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This just in from the front lines?Battlefield 2 has officially gone GOLD! The game will begin shipping under the EA GAMES brand starting Tuesday, June 21, 2005. In Battlefield 2, players will choose to fight for one of three military superpowers: the United States, China, or the newly formed Middle East Coalition. Armed with the latest modern weaponry, players can take control of any of the game?s 30+ vehicles. Players can also hone their skills against improved enemy intelligence in the new single-player campaign before competing online with up to 64 players in some of the most intense battles on the PC. Enhanced team play features allow players to enter the action on the front lines as part of a formal squad, or work behind the scenes in Commander Mode to direct the strategic assaults of their teammates. With the new online character ranking and persistence, players increase their rank and unlock awards, including new weapons, medals, and more. Developed by Sweden-based developer, Digital Illusions, the creators of the original Battlefield 1942, Battlefield 2 is rated ?T? (Teen) by the ESRB and has an MSRP of $49.99. For more information about Battlefield 2, please visit http://battlefield2.ea.com or our press Web site at http://info.ea.com

Found this to be a great pic....thought I would show everyone. A Train track running across a runway....how do you post a NOTAM about this? Read more here: http://www.avweb.com/newswire/11_21b/potw/189855-1.html

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1280x....got anything LARGER...this is sweet! Fates

Sweet.

That is very sad indeed.

Spectre....check out this FOX interview...PWNED!! check out this video, can we saw owned on national tv http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,157257,00.html then click on Forsake our troops on right hand side

Excellent Shot!

How's that saying go? "I'll be down on the ground where the Tornados play"

I loved BF1942 when it came out....I thought the single player was awesome. Then I went into multiplayer and was totaly unimpressed with most of the modes. I fell to America's Army, with more modern combat, but then went back to playing Call of Duty for a bit....untill I tried Multiplayer. Got BFV, and was about to thow a brick thru the window of Dice and EA I was so upset.... I'm hoping they redeem themselves with BF2. I'm anxiously waiting its arrival to my doorstep. Fates

It would definately be better to either goto a 3 monitor setup, or simply go for 1 monitor. I'll also agree that the Cessna style yoke has to go. This is an F-117 Fighter based design and as such he should stick with convential HOTAS setups. Fates

The review is complete and located HERE. Let me know what ya think. <C> Fates

If you looking to play MP online Jedi, then you will enjoy certain modes of this game depending on what you like/dislike. I personally think the MP COOP against AI on simulaiton is very close to the real world situations. This is what a sim should be. It also offers other options if you just want to run and gun and have some fun. It's a well rounded game in multiplayer. If single player is your thing, like with Buff, you WILL be dissapointed. Fates

You can see all the screenshots in the gallery located HERE. OFPBase.com has mentioned that the rumor floating around is that the game might be named Armed Assault. It could be that OFP 2 will NOT published by Codemasters. Check in on This Thread at the BI forums and E3 this week for updates on this breaking news! I'm sure we'll know alot more in the coming days as BIS entertains at the E3 show. Let's hope to see much more information.

