2 "cheaper" Booster Packs coming in early to mid 2006. Each will cost 10 USD (around RM 40 to 50). It will apparently be released as a download so no CD/DVD.

Excerpt from press release:
The Battlefield 2 expansion pack planned to be launched during spring 2006 is now replaced by two booster packs. The change means slightly lower project revenues during the fourth quarter 2005 than during the third, due to a lower development budget. The anticipation though is that this will be compensated by higher royalty revenues during the first six month 2006.

The expansion packs in the Battlefield series have new maps, vehicles and weapons. Each Battlefield booster pack will have new but fewer maps, vehicles and weapons. Instead they are sold to a lower price: 9.99 USD. An expansion pack is usually sold at between 19.90 USD and 29.90 USD. Today at least two Battlefield 2 booster packs are planned for spring 2006.

Full details here:

DICE Press Release

Battlefield 2: Euroforce Official Site

Battlefield 2: Armored Fury Official Site


Battlefield 2: Euroforce Screenshots & Armored Fury Screenshots












This post has been edited by Araes: Jun 7 2006, 12:59 PM

Can't expect me to pay to download online. i don't have MOLpoints or a PayPal account.

EA is kanasai.

Trying to make more money from us by releasing "cheap" maps

WHere is forgotten HOpe 2???
Faster release-lah,

I want my King Tiger and Panther tank.

Have anyone played the Tour of Duty?

Its another 'pay extra for cheap map'...

http://www.bf2combat.net/

Euro Force will be released on February 8th and sees the introduction of the all-new European Army in 3 new maps. Each Euro soldier will come equipped with a new primary weapon, from the FNP90 to the Benelli Tactical Shotgun. There will also be 4 new vehicles, including the (in)famous Eurofighter. The 3 maps are "Operation Smoke Screen", "The Great Wall of China" and "Taraba Quarry".


Features of Euro Force:

3 New Maps
- Operation Smoke Screen (EU vs. MEC)
- Taraba Quarry (EU vs. MEC)
- Great Wall (EU vs. PLA)

4 New vehicles
- Main Battle Tank - Leopard 2A6


- Main Battle Tank - Challenger 2


- Fighter - Eurofighter (Typhoon T1)


- Attack Heli - Eurocopter Tiger (Tiger HAP)


7 New Weapons
- HK53A3
- Famas

FAMAS: The FAMAS is a French made assault rifle. Its development began in the late 60's and it is in wide usage within the French military today. It uses a bullpup layout with the magazine at the back of the gun, behind the trigger and fires standard 5.56mm NATO round. Its low damage is balanced by its high rate of fire.

- SA80 L85A2
- SA80 L85A2 with UGL (AG-36)
- HK21
- Benelli M4
- P90

P90: The P90 was developed specifically as a PDW for vehicle crew members such as tank drivers. The P90 has very good power for its size and uses an SS190 round. It features a polymer stock with downward ejection of spent cases.

- L96A1

1 New Army
- European Union

1 new award
- European Union Special Service Medal


Armored Fury will be released on March 28th and the focus is on large mechanized battles, harking back to the El Alamein style maps on BF1942. There will be 3 new maps - "Midnight Sun", "Operation Harvest" and "Operation Road Rage" - but also 2 new vehicle classes. Attack Jets and Recon Helicopters, which can spot nearby enemy units, will make their debut.

Both packs will be available exclusively online at EA Downloader at $9.99 each (euro9.99 in Europe and �5.99 in the UK).

BF2 Newsletter

This post has been edited by Araes: Jan 12 2006, 01:00 PM

One question... how the heck do we pay for it??? For one, i don't have a credit card.

hey..how about someone pays it and burn the content into a disc and mailed it to us or secretly host it on the net,so we could DL it

Unfortunately its credit/debit card only.


That won't work because each download will come with a cdkey to unlock.

This post has been edited by Araes: Jan 12 2006, 11:12 AM

cant you use the ori bf2 cdkey or all of us share one?

Each new game will have a separate cdkey. Example, BF2 has one cdkey and Special Forces has another cdkey. Euro Force and Armored Fury will have their own seperate cdkeys.

