GvD about BF and dedicted servers!

Gustav / October 26, 2009 / 22 comments

My friend Gordon Van Dyke have written a blog about the Battlefield franchise and dedicated servers to answer all your questions that might been rising since COD: MW2 announced that they will stop supporting dedicated servers.

>> Battlefield and dedicated server blog.

Also short update about me:
The reason my blog is dead atm is because I am working on an un-annouced project, as soon as I can talk about it I will kick it back into life, I promise!


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  • M0t0rBreath

    Damn! I thought you were dead. Glad PC is being supported at least by one company DICE!! Hmmm announced project? Mirror Edge has been announced I think in an interview, BF3 has been announced unofficially, What else. An iphone game?

  • http://www.myxbox.gr Giorgos78

    we know…….already!!!
    bf3 news
    http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/327830.page

  • http://www.myxbox.gr Giorgos78

    or……
    you are dezigning DLC omaha beach and some other maps for 1943 since 3 months ago there was a poll in the battlefield blog and omaha beach came first from what i remeber……
    i hope the orange dot will desaper as all the serious fans of bf

  • Gustav

    Not an Iphone game or BF3, already worked on that game before.

    I have ordered a HTC HD2 now instead but today I got news of SE X3′s might be releasing this year also so maybe I should switch to that one. Try android instead of Wm.

    I hope to be able to talk more about it before the year ends!

  • M0t0rBreath

    Well, whatever it is, good luck with it and I hope it’s awesome!

  • unit_one

    Hello Gustav. I already started to think that this blog will be dead forever) Nice to see you again. And I have a question. BF2 site has been updated, and I found an intriguing part of the post about vehicles.
    It reads like this –
    “extensive fine-tuning (of vehicles) ensures that this will be the most realistic vehicle combat experience to date.”

    … How to understand this? They say that the vehicles are “fine tuned” (is this the new word for “balance”?), but in the same time, they say that “this will be the most realistic vehicle combat experience to date.”

    I’m confused… help please!

  • Gustav

    I think they mean it’s balanced, for example f10 vs the other crafts.
    But no “major” changes have been made!

    And this blog will live again as soon as I can talk about my current project =)

  • unit_one

    Oops! I meant the BF-Bad Company 2 site was updated!
    BC2 does not have pilotable airplanes we all know that.
    So I was wondering what did they did to the vehicles in BC2 (not BF2)
    Here’s the link.
    http://battlefieldbadcompany2.com/#/game-info
    How “real” are the vehicles in BC2 compared to the first BC?
    Lets compare the Bradley IFV (you call them “light tanks”). In BC1 it took 3 shots from the auto-cannon to kill a trooper and you could only carry 4 people in it. And you could not use the Bradley’s AT Rockets…

  • http://www.myxbox.gr Giorgos78

    whatever new project you do …dont doit with space aliens future wars
    2142 style because it sucks
    make modern warfair games

  • http://www.myxbox.gr Giorgos78

    POW system
    when the enemy gamer is on a very bad situation he will have the option to surrender by long pressing X (xbox360)

    the attacker will tie him up. But first he will have to intimidate him for some sec. (intimidation energy bar)
    as longer he intimidates him the harder the enemy will escape (I will explain latter how)

    as long as he point the gun to head or torso or legs the fastest he will intimidate him.
    At the same time he chooses a combination of buttons ex. he press X, B,A,Y,B,X (as longer he intimidate the more button combination).After he intimidate him, he tie him up winning a UAV for his team!!!!(simulating the interrogation)

    the POW will have the opportunity to escape if he push the Wright combination at the time he is tied up (the more intimidated he is the fastest the buttons will pop on screen (quick time event) making it harder to escape
    if he succeed he will knock the enemy down for a few sec and run away unarmed (escape).
    After 15 sec he will get a lock out of his boot and start fighting again!!!!!!

    If you get a POW you win UAV

  • http://www.myxbox.gr Giorgos78

    After 15 sec he will get a glock pistol out of his boot and start fighting again!!!!!!
    sorry wrong spelling again

  • http://www.myxbox.gr Giorgos78

    Remember …
    you win a UAV for your team…!
    But you need time to tie him up!

