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Battlefield 2 v1.2 patch

Posted by Björn February 14, 2006

EA has released a new patch for "Battlefield 2," bringing the modern war simulation game by Digital Illusions up to version 1.2.

The 81.59MB 1.12 - 1.2 patch can be downloaded at Electronic Arts, 3dgamers, FileCloud, FileFront, FileNuts, FilePlanet, Gamer's Hell, GameGuru, or Worthplaying.

SPECIAL FORCES AND THE PATCH

It is very important to remember that the Special Forces executable is an earlier version of the game. If you have purchased Special Forces after you have installed the patch, you will need to reinstall patch 1.2 after installing Special Forces.

BUG FIXES & GAMEPLAY TWEAKS

Dolphin Diving is no longer possible
Players can no longer jump and shoot at the same time
"Prone Spamming" is now fixed
"Sprint exploit" is now fixed
Helicopter now carry 8 missiles rather than 14
TV-Guided missile now have a shorter range
Damage decreased from M134
Hit points on all air vehicles has been reduced
AA missile lock has been improved
All support kit weapons have been adjusted
All Sniper rifles have been adjusted
Sa80 has been adjusted
G3A3 has been adjusted
Reload while sprinting has been enabled
Medic defibrillator paddles have been adjusted. They now reload while not in use.
SCAR-L reload sound has been fixed
Server setting to allow friendly fire to be off on mines without affecting other weapons.
Server search filters now work properly
All mines (Claymore, Anti-vehicle, C4) can now be picked up by the same class that dropped it by using the "G" key.
Mines can no longer be destroyed with other explosives
Bug in MP7 fire rate fixed. Ammo count increased and mag count and damage decreased
Flash bang effect radius decreased
Added unlocks for Sniper and AT kits
Fixed a bug in terrain rendering with night vision, whereby terrain was still dark in dark areas.
Fixed a bug whereby mods that are not bf2 or not xpack permutate shaders every time a level is loaded.
Fixed a bug whereby non-xpack mods cannot use xpack shaders.
Fixed bug in TV guided missiles of Havoc helicopter
The LAV25 no longer shoots through penetrable materials.
Vehicles no longer disappear when viewed from some vehicles with a HUD (e.g. Tanks).
Performance gain found in static mesh rendering.
Detonation radius from grenade launcher explosions has been reduced.
Grenade launcher projectiles now have a minimum distance.
Decreased Flashbang count from 4 to 3
Replaced the existing Czech Flag with the correct one in the front end

EXPANSION OF RANKS

Ranks have now been expanded to allow for players to rank up to General

NEW FEATURE

VISIBLE UAV

The UAV that is placed by Commanders will now include a visual element. An actual UAV will appear within the UAV detection radius and circle the area. Players will be able to shoot it down, bringing the UAV detection to a premature end. The Commander will be able to continue placing UAVs once the timer resets, as per current design.

KNOWN ISSUE

ATI CROSSFIRE CARDS

Crossfire cards with 256 Megs of memory, running in CrossFire mode will run out of memory at very high resolution settings. On very high resolutions, such as 1920x1440 with 6x antialiasing. In CrossFire mode the ATI drivers are more restrictive about where resources are allocated, and as a result run out of memory sooner than with a single board. This running out of memory causes the device context creation to fail. The result is that the game just sits in a loop with a black screen. If you experience a context creation failure change your resolution to a lower setting (e.g. 1024x768 or even lower).

IMPORTANT MESSAGE REGARDING BATTLEFIELD 2: EURO FORCE AND MULTIPLAYER

All three Battlefield 2: Euro Force levels are configured for singleplayer as well as 16 and 32 players multiplayer. 64 players multiplayer is not supported.