not sure if its just for pre-orders or for everyone?

w00p! one day early!

So when does it officially come out then?

tomorrow

and i'm guessing you'll need a ligit cd key to play online ?

*shakes fist*

Correct.

Also, EB have the CD version available today for $99 and the DVD is only for pre ordered.

EB at Redbank have both CD and DVD versions available right now.

Oh btw, long time reader, but havent bothered to post, so hello!

Yeah but f*** driving to redbank to get it :P

Wonder if chermside has it

its not as good as i had hoped

I still cant decided whether to buy it or not.

my supplier says release day is 2005-06-22 and the DVD version is tomorrow 2005-06-23

DVD version is available at chermside and indropilly and redbank apparenlty.

I rang Chermside and Indro, and its going fast

Your supplier lies!

last edited by Eds at 10:36:23 22/Jun/05

it came out on the 21st in the US which was probably why the authentication servers were being slammed last night.

It looks like it is officially released today in australia, since most stores are selling it and they got stock yesterday afternoon.

Isn't that date in the title next year?? Made wtf lol for a second

Pre ordered, picking it up in an hour ok maddc***.

heh, yeah... fixed date

I know of one store here in canberra that has already sold out of DVD versions.

I am buying with loyalty rewards from my credit card and the only decent shop i can redeem is myer. megamart doesn't have it yet... no idea when they will. fkn department stores.

This is the only pc game i've ever been tempted to buy.

I held my urges againt Doom 3 and HL2. Although i'm feeling weak at the kneez with this #1 american killer game =(

It's not that different from BF1942 imho.
I hope that this version will get some great mods because the mods really made the original battlefield better.


last edited by Dopefish at 13:45:20 22/Jun/05

it's cool. In one game i've already got my basic medic award and am ranked 500,000th overall :-)

oh well, back to work :(

How f***ing GAY!!!

The retail edition doesn't support CO-OP !

Dice, you f***ING retards....

You start a single player game and people can join it.

USed to work in demo, doesn't seem to work in Retail...

I got a house full of people attempting to join my single player game as I type..

I'd say (hope) user error.

Has anyone else been able to get this to work??

Main reason we all went out an bought the game...

Don't you have to start a multiplay server to get co-op going and change the bot number and ratio?

Err guys, EA have stated that THERE IS NO COOP mode avaliable

What I'm asking is -
Has anyone been able to find a way to enable this...

If not, I'm gonna take it back cause I don't want to have another *online only* f***ing game...

Whats the other maps like ? any other teams besides the MEC and the US ? i heard there's a gook team in there as well ? what are their weapons like ? and wouldn't it be funny listening to chinese commands ? DUMA KININGGLA BITESU DOY MOY!!!

T7 Concepts have excess copies of the CD version they're trying to get rid of for $89, available now, if you want one, give em a buzz on 3865 6220

If there's no co-op, then I aint gonna bother getting it either. Half the fun was getting a bunch of mates up against bots, especially if you didn't have enough players for a proper LAN.

8-(

heh, I payed $73 for mine and got the DVD version & the logicraptech headphones

Expect a few dodgy punkbuster kicks as well... I keep getting kicked for *loosing key packets* or wtf ever that means...

DUMA KININGGLA BITESU DOY MOY!!!

hahah something like that.

Expect a patch within 48 hours of release.

Where From HERMI? I payed $89 at EB...

Had a mate who has connections that let him get things for himself an his flatmates at cost or something

Sorry, all you guys will have to pay retail (unless you know someone who can help)

What the dongs? No Co-op? Thats pathetic. What the f*** do game developers have against co-op these days? I mean its not like it'd be a whole lot of extra work for them, just give us the ability to start lan servers using the single player maps, everything is already in place to do that!

Maybe theres some shadow organisation out there, secretly paying off developers to leave co-op out of their games.

cant you just start a SP server and join?

^^

USed to work in demo, doesn't seem to work in Retail...
I got a house full of people attempting to join my single player game as I type..

Also, even if it did work, you're limited to the 16 player maps used in single player =\

Hopefully with this great new scripting system they've built in (the one that they ban you for making mods with), someone will come up with a way to put proper co-op support in for all the maps.

somebody think of the gamers...

There is no f***ing way im going to pay $100 for a game without co-op.

Bunch of f*****s

What the dongs? No Co-op? Thats pathetic. What the f*** do game developers have against co-op these days?

Maybe they arnt putting any form of co-op in their games because no one else is and no one knows how to copy the idea yet. The games that do have it may not get a big enough response for it so it is forgotten. :D

After a bit of googling, it seems the justification for no co-op is that 90% of online Battlefield games are played in Conquest mode, so they didn't see the point. Of course, they're happily ignoring the fact that most co-op games happen on lan, not online.

$100 for a game, seriosuly if they priced games reasonably maybe they'd sell more and stop piracy

100,000 units at $50 is the same as only selling 50,000 at $100

understandably there is probably alot of people that need to be paid and people have spent long time developing the game and coding it and all that other s***, but still the people that get the biggest chunk of the pie are the ones that publish the game, not the f***ing ones that made/developed it


last edited by HeardY at 22:24:28 22/Jun/05

Whos selling it for $100?

