Battlefield 2: Special Force (Expansion Pack)

koneko

Good price for the expansion pack, for anyone that's interested:

Battlefield 2: Special Force (Expansion Pack) (CD)
EUR 20.99
http://www7.cdwow.ie/detail_results_3.php?product_code=20557&subcat=pc

Battlefield 2: Special Force DVD Edition (Expansion Pack)
EUR 22.99
http://www7.cdwow.ie/detail_results_3.php?product_code=23392&subcat=pc

Ponster

€21 is €9 more than I paid for it!

nice find koneko

Berns

£9.99 paid for mine in play.com , after a £5 off voucher from daily mirror last week. Just got the voucher the day b4 it was posted.So hadda cancel & re order But £5 less off card

koneko

Ponster wrote:

€21 is €9 more than I paied for it!

nice find koneko

More, or did you mean less?

Ponster

Jesus...I'm all over the place today :=)

Yeah. I preordered with EA Downloader for €30


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wideangle

How long is the wait on delivery from play or cd wow.Cd wow tend to be longer going by my experience.

AnCapaillMor

unsually cheap for an add-on for EA, normally they try to screw everyone.

Static M.e.

Game intro is so sweet !!

just trying to find a server now. ..

kinkstr

Any first impressions?

Static M.e.

.. I cant get on to play .. Gaming with 3 friends and trying to figure out a way to only DL the game once (like a patch) and share it but when we do we have key issues when we all try and enter the same game .. If anyone has a fix to this it would be great to hear it. We all have legit copies just want to save bandwidth and play asap )
Sorry to turn this in to a tech query, desperate for help )

Game looks sweet tho ) flashbangs are fun .. jetskis are really fast !
Thats all i got

Hope you all enjoy

Ponster

When you download it you also download a cd_key that's specific to that download. So you all have the same cd_key which explains why you can't all play on the same server.

You can't download it once and share it around like a patch.

Ponster

kinkstr wrote:

Any first impressions?

It's what, IMHO, BF2 ghould have been from the start.

whiskeyman

I dont have SF and really dont intent to at the mo.
What disadvantage am I going to be if people have SF on my maps?
Any "super-weapons" I'm going to get slaughtered by or something to look out for?

Ponster

Here's a good review :

http://www.totalbf2.com/forums/showthread.php?t=42814


Whiskeyman, The F2000 is probably the best of the unlocks but remember that they are just new weapons and not better weapons as such. It'll be the flashbangs that make the biggest difference I guess.

magick

im not going to bother buy it, i just downloaded the patch and killed some mec guy and stole his weapon, wasnt impressed, though the flashbangs are nice

whiskeyman

magick wrote:

impressed, though the flashbangs are nice

And really making it impossible for anyone without the pack!! :mad:
I was in a tank and the screen just went all white.... I'd no idea what the heck was going on.
Around 5 seconds later I could see and realised it must have been a flashbang... but I was in a tank FFS!!! :mad:
Any servers about that play without SF?

magick

And really making it impossible for anyone without the pack!!
I was in a tank and the screen just went all white.... I'd no idea what the heck was going on.
Around 5 seconds later I could see and realised it must have been a flashbang...

maybe u have a crap graphics card?! hehe just kidding

but yeah i understand where ur coming from , inside a tank is a little strange for a flashbang to take effect, but i think ppl without the pack will not have too much fuss, their isnt any all powerful weapon on the pack that dominates the game.

Ponster

whiskeyman, less than half of the official ranked EA servers are going SF I believe, so no problems sticking to BF:2 v1.12

whiskeyman

Ponster wrote:

whiskeyman, less than half of the official ranked EA servers are going SF I believe, so no problems sticking to BF:2 v1.12

nice one
thanks for that.
I'd rather play with other who dont have it, or play with other who all have it (if I get it).

Ponster

From TotalBF2 and I have yet to test it :




Find a friend who has SF and get them to log onto the account server using your nick and password, and then have them load a map. After that, have them go into BFHQ and unlock the new weapons for you.

