Official: Battlefield 2

[Error]

Ok, clearly i've been away for a while. WTF is the NOOB tube? The grenade launcher? Or the anti tank rocket?

[Changeling]

Im not sure how I feel about the changes. It seems like they really capitulated to forum crybabies. Which is probably the worst thing you can do. Making support's weapon ultra-uber is ridiculous and totally ruins the risk/reward. I have played support mildly, and I was able to do well with the weapon, I just had to go and fight up close - it was positively deadly at that range and the assault and medics were dropping like flies. If the weapon is now accurate at longer ranges too whats the point of picking other classes? Nerfing the noob tube was necessary but it feels like they just have made it useless, which is of course not the point. I think air was too powerful before but now it looks like AA might be too powerful.

The game does indeed run better on my PC and I am able to set everything to High whereas before it was a mix of Medium and High. This is good. And Im not sure the name bug was fixed, completely. Im still skeptical overall.

I don't think that the patch was made to silence forum crybabies as it was to make the different classes more useful. Everyone is useful. The support class isn't the be all- end all class. The guns feel more accurate, but not overpowered. The noo-tube has been toned down but not rendered useless. I also like how the noob-tube grenade will bounce off walls and not just explode on contact. I tried to fire it at someone going up a ladder only to have it fall towards the ground and go off. I like the changes to it.
Dolphin Diving is gone and firing guns while jumping has been taken out. These are all great additions in my book. Everything that was over-powered(air vehicles) has been toned down. The game just feels better.
The game runs alot better now too. I heard of some ATI people with the 9000 series of videocards having problems, but over on the Nvidia side, everything is just roses.

You should play with Destor and I sometime. Our squads are usually tops.

Ok, clearly i've been away for a while. WTF is the NOOB tube? The grenade launcher? Or the anti tank rocket?

Yes, the grenade launcher. It was a weapon that instantly killed someone when used and had a pretty big hit radius. In close-quarter maps, people fired it blindly and got cheap, easy kills. It's mostly used in city maps.
It got nerfed in the last patch, thankfully.

[Error]

Ah. Well assault was never really my class to begin with, so I guess its no loss. I'll wait a couple of days before downloading this, then if things seem to be ok on the net i'll reinstall the game and give it a go.

[Diff-chan]

Hey Destro I was playing a few rounds with you on the Masters of War server, I think. My name is Number1Liang - did you see that personal best I got on Sharqi (63)? =D

[Destro777]

Hah yea I think I did see you. I thought that was you cause I saw the name in your sig. Yeah it looked like you and your squad was kicking ass. I was teamkill city those games. You should get xfire and play with me and changeling.

[jyoung]

http://www.ea.com/official/battlefie...yupdate_022006

Community Update - 2/20/06

Listen up Troops,

Although patch 1.2 included several fixes that we know were eagerly awaited, it unfortunately introduced some new issues. These are being addressed immediately and we are working around the clock to resolve those. Patch 1.21 (coming soon) will be tested in a limited beta with select Battlefield community members starting as early as this week. We’re doing this to ensure a clean release of 1.21. In addition, we have decided to postpone the Euro Force Booster Pack until sometime after the release of the updated 1.21 patch.

Stick to this web space for additional information soon.

On a more pleasant note, Battlefield 2 hit somewhat of a milestone last night with over 52,000 simultaneous players. This is the highest number of players we’ve seen at one time for Battlefield 2 and almost 4 times more than the peak number of Battlefield 1942.

Thanks in advance for your patience.

The team at DICE and EA

This is all fine by me, as I haven't really had a whole lot of time to play with the 1.2 patch (though I have heard that it’s introduced another batch of bugs) and I probably wouldn't have been able to get to Euro Forces until this weekend at the earliest.

[Diff-chan]

The fucking rockets-through-object bug is the worst thing ever, and it happens ALL THE TIME... you get into a perfect position to blow up some fucking tank asshole, and... the rocket clips right through the tank while you get turned into swiss cheese. Bullshit.

[Error]

See this is why I decided to wait a few days. These guys can never fix something without breaking something else.

[ElCapichan]

I'm still not sure if I'm gonna get the Euro pack. My new laptop can only handle the city levels smoothly while all the massive open and water levels run like crap. Also how does downloading the Euro pack work? Will I be able to transfer it over to my new comp when I get it built this summer or would I have to buy and dl it again?

[Diff-chan]

http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=14317

List of bugs with the new patch. Ignore the "other issues" section because thats just subjective opinions of the patch. Apparently I was right on the mark about the red name bug not being fixed.

1) Many weapons dont make a sound/animation when others fire them, This is a big deal as you have no way of knowing what direction you are being shot from.

I've had this problem a few times, too. It's horrible, you are walking around and then just die.

EA/DICE are so close to ruining this game. Amazing they delayed this patch to fix problems and it still came out this crappy.