Battlefield 2 Booster Packs and New Patch Details

{OF}MadD! · 01-11-2006, 02:57 PM

2 New booster packs will be released here is the info i have found.

- There called Euro Force and Armor Fury.
- Euro Force will be released Feb 8th
- Armor Fury will be released March 28th

Info on European Force
- New army
- 3 new maps called "The Great wall of China" , "Operation Smoke Screen"and "Tarbara Quarry"
- New weapons called FNP90 and the Benelli Tactical Shotgun
- 4 new vehicles including a New Chopter.
- Cost 10 bucks

Info on Armor Fury
- Released March 28th
- Sadly no new Weapons
- 3 new maps called "Operation Road Rage', "Midnight Sun", "Operation Harvest"
- 2 new vehicle classes and they are Attack Jets and Recon Chopters.
- Cost 10 bucks

See heres the thing thats gonna be completely amazing with armor fury...Its gonna be HUGE BATTLES!...Not like these lil maps we've been playing on. Its gonna be a complete warfare on a 64 player game. So this mainly means were gonna need Blong to keep our tanks repaired.

Patch Info

- Helicopter now carry 8 missiles rather than 14
- TV-Guided missile now have a shorter range
- Hit points on all air vehicles has been reduced
- AA missile lock has been improved
- Support kits have had their primary weapons adjusted for accuracy
- Sniper kits have had their primary weapons adjusted for accuracy
- Anti-Tank kits have had their primary weapons adjusted for accuracy
- "Dolphin Diving" is no longer possible
- Players can no longer jump and shoot at the same time
- "Prone Spamming" is now fixed
- "Sprint exploit" is now fixed
- The Sa80 weapon has been improved
- The G3A3 weapon has been improved
- Reload while sprinting has been enabled
- Chinese and MEC APCs can now shoot through penetrable materials
- Damage decreased for the M134
- Medic defibrillator paddles have been adjusted. They now reload while not in use.
- Server search filters now work properly
- All mines (Claymore, Anti-vehicle, C4) can now be picked up by the same class that dropped it by using the “G” key.
- Mines can no longer be destroyed with other explosives
- Flash bang effect radius decreased
- Added unlocks for Sniper and AT kits
- Fixed a bug in terrain rendering with night vision, whereby terrain was still dark in dark areas.
- Fixed a bug whereby mods that are not bf2 or not xpack permutate shaders every time a level is loaded.
- Fixed a bug whereby non-xpack mods cannot use xpack shaders.
- Fixed bug in TV guided missiles of Havoc helicopter
- Bug in MP7 fire rate fixed. Ammo count increased and mag count and damage decreased
- APC Update – “Chinese and MEC APCs can now shoot through penetrable materials”. This fix was a miscommunication to the patch team.
- Chinese and MEC APC’s have been reverted and the LAV25 now no longer shoots through penetrable materials.
- Vehicles no longer disappear when viewed from some vehicles with a HUD (e.g. Tanks).
- Performance gain found in static mesh rendering.
- Detonation radius from grenade launcher explosions has been reduced.
- Grenade launcher projectiles now have a minimum time before arming.

Mac · 01-11-2006, 03:20 PM

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH Last statement ROCKS... Time Delayed Noob Tube.. A- Freak'n-Men

{OF}Malicious Assault · 01-11-2006, 06:16 PM

Hey the last one makes them more like real ones, the M203 requires 30 feet out of the barrel to arm, it has to do with the number of rotations the shell makes after it leaves the barrel. That way soldiers dont hurt themselves while shooting it

Some nice changes there

Drakken · 01-11-2006, 06:30 PM

Those packs cost $10 too much and like SF expasion they are being released to close together. I mean to me the expansion is ok at best. I'd rather not have to spend another $20 for something that should be free to say sorry for that expansion they released.

Mac · 01-11-2006, 07:27 PM

considering the amount of crap I have paid for games like q4 and Halflife. I will be more then happy to spend 10 bucks on an expansion even if its a half ***-ed attempt to suck more money out of us.. I need more maps.. The sf amount of maps were lame... Got old much faster then the original bf2 maps...

{OF}MillerTime · 01-11-2006, 07:52 PM

Also coming....

Planet Battlefield: Will there be more ranks introduced? If so, can you please list a few.

Tom Galt: There are 10 new ranks being added, from Second Lieutenant all the way up the chain to General. However, these are being added in the next patch, not in the Booster Pack. So these new ranks will be available for free to all owners of BF2.

*IMO, General? How many....10,000,000 points? LOL.

They'll have to lower the 2nd Lt. requirement. I can't image having to play another year+ for that, and for nothing. Although I see there are gonna be 2 unlocks...sniper and AT...whoopie :P

LoPo · 01-11-2006, 08:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by {OF}MillerTime

Also coming....

Planet Battlefield: Will there be more ranks introduced? If so, can you please list a few.

Tom Galt: There are 10 new ranks being added, from Second Lieutenant all the way up the chain to General. However, these are being added in the next patch, not in the Booster Pack. So these new ranks will be available for free to all owners of BF2.

*IMO, General? How many....10,000,000 points? LOL.

They'll have to lower the 2nd Lt. requirement. I can't image having to play another year+ for that, and for nothing. Although I see there are gonna be 2 unlocks...sniper and AT...whoopie :P

I forsee a rank adjust similar to the last patch, where we unlocked like 3 ranks at once.

CodeNameDoom · 01-11-2006, 09:00 PM

welll maybe i should get at least sf lol

ChemicalWarrior · 01-11-2006, 09:14 PM

Its nice to see them adding stuff but:

1.) Both of those booster packs are what I would call a large sized patch. Charging money for such little additions is kinda ridiculous IMO.

2.) Once again this is dividing up the player base even more. I have a hard time believing these will be all over store shelves like a major expansion pack would.

Dice, IMO, would be MUCH better off holding off another two months on the latest launching Booster Pack and releasing these as one expansion pack at $20. More people would get them and it would allow Dice to capitilize on SF sales for a longer time.

Drakken · 01-11-2006, 10:19 PM

They are going to run BF2 into the ground at this rate. All they see is $$$, they care nothing about fixing the game, as is pretty clear as they say the booster pack will be out in less than a month but no time frame is given about the patch. I'm just worried that their booster packs will make the game run worse because they are bound to be pretty poorly written because how fast they are coming out with this stuff. Chem I think this is going to be like a Steam kind of thing were you can get it direct from EA only via the EA Downloader. In December EA gave the Xbox Live users a free booster pack, so why can't the PC users get one.