EA and Dice have announced that the long, long, long awaited Battlefield v1.50 patch is
almost ready to be released and will be available next Wednesday (Australian time):
After nearly a year of development and three public beta tests Battlefield 2 v1.50 is ready for release. The update will be released on Tuesday 1st September at 5pm UK, 6pm Europe. Stay tuned for release announcement in the near future!
As part of Update 1.50 we are glad to announce that not only is Highway Tampa now a required install included in the update but Euro Forces (Great Wall, Taraba Quarry and Operation Smoke Screen) and Armored Fury (Midnight Sun, Operation Harvest and Operation Road Rage) is now FREE for all Battlefield 2 players. Including the brand new map, Operation Blue Pearl this brings EIGHT new maps that everyone can play and will be added to ranked Battlefield 2 servers world wide. The Booster Pack content is included in the update and has made the file just over 2Gb in size.
We will, of course, have the patch as soon as it is released.
Posted 02:01am 28/8/09
This is just another reason why paying for downloadable content is a crock of s***....
Posted 02:12am 28/8/09
Posted 02:19am 28/8/09
I bought Armoured Fury and enjoyed it cept that the community hadn't and was hard to get a game going...
Haven't touched BF2 in almost as long because of it - that and no offical support for wide screen.
Paying for content that should be factored into original retail price segregates the community so badly and forces the game into an early grave.
Their business model should be reversed.
A game this old if you still want patches (read: expansions) etc, is when you should ask for a couple of bucks per patch. Not on content that should be part of initial purchase price and considered a patch.
Posted 02:27am 28/8/09
Posted 02:33am 28/8/09
I just wanted to test the water and was, in the long term disappointed.
Posted 02:37am 28/8/09
Posted 06:15am 28/8/09
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Posted 08:03am 28/8/09
Interestingly though, whilst 1.5 is giving away Euro and Armored it doesn't mention Spec Forces.
Posted 09:56am 28/8/09
All it does is fracture the existing game community in to smaller and smaller groups being only able to play only that specific module.
On the point of COD5, I am really disappointed with how much is still so very wrong with that game. Asus Xonar users still can't play with sound. :(