America's Army: Special Forces (Q-Course) to Launch Today The U.S. Army today announced that America's Army: Special Forces (Q-Course) will be available today for download at www.americasarmy.com. Get ready for intense action in this new version (version 2.4) which features a whole new Army game experience with the first-ever combination of random spawns with random and dynamic objectives, together with carryable objectives and random extraction points. Q-Course also contains four new Special Forces missions and two new weapons - the Door Breacher and the Bunker Defeat Munitions (BDM) New Features Random Player Starts: In America's Army players have always started at the same location when beginning a round in a multiplayer map. In Q-Course players will start randomly between predetermined locations on the new levels. This allows for a more realistic game experience, increases replayability and helps to limit the predictability of enemy placement and routes. Random Player Starts will also enhance the current game by putting more emphasis on strategy rather than the memorization of map geometry. It will also reduce the negative impact of exploits such as grenade spamming. Random Objective Locations: In Q-Course the location of objectives will change for each round, and can move around between any number of possible positions. With the addition of random objectives, the locations change from one round to the next, forcing the need for both Assault and Defense teams to search for the objective. This new feature promotes replayablilty and helps to enhance strategy in game play. Inventory Objective Type: Q-Course features an all new objective type in which objectives can be transportable in maps (via a player's inventory), requiring their delivery to specified locations. These inventory objectives' can be picked up, dropped (upon death), and passed on to other teammates. Inventory objectives provide a new style of objective-based gameplay by adding another dimension to objective completion. These objectives must be picked up and taken to a specific location in order to be considered complete. If a player dies while carrying one of these objectives, it drops, and must be retrieved by another teammate to continue the mission. These objective types also take advantage of random objectives, by moving the drop point/pickup point of the inventory objective to different locations from one round to another. NPC Conversation Objective Type: This feature allows a qualified player to help their team by speaking with NPCs (Non-Playable Characters) placed randomly around the level in order to gain intelligence about the whereabouts of the mission's main objectives. Talking with the NPCs will help the team locate the randomly placed objectives in the level. Once a qualified player speaks to an NPC in the level, the mission's main objective location will show up on their team's HUD compass as normal. Special Forces A-Team Videos: Included with this release of America's Army are all new Special Forces informational videos. These 7 videos describe each SF MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) in detail as well as show some exclusive footage of the Special Forces A-Team members in action. There is one video for each member in the standard Special Forces ODA (Operational Detachment Alpha - or 'A-Team'). These 7 SF MOS team members are as follows: 18A - Detachment Commander, 18B - Weapons Sergeant, 18C - Engineering Sergeant, 18D - Medical Sergeant, 18E - Communications Sergeant, 18F - Intel Sergeant, and 18Z - Team Sergeant, These videos are included in the v2.4.0 Full Install and can be accessed using the desktop shortcut created or by navigating to the 'America's Army\System' directory and double clicking the 'SF_MOS_Videos.exe' file. Multiplayer Missions Q-Course includes four Special Forces multiplayer missions. Two of these missions, SF Courtyard and SF Precious Cargo Recovery, contain both the Special Forces playable Soldier class, as well as the Indigenous Forces playable class. The other two missions, SF Blizzard and SF Water Treatment, are 'SF Exclusive' containing only the Special Forces playable Soldier class. SF Courtyard: In this daytime rural village mission players must interrogate informants to find the location of a laptop computer containing information about terrorist operatives. Once secured, the Assault team must then reach the extraction point with this laptop. The Defense team is trying to prevent the other team from securing and extracting with the laptop. This mission's spawn points, NPC objectives, laptop objective, and extraction points - are all randomly selected each round. SF PCR (Precious Cargo Recovery): In this night urban mission both teams must race to retrieve a briefcase containing sensitive information about terrorist operatives. Each team must locate and secure this briefcase and then carry it to their extraction point successfully. The team that successfully extracts with the briefcase in-hand wins. This mission's spawn points, briefcase objective, and extraction points (1 per team) - are all randomly selected each round. SF Blizzard: Soldiers must gain entry and assault a remote enemy compound in this night mission set in a snowy Alpine forest environment. This map has 2 different objective scenarios which are randomly selected each round. In one scenario the Soldiers must either destroy or protect the electrical power station. The alternate scenario requires the Soldiers to either deactivate or protect the radio communications equipment. SF Water Treatment: A night urban mission where players must either protect or secure containers of radiological material stored in various locations within an urban complex. The Assaulting team must gain entry to the building, locate and secure the radioactive material container, and then reach the extraction point successfully with the container. The Defending team must protect and prevent extraction of this sensitive container. New Weapons M141 Bunker Defeat Munitions (BDM): The M141 BDM, or Bunker Defeat Munitions, is a shoulder-fired rocket designed to defeat fortified positions, bunkers, and light armor. The BDM is given to the 18C SF MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) Soldier (Engineering Sgt.) but can be used by any member of the SF A-Team. The BDM can be used anywhere, but will have specific targets designed as objectives or obstacles. These specific targets will be identified by a HUD message that will appear when the player's crosshair moves over the object. The BDM can be an advantageous tool to use in order to tactically and efficiently gain entry into the enemy's compound. AGP-DB14 Door Breacher: The Door Breacher is an explosive device designed to achieve entry on locked or un-operable doors. Another MOS- specific weapon, the Door Breacher will be issued only to the 18C SF MOS Soldier (Engineering Sgt.). The Door Breacher will be usable on designated locked doors in the new missions. The player will be able to identify valid targets by a Breachable' message that will appear on the player's HUD. The Door Breaching can be an advantageous tool to use in order to tactically and efficiently gain entry into enemy restricted areas. More Features Updated Game Engine: The entire America's Army game is now running on an updated version of the Unreal Engine - Unreal Engine 2.5. This updated engine code base provides several enhancements to the game engine in several areas including efficiency (optimizations), security, stability, bug fixes, new gameplay feature infrastructure, etc. Updated User Interface: As part of the new engine code base update, many new user interface specific enhancements were implemented. The v2.4 User Interface has been overhauled under the hood' to take advantage of these new engine optimizations and functionality. The game's new UI will look very similar; however it will run much more efficiently and utilize some of the new features of the new engine.

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Damn Nice sig....LOL...and pic too... GJ! <C> Fates

Not if you top it off with a GeForce 2 Video card.....the rest will be meaningless. If you intend to buy a system with integrated graphics...forget it. What plans do you have for a video card? Fates

How the hell do you go from /pizza to Chris Walken?

ATI X700 Pro 256Mb AGP. That should spend the cash with a little saved over.

Nice job!

The existing database will be done. I just didn't feel like completeing it since I was up till 0430 last night. USAFMTL can verify that was he's awake 24/7. LOL Before I move the files to the new respective place, I want to make sure that they will work correctly on this server and the mirror. Fates

The Skins are currently set up by the aircraft that they apply to. It would be much simpler to add more aircraft to the current list then to lump all Soviet skins into one category. I think this is what you had in mind to begin with, and something that we should work towards solving in our database. Thanks for the input Fates

Would it be the C-51?