ipetition - to EA/Dice for player limit increase to 114 & 8 man squads

Cyrax-Sektor wrote:
-Is it possible? Well, early interviews said they'd want to up the cap from 64 to 128 in BF2, but it didn't happen in the release. It was said though, so they may have done some work on it.

They promised a lot of things: player/clan badges that would appear on soldiers and vehicles, a friends system, hovercraft, the Simrad, civvie vehicles...

They worked a lot on the Simrad but took it out of the final release. Gamefiles are still there but it wont work online. In other words, they took it out for a valid reason: time constraints/not possible to complete coding/game balance, whatever.

Same applies to 128 player maps: probably due to overload on servers and the sheer size of and design of the maps. For it to work, they would also have to create 128 (114 in your case) player maps for this of all the existing maps, and the maps themselves would have to be totally redesigned for that. Perhaps even recreated from scratch due to the map size limitations.
Example: karkand (just so everybody can understand...): there is nowhere to go outside of the redzone for additional flags, so you would have to either:
1) Flatten the mountains and expand outwards
2) Put double the player load into the same sized map

Exactly the same applies to all other maps in the game. The only ones I can think of that could perhaps get this treatment is Tampa and Songhua, but again, with a serious map redesign.
Thats a HELL of a lot of work.

Basically, it will not happen for BF2. No point in even trying.

2008-09-26 09:58:56

#57

AussieReaper: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°); +5,761|6411|what

firebolt5 wrote:
TheAussieReaper wrote:
They need to reduce the amount of fog in the game first.
That's going to create FPS problems for a lot of players...

bullshit it will. Maybe years ago when bf2 was really intensive and had leet graphics. Now, if a 7600gt can run bf2 max settings, imagine what an 8800gt can do. And that's just a standard card by today's settings.

2008-09-26 10:22:34

#58

GateKeeper{NL}: Member; +142|6627

TheAussieReaper wrote:
firebolt5 wrote:
TheAussieReaper wrote:
They need to reduce the amount of fog in the game first.
That's going to create FPS problems for a lot of players...
bullshit it will. Maybe years ago when bf2 was really intensive and had leet graphics. Now, if a 7600gt can run bf2 max settings, imagine what an 8800gt can do. And that's just a standard card by today's settings.

I know what you mean by that but, get real, Companies will invest time&money in projects that delivers them $$$.

Complete remake of Bf2 call it BF3s ( s= because stats are life) and sell it for 50$.
*Fix it
*add content
*you all know it

If DICE had the last word on the bf2 project the release date would be this When Its Done

*Note; everyone who say's DICE is a screwup with bf2 etc are just like those "n00b: Fucking cheatersgame arslochsheisse nerd game" n00bplayers you see ingame. EA is the one who wants the project done ASAP, so faster releases=less quality.

Last edited by GateKeeper{NL} (2008-09-26 10:25:04)

2008-09-26 11:11:44

#59

tupla_s: .; +455|6850|Finland

Snake wrote:
Cyrax-Sektor wrote:
-Is it possible? Well, early interviews said they'd want to up the cap from 64 to 128 in BF2, but it didn't happen in the release. It was said though, so they may have done some work on it.
They promised a lot of things: player/clan badges that would appear on soldiers and vehicles, a friends system, hovercraft, the Simrad, civvie vehicles...

They worked a lot on the Simrad but took it out of the final release. Gamefiles are still there but it wont work online. In other words, they took it out for a valid reason: time constraints/not possible to complete coding/game balance, whatever.

Same applies to 128 player maps: probably due to overload on servers and the sheer size of and design of the maps. For it to work, they would also have to create 128 (114 in your case) player maps for this of all the existing maps, and the maps themselves would have to be totally redesigned for that. Perhaps even recreated from scratch due to the map size limitations.
Example: karkand (just so everybody can understand...): there is nowhere to go outside of the redzone for additional flags, so you would have to either:
1) Flatten the mountains and expand outwards
2) Put double the player load into the same sized map

Exactly the same applies to all other maps in the game. The only ones I can think of that could perhaps get this treatment is Tampa and Songhua, but again, with a serious map redesign.
Thats a HELL of a lot of work.

Basically, it will not happen for BF2. No point in even trying.

Every map wouldn't have to be 128 (114) it could be at least an option for mods to enable if they have bigger maps and want to have more players, like Project Reality.

2008-09-26 11:38:53

#60

Markooo*Est: Previously known as CC-Marley; +334|6406|Estonia

114 noobs in 16 size karkand ftw

2008-09-26 13:28:50

#61

Doctor Strangelove: Real Battlefield Veterinarian.; +1,758|6726

Snake wrote:
Cyrax-Sektor wrote:
-Is it possible? Well, early interviews said they'd want to up the cap from 64 to 128 in BF2, but it didn't happen in the release. It was said though, so they may have done some work on it.
They promised a lot of things: player/clan badges that would appear on soldiers and vehicles, a friends system, hovercraft, the Simrad, civvie vehicles...

They worked a lot on the Simrad but took it out of the final release. Gamefiles are still there but it wont work online. In other words, they took it out for a valid reason: time constraints/not possible to complete coding/game balance, whatever.

Same applies to 128 player maps: probably due to overload on servers and the sheer size of and design of the maps. For it to work, they would also have to create 128 (114 in your case) player maps for this of all the existing maps, and the maps themselves would have to be totally redesigned for that. Perhaps even recreated from scratch due to the map size limitations.
Example: karkand (just so everybody can understand...): there is nowhere to go outside of the redzone for additional flags, so you would have to either:
1) Flatten the mountains and expand outwards
2) Put double the player load into the same sized map

Exactly the same applies to all other maps in the game. The only ones I can think of that could perhaps get this treatment is Tampa and Songhua, but again, with a serious map redesign.
Thats a HELL of a lot of work.

Basically, it will not happen for BF2. No point in even trying.

Yep, everything that was cut from the game, including 128 player maps (and howevercrafts, M82s and SPMAs) was cut for a reason, whether it be technical or balancing.

2008-09-26 13:32:15

#62

M.O.A.B: 'Light 'em up!'; +1,220|6481|Escea

The M82 is hilarious fun

2008-09-26 14:58:21

#63

genius_man16: Platinum Star whore; +365|6936|Middle of nowhere

S.Lythberg wrote:
zomg lag

2008-09-26 15:13:22

#64

specialistx2324: hahahahahhaa; +244|6947|arica harbour

64 players to 114.. there are three things wrong with that picture

1) more lag. ping will go up quite a bit
2) more asshats noobs running around Tking each other/ immature insults flying like grenades.
3) 114 noobs is just too much for an administrator to keep up with. there might as well be no admin. and i hear about this auto admin crap which to be quite honest is even worse.

2008-09-26 15:49:58

#65

Ajax_the_Great1: Dropped on request; +206|6905

Doesn't matter.

Everyone would only play karkland and it would only mean more nades and more claymores.

2008-09-26 16:38:57

#66

MrAnderson: Ghost Town T90/Apache Whore; +99|6257|Aberdeen, Scotland

Agreed with most, 64 players is enough of a clusterfuck.
Having 20+ idiots out of a 32-man team also gets very frustrating...

Would you really get 100+ people wanting to play on 1 mod server anyway?

2008-09-26 16:41:45