I'm glad you had to time to figure that our for yourself. The 1.4 path after installiton and 1.4-1.5 worked perfect to view and play NS. Most forum reads will direct you this way; but, then most forums only give opinion and not fact. I'm not sure if I would even want to test your method; first, who wants to wait for patches to download; second, waiting for the patches to install, and just to see an award. Come on you played this game long enough you can go to Battlefield stats; it is actually a hella lot better than EA version, it gives you more info about progress, etc.. Installing 4 patches seems really unnecessary; but to each their own.