The next time you play BF2, you'll have access to all the unlocks without having to pay for or install SF.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Just got it today, no servers up at all with the expansion pack, what gives? Just playing some single player missions, but it's as laggy as hell.

Captain Trips

Mae Billions Heater wrote:

Just got it today, no servers up at all with the expansion pack, what gives? Just playing some single player missions, but it's as laggy as hell.

There were a good few servers (> 10) on wednesday night. I don;t tick the Same Version Only box though as it never works for me.

SF servers are in green 2, BF2 servers are in red 2. Check out the Mulitplay.co.uk homepage for a list of decent ping UK servers. They have quite a few listed including 64 player (lots of 64 player actually).

Jim

Just to let ye know the TiG 20 man server is currently running SF.

82.195.136.136:16568

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Cheers folks, I will try the TIG server and see what happens. I will log onto that sit also and see what other servers are available.

Ponster

Captain Trips, there are about 600 Sf servers out there. What filters are you using?

Or just use ASE to save you the trouble.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

First of all, what the hell is ASE?

Secondly, I used the normal filters i used with the origional BF2, I got nothing. Then I turned off all filters and I still got nothing, well a sh!tload of red ones...

Jim

You have to repatch to 1.12 btw.

Mirror

ASE = All Seeing Eye. Taken over by Yahoo sometime last year unfortunatly.

Private Joker

Jimeatsmenu wrote:

You have to repatch to 1.12 btw.

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typical ea , bring out a game you can't play out of the box,

AnCapaillMor

Speaking of out of box, i went around limk today trying to buy it and according to game they only got in 5 copies, both gamestops got 2 copies each, WTF!!!!, so i'm currently downloading which pisses me off because if i'd known about the shortage i'd have predownloaded last week.

Private Joker

I got mine in extravision

The Real B-man

Yup theres limted stock everywhere got mine yesterday had to look everywhere for it!!

AnCapaillMor

Had it dl'ed by 10.30, played a few games well impressed so far, a bit overwhlemed at times. Kept being put to the mec side, that F2000 or whatever its name is a savage gun, got killed by so many times, stole one once and its really nice. RPG is good, but after using it i realise how cool the guided rockets are.

Drapper

AnCapaillMor wrote:

Had it dl'ed by 10.30, played a few games well impressed so far, a bit overwhlemed at times. Kept being put to the mec side, that F2000 or whatever its name is a savage gun, got killed by so many times, stole one once and its really nice. RPG is good, but after using it i realise how cool the guided rockets are.

anyone got any good screeenshots to post up? undecided if I wannna get it !

AnCapaillMor

Ropes handy, can get up on building bridges you were never able to reach before.


Nightvisions cool

Ponster

ASE = All Seeing Eye

IMHO once you use it once you'll wonder how people could ever continue to use the internal browser.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Sorry I used ASE before and I thought it was crap...

This is the very bugged. Do EA do this on purpose or something?

Good weapons though, not liking the removing of the m203 on the assault...

Jim

Lack of a n00bt00b ftw!

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

I'm sure that means something to someone but what?

KdjaCL

not liking the removing of the m203 on the assault...

Jimeatsmenu wrote:

Lack of a n00bt00b ftw!

Translation

The removal of the grenade launcher that new players may use to annoy older players is a good thing for the future of the game and i such wholeheartdley agree with this choice.


kdjac

AnCapaillMor

KdjaC wrote:

Translation

The removal of the grenade launcher that new players may use to annoy older players is a good thing for the future of the game and i such wholeheartdley agree with this choice.


kdjac

Used it for the 1st time on saturday got to say i liked it, racked up about 30 kills with it on one map.

As for All seeing eye, i have'nt been able to get it work since EA started doing that stupid announcement thing. It's good for getting IP's at the mo, thats about it.

Another plus, the SF unlocks can be used in BF2, very handy but also very sneaky by EA.

Ponster

ASE works fine wince the 1.03 patch, you just have to modify the filters.txt yourself. I'll post up the mods if anyone is interested (but it doesn't seem to be the case which is IMHO weird).

