First BF2 Expansion pack: Special Forces - DROOL!

[LoPo]

http://pc.ign.com/articles/632/632446p1.html

NIGHTVISION! APACHE! GRAPPLING HOOK/ZIP LINE! FLASH BANG! TEAR GAS!

IGNPC: So I guess we should just start off with the big one. What is Special Forces?

AJ Marini: Well, what we did was take out experience with Battlefield 2 and set it into a different environment. How do we change the game without changing the game that much. We don't want to change the fundamentals of Conquest but we really wanted it to feel like something different. So we started brainstorming and this idea of Special Operations kept coming up, so we ran with that idea.

The idea of Special Forces is the idea of night vision and all the other neat little things that they can do put into the Battlefield environment. So where Battlefield 2 is a playground for your regular grunt soldier, you put Special Forces in there and they can do all of these wonderful things that have the player feel like a super soldier now.

The battlefield environment is still Battlefield gameplay, but everyone feels a bit more powerful. They have toys and abilities that they wouldn't normally have in the regular Battlefield.


IGNPC: You said there's more gear, so what kind of equipment are we talking about here?

Daivd Yee: The two big areas of equipment are night vision, which transcends to commander mode as well, and then the other section is mobility based features is a zipline, grappling hook.

IGNPC: Does the inclusion of night vision mean the majority of these maps are going to be set at night?

AJ: It's a pretty balanced set-up right now, but obviously, with the night vision it would kind of be a fault if we didn't have the night maps to go with it.

Yee: I think something important to note about the night vision also is that for every tactic in Battlefield 2 there's a counter. The night vision for us is not an all powerful thing. Night vision is useful in dark areas, but we're taking a lot of time to make sure that looking at a bright area is a very disadvantageous thing.

IGNPC: OK, how many new vehicles and such will be included then?

Yee: So the new bread and butter features for the expansion pack are six new armies, ten new vehicles, and twelve new base weapons.

[slinki]

Fall of 2005? It's to soon.

[SilverMane]

Lets have EA fix what they have now.. not make more problems than they can handle at the moment.. but ya does look sweet..


Silver

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[NiRvAnA]

I had it on pre-order since...welll... a few weeks ago

Not seen any pics till now thou... perdy.

but saying that...

I think it's pretty poor timing to announce an expansion pack when the original game has only been out a few weeks, and is still awaiting a first patch. It gives the impression that they've washed their hands of BF2 and are moving on to get the next £35 from the punters. They deny this, of course

[Soul]

The problems that we have now will be fixed soon enough. They aren't the first publisher developer to release a patch that caused all kinds of problems, (I am still running the patch with out issue by the way)

By the time the game finally comes out, it will probably seem like the timing is right, stand by for delays as well, they are bound to happen.

[LoPo]

Originally Posted by SilverMane

Lets have EA fix what they have now.. not make more problems than they can handle at the moment.. but ya does look sweet..


Silver

The other thing you have to remember is that EA has TEAMS/DEPTs working on this game. If you notice in the interview, the interviewee even says, that "they are working" on the patch. These guys aren't related to the producers working on the patch.


Like Soul said, I'm running the patch w/o problems too.

[Arctic_Fox]

Heh, I never d/l'd the patch. My systems never had a problem with BF2 though...

[ARX|Frag4U]

Looks kinda like a mixture of SWAT 4 and Battlefield 2. Pretty kewl stuff.