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So what do you think of it?

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freaken sweet!!!!!

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w00tzors!

I need to try this out and see how much of a difference. this will make

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Great! Hmm, installing takes forever, it's 13mb.. >:e

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Most of us have work, so most won't test it untill after 6

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Ok ive tested it a little bit now and there are goods and bads as allways. Here are a few of the changes. Goods: logging in and map loading times are a lot shorter and i mean a lot, disconnecting is faster as well as joining a game, the oh so hated browser is improved, theres an option wether to get a new server list or update and the game is smoother now and doesnt have as much lag (atleast on the server i tested).
Bads: Still takes a while from selecting a server to actually getting the data, pressing update server list didnt work for me (i tried once so i dont really know for certain) and a few other stuff i probably forgot.
Enjoy the speed of the login and map loading :D

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I like it :agreed :
loading times are much better!

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well the patch basically fixed the server browsing problem, since its only a 13mb download it really doesnt fix much of the netcode [yes the lag is still there], but hey good job for EA addressing the server list, my hat goes off to themhttp://forums.filefront.com/images/smilies/smilie.gif

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PATCH IS OUT! W00T right? WRONG! Bearly fixes anything for SP :rolleyes:. Im moving to MP if EA wont start caring about SP already.

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Who really cares about single player :lol:
Now go join a MP server and play like a man.
:beer:

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its ok. The lag is alot less and the server broser is alor better, but there are still some bugs that are annyoing me personally:
People who cheat to get high stats
gay spy
6800gt, it feels like I am playing this on an FX 5200.

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I haven't installed mine yet, but there have been reports of game's not starting up under it...

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1.) I had the problem like many experienced, game would not start after the patch. After several repeated attempts to load the game, almost ready to re-install, the game suddenly loads. Very strange

2.) In game browser is 110% better. With the previous one, I could hardly ever find a game I wanted. Today I was able to get to the maps/player count/server right I away. But....

3.) Everything was still moot when I got into games. I went from game to game, but the same old lag. Add to the frustration of how idiotic I think they did the ranking system, it is even more frustrating. Before I had a clue on how idiotic it was, I unlocked a weapon I now regret doing. Because of that, I figured if I was going to play MP, I might as well play ranked so I could someday actually unlock something I would want. But it is damn near impossible to do anything with the way the lag is- vehicles floating through buildings, enemy appears and disappears at random, etc..

When I think about it now, I would have prefered to have the lag issue addressed MORE than the game browser. Yes the browser was the worst I had ever seen for a MP game. I eventually just went straight ahead to 2 different servers I like or know had the maps I liked and skipped searching through.

Personally, I have even more anger now at EA/Dice since they have yet to even acknowledge the lag issue as if it doesnt exist. I get the feeling that this game might not be trully ready until a few more patches, which says a lot about how these companies view the quality of their work. It also speaks a lot to the stupidity of those that think we should not be angered or upset...EA just gave the community the big finger and said "Hey, you morons will go ahead and purchase this anyways, so why should we bother beta testing this". Frankly, there is zero chance that they were NOT aware of how awful the browser was, yet still released it anyways.

I liked iD softwares philosophy of "Its ready when its ready"

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So,the shitty controls setup is not fixed in this patch?

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The patch is worse. The browser now shows ping rates in the 300s when it used to be in the 100s. The scrolling is horrible and slow. And if you try to join a full server you have to start from the top again.

The lag is a killer, literally. The weapon accuracies suck.

Did they test this thing?

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they need to test a patch before its released, and if they did....
The browser is faster, but still bitchy, bugging and screwed with. servers pings are messed up. for some reason none of my favourite servers are there ( I checked their site to see if they had updated their servers to latest verion, and they had)
There has been several cases of people losing player stats.
And Im getting alot of 'there is a problem with your connection' messages

Oh and

Those stupid Nvidia drivers that were released with the game, alot of newer games not optimized for Nvidia do not run. At All. they are evil.

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...ok maybe I shouldn't Re-install BF2.

110% better? So that's like, what, 1.1% working? Pfft.

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I'm a bit dissapointed - I used to be able to type in WOLF in the server browser and all the servers that started with WOLF would come back. Now? I get nothing. I tried adding wild cards, etc - still nothing. Anyone else have this problem?

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The patch is great!

Firstly, they allowed you to bind many controls that you couldn't bind before.

Secondly, they did a great job on the in-game browser. It no longer lags, has more filters (like the ability to search by ping, finally). And the new "update server list" vs the "refresh" button is really great, when you don't want to relist the server, just want to see if the spot is opened. Furthermore, the browser no longer crashes the game during the operation

Thirdly, you can finally see the server IP while in-game (about time....)

And lastly, the loading times are greatly improved. It used to take me 30 secs to load a map. Now, it loads in 15 secs.