$85.95 at gameswarehouse

Has anyone found a crack for it yet because im swapping between san andreas and battlefield 2 all the time and sick of changing disks - can someone link me to a working one please?

last edited by fat at 23:26:05 22/Jun/05

there are many san andread cracks. crack it and keep using the bf key.

... it seems the justification for no co-op is that 90% of online Battlefield games are played in Conquest mode, so they didn't see the point.

Translation: People will hand over cash to buy their games whether or not co-op is included, so they "didn't see the point".

For some games, say Doom3/HL2, I understand that it might be difficult to hack on co-op, as single-player mode has many in-game scripted sequences and cutscenes that are designed to be viewed from only one viewpoint.

But for BF2, there is no excuse for lack of co-op. It can easily be implemented by writing up some server-config presets and allowing you to specify how many bots you want, to keep it simple.

f*** developers these days. Sure, they are probably under alot of financial pressure to spit a game out quickly, but still ... f*** paying for that kind of 'service'.

But for BF2, there is no excuse for lack of co-op. It can easily be implemented by writing up some server-config presets and allowing you to specify how many bots you want, to keep it simple.

It already was implemented ... they actually had to remove features.

Yeah, as I understand it, everything is there to make a co-op mode, the only reason it doesn't have one is because they only bothered giving the bots pathing info for the 16 player maps. So all it would really require for it to be co-op is pathing info for the other maps, and a new game mode in the drop down box when you're creating a server that loads the single player maps as multiplayer maps with bots. I mean, I dont know how to do it myself, but you really wouldn't think that would be an incredible amount of work.

There isn't a co-op mode, but if you want to play 8/8 co-op you can still do the exact trick that I suggested last week.

Xyzzy and I just had a game vs bots and it worked fine. There where mods (or modding info) about how to increase the maximum number of bots in a game.

I wonder how much information Python has access to. It might be nice to play around with the AI logic a bit (the only thing I haven't dabbled in at uni).

Yeah, but still only limited to the 16 player maps which is gay.

Goddammit, noobs downstairs were leaving a s***load of filters on which prevented them from seeing the server..
It's all good people, Co-Op works in the same manner as in the demo

Noob flatmates =)

PS: Client Players cannot punish co-op host for TK's either =)
Host can still punish *grin*

last edited by HERMITech at 11:17:47 23/Jun/05

went to big w earlier today, they had bf2 there, the cd version, just the cases. I opened one up and bam there was the cdkey, i coulda got about 8 cdkeys if i was that way inclined. Morons

Go back and fetch me one :P

Actually, had nothing to do with filters...
They were trying to find a LAN address through the browser and weren't doing what I said.. Only reason I didn't try it on another machine was that any other game is laggy as hell when someone else serves on a non dedicated machine (even with bigger systems believe it or not). Mebe it's cause I got 1.5Gb of dual channel happening and raid 0?

Awesome, I wasn't gonna grab a copy if it didn't support co-op.

Don't scare me again like that Hermy

8-)

Yeah, I guess I freaked out an panicked... Still don't know why I didn't get one of them to start a sp match an see if I could join..
Would have saved a thousand dummy spits - meh, I feel like a noob by association: Hang on - wait, I just realised the problem!
My flatmates are WoW players and *inserts any deffamatory bits that flatmates can think up for themselves that don't involve them getting quests for the obvious answers*

My flatmates are WoW players

I'm so sorry to hear that. My heart goes out to you :(

man, living with ppl who play wow would be f***ing sick. sept id be the hugest nerd ever then.

this game worth buying? whas it like online?

I boughting it today, its rock n awesome :)

rock n awesome
thats gold

kick'n'rad is also rock'n'awesome too!

In their defence (the three that actually live here), when they aren't playing WoW (or before the gay game came out, they were pretty diehard CoD or Desert Combat and (during WoW server crashes) they return to the fold

Tis sad to see how the mighty have fallen :(

On the topic of co-op, had a bit of a dig around in the scripts for the missions tonight, and adding bots to the 32 and 64 player maps doesn't look too complicated, but the biggest hitch is adding in all the extra pathing info necessary for the bots to navigate the bigger versions of the maps (and also so they know where the flags and stuff are and can use proper strategies).

All the pathing nodes are defined using sets of 3d co-ordinates, but theres absolutely no reference as to where in the map the co-ordinates refer to. I was hoping there might be some kind of console command that would tell you your co-ordinates as you run around a map, because that at least would give you some way to know what co-ordinates to plug in for some new pathing nodes, but theres nothing like that I can find. Maybe when the mod tools come out there'll be a way to load in the maps that come with the game and get the co-ordinates needed, heres hoping.

fark me dead it's DC on steroids...


nice to see there's a hack for older vid cards :D



there's life in the old P3 yet :P

how the hell do u make a damn multiplayer account it keeps saying that it has already been taken

AmA, did you try the demo? If so, use the "retrieve account" function

fark me dead it's DC on steroids

Careful koopz, saying things like that might get AceTames shrinkage excited about something other than another mans body =)
Either way, we'll have to setup a decent LAN in the very near future - I'll let you know just as soon as we organise it

arr got it 2 work yayyyyyyyyyyy