BF2 getting boosted, patch bugged

By Tim Surette, GameSpotPosted Feb 17, 2006 12:41 pm PT

Euro Force booster pack on schedule for release next week via downloader; v1.2 patch causing issues with Special Forces expansion.

Electronic Arts' Battlefield 2 is gearing up for another set of reinforcements. The first-person shooter has already received some new troops in the form of Battlefield 2: Special Forces. The expansion was released in November and was available in both retail stores and via the EA Downloader, the publisher's online distribution service.

Battlefield 2 fans need only hang on a little while longer until even more fresh troops arrive. The game's first booster pack, Battlefield 2: Euro Force, will be available via download on February 21 for $9.99. Included in the content, which is available only through the EA Downloader, will be several new weapons, vehicles, and kits.

Gamers who recently updated their copies of Battlefield 2 to version 1.2 may have noticed that the war is sometimes over before it begins. EA is aware of a bug that causes v1.2 to crash when gamers try to play two maps from the Special Forces expansion. All variants of Leviathan and the 32- and 64-player Night Flight maps are affected, and EA is working toward solving the problem.

Battlefield 2 is rated T for Teen and retails for $49.99. Battlefield 2: Special Forces requires Battlefield 2 to play and costs $29.99. GameSpot's reviews of the original and the expansion have more information.

46 Comments

  • mcllister

    Posted Jul 27, 2006 5:21 pm PT

    Well i think someone needs 2 role the dice and shake them up alittle. Ihope this gets 2 them somehow hint hint..........

  • bdog32

    Posted Mar 14, 2006 12:50 pm PT

    The EA downloader crashes everytime i try to open it.

  • silvya1980

    Posted Feb 21, 2006 12:44 am PT

    Ah, well. I was lured into buying SF by the 'more infantry combat' allegations, but I'm not falling for it with EF.

    The way the game switches between BF2 and SF is ridiculous (it basically launches the two games as if they were completely different games), and the (few) new feats in SF are all but worth the money I payed for it. The maps from SF are utter crap, and there is possibly one of 2 out of the lot which are worth playing. Moreover, SF special kits and abilities can not be used in regular BF2 games (which is fine, for the sakef of game balance), but new weapons are. And of course, SF brought new bugs along. In the end, SF was one of the few games I >>really

  • DavidCK

    Posted Feb 20, 2006 8:35 pm PT

    gellis1981: Nope, you are wrong, game publishers do set hard deadlines at some point. Yeah, DICE can still work after the deadline and release when they want to, but I'm pretty sure there's some loss for DICE (or any company) for not obeying a clear deadline. So if they have bugs in their game, EA is partly to blame also...

    Do you know that even toy makers loses tons of money if they can't deliver a shipment on time, to let's say Walmart? We are not talking hundreds of dollar here. Hope you learned something new. Welcome to the real world.

  • AngelB1ack

    Posted Feb 20, 2006 7:22 pm PT

    After installing the new patch I cant get my joystick to work ingame...lol figures. Before the patch it worked just fine and after..nada.

  • thefathobbit

    Posted Feb 20, 2006 1:52 pm PT

    did the new patch add new weapons or am i just easily confused ?

  • tigerjack

    Posted Feb 20, 2006 12:01 pm PT

    Hey... wait a minute. People sill play Bf2 SF?? I installed it played it for 4 hours, and never played it again. It was that bad. I play vanilla bf2 and ill be dammned if i pay for something that the modders make better and for free. EA: Give your head a shake, fix your game. You owe this to everyone who bought the base copy of the game. Fair is fair.
    Knowing EA/dice's track record, this booster will be just as lame as SF and just as buggy.

  • nauman_97

    Posted Feb 20, 2006 6:30 am PT

    bf 2 was such a great game and now expansions are ruining it !!!!!

