Battlezone II v1.3.6.2 Public Beta released

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Battlezone II v1.3.6.2 Public Beta released

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Ladies and gentlemen, we are pleased to announce that the Battlezone 2 patch version 1.3.6.2 Public Beta has been released. You can download it from http://matesfamily.org/bz2 .

Major features of v1.3.6.2 Public Beta:
- Reduced warp/lag for MP
- Tweaked network code for better performance with lots of players in game.
- Various other fixes and optimizations.

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This Battlezone II Combat Commander 1.3 patch comes with no warranty, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Except when otherwise stated in writing the copyright holders and/or other parties provide the package "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose and the accuracy of the information contained within it. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the package is with you.

According to the publisher, the last officially supported patch is the 1.1 patch.

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Re: Battlezone II v1.3.6.2 Public Beta released

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Only a few weeks shy of a year since PB6 too. Not bad timing :P
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Re: Battlezone II v1.3.6.2 Public Beta released

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So will I be able to run FE with this patch?

Also, thanks for putting it out, I know the baggage with 6.1 was hell, but hopefully this will get everything straightened out.
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yup
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Iron_Maiden wrote:So will I be able to run FE with this patch?

Also, thanks for putting it out, I know the baggage with 6.1 was hell, but hopefully this will get everything straightened out.
"run" being held to open interpretation that is. Don't try single player :)
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Re: Battlezone II v1.3.6.2 Public Beta released

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Played this with Windy, MrTwosheds and Dragon earlier and had a good game. Some hesitations, but no lag or warp.
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Hesitations?
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Thanks for the patch. I appreciate the work you do for the game.
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Tested it together with MrTwosheds, Darkwarrior and some Auzzie.
The wonder is, that not the auzzie with the ping 404 lagged out, no. It was MrTwosheds :D.
But until now I had no real lag-problems, and there was no warp all over the game. So I think the laggout from MrTwosheds just happened randomly (I blame it on windows update or something ;) ).
Now I am just waiting for my first 5vs5 on 6.2, then I hopefully will be able to say "Best patch ever! No lag, no warp, all the game!" :)
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I am liking this patch so far. Played a few games and it was definitely feeling smoother and less choppier. Great work GSH and the testing team.
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Played good again tonight. Had Fuggle, MrTwosheds and TnT in a mpi
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Played a 6 player strat, it was the 3rd game without a restart. Two players got kicked out on entry, A fixme was reported, the found 6 players only expecting 4 type. Logging was not on, so I don't have the chatlog, only the battlezone log.
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Players need to upgrade their rigs and connection or something, because we are NOT able to reproduce these in our sterile testing environments!!!
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We are unable to get 6 testers in one game, let alone 3 games with allot of different players.
This has nothing to do with their rigs or connections, if it looks like a bug and it smells like a bug, its a BUG.
Its not a lagout, its a logic error of some sort.
It seems to be a quite rare occurrence.
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Re: Battlezone II v1.3.6.2 Public Beta released

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Must be, or else instances don't behave the same way as remote clients...which I didn't think they did anyway.
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