Getting involved (and crushed) in Battlefield 2 lately. Here's a decent community site with info, maps, forums, newbie guide, etc.

newbie guide

Total Battlefield 2

Server Remote Administrator

Video tips from CNET

Start game NOT in fullscreen mode. Allows to see chat, etc. behind, and minimize the game.
Basically, change the shortcut to have "+fullscreen 0" ... instead of "1"

Tweaks to make for optimal game performance. Tweak Guides

Stats

• BF2Tracker
• BF2S (mostly same data as bf2tracker, but with some "last played info")
• another stats site (more up to date for now since the Special Forces exp pack is screwing with the feed for bf2tracker and bf2s)
• BF2Stats.nsvr.info - one page of high level stats, and live sig
  

Mods

Multiplayer cooperative, 32 bots on a map sized for 64, additional control points, vehicles, many airports opened up

ahh - supposdely cooperative play is unsupported by EA games. However, a single player game can be joined by IP address. Will have to try this out on my LAN...

Yep, works. Just have to open some ports if your buddies are coming in from outside the firewall. from memory, verify these: 16567, 29999, 4711 (this last one is new as of patch 3)

The guys at Rising Conflicts are coming up with the uber mod. Not done yet (as of 12/20/05), but screenshots look great.

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VOIP
Intern and I were in a game last night with a dude that was using the built-in VOIP. We usually just hookup over Google Talk, so we've been oblivious to the VOIP in the game. It's very cool actually, and automatically talks to your squad, and lowers volume of surrounding sounds. This thread talks about configuration, and the facts about who can talk to who.

I haven't confirmed mine is working yet, but apparently have to press "B" to talk? Wish it was just voice activated...

Lastly, we were struggling on how to CHAT with someone while in-game. Turns out, you just use one of J,K,L to chat with ALL, TEAM, SQUAD. [see options / audio] (I was trying a bunch of obsolete commands inthe command console (~), with no luck.

Having more trouble with in game VOIP. Some saying since patch 1.0.3, but now we're up to 1.1.2 I think (compatible with special forces exp pack). Anyway - Ventrillo is apparently yet another voip client. Have to look into it - not sure if it requires server software support, or P2P like Skype, etc.

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How the kit unlocking system works.

Here is a list of the ranks, and points needed to acquire each. (I've got a LOT of work ahead of me)

Server Groups

Global Conflict has organized games modeled around a map of Europe. Will have to look into this.

Live Sig

Check out my BF2tracker sig (is this live? does the global score still say 183?):
Nope - I'm up to 212 now, and no update on the pic -- looks like it's a static snapshot. Bummer.

Update 10/18/05 - well NOW it shows 219, so I guess the data IS live. bf2tracker was down a few times the past couple days, so maybe that was the cause...



...and here's another one, this one from bf2s.com, actually comes in 4 different pieces
(this one is only as up to date as how often I hit the site - he only refreshes stats data when we hit the site)





And here is yet another sig, from bf2stats.nsvr.info

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Special Forces Expansion Pack

Looks like this is old news (from July), but there's already talk of the expansion pack for BF2. Apparently this one has all special ops dudes. I'll never get good at the original BF2 before it's already time to buy the expansion.

Update 11/09/05 - sure enough, the Special Forces expansion pack is now available for purchase on the EA site. Apparently you can buy, and download the bits now, but can't play until 11/22. Sweet, this will give me something to do instead of Xbox 360 (they come out the same day) -- while I wait for my company to fulfill their promise to buy us each a 360.

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Classic chopper pilot story from my buddy Intern Joe"

so funny, i jumped in and instantly, 6 dudes were in there with me and i was the pilot. after a shaky start, someone asks "count, you know how to fly this thing?" i dont know how to answer and landed in the middle of the battlefield, with everyone alive, but it was funny as hell

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Other Links

Clan strategy planning tools. Supposedly real-time drawing on map, icons, arrows, etc.

Killer panorama pics / views of BF2 and other games - check it out.

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