Medal of Honor gets patched up

By Fred Dutton Published 20 October, 2010

PC bugs fixed, weapons tweaked.

PC users are set to be the lucky recipients of a Medal of Honor patch, developer Danger Close has announced.

The studio made the announcement on its blog, stating, "We have been working on the feedback from the forums that you posted during the PC beta. We are listening to your major concerns and are pleased to show you the change/fix list."

The list, which you can see in full below, includes a number of weapon and control tweaks, as well as various bug fixes.

No announcement has yet been made regarding updates for the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 versions of the game.

However, publisher EA did recently reveal that free multiplayer DLC was incoming, off the back of impressive sales of the shooter. The franchise reboot apparently shifted 1.5 million copies in its first week on shelves.

Danger Close's patch hasn't been dated yet, but the multiplayer DLC goes live on 2nd November.

GENERAL

  • Fixed the scenario when joining a friend on a password protected server caused a hang
  • Ribbons and medals appear on unranked servers
  • Jumping and shooting at the same time now affects the ability to be accurate with the weapons
  • Added aiming spot in binoculars in hardcore mode
  • Holding your breath and moving forward no longer takes you out of scope
  • Increased the points needed to win a Domination/TDM game (Increased TDM score from 1200 to 1400 points; increased Sector Control score from 1800 to 2600 points)
  • Decreased accuracy while shooting from the hip
  • Cut points from score chain rewards in half
  • Addressed the sniper rifle damage to bring the sniper rifle more in line with the other kits
  • Increased the amount of recoil and spread
  • Changed immortal time to 1.9 from 1.6 seconds after spawn to prevent the scenario of spawning in the open only to be shot on spawn in

WEAPONS

  • Assault Rifles
  • Increased recoil
  • Deviation
  • Increased deviation when not zooming
  • Deviation bug fixed (increased while shooting)
  • Lowered close range damage
  • Jumping deviation increased
  • Carbines
  • Increased recoil
  • Deviation
  • Increased deviation when not zooming
  • Deviation increses faster than assault rifles
  • Deviation bug fixed (increased while shooting)
  • Jumping deviation increased
  • Sniper rifles
  • Headshot does the most damage
  • Less damage from bolt action
  • 2 shots to kill on body from long range
  • 1 shot on body from short range
  • Normal: 8m
  • Ammo 2: 10m
  • Range: 9.6m
  • Increased recoil on semi-automatic
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Comments (11) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • Inflatable #1 2 years ago

    Some good changes.. And lets hope the free DLC will be more MP maps, the game needs it..

  • collateral89 #2 2 years ago

    the game should be called battlefield online

  • abot #3 2 years ago

    Well that's a good start. Looking forward to the console patch.


  • cheeky_pete #4 2 years ago

    Sure lower the sniper damage but leave the assault rifles and carbines alone they are fine. I love that they are accurate as hell if I wanted the gun spraying all over the place I'd be playing BC2 something I don't do because the guns are such utter arse.

    I seriously cannot understand this at all. Guess I just pissed away my 30 quid then. Well at least I have learned my lesson, stay away from DICE's games in future.

  • TitusCrow #5 2 years ago

    I did warn people about this one.

  • Turbotim3 #6 2 years ago

    Yes !!!! 2 shot kill below the head and 1 shot kill in the head. That's all I wanted

  • LoneWolf71 #7 2 years ago

    They really need to fix the mouse sensitivity problem. I can barely play this game on the pc becuz the mouse moves way too fast even on the lowest setting. And yes, I changed it to slow in windows 7 as well but it barely made a difference. This is a pretty cool game but the mouse issue is really ruining it for me & several others as well.

  • ljvasey #8 2 years ago

    Lowering the rifle damage, especially of a bolt-action rifle, is ridiculous. All realism niggles aside, a weapon with that slow a rate of fire should be a one-hit kill, ESPECIALLY when a game has a regenerative damage system.

    Whining about sniping is the cause of this change, and nothing else. I rarely play as a sniper, but if you have a problem with the damage their weapons cause, try popping smoke more often or taking a different route to the objective.

  • Mooglepies #9 2 years ago

    @ljvasey: Learn to headshot. Seriously, it seems far easier to get headshots in MoH than in other games. One hit kill on any body part with the bolt action rifles was utterly retarded, especially when they have perfect accuracy like the rifles do in MoH. I play bolt-action Sniper in MoH and I'm content with these changes. It will encourage people to headshot or use the semi-auto rifles, both of which are results.

  • abot #10 2 years ago

    Its very strange that the PC gets a patch before the consoles even though all platforms share alot of similar problems with snipers, spawn killing etc. but the consoles are getting the DLC before PC. You would think that there would be some consistency.
    Edited by abot at 21/10/10 @ 16:53

  • adk #11 2 years ago

    A patch the makes the game a little harder can't be a bad thing. I played the whole thing through in 5 hours, at max difficulty. I'm pretty retarded at these things and it usually takes me much longer. For Comparison Stalker CoP took me 76 hours and CoDMW2 took me 15 hours. Not good value for money!