I have this love/hate relationship with Battlefield 2. On the one hand the game itself is superb fun with a great engine and beautiful graphics. On the other hand it shows so many signs of lazy programming practices (memory management? Fuck it, we got gigs to play with!) that at times I get really frustrated with it. One of the best examples of this is their in-game server and statistics browser. I swear my commodore 64 from the 1980’s could push piles of what is essentially text data around quicker than this piece of crap could. Unfortunately I don’t yet have a good solution to the server browser problem, but if you want to scope out your stats and don’t want to wait 30 or more seconds for the in-game browser to respond to your mouse clicks, check out bf2sr.com’s stat retriever. It’s a tiny little download which grabs the stats for any username in less time than it takes to double click it and will build an html page for you to post if you want to taunt your friends with your stats. Good stuff, and free. I’m Tempus67 if you’re wanting to scope out my exemplary work as squad medic.
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What about the issue of not gaining experience to your next promotion? I swear my bar hasn’t moved in 2 weeks.
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Yeah. Same problem here. What’s most frustrating is, it is updating the stats, cause it is logging when I am playing and my other stats, it just isn’t advancing my experience points. My guess is since there have been a number of hacks of their system, they’ve turned some of it off until they release the patch due in early october. I’m not sure though since I don’t see a great hue and cry from folks on forums and usenet and so on complaining about this so…who knows. Since I can almost never play with my unlocked weapons and have had no time to play anyway, I’m not too worried about it for now.
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They broke it. I get errors whenever I try to run it now. ;-(
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Just update it, the guy keeps updating it and apparantly has official support from EA for this thing now, so checking for updates periodically should be the recipe for keeping it working.
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