Hi,
Forgive me if this has already been posted or buried in a post but BF2 Special Forces is comming out in less than 2 weeks and I wanted to know what the eta is going to be for having it up and running on our servers for our clients.
Have you all been able to get a copy to look at? Do you expect we will have servers the day it comes out? Will they be ranked? Do you know how it is going to integrate into the existing game? Will we be able to switch back from game to game on the fly? Thanks Kevin!
mopho

We don't have the game yet, but expect to have it ready on release day. All ranked rules for BF2 apply to BF2SF. Special Forces will exist as a different Engine in Cortex, so you won't be able to switch back and forth, but you can use separate instances.

Looking forward to this release. Do the folks at Cortex expect to be able to offer this a day or two after its release? or..will it take longer?

We should get the dedicated server a few days beforehand from EA, however we won't be able to offer it until the official release day. At that time you guys *should* have it immediately.

Sounds great, glad EA is gonna let you guys get your hands on it earlier.

good to hear that .. i plan on having it installed by 1:30 EST so hopefully after i have it installed ill be able to go to cortex and install the engine.

The official release of the dedicated server/patch is not until 1pm PST tomorrow, so it won't be available in Cortex until then. That'll make it 4pm EST for you.

https://account.ea.com/commerce/product-inf...ap&app=commerce



Says 1pm EST not PST.

Oh, and don't forget... bf2cc is supposed to be updated too

EA's rep has teld us 1pm PST. Thats when we're going to release.

I figured it's just a type-o. EA stuff is always in PST.

I'll be at work anyway so I won't get to play until hours later, everyone can wait for me

So unranked poeple are able to update their servers already since EA released the server files for SF early this morning, but any rnaked servers have to wait till this afternoon thats kind lame of EA.
http://www.eagames.com/official/battlefiel...s/downloads.jsp

*moves to edge of seat*

oooooo....the anticipation.....

I think I crashed cortex on my box by refreshing so much to see if the update was out

I wonder how many of us are doing that...

I hope I don't crash the forums since I keep reloading those so much

Well somebody crashed 'em... Guess thay know who to blame!

I broke it :shock:

So 4PM EST??? Does EST stand for something other than "Eastern Standard Time"?

Sorry for the delay guys, we ran into a very wierd issue with the ranked server file requirements with Special Forces. Expect the update *very very* soon.

Thanks for keeping us updated.. Waiting paitently!

No worries, we know it happens.

BF2 patch is ready in Cortex. BF2SF and a Cortex update are coming soon!

updated.... sweet

now for the SF.... ooo baby

Don't know if anyone else is getting this too, but the e-mails going out for the BF2 update says the the instance has been updated to "1.03", when it's really been updated to "1.12".

w00t, Im gonna way to install it with the cortex patch and do it all at once. Will this also include the new BF2CC for BF2 and BF2:SF?


P.S: New forums look great klaude, great job .

Yeah, I'm going to wait and do it all at once too.

So much confusion with this patch though. I have a full 50 player server right now and hardly anyone realized they were going to have to patch today

I noticed on the engine page, that there is an option for updating current running instances. The option is not selectable. Is there a way to update the currently running servers?
mopho

That checkbox refers to if an engine update is available. The instances installed and running is merely informational text showing you how many instances are installed and how many are running.

In other news the patch is out! Go get it!

oh no it breaks BF2CC

It will disable BF2CC for now, please keep it disabled.

I am working on an update to resolve this right now. We prefered to get SF and the BF2 patch out without BF2CC working rather than hold it off.

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No BF2 at all in engines area on Cortex.. No Source , no lots of stuff.. Whats up?

Note that is says PAGE 1 OF 7 at the top of your post, click the little right hand arrow.

There should be arrows to go onto the next page. There should be a little button that looks like this That will load the next page.

Says also in the Cortex Update:
"The news and engines pages are now separated by pages with 10 articles per page on the news page and 4 engines per page on the engines page plus their child engines."

Edit: heh [HLA]SpongeBob beat me too it

sorry for back to back posts, but I have to inquire about VoIP support. I left all the port choices at default, but changed the enabled radio button to enable VOIP, but it's not working. Any clue as to why?

btw, my vanilla BF2 server's voip works just fine

btw the default ports for Voip on SF are 55227 for the client and 55027 for the server. Are these open and available?

For plain BF2 they are 55225 and 55025, as I said, these are working.

ranked plug in doesn't seem to be working either, at least no one has any unlocked weapons, even those they had on other SF servers.

OOPS! Just when ya think you know what your doing. LOL