Patch 1.05 announced

[Thumponius]

Ok, so I was off. I'd offered odds on Patch 1.932.


On the official EA Battlefield 2142 Forums, there was a community update posted as follows:

Attention soldiers,

We would like to explain here how committed we are to increasing everyone’s experience with Battlefield, especially regarding the updates for Battlefield 2142. We acknowledge that the patching process could have been smoother for Battlefield 2; we have listened to the feedback and learnt from it.

To accomplish this goal Dice has recently formed a Live Team with the purpose of making sure your playing experience on the Battlefield is as solid as possible after the game is launched. Among other things, the team works closely with the community and handles the patching process, together with the Ranked Server Providers.

Your Dice Live Team is located at the Dice Studio in Stockholm and is made up of key people from the game project teams. This means that the same people who actually built Battlefield 2142 will be responsible for updating it. It has the clear advantage of involving people who are fully knowledgeable about the code and design of the game. The patches will also be thoroughly tested in closed beta tests before being released.

The patches will also be entirely dedicated to correcting bugs and making fixes instead of introducing new gameplay mechanics, thus significantly reducing the risk of introducing new bugs with the patches.

With all this said, we would like to announce patch 1.05 for Battlefield 2142. The patch includes more than 25 fixes which will improve every player’s experience on the Battlefield.

The following fixes will be included, along with many others:

* Titan will no longer be able to move once its shields are down, so that lag within the titan should be significantly reduced and revive inside the titan shouldn’t be a problem any more

* Changes in EA master server communication to greatly reduce disconnects

* Players are now able to receive the Titan Survival Pin

* All players will see the same missile silo location numbers in Titan Mode

Patch 1.05 is scheduled for release later in November so keep watching this space for detailed release information. Also, stay tuned for more information on an upcoming competition allowing you to make your mark in 2142.

See you on the Battlefield!

/Your Dice Live Team



You can read the original update with this link.

[rainy]

I thought I had read about this Titan Survival Pin somewhere. I was actually trying to get it...

[stoke]

Does this mean that I can smack the person from the live team when somebody stabs me through a solid steel garbage bin - and he wasn't even facing in my direction ? [Died and then the camera showed him just standing there stabbing the next steel container and the kinfe going tink tink tink]

[TG]

Well, I've stabbed a guy when his foot was sticking through the wall. He must've been hella confused.

[rainy]

This Stick-through-the-wall bug was in BF2 already. I have sniped numerous peeps there whose feet were sticking through walls. They probably never knew where it came from

[Drusky]

Stoke my brother, Ginsu knifes of the future are fabulous things, now shuddup and stop complaining

It's my turn

It's intersting that they made a point of letting us know this team of patch makers are live. Sounds like a fishing excursion. I wonder what happened to the dead ones from BF2?

We would like to explain here how committed we are to increasing everyone’s experience with Battlefield

I suppose those multiple BF2 patches were an experience. I think we've got enough experience in that field, they can stop now.

[Bass]

Hmmmm .. nice !

Glad they are at least working on the problems. Hopefully they will also lock down some of the exploits at the same time !

[Thumponius]

Put a tag on your name with FiB or Arse-ault and you'll get all the exploits you'll ever need. Even if they block them out!

[Thumponius]

On the Titan Survival Pin, I found this on BF2142Fever.com:

Pins not in the game anymore

This is the tumbler pin. It is present in the sources of the game, and it also was in the beta (although not working). Unfortunately this pin did not make it into the retail version. Maybe it will be patched in later, but for now it is not possible to get this pin in the game. It's requirement was to survive a titan attack, in other words, attack a titan, and then make it off the titan in time before it explodes.

Would be nice if they kept the 'Tumbler' name. Kind of conjures up the mad dash to get off the ruddy thing...

[FeralBanana]

I'm actually pretty pleased with this... the whole tumbler pin thing I thought was cool and the movement of the titans SERIOUSLY irritated me... SO all in all, I'm pleased... oh, and I can download the patch of someone else's internet