If we all share 1 cdkey then we would be able to play single player only.

....

I will wait for PoE2

Yea it sucks, the Xbox BF2 gets a free booster pack download but we pc gamers have to pay.


*Edit* Errrr sorry actually the paying & downloading works for all countries inculding Asian countires only there are different methods of payments for different countries. I wish it would be different method to pay here instead of cc.

This post has been edited by Araes: Jan 12 2006, 12:57 PM

ea...capitalist pigs

Bloody EA doesn't know that they have a large client base in Asia. N00bers!!!!

for those without credit cards, just ask someone here with one to buy one for u. get him to d/l it and burn it on a cd for u.

too bad... when they release many booster pack...

the server will become less and less...

especially for malaysian...

like SF now, a decent server with ping less than 200ms is hard to get....

i like this one

abit of topic...

has anyone manage to use battle recorder?? which server supports it??

last time Internode has it, but I could not download it.... always connection rejected... dunno wy

Try and use server filter to find a server that supports recorder.

server filter is CRAP!...

work only once.... after that you need to restart the game...

i think they have made a fatal mistake here.. what they should do is release this booster pack (they have to make money) and integrate it into the main bf2, so that current server can load it no need to launch diff mode to join those map. what the hell are they thinking.

btw we cannot blame them 100% coz we just need to pay once and play not like they are charging by monthly or sumthin.

gamezone ada

ps : eurofighter ? looks good

gestapo, I couldnt get what you saying...

IF they integrate the booster pack in BF2, then how about gamers who never purchase the booster pack gonna play?

the player will get kick by the server when the booster pack map launch??

at the end of the day, it would still be the same or worse.... BF2 server is getting down in number due to integration of booster pack....

ea should spend more time and money fixing the already problem/bug/glitch plagued game,instead of making new stuffs

Yea. They should just give us a BIG patch. It's free and of course, everyone is required to dload it.

yes that is why i said its a fatal mistake.. having 2 3 or even 4 startups for bf2 is not fun for me.. without integration they simple dividing the ppl into diff mode.. hence lessen the number of players. maybe in the US no problem but for smaller parts of the world, my point is im playing BF2:SF while you playing BF2 when another paying this Euro where else NAK FULL KAN GAMEZONE PUN SUSAH

Look at BF1942, do you really think that EA is making money?
Tonnes of mod there already make your money well spent ever in your gaming history (Am I right?)

EA sucks...! GTH....

agree agree..
ea is sucking our money..

Stop playing! Go play RO and Gunbound! Oh come on.. even WoW has its probs.

lol its easy, go support their mod rather supporting their expansion. just prey my potential "waris" work in MYGO.. then confirm we got some kewl mods for GameZone ...

Yes. Current GZ mod is so un-cool..

waiting for desert conflict and PoE2

who's this "waris" you talking about?

from GS





WOLVERINES!!!!!!!!

Heh, finally they caved and set the maps in America.

armored fury should be ok la i guess

i thought this might be cool, that is of course until i learned you must pay for it.

I thought they were gonna make it like the add on packs that Epic release for UT, where they add more maps and stuff, absolutely FREE

To answer your statement this is what EA had to say.

Why are you choosing to only release new content as purchasable content? Why will you not do what you have done in the past and include new maps and other content as downloadable free patches? Don't you realize this is only infuriating people, and turning the old fan base away from the game?

Armando: There are many reasons for the shift. Obviously, it helps to offset the cost associated with the creation of the content. The idea came about through community requests for more content that was not expansion pack content. The community is always asking for more, but more isn't always an easy thing to deliver. This is an attempt to deliver more content without creating another expansion pack. It's a new approach and we're hoping it is successful.



So you see, EA, a multibillion dollar company compared to Epic cannot afford to release free content anymore.


Read the rest on TotalBf2

This post has been edited by Araes: Jan 13 2006, 05:12 PM

thats a bloody bullshit,the main reason is because they wanted our money,stop making excuses and shit,we all know what you want

Actually that is not bullshit.... that is the reason why they are billion dollar company...

if they release 'free' things... they would not become that rich....

same goes to other 'billion dollar company'..... the richer they are, the arrogent they be...

