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1.20 is released as of today. EA download link:

http://largedownloads.ea.com/pub/patche ... e_1.20.exe

Here's the official fix list:

* Fixed Pod Control Exploit - Players may no longer exploit the assault pods to 'surf' around the maps.
* Removed the stats category for the PK-74 AR-Rocket: All kills with this weapon are calculated into the statistics for the main assault kit weapon
* Fixed co-op server crash: Servers will no longer crash when attempting to rotate to co-op mode with players joined into squads
* Added correct flag for Czech Republic.
* Fixed PDS-1 sonar system interference with UAV. Soldiers are now shown correctly on UAV when PDS-1 is activated.
* Change to Heal and Repair Point Awarding: Heal and repair points awarded after a 50% heal / repair instead of 100% heal / repair.
* Fixed tracking of hours with the medic hub in BFHQ: Medic hub hours shown in BFHQ has been corrected.
* Fixed Squad leader drone exploit. Removed the possibility to use drones as a stairway to heaven.
* Fixed the Rorsch crosshair misalignment: The crosshair should now be correctly centered while not zoomed.
* Change to Out of Bounds Damage: We have changed the out of bounds damage system to immediately kill players after being out of bounds for 15 seconds. Please note that the total time a player can be out of bounds has not changed. This fix will help prevent stat padding exploits.
* Ranked Server APM setting hard coded: Anti-personelle mines are now always set to "Friendly fire off" on ranked servers. Increases consistency and prevents misunderstanding.
* Fixed an exploit using the reactor core door: Soldiers can no longer conceal themselves by moving back against the reactor core door.
* The correct message is now shown when trying to join a full server.
* Fixed crash when placing Squad Leader Spawn Beacon
* Added server side option to prevent Titan Movement
* Added optimization to Titan mode to reduce lag

* Added optimization to Titan mode to reduce lag

I'm most excited about this one. We'll see how much better it is. It's pretty awful for me right now.

Rorsch crosshair misalignment
Which weapon is that??

I just went to play 2142 and was burdened w/ this patch!

[JiF]Stepovich wrote:Rorsch crosshair misalignment
Which weapon is that??

The fixed AV guns I think.

OH! That explains a lot.
Those things are brutal once you figured out how to aim them.
Now I'll have to relearn it

well i downloaded that EA Link thing and it's moving pretty fast considering the load it must be seeing right now. I like the heal and engineer modification... I couldn't even get a bronze badge in healing. we'll see about the other stuff.

Well I played the new patch last night. I played on one server which was was good; nice fair play. but then I got 2 others where the host clan was just spawn camping and using dirty tactics. So I started using some tricks of my own and started wiping out groups 3 at a time, so somehow they were tracking me personally and sending hit-squads out for me alone. I'm not paranoid because I purposely set a trap for them in our base and a group of snipers totally ignored all the commander resources and were looking for me. must have had a spy on our team.
On another note, I unlocked (field) the sniper decoy thingy... from what I found it's useless and don't know if you gotta hit a button or how the thing works. Well regardless, I made promotion and have to pick an unlock.

While I was downloading the patch yesterday, I decided to play BF2. I miss the old weapons setup

I played a little last night. I played a Titan round and the Titan lag was just as bad as ever for me. But it wasn't a fair test, because the two Titans had moved to be almost on top of each other which I know makes it lag even more. So I'll give it some more chances.

Thats weird, I never experieced lag on the Titan, maybe a little while it was moving, but Titan mode has never been a problem for me...

when the titans are real close it's really burdens the server's processor. I had a really weird crash to desktop last night but I think it was my video card tripping on overtemp.

[JiF]bigjohnson wrote:On another note, I unlocked (field) the sniper decoy thingy... from what I found it's useless and don't know if you gotta hit a button or how the thing works. Well regardless, I made promotion and have to pick an unlock.

Wait - how are you able to unlock Northern Strike stuff already? I thought you had to own NS in order to unlock the new gadgets.

downloaded EA Link, then downloaded patch 1.20 and the NS unlocks show up on the customize screen.

[JiF]bigjohnson wrote:downloaded EA Link, then downloaded patch 1.20 and the NS unlocks show up on the customize screen.

Yeah, the stuff shows up for me too, but I didn't think I could choose it yet.

By the way, despite what the game tells you, you don't need EA Link. You can just download the patches directly. I didn't like EA Link cause it seemed to want to run in the background all the time. So I uninstalled it.