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F1C - Any Official Patches?

Larr

F1C - Any Official Patches?

by Larr » Wed, 02 Jun 2004 06:43:33

I just got around to re-loading F1C after my last system rebuild.

Are there any official patches?

I looked on the EA-Sports site, but that place is a lost cause.  Worst site
design I've ever seen.

-Larry

Dave Henri

F1C - Any Official Patches?

by Dave Henri » Wed, 02 Jun 2004 07:14:18


   No the only patches per se...are the mods and utilities available.  
dh

Larr

F1C - Any Official Patches?

by Larr » Wed, 02 Jun 2004 11:07:59

I don't think EA has _ever_ released a patch, have they?

-Larry



> > I just got around to re-loading F1C after my last system rebuild.

> > Are there any official patches?

> > I looked on the EA-Sports site, but that place is a lost cause.  Worst
> > site design I've ever seen.

> > -Larry

>    No the only patches per se...are the mods and utilities available.
> dh

Damien Smit

F1C - Any Official Patches?

by Damien Smit » Wed, 02 Jun 2004 16:24:18

Well, there was an unofficial patch released for F1 2001 which added FF.  EA
generally aren't interested in supporting their games though.  Their main
concern is that their developers are working on FIFA 2005 or NASCAR Thunder
2006 etc i.e. the next cash cow...

Jason Moy

F1C - Any Official Patches?

by Jason Moy » Wed, 02 Jun 2004 18:10:12



Weird, Madden 2004 and MVP 2004 have had multiple patches to fix bugs
and improve gameplay.  I thought they typically patched their sports
games multiple times, at least.

Jason

Pez

F1C - Any Official Patches?

by Pez » Wed, 02 Jun 2004 20:50:37

the fact that they need to is a bad thing.

pez




> >Well, there was an unofficial patch released for F1 2001 which added FF.
EA
> >generally aren't interested in supporting their games though.  Their main
> >concern is that their developers are working on FIFA 2005 or NASCAR
Thunder
> >2006 etc i.e. the next cash cow...

> Weird, Madden 2004 and MVP 2004 have had multiple patches to fix bugs
> and improve gameplay.  I thought they typically patched their sports
> games multiple times, at least.

> Jason

Damien Smit

F1C - Any Official Patches?

by Damien Smit » Wed, 02 Jun 2004 21:06:04

All games can benefit from patches - unless they're perfect (and that's
never happened in the history of video games)

Pez

F1C - Any Official Patches?

by Pez » Wed, 02 Jun 2004 22:04:31

cough mario cough

pez


Swerv

F1C - Any Official Patches?

by Swerv » Wed, 02 Jun 2004 23:34:10


> I don't think EA has _ever_ released a patch, have they?

> -Larry

The main reason I stopped buying EA games for a long time (until I broke
down and got F12002 and F1C) is because of that.   I think it was all
the way back at NFS2, they essentially promised that a Direct3D patch
would be coming.   Then they promised it again.   And again.   Then, all
quiet, and it never came out.   Then, a couple more games came out soon
after that had all sorts of bugs and no patches ever came out for them
either.

Every time I get an EA game, I always feel like EA was more than willing
to take my money, but not provide any useful support once they've done
so.   So, I stopped giving them money, except when I broke my own
principles and got those F1 games.   Guess personal boycotts don't work
when you break down just because you really want one of their games...

Biz

F1C - Any Official Patches?

by Biz » Thu, 03 Jun 2004 01:14:15


I dont ever recall a patch for any of their driving titles..

Jason Moy

F1C - Any Official Patches?

by Jason Moy » Thu, 03 Jun 2004 02:50:50


>I dont ever recall a patch for any of their driving titles..

Just doing a quick check of things I can remember they published (I
realize there are more, but I don't really buy NFS type games) these
games all had patches:

Andretti Racing
F1 2000
F1 2001
NASCAR 2000
NASCAR Revolution SE
NASCAR Thunder 2003
Need for Speed II SE
Need for Speed III
Need for Speed IV
Need for Speed V
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit II
Need for Speed Underground

Damien Smit

F1C - Any Official Patches?

by Damien Smit » Thu, 03 Jun 2004 06:26:24

It needed a patch - to remove the terrible music and improve the tyre
modelling   ;-)


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