BF2 News from EA -=> medal rewards more accessible to casual players

eekfek · 4 May 2006 at 21:03

In order to make certain medal rewards more accessible to casual players the time played criteria for the following medals has been reduced:

Golden Scimitar Medal - Now requires 100 hours

Peoples Medallion - Now requires 100 hours

MEC Special Forces Service Medal - Now requires 50 hours

Navy Cross Medal - Now requires 100 hours

EU Special Service Medal - Now requires 50 hours

SAS Service Medal - Now requires 50 hours

Navy Seal Service Medal - Now requires 50 hours

Spetsnaz Service Medal - Now requires 50 hours

Rebel Service Medal - Now requires 50 hours

Other Changes in the update include:

- Addition of a North America Service Ribbon.

- Change in the promotion of Generals Each month. After the update the top 50 Lt. Generals will be promoted to General.

- Additional authentication support for ranked servers to ensure proper labeling of ranked servers in the server browser.

ugh ! i feel cheap, i got two

Stellios · 4 May 2006 at 21:05

Much, much better

Siders77 · 4 May 2006 at 21:18

Yup, it's about time that happened tbh. 500 hours for some was just silly.

GlasgowTitan · 4 May 2006 at 21:18

Instead of fannying about with the ranks and medals in every patch, they should consider fixing some of the hundreds of bugs in the game first.

DanMc07 · 4 May 2006 at 21:22

Finally they are reduce, there was no way I would have been able to get most of them, some people actually do have a life out side the computer world :rolleyes:

jim5000 · 4 May 2006 at 22:07

Not very fair on those who have got them already tho! Must be hard finding the balance; you dont want them to be impossible, but you dont want them to be cheapened by having everyone running around with a full chest of medals...

I think all the 'time' ones should be changed so you have to do something skilful instead...

Stellios · 4 May 2006 at 22:09

Well, the timed ones do require something like 40 team points, which s a fair amount, and not something i get very often.

iBot · 4 May 2006 at 23:46

What sort of casual players care about medals?

Hell what sort of 'pro' bf2 player cares about stats?

Siders77 · 5 May 2006 at 08:27

iBot said:
What sort of casual players care about medals?

Hell what sort of 'pro' bf2 player cares about stats?

It's not that, it's the fun of getting the medals, as Stellios said 40 points in a round is hard so it's fun to aim for that.

neoboy · 5 May 2006 at 08:44

I'd be excited if medals actually did anything.

4T5 · 5 May 2006 at 08:56

Liberty.
I got my Golden scimitar last week and all my medals under the old system.
Now they devalue them by giving them for virtually nothing.

fullfat · 5 May 2006 at 09:10

tbh, i gave up on the medals a long time ago as it was seemingly impossible to get them unless you gaffer taped yourself to your chair and played the game aroundthe clock like a mad man. i surprised myself though the other day, got 2 awards in 2 rounds and didnt even try

/edit, when does this happen anyways, is it with 1.3?

Siders77 · 5 May 2006 at 12:47

Looks like it's already happened. Accoring to BF2s.com anyway.