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<P><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma">JD posted on the callofduty site:</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma">"</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">I know many of you may feel a bit left out seeing the console updates that keep getting pushed through, which is why I am making this post.<BR>
I want to explain why the PC community cannot receive updates quite as frequently as the console world.<BR>
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For that, please read the PC Patching Process sticky here:<BR>
</FONT></SPAN><A HREF="http://www.callofduty.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=91072"><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">http://www.callofduty.com/board/view...p?f=29&t=91072</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><BR>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman">After having read that, I want to update you with where we are at in that process. Presently, we are smack dab in the middle of<B> Phase 2</B>.<BR>
We have a comprehensive list of what the community has been reporting, and we are reproducing & fixing some the issues for Patch 1.2.<BR>
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Now we understand that some issues are more urgent than others. For this reason, we are aiming to release Patch 1.2 as quickly as possible - sometime towards the end of this month, beginning of next month (February).<BR>
We want to move quickly on some of the more pertinent and more easily isolated issues, rather than waiting to release a more comprehensive patch that attempts to address them all.<BR>
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Below is a list of some of the issues we are trying to fix for Patch 1.2. In order to get this patch out at the beginning of February at the latest,<BR>
there may be an issue or two we intended to fix that gets pushed to Patch 1.3. </FONT></SPAN>
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<LI><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">All relevant console hot fixes & TU fixes (mostly MP map fixes). </FONT></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">HTTP Redirect. </FONT></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Dedicated server reconnecting to master server index w/out reboot. </FONT></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Fast-XP “Power Servers” exploit. </FONT></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Server authentication errors. </FONT></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Cg_drawFPS in Multiplayer. </FONT></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Cg_fov defaulting back to 65 after death. </FONT></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">+connect command line argument. </FONT></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Preventing altering clan tag colors (used to appear as friendly instead of an enemy). </FONT></SPAN></LI>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Patch 1.2 will not address every problem in the game. Patch 1.3 will encompass many more of the outstanding issues,<BR>
and will start at Phase 2 again once patch 1.2 passes through Phase 5.<BR>
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Additional support for the game will be available by way of patches as necessary in the future.<BR>
And before you ask, one of the items still on our list is</FONT><B> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">/record</FONT></B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> (this is unfortunately a bigger task which cannot be completed in time for 1.2).<BR>
More info regarding future patches will be made available after Patch 1.2 is released.<BR>
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Hope that clears up some of the questions. In the meantime, enjoy double-XP this weekend!<BR>
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Regards,<BR>
-JD</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma">/Villan</FONT></SPAN>
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