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Originally Posted by undead77
What does "Reversion: Allowing unlocks on unranked servers" mean? Does it mean they are making it where even delisting private servers won't be able to use unlocks?
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A server setting on the unranked server was, up until 1.3, to allow "global unlocks" on the server. That meant that players that earned unlocks on ranked servers could use those unlocks on ranked servers. While not necessarily important to
TG's public servers, there were quite a number of clan players that relied on the unlocks in their matches.
BF2 mod teams also wanted to use the unlock system to give players choices in weapons or to make some sort of "meta class." Starting with 1.3, "global unlocks" were disabled on unranked servers and those clan players and mods were left high and dry. That change made a lot of people very unhappy with DICE/EA, so it's good to see that they listened.
The "mixed game mode" fix is also important for mods, like PRMM. I know that they wanted to be able to run their extraction mode one map and AAS another and normal conquest the next. I'm not sure if that was something that was removed in 1.3 or just something that had been broken for a while. Either way, it's a good change to help out the mod teams.