BF2S Forums Rant about the new patch.

McPwned wrote:

I personally liked when ranks were few and far between.

a) It gives you a greater feeling of accomplishment when ranking up.
b) It's easier to tell who the better players are.
c) Getting unlocks faster is nice, but now anyone can grab a DAO-12... I felt special using that gun.

Yeah i loved running around with my DAO - 12.. everyone has it now

But you will still get the same feeling of accomplishment when you achieve a really high rank (60k + points)... so yeah, not much changes on that front.

Oh and pish180, totally agree with you on yer last point... 50k to 200k is a tad severe.  would be nice to be broken up a little.

Last edited by Locarno (2005-10-05 04:47:32)

ok i worked this out.  If you want all the bagdes(expert), ribbons and medals it will take about 1275hours of game play minimum, which means if you were to play none stop 24/7 until you got all them all you would need to play for 1 month and 24 days.  If you ask me thats quite a lot of time so everybody that moans they have nothing to aim are just a bit greedy (if you think about it, most offline games give you 100-200hours of gameplay and thats playing the game through 4-5 times and they dont have the added bonus of mutliplayers).  To me the ranks and badges are good and its nice to have something to aim for but nothing beats joining a server with your friends and just having fun playing.

Last edited by Britishbeef (2005-10-05 05:27:41)

pinky_81 wrote:

Din't jump on the mine Dave - It's designed to explode
You must be too heavy dude...

Damn, you beat me to it

"FFS, this game isn't about YOUR stats"... blah blah, ffs the entire world including red china commends your mental masturbation, well done.

With the release of the 1.03 patch the lollies have again been scattered on the ground, and we as BF2 kids have scrambled on this opportunity. I'm confused however. In a conversation record containing EA's stated objectives they have said that the criteria for obtaining ranks and medals was based off of consistent real-life data that depicted the lows, averages and extremes that players have undertaken whilst playing the game. And in a matter of months after "observing communities and reading forums" where completely ambiguous, unrelated and malicious comments and arguments take place, their logic has become unbalanced. Their previous data, factual and reliable, has somehow become meaningless. The majority of the BF2 community has suffered short term due to this, and EA has once again pissed on its own credibility. It gets less fun every time.

EA make up your bloody mind.

You Guys Need To Play On It More Than One Dam Day.

ok looks like when i waited about a hour, got back on, shot 3 guys and got up 3 rankings. you have to just be cool and wait for it to update. over all i think its a nice patch, but there still are issues with the game. i some out tked my team mate when i was flying the copper and like a other chopper ran into me. i killed 2 the people in the other chopper. tked my gunner...and i was "no more." wtf, o well maybe we will have to wait a other 2-4 months for a patch to fix that. wake island is a sweet map too.

Now, I'm what most of you would call a new player haveing had the game about a month only and I haven't played with the new patch yet, but it doesn't sound all bad.  Yes giving away ranks and guns is going to cheapen the experience for most hard core gamers, but those of us that can only log about 8 hours a week at max before the wife starts to complain and the boss starts calling asking where you are, we can't get high ranks under the old system.  It was showing at my current rate I would get my next weapon unlock in like 6 months, come on but that's way to long.
Besides, I've read unsubstantiated rumors that the new expansion for BF2 is going to have some new weapon unlocks in it to, maybe even new ranks (There are officers in the military and they do go in the field so it's possible).  Now, I may be totaly off in it but maybe that's EA's plan to incorporate the 2, those players with massive points will end up becoming officers, and the rest of us still get some nice guns and a few more choices than the M16.
What I'm really saying, wait and see.  EA may be a big corporation that cares little for their customers but they're not all stupid.  If they changed everything it's probably because they got a lot of complaints about it.  If you don't like it, ranting here will do little, rant to EA.  They have customer service contancts, and they'll listen when the masses start to say the same thing.  Enough people asking for things will probably get what they want because the bottom line for EA is money.  They make you happy, you buy more, you're not happy you buy less.  Use it to your advantage.

One sad thing about getting 3 new unlocks in one evening is that the "journey" to the unlock is half the fun. Getting close, reading forums about the unlocks and so on. I wish I had like 400 points or something, the patch changes would be great then, I would have been very close to the next unlock and the rest would come much quicker.