Iamxavier I don't see how a browser filter that's faster than BF2 and allows yo to sort by country, ping, maptype, player numbers and finds your friends online could be crap?

jonski

Ponster wrote:

ASE works fine wince the 1.03 patch, you just have to modify the filters.txt yourself. I'll post up the mods if anyone is interested (but it doesn't seem to be the case which is IMHO weird).

I'm interested , I'm interested .

Ponster wrote:

Iamxavier I don't see how a browser filter that's faster than BF2 and allows yo to sort by country, ping, maptype, player numbers and finds your friends online could be crap?

To borrow a quote From Kdjac , Imho ASE ftw tbh

Being using it for about 3 years now and it's always one of the first programs that I install after a format .

John

Big Nelly

Any good server running this? downloaded full pre-install yesterday(transfer from laptop didnt work:mad: ) and ready to play today after work....everyone just joining random servers or any good ones???

Ponster

If you take a little time it's really, really easy to figure out actually. And that way you never have to ask anyone for ASE help again Smile


Open ASE and look at the window in the bottom right. It'll show you all the server info on which the filters are based. You'll notice that the server versions of SF and BF2 1.12 are no longer the same as 1.03

Edit your filters.txt, change the BF2 filter to look like this (don't enter username & password): The onely line that you actually have to modify is the JoinTemplate line.

Battlefield 2
ServerType: GS
RegKey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Electronic Arts\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\INSTALLDIR
ExeName: BF2.EXE
JoinTemplate: {EXEPATH} +joinServer {ip} +port {port} [ +username "{NAME}"][ +playerpassword "{PASSWORD}"] [ +password "{PASSWORD}"]
HostTemplate: {EXEPATH} +restart 1 +hostServer 1
Port: 29900
HostPort: 16567
Mutex: SV
Flags: LAUNCHER
WindowName: DIEmWin
1 if servertype != "GS" remove
2 if gamename ~!= "battlefield2" remove

Now gamever= 1.1.2554-356.0 so we can add this to the filters.txt file along with the other version types already present (1 & 1.1 & 1.2 & 1.03)

Battlefield 2\Version\1.12
Group: BF2VER
Mutex: BF2VER
1 if gamever != "1.1.2554-356.0" remove

The difference between normal BF:2 and SF servers is found in the variable gamevariant. It can be either equal to 'bf2' meaning a classic game or 'xpack' meaning a SF server.

So find the correct section of filters.txt that deals with BF2 mods (that's what SF is classed as for ASE) and add this :

Battlefield 2\Mods\Special Forces
JoinTemplate: {EXEPATH} +restart 1 +modPath mods/xpack +ignoreAsserts 1 +joinServer {ip} +port {port} [ +password "{PASSWORD}"]
Group: BF2MODS
Mutex: BF2MODS
1 if gamevariant ~!= "xpack" remove

Add the following to the end of the command line (Press F2\Games\Battlefield 2) so it looks something like this:

"C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\BF2.EXE" +username [TAG]username +playerPassword xxxxxxxxxxx

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

:rolleyes: Whatever that means...

WEll I just found that the ASE didn't exactly do it for me and it was faster/easier to go into the game itself...

I loved the M203, never used it close combat but I got extremely skillful with it. I think that part of the patch is a load of bullsh!t...

KdjaCL

Mae Billions Heater wrote:

:rolleyes: Whatever that means...

WEll I just found that the ASE didn't exactly do it for me and it was faster/easier to go into the game itself...

I loved the M203, never used it close combat but I got extremely skillful with it. I think that part of the patch is a load of bullsh!t...

He was just helping you to find a better and more useful tool to use for online games, EA changed it so ASE doesnt work right away. But if you think the in game browser is better well ummm k then.....


kdjac

Ponster

Personally I use BF2 Autoloader as it's free and supported by BF2 players (though often it's slower than ASE to retrive the master list. The nice thing is that it connects to the server only when there's a free slot and if not will wait until there is one