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Battlefield 2 1.50 Beta Patch

Post by Dan @ 11:18am 22/04/09 | 14 Comments

Showing they haven't forgotten one of their old but still popular games, EA have released a new update for Battlefield 2. It's important to note that this is still a beta release, so you might want to hold off updating unless you only want to play on test servers for now.

Chief among the additions are a new map "Blue Pearl" and official support for widescreen resolutions (why did this take so long?). Here's a few of the included gameplay tweaks:

AA targeting tweaked to make it more effective.
Added checks to prevent "runway grieving".
Various changes made to prevent cheating.
Tweaked the hit detection, hits will be more accurate to the model.
Increased the time to go prone after jumping from 0.3 seconds to 0.7 seconds

You can download the v1.50 beta 1 patch locally (1.25GB) from AusGamers. This is an incremental patch, so you'll also need 1.41 (550MB) installed.

Tags: battlefield 2 / patch

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Freewheelin
Posted 11:20am 22/4/09

It's not backwards compatible with 1.41 ranked servers, so unless you know what you're doing with the registry and backing up your 1.41 install, you might not want to stick this beta on.

Internode have beta servers though, and GameArena currently doesn't but they might soon.

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Martz
Posted 11:59am 22/4/09

a couple years too late I'm afraid.. played this game to death for 2 years, so over it now...

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Trauma
Posted 01:27pm 22/4/09

I quit this due to the large amount of data used per hour and the widespread cheating, anyone think it worth trying this? Has the cheating gotten worse?

"Increased the time to go prone after jumping from 0.3 seconds to 0.7 second"

Big big plus there. I ******* hated that ****, jump, prone, aimbot to the head... back to AA for me.

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MoGs
Posted 01:29pm 22/4/09

People are still playing this?????

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Trauma
Posted 01:38pm 22/4/09

Well 2142 sucked, so yea I guess.

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MoGs
Posted 01:39pm 22/4/09

Sooo true mate ... 2142 was so ridiculous that i think they actually had to offer money back to people cause it was so shite.

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Freewheelin
Posted 02:32pm 22/4/09

theres still stacks of people playing this game. probably a few will come back when this patch is out of beta since it supposedly stops a lot of the more common cheating that was happening.

apparently people are still able to do some of the shit things though

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athzhr
Posted 02:39pm 22/4/09

I used to play the shit out of this game.

Fucken hated it when half your team sat on the airstrip waiting for a jet to spawn while you got raped in the battlefield.

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Yerolo
Posted 05:49pm 22/4/09

Widescreen support at last !!

They need a way to turn off that damn radio chatter, im sure there are people there that just spam that thing all the time:

'Enemy infantry spotted'
'Enemy infantry spotted'
'Enemy infantry spotted'
'Enemy infantry spotted'
'Enemy infantry spotted'
'Enemy infantry spotted'

arggghhh

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Crakaveli
Posted 06:17pm 22/4/09

Agreed yerolo. That shit was so annoying. I'd still be playing this but i lost my CD :(.

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