This is always all depend on the supply and demand of economy. Since there is no other games similar to BF2 and the demand of more new contents is high, there is no reason for them not to make money out of it.

If you were them, do you think you will be so stupid to forego the million dollars just to win some praises from BF2 fans?

There is official Euro Force website available.

BF2: Euro Force Official Site

It show off the renders of all the EU weapons(except P90), all EU soldier models and some of the EU vehicles(all seen before).

The EU assault kit gets the different version of Medic unlockable, the L85A2 with a grenade launcher attachment.

There are also other weapons shown like the HK-53A3(Medic), HK-21(Support), FAMAS(Spec Ops), Benneli M4(Engineer), L96A1(Sniper).

This post has been edited by Araes: Jan 22 2006, 10:16 AM

The latest news is that the Euro Forces booster pack has been delayed. No ETA has been given as of yet.


read here

Here's hoping the booster pack sales will flop & greedy EA will wake up and release it for free.

SF wasnt a big success


You could go to the forums in the link araes posted there,you will see that a lot of people was against this new booster pack

BF2: Euro Force is set to be released on Feb 23rd. This date could however be applicable to Germany only, then again since the 1.2 patch is due out soon this could very well be true.



Source:BFNation News

The EA downloader website has already been updated for Euro Force. It also states that anyone in US, Europe and Asia will be able to purchase it.

*EDIT* The 1.2 patch readme states that there is no 64 player mp maps for Euro Force, only 16 and 32. Sucks!

This post has been edited by Araes: Feb 15 2006, 01:45 AM

Not worth paying if you ask me...

memang suck

better stick to bf2 vanilla

aiya.... wit BF2 vanilla and SF oso cant finish... y wana buy Euro forces?
such a waste of $$....

The February BF2 Newsletter is out with a video of Euro Forces and some screenshots of Great Wall, Taraba Quarry and Operation Smoke Screen in a
singleplayer game.

Battlefield 2: Euro Force Screenshots - Great Wall





Battlefield 2: Euro Force Screenshots - Taraba Quarry





Battlefield 2: Euro Force Screenshots - Operation Smoke Screen






Euro Force Video

BF2 February Newsletter

This post has been edited by Araes: Feb 16 2006, 02:46 PM

Here are also some weapon renders from the newsletter



BENELLI: The Benelli M4 is a gas operated, smoothbore, magazine fed, semi-automatic Joint Service Combat shotgun. Its rail can accept laser illuminators, night vision, and standard scopes. It is also designed to fire a variety of shell sizes without modification or adjustment.

- Type: Semi Auto
- Damage: High
- Accuracy: Low



HK21: The HK21 is a general purpose, belt fed, large machine gun. It fires a 7.62 NATO round with a fire rate of 800 rounds per minute. This weapon may be used in either single shot or full automatic firing modes.

- Type: Full Auto/ Semi Auto
- Damage: Medium/High
- Accuracy: Medium



HK53A3: The HK53A3 is considered a compact assault rifle. It is derived from the larger HK33, which in turn was derived from the G3 rifle. Its abbreviated length of 590mm with stock retracted makes it very good for CQC.

- Type: Full Auto/ Semi Auto
- Damage: Medium/High
- Accuracy: Medium/High



SA80 L85A2: The L85A2 is the upgraded variant of the British SA80 assault rifle. The L85A2 design incorporates a bull pup configuration which locates the majority of the weapon's mass to the rear of the gun. It fired standard 5.56mm NATO rounds, and carries a 30 round clip.

- Type: Full Auto/Semi Auto
- Damage: Medium
- Accuracy: Medium/High

This post has been edited by Araes: Feb 16 2006, 02:47 PM

ooh sweet, Benelli! pump action shot-gun! woo hoo!

you could edit some of the files to get those euro force weapon in single player

here is a way to get euro forces weapon in SP

http://www.bf-games.net/index.php?action=d...=truekommentare

install it and go to the community menu,and select the custom mod,and enable it,you need to restart bf2.

this mod got an uninstaller,so dont worry

got this from gfaqs

This post has been edited by mobiusone: Feb 19 2006, 05:42 PM

who wants to buy Euro Force / Armored Fury, let me know.. i'll only charge RM30 for it

rm30?? using paypal?

crest.... with legit cdkey right? i.e non-registered key?

i want la.. rm 30 ok la tu.

eh menarik gak nie

beli la cpu mobo gfx n proc n ram aku lolz

hoh? nak upgrade lagi ker

Hopefully by Tuesday night can start buying/downloading it.

napa x reply pun..

