Battlefield 2 demo released
Posted by LOC on 10 June 2005 - 21:25 · 68 comments & 9908 views
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#1 Posted by KJ_88 on 10 Jun 2005 - 21:36
- w00t! Downloading. slowly....
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#2 Posted by Valkyre on 10 Jun 2005 - 22:05
- Argh, screw the demo, I want the game now!
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#3 Posted by DjmUK on 10 Jun 2005 - 22:24
- Any non-subscription website links???
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#3.2 Posted by xMorpheousx416 on 10 Jun 2005 - 23:56
- More Mirrors Here!!
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#4 Posted by qdave on 10 Jun 2005 - 22:29
- ahh, thats nice. d/l is so slow though.
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#5 Posted by Chanser on 10 Jun 2005 - 23:04
- 10/12 minute rounds oh goody
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#6 Posted by Cosmos on 10 Jun 2005 - 23:38
- ftp://largedownloads.ea.com/pub/demos/battlefield2demo.exe
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#7 Posted by sin™ on 11 Jun 2005 - 00:48
- Played it for 15mins... I have to admit... I expected more. Same engine (???) , Just a beefed up, polished, modern bfv/dc mod. Fun none-the-less.
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#7.4 Posted by cheesegoduk on 12 Jun 2005 - 13:42
- erm no hes not, your stupid for believing EA's marketing department. They said that BFV was a whole new engine.... it wasn't. Look at the game files and how the game works and you can easily tell its the same engine
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#7.5 Posted by AethylFilth on 13 Jun 2005 - 18:07
- Often developers will create an engine using the same tried and true methods while taking advantage of new developments.
Unless this is what you think happened in the boardroom:
"OK lets tell them its a new engine, but not make one."
"You think we can get away with that?"
"Of course we can.... unless... UNLESS, the highly respected and educated members of neowin.net discover our fantastic secret."
"Shouldn't we be more afraid of people who actually know what they're talking about? Other developers blowing our story wide open?"
"Hell no, we have everyone paid off, except for the open source guys and no-one listens to them anyway... no, the only risk to our web of lies is the rock-solid community at neowin.. only they hold the power and knowledge, and troll skills, to unravel this genious of digi-fraud."
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#8 Posted by The Nugget on 11 Jun 2005 - 00:58
- Been downloading via torrent for about 3 1/2 hours already and am at 78%.
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#9 Posted by Sub on 11 Jun 2005 - 01:14
- hmm only downloading at 380Kps..Kinda slow, I should have been done by now on this t-3
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#10 Posted by PetrucciSatriani on 11 Jun 2005 - 01:15
- Use 3DGamers if you can. I had to keep refreshing for a spot in line but once I got one I downloaded at about 460kb/sec.
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#11 Posted by Shaidar on 11 Jun 2005 - 01:26
- Is this a new engine, or just a beefed up one from the previous battlefields?
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#12 Posted by yert* on 11 Jun 2005 - 01:39
- Use this link that xMorpehusx416 gave: http://bf2.mindfeeder.net/
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#13 Posted by allfive6 on 11 Jun 2005 - 01:53
- thank god it is finally out .Now for the full verison
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#14 Posted by i like chips on 11 Jun 2005 - 02:29
- is this as buggy as the first one? if it is....
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#15 Posted by Kst on 11 Jun 2005 - 03:24
- lol kinda reminds me of the old operation flashpoint
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#16 Posted by Ecander™ on 11 Jun 2005 - 03:45
- As soon as I get it down I will up it to my server.
Wow, crappy torrents :/ 40k download while I'm uploading 80k thats totally fair ><
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#17 Posted by SirDarkness on 11 Jun 2005 - 04:43
- Daaaaaaaaaang I pay for IGN and I can't download from their site till tomarow at 1pm..... OHHH But wait.... I can pay Gamespot.com 29 for a year and download it from there.... BUT WAIT I can pay some other sites to download it... This pisses me off LOL They all say they are first to get exclusives and then you can't becasue of the bureaucraps and silly market systems... AHHHH I WANT THIE GAME NOW!!!! LOL Well that is my rant and ramble about waisted casssshhh.. Gues I will play EQ2.. till my 100kbs download is done...
Ceya at the BARS!!! LOL
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#17.1 Posted by Smigit on 11 Jun 2005 - 10:19
- umm what the?
You don't actually think everyone here are paying members of gamespot do you? You only need to use the free registration to get it, just sign up, dload the game and forget about gamespot forever. I'm sure IGN registration has some uses, been a number of times i've wanted insider info.
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#18 Posted by Wildcard on 11 Jun 2005 - 05:45
- Anyone else notice how ironic it is that Fileplanet is locked out of an exclusive download ?
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#18.2 Posted by AnError on 11 Jun 2005 - 06:19
- not really, i got an email saying i can login into 3dgamers with my fileplanet account and that i have a subscribed account to 3dgamers
. So i downloaded it fast and from fileplanet. kinda
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#19 Posted by davemania24 on 11 Jun 2005 - 06:20
- For australians
try
www.ausgamers.com
gameArena
Internode
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#20 Posted by Spik3balloon on 11 Jun 2005 - 06:50
- Nice little collection of links:
http://www.eaplay.com/australia/community/...es/thread/4919/
Mainly Australian ones though.
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#21 Posted by DirtyLarry on 11 Jun 2005 - 08:22
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What a truly major disappointment this Demo is.
Just more of the same old, same old.
I am seriously contemplating cancelling my pre-order. Now that sucks.
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#22 Posted by Smigit on 11 Jun 2005 - 08:57
- why does the installer require you to enter in a company name? I realise you can just put N/A or anything but it's a game...what relevance does that field have, especially when 3/4 of the people who purchase it will probably be kids.
