BF2S Forums patch 1.4 beta

I'm surprised no one has posted the official statement yet. It gives a link to report errors and one to give feedback.

Community Update - 7/05/06

Greetings!

We are beginning the first phase of our 1.4 patch beta testing! This initial phase of testing will only include a small number of servers whose focus is to ensure stability in a live environment. At the completion of this phase we will be rapidly expanding the number of servers hosted to allow everyone an opportunity to review this latest patch.

I would like to stress that everyone who downloads the beta files should take the time to read the included text file so that you can properly safeguard your current BF2 install.

Also please note that EA Customer Service can not provide any support for issues related to the Beta Patch. I encourage everyone to log into the EA-Battlefield forums and participate on the 1.4 Patch Beta discussions that will cover both 1.4 issues, tuning changes, and new features.

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Beta Full (522MB)
Beta Incrimental (138MB)

A few of the servers hosted will be set to the new ‘No Vehicles’ server setting that will allow players to focus on infantry vs infantry combat on all BF2 and Special Forces Maps. Other servers will include the new "Road to Jalalabad" map, sponsored by Comcast, which will allow US and MEC forces to engage in a new urban warfare environment!

Everyone here at EA and DICE look forward to working with the community to ensure this next patch is a solid step forward for the Battlefield Franchise.

-The Battlefield Team

You sound like Yoda

any news on official release?

any info on what they did to reduce the cartillary?

How do I do it so that I can play both 1.4 and 1.3? So I don't have to reinstall when I want to go back to non-beta gameplay.

ExecutionerStyle wrote:

A few nerfs in the current beta build:

-Prone spamming is no longer practical (theres a long delay between crouches and prones so youre just slow)

-Dolphin diving is also no longer practical, same reasons as prone spam

-C4 can't be chucked very far anymore

Sooo... what the fuck are we to do? Go prone and get rushed? Christ I hate EA.

Another thing, about this whole Infantry Only deal.. Wtf? This isn't HALO. We dont have magical sheilds protecting us from grenades when we stand on top of them. We don't have big green mechanical suits that allow us to run as fast as an olympian for a half hour. When I shoot someone in the head with a .50 Caliber rifle, they better fucking either die, or lay down and pretend to be dead and gimme the 2 points. None of this 2 headshot bullshit. 4-5 bars of health for paddling some1? What the hell? Last time I checked, getting zapped while your still alive didnt hurt, it just immediately stopped your heart. It didnt scathe your knee and give you a wound equivolent to belly flopping a foot above the pool. Usually when I stab someone in the face with a military grade and issue combat knife, they die. Then again, a .50 Cal to the head doesn't fuck 'em up, why should a knife?  Flame on.

Well thats twice now that people have misspelled "Whining" in their reason for negging me. If you're going to neg me and leave a reason, at least take the time to look up in the dictionary some words that you were supposed to have learned in 2nd grade that you're putting in your reason.

Last edited by Ben>You (2006-07-06 10:09:16)

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you need to install winrar

Last edited by Hyper (2006-07-05 13:46:19)

use winrar to extract the installer. www.rarlab.com

Just finished playing a round on the new map. Very good with lots of close quater combat once in the city. However, since it was on without the infantry only setting, people where complaining about being spawnraped by tanks. While i was playing though i only saw the enemy tank once...and i was USMC. Got to say DICE did a good job!

Untick Punkbuster and Ranked to find more servers.

So far, Red/Blue tag bug from a teammate and I have had 2 CTDs and 1 set of connectivity issue.

300 ping on all of the THREE servers I found.  It seems there's no US server yet.  If a sniper and support person get on the hotel, it's practically impossible to kill them.  There is only 1 ladder.  There are no jets or helicopters that can be used to parachute down on top of them.  The building is also too high to throw grenades on top of.  GG EA.

New thing I noticed: Artillery, UAV, and vehicle drops all reload at the same rate.

Edit: And another thing: The ammo boxes on the Browning machine guns have covers.

Last edited by k30dxedle (2006-07-05 14:25:11)

The lowered damage in infantry only, or the new higher health (whichever it is), doesn't make any sense.  Maybe EA just made a mistake?  I mean, how do you reason 2 headshots to the head otherwise?