1.3 award criterias (from EA forums)

2006-05-18 08:59:12

#1

Viper38: Member; +118|6888

http://forum.eagames.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=23469

(Just found that someone had already put this information up - still worth having a specific thread though)

Just having a scan through EA forums and found this thread regarding updated medal criteiria .. and before everyone screams 'we know', this appears to affect a great deal of the awards. Not sure how reliable they are though.

I've included some of the more interesting ones (and the ones I could understand)

Verteran Knife
Removed in round requirement

Expert Knife
Removed in round requirement (LOL they are really trying to eliminate P/K servers indirectly)

Basic Explosive
Lowered from 13 kills to 5 kills in a round

Vet Explosive
Lowered from 23 to 20 kills in a round

Expert Explosive
Lowered from 37 to 30 kills in a round (hopefully this will kill the gheymores!)

Expert First Aid
Increased Time requirement from 54000 (15h) to 360000 (100h) - like resupply/repair
decreased heals from 25 to 20 in a round (Still almost impossible to get but a lot better than 25(

Expert Repair
decreased repairs from 25 to 20 in a round

Vet Transport
Decreased time from 180000 (50h) to 90000 (25h)

Exp Transport
Decreased time from 540000 (150h) to 270000 (75h)

Vet Heli
Decreased time from 360000 (100h) to 180000 (50h)

Expert Heli
Decreased time from 1440000 (400h) to 540000 (150h)

Vet Aviator
Decreased time from 360000 (100h) to 180000 (50h)

Expert Aviator
Decreased time from 1080000 (300h) to 540000 (150h)

Vet Air defense
Removed time requirement
Lowered kills from 12 to 10 in a round

Exp Air Defense
Removed time requiremnt
Lowered kills from 24 to 20

Vet Ground Def
Removed Time
Lowered kills from 12 to 10 in a round

Exp Ground Def
Removed time requiremnt
Lowered kills from 24 to 20

===============Ribbons===================

War College Ribbon
Removed 3:1 win/loss ratio
Removed 45 point commander score in a round
Added 200 Wins
Added 25000 Global commander score
Increased time from 180000 (50h) to 360000 (100h)

(you guys better start personing commander)

============Medals===================

Air Combat
Lowered time from 720000 (200h) to 360000 (100h)
Lowered kills from 10000 to 5000
Removed Accuracy

Armor Combat
Lowered time from 900000 (250h) to 360000 (100h)
Lowered kills from 10000 to 5000
Removed Accuracy

Heli Combat
Lowered time from 900000 (250h) to 360000 (100h)
Lowered kills from 10000 to 5000
Removed Accuracy

Combat Infantry
Lowered time from 1800000 (500h) to 720000 (200h)
Removed In round time 2040 (they snuck that in there with 1.2x)

Marksman infantry
Added time 1080000 (300h)
Removed In round time 2040 (they snuck that in there with 1.2x)

Sharpshooter Infantry
Added time 1440000 (400h)
Removed In round time 2040 (they snuck that in there with 1.2x)

Anyway, DISCUSS

Last edited by Viper38 (2006-05-18 10:08:10)

2006-05-18 09:03:31

#2

Varegg: Support fanatic :-); +2,206|7028|Nårvei

Makes some awards more achieveble, could have made me sorry for actually having some of the more diffucult badges but all in all - for the majority its good changes .......

But this have not been confirmed by EA i believe, its from another forum !

Last edited by Varegg (2006-05-18 09:05:48)

Wait behind the line ..............................................................

2006-05-18 09:04:35

#3

[DEI]Bart: fire at will!!!; +76|6930|Leiden, Holland for the n00bs

Veteran Knife
Removed in round requirement

Expert Knife
Removed in round requirement (LOL they are really trying to eliminate P/K servers indirectly)

yeah right..... don't think so

2006-05-18 09:05:08

#4

Mr.E: HakLaw in the house; +103|6778

This is from EA forums? well i see a big prob.....without time requirements and other requirements that were taken away,it will make the game MUCH easier to achieve the medals and then general ranks! i think that doing this will hurt the BF2 pop. as ppl will finish the game by getting all the unlocks/ribbons/medals and ranks, which I would say are the main attraction to the game! I just dont think it would work!

GL andy

2006-05-18 09:06:17

#5

OrangeHound: Busy doing highfalutin adminy stuff ...; +1,335|6867|Washington DC

Thanks Viper ... I like most of the changes, and the War College Ribbon seems much more rational ... but still high requirements considering other ribbon requirements

The Vet Air Defense makes no sense to me, however ... that is a lower requirement than the ribbon (11 kills IAR) ... right?

2006-05-18 09:06:35

#6

Roomaster: Member; +15|6878

HM should make a few things easier
THC

2006-05-18 09:06:42

#7

Viper38: Member; +118|6888

yeah I thought removing the IAR for the Knife badges was a little suspicious ... but then again, you never know

2006-05-18 09:08:53

#8

Viper38: Member; +118|6888

OrangeHound wrote:
The Vet Air Defense makes no sense to me, however ... that is a lower requirement than the ribbon (11 kills IAR) ... right?

