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EA's Advice is to Uninstall Battlefield 2
Grym writes "The recently released Battlefield 2 was met with various levels of acclaim by reviewers. Besides the insane hardware requirements, the chief complaint was the amount of bugs in the game. Hoping to address the situation quickly, EA hastily released a patch to address the concerns cited in reviews. Big mistake. The patch turned out to be littered with bugs. One of the biggest was a huge memory leak. Another actually turned teammates' names red--just like enemies. The game became unplayable because of the patch. Tycho at Penny-Arcade discussed the issue in his latest news update. EA has owned up to the buggy patch and has said that there will be a hotfix released soon. In the meantime, gamers have been offically told to uninstall Battlefield 2 and play without the patch; advice that many fans are not happy to hear. Meanwhile, some sites are still offering the 1.01 patch for download on their front pages, only adding to the confusion. When are game companies going to learn? Quality assurance and play-testing should not be an afterthought!"
I was sufficiently swayed by your obvious genius so I went back and did a quick test. I skipped the intro screen and then it put the escape character into my saved password. But thanks to your cunning wisdom and sage advice, the game only thinks it did it, when it really didn't. Thanks.
A helicopter mapped key will only affect other helicopter keys
By goodness, your emminent superiority has struck again. When I tried to map a Common Control key, it shot a dialog box into the middle of my screen (and snapped my mouse to the OK button) stating, "That key is already mapped to a key in the Helicopter Controls section". But its obviously wrong since you said that only helicopter mappings affect helicopter mappings. Thanks again.
The server list is interruptible with the new hotfix.
I am so impressed with your command of the facts, that I am going to name all of my wife's ex-husbands children after you. I tried the new hotfix! I went into the game, and in the heat of battle I pressed ESC to map a key... the options screen loaded, and the server list started to refresh. Now I can press STOP! Awesome! I get back into the game, and I'm dead. But at least I can stop the server list refresh. :-)
When you click the pre selected radio command, IT DOESN'T FIRE YOUR GUN!
You're fixing my game as I read this post. I went into the game and deliberately injured myself, found a medic, pointed my crosshairs at him, and then invoked the radio message. BOOOOOOM!!! But the bleeding medic immediately turned to me and said, "Hey man, the game didn't really do that. Don't worry, Shim said it all coo." Then he died. [FORGIVE]
Battlefield 2 is the greatest game to ever be made...
HUZZAH!