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BF2 Update 1.50 - More incredible news
Posted: 2009-04-08 15:47
by Grasli
Well, I thought I should share this with you - more news on the coming Update for Battlefield 2 which Bazajaytee from DICE released today. As you can see below, the hit detection will be improved. That means it will also be improved for PR, doesn't it? And they are also looking at removing the need of having the DVD in the drive for starting the game
And afaik there's also more - some things that are not on this list - maybe widescreen support?
Firstly, sorry I have been away for so long, its been a busy time. So here as per request in a number of threads here is an update to where we are with 1.50.
Yes its still coming
- We have been working on a few things to do with DRM as old versions of Battlefield 2 use an old version of SafeDisc
- We have had a number of last minute hacks appear which we have made fixes for to help stabalise the servers.
- We have a minor issue to solve with the Chinese version of the game.
While I can't give an exact date, we are aiming to release our first Beta towards the end of April '09 as long as everything else goes well.
DRM?
What we are looking at doing for Battlefield is removing the requirement for the DVD to be in the drive during boot up. Whether we can get this going is what we are checking. It won't limit your installs on other machines or limit how many times you can install though.
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Update v1.50 Changelog (as of today)
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FEATURES
- Additional support for Windows Vista.
- Added Highway Tampa as a required map.
- Added a new map called Operation Blue Pearl.
GAMEPLAY TWEAKS
- Changes made to both the J10 and F35B to make them more balanced. Please note that the J10 is a superior dogfighter to the F35B and as such these two aircraft will never be equally matched.
- AA targeting tweaked to make it more effective.
- Added checks to prevent "runway grieving". (If a player stands in front of a jet, he cant punish the pilot when teamkilled, and the pilot does NOT loose any points either.)
- Various changes made to prevent cheating.
- Tweaked the hit detection, hits will be more accurate to the model.
SOURCE (Read the thread): http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlef...-50-status.html
Does this sound awesome or what?
One thing I have noticed is that it doesn't say anything about widescreen support, nor anything about bugfixes. I guess time will show..
Re: BF2 Update 1.50 - More incredible news
Posted: 2009-04-08 15:58
by Welshboy
looks good tbh
Re: BF2 Update 1.50 - More incredible news
Posted: 2009-04-08 15:59
by DankE_SPB
it sounds awesome for ages, i wonder if it ever leave their testlabs
about widescreen, it already works well
Re: BF2 Update 1.50 - More incredible news
Posted: 2009-04-08 16:00
by LeChuckle
Vista support and improved hitbox ;@
Re: BF2 Update 1.50 - More incredible news
Posted: 2009-04-08 16:02
by Jigsaw
Obv. sounds good but wudn't the whole of PR have to be re-patched to work with it?
Plus widescreen and vista work fine for me already...
Re: BF2 Update 1.50 - More incredible news
Posted: 2009-04-08 16:07
by Masaq
jigsaw-uk wrote:Obv. sounds good but wudn't the whole of PR have to be re-patched to work with it?
Plus widescreen and vista work fine for me already...
Yes. Expect BF2 1.50 to break your copy of PR 0.85, if you install it immediately.
As soon as the patch is available to the Team to get their grubby little paws on, we'll be looking at what needs to be done to make 0.85 compatible with v1.50.
Until that hotfix can be released, your options are to either not install v1.50 or not play PR... obviously, we'd prefer you to hold on
Re: BF2 Update 1.50 - More incredible news
Posted: 2009-04-08 16:08
by Grasli
jigsaw-uk wrote:Obv. sounds good but wudn't the whole of PR have to be re-patched to work with it?
We'll see. Thats what we are afraid of - a lot of compatibility problems for PR.. :/
[R-DEV]Masaq:
Or copy the BF2 folder and have two versions installed at the same time - same procedure as with earlier beta's
Re: BF2 Update 1.50 - More incredible news
Posted: 2009-04-08 16:08
by mp5punk
yea this looks a lot better.
Re: BF2 Update 1.50 - More incredible news
Posted: 2009-04-08 16:09
by supahpingi
jigsaw-uk wrote:Obv. sounds good but wudn't the whole of PR have to be re-patched to work with it?
Plus widescreen and vista work fine for me already...
will probably take a small hotfix,but its best to not update untill the devs give you a green light
Re: BF2 Update 1.50 - More incredible news
Posted: 2009-04-08 16:10
by Grasli
supahpingi wrote:will probably take a small hotfix,but its best to not update untill the devs give you a green light
Or copy the BF2 folder and have two versions installed at the same time - same procedure as with earlier beta's
Re: BF2 Update 1.50 - More incredible news
Posted: 2009-04-08 16:12
by Rudd
Looking foward to it
if they deliver ofc....
Re: BF2 Update 1.50 - More incredible news
Posted: 2009-04-08 16:13
by Masaq
Grasli wrote:Or copy the BF2 folder and have two versions installed at the same time - same procedure as with earlier beta's
Bah, more hassle than I can ever be bothered with... Never play vBF2 anyways lol.
Re: BF2 Update 1.50 - More incredible news
Posted: 2009-04-08 16:15
by Jigsaw
[R-DEV]Masaq wrote:Bah, more hassle than I can ever be bothered with... Never play vBF2 anyways lol.
Stole the words right outta my mouth
Re: BF2 Update 1.50 - More incredible news
Posted: 2009-04-08 16:31
by Mora
Looks good
Re: BF2 Update 1.50 - More incredible news
Posted: 2009-04-08 16:55
by Koroush47
nOT GOOD!
We want 128 man servers!
!!!
Re: BF2 Update 1.50 - More incredible news
Posted: 2009-04-08 17:00
by hiberNative
they finally realized hitfixer is good and are going to implement it? :}
Re: BF2 Update 1.50 - More incredible news
Posted: 2009-04-08 17:06
by Psyko
i dont like this hitbox change.
but the non-cd requirement is good. i was actually having problems lately with installing my bf2 for my brother, we couldnt play on the same server unfortunatly. so good news for me
i wonder if the CD issue is connected with CTD hacking.
Re: BF2 Update 1.50 - More incredible news
Posted: 2009-04-08 17:13
by crazy11
Looking forward to this.
Psyko you cant have the same hash on the same server. I had the same problem with my bro but he went out and got another copy of bf2.
Re: BF2 Update 1.50 - More incredible news
Posted: 2009-04-08 17:15
by Sinn_Ah_Taggh
I dont give a rats *** about vBF annymore and the only reason i would be botherd to innstall the latest patch is to get the goodies for PR
Re: BF2 Update 1.50 - More incredible news
Posted: 2009-04-08 17:18
by Alex6714
Psykogundam wrote:i dont like this hitbox change.
Why may I ask?