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(1) Close proximity hits. If someone (friendly) comes too close to my side, and I'm firing my cannon, they get blasted instead. Never happened before this patch.
(2)Can't find hit point. The entire enemy ship isn't the target now, somewhere in the back is where you need to shoot, for me. But I've noticed people on forum are saying somewhere in the front is the hit point for them.
(3)Everything slows down, stops and breaks loose again, like a gamestate check, but doesn't say it's a gamestate check.
(4)I tried entering a couple of deathmatch games where the host must have been trying to quit the game, because I sat there loading for ten minutes before game decided to tell me server quit. (So this may or may not be a problem/issue.
(5)I host a game, then it says that someone tried to join but couldn't because of password, when I have no password up. At one point I noticed that a letter (l) as in Lucy(in lower case) might have automatically been there. I can delete it everytime, but people who don't read forums or just want to play may not want to stop a mpi game they are thirty minutes into just to let people in, whenever they may not know how to resolve the issue with the password anyway.

Please take my comments from the view of a game player, I know nothing of programming. I know how to cut the head off of my Aunt and paste onto a screenshot of Julie from Heavy Metal Fakk2 for a laugh, but that's about it.
Axeminister

I would like to say that playing mpi on the internet has been my favorite thing to do even though I have most of the newest shooters on the market. I'll buy a new game, play it for a while, beat it, but never seem to be all that challenged buy any of the ai in any game. Except for Battlezone II, the one exception. I can never get enough of this. I'm usually left sweating when I'm done. You can lead a certain sized army up against the ai base, and lose in that attack, or the same size army in another game and win. It's never the same. Mainly I want to thank everyone for making this new patch, you all deserve a round of applause for sticking with it. Hopefully cmptrwz will post the new patch correctly on the bzuniverse main page. The current 1.3 patch is listed as being on the front page, but the link is broken, and always has been as far as I know. I don't know what the plan is for posting this patch on fileplanet and other advertisement, but I hope someone is on it. We need players to know about this. I'm sure many people who do have the game have tried to get on the net and failed because the patch 1.3 is  being advertised on Gamespy as being on bzuniverse, but the link is broken. Of course we all know to look at bzscrap or in the forums, but not everyone knows this. I have helped quite a few people to load the game, people who try to join and can't because of this or that. But I can't do it all. My games of late have become a knowledge sharing experience on how to load the game, which is fine. But if someone is on this, getting the patch on the right media, why don't you let us know here in the forums what is being done. Maybe it'll give us players something else to be tickled about until the patch is officially out. I'd love to read about it in PC Gamer Magazine or something like it.
Axeminister
 

As a host for MPI games I usually change my mwf setting to 5 in a game patched to 1.3. Now that evryone has agreed to 4, then I will do it also, even though most of you are only concerned with strat games.But how would I control that in a 1.2 game? I don't see where you can change it in the game.
 I also would like to know how to get back to windows when a 1.2 game locks up. I've tried everything and always have to powergig(turn off) my pc, which makes me sick each time. I have a P4 2.53, 1024ram, 128ATI Radeon running on XP and don't want to @%$& it up.
Axeminister