BF Bad Company 2 second update

Gday
Just went through a second update of the game and now it wont play , when I resume the game it just doesnt load up then just crashes to desktop. You should be given a choice aboout updates , if it works fine than dont fix it. Forced updates to the game dont work for everyone , it was going fine until the second update. Bugger them !!!!

happen to anybody else ?

 

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Im gonna try when i get home but really, forced updates is a must.. having noobs around who cannot figure to update their games will be clueless and then even more chaos, or old version servers etc. no thanks.

 

i just want a normal ping system. In the browser i see 31 for ping and then when i join its like 180+ and unplayable....... I cant play like that,to much lag.

edit- and crashes to me are random. Some times it crashes 3x in a row+computer restarts and other times works like a charm for 3 hours.

 

You can change your individual game settings in Steam game properties so it does not automatically update your game. The problem with the update is that the old save game appears to be incompatible after the update. To test this theory out, backup the old save, start a new game, save and then load.

 

savegame? are you people playing this game in singleplayer ?

 

try the EA forums, youll probably get more help there focused at pc issues....just a thought.


and yes i have random crashes after the second update...in multiplayer tho =_

 

The in-game ping isn't displaying a normal ping, which is round trip from client to server and back. It's latency, prediction from the server and round trip including server processing.

It's no different than any other in-game performance, except they display it differently. It's misleading for sure, not sure why they did it that way.

Considering you've played over 50 hours it must not bug you too much

See the EA BF BC2 blog:

http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/

Go to March 15 entry:

High pings even on local game servers. We're actually showing game latency instead of ping.

This is basically how far behind the client is compared to the server. We try to keep the server a small portion in front of the clients so they in most cases can use replicated data until they get the next ghost update from the server. If they get a lag spike they will start predicting the state when they run out of information, however, the basic idea is to smooth out the experience compared to everything having to be corrected when the predictions are slightly off.

 

yeap agree, i find that all the servers i join i have a ping somewhere between 120-300 and i find this is fine, i get immediate hit-markers, and don't notice any lag at all.......its only when pings get up around 500+ that i notice any lag........

 

What do your pings average at? Server browser lists 45 when I join it's 180. Now server browser says 220 and I join its around 400-500.

 

yes i play it singleplayer!! ha, it's pretty good!

 

Multiplayer is where the fun is at

 

most of the time i feel this isnt the case with me. i have many times burst fired a full clip at a enemy that isnt moving and still cant get a hit then they turn around and boom im dead.

i should have mentioned it but its mainly mouse mouse lag i hate. some times i have none and other times i do. with the crashing, mouse lag and hit detection its like a crap shoot on how well i play

 

ZP=WIN, I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one. But your K/D ratio is pretty darn good. I'm only 0.50. Part of it is my skill, but part is luck I'm sure. I mean I pop someone right in the head with a full clip standing behind them 10 feet away, and they turn around and kill me with one shot, and it shows their health at like 82% or something stupid like that.

On another note, when I was playing earlier today, there must have been three people kicked due to hacks. Glad they found them, but why do people have to do this? It's just stupid. It's a game, play fair. Buck up and earn your stripes buddy.

 

Stupid game, crashed 3 times when trying to connect to a server! Fricken EA

 

And just got done playing for an hour. I feel I want to punch my monitor. I swear I destroyed several tanks, but never got credit for it. The tank and enemy was destroyed, and never said someone killed someone, but the tank and dude were dead.

 

^^ happens to me all the time with tank mines. they run over it boom.no points. anyway im done with this game for awhile. ill come back in a few patches.

 

i don't actually understand what you mean by mouse lag, i haven't experienced it, i think there is a fix for it though (slightly remember reading perhaps uspatriot having issues and finding a fix)

hmm, sounds like some of you are having some real issues, when i search for servers they usually show up around the 40ping and these in game are usually between 100-200ping (aussie servers) and U.S servers say between 100-200 ping and in game are around 400-500ping, which is still ok, a slight lag before been credited with a kill.......only a couple of times have a experienced not been credited for a kill......usually at the very end of a round or if i die at the same time.

 

well i think laptopnut is correct , the old save game was incompatible with the new patch , I also updated my nvidia drivers as well. a new game started OK. I am just pissed of I lost all my progress.
Thanks for the interesting posts people. It shows that EA games as well as other studios always release games not 100%. I have assasins creed II as well on my coffee table but havent played it yet. Lets hope that goes better.

 

Any change log? I haven't seen any posted here...

But to be honest, I haven't experienced any lag or any problems.

and Htwingnut, just a few minutes ago got a C4 kill of a vehicle without having any points for it :|

 

This fixed my mouse lag.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=470173

 

Ok, so I'm not crazy. My kills were with shoulder mounted anti-tank instead of C4. Seems stuff gets lost in translation. It's ticking me off, because my k/d ratio and score isn't great to begin with, but one round I took out four tanks, none were credited to me. Grrrrr.

