary Linux commands...
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LynxGB
Guest
I must say the new patch has really killed the gaem for me. It was fine how it was , adding things like vehicle drop - yeah not too bad, but changing the way sqd spawning works sucks ass. I will personnaly be moaning like a bitch to EA, and with no avail I will threaten to bomb them! If that does not work I will insist I WANT MY MONEY back as they have changed the game beyond what I initially bought it for. If they say no I WILL SUE them - thats how upset I am with the meddling bitches at EA.
PsiSoldier
Well-Known Member
If you read EULAs you will see it says that EA will retain all rights to change/edit the current game and its content as they please. If you hit accept, theres nothing you can do
gringotsgoblin
In Cryo Sleep
PsiSoldier28 said:If you read EULAs you will see it says that EA will retain all rights to change/edit the current game and its content as they please. If you hit accept, theres nothing you can do
And also, you still have the game you bought. It's just that everyone else now plays a modified game.
Crafty EA.
My computer wont play BF2 anymore - so I get to avoid this whole controversy. Still, I have to say, I never squad rolled to join battles and if it stops people exploiting this element then I'm happy.
It was the same with bunny hopping - it now means you cant throw C4. Pretty much every improvement has had some sacarifices.