BF2 1.03 Details Leaked

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BF2 patch 1.03
Alpha - 2 Sept
· Beta - 19 Sept
· Final - 23 Sept
· CQC/ECG Sub - 28 Sept
· Release - 3 Oct

Wake Island· In a surprise move, forces of the People's Liberation Army have attacked and captured Wake Island in a bid to threaten US lines of supply. USMC forces have been short-stopped from their deployment in Manchuria to respond to this new threat. The airbase on Wake Island is the lynchpin of the Chinese air threat, however it is highly susceptible to ground attack from either the northern-(end theres)

Compare Feature· By clicking the COMPARE button in BFHQ, you can search for another players name and load their current stats into BFHQ. Using the arrow buttons next to the name in the top-left corner of the menu, you can toggle between your stats and their stats. You can also load a player's stats by double-clicking on their name in any leaderboard.

Favorites/History· There is a new tab in the MULTIPLAYER menu that holds a list of the last 20 internet servers you have connected to, plus a list of servers you have selected as favorites.

BF2 Account Tag · You can add a 6-character prefix to your account nickname which will be displayed in-game next to your nametag in the scoresheet, in game messages, and above your player. This prefix does not change your account name or statistic information (e.g. the prefix does not appear next to your name on the leaderboards). You can change this prefix at any time at the account login menu.

Server Reserved Slots· Server admins can define a list of player BF2 account names which will reserve VIP slots on the server.

Engineer/Helicopter· Modified the rate at which engineer can repair a helicopter while sitting in the helicopter. It now takes longer for the engineer to repair the helicopter.

Vehicle/Control Point Capture· Only one person in a vehicle counts towards a control point capture. If passengers want to increase the rate of the flag change, they must disembark from the vehicle.

Vehicle/Soldier interaction· Improved physics of vehicles against soldiers so that soldiers are not as easily killed by moving vehicles. Bring on the wing-walkers!

Auto Balance· Auto team balance no longer moves the commander or squad leaders to the other team.

Point Farming· Limits placed on ability to point farm.

Rank/Awards· Criteria for gaining ranks and awards has been changed.

Supply Drop· The commander's supply drop now has an icon on the minimap and a 3D-map icon in the world.

Source
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=369755&pid=586499065&st=0&#entry586499065
 
Wake island? Is that a new map? Sounds like it :D Cool.

Sounds like it'll be a good update.
 
I see good and bad there:

Engineer/Helicopter - bad

Vehicle/Control Point Capture - bad

Favorites/History - good
 
i see alot of good
although it takes ages to repair the helicopters already 0.o
new map and 3 october release \0/
 
Why Wake Island? Isn't that from World War II?
 
Depends, the Engineer/Helicopter thing will be good on a map like Mashtuur City where the Blackhawk gives a major advantage to the USMC team. The MEC chopper sucks, the mounted guns are terrible.
 
werent they going to change that as well?
i'm pretty sure they are oing to beef up the mec and chinese heli guns
 
The vehicle flag capture is good, specially in mashtuur where the USMC team always wins.
 
Yeah i like the sound of that vehicle capture change
The blackhawk will still own- in my experience its not the engineers continuosly repairing it that makes it so good in Maashutur- the heli repair pad is 10 seconds from any part of the map anyway.
Dont see a change in the way team killing is dealt with. ?
 
Good find.

One thing tho: Wake Island? The only map we're gonna get is a re-make of a BF1942 map? Don't get me wrong. Bonus-maps are cool, but everybody is playing urban maps and they come with an island map? I mean, it isn't like Operation Clean Sweep is the most popular map ever. I hope there's more to this patch than just Wake Island.

btw great new av, Jimbo. Lesbs ftw!!!1
 
J_Tweedy said:
Dont see a change in the way team killing is dealt with. ?

"Vehicle/Soldier interaction· Improved physics of vehicles against soldiers so that soldiers are not as easily killed by moving vehicles. Bring on the wing-walkers!"

Hopefully this will cut down on some of the stupid TK's.
 
All changes sound good to me. I wonder what kinds of changes they'll make to awards. I bet they'll lower the requirements on the medals a lot so people can actually get them.

EDIT: These obviously aren't all the changes they're making. One of the confirmed things they talked about was giving points to spec ops points for destroying commander assets and tk system changes.
 
This is very good too read can't wait till they release it, hopefully there will be more than just Wake Island given to us
 
Hopefully this isn't just some fake leak like what happened with HL2 a billion times :(

All in all though, looks like some great changes.
 
If this is real then good work EA, looks all good to me, apart from the 1 person in a vehicle counts, thats lame. Wake island ^^
 
Ev!lP!e said:
If this is real then good work EA, looks all good to me, apart from the 1 person in a vehicle counts, thats lame. Wake island ^^
well, should cut down on the flag-capping circles that tend to happen sometimes, besides, it's nice to change up the gameplay a bit, force people to alter their strategy so the game doesn;t get stale
hopefully Wake Island has more buildings
 
Wow, Wake island. I wonder how theyre going to remake that into a modern setting
Overall, though, this is good-except for the Teamkill Punishing System staying how it is
 
Wake will look FANTASTIC in the BF2 engine, im so excited its quite sad :D
 
CrazyJeepDriver said:
Wow, Wake island. I wonder how theyre going to remake that into a modern setting
Overall, though, this is good-except for the Teamkill Punishing System staying how it is
I doubt the TK system is going to stay the way it is. The fact that it wasn't included in this "leaked info" makes me think it could be a fake, and a bunch of people just breaking others jaws. It seems more the latter to me. They said specifiacally that they were working on teh TK system. Wonder if someone could email DICE and ask?
 
ffs reserve slots? I have a hard enough time finding servers as it is.
 
bam23 said:
ffs reserve slots? I have a hard enough time finding servers as it is.
They are adding alot more servers, so hey, that's always a plus!

I'm more and more losing my hopes for this "leak" being true.
 
Holy shite! Wake Island for BF2 sounds maybe too good. T'was my favourite map since the first time I played bf42... I can imagine the vegetation with the new engine :u~~

Hmm, I wonder if we are getting coastal cannons and gunships? Would rock.
 
I think they want to cut down on something I've seen a few times....in which someone loads up a transport chopper with engineers, hops all over the map capping points extremely quickly, and being almost impossible to kill due to all the repairing. Its massively cheesy.
 
its espeially bs in mashtuur city- an organised blackhawk can be so good it actually ruins the game for all others involved. Im looking foward to mashtuur city being a better map because of this patch.
 
Haha, I just realized the meaning of "wing-walking". I read this at first and didn't know what they mean by saying that :). Thatt'll be cool. Back in bf1942 days when I was playing with bots I was often camping near a plane so that the bot would take it and take off, and I tried to stay on it for as long as possible =)
 
wake island is in the total bf2 map pack.....
leads me to doubt this is an official leak
 
yeah as John and Jellyworld said, (and I was going to point out)
the bf2 map pack has a shoddy Wake remake (imo)

Pics:
wakeisland3.jpg

http://www.totalbf2.com/news/images/wakeisland4.jpg

forum link: http://www.totalbf2.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28772

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Wake Island sounds pretty good to me. Imaging the BF1942 map 60 years on. Everything could have decayed and become over grown. Buildings falling down and the large guns rusting away.

Sounds pretty cool looking to me.
 
mgith be real, if not, some of these things i could see being in the patch though
 
will Spec Ops still get points for destroying enemy radars and such?
 
They never got points for destroying commander assets. But i think they will in 1.03 not sure though.
 
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