[OT] BattleField2 demo released

I just got word that the BF2 Demo is out. I am getting it by BIT Torrent now from 3D Gamers. Cant wait to check it out.

Its is great, I got it yesterday.

Flying the jet is awesome.

A lot of people say it's not as good as they'd hoped, but I can't see what's wrong with it (besides the menu music, that's a crime against humanity). The most fun thing to do is to drive the boat up into the carrier as an anti-tank, make your way up to the tallest radar tower, and shoot their planes just as they get in them.

I like the fact you have to lead targets and take wind into consideration when Sniping.

I was starting to get the hang of it tonight. And then the program
crashed.. hey its a demo.. I think this will be my Next purchese.

I have not been able to fly very well.. Maybe with a game pad or
joystick I can fly better.. I tend to crash a lot. now Tanks and Dune
Buggies I have a blast in.

And yeah the Boats pretty cool.. I was also doing that Cass.. The guy kicked me for it off his server.. lol oh well.

The Single Player is pretty good too. Your team mates will rearm you if
you ask, and set up mines and what not to protect capture areas. Good
AI.

I was clinbing that huge tower andsniping and then jumping parachuting down.

I think they did a great job. Much better than the original. Cant wait
to see the full game and the new maps. Do you think they will have a
map generator, or anything?

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<DIV class=quotetext>Do you think they will have a map generator, or anything?
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Yes, its all part of what will be the BF2 Editor.

http://www.eagames.com/official/battlefield/battlefield2/us/editorial.jsp?src=communityupdate_020405

Thats a preview of what bf2 editor will do, it does everything, vehicle and object coding, animation tweaks and, of course, level editing.

It will be release either a few days before, or at release.

There will also be tools to support 3dsMAX and MAYA.

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• Otto von Bismarck

Downloaded it the other day. Would be great if only people actually
joined squads and worked as a team (or at least pretended to!)

Well like all games of this type.. If you have a group of friends or a
Clan/Club, and play in leagues and what not you can get that.. But here
is the cool part of BF2. They reward you with rank points and what not
for working as a team... they have things in the game that promote good
team work, and punish teams that dont work together. And if you play on
certain servers, you get ranked. I like a lot of what I see in this
game.. and now I know they have a set of mapping tools, im very
pleased.. and know for sure its something I am getting.

Thanks for the link.. Im gonna hit the hay.. and will check out the
link in the morning. Gotta get LEP to promote the BF2 mapping here..
make a section for it.. maybe a red 2 as the icon..

The damned thing won't run on my PC. The screen goes black for about 5
seconds then reverts back to the desktop, no errors or anything. I
think its because my video card isn't good enough for it, it requires a
new nvidia FX card, despite the fact my Ti can run most new games with
high settings no worries.

I'll have to buy a new card if I want to be able to play it.

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Battlefield 2 only supports the following video cards:

Radeon X700 (PCIe)

Radeon X600 (PCIe)

GeForce 6600 (PCIe)

GeForce PCX 5900 (PCIe)

GeForce 5800 Series (AGP)

ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition

ATI Radeon X800 PRO

ATI Radeon 9800 Series

ATI Radeon 9600 Series

ATI Radeon 9550 (RV350LX)

ATI Radeon 9500 / 9700 Series

ATI Radeon 8500 Series

ATI Radeon X300 Series

NVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra

NVidia GeForce 6800 GT

NVidia GeForce 6800

NVidia GeForce FX 5950 Series

NVidia GeForce FX 5900 Series

NVidia GeForce FX 5700 Series

Got anything less than this? Tough s**t.

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Just been playing this myself, there are somethings I like about it,
the game play is so - so, but tbh I prefer BF(1). On this , you can't
jump ontop of a tank :sad:

Works fine on a fx5200, and you can jump on a tank! Atleast i can.

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The strength of the turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of your coffee.

bah, nm me

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Works fine on a fx5200

Maybe because its a member of this generation of video cards, where as
the Ti is a previous generation card. Ah well, just means I'll have to
upgrade a bit sooner than expected.

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Ok I've played the demo now. But is THIS BF2? This game looks 100000 times better in the videos and screenshots. The game is ok but the graphics aren't hilarious even in highest LODs and resolutions.

(Just remember how cool the helicopter cockpits were in the trailers - there is a massive difference now in the demo)

Keyword you use a lot.. DEMO! heck it even says before the game starts,
this is not the full version of the game, some things were kept out of
the game,to enjoy the full features please buy the full version of the
game. Or something like that.