Ok, another reassuring indication its broken

Cool, thanks! +1 I'll try it out. I'm up for improved performance any day.

 

You wont get points if you're dead then the tank blows up. I think this promotes the reaction

"I should have stayed alive".

Although it really sucks being an eng and tanks blow up when your dead

 

Either way you should get the credit alive or dead. And as an Eng I blew up tanks while alive and no credit. I see you online quite a bit RAID Noir, but you're usually on a full server so can't join. But VOIP is broken in-game though isn't it? At least I haven't heard anyone trying to talk to me.

 

dont know if this is on point but ive noticed that my few (by few i mean like 5-10 in 2 weeks) have all happened when I had weak wireless signal...dunno if that would have anything to do with it, but if it does it would explain why we (laptops) would have random crashes if we are on a weak wireless range

 

Should have nothing to do with it. I had it happen on my desktop hard wired to my router.

 

works that way in the real military, so it should in the game as well. due credit is due credit.

 

Hey ZP, I definitely played a couple rounds with you either yesterday or the day before, and I just noticed your signature. Weird.

Neither have I, although we DO have the same computer.

 

ah yea. death match right? i think you put C4 on a tank.

 

Yeah I think it was. I just happened to look at this thread.

Edit: Yep, the surprise C4 was me

 

man those other guys where pissing me off with the tubing so i started tubing them until it was over. i think i got a double kill twice doing it haha.

 

We should start an NBR clan. Our clan tag could be [NBR].
Simple and elegant.

Edit: Apparently I am a "Notebook Guru" now. Sweet.

 

I'm all for an [NBR] clan tag. I'll add it, wth.

 

Well I just got off a rush server where the ENTIRE attacking team was snipers. That was probably the most frustrating thing I've ever subjected myself to.

Edit: I forgot to mention that I was part of the attacking team.

 

Yes it is frustrating. I just got off a server where the enemy were base rapers. They sat at our uncap base took our tanks and just sat there killing us. They had like over 30 rank, so I'm sure they got there doing mainly that.

 

it is a tactic that is why you should protect your flags.

Although the game REALLLY need a


Car rush map and a sea vehicle rush map. It is very hard to get those pins.

 

A tactic? It's a cheap and talentless stat padding kill. That's no worse than a hacker. It's a design flaw for sure, but also crappy to be exploited. Not to mention the sides were unbalanced both by players and rank. I guess that's what you get when you have a console crowd in the PC gaming world. Lack of skill and respect.

 

If Bad Company 1 came out for the PC, this wouldn't have happened, at least not to the same degree as it has. The console and PC worlds would have stayed separate. As it is, some of the console guys from BC1 saw that BC2 came out for PC and jumped on it. Hence the loltoobing, baserape, and stat padding.

That said, some Battlefield 2 servers are even worse. Of course, when I am invisible with my L96A1, I don't worry about it too much. Especially at Karkand.

 

In rush games, snipers on the attacking team don't make much sense, at least any more than 3 on PC. Defenders will keep re-spawning while attackers will not, I guess its just a way to get more kills eh?

Assault with smoke grenade while attacking tbh! What it needs now, is AUTOBALANCE most importantly, in Port Valdez we (The attackers) had the T90, the BMP-AA, the Bradley, the Apache and at one point the Blackhawk. There was baserape, this was basemolestation!

A warmup session, like in BF2 to allow everyone to spawn before the game starts is also needed, but of course console games don't need any of that right? I hate consoles some times.

 

Yeah, it's frustrating. Guess I'll just have to find some mature servers and play there. Maybe we should start a real clan and start our own server.

Also, it's funny that they didn't include prone in BC2 but if you look at some of the weapon descriptions it says most effective when in prone position. LOL.

 

Hah, LMG type weapons were so difficult to use in BF2 if you did'nt prone. Lack of Prone keeps the game flow relatively smooth and makes camping more difficult. Prone was annoying in MW2 online, at least I found.

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The only problem is there are NBR members all over the world. So wherever we host it, some people are going to have a massive ping.

 

True. But I thought with the 1.4 BF2 patch, killing hoppers and prone jumpers wasn't quite so difficult.

Good point. If we have enough members then maybe a North America server and an EU server. I don't know that there'd be enough Aussie's to justify one there though.

 

Lol, those Australians.

We could put a server on the moon. Then at least we'd all have a similar (albeit unreasonably high) ping.

 

like i said earlier there are a few ideas i think should be looked at, for example, only one class per squad, making for four evenly balanced squads would go alone way to even out some of the game play.
htwingnut there are defiantly some good servers out there, the ones i play on kick you if you switch teams, or baserape, as well as that if teams are unbalanced a message pops up on the screen asked certain players to please switch sides.....find those types of servers my friend and than add them to your favs, i have around 8 servers (4 rush 4 conquest) that i always frequent.