PR:Falklands v0.182 Server Side Patch

[illidur]

nice job. you kicked failure in the nuts.

[Prevtzer]

Good job!

[Megagoth1702]

Awesome! Thanks for your hard work!

[Rhino]

still waiting for the patch where you fix the weapon parkinson textures and the argentinean planes lag that make the dogfighting a nightmare, also, still waiting for the A-4AR, fixing the FOB AA crashing the server, and tweaking the VW mode on capturing the flag (there have to be 6 planes close to the flag at all time to capture it)

I'm sorry I've not heard of pretty much any of this, if your "still waiting" then its probably because you haven't reported them, or for some other reason.

the "weapon parkinson textures", I take it your referring to the vertex wobbling? This is a side effect in BF2 from having such large maps, and only happens when your very far away from the centre of the map. As you get close to the centre of the map again, pretty much anywhere on the islands then its hardly noticeable, although in Stanley you can see it a bit since that's almost on the edge of the 8km area. There is nothing we can do on this engine to fix this, its just how the engine was made and it wasn't made to deal with this size of map.

"argentinean planes lag", first I've heard of it? Care to go into more detail? Ideally in the correct topic? https://www.realitymod.com/forum/f562-p ... ports.html

You do realize the A-4AR wasn't made until 1996 and didn't enter service in the Argentine AF until 1998 and as such, wasn't in the Falklands War. In fact it was made because of the Falklands War... Only the A-4B, A-4C and A-4Q where in the war so you can wait all you like for it to come in, it isn't going to
EDIT: The only way the A-4AR could get into PR is if a modern Argentinian faction was made for it, but I'm personally not going to do that, but your more than welcome to.

The deployable AA wasn't (or isn't) crashing any servers to my knowledge, again if it is, no one has reported it, but the Argentine Deployable AA not deploying was fixed in this patch.

And yes, the VW mode amount of players to cap is something that e hope to fix in time but its quite a complicated bit of code to edit and without the orignal creator of the code its not a straight forward thing to fix. Only one person in our team currently can fix it and he's pretty busy at the mo so decided to release this patch without this fix as otherwise you still wouldn't have all the other fixes this patch brings


So Dr Death, I would suggest if you want something to happen, do something about it yourself, even if its just a bug report at the very least otherwise, its not going to get fixed unless someone else reports it and then that on its own might not be enough info to fix it on.

[Rhino]

and cant no one change the engien in this texture bug? i am sure is related to the planes lag on the movement and cockpit, because this dont happen on the HMS, however, they are way closer to the center of the map, and like i said before, that make dogfighting almost a nightmare for the Arg. planes.

Going to need more info on this. I very much doubt its down to the vertex wobble, all that's about is the engine looses its accuracy it can place vertexes when getting further away from the centre of the map and no, to my knowledge no way to fix it.

Do the Arg jets still lag when you've flown them to the centre of the map?

Also what are your system specs and game video settings?

And the Arg. AA bug is when you mount on one, on the argentinean side, tryed it on the AAS on the night, the server didn't crashed, the connection did (thats what i meant) i lost connection, it was that, or a CTD after pressing E to get in the AA

Which AA would this be? There are quite a few and was it the AA at Stanley, Pebble or Argentina?

oh, and maybe you will want to take a look on the planes HUD, i get it, its the first public relase and not every plane have the same weapons, but the HUD for the planes is.... very wrong sometimes (for example, % of power display dissapear when changing weapons, or the language/color change when doing that, etc.)

HUDs are only temporary right now, taken from other jets which is why pretty much all of them don't have the right missile/cannon names etc. In time we will look into making custom ones for each jet

may i suggest to add an argentinean chinook to the main base? or try to make a C-130?

some.... noobs get as rifleman in the tierra del fuego airbase and they have no way to get to the islands.

no, there were no paratroopers for the arg. army in the falklands war, and there is no runway, but they may could land the C-130 on pebble island or you could make some kit with a parachute.

C-130 would be pretty pointless as per this topic: https://www.realitymod.com/forum/f563-p ... spawn.html

Argentines may get a Chinook in the future on some layers like Infantry but I don't want to give too much flexability to the Argentinian side since they didn't use their choppers to assault positions like how they would be used ingame.

[Rhino]

Not heard one other person complain about Arg Jet lag?

and i mean the FOB AA, when you are on the arg. side and make a FOB, and then deploy some AA defences, at least happened once to me, it CTD when i entered

Just you? If so its possibly from being out of memory when trying to load the deployable AA HUD etc but unlikely, and yes I know you have 8gbs, but BF2 is 32bit so limited to only so much memory.

[Pvt.LHeureux]

Rhino, the argies "jet lag" is that the movements are not smooth when you use barrel or pull up, push down. It's like if your jet was taking huge steps instead of turning smoothly the body.

[Rhino]

not experienced that myself or heard anyone else say it. Take your referring to the Mirage/Dagger. Also I take it your not mistaking its slow turn which is deliberate since its a dealt wing aircraft.

[Pvt.LHeureux]

Yeah I'm reffering to the Mirrage/Dagger. I think it has more to do with lag than anything else. But if you want to have a look you can see it in this video :

Battlefield 2 Project Reality: NEW Falklands Argentinian jets (Mirage IIIEA) dogfights - YouTube

The planes movements are clunky/jerky sometimes.

[Rhino]

what FPS are you getting when flying the jet?

[Pvt.LHeureux]

I never play with FPS display programs

[Rhino]

type "renderer.drawfps 1" without the quotes into the conceal (`).

[Pvt.LHeureux]

Wow, thanks never knew that. Shame renderer.drawhud0 doesn't work anymore on dedi servers

[Rhino]

You can thank me by telling me what FPS you have when flying the Mirage

[Pvt.LHeureux]

I got more Normandy stuff to do sorry, gonna have an event soon to test Brecourt, have to set things up with AD