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There is no truth to the initial post in this thread in the slightest.

Support for Battlefield 2 goes a long way beyond patches - it covers a whole host of other activities including the support of this forum that will be continuing well beyond the launch of Battlefield 2142. The 1.4 patch may well be the last one released, but that is assuming that there is nothing left to fix, and however nobody knows for certain whether this will be the case as yet.

On a procedural note, we're never given any "cease all support of this game" edicts internally, we match the level of support to the level of interest in line with the plans for the future of the title in question or the franchise it belongs to. Given that the Battlefield franchise has plenty going on I don't foresee a drop-off in support from our end for quite some time.
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A version of this article will be posted on a major gaming site within the next 48 hrs YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST!!!!!!!



Later this week there wil be a rather low key announcement that EA are officially dropping support for BF2; quote: "In preperation for the earlier than expected release of BF2142". Despite the public betas and extensive, and indeed very costly testing by DICE and partners, solutions to the outstanding and most notorious issues of BF2 post 1.3 have remained elusive.
Support for the game has dropped by nearly 50% since the release of patch 1.3 and ranked server rental by over 70%. With this in mind it is no longer feasible for EA to continue to support a game that has seemingly terminal problems the pursuit of solutions for which have run into a prohibitive area of cost.
EA gave a first sign of the imminent demise of bf2 by permanently closing all UK multiplay servers backed by its UK offices earlier this week, and by sending instructions to ranked server providers to wind down the service.
If BF2 end users will be disappointed by the lack of server support, the imminent end of EA's contract for player database storage with Gamespy may well raise tempers. EA's agreement with Gamespy ends on October 1, and as EA will use their own EA membership service to log player records for BF2142, the BF2 gamespy service will terminate on this date, meaning all current BF2 ranked players will lose all playing records.
The final BF2 patch release will be a new 1.4b patch, which will remove the log in screen function but as a small bonus will allow all bf2 players to have all unlock weapons ingame, hardly much reward for the hard work put in by the legions of let down bf2 fans.
somebdy at EA has some hard work to do over the next few days, and the success of BF2142 looks even more critical than ever for the PC gaming crowd.

The 1.4 patch will not be out tomorrow, today, or any time in the next few days.

We don't have a fixed release date for the patch right now, but as soon as we do we'll let you know.

Locking this thread as it is misleading.
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Mish796P wrote:
An announcement on Friday saying the 1.4 patch will be released soon... yay! Then we can wait another couple months.

By Colin Clark:
I think you will be pleasantly suprised.

Originally Posted by [DICE]CKMC
Hey Guys,
So we took a long hard look at this issue in relation to what we could try to do in 1.4.

We did some tuning to the J-10. Believe me or not most tuning we did actually made that lil sucker even more lethal (some people may have seen a server named 'J-10 Test' up within the last few weeks). Which brought us to the realization that if we were to do anything drastic to the J-10 it would likley ruin the vehicle unless we spent weeks in review and retuning.

We then reviewed what would be required to adjust the F35. The work and tuning and adjustment that would be required to try and bring the F35 up was roughly equal given the dual function of the F35 engine. I also received a crash course (har har) on hit box construction which helped me realize that this also would not be a simple adjustment and would also require weeks of adjustment and trial-and-error.

Long story short - This dynamic will not be changing in 1.4.