Lazarus Tag'lim wrote:

The higher ranks required those badges *before* the patch.  Though, Master Gunnery Sergeant and Sergeant Major are the same pay grade (and in the game, take the same points).

Oh? Thx for correcting me.

Ragamuffin wrote:

Croak wrote:

...  But they still want to feel like they're accomplishing something. ...

JUST BECAUSE U PAID FOR IT? R U KIDDING?

It is totally nonsense becoming a Sergeant in just a few hours of playing. Nobody feel like a "hero" when he get promotet as a gift. But u feel good, when u have to play 5/10/25/50 hours for the next promotion.

Nobody feel like a Veteran just after 15 Hours being a SpecOps!!!!!!!! That is f***ing bullshit (sorry for that). A Veteran Badget shouldnt be something that u earn after 15 hours playtime. Event though u paid for the game.

When u are a somebody playing the game just 10 Hours a Month, u CANNOT anticipate to get a high Rank for free, or getting a Veteran Badget. Come on. In addition when u just play 10 hours a month i think u wont play that game in 6 month anymore.

I dont care about the unlocks. Maybe EA should split the Rank from the unlocks.
Keep the points like they are for unlocks, and bring back the old System for Ranks, Medals, and Badges.

Take the system serious(like i do). If not, dont condemn people who do.

Greets

Um...I don't feel good when I have to play 50 hours.  They made it more like an online rpg sort of because now it doesnt take 200 hours just to get a third unlock.  In mmorpgs the high lvls are hard to obtain but still obtainable.  Think about the guy that goes to work every day not just the spoiled little nerd who has all day to play.  If they made the game just for the hardcore gamers your casual gamers are gonna be playing something else like (god forbid) Counter-Strike.

i think its funny that there already 105 "rants" about the new patch anyway, i havent had much time to play under the new patch so i dont have anything to rant about...its been a positive experience for me, but time will be the true test of course.

hi evb and sorry for bad english.

the reqiurements for the rankings before the patch were to high, now they are way to low. but i can live with that i think. but what  pissed me off from day 1 and still hasnt changed: why in gods name am i not allowed to change some of the controls the way i like to? try to change the mouseaxis to something else ( in this case "turn"). ahhh... and my joystick stoped working since the patch, even after reconfiguring a couple of times.
the in-gamebrowser still sucks and the new soldier artwork is not betther than the old one. artwork? wtf? they wasted time and money  and our downloading patience  ( althoug just a few kb....to much ) for some goddamn artwork nobody wants to see? why ffs  they didnt add a few tracks while the game is loading? or better , did some work on the friend or foe markings for the planes? frienlys or empty vehicles are still shown as enemys sometimes while in a plane.

My 2cents....

I am working on my 3rd account in BF2.  The first was an abandoned clan at Lance Corporal, the 2nd was started as a joke/flame name at the head of the abandoned clan (used serverspy to see where he was playing, then would join his squad to piss him off) which was almost 1/2 way to Corporal.  When I finally found out that I wouldn't be able to remove old clan tags, I started yet a 3rd account., which is now 30% to Corporal.  I feel that I have put in alot of time (at least for a married professional with 3 jobs, kids, and pets) into this game since getting it this summer, and have enjoyed the medals, ribbons, and especially unlocks.  I picked a different unlock each time I made Lance Corporal, and have been daydreaming about what I would want for my 2nd unlock when I eventually made corporal (I'm at 3700 points now).  Did the patch overnight and logged in at lunch today.  Got on a server.  Saw flag names on the minimap (YAHOO).  Shot one guy and got promoted.  Shot another guy and got promoted again...  I guess when I get on tonight I will be able to choose my unlocks.

It was really wierd to hit tab and see half of the people as seargents and half as privates (I'm used to seeing only one or 2 seargants per map)  Can an army be made up entirely of seargents???  I'm happy for my unlocks, but feel as if EA watered it down too much.  Before it seemed too hard to progress, now it's ridiculously easy.  (Should have been Corporal at 5,000, Sgt at 10,500 and so on) 

Unlike the people who are professional gamers, I plan to continue enjoying BF2.  I feel that, even with the emphasis on 'squadding up' most people continue to play as 'lone wolves' in squads (I know that I do).  I have joined another clan and am looking foreward to learning more teamwork tactics.  I guess I'll have more input after I've used the patch for a while.