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The beta for testing the new 1.50 update for Battlefield 2 is now available for everyone who want to help out and test the new patch. It contains a new map, Operation Blue Pearl, along with a number of security updates.
The beta will be running for at least a couple of weeks, to give the developers enough time to gather feedback from the beta testers (and hopefully make changes if that’s needed). Feedback is welcome on the EA forums .
The current list of changes can be seen below. A deeper explanation on design choices made for the new map have been posted here on Battlefield.com, and screenshots can be viewed here.
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Battlefield 2 Update v1.50
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FEATURES
- Additional support for Windows Vista.
- Added Highway Tampa as a required map.
- Added a new map called Operation Blue Pearl.
- Added support for Widescreen resolutions
- Added support for the Novint Falcon controller - http://www.novint.com
GAMEPLAY TWEAKS
- Changes made to both the J10 and F35B to make them more balanced. Please note that the J10 is a superior dogfighter to the F35B and as such these two aircraft will never be equally matched.
- AA targeting tweaked to make it more effective.
- Added checks to prevent "runway grieving".
- Various changes made to prevent cheating.
- Tweaked the hit detection, hits will be more accurate to the model
- Increased the time to go prone after jumping from 0.3 seconds to 0.7 seconds
- Fixed G36E HUD during sprinting to match other weapons.
This news is from yesterday already (wink Hacke) but I am currently downloading the full patch to the local download database here. So whoever is interested can use the local DL area for a fast access. As it seem most of the current available download places are overloaded and you need to queue a long time to get a slow dl rate.
I got lucky with a public dl link not famous to everyone and I am downloading already at a decent speed.
DICE reported last night to release the Linux based server patch files as well during today. In case that would happen, I will alter our BF2 conquest unranked server to run the 1.5 beta patch. Those which are interested in testing the new bf2.
Hunter
