Battlefield 1942 1.4 Patch Is Out

[CaptNKILL]

... BUT IT HAS SOME SERIOUS ^&@#ing PROBLEMS!!!!!!!!!

This god damned patch totaly stops the game from functioning AT ALL! Ive reinstalled the game twice tonight and it still doesnt work! It tells me that I dont have my CD in the drive. And when I install the new 1.4 NO-CD patch, the freaking levels dont load. It just goes to the desktop half way through loading.

ok... I'll take a breath and tell you exactly whats wrong...

First of all, I own LEGAL, PURCHASED copies of the game and Road to Rome (I cant believe I gave $70+ to EA.... never again)I had the game installed with Road to Rome and the 1.31 patch. I also had a NO-CD patch so I wouldnt have to insert the thing every time I wanted to play. When I saw the new patch was out, I emediatly began downloading the 1.31 to 1.4 upgrade. While it was downloading, I replaced the cracked files (for NOCD) with the originals which I always backup. I installed the patch and everything was going smoothly. Just for kicks I searched for a NOCD patch for the new version (which normally takes at least a few days), and VOILA, both Megagames and GameCopyWorld had one. So I downloaded it, and replaced the CORRECT files.

I ran the game. WOW, the NOCD patch actually works! So I joined an online server (just like I always do with NOCD patched games). While connecting, it just stopped and told me "data differs from server". But this was a 1.4 server so I knew it was the NOCD patch (there are a lot of broken NOCDs out there). Just to try the game I started a LAN game and half way through loading the level, it would just crash to the desktop with no error.....WIERD... So I replaced the NOCD files with the originals, dug out my BF disk and ran the game....

PLEASE INSERT THE CORRECT CD-ROM

...... I tried both my CD Drives with no go. I figured that the NOCD patch I had before permanently screwed up this installation of the game.

I UNINSTALLED and REINSTALLED the game. This time without RTR (I let a freind borrow the CD last weekend). I installed the 1.31 patch, installed the 1.4 patch... ran the game with the cd in the drive....

PLEASE INSERT THE CORRECT CD-ROM

......................... so I tried the crack again and got the same "data differs" and crashing as before.

So I dowloaded the FULL 1.4 patch (66Mbs).... UNINSTALLED AND REINSTALLED AGAIN..... applied the patch.... ran the game....

PLEASE INSERT THE CORRECT CD-ROM

...... to prevent any (further) damage to myself or my computer, I came here to vent and possibly even solve the problem....

Its not like Im going to die if the game doesnt work any more, it was always very frustrating for me (spawn campers are horrible and some aspects of the game are just plain retarded), but the patch fixed some VERY important problems and added some cool stuff that I wanted to check out.

Help me pleez :(

[CaptNKILL]

Well I just used the NOCD files on the latest intallation and it still doesnt work on LAN, but the single player game works.... woopdydoo :rolleyes:

After attempting to play the game single player for about 5 minutes I realized that the mouse controls for infantry (on foot) are horrible! I dont know if its always been this bad and im just noticing it more now, but the mouse speed in this game is totaly inconsistant! Its at LEAST twice as fast when you are moving forward as it is when you are standing still! This makes it VERY hard to fight. Im pretty sure this problem has been around since the beginning, because the game NEVER felt as consistant and smooth as half-life.

In this new version, we can point straight up in the air now as infantry!! But heres ANOTHER problem with the mouse movement, the verticle movement is a LOT slower than the horizontal which means that when you want to aim at something that is straight above you, you have to move the mouse twice as far as you would in other games (I had to actually pick up my mouse to and move it back down on my pad!).

Ok.... enough of my ranting. Im just really aggrivated with this damn game. It can be so much fun but there is just so much about it that pisses me off. And why cant they make a patch that doesnt fubar the multiplayer?

[peeon]

It works me. Now with blood I can determine the enemy fire.

[Matthyahuw]

works fine for me, I don't think there is a noCD patch for v1.4 already, you're probably using the beta 1.4 noCD patch, or even the beta patch itself.

[CaptNKILL]

Originally posted by Matthyahuw
works fine for me, I don't think there is a noCD patch for v1.4 already, you're probably using the beta 1.4 noCD patch, or even the beta patch itself.

http://www.megagames.com/cracks/html/c905760_1.htm

Thats where I got mine. It says "server fix", so I guess that could be the problem. But it has the same files as other cracks, so I thought it would work the same way. Why would they make a server only crack?

Besides, the game doesnt work WITHOUT the crack. I just checked the official BF1942 forums and there is ONE, yes ONE other person with my problem. And they said that its always happened with an uncracked BF1942 (any version).

This is starting to really bug me now....

[vampireuk]

Ah damnit!! now I have to redo my testing!:mad: :D

[CaptNKILL]

Originally posted by vampireuk
Ah damnit!! now I have to redo my testing!:mad: :D
waa?

[CaptNKILL]

ok, there is a NEW NO-CD patch available for 1.4 at gamecopyworld. It works just fine. After checking the dates, the old patch WAS for the beta. It has been recently renamed to a "1.4 beta NO-CD crack". Nice of them to tell us that now :\

I just got done playing a few rounds of BF online. Some of the things they changed help a lot, while others totaly ruin it. Now, the planes are nearly indestructable unless your a pro with the flak guns (like me :D).

