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Hey I just need to get this cleared up for my own sake.

I often play on a certain server and rarely join other servers so I use AJ (Auto Join) alot.
Since the new update I had experienced that the AJ isn't working correctly any more.
I had AJ trying to join a server for almost an hour yesterday. When I realised that something seemed wrong I returned to the server list and manually updated the server. Within five minutes I was in.

I had a similar experience a couple of days ago where I couldn't get in as well. I never tried manually joining at that time because I just gave up playing that evening.

So just bad luck or...??

Yeah its broken.

Had the same problem yesterday

Was auto joining hog server, after 5 mins of it trying to auto join i cancelled went to server list and seen 54 players on the server, then joined as normal

Okay thanks guys.. Would really love to see a hotfix for this one...

Bug fix much? Couldnt stop myself..

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How long does it normally take to join if you waited a whole hour before you realised it was broken?! (i'm an avid 'clicker' myself, usually takes 3mins to get into a busy server.. Or I just give in and go play skirmish and seed another).

Hehe I was grabbing something to eat and stuff. It was a Saturday evening so I assumed it would take some time before I got in. I wasn't sitting and staring into the screen for a whole hour if that's what you think .

I don't have the patience for manually updating the servers any more. Not since we got Auto Join. Normally it takes about 10 minutes on a busy evening before AJ finds you a free slot.

I just always presumed that if a clicker was waiting he'd beat the auto-join.. Because on the busy servers so many people are trying to join that you have to be very fast to click before someone else. A 3 sec loop of clicking doesn;t strike me as having a good chance of getting in that 1sec window.

oh the joys of BF2.

Actually it's a five second loop .. I had the same idea as you to begin with but the fact is that the "clicking update" isn't worth the effort. I always manage to get in with Auto Join.

didn't notice :l . . Oh well . .

Not sure if I really want to share this, since you will be taking "my slot" more often in the future now...

But anyway:

Updating the whole list via the "refresh/update"-button (I really can not remember what the button is called in English - damn local translations!) is not good at all compared to:

a) alternate clicking between 2 servers (the one you want in the other any random next to it)
b) typing in the name of that server you wanna join and then update the list via the button

---> Since you are only contacting 1 or 2 servers every time you update, it is way faster!

Example:

Say you want to join the NwA Insurgency server. There are two NwAs (Ins and AAS).
Type in "NwA" in the server name box. Update...Update...Update...Bam, free slot!

Hope it helps!

Search, Auto deploy. Lots of things need to be fixed =\

This is one of those things that needed a hotfix released as soon as it was fixed, it's a major problem this thing being broken.

KiloJules wrote: a) alternate clicking between 2 servers (the one you want in the other any random next to it)
b) typing in the name of that server you wanna join and then update the list via the button

Hi Joules, I knew a) but b) is a new one.. Nice one mate, thankyou.

And Mahi, thanks for the info .. I've never actually tried Autojoin based on my presumption.

clicking back and forth between servers has always served me well since bf1942 demo. each time you click on a server it automatically refreshes that server's info for you. thus much faster than the update and refresh button/s. same with auto deploy, it simply repeatedly tries to join every 5 seconds, i can click the server and have it refresh about 8 times within 5 seconds. meaning i have a higher chance of seeing the open spot a few seconds before your auto deploy has it's next try.

any news on that topic?

Just like to say, we need auto deploy back so hard.

Any chance we could fix it ourself? I mean is it java programmed or something?

Sgt. Mahi wrote:Any chance we could fix it ourself? I mean is it java programmed or something?

I believe it is done in AS (flash) and integrated into the menu, so probably not. Even if you managed to change your client's one, you'd get MD5 kicked afaik. Ancientman would be the one to talk to about that.