Battlefield 2 stats sped up

By Tom Bramwell Published 27 June, 2005

So says EA type on a forum.

The team behind multiplayer first-person shooter Battlefield 2, released in Europe last Friday, has increased the speed with which game results and stats are reflected on the web, a spokesperson told an online forum this week - to resounding approval.

Following the game's release in the US in the middle of last week, EA reps admitted that stats updates were "taking about half a day to be reflected within BFHQ," and vowed to sort it out with developer DICE and technology partner GameSpy.

But according to EA's Ben Sawyer, aka "Die Fledermaus", speaking on the Total BF2 forums, the team's now been able to catch up on processing. "It should now take no more than five minutes for score and rank updates to be reflected in each player's BFHQ," he wrote, promising more info on "worldwide Ranked Server status" soon.

Battlefield 2, which is a bit good anyway, follows in the footsteps of games like Unreal Tournament and Halo 2 in allowing Statto-like players to analyse their own performance in depth using this sort of feedback.

Suggestions that it only lists casualty data relating to the US Marines are thought to be rampantly xenophobic and fairly offensive. Sorry.

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Comments (9) Latest comment 7 years ago

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  • Cheezit #1 7 years ago

    Hardly matters since I (and I'm sure most other people) have been unable to get on to a ranked server since the game launched...

  • symmetry #2 7 years ago

    It does take about 10 minutes for me to finally get onto a ranked server, and the bloody atrocious UI and long loading times probably add another 10 minutes to that. So yeah, 20 minutes from double clicking the BF2 icon to actually being able to play is pretty bad. Although I have now reached the rank of Lance Corporal and have 1 kit unlocked.

    /oils SA-80

  • Shrimp #3 7 years ago

    Yeah the stats/points update thing has improved a lot (from 12 hours to 10 minutes-ish).

    Now if they can fix the rest of the crippling infrastructure type issues...

    By the way, symmetry, how did you unlock that kit? Is it rank-based, medals, or what? Feel free to tell me I'm being really stupid and missing some obvious bit of manual/website info....

  • Lovemoose #4 7 years ago

    I got my first unlock at promotion to lance-corporal last night.

    /strokes Jackhammer lovingly

  • Cheezit #5 7 years ago

    "/oils SA-80"

    *ten seconds later, SA-80 breaks*

  • Shrimp #6 7 years ago

    Aha thanks... rank is global though, so does it unlock kits according to your most played class? *Is* there any info on this anywhere? I just can't find it if there is.

  • WangFu #7 7 years ago

    Could do with them fixing the memory leak on the server screen. It keeps allocating memory for the little map graphic in the top right every time you click on a server and click join game... If you repeatedly do this (i.e. trying to join one of the EA Europe Official ranked servers) it'll eventually crash.... damn them all to hell!

  • WangFu #8 7 years ago

    Once you've hit the third rank, you get to choose a single new weapon to unlock (from any of the classes). After that, you get to choose another weapon to unlock for each promotion you get.

    /strokes upgraded sniper rifle

    (P.S. Has anyone managed to kill a helicopter pilot with the unlocked sniper rifle yet? I've had a helicopter right in front of me sitting still and didn't manage it... )
    Edited by WangFu at 27/06/05 @ 11:58

  • Shrimp #9 7 years ago

    Cheers WangFu :)