  • Hell3ent

    Posted Feb 19, 2006 9:11 pm PT

    That being said, I haven't had any major problems with the latest patch, aside from the fact that it tried to force me to create a new account and reset all my controls and settings to the default. I'll still in all likeliness be picking up the booster pack...I'm a sucker for new content.

  • Hell3ent

    Posted Feb 19, 2006 9:08 pm PT

    EA may just be the publisher, but EA in all likelyhood sets the release date as well...most developers are at the whim of the publisher...if EA says "we want the game released in time for X-mas (example)", then DICE, if they want to retain EA as their publisher, will ship the game for x-mas. Same thing happened with Lucasarts and Obsidian Entertainment with KoTOR 2; the game was only 3/4 finished, but Obsidian didn't have the established powerbase to say "no". There aren't that many developers out there that have that power, outside of Valve, Bioware, or Rockstar, to name a few.

  • darth-revan

    Posted Feb 19, 2006 6:59 pm PT

    wow they dont fix the bugs and they think they can charge another 10$ from me f*** you EA!!!

  • CLDragonCL

    Posted Feb 19, 2006 6:35 am PT

    quoting gellis1981 "Do you think DICE is just going to say, well its half done and we need another 6 months and EA is going to say no"

    thats what they did to screw over Origin, so yes.

    O yea, and dont forget about that nasty memory leak right after the release.

  • goldeneye_basic

    Posted Feb 18, 2006 10:50 pm PT

    EA sucks because it bought the rights to publish the James Bond games and then srewed them up. Then it got the exclusive rights from the NFL to make the only NFL games. I'm not saying Madden is bad, I just would like competition forcing them to make the best game they can. I think 2K games should file an anti-trust lawsuit against the NFL and EA.

    BTW, you don't have to be logged in to Steam to play any Valve or Half-Life related games.

  • beesbreck

    Posted Feb 18, 2006 10:06 pm PT

    Well, $9.99 is not much to ask for, and it should enhance the game, although it has to be said that some games just give out this kind of additional content in update patches.

  • gellis1981

    Posted Feb 18, 2006 5:43 pm PT

    In the last 9 months since the game was orginal released..can anyone name any major bugs with the game besides this new bug with BF2:SF maps and the wrong color tags for friendlies? Real big bugs...bugs that effect the game while your playing...I'm not talking about Dolphin Diving.

  • gellis1981

    Posted Feb 18, 2006 5:35 pm PT


    NT082786: "You are the one that thinks that EA is a charity organization. It is true that the code and design of the game and the patches are in charge of DICE, EA as a publisher set the release dates, and that can affect the quaality of the games or patches. Just like a producer can affect the quality of a movie".

    Uh no..DICE is fully in charge on releasing the game when it's ready and when its ready for EA to publish it..that's how it works...Do you think DICE is just going to say, well its half done and we need another 6 months and EA is going to say no..release it right now...NO..DICE releases its games when their ready..not when EA says so. The only bug I seen since its release was the wrong color for friendlies, red instead of blue. Different topic BTW I guess its hard for some people to understand that a PC game is different from a console game due to the variety of different hardware and software each PC user uses, compared to a console with fewer bugs since everyone is using the same equipment.

  • ryokinshin

    Posted Feb 18, 2006 11:53 am PT

    ok EA didnt make bf2, the expansion or any of the patches, stop being idoits, they are the publishers not the developers

  • DamnedChild

    Posted Feb 18, 2006 10:56 am PT

    9 month after releasing the original game who could release an expansion without bugs ? That's it. they just wanna make more & more & more money. Who wants to pay 10$ for more buggs ?

  • NT082786

    Posted Feb 18, 2006 2:12 am PT

    gellis1981:
    You are the one that thinks that EA is a charity organization.
    It is true that the code and design of the game and the patches are in charge of DICE, EA as a publisher set the release dates, and that can affect the quaality of the games or patches.
    Just like a producer can affect the quality of a movie.

  • jakeboudville

    Posted Feb 18, 2006 12:44 am PT

    bf2 is always filled with bugs on the time

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