Battle For Middle Earth 2 Patch Plans

April 18, 2006 7:04 AM

This post on the EA Forums offers word that a 1.03 patch for Battle For Middle Earth 2 is being released soon. It will offer "numerous technical fixes, increased de-sync fixes, extensive balance changes, and the additon of 5 brand new multiplayer maps". A 1.04 patch is already in the works as well, to offer more comprehensive balancing changes. Thanks Blues News.

Maarten Goldstein

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nephilem

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April 18, 2006 8:57 AM

"numerous technical fixes" it says. Rather than rant I'll relate one of many BFME2 multiplayer experiences in as short a manner as possible. One hour, of joining a game lobby, having it crash, restart, not send maps, not send hero data, simply drop out, or force you to restart your game because you've dropped from the hero lobby for no reason and can't rejoin the game until you do.

It took one hour of this malarkey to join a game. I can only hope that "numerous technical fixes" at least addresses this...

This was just for a lan game... it gets worse for internet... oh well, it can't get worse... oh wait, it did... the lobby code for BFME2 is worse than the code for BFME... ok, and I ranted.
- losimagic
  
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  April 18, 2006 9:14 AM
  
  I hope "numerous technical fixes" includes allowing you to zoom out further ;) Ok, so it's not really technical, I just hope they do it anyway :)
- TheArtMan
  
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  April 18, 2006 9:49 AM
  
  Don't play AOE3, do you?
  - nephilem
    
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    April 18, 2006 10:05 AM
    
    not for a very long time no... and I may have blanked out any memories of the horrors within...
    
    but hey, I can tell you all about the fun of RA2 over lan! But that's a topic for another day... :)
    - TheArtMan
      
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      April 18, 2006 1:41 PM
      
      You're singing to the choir, brother.
- Aragoat
  
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  April 19, 2006 7:12 PM
  
  As a friend of Nephilem's, I was in on that multiplayer experience. What made it even better was that another person and I (who had been playing 1 vs 1 over a lan with no problems) decided to go online and act like idiots. The problem with this was that when we finally got in to a game, BFME2 was unable to make a connection between my friend and I...
  
  I hope they just let me play the game I freaking bought for online play :(