The patch did just what it said it would do. It was not a gameplay-fix patch, but it fixed a lot of issues and stability of the game

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There is absolutely nothing more amusing than the guys who buy a game, play it, hate it, uninstall it... but still talk about it all the time on forums. Jesus, you'd think some people like bitching about games more than actually playing them. :D

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Wow i seem to be pretty lonely about having an actually fine working, not extremely laggy battlefield 2 that does work. Or maybe im just not so easily upset. Think about the pressure put on dice for example. Making a follow up on one of the worlds greatest multiplayer games but still making something completely new, being bound to gamespy (what does gamespy do actually?), and pleasing an entire community of gamers with skyhigh expectations. They didnt have much time but i think they managed pretty good, and whats so bad about patches? People say they dont want to buy an incomplete game, but look how many patches that came out for 1942. I bought the game pretty late so i dont really know about how bad it was at first, but im glad that all the bugs and stuff were taken care of so that the game was pretty much taken care of. There will be patches and since waiting for them a little bit wont hurt you, i think its worth it.

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server browser is alot better. you can actually use it without pain.

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I voted that the patch is crap. It was hard for me to decide as there was no middle ground vote(the 'Rabbit Banana' vote doesn't work for me. choices should have been Good, Ho-hum, and Crap). The patch may have fixed a few things but I can't tell much difference really. My two biggest gripes were not addressed and that is why I voted crap. But looking at it another way I suppose the patch is good. Another way being, that a game is usually out for a while before you see a patch that fixes numerous items that are at issue. Although I have seen patches come out very quickly before that fixed quite a few issues. I have also seen fixes that are in a patch, break other things. Patches are good and bad. For the most part, good or bad, patches are the norm for PC games anymore.

Don't get me wrong just because I voted 'crap'. I think BF2 is a great game and has fewer bugs than BF1942 when it was released. Overall, any patch that makes things better without breaking other stuff is welcome.

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Server browser still needs work. [SYN] hydraSlav, when I click on 'Refresh', it says "Updating Server List" as if I had clicked that button, instead of the 'Refresh' button. (???) And I do believe it updates the entire server list! Just how are you going about seeing if a spot has opened up hdraSlav? Because....

My biggest gripe with the Server Browser is... it still does not refresh a singular server. If I click on a single server that shows it has 56/64 people, it still shows 56/64. It does not update and display 64/64 and show that it is actually full now.

No 'Favorites' list added to the server browser.

I'm not seeing any difference in map load times. It may be the settings I have my game at, namely video settings, and my systems settings. The 'Verifying Client Data' takes the longest and is taking just as long as it did before, as near as I can tell anyway. Not a big deal to me, loading the map and verifying client data takes about 2 minutes or a little less on my system(haven't ever timed it). Still, glad to hear that some of you are getting faster map loading times.

My biggest gripe with a bug in the gameplay is... that sometimes a friendly is colored red as if he is an enemy. This results in TK's and sometimes people getting unjustly kicked off the server for TK'ing. This is a bug that, imo...

1) Should have never made it into the final version of the game.

2) Should have been fixed in the first patch.

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I do seem to connect and disconnect to games a little more smoothly and faster now.

Server browser does not hang anymore.

Control bindings fixed.



OneTinSoldier

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Intel 3.4C(C = Northwood Core) on Asus P4C800-E Deluxe(Intel 875P + ICH5R Chipset), Zalman 7000a-Cu HS/Fan, Enermax RG651P-VE 550W PSU, 1 GB Mushkin High Performance(2-2-2) PC3200 RAM, NEC MultiSync FE2111SB 21" Monitor, Sapphire Radeon X800 XT PE Videocard with v5.6 Catalyst Drivers, DirectX 9.0c, Creative Audigy2 Platinum Soundcard with Driver v5.13.01.0413, 250 GB w/8 MB Cache Western Digital HDD, WinXP Pro SP2

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Patch is good. Fixed things that needed being fixed without any bad side effects. Could have used more fixings to seem more complete, but good job DICE anyway. They delivered.

Loadings don't take a day and another anymore! Sweet!

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No, you are certainly not alone. Game works just fine and dandy for a lot of people. In fact, I would imagine that the game works beautifully for the vast majority of folks. I think what you have probably seen is that the loudest vocal group are the ones who have problems. Imagine if you had a problem getting the game to function properly. You'd probably make a bit of noise too! But the vast majority of people get the game to work fine for them and you don't hear from them because they don't have a complaint about trying to get the game running. Look at just how many people you see on here that complain they can't get the game to run on their system. Than look at how many people you see online actually playing the game. Yeah, sure, I'm certain there are a lot of other forums with people that have a problem with the game, besides just this forum, and they post about it on there.

Still, the vast majority of people install and run the game with little if any trouble and don't have any complaint(about getting the game to run) to post. People that have trouble getting the game to run(acceptably or at all) are the ones who will post about the problems they are having. I can't say that I blame them as I know I would too!

Regards,

OneTinSoldier

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Which equals me spawning in on a flag when I get in to see you with a stolen tank already capping the flag and raping us as we spawn in. :mad:


;). Good times.

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Then why is it EA has closed its help and support mail servers?

