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".
- Various changes made to prevent cheating.
- Tweaked the hit detection, hits will be more accurate to the model.
[quote]They still haven't fixed everything they broke in 1.3. Oh the nightmares of 1.3...
Bout the time you stopped playing too eh? Is 1.5 worth it to dig for my disc, dust it off, and then install it?They didn't really do much, and for me it's highly unstable...
I still play BF2, but I was a late entrant (started about 2.5 years ago I guess). So what is the big breakage in patch 1.3? That I have never noticed since IIRC that is where I started....
Patch 1.22 is still the best version of the game. 1.3 introduced horrible lag, constant server crashes, and numerous errors such as the I.P address sometimes appearing as zeros in the map loading screen. The "Feature" they introduced, vehicle drops, were not thought out at all either.
They managed to make servers a little more stable with 1.4 and 1.41, and fix the vehicle drop so you couldn't drop it on top of buildings and the aircraft carrier, but the lag and other errors are still there that were not present in 1.22.
Man I have no lag issues or server crashes. Heaps on 2142 (still) but not BF2. The game often doesn't start (ctrl-alt-delete and kill the process, try again, often a few times) but that's it for me.
In case no one's been keeping up, some exciting changes will be coming with beta 3. The Blackhawk is getting its guns partially back (from a .25 modifier to 1.5) and they are doing away with insta-proning, instead going to the system used in 2142.
That is, hitting the prone key will yield an accuracy penalty for about a second or two instead of giving instant, deadly accuracy. They have also modified the BF2.exe to address more than 2 gigs of RAM, enabling it for use by x64 bit systems and higher graphics allowance.
Pretty good so far considering their patching team for the entire game is 3 guys, 1 of which is just an assistant producer with no previous experience with modifying the BF2 files. (Seems to be learning fast though :) )
Yeah the poor damage is my excuse for never (or maybe almost never, maybe once) getting a kill as a door gunner! I am not a spray and pray crap shot at all ;)
I DLd the BETA then they released another 2GB BETA rather than a patch patch which has put me off DLing it again, and the fact there are hardly any BETA servers in this part of the world.
I get the feeling their license expired for the RTpatcher software or something and they have to release full sized patches now.
The current plan has been rumored that there will never be a full 1.5 patch as it would be many gigabytes large. You would have to download 1.41, and then 1.5 incremental.
Beta 2 is pretty dead because there are still connection issues they didn't fix which makes it difficult for many people to even join a server. Beta 3 should be more popular.