Does seem a little strange that one

If these are accurate I'll be getting a shed load of awards when 1.3 comes out

But, please don't take this criteria as fact ... as I said, I saw them on the EA forums and thought I'd post them up and let others judge the reliability etc.

Last edited by Viper38 (2006-05-18 09:10:24)

2006-05-18 09:10:16

#9

liquidat0r: wtf.; +2,223|6845|UK

holy hell, this should make things easier

2006-05-18 09:14:29

#10

Hydroion: Member; +67|6840|England

this isn't fair, i spent so much time and hard work trying to get expert repair and expert knife WITHOUT GOING ON A K/P server and Expert explosives. oh well, at least you can see when you got the awards so some people can prove they got this hard badges before this new patch. ahh well time makes things change. although i agree on the WCR ribbon and the medals. and the times for some expert badges ESPECIALLY vehicles has decreased so no longer will we have to put up with tks for vehicles - he says hopefully-.

2006-05-18 09:14:48

#11

Superior Mind: (not macbeth); +1,755|6910

omg.... everything is easy now lol.

x

2006-05-18 09:19:23

#12

Darth_Fleder: Mod from the Church of the Painful Truth; +533|7024|Orlando, FL - Age 43

https://img198.imageshack.us/img198/6015/churchsignrequirementspromotio.jpg

2006-05-18 09:20:02

#13

Hydroion: Member; +67|6840|England

yes having expert badges in knife etc seperated the good players from the awsome players. i know some people stat padded to get them but i didnt so im quite annoyed to say the least out of all the hard work i put into getting them. i got my first (and only) purple heart trying to get that knife badge.

2006-05-18 09:21:49

#14

RonnY[NL]: Chanetoy Dugali; +309|6928|Groningen / Netherlands

lets just wait a few weeks then we'll see

2006-05-18 09:22:55

#15

Hydroion: Member; +67|6840|England

i hope some of them stay the same *cough* knife *cough*

2006-05-18 09:25:14

#16

alpinestar: Member; +304|6814|New York City baby.

Heli Combat
Lowered time from 900000 (250h) to 360000 (100h)
Lowered kills from 10000 to 5000
Removed Accuracy

Isnt it 20000 kills for this medal ?
something smells fishy here

2006-05-18 09:26:18

#17

jeffpod: Member; +14|6805

Wow! Sweeet Now I might finally be able to get my expert explosives Wohoo!

2006-05-18 09:26:36

#18

l=l-Oneill-l=l: Member; +27|7055|Dundas, ONT, Canada

but still no word on the date of the patch.

2006-05-18 09:27:10

#19

RicardoBlanco: The English; +177|6786|Oxford

Looks like everything's been reduced so people can say they've 'completed' BF2 and won't feel bad about moving to BF2142...I hate leaving things unfinished.

2006-05-18 09:28:01

#20

Prince1215: Member; +9|6864|New Jersey

i heard the 16th have u guys heard anything yet?

2006-05-18 09:31:11

#21

raz: Member; +22|6881|England, UK

So does that mean if i get the Expert First Aid quick.. I won't have to get the new requirements and still have expert?

2006-05-18 09:31:42

#22

terrafirma: Press 1 to Kill; +81|6872|Westminster, Colorado

I like the time requirements going down. This will cut out some people just idling in servers to get time on ground and air defense. I don't like the IAR removal for knife. First of all it's not that hard, but now it seems that all skill involved with getting the expert knife (the legit way) is gone. All those people will miss out on the RUSH that is getting 18 knife kills in a round.

Whatever happens, happens and we move along and still play.

2006-05-18 09:41:54

#23

vjs: Member; +19|6989

This makes total sence to me actually...

First they screwed up with the requirements for the ranks, expert transport and ground defense is need at the higher ranks with all the expert in all the classes for general. Then you only need expert in the ranks to go up to 3 star 4 star etc...

Yeah right!!! It's backwards, I'm sure I would have had expert in all my classes before I got expert air defense.

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The inround requirements for knife, I'm not sure I was able to get it at the higher settings legit. I find it weird that they havn't said anything about pistol. I thought pistol was harder than knife in some ways after I got the hang of the knife.

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Requirements for medals that sort of makes sence if you just want to give them away.

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WCR there was enough whine about this to make it change, I personally would have made the requirements different but the 3:1 ratio was ridiculous. It promoted team switching or login out.

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Most Important comment and probably the best one thus far in the thread!!!

I'll paraphrase

GIVE EVERYONE THE BADGES etc so that they will buy 2142 <--- this is a good busniess decission. I also have a felling that before 2142 comes out they will basically release a patch that pretty much kills the game. Then use what they learned in 2142 constant award decreases.

2006-05-18 09:48:08

#24

PFCStenzel: Check your AA alarm...; +82|7012|Idaho, USA / Age 30

Nice, everything looks like it is a little bit more doable.

2006-05-18 10:15:13

#25

Kurazoo: Pheasant Plucker; +440|6902|West Yorkshire, U.K

Sounds pretty cool but shame about taking away IAR for knife ........

Last edited by Kurazoo (2006-05-18 10:15:32)

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