Athan
Resident Freddy
- Joined
- Dec 24, 2003
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So.
1) It's next to impossible to get onto a ranked server, them almost always being full. No doubt most of the kiddies are hitting the 'play it now' icon and don't even know they could play on other servers.
2) I was lucky (?) enough to get onto a ranked server yesterday. It was even an actual EA one. I played for a few hours, even got some reward/medal/rank upgrade (something popped out from left of the minimap). However, even hours later, nothing is showing in BFHQ. I still have all zeroes on everything.
So, it seems to be a waste of time to care about the ranked stuff currently.
I do hope some servers (Jolt, hint hint) will enable Global Unlock instead at least in the interim, so we can try out the extra weapons.
The one thing I AM wondering, given some people have gained rank (the leader boards showed this) is if it affects things like command elections and weapon unlocking on ALL servers (assuming the server has requisite ports set up) .... If so then some people, by random luck (ok, some persistence too) are gaining an advantage over the less fortunate.
-Ath
1) It's next to impossible to get onto a ranked server, them almost always being full. No doubt most of the kiddies are hitting the 'play it now' icon and don't even know they could play on other servers.
2) I was lucky (?) enough to get onto a ranked server yesterday. It was even an actual EA one. I played for a few hours, even got some reward/medal/rank upgrade (something popped out from left of the minimap). However, even hours later, nothing is showing in BFHQ. I still have all zeroes on everything.
So, it seems to be a waste of time to care about the ranked stuff currently.
I do hope some servers (Jolt, hint hint) will enable Global Unlock instead at least in the interim, so we can try out the extra weapons.
The one thing I AM wondering, given some people have gained rank (the leader boards showed this) is if it affects things like command elections and weapon unlocking on ALL servers (assuming the server has requisite ports set up) .... If so then some people, by random luck (ok, some persistence too) are gaining an advantage over the less fortunate.
-Ath