Possible workaround to squad bug

[bad_nade]

Hello All

I came up with this little idea which may help in fight against the dreaded squad bug. It's very straightforward, all you need to do is to remove the Squad Assignment button from the map loading screen, as specified in the picture below. Removing this button should not affect game play at all as the loading screen will eventually go away whether or not the button is clicked. So removing it would force everyone to wait couple of tens of seconds in the beginning of the round before they could create squads or apply commander, which would, hopefully, give the server just enough time to assort its socks before people arrive and start messing around.

[bloodthirsty_viking]

actually, it will only go away if you have auto ready on, whitch i do not becuase of the crappy copmputer it makes stuff worse=(


also, i may have misunderstood what your talking about

also, i have a crappy cpmuter that at earilest im in 30 sec b4hand=P

[Gore]

But some say it's not because of making squads too fast.
It happened in vanilla as well.

[FredDuzt]

Makes perfect sense to me

[Cyrax-Sektor]

I'm confused... how do you get into the server?

After the map's done loading, you sit there with no button to manually join. In a few seconds, the game will automatically get rid of the screen and bring you to the game. Or one can just press the Esc key to bypass the screen.

However, isn't this all based on the Auto Ready feature in the BF2 options menu? If I recall, a fresh install with Auto Ready disabled left me the game at the server load screen until I pressed the button to join.

I'm not sure if this will solve the problem. Pressing the Esc key will just get rid of the screen, anyways.

[Redamare]

i think it will work

[nick20404]

Squad bug happens when two people make a squad of the same name at the same time, IE two people press crate squad and it tries to make 2 alpha squads thus breaking the squad function. If people make custom squad names the bug will not happen it has nothing to do with the time limit, infact the time limit or making people wait will make it happen more often because everyone will wait till 1:30 etc and try to make a squad at the same time.

[Harrod200]

Squad bug happens when two people make a squad of the same name at the same time, IE two people press crate squad and it tries to make 2 alpha squads thus breaking the squad function. If people make custom squad names the bug will not happen it has nothing to do with the time limit, infact the time limit or making people wait will make it happen more often because everyone will wait till 1:30 etc and try to make a squad at the same time.

Happens WAY less on T&T with the time limit than it did without.

[bad_nade]

actually, it will only go away if you have auto ready on

Oh that's why it's there Thanks! I've been wondering what that option does since I installed BF2 for the first time couple of years ago

[cyberzomby]

Yea its been ages since we had a squadbug. At least when I was online.

[Raegron]

Squad bug happens when two people make a squad of the same name at the same time, IE two people press crate squad and it tries to make 2 alpha squads thus breaking the squad function. If people make custom squad names the bug will not happen it has nothing to do with the time limit, infact the time limit or making people wait will make it happen more often because everyone will wait till 1:30 etc and try to make a squad at the same time.

Hmmm, I haven't seen a squadbug in ages. People seem to not create squads right away, instead they wait a short while. That solution seems to work well enough anyways.

Creating squads at the same time, meh.. You'd expect to see two Alpha squads instead then?

[Kenny]

I'm sure if the dev's realy wanted to they could make the auto ready permently on with some work around coding but whay do that when people could use comon sense. Everyone now knows about the bug so most people wait a bit anyway before creating a squad