As we reported before, we suffered a breach of the webserver at the beginning of November. As a result of that the attacker could have accessed the forum database.

Since we had to disable the forums anyways while migrating and hardening our systems, we decided to use this as an opportunity to migrate to a new, more modern and free open source forum software. While this was a monumental task given that age and size of our forums, this will make it easier for us to maintain and secure them in the future. The migration preserved all the relevant data of users, user-groups, threads and posts. You will find everything where you left it and we tried to make it look as close to the old forum as possible.
However, some things were not possible to migrate and might require your attention:

• No user avatar could be migrated.
• For some users signature pictures will be missing
• The new forum offers some entirely new user preferences that you might want to customize.
• All passwords have been invalidated and will have to be reset using the Forgot password function.

With the new forum also comes a new way to link to topics and posts. We set up a redirect to have as many links pointing to old posts automatically redirect to the new forum, but for some links this might not work. Please notify us of any broken link to old posts that is used in this forum or our Discord and other social media sites.

We picked a similar default theme and have started to customize it to get a similar feeling to the old forum. We will keep working on this to improve your experience and are open for user feedback as well as contributions. You can find the public project for the forum style here: https://gitlab.com/realitymod/public/forum-style

We once again apologize for the inconvenience of this downtime and hope you all will enjoy the new forums together with us!

The award-winning Project Reality Team is proud to announce the official release of Project Reality: BF2 v1.8!

Celebrating 20 years of continuous development, we are excited to announce the launch of our 41st major update! This update stands out as one of the most content-rich in our history, achieved within one of our shortest development cycles relative to the volume of delivered content. Our ongoing support for the game is made possible by our community's persistent backing through donations.

As we enter our third decade of uninterrupted development, we express our gratitude to all community members who have contributed to the success of Project Reality as the first of its kind, large-scale, teamwork-oriented standalone multiplayer experience in a realistic combat environment. We are also grateful to over 320,000 players who have experienced Project Reality in the last four years, including more than 80,000 new players in 2024 alone. Remarkably, this year, Project Reality surpassed 1,000 concurrent online players for the first time in nearly a decade, proving without a doubt that Project Reality and its population remain strong. Thank you for being part of our journey!

On this day, 83 years ago, on June 22, 1941, the Red Army and the Wehrmacht clashed along a 3,000-kilometer (1,800-mile) front. Fought on the ashes of annexed Eastern European countries, the operation was code-named after Frederick Barbarossa ("red beard") and marked the largest land offensive in human history.


Project Reality:BF2 v1.8




Next to the Soviet WW2 faction, with a host of new vehicles, weapons and maps, this update also brings the new Russian, Militia and Chechen 1990's factions together with two new maps. The Vietnam theatre is also getting some love in the form of visual improvements and a ...

As said in our previous article, the next update for PR:BF2 will see more than the introduction of the WW2: Eastern Front. As in every major release, next to content updates, the game systems receive fixes and all kinds of improvements. Today we show the second part of some of this new content and improvements coming to the game soon. Do note that unexpected issues might push these things to a later update. However, before we get to the content update, first we have an important message for our community:

PRstats' Fate

Earlier this year Sgt_Baker/avram announced that he would have to retire from updating and maintaining http://www.prstats.tk, a PR-specific stats tracking project that he had developed and supported single-handedly for over seven years. Real life caught up, requiring more and more of his energy and time, so much so that he doesn't even get to play the game anymore!

As it would be a real shame to see all these years of data being lost to history, we decided to step in. And frankly: who doesn't love to have some trusty stats to bolster your claims at gaming prowess (or equally dispute some braggard's).
So we approached him and asked if we could take over, which he graciously agreed to! With a little bit of our (and his, as he supported the migration as well!) elbow grease to update the underlying codebase and suspending some of the extra features such as avatar and signature generation (for now), we can now announce this service will continue to be available under our own domain and running on our own server: https://prstats.realitymod.com/. Your gaming glory (and shame) will be securely publicly available for the foreseeable future!

Please join us in thanking Avram for all his continued effort and especially in ensuring that his project smoothly transitions into the future! You can find out more about him and his work as well as his socials on his homepage (hint: try and see what happens when you enter the Konami cheat code there).

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