BF1942 Patch News

I bought BF1942 the day it came out and had severe performance issues as many have had. Is it just me or did the patch not fix any performance issues? My framerate is just as low as it was with 1.0....was it even supposed to fix performance issues? I'm running a 1.8 GHz P4 w/ 512 MB ram and a 64 MB Geforce 3...can anyone play the game w/ decent framerates on comparable hardware?

i like everything they did with the new patch. EXCEPT THE PLANES!!!!

bring back the 1.1 planes... they were sooo much better.

Yeah, I'm running the US version patch on my server in Sweden without any trouble.

So far my experiences with the patch have been largely negative, though. I (and my clan) belonged to the group of people who thought the game was near perfect as it was. They have no changed a lot of things to the worse, and we might end up reinstalling and going 1.1. Sounds a little naive perhaps, but we play to have fun, and we haven't had a lot of fun with the 1.2 patch so far I'm afraid.

You hit and kill people easier. This also makes for dying easier. A lot of times I never even realize what happened, I spawn and die, I walk out of a building and die, I stick up my head from under the sandbags and I die. This should ofcourse work both ways, and in the end bring some kind of balance where everyone dies just as much, even if it's easier to kill than before. It just hasn't felt like "fun" for the hours I've played with the 1.2 patch.

Shooting down a plane now only takes one second. One second of firing towards the engine at the front and it'll blow up. This gives the hopeless "Why am I even playing?" touch to aerial combat aswell. I liked it when I knew I was being fired at and could pull some evasive action and perhaps turn the tide, now it's just BANG! Oh, I died.

Tanks were balanced well, their offensive power was way greater than that of an infantry, but thanks to grenades being well balanced and powerful you could stop a tank if you were just good at placing those grens. As it is now, see a tank and you can just run, because there's little you can do. See a tiger and you might aswell push the 'sucide button' to get it over with.

I can say I haven't put into more than 4-5 hours of play with the new patch yet, so maybe there is still room for changing my mind. This is however how I feel about the new patch right now. I hope I change my mind.

/ V

My thoughts on some of the 1.2 changes:

- tanks have more hitpoints and are more resistant against grenades: GOOD
- guns more accurate via netcode: GOOD
- machine guns doing more damage: BAD
- planes going down faster: not a pilot, but I say prob BAD
- new optimizations to make graphics faster: GOOD
- hit feedback: GOOD

Summary
I'm in favor of the 1.1 "feel" but I do like the graphics changes and the tank changes.

i installed the patch and the game stopped working, so i uninstalled it and reinstalled it and now it doesnt work at all, without the patch. arg wtf did i do.

Official Europen 1.2 Patch Released: ftp://ftp.ea-europe.com/support/patches/bf1942/BF1942Euro12.zip

I have no idea why, though, as EA has said "Finally, EA Europe has released the version 1.2 patch (direct FTP link) for European editions of Battlefield 1942, and it turns out that reports that yesterday's North American patch will work on the European version of the game are accurate, as both patches are identical. "

Any word on a linux dedicated server?

I like the patch. happy am i.