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Battlefield 2 Stats Hacks
by Maarten Goldstein, Jul 26, 2005 3:22am PDTHackers yesterday unlocked all weapons for some five million Battlefield 2 accounts, supposedly following inaction on the part of EA after being informed of the security holes. EA, in a new community update, mentions that they have found the cause of the problem and are rolling back all accounts to their previous state.
Once our solution is in place, if you find that you do not have access to weapons appropriate to your in-game rank, please direct inquiries to the Support sites linked below. In some cases users may be prompted to re-select the Unlock weapons that they are eligible for (if you are eligible for two weapons you will get to choose the two you wish to have unlocked).
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I'm guessing these are just id numbers that are assigned to users when they register an account, because I don't see any PC games selling that many copies in such a short period.
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- Players dont squad because they get more points lonewolf
- If players do squad they do so because they want an extra spawn point
- Everyone is a medic because they get more points
- Everyone accumulates in one big Zerg vs Zerg fight instead of going to far away flags because they get more points
- Nobody defends flags because they get more points playing musical flags
In unranked servers I find people are more willing to actually do teamwork in a squad and aren't so impatient.
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That's pretty much the final straw - I've been reading the posts and loving the hype for a month - wanting this game but it's just a clusterfuck of rubbish - there's no way I as a casual (less than 5 hours a week) gamer would ever have the time to sit down and unlock weapons
MEH
Silly idea.
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The point of unlocked weapons is pay-to-play. You know that other announcement last week, about weekend battles? I imagine that ranked weapons will figure in there a lot.
Now stop arguing about unlocked weapons, we all know the reason.
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Now that I see how it REALLY works, it kinda disappoints me. I play a variety of classes. Now I pick just one to get an additional weapon. BOOOO.
They'd be better off giving all kits like 5 weapons to unlock, and then each promotion would unlock the next for all kits.
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I was among the 5 million accounts that were affected by the unlock exploit, but to be honest, having access to all the weapons only made me realize that its all a bunch of crap. None of the weapons are that totally awesome that makes me want to dedicate weeks of my life to a game for hardly anything in return.
That is my problem with most any of these virtual environments, be in BF2 or any MMORG, is that you are at the mercy of the game provider to play. At any time they can take the game away or have "unexpected downtime" and the $50 bucks you spent on the game, plus whatever monthly fee, is meaningless because you are too minescule in the grand scheme of things for the developers to give a rat's ass what you think or if you're dissatisfied. *sigh*
My son appears to be able to play online, but without the weapons he unlocked, so they must be "restoring" my account data which is why I can't do squat, not even play single-player.
I am glad we put our faith in big brother... I feel so much better now. *sigh*
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If so, thats just fucking gay. Who wants to pay for an FPS that is "handicapped" like that?
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Rank is just something you do for fun, it's not forced. All the goodies for playing on ranked servers do not affect gameplay, including unlocking guns because, well, you can do it on an unranked server.
Still, I like my Veteran Pistol badge.
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Ranked servers, fine, that's cool...but unlockable weapons in an online FPS? Retarded.
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Each day I have problems loging onto this service, I think i'll sell my copy quite soon.
And ya, I still can't get past the login screen in BF2. I wish it wasn't raining outside because then I'd be all like fuck you internet and go swimming or something ;[
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If my information is correct, you get a weapon unlock every 2nd rank. The first one comes fairly quickly (less than 20 hours of gameplay for most players). However, the points necessary to achieve ranks scale up quickly, such that the next two ranks require 25x the number of points as the first two. This means it will likely take an average player six months to a year (without playing any less as time goes on, or ever playing on unranked servers) to unlock two weapons (three if I'm wrong and you unlock a weapon every rank).
I would have been far more impressed had DICE prepared more unlockable weapons so that even a casual player would get rewarded frequently. As it stands, I'd rather they just free up everything so players can have the minor gameplay variation that the unlocked weapons provide.
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