I cant get the damn thing to download.

Thanks MS I forgot to get it I saw it the other day on megagames.com and forgot to download it.

I love it, it's much better than Vietnam wasnt a big fan of 1942 though. It's now securly placed at the top of my got to get list. The only problem I'm having with it is that it crashes whenever I try to view the servers but it works fine when I just do the single player mission.

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About the video cards, it needs to support ShaderModel 1.4, GeForce 4 series' are only ShaderModel 1.1.

I also like the idea of Lep supporting BF2 mapping on this site :biggrin:

I've been mapping for the BF engine since 2002, and always felt BF needed a mapping site like this, it has always been a thing the BF community has been missing. A friend and I back in 2003 were gonna start a site based off the same idea as this called the BattlePit (heh heh) but it fell through due to lack of motivation - we preferred to map than maintain websites, heh.

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• Otto von Bismarck

DRGlass, I can send it to you. I have it. (msn - micdees@elp.rr.com)

Gimpthesink, your welcome man.. yeah I love it too.. im getting it for fathers day.. or around that time.

yeah I hope LEP will support the game here. I am in the process now of
setting up a web page for modeling.. have a person coding the page
now.. so Im told. If LEP feels that it would be to much of a burdern
for the snarkpit.. i can see what I can do to support it on my space.
As always I would work close with the Snarkpit to help both our sites
and communities.

Will BF2 knock off King Counter Strike?

1 Counter-Strike [1.6] ________66,327
2 Counter-Strike Source _______23,905
3 Battlefield 2 Demo __________20,735
4 Call of Duty ________________9,225
5 Wolfenstein Enemy Territory__ 7,782
6 Day of Defeat _______________3,238
7 America's Army ______________3,189
8 Medal Of Honor ______________2,994
9 Quake III Arena _____________2,971
10 Soldier Of Fortune II _______2,427
11 Battlefield 1942 ___________2,237
12 Half Life __________________2,209
13 Jedi Knight : Jedi Academy _1,390
14 Unreal Tournament __________884
15 Tactical Ops _______________874
16 Unreal Tournament 2004 _____794
17 Battlefield: Vietnam _______705
18 Jedi Knight II _____________666
19 Half-Life 2 Deathmatch______653
20 Halo : Combat Evolved ______467

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• Otto von Bismarck

I've been out on the internet and there have been a lot of mixed
reviews about this. I never played the first one, so I wouldn't
know. I guess I'll give it a shot.

Ok I got it and played it, very fun but my computer (I think ram or CPU) is slow.

I love the feeling of the game though. I drove up to a controle
point with 2 other team mates, we all jump out of the jeep, run along
this will, sprint across this court yard and jump behind a small wall
and took the controle point. It felt just like 'black hawk down'.

I also had alot of fun running down bad guys in the jeep.

Doc where did you download it from? I'm trying to avoid long wait times and I want a fast DL...

Yay it stoped crashing when it lists the servers today so i had a few games online and its way more fun.

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A couple of hint's here, there is a tweakguide for BF2 here : http://www.tweakguides.com/BF2_1.html

and

BF2 Hack :Unlock Weapons :Unlimited Single Player time

No time Limit Single Player

navigate to:

C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 Demo\mods\bf2\python\game\gamemodes

open the file gpm_cq.py with notepad

find the line:

<div style="margin: 5px 20px 20px;">
<div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">Code:</div>
<pre class="alt2" style="border: 1px inset ; margin: 0px; padding: 6px; width: 640px; height: 34px; overflow: auto;"><div style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr">host.registerHandler('TimeLimitReached', onTimeLimitReached, 1)</div></pre>
</div>

change it to read:

<div style="margin: 5px 20px 20px;">
<div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">Code:</div>
<pre class="alt2" style="border: 1px inset ; margin: 0px; padding: 6px; width: 640px; height: 34px; overflow: auto;"><div style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr">#host.registerHandler('TimeLimitReached', onTimeLimitReached, 1)</div></pre>
</div>

Simple as..time limit will count down but not end the map at 0.