Is RM30 comes with LEGIT KEY?

There should be a cd-key or some sort.
I what know from people who bought SF through EA Downloader is when you make you purchase they will send to a code so you can start downloading.

yupe... the cd-key will be provided when buy online...

but this is RM30... so that is why im asking whether its LEGIT and can be played on ranked server...

Of course its legit. It cost 9.99 USD, you cannot simply get from anywhere only directly from EA but I'm surprised Crest is giving discount

will server like pagn(neighbour low ping server) update their version?or any other server u guys been playing going to update it?if not,then whats the use we are updating?

now pagn only have 1 server which are 1.2ver.

if many ppl buying
count me in also

if my fav server pagn updating count me in also...

pagn suck
gamearena ftw eventhough got lag

i hate the pagn ping filter.

GA ftw

hello...hello...

x kan offer to sell Euro Force lepas tu hilang?

busy finding supply la kot

PAGN servers have low ping for me but the server really bad, when I playing in the 36 players server my FPS become slow and laggy, causing me pawned by others opponent easily but when playing in EA play and GameArena that's alot better but somehow there is one or two GameArena server can give you suddenly lag for 1 or 2 seconds which usually always lead your jet crashed.

dont mid to share with me gamearena server ping?I would like to try...

that only happend to me after a new round start

yea...i got that lag too.

I was like..wtf??
no one is using the damn phone

a few seconds later, everything went back to normal

That lag is normal if you have lousy rig...

Hahahah...

On the serious side, the lag happened because the data is still being read from the HDD, hence the slowdown..

If you have a raptor with raid 0 setup i can guarantee 100% you will not get the 1 to 2 sec lagg at startup


And yes... im still waiting for RM30 Euro Force

It is just happened during my last night flight in J10... when I aimed the aircraft carrier with evil smile diving like king fisher the just in sudden, kaboom the jet crashed on the deck...

err.. at the moment only 2 jer lah.. since i got USD20 in my paypal account, & dunno wut to do about it..

so whoever pm me first got the offer ler ...

crest... i book wif u already... check pm

IMPORTANT

Gamers dotcom will be bringing in official EA cards with the serial numbers printed on them, and that can be used to download Euro Force.

available this thursday for RM39.90, limited to 20 units so first come first serve.

what i really want tho is armored fury, back to el alamein style maps...one of my fav maps in DC/bf1942

This post has been edited by Everdying: Feb 20 2006, 11:22 PM

wah rm39.90?? crest aku pun dah post awal2 aa.. rm30

yea la...RM30.
but this one get a card with the number printed on it.
at least got something to keep and not just a piece of paper with numbers written on it

I rather buy the full package...
Any retail pack available?

no such thing as a retail pack.
only available thru download.

better yet if they already dloaded it and burn into some cd. lazy to dload by myself

If like that then Cresty can help us for more solutions?

is rm35 from gamers dotcom, not rm39.90
http://www.gamers.com.my/title.cfm?id=1360

hooreyy.... jom serbu khamis nie...

hmmm

i dun hav sf yet , should i just like get it first ?

ps : EL ALAMIEN , just love those tanks

wah nice

bah d/l only ?
pfft took forever to d/l with sh|tty connection

must have SF to play Euro Force ?

the new way to counter piracy?? dload urself? save cost ?.. omg that is lousy. who ever came out with this idea anyway.. kill him!

eh romor says that gamers is giving free copies of euro forces for some clan that they sponsors

This post has been edited by gestapo: Feb 21 2006, 08:12 AM

the so called booster pack we are purchasing contains mainly the maps,i dunno about the weapons and stuff,because they already installed the weapons files into the database already