Shoutbox

right. im confused. i finally pushed myself to shell out £20 for BF2: Special Forces because the choice of servers... was... well.... non-existant really. So i went out, bought it, and there are even less servers now. Ive looked at the servers with different versions and there they all are.... 1,000+ servers with a 'newer' version than me, even though ive patched it as far as i can see. All i can say is WTF.
i went on the BF website and now i see about this euro force, can anyone clear this up for me.... is euro force a further expansion on SF or is it a totally different booster or is it a newer version? im confused

Are you sure you have all of the up to date patches and stuff... Cause I doubt the issue would be that they have a completely different game. They don't usually have the same servers for expansions as they do for the normal games .

well the thing is that all the battlefield two servers are in one area, and the way you view the ones you want is that you use the filters to filter out the ones with different versions.... so i dont know.... although im pretty certain ive fully patched it

Euro force is a new expansion containing new weapons and vehicles, and its only availabe from the battlfeield 2 website online it isnt being sold in the shops, and i think you can play in normal BF2 servers...

Afaik, Euro force is just a booster back. It contains 3 new maps, new weapons and a new army. It isn't like Special Forces. SF was an expansion that contained more armies and a lot more maps. But EF is just a booster pack that you buy via EA downloader and you can join servers that have those 3 new maps.

I'm not sure if you can enter normal servers and use the EF unlocked weapons.

thanks, well, is there anyone who plays battle field 2 without euro force that can access more than 120 servers???

Well, I can access over 1000 servers without any booster packs. I think that you are only filtering servers supporting the Battlefield 2 Special Forces addon, or you just don't have the latest patch installed. You can get it here.

bah, ill try that.... i dont know if thats the patch ive used, but thanks anyway mate

When you install SF(BF2: Special Forces) you downgrade your patch version to 1.10 or something under 1.12. You need to patch after that and maybe you need to patch after installation of Euro Force too. Latest patch is by the way 1.22, try to install the full version of that patch.

*edit I've read the earlier posts and this wasn't posted before. It contains not much new information. Just the fact that the SF installer patches the game to an old version.

yeah... i forgot you downgrade to 1.1, i patched SF with the latest but forgot to patch BF2 witgh 1.22, which is prob why i cant access the servers.... thanks mate!