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Battlefield: BC2 Server Update Fixes Issues

by Brian Leahy, Mar 19, 2010 7:00pm PDT

Related Topics – Battlefield: Bad Company 2, , Pitfall: The Lost Expedition, PC

Shacknews community member Iwannaacura spotted a forum post on the EA UK boards detailing a new server patch for Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

The patch, which clients will not have to download, is being distributed to server operators right now.

There is no official changelog, but the word from DICE is that "early signs from the hosts are good with 20% less load on the server CPU, improved hit detection, Veteran rank handling is fixed so you should get your M1 Garand back now plus some other fixes to better help the server hosting companies and better management of Punkbuster ID's."

Kudos to EA and DICE for getting this out right as the weekend begins.

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These guys are showing superb release-time support of their game. I'm glad I've bought it.

Mar 19, 2010 7:06pm PDT

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These guys are showing superb release-time support of their game. I'm glad I've bought it. : CasbahBoy
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Anyone else getting Crash To Desktop today? Worked fine all weekend, epic battles, and for the previous week, but today I get CTD in server browser. If I quickly choose a map and load it the same thing happens before the map loads. It's like it just crashes 1 or 2 minutes after loading, no matter what you are doing.

Mar 22, 2010 3:00am PDT

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Anyone else getting Crash To Desktop today? Worked fine all weekend, epic battles, and for the previous w... : AirElijah
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- yes #:( : toilet
- I got one this morning. : SeraphielX

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By: bosst0ne x Show Full Post

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What I read in the notes was they lowered the amount of debugging info to get the server load decrease.

Mar 19, 2010 7:11pm PDT

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What I read in the notes was they lowered the amount of debugging info to get the server load decrease. : bosst0ne
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- Ingenious... turn off debugging out in the wild? Why hasn't any else thought of that? : chuckg

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Now I like that PB is picking up some of the hacks and booting them. It's sad there are already aimbots and wall hacks in the wild and being used by so many. PB does need to pick up the pace though. Yesterday there was a guy in a pb server with a no reload auto shotty with unlimited range that shot through the entire map killing folks he could obviously see through the geometry all the way across the map. For one pellet one shot kills. Guys like that little douche kinda knock the fun outta the game.

Mar 22, 2010 9:07am PDT

Now I like that PB is picking up some of the hacks and booting them. It's sad there are already aimbots ... : NuMMnUtZ

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You mean hit detection wasn't 100%? Does that mean some of the bullets I was firing were just evaporating? No wonder I've found it hard to get kills!

Mar 20, 2010 11:21am PDT

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You mean hit detection wasn't 100%? Does that mean some of the bullets I was firing were just evaporating... : terylene
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  There is something screwy going on with the bullets, I was just playing and I fired half a dozen rounds f... : terylene
  - I had a problem earlier today when myself and my two squad members unloaded clips into this one guy, and ... : Mr. Goodwrench

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By: finger x Show Full Post

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Is there some way to make friends lists work? Or did they just break that for everyone for no friggin reason?

Mar 19, 2010 8:33pm PDT

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Is there some way to make friends lists work? Or did they just break that for everyone for no friggin re... : finger
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By: Frraksurred x Show Full Post

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Yes, got the M1 Grand back, but none of my kills with it are registering. Hence the award for getting at least a bronze star with every weapon is still waiting on DICE.

Mar 20, 2010 6:04pm PDT

Yes, got the M1 Grand back, but none of my kills with it are registering. Hence the award for getting at... : Frraksurred

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This game is so good I wish I could add my stats to a resume.

Mar 20, 2010 4:21pm PDT

This game is so good I wish I could add my stats to a resume. : Ruaerikoholic

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By: Vorlonesque x Show Full Post

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Wow its really amazing how horrible I am at this, but how much fun it is (played with shackers today until the connection at the cafeteria/shooting range/sporting good's store started having issues (I have satellite at home so I have to play at places that have wireless access points)).

This game makes me tempted to pay the 550 bucks a month to get T1 out here...almost.

Mar 20, 2010 3:26pm PDT

Wow its really amazing how horrible I am at this, but how much fun it is (played with shackers today unti... : Vorlonesque

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They really want to make PC gamers happy put in LAN play. That would be 30 more sales from our LAN group. Without LAN play its a dead duck to us. Most of our attendees are older and don't play games at home just at the LAN parties. So they only buy games that are played there.

Mar 20, 2010 9:22am PDT

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They really want to make PC gamers happy put in LAN play. That would be 30 more sales from our LAN group.... : samduhman
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The Garand is pretty sweet so far. It needs Magnum Ammo though.

Mar 19, 2010 7:23pm PDT

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The Garand is pretty sweet so far. It needs Magnum Ammo though. : skinlab133
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    - FN FAL better than all three! : RumpleForeSkin72
- Does magnum ammo work with the krinkov? : Vorlonesque

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By: Vorlonesque x Show Full Post

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I would love to see them add an option to either download a patch file or to RESUME your update when your connection goes down while its downloading (thats what its claiming is happening).

Mar 20, 2010 10:53am PDT

I would love to see them add an option to either download a patch file or to RESUME your update when your... : Vorlonesque

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So will there be PB servers now? I have tried using the filter but every server I join has PB off and have played with quite a few hackers.

Mar 20, 2010 9:20am PDT

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So will there be PB servers now? I have tried using the filter but every server I join has PB off and ha... : Desmond4231
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  The filter is for "no pb". check everything except the pb filter and you'll find lots of servers with it ... : jad3d
  - lol that's awesome. So when the loading screen shows the server settings, does No punkbuster mean it's of... : Reeves

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Do want the Garand, but the battlefield Veteran website is always offline, so I can't register games >>

Mar 20, 2010 2:26am PDT

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Do want the Garand, but the battlefield Veteran website is always offline, so I can't register games >> : Smoochy666
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- Even when it's online if you try to enter a game it gives you an error. : schnitz76
- They finally gave the garand back to me - the only thing I can attribute it to is updating my soldier on ... : The Wilhelm Scream

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I hope this fixes the 3 minutes wait for a server refresh I have since I bought it today.

Mar 19, 2010 7:10pm PDT

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I hope this fixes the 3 minutes wait for a server refresh I have since I bought it today. : The Future
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i hope this isn't related to why my Garand mysteriously disappeared tonight

Mar 19, 2010 10:54pm PDT

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i hope this isn't related to why my Garand mysteriously disappeared tonight : b0mbsquad
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  Mine is the total opposite, i actually have access to my M1 now. : silverback1138
  - Ditto, mine disapeared a couple days after release and just reappeard tonight. : Topsiderover

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