    POW has the chance to escape…..!
    Also by the time the enemy ties him up, he can give away the enemies position (becoming decoy) and team-mates could kill the enemy and set him free

  • http://www.myxbox.gr Giorgos78

    there was a major mistake in the game with spoted enemy dots apearing on screen but they fixt it
    read this
    http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/316723.page

    2 MISTAKE
    now if you see the 1:04 -1:18 the enemys spoted orange dot doesnt exist!!!!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A_KT-R_zQk
    BUT
    if you notice carefouly in 1:07,1:08,1:09 second if you randomly aim the enemy his gamertag pops on screen
    in bad company 1 i made lots of kills by random aiming
    ex. i was walking in oasis and the enemy was hiding in the bushes. sudenly his gamertag poped on the screen infrond of the bush and i took the kill
    with this mistake we can scan the area waiting for gamertags to pop on screen
    SOLUTION
    it will need 3-4 seconds of aiming at the target, for the enemy gamertag to pop on screen
    (like in bf2)

    3 MISTAKE
    the minimap must have dots not triangles, so we dont know were the enemy is looking
    ex.
    if i spot an enemy and he goes to hide behind a hill, i look at the mini map and i know exactly in which direction he is aiming at!!!
    this is cheating like hell !!!!!!
    BUT
    if the enemy is spoteed as a circule, i will just see his POSITION in the minimap NOT HIS AIMING ANGLE

    4 MISTAKE
    AA guns can be spotted by the helicopter camera when enemy use them!!!!
    freaze 34-35 second of this video
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg8UBNqmrfQ

    the idea of the aa gun is that its been hiden in one place (cant move) and sudenly starts shooting
    the disadvantage is that it cant move- if when ever we mount aa guns and the enemy could see us, its like sayng:
    “hey i im here and i dont move, shoot me”
    the aa gun shoudnt be lit up in the apache view, when its mounted

    5 MISTAKE
    the idea of the silencer and the knife is stealth killing.
    BUT
    if i kill someonein with a silencer on my gun or a knife, MY NAME <> ENEMY APEARS ON SCREEN!!!!
    and his teammates know im exactly at his position!!!!!!
    knifing somebody must be a stealth kill an no enemy should know i killed him (or silencer gun killed him)

    the names shouldnt pop on screen

  • http://www.myxbox.gr Giorgos78

    whwn we make a stealth kill (silencer or knife)
    the kill feed sould say exactly
    “Giorgos stealth kill enemy”

    enemy name and weapon should be visable only to my team kill feed

  • http://www.symonator.com Symonator

    not visted for a while Gustav i know your are busy on a project.. i already know what it is though lol.

    Hope your ok :D

  • http://www.myxbox.gr Giorgos78

    Gustav i would like a beta code for the xbox360
    if you have a spear….
    you can pm it in the xbox360 ===> Giorgos78

    fix the orange dot
    and make stealth kills have 15 sec delay on the kill feed

    • Gustav

      There is no beta for x360. Microsoft dosen’t allow Betas for some reason so the beta is going to be PS3/PC only.

      • unit_one

        Soo… does this means you can give me the key?
        Hah, just joking 8)

  • unit_one

    I don’t think that Gustav will give you the key…

  • Canehdan

    Mr. Halling:
    In all probability you are aware of this problem and may be working on a solution. If so how about an update. The problem lies with the voice chat of Battlefield 1943 on the PS3 system. Starts out fine then for some unknown reason either I or my online friend(s) get blocked out. Either I can hear them and they cannot hear me or vice versa. Also, at times I can hear but it sounds like a triple echo which has been chopped to pieces. Sometimes quitting the game completely then restarting brings the chat back for a short time but not long. Usually the problem starts after the first round of a game. I have double and tirple checked the settings on the PS3 as well as having erased and reinstalled the bluetooth communications device. Even tried a different one, all with the same results. Communicating on other games is not a problem.
    Please HELP.

    Thanks very much,

    Canehdan.

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