You get rid of the corporate ads by renaming/deleting the .BIK files.
I stopped playing BF2 because there were too many bugs … disconnects … freezes … crash to desktop.
Also I hate the way you can be in a squad with mates and the next round teams are rebalanced and you are chucked on the opposing side.
At least have a voting system or something !
Oh yeah, I also couldn’t get my left ALt to bind to crouch … weird.
A little bit OT, but here a small vid showing features of the new Cry engine: http://s2.putfile.com/videos/26010431325.wmv
thanks, will take a look.
personally i don’t care about their graphics engine if only they could make a decent multiplayer engine. FC was such a good SP game, but the MP isn’t worth mentioning, or better shouldn’t be mentioned at all.
There’s already a mod that changes the gameplay to some kind of onslaught:
The flags have to be captured in a specific order.
the fact it takes so long to log in THEN join a server has pretty much put me off playing bf2, and why dont games with gamespy browsers include a queueing feature?
also, has anyone found a game using a decent gamespy browser…?
I can safely say that once ET:QW is out my copy of BF2 will primarily be used to rest my coffee mug on …
Battlefield 2 ‘Features’ that I hope don’t show up in ET:QW? The total lack of fun elements, like the voices in ET “Fire in the hole!”.
Please SD, keep that feature. (Well, I guess cannot have phrases like the classic “They have broken into the bank!” 
)
/L.
Rest assured, at some point during every single map you’ll hear the phrase “Old City LLLOST!”
i’ve learned another “feature” of BF2 yesterday: my nephew - 11 yo - saved his money to buy himself BF2 as he was really looking forward to it. the package says only graphics card required with 128 mb ram. well, he has an ati 9200 with 128 mb, so it should work. so he bought the game plus an addon book for 65 euro. guess what? the game doesn’t work with that card and the retailer doesn’t take the game back. so how do you explain to an 11 year old boy who just spent hard saved 65 euro that he just simply has wasted them and saved them for nothing?
i mean wtf? what is all that copyright penetration and internet authorization good for? they should take back the damn game and lock his account. the retailer installed the game in the shop and it worked … erm … of course? so he didn’t take it back. he told his mother she should buy a new graphics card. 
well in case of ET:QW i would have bought him a new graphics card myself. we’ve spent a lot of fun time together playing ET. i’m pretty sure this will continue with ET:QW lol, when ET:QW comes out another year has passed and hardware requirements will for sure be different, so i think i’ll have to buy him a graca anyway 
It’s not the amount of memory alone that determines compatibility, it’s the capabilities of the graphics card’s chipset. The 9200 series is NOT on the list of compatible graphics cards for BF2. (a little research would’ve told you that if it isn’t mentioned in the game documentation somewhere (which I think it is)).
Plus BF2 has a 16+ rating (in the UK at least) and so should arguably not have been purchased for an 11-year old.
However, I think the box states “ATi 8500 or higher” as the required spec, which to a layman would include the 9200 series, so I’d say you have a case of misrepresentation and should be entitled to a refund on the basis that the game doesn’t do what it says on the box.
but then anyone can say they don’t have a good enough gfx card and get away with the cdkey 
i think my brother bought it for my nephew. but my nephew could have bought it on his own as well. we aren’t that harsh here in austria
maybe you can get away with the cdkey, but you can’t do anything with it, i think there’s also a copy protection which wants you to insert the disc every time you start the cd.
lol, just got an email from my brother, he writes that he no longer gets a bluescreen when burning a dvd. as the game didn’t work, he uninstalled it but still got bsods. the bsods started after he installed BF2. now he did a system recover and everything is fine again. reminds me of the problem i had with the HL2 dvd. after launching HL2 from dvd it installed a copy protection check driver which remained in sys and which caused a bsod on my sys every time after i finished HL2 and inserted another disc. ever since i found out i use a no-cd patch for my legally bought HL2. sad but true.