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ea is a corrupted system

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MAN THIS PATCH FUCKED MY SERVERS UP before i had it all the 64 person servers filled up and shit had pings of 60-90 and shit around that, nowevery server that has anything close to 64 ppl has pings of like140+ like i mean i see like freakin 300 on sooo many rooms and higher its freakin ghey, now every server i join is laggy as hell this patch fucked up the pings for me:mad:

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The moment I mentioned Bf2 to the guy at customer support he hung up on me...

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Wouldn't you browse to see if any mods or patches might help the game enough to reinstall? I never said I hated the game either. I quite liked it. I'd just rather have room for HL2, Q3, UT2k4, Fallout games, and my music/movies/pics.

:lol: For some reason I feel you aren't lying either.

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hahahahahahah oh man thats fucken hilarious adnyea i believe u too:lol: shit im puttin that in my sig.

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Patch was not all that great now the sever browser for me no longer displays any servers anymore. The loding times are an improvement but either the game still runs slow online, unless of course thats my internet. Either way the patch didn't help me much.

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yea same here, i didint even notice maps loading any faster sems the same, i acually egt more lag then before because i cant find any low pinged rooms anymroe after i installed this enw patch, that happen to anyone else?

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I wonder if you can sue for that? That would be great if you won, play off your computer and have some money for another one or collagehttp://www.gamingforums.com/images/smilies/smilie.gif. I have been with the site's tech support for a while, I can do a better job than they can.

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What we have seen is the possibility of the patch having a "leak" all pings went up across the board, and there were issues with high memory usage.

suggestion ? pull the patch and go back for now, see if they release a patch either as a whole .....or a patch for their ummmmm patch.

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No shit... i wonder how many people that had called him and ranted and raved about how bf2 wont run for them and stuff like that . http://forums.filefront.com/images/smilies/spam4.gif

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:thumbsup:

Seems good, I haven't had any problems. My loading times owned anyway, and I'm almost always one of the first 3 into the map. Seriously you people need to defrag your hard drives a bit more often or something, or get 2Gb of RAM >D

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Wel my hard drive hasnt been defragged for about 1½ year.
But my specs are : 2ghz AMD athlon 64 3200+, Nvidia 6800gt 256mb, 144gb and 1 gig ram.

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Pings = the same (25-30)
Browser = Slight improvement (Still laggy, still gamespy, filters slightly more effective and when you try connecting to a server it doesn't delete the server name filter)
Gameplay and loading times = the same
Network data corruption error = the same

Patch = shit

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Actually it couldn't be working at 1.1% if it increased 110% becasue that would imply if it got 110% better that its effectiveness was multiplied by 2.1 and to get 1.1 percent you would be looking at multiplying 0% by 2.1 which is still 0 so yea it cant be working at 1.1 percent.

(Check your math amok.! like when yoou said you had eleventy billion gold stars yeesh!) :lol:
My friend tells me that his patch has fixed quite a few things and that the server pings arent that bad for him but he is still getting those annoying name coolor problemms with teammates appearing as red. Other than that though from what ive heard the patchh is still working pretty good.

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0.01 * 110 = 1.1%

And take my posts less serisously. I am not one to think too hard on each post i make.

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oh man so its the fucken patch, i thought it was my pc or i duno, do u know how man times i TKed and got kicked for this gay patch, man i wipe my ass with this patch. ive seen soooo many team mates with no name and when u look at them their name is red, so first thing coems to mind, shoot the fucker, but they were my team mates and im like wtf? why did i get punished, wow thats not gonna look good on my record:( , and i still havent found any good pinged servers after this patch was instaleld like wow eevry server jsut added 200 more ping to them selves. sheesh, and is it me or did almost like all the servers go ranked? every server i see its a ranked server, and im pissed about that because i dont play in ranked servers, dont really give too shits, just wanna have fun ya know, ill start playing in them when they fix that damn lag in ranked servers. but its soo hard now to find unranked, mic using, low pinged servers.

over all
this patch=:moon:shit
EA YOU SUCK!!!:mad:

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Yes ...on the client side it did improve some things. Not everything. But it made the game a bit more workable.
The server patch had an issue which tends to cause lag and Ping conflict which is why sometimes you won't see the correct information displayed.
IE: Tking your team .

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the patch practically did nothing exeptmake the load times faster. Actually it did more harm than good because when you are trying to find a specific server, ping, players, etc. the whole list goes kapooee and you have to restart the game to get the servers back.

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Take the advice. instead of looking for a server. put in the ip manually .....and be done .

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Man...I was excited for this patch...

The game ran perfectly fine for me before the patch, but now that I've installed it...all the games I play are way laggier and I get way higher pings than before...

Crap...

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I think ill call the EA guy again...

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lolololololz:lol: wonder if he'll hang up this time lolz, or he'll connect u to a wrong phone number lol

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maybe he will send you to the CEO of EAhttp://www.gamingforums.com/images/s.../yeltongue.gif. Then you can rant about how crappy the game is then that guy looses his job and we may get a good patch:lookaround:.

I stopped playing the game about 3 days ago. How much does it go for used now?