First time I've seen that field as a pre-req for non commercial software.
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#22.1 Posted by cheesegoduk on 11 Jun 2005 - 19:10
- lol, I wondered that as well, usually you can skip past questions like that, but it DEMANDED I entered a company name before I went on
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#23 Posted by Druw on 11 Jun 2005 - 09:10
- ahhh, it was downloadin at 128 kbps per sec 4 me den my mum closed firefox! damn, now its going at 25kbps 5 hrs remanin wipppee
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#24 Posted by fairlie on 11 Jun 2005 - 10:36
- I'm getting 221kbps that good?
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#25 Posted by Sub on 11 Jun 2005 - 13:51
- Well, I doubt anyone will be able to play this game....Login servers have been down since 1am...
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#25.1 Posted by theyarecomingforyou on 11 Jun 2005 - 17:25
- I noticed that, but it's been back up for a while now. Really annoying, though.
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#26 Posted by stncttr908 on 11 Jun 2005 - 15:35
- I was impressed when I played for about an hour last night.
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#27 Posted by robert27 on 11 Jun 2005 - 17:46
- I'm getting between 40 and 45 KB/sec on the fragland mirror
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#28 Posted by yaNick DeSsureault on 11 Jun 2005 - 18:20
- Right now I'm confortable with my Area51! Tho I must admit I'm looking forward this one.
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#29 Posted by benz240 on 11 Jun 2005 - 18:21
- It looks fun, but I am getting some serious controller lag every few seconds....the keys will just lock up into what i pressed, so my player will run forward or keep launching nades for 10 seconds before it unfreezes. Until that is resolved, **** it
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#29.1 Posted by sin™ on 11 Jun 2005 - 20:12
- Do you by any chance have ZoneAlarm running ? I was experiencing the same, and I found that by shutting down ZA was only way to rid of it. Must be some sort of conflict there somewhere.
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#29.2 Posted by theyarecomingforyou on 12 Jun 2005 - 00:25
- I have the same problem but absolutely NO Zonealarm.
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#30 Posted by SirDarkness on 11 Jun 2005 - 18:42
- Got it this morn and I like it so far little laggy at times but smooth other that that. But I did notice it freez for a good 30sec while the computer cached up in the middle of gameplay causing me to crash my JSF. It looks amazing with the lvl of detail it has all the guns look smooth and clean. LOVE the Ragdoll !!! And all BF games won't let you play in 1280x1024 that is kinda strange. Hmm Oh well gona try Area 51 now.
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#31 Posted by FightingChance on 11 Jun 2005 - 21:20
- Fun, but then again I never played BF1942 or Vietnam really, though I know that this is very very similar. I, too, was expecting more revolution than evolution.
I refused to install those beta drivers, and so there are weird shadows that flicker all over the landscape beneath people, but I'm sure that'll be addressed. It also seems like 'high' texture setting is for people with 256MB on their video card. The points system is well thought out, good organization. I feel really disconnected when I enter a turret/vehicle, since you do that old school 'pop' into and out of those things, instead of the smooth Halo slide where you transition.
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#31.1 Posted by toadeater on 12 Jun 2005 - 01:41
- Well, only a couple of years 'til OFP 2 is released. But Armed Assault will have join-in-progress multiplayer, so you might get your realistic multiplayer shooter wish sooner than that.
http://www.armedassault.com/
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#31.2 Posted by FightingChance on 12 Jun 2005 - 01:58
- Excellent! I had thought that Bohemia was bought up by the US Army to make simulators for them.
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#32 Posted by GriZly on 11 Jun 2005 - 23:03
- play on 207.152.130.2 for no time limit
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#33 Posted by sullysnet on 11 Jun 2005 - 23:47
- got it , like it but DAMN it has a different feel to it so I will need to do some single player games to get use to it
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#35 Posted by a_witko on 12 Jun 2005 - 15:23
- got a 6600GT + gb ram and graphics look like my grandmas ass - not to mention slow... with latest drivers, everything..
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#36 Posted by kirk26 on 12 Jun 2005 - 15:36
- Very nice! A worthy sequel for Desert Combat!
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#37 Posted by CJC on 12 Jun 2005 - 16:23
- This game rocks!
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#38 Posted by OAKside24 on 12 Jun 2005 - 18:21
- It does!
Been waitin' forever, along with MILLIONS of others.. ..
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#39 Posted by er0n on 12 Jun 2005 - 19:31
- This game is awful
Thanks to EA for releasing the demo, now I won't waste my money buying it.
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#40 Posted by SoLiD_MasteR on 12 Jun 2005 - 20:21
- Very damn great game ...going to buy it for sure
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#41 Posted by AJCrowley Esq on 13 Jun 2005 - 15:05
- I love it. I was totally unimpressed by 1942, which just felt wrong to me, but this one is fun.
For those complaining about slow downloads, maybe you should check out reget or similar. It has a built in mirror search, so it will turn up 30 sites with the same file pretty quick, and start downloading parts from all over the place. I was downloading at a sustained 550k/sec the same afternoon the demo was posted.
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#42 Posted by Nose Nuggets on 13 Jun 2005 - 17:16
- this game is awsome. i want to start a clan for this game ASAP! send me a PM if your intarested.
Lock and load, soldier! Take aim at this highly anticipated demo for Battlefield 2, the sequel to the award-winning Battlefield franchise! The new game brings the intensity and excitement of Battlefield 1942 into the modern era with an all-new game engine, enhanced team play, and the latest, most technologically advanced vehicles and weapons systems available.
The Battlefield 2 demo includes the Gulf of Oman single player map as well as the Gulf of Oman 16-player and 32-player maps. There will be a time limit for each game.
Updated post with new mirrors