Patch 1.3 Opinions

[TG]

What do you think of patch 1.3?

[Albereth]

I think some of the ideas are good - I do like the SL spawning idea - it does make a lot of sense. It also means that tactics will change.

I am not sure on the vehicle drop.

Other than that I can't really see much of a difference - I die just as often. Perhaps if they spent more time beefing up the lag prevention.

I'm just waitin for the AF release now.

[fivel]

I got squised by a falling humvee and so did Alluvium last nite...so commanders beware...humvees from sky flatten troops on ground.

The new spawn rules are a challenge to get used to..but we'll see

[WAJKILLER2]

I like those dropping vehicles, they come in extremely handy for stoops to use for defence, just annoying when you drop a vehicle for them to use at an strategic advantage point and they either ignore it or blow it up, lol

[doobiwan]

I think the vehicle drop is fantastic. The only problem I had with it is when the dumbass commands drops it on the OTHER side of a friggin cliff/wall/thing etc.

Besides that, hey, it didn't crash!

[Alluvium]

people dont know how to play comander and squad lead properly, the idea is a squad lead requests a Uav,surplies, vechile drop ect, with the drop down menu, then all that the commander does is click accept, and it hits that spot.

some commanders and squadleaders call it in manually with voicce, and that gets very eronious :p

as for the patch, yeah tis cool a few issue in bf still

like and PLEASE tell me if this is just me...

when enemies are spoted, some times they appear green on the mini map... like squadies?

[TG]

Hmm.. Can't say I've noticed the green enemy issue.

[doobiwan]

No that would be because the enemy cappin yo a$$ is also |WrG| clannie ;)

[Albereth]

Yep - I noticed this too. I thinkk what has happened is that you were in a squad and then you applied to be commander. These are probably the members of the squad you were in.

Either way it is a glitch

[{lostmarble}]

Anybody NOT been able to join squads? They were unlocked ...Even tried joining locked ones jst to see if it had the 'bold/color' effect botched, also could not create a squad, did not receive the 'maximum number of squads reached' message either.

Happened a few times last night....

Anyone else?

[Albereth]

You can't change squads unless the SL has respawned. I think it just might be a matter of getting used to the timings regarding this whole SL death and need ing to respawn before he becomes a spawn point.

[fivel]

You can't change squads unless the SL has respawned. I think it just might be a matter of getting used to the timings regarding this whole SL death and need ing to respawn before he becomes a spawn point.

You cant join a squad unless you have spawned on the map once ....then you can join the squad.....

[{lostmarble}]

Hmm, I remember trying at random intervals last night to join squads...after spawning multiple times at CP's...but cant say for sure..

will check out tonight, tx for input guys

[Sminty]

I think a lot of commanders need to realise that the vehicle drop doesn't work like the supply drop...there is no 'drift'. The vehicle comes straight down. I've seen a lot of commanders recently dropping vehicles in weird places that would have made sense if they where supply crates and they had to compensate for the vehicle drop....I'm sure this will get better once the guys get used to it.

I find it *extremely* useful to request for a car when I am in the middle of nowhere...which *always* happens to me for some reason.

[Askari]

They need to make it so that the vehicle will only drop to ground level. Like when a sniper is taking heavy flak on a rooftop and he gets a vehicle drop on the roof so he can jump in and start machine gunning. Not very clever IMO.

If possible the vehicle drop should also self correct so as not to drop on people, other vehicles or aircraft. It shouldnt be used as a weapon.

[rainy]

My thoughts exactly.

[Askari]

To be fair RN, i read your posts on SGS (think it was yours) so Im really quoting you and agreeing with you. I saw first hand these probs last night so Im mentioning them now that I know what im talking about.:)

[GeroW4lll]

I am soooooooo unstable after this patch! I tent to crash everytime I join Mastur, and twice on Daqing as well. This kinda thing never used to happen on this pc. Maybe my box was just above average stable and thats over now. Anyhow quite frustrating.

[Drusky]

My patched game crashes to desktop too. Haven't identified the pattern yet but it's definitely patch related it also seems to happen less the more I play, will have to play more to make sure of that one though :D Will probably do the full reinstall later. I've had the green enemy on mini map thing before the patch, haven't had a chance to see it after 1.3 Seems to happen when a squaddie spots the enemy unit. Strangely before the patch I also had sg1 Tokra sitting gunner in the Iraqi helibus. In the pic you see him-red, me-green, pilot-blue... very pretty. I'm sure he was enemy coz I shot him a short while later. Will post the screenies when I get home much, much later :(

[TG]

I haven't had a crash -- yet.

I've noticed the vehicle drop icon being stuck on XEye tho when he was SL on sharqui last night, it even persisted after a respawn.

[HillBilly]

4 crashes out of 6 attempts so far.. always just as i click 'Join Game'. Am thinking it has something to do with Win2K?

[GeroW4lll]

Yea mine also often crash as i click 'Join Game'. Specially trying to load Mastur or Daqing. But also crashed out of some maps while in the middle of a game, right after being killed or at the critical moment when I run into an enemy and take aim to blow his head off.

[TG]

I had my first crash last night as I clicked 'Join Game'.
There were extraneous circumstances though - my line had dropped (completely dead) while I was playing, so I got booted back to the menu. When the line came back 10 minutes later, I simply refreshed the server list, and rejoined.

BF2 apparently does not like that - possibly because of the account server, methinks. Simply restarting the game sorted the problem out.

[Brawler]

Strangely enough mine also CTD yesterday. Just reloaded and it worked.

Something really funny happened to me yest, I was playing @ delian plant(or whatever) and i was put on the chinese team so i selected to spawn @ the airstrip but at the last moment it changed me to the US team but I still spawned @ the chinese airstrip. It was start of game so there were lotsa enemys round, none of them expecting me there so i managed to kill about 5 of them! they must of thought im a haxter:D

[TG]

Very weird!

EA really don't know what they're doing. Every patch screws something else up.

[fivel]

I saw tonight that as soon as I got connection probs...my xfire also disconnected soon after..not sure if the 2 are related....

[Darnit696]

Nope... my Skype disconnected too so I'm inclined to blame telskum...

[fivel]

Thanks Darnit....i checked my router stats and confirm that my adsl link dropped....

[Sminty]

Its happened to me a few times, before the patch even. Sometimes the server just seems to have a glitch or they are playing with a setting at SGS. I remember a game not so long ago where it only allowed 2 squads.

Just to be clear, I know how the new SL Spawn change works and it wasn't that, the server just sometimes doesn't allow you to join or create a squad.

[Sminty]

Oh! Something I have been meaning to ask.
I get an interesting effect on my BF2. If I am playing medic or support and then play as Comm I can actually see if the enemy is wounded or lacking shells. Actually even if I am not comm....If I look at the UAV I can see the little red dot surrounded by more red. I even watched a enemy medic heal himself when I spotted him once.
I spoke to some other guys and they all say they have never seen something like this. I keep trying to get a screenie but keep missing.

[fivel]

We seemed to have missed this, BF2 boycott day

http://www.bf2-bday.info/index2.html

[Albereth]

I don't have any issues in vanilla. I do find that every first time on a map in SF gives a problem - not BSOD - but a dump to desktop or a connection problem. So - if I get the time I'll start each map up in single player - or maybe get the computer to play itself all day long.

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