Problems that remain:
*Inconsistant damage = one bullet to the chest can kill... yet 7 bullets might not
*Exagerated collision\rollover damage = jeeps still blow up when they land ON THEIR WHEELS from 15 feet in the air... and my plane detonated when I hit a piece of a wing left on the ground... I was DRIVING (NOT FLYING) about 5 miles per hour
*Spawn camping is still horrible= I know you dont want to read another one of CaptNKILL's 20 paragraph rants so Im just going to stop here...
*The online community still doesnt realise that its a team game= I defended (and lost) 3 points tonight ALL ALONE... I called for reinforcements constantly, but everyone was too busy trying to get to the uber planes (which were being bombed constantly for about 45 minutes) to spawn at the point that needed backup.
*framerate drops= the game runs smooth as butter some times and other times its clearly running UNDER 20fps.... bad resource management on the engine's part
*the controls have that wacky\annoying speed up\slow down thing and the verticle movement is way to slow

.... etc etc etc....

Fun game..... too bad its burried in crap.

[nVidi0t]

Works great for me :confused:

[druga runda]

Time for you to start RTCW Enemy Terrirory :D

[CaptNKILL]

Originally posted by nVidi0t
Works great for me :confused:
What... the patch?
1.4 works fine for most people.... but for some reason, EA's BS cd protection has issues with some systems. Im among the few people who just CANT play the game with the CD any more. Although I think it works fine unpatched.... :barf:

[vampireuk]

I've finished my testing again, so I hopped online to see what it was like. Everything seems fine to me apart from the rear gun on the fighters. That thing is too weak.

As for the players....31 people and not one of them knew how to play at all. One guy on my team stood around waiting for the planes to spawn, I jumped in as a rear gunner and he sat there for about 20 seconds until a enemy plane flew overhead. Of course thanks to this idiot we were shot apart before we took off. The next spawn, there he was again stood waiting. The plane spawned so I blew the bastard up before he could jump in:D

I ran along to a spawn point and got wasted by 4 enemies, the rest of my team were running around doing nothing:rolleyes: Why do people suck so badly online?

[UDawg]

Cuz they are only interested in getting in a vehicle. Also as you know most people just want a high kill to death ratio. This makes no sense. I will gladly be .500 in any game if we win and I contributed wisely.

What bug me is when a tank is defending a flag and your own soldiers to not help to protect the tank from foot soliers. Tanks get ripped apart by nades and such, expecially when you cant see where they are being lobed at you from.

[vampireuk]

Yeah we had a classic on Kursk yesterday, Both of us in tanks with no foot support at all. Then when we were holding the flags at infantry the idiot tank drivers move forward on their base. Why bother attacking a point that you cannot take. If they stayed back and defended the axis would have not had a chance in hell against us.

[UDawg]

Originally posted by vampireuk
Yeah we had a classic on Kursk yesterday, Both of us in tanks with no foot support at all. Then when we were holding the flags at infantry the idiot tank drivers move forward on their base. Why bother attacking a point that you cannot take. If they stayed back and defended the axis would have not had a chance in hell against us.

In that game yesterday my buddy was the leader in score on our side (only because he was spawn camping on the other side at me for about 10 kills. grrrrr! I guess I deserved it since I tkd him a few times in another game toget the plane he was going for :p ) he would go off to the left or right side with the preacher and pound them from a distance. That helps alot to thin out the forces coming from their base but he had one to protect him.

Remember I said hold the line.....and what happened next? 3 tanks charge their frikin barn. Man! let them come to us. The are so easy to pick off in the open with the tanks and our soldiers can pick off the straglers. We also need a engie to mine the field in front of us so in our bombardment they might run into a land mine.

but alas people treat the damn game as if it were Q3. Crap they even jump while running. That does nothing in this game. :rolleyes:


OH! OH!! and what is with the planes on calling out troop movements? I frikin hate it when we are in control and the planes just go into attack mode and get shot down. Idiots should be used as recon at that point and bomb only in the open and away from their bases. You cant take out their planes with out getting to close but I guess those guys don't have the skill. :(


BTW vamp EOD is actually pretty fun. There was one very stupid map but the jungle maps are cool. Lots of places to hide. The SAW gun is awesome! When in prone its spray is not that bad. You can hold the trigger and let it rip and mow down 4 or 5 at a time. You can actually hold position in this game by hiding. That is if the camera doesnt zoom in on you when you kill the enemy. I frikin hate that. It gives away your position. Why do the admins turn that on?

That link I gave you from that German site was the fastest I found.

[DaveW]

Originally posted by vampireuk

As for the players....31 people and not one of them knew how to play at all. One guy on my team stood around waiting for the planes to spawn, I jumped in as a rear gunner and he sat there for about 20 seconds until a enemy plane flew overhead. Of course thanks to this idiot we were shot apart before we took off. The next spawn, there he was again stood waiting. The plane spawned so I blew the bastard up before he could jump in:D


Something similar happened to me on an earlier patch. I got a plane and some guy got all upset because I got to it before him. He started shooting me but friendly fire was off. I took off, turned around, and just for hell of it I dropped a bomb on him. I must have hit a vehicle or something next to him because it said "DaveW [killed] (whoever)". Pretty cool. I hate those guys who just camp by the planes and shoot anyone else on their team that tries to take off. Its nice to get your own back :)

[Matthyahuw]

when's the DC patch gonna come out to match the BF 1.4 patch?

tons of things are broken like AP Mines, and the UH-60 cannon...

[vampireuk]

Should be out soon, I noticed the UH-60 cannon screw up on the lost village map, kind of takes the edge off the attacking force when they have no air support:D

[Matthyahuw]

hehe, ya, that's the same map I noticed it in too!

but it does hurt you to get shot by it, just not an instant death...

[vampireuk]

I'm fairly sure it does no damage, I kick ass when sat in that gunners spot. I had the crosshair on one guy on a mg-42 for about 10 seconds blazing away and nothing:eek:

When I get a good pilot we make a awesome combo, fly low over the buildings and sneal up on them. Unfortunatly you get some gunners who open fire on anyone on the other team instead of prioritising targets. Anyone with a stinger launcher, PKM or on a static gun has to go straight away. Ahh it is fun though lighting up a bunch of enemies:D