BF2S Forums Question about new booster pack (SF related)

from what i read on the official site the booster packs will be for neither. they will be like a seperate mod. they will have diffrent weapons and diffrent vehicles. well that what i gathered from the official announcement on the bf2 main site.

You mean I will have ANOTHER shortcut on my desktop??? Another app??? Another dilemma???

Now it already sucks I have to decide which maps I am going to play (mmm today I feel Karkand or I am in a Iron Gator mood) by choosing which game I launch.

I can't believe they will run euro forces servers with only 3 maps!!! this can't be true....

I want to believe all the fixes and new stuff from the booster pack will be featured when I launch my special forces shortcut on my bloody desktop. And they should be available for original bf2 game users, too.

Any ideas what's going to happen about this?

New unlocks for Sniper and AT kits... nice.

Would love a new sniper rifle.

Hmmm...

I doubt they can fix SF such that we need not restart the game to get between SF and BF2-Vanilla. If that is really the case, putting in the grappling hook, zipline and some SF features required some irreconcilable changes to the game engine.

If the Booster Pack has no zipline, hook, and all, I think it'd be integratable with BF2-Vanilla... and therefore, you'd not be required to restart your game when you switch from a BF2-Vanilla to EuroForce, or the other way around.

And unlocked weapons 'd be available in all 3 versions.

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As I typed the above, I wondered: What if a server has a map cycle that has EuroForce and Vanilla maps? What if someone on the server did not buy the booster pack, and the next map is a EuroForce map? Probably then, the person 'd just be kicked, and a notification pops up to tell you that you don't have the required map.

Is there any server out there that cycles between Vanilla and SF maps? I guess when the transition comes... everyone will suddenly thrown out of the game... and the whole restart happens sans trailer n all. Is it possible at all?

My assumptions 'd be off if EA can actually integrate SF into vanilla, but did not, just to ease the process of seperating ppl with SF and ppl without (so as to avoid the map change issue). However, seeing the huge difference is lagging and loading time between vanilla and SF, I am betting on the former: that SF requires messing with the engine so much that we cannot just have one icon.

stryyker wrote:

i need more icons, i have BF2, SF, and DoD:S, no more

I run multiboot and my current 'games boot' is a tad crowded - so I'll soon be reformating another partition so that I can build a 'BF2 boot' - all it's going to have installed on it is XPpro, BF2, BF2:SF and FireFox - nothing else - not a sausage. (apart from essential drivers and the like, obviously)

Here's my question:

Do all you have to quite SF to play original maps? Because for me, it doesn't matter what game I open, both original and SF maps show up. The only difference I can notice is in BFHQ. When I launch the original I can only see those badges, when I launch SF I can see both.

AdamEcks wrote:

Here's my question:

Do all you have to quite SF to play original maps? Because for me, it doesn't matter what game I open, both original and SF maps show up. The only difference I can notice is in BFHQ. When I launch the original I can only see those badges, when I launch SF I can see both.

And you waited all of 18minutes before copying this post into a whole new thread!

Anyway, see my reply in the new thread...

Im guessin they're gonna be the same style as SF, u get the new features in the actual program and then the new unlocks can be transfered to standard BF2. Thats just going on past experience tho! they may suprise us all!