Another BF2 patch, another disaster

[o_backstaber]

Not happening.

[o_-pbndadx-]

ok.


http://electronicarts.co.uk/games/8456/

[o_backstaber]

Originally Posted by -Pbndadx-

ok.


http://electronicarts.co.uk/games/8456/

They are the Publisher of Crysis. No shit the game is going to be there.

After all their hard work, do you think Crytek is going to loose their second game to another bunch of greedy bastards? I certainly fucking hope not.

[o_-pbndadx-]

There was rumors about it. Yet EA supposely told they were false, but it might be rumors again. Anyway you are right , it is published by EA. I never said it wasn't. But it's still the same to me.


I don't like Crysis one bit, the weapon bobbing is cheesy. Vehicles, ugly crosshair, it seems to take a full clip to take someone down. The latency is horrible. The multiplayer looks boring. Riddled with bugs, hell, they even showed us some oin the videos. The trees and leaves are amazing, that's about it.

[o_zippy]

ive just pre-ordered bf2142

[o_-pbndadx-]

Actually after doing some more research it seems Crysis is being developped by Crytek and Electronic arts and it is published by Electronic arts. So i guess they have some sort of dirty little secrets going on.

[o_backstaber]

Well, with EA involved, there could very well be "dirty" secrets going around. But I would prefer to believe Crytek is smart enough to just let EA publish the game, and thats about it.

EA is like a giant black hole. Once you get too close, theres no escape and your fucked.

[o_smax]

Originally Posted by zippy

ive just pre-ordered bf2142

Same here.

I've been playing BF2 throughout its patches since it was released. I still play even though they keep nerfing the damned c4...I loved pre-1.22 when you could frisbee the hell out of those beotches and own entire squads behind a fence/wall .

But yeah, there are a hell of a lot of small bugs, but all in all I love the game. And I love the new map Road to Jalabad.

[o_|404|innoc-tpf-]

Downloaded the latest patch (full patch...not the incremental) and installed it this weekend. I have to say that they have fixed the stuttering video for SP in BF2:SF play and a few other things so it's so far so good for me. Time to peep out MP and see if that's better as well.

[o_sobe green]

Originally Posted by Defrag

Half of me thinks they're destroying BF2 so that people move to BF2142. It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest, as people seem to forgive and forget when it comes to gaming.

I rant about it alot but thats what EA does. Earth and Beyond was one of the greatest MMORPGs I have ever played. I'd go as far as saying it was better than WoW. EA decides after a year that they were closing the book on it. The reason was basically: Hardly anyone was playing the game and that the game itself was more of a "playtest". They offered anyone who wanted to send in their EnB cds and they would get a free key to some new Ultima Online sequel or something. Three months later they canceled that game too. EA never tried to market EnB. Since then I refuse to buy any title that has EA on the box. I wanted BF2 really bad but I always backed out on the choice to buy it. This is why.

Look at the Need for Speed games. The past four that were released are almost the same damn game but with new shitty rap music. That entire series has gone all to hell.

Overall I hate EA.

[o_amazingnurseenrique]

Originally Posted by Defrag

After three+ months of client & server crashes, Dice finally released 1.4 last night. Instead of just rolling back to 1.22 when 1.3 displayed severe instability problems, they elected to instead persist with 1.3. Now, bear in mind that a lot of people were paying £100+ per month on ranked BF2 servers that were up and down every couple of rounds. Dice/EA refused to roll back, as that would've rendered their expansion back, Armoured Fury, useless. Hotfix for the crashes as an interim solution? Nah. Too much effort.

Instead, they waited three+ months and released 1.4 which really hasn't fixed much at all.

I had a quick game all of ten minutes ago. I managed half a round before I got this entirely NEW crash.

Great job, Dice & EA. Fucking useless. I've honestly never witnessed such incompetence regarding technical issues. Their gameplay 'fixes' have been cack-handed too. QA, what's that? If it crashes my PC in an entirely new fashion after a meagre ten minutes of gaming, doesn't that tell you something? Bear in mind this is the team that sold me a game that wouldn't even run out of the box. The team that released their first patch with a memory leak the size of the moon... Having said that, they have constantly surprised me with their fuckups; each seems to build on the terrible base they've set in the past.

BF2 could've been the best game ever, instead it's merely a good game that is marred by a zillion issues.

DiCE really hit a fluke with BF1942. It was a solid game with good top-level play (even if some maps were completely unsuitable for it), reasonable balance and a big focus on teamplay. With BF2, they started with the same foundation and then proved they have no idea how to properly support their products. From crashes, terrible map packs, and gameplay changes that only added to current game issues instead of addressing them, they dropped the ball big time. Sadly, BF2142 is the same but worse (I very promptly uninstalled the beta after getting into it.)

This is a huge disappointment to me because I loved BF1942 and spent a long time clanning it. I was hoping BF2 and subsequently BF2142 to be the real competitive multiplayer combined arms games, but DiCE has showed they need another few years relearning how to make games before they can release another good AAA title.

[Defrag]

It seems the 1.4 patch is pretty stable after doing a full reinstall & patch, but that's the 927634976th incremental patch they've botched. Really, there should be no excuse...

[o_|404|innoc-tpf-]

Originally Posted by Defrag

It seems the 1.4 patch is pretty stable after doing a full reinstall & patch, but that's the 927634976th incremental patch they've botched. Really, there should be no excuse...

Long ago I stopped using incremental patches on every game and just pulled down the full ones...perhaps that's not a reasonable thing to do but I've had really few problems to speak of.