BF2 Stat Whore Crackdown

Hey guys where do i tell ea about stat padders, i have a screenshot of oen guy doing it.

test post, please disregard:

Shack Hardware/Tweaking Gurus, please my help

I shall sacrifice a bit of my bandwidth to ye, in hope that I may gain your favor.

The offering is a ~20meg NWS clip of the lovely Scarlett Johansson.

Username: hardware
Password: help

http://www.foxhawk.com/Files/Shack/sj_alsfbl.mpg

Anyhow, here are my abbreviate system specs:
P4 2.4, 1gig RAM, 6800GT, audigy gamer soundcard (soundcard not this generation)
If you need more detail, say so.

ALL of my drivers are updated. Vid, sound, mobo, etc.

I'm happy with the power of the system... it can do CS:S on 1280x1024, max details, 6xAA, etc etc. Other games perform similarly.

BF2, however, somehow brings my system to its knees. I can't even do 1024x768, medium-to-high detail, no AA, no EAX without getting tons of stuttering, 2 second+ long hitches, et cetera. I've tested these settings on a local server and I get around 80 fps, but online the performance sucks sucks sucks, badly. It's never 80fps... I'm guessing around 20-30 (very ballpark) or so but who knows, it stutters like a motherfucker.

What do I do to alleviate these issues? I know the game should be performing much more smoothly than it is... the stuttering and hitching isn't limited to specific situations. Any idea what I can do on the video, audio, internet, hard drive, whatever fronts to get some decent performance? I'm fucking tired as shit of this game underperforming.

If you need more details on anything, just ask.

Heh.

What a comment on the 21st century gamer.

When Quake ruled, you knew if someone was leet or sucked. Today, team based games are designed to let mediocrities feel like winners, and if that stil isn't enough, pad your stats.

Safety in numbers, indeed. ;-)

I don't see how this is any different from the boosting we've seen in Halo 2's ranking system. Give people a rank and people will find a way to exploit the game to improve it to feel superior to others.

I've noticed a lot a complaints about the in-game browser...do yourself a favor and download BF2 Autoloader.

http://www.bf2al.com/

It isn't perfect, but compared to the in-game browser, its near god-like.

Quick rant: Why do some servers kick you if you say a "bad" word? This is a fucking war game where you can shoot people in the head with a tank but oh noes dont say a naughty word! I hate stupid server admins.

I've played on some of these "knives, pistols, and shock paddles only".

They're freaking fun! You get to use the most humiliating kills possible. It's like indulging in dirty dirty college teen lovin over and over again.

WTH is their problem? Everyone must play the same way?

What about Kharkland only servers, or buggy only servers.

EA's no freaking fun. Of course, then it's going to be "no modded maps on ranked servers".

of course the real solution to all this is just play on servers with the weapons unlocked and for EA to allow unlocked servers to be ranked. in fact, this rank think is pretty lame. the medals for achieving various goals are at least amusing to try and get them all. but most of the weapon upgrades aren't much better so there is no reason to really play on ranked servers anyway.

Am I the only one who has taken an indefinate break from the game? Partially, I guess this is because in RL I've been moving and concerned with job/school, but still... when I come home to relax, and I can sit here and browse the web, play some diablo 2, or play some bf2, i usually play D2 for like 20 mins, or just relax. Has BF2 alreasy lost some appeal for others?

Maybe it's because I have two accounts, one of which I unlocked the medic weapon, and other the m92.. and neither are really rewarding.

I'd like to know how they intend to fix something like this in the long term. It sounds like an inherent problem in the stats model they use (individual server control/administration, centralized stat tracking and rewards).

Yeah, it's pretty sad how desperate some gamers are that they'll stoop to cheating or stat-padding in the hopes that they're fellow gamers will worship their 1337 skillz.

When I see the top scores on the BF2 stats ranking list, I just laugh because I know about half of the top scores totally mean nothing and reflect blatant stats-padding and/or cheating. So if you're one of the cheating weiners, newsflash geniuses, we don't care if you're at the top when you had to cheat to do it, dumbass. LOL

I've heard some folks saying that the cheating is justified to unlock weapons but all you have to do is make a few different accounts and use each one to unlock a different weapon. Then you find the weapon you want to use for that particular match or day, and use that account. Viola! Instant access to all the weapons and you didn't even have to cheat to do it.

Great.

The problem is, this was supposed to not be possible to do from release. There was an interview with someone that asked if people or clans would be able to just sit there and kill/revive/heal each other over and over to inflate their stats. The EA guy stated that they had implemented systems to stop stats exploits.

Funnily enough, this is the second time EA or DICE have blatantly bullshitted their way through an interview. Remember when someone asked if the server browser would be as shitty in the release version as it was in the demo? "Oh no" they said, "the server browser wont be like the demo"

Hah, bunch of liars.

Hehe, Steve said Crack Whore :_0

Is there a big cash prize for having the most shock paddle kills, because I don't really see the point of trying to inflate your stats.

(sorry that's probably stating the obvious)

Finally, a Whore Crackdown we can all agree on!

"In our opinion, these players are breaking EA's Terms of Service"

In your opinion? Rules are rules, surely? And they are either being broken, or they aren't? I've never heard a policeman say "in my opinion, you're breaking the law".

Strange phraseology, but great to see that they're doing something.

you don't need a game to tell you you're super awesome, that's why you have us dorks here

why don't they fix the in game browser first

In before demand of "Bug crackdown".

So before everyone turns this into a "Yeah, but where's the MFGDPATCHALREADY" thread, I just want to say that this is great news. I got kicked off a server only a few days ago for violating their 'rules' such as repairing bridges the admin on the other team decided, should not be repaired. Lamenesses. . .

This makes all their epeens shrivel up much like their real ones do.