Battlefield 2

Playing The Game

Descriptions & Strategies For New Players

• Gameplay
• Colors and Minimap
• Squads
• Communication and VOIP
• Team Equipment
• Points System
• Ranks (Private, Corporal, etc)
• Awards (Medals, Ribbons)
• Switching Spots In Vehicle
• Weapons Listing
• Vote Initiation
• Default Key Bindings

• Roles
  • Commander
  • Squad leader
  • Squad member

• Kits (Classes)
  • Special Forces
  • Sniper
  • Assault
  • Engineer
  • Medic
  • Support
  • Anti-tank

• Vehicles
  • Air vehicles
  • Ground vehicles
  • Boats

• Maps
  • Dalian Plant
  • Daqing Oilfields
  • Dragon Valley
  • FuShe Pass
  • Gulf of Oman (Demo map)
  • Kubra Dam
  • Mashtuur City
  • Operation Clean Sweep
  • Sharqi Peninsula
  • Songhua Stalemate
  • Strike At Karkand
  • Zatar Wetlands
  • Wake Island 2007

Other Tips And Tactics

• Useful Hints and Tips
• General tactics
• Advanced tactics
• Annoying tactics
• Advanced helo tactics
• How to Spot Cheaters

Other Useful Information

Feature help

• Battle Recorder (available in demo!)
• Using the All-Seeing Eye to find games
• Dedicated server
• Co-op mode
• Console Commands
• Joystick Setup and Use
• Editing your Shortcut to connect directly to a BF2 server, avoid the login screen, and avoid the movies.

Updates

• Patch 1.03
• Patch 1.02
• Patch 1.01
• All Patches

Bugs

• Friendly Fire
• Uncapturable Flag
• Crash to desktop
• Graphics Drivers
• Ducking in vehicle turrets
• PunkBuster kicking you
• Connection Problems
• Third Party Browser Support
• Stuttering issues

Annoyances

• Feature Wish List and Bug List
• Boycotting BF2? - Talk about boycotting the expansion pack until the game is patched to a satisfactory level.
• Video resolutions - 1280x1024, widescreen
• Key binds - why can't I bind the numpad, etc.
• Removing timelimits and weapon locks - removing the timelimit, unlocking more weapons
• Getting rid of the splash screens
• Getting EAX4 working for All SB Live! and Audigy sound cards
• Squadleaders getting teambalanced
• Switching kits when revived
• Copy protection
• Manually Set the Map Size

Useful External Links

• BF2 Stats for the shackbattles.com servers
• BF2 Stat Retriever: A windows client based application - quick and effective, takes load off the excellent BF2Stats website.
• A server monitor for Shack-community servers - thanks mojoald.
• A slightly more detailed monitor to use until ServerMonitor V2
• A server monitor widget for Konfabulator
• The BF2 Tech Info Wiki: Info on Python programming and other technical features of BF2 development.
• Stuff we need to work into this wiki depending on how useful it is.
  • Tweak guide
  • Commander guide
  • Another commander guide...currently unavailable.
  • Thread on BFNation with some good tips
• TeamSpeak - Alternative voice communication software
• TeamSpeak Overlay - For use with TS
• Weapon Statistics (damage, unlockables, etc) care of Helter Skelter
• More weapon stats: source 1 and 2
• Comprehensive weapons grid, showing all weapons and almost all armor
• 21st Century Warfare
• FAQ thread

FAQ

• Will my system run BF2?