BF2S Forums VERY suprising bf2 1.03 patch feature.

I can't believe what I just read! The only bad outcome that I see, is that EA does not want to keep this a long term product. I don't believe this to be the case, so I just hope to bring up my accuracy with at a new unlocked weapon right around the corner!

I was looking up the command to Hover the F-35, and I read something we all probably overlooked in the manual  on page 12, it reads, "Rise through the online ranks, starting out at Private and working your way up to Battlefield Officer commission."

Like some one else stated EA probably only anticipated people attaining 60,000 points by now, So I think this sounds like it was always planned with the development of the game.

Happy Shopping for your new weapon of choice!

WTF EA!? I worked my ass of to reach the Sergeant rank. And that i'm proud of. And lowering the requirements from 150,000 to 20,000 it's insane. I have close to 30,000 now and if this is true i'll be promoted like 4 times.  That means that i dont have do fight for those unlocks and where's the fun in that?

On the other hand WOOOZOOO!

Well they have definitly lowered it, if anyone has noticed, on johnnybutane, he has the good conduct medal.  He only has 250 hours +,  so does that mean that its glitched or does it mean that they have lowered the requirements for the medals as well?  Thats a hell of a drop from 4000 to 250... thats insane!  Heres hoping its true!

chuyskywalker wrote:

Another: http://bf2s.com/player/miniman13/

Miniman also has the Good Conduct ribbon (=250 hrs played) while he played 231 hrs.

Wow.... So if this is true then when I get home today (if the patch comes out on time) I will only need to get 1,000 more Global Points (I currently have a little over 19,000) then I will be a 1st Sarg. Not too sure if I can be as proud of that though......

Hmm it's a problem.

They are going to satisfy all the low ranked people by giving them more ranks.

They are going to have to still satisfy the really high scored people (i.e the guy with 150k points), so i wonder how the are going to get around that one.  Maybe they'll add new ranks?  But what about gun unlocks?  Unlocking them all by 25000 sucks a bit.
Also commander will suck, making it really hard for people like me (lance corp) to actually go Commander.

Also, while we're on the subject of v1.03... Artillery that doesn't teamkill?  What do you all think on this one?

EDIT: a lot of you are saying "oh noez, awards are too easy to get"
But come on, some of them REALLY took the piss.... 4000 hours AS ONE CLASS?  150,000 points AS COMMANDER?  I mean, come on!!

Last edited by Locarno (2005-10-03 01:23:41)

i thought arty will still kill ppl on the same team but u wont get punished for it..

i for lowering alot for players like myself but i wanna have long term goals as well

07>sin wrote:

i thought arty will still kill ppl on the same team but u wont get punished for it..

i for lowering alot for players like myself but i wanna have long term goals as well

Artillery still kills everyone in the blast zone regardless of nationality. You simply will not TK punished for them anymore and they will not count as TKs. Hence bad commanders will still be doing exactly what they are doing now and good commanders that same. It wasn't the TKs that encouraged not dropping Artillery. It was simply the skill of the player. Mutiny votes will still happen for those commanders that are bad at dropping artillery. If you team sees this and actually cares about the voiting they will vote yes to remove someone.

But this is a good thing for all good commander because it prevents the idiots who rush into artillery blasts and have no business being there from punishing the commander and giving them -4 points. So for my personal benefit I like it. But I'm sure I will scorn it once in a while when the commander does it to me. Oh well.. give and take.

As for the rank changes I think its a mistake only if they do it to an extreme amount. If they only take off some points as in 25 to 35% then I will be ok. If they do much more than that then I will be very disappointed and be pissed off at another incompitant action on the part of the EA/DICE. But it will not prevent me from playing. I hope they don't change the points needed for unlocks though. Those should be spread out like they are now IMHO.

I bet you this change in rank structure is all backed up by sound marketing.  By the time the spec-ops expansion comes out everyone will have gained rank to the maximum.  People will start saying "well that was fun... now what?  an expansion eh."
Purposeful obscelence of a product = marketing = blingidyblingbling

And there might be another set of weapons to unlock, or perhaps? several?

I still think that they could lower all the ranks and add new ones.  Maybe add on multiple weapons per Class.

As for commander artillery, i've been thinking on this one.  A commander might think "ahhhh it's ok, i wont get punished for it, i'll just shove an art in there"
I think Commanders should STILL be punished, but be free if they warn anyone in the area with the "move, artillery!" command.  As for lone rangers, no punishment against them, since they should be in a team and should listen to the commander.
Well thats my 2 cents worth.

Locarno wrote:

I still think that they could lower all the ranks and add new ones.  Maybe add on multiple weapons per Class.

I doubt this will happen... it's possible, but I still doubt it.  Why would EA do that when they can sucker you into buying the expansion from them?  Cmon, it's not in their best interest.

OholibaH wrote:

Fascinating.

But EA shouldn't have lowered the requirements for the ranks such hard. This way nearly everybody will become First Srgt after a while and it get's boring...

Someone hasn't been listening to what I've been saying.  THATS THE IDEA :p
anyways, no point in arguing about it now... might as well wait and see what EA has in store.   


...Then I can tell you all "I told you so."

I like the idea that it gets easier to go up in ranks BUT like many other said then they need to add more of them otherwise people wont have anything to work for.
I think a way to deal with both these rank issues and point farming would be to make the ranks time based. you play for 20 hours and get lance corpral for example. some people may just join a server and stand still until the next power failure but how fun is it to have the highest rank and 0 points?
some people will probably say "then it has nothing to do with skill.." but can you honestly say it does now? people point farming on karkand as medic isnt skill in my oppinion