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Fineus:
That's a point I made just now on the Planet Battlefield forums. I fired up BF2 for the first time having returned from my holiday just now.. and in the last half hour I've been dumped to desktop twice and crashed out to the server selection screen once due to a "bad connection". They're working to release patch 1.4 for BF2. It had better fix the problems.

aldo_14:

--- Quote from: Kalfireth on July 31, 2006, 12:09:23 pm ---I could understand that premise untill I found out that the guns really were firing randomly within a cone rather than relying on any real kind of accuracy. If I miss - I want it to be because I missed - not because the computer thought I should.

What I'd really really love them to do - and I know it's unlikely - is revisit BF1942 with a brand new graphics engine etc. but keep the gameplay mechanics (more or less) as they were. I became rather godlike with the engineers rifle and enjoyed the game immensly. Making it look good could only improve on that.

--- End quote ---

I found it actually less accurate using the ironsights, too; I actually experimented for a bit and more or less doubled my hitrate by shooting the 'wrong' way.

That's ignoring that every patch released seems to need a rollback patch to fix the bugs it introduces.  Maybe if they made the game properly rather than spent their time on overpriced 'booster' packs...

Mefustae:

--- Quote from: Kalfireth on July 31, 2006, 02:29:29 pm ---That's a point I made just now on the Planet Battlefield forums. I fired up BF2 for the first time having returned from my holiday just now.. and in the last half hour I've been dumped to desktop twice and crashed out to the server selection screen once due to a "bad connection". They're working to release patch 1.4 for BF2. It had better fix the problems.

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I had almost the exact same experience. When it first came out, I got my copy [via a cheap deal] even though I couldn't run it at the time. A few months later, when I finally had enough scratch to upgrade, I fired up BF2 almost right away... it took 2 and half hours to get into a game, going through three reinstalls, multiple reboots, and even then I had a nasty Punkbuster problem that kicked me after about 20 minutes of play. Keep in mind, this is with the 1.2 patch, which I was told was the best patch they had released at that time.

In one day, I went from rabidly anticipating playing what I thought was going to be a damned good game and a worthy successor to BF1942, to loathing EA, BF2, and what had become of my beloved Battlefield franchise.

aldo_14:
The annoying thing, I thought, about BF2 is that it's a good game ruined by stupid decisions.

Fineus:
Agreed.

On the surface of it, it's not that bad. But I just finished writing a list of suggestions/fixes/tweaks for the new patch and realised that actually the list I have is pretty damn big for a game this late into its development. A lot of what I have isn't a new idea - it's a fix or a tweak that should've been made some time ago.

Since BF2142 will be the furthest from the "real world" that we've seen so far. It had better be a good game on a technical basis or else the player will feel alienated and upset at the constant problems.

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