Battlefield 2 - 1.2 patch and Booster packs delayed Options

[The Ghost of Inept Pig]

From the EA Forums

First, I’ll start with the bad news to get it out of the way. We have held onto the 1.2 patch a little longer than we had initially planned. We really felt that it was important to delay the patch and take care of some of the issues that have had the community concerned. This means that it will be released sometime in the next two or three weeks. This, unfortunately, means that the Euro Force Booster Pack will be delayed as well since it relies on the patch. Look for Euro Force to be released in the latter half of February now.

Also, another bit of bad news is that the new feature that allows player to pick up deployed mines with the G key is being held back. In the end, we felt it just wasn’t complete enough for public consumption. We at DICE apologize to all of you who were eagerly awaiting this feature.

I hope that the reasons for the delays are seen as positive by you, the community, and therefore I list these reasons as the good news portion of this update.

The following issues were addressed:

- Being able to pass through walls using a spinning tank turret has been fixed. It has also been addressed on all rotating vehicle positions just to be safe.
- The disappearance of tank projectiles and grenade launcher projectiles during online play has been improved and should occur less frequently
- The distance for throwing hand grenades, ammo packs, and health packs has been increased.

And finally…

- The Red/Blue nametag bug has been addressed

I suppose it's best that they don't release the patch until they're completely happy with it - for the few goes I've had on the game I don't notice anything glaringly in need of fixing, but then I am naive.

[Naoki Maeda]

- The distance for throwing hand grenades, ammo packs, and health packs has been increased.

Oh great, what way to influence more nade spamming on say the Strike at Karkand map and it's infamous "bottleneck" area between the bottom MEC and the U.S spawn points! Lots of long distance Medic & Ammo farming too!