Lensman

Good info Hippo – actually sounds like a really useful unlock. But honestly, how the hell is your typical player going to know this? AFAIK it ain’t in the manual, and I assume not in the online training/nagging either otherwise people would have commented on it.

And are there any oher undocumented ways of using weapons properly?

I need all the help I can get….. 😉

Good info Legit. Thanks.

Looks like we’re being botted again (ooeerrr Missus!! 😉 ).

Sorry Lammie – everyone knows its not your fault, and many thanks for passing the info on.

Just for everyones intererest, it is actually very rare that a game’s maintainance team is the same as the developers. There’s a number of reasons. Firstly, developers don’t like to think of themselves as support guys. Secondly, when a title is finished a team normally breaks up or moves on.

This is not just true of the gaming world – software in general is very like this. It’s just that game titles often exagerate the effects because a team breaks up or moves on after a release. Software that is a distinct phased release product, however, normally has a fairly static team and so fixes (if done by a suport group) can get more easily rolled back into the next release of the product proper. Since each of the BF series is effectively a separate product, this feedback process is normally missing. I.e. a bug in BF1942 will probably not be relevent to the BFV codebase.

I worked for EA up until quite recently, and was in the position where I had a lot of contact with all the various studios around the world. Almost without fail, games teams did not have a “support section” – pretty much an alien concept to them. So any post-release work (if any) was done by a separate group.

However, I should qualify this by saying that most of my contact was with the teams doing console games, and so I did not get to spend much time with a large PC-based title. And, of course, DICE up until a month or two ago were a separate company anyway.

The company I worked for was acquired by EA a few years ago in part due to its excellent support systems, people, and philosophy. However, within a year this side of our business had been almost completely shut down by EA. That should tell you something about EA’s attitude to things…..

I may be wrong in this next bit, but I believe EA Warrington were involved in BF support, even though the game was mostly developed in Sweden. The news from DICE that they are putting a dedicated support team together in Sweden may be related to the fact that EA very recently annouced the closure of the Warrington office……

@LeGIt wrote:

Anyone have any idea how to reach Major General/Lieutenant General/Supreme Commander?

Yes. You need to be this guy:

Just had a quick look and it is currently:

Belgrade – Conquest
Minsk – Titan
Camp Gibralter – Conq
Shuhia Taiba – Titan
Cerbere Landing – Conq
Sidi Power Plant – Titan
Fall of Berlin – Conq
Suez – Titan
Tunis – Conq
Verdun – Titan

Each map is played twice before moving to next one.

Voted both. But not bothered about RTR or SW – haven’t got the latter anyway.

Now I need to go off and find all the installers & patches….

I reckon what’s left of the old Multiplayer crowd would probably come along to this too.