Unlock weapons

*works in single player and lan games, will work online IF the server
hosting AND all the clients have the same hacked python file.

navigate to:

C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 Demo\python\bf2\stats

Open the file unlocks.py with notepad

find the line:

<div style="margin: 5px 20px 20px;">
<div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">Code:</div>
<pre class="alt2" style="border: 1px inset ; margin: 0px; padding: 6px; width: 640px; height: 34px; overflow: auto;"><div style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr">defaultUnlocks = [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]</div></pre>
</div>

change to:

<div style="margin: 5px 20px 20px;">
<div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">Code:</div>
<pre class="alt2" style="border: 1px inset ; margin: 0px; padding: 6px; width: 640px; height: 34px; overflow: auto;"><div style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr">defaultUnlocks = [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]</div></pre>
</div>

I have an account at gamespot.com so I got a fast free d/l

Anyone know how to get the 32 player map working in singleplayer? I
tried connecting to a server once, but my ping was so appauling I gave
up all hope.

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the 32 player version of the map for single player isn't included with the demo. So its impossible.

BF2 has consumed all my time, I just can't stop playing.

I can't wait to get playing! Ten minutes and I've downloaded 1%! Oh my god!

http://www.mtkonline.com/mbpics/battlefield2.jpg

201 Bots in Single Player, you need a beast to handle the AI calculations though, heh.

Thats the result of a group of us in Dimension 3 forums getting in and hacking the .AI files. (found in ..mods\bf2\AI\aidefault.ai)

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• Otto von Bismarck

Well guys, I'm almost done downloading it. I endured a
power outage in which I lost the download. Therefore, in 1 and a
half hours, I'll have it! Oh boy I can't wait.

post some good servers you people find.

I found one called "cafe of the rabid snark" it even had a picture of a hl1 snark on the banner! alas I didn't get the ip

the 32 player version of the map for single player isn't included with the demo. So its impossible.

Damnit. Thanks anyway. I guess I'll leave it to rot on my hard drive
until the summer then, although by then the full version will be out.

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Had it for a few days and I simply love it, can't stop playing it.

And it runs well on my nvidia GeForce FX5700 :biggrin:

I'm completely hooked! I need to find a bunch of people I can
play with, because I desperately want to airlift to the top of the
hotel with some buddies and set up shop... a la Dawn of the Dead.

I'll be the medic... all I need is a good sniper, pilot, and support guy.

:biggrin:

Guys -- like Doc said someone find us a good server so we can all play together.

I can't get on Multiplayer. IT says "creating account" for hours
and never does anything. Oh well, I've played the single player
at least 50 times and it's not getting old :smile:

I love to be medic, but I'll be sniper for you. All the effects
and stuff just rock my world, the game is SO imersive...

I'm setting aside $50 for this title.

I can't get on Multiplayer. IT says "creating account" for hours
and never does anything. Oh well, I've played the single player
at least 50 times and it's not getting old :smile:

Try retreiving the account with the same information you used to create it. That should work.

I like the Sniper, and the engineer.. Special Forces guys rock if you
want to take out radar and stuff ike that.. because they can lay down
the charge and blow it.

Im a horrid pilot.. but I can drive really good. I guess I will be the Engineer or the Sniper or the Special Forces op.

what server and what time.. im game!

Or MSN me and we can hook up.

Try retreiving the account with the same information you used to create it. That should work.

How would I go about doing that? When I click multiplayer all I can do is create an account. Hmmmmmmmm

then create one, you have created one right?

Mine is MuhnayShot

I can't create one though. That's my problem, I enter the info and then it hangs.

There's a little tab next to "manage accounts" that says "retrieve account"

Oh and MS... so you have AIM or IRC? I don't have MSN...

Its doen through GameSpy, if You are entering a Nickname you have used through GameSpy, the password and email adress have to be the same as that nickname on GameSpy.

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• Otto von Bismarck

There's a little tab next to "manage accounts" that says "retrieve account"

Oh and MS... so you have AIM or IRC? I don't have MSN...

Yeah I have AIM. I need to install Trillian again.. JRMICDEES is my aim name.

Well I'm heading down to the computer fair this weekend, hopefully
picking myself up 6800GT if the price is right. Then its BF2 time!

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Agent Smith said:
hopefully picking myself up 6800GT if the price is right.

Don't forget to look at the X800's while you are at it. :biggrin:

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No shader model 3.0 support on this generation ATi cards though - the wise money is on the nVidia's this time around :razz:

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<DIV class=quotetext>No shader model 3.0 support on this generation ATi cards though - the wise money is on the nVidia's this time around :razz:
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So the 6800 is more advanced? News to me..

I like both cards so its no biggie which I'd have, assuming I'd buy one.

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It supports a newer version of shader technology, but to be fair there
are only about two games out at the moment that can actually use it.
Give it a year and there will be far more.

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