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2014-05-16, 11:47 | #1 |
Retired - Project Manager
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PR:BF2 and GameSpy
If you haven't been living under a rock for the last few months, you may have heard the news that GameSpy will be shutting down online services for Battlefield 2 at the end of this month. Shortly afterwards, Electronic Arts announced via their Origin Twitter that they were working on transitioning Battlefield 2 so that it would still be playable after the shutdown. However, contrary to their original statement, they recently announced that they would not be doing this, and that Battlefield 2 online services would be shut down at the end of June. Have no fear though! Ever since the original announcement from GameSpy, the Project Reality Team has been hard at work on developing our own solution to keep Project Reality: BF2 online, and our players playing. In partnership with the Forgotten Hope 2 team, we have quickly developed our own custom master server, and I am happy to confirm that Project Reality: BF2 (and Forgotten Hope 2) will continue to be playable online after the GameSpy shutdown. The update that will provide this new functionality will be released in our upcoming v1.2 patch, scheduled to be released before the shutdown occurs. Not only does it replace the GameSpy online services with our own, it also includes the Dutch Forces, several new maps, as well as loads of tweaks and improvements. For the regular players of PR:BF2, the only difference you will notice with the new online services is that upon updating to v1.2, your existing player profiles will be deleted, and you will be required to make a new online account if you wish to play online. The account management system in the PR:BF2 Launcher, the ingame server browser, and PRSPY will continue to function as normal. As we're nearing our 10th year since Project Reality was founded, we look forward to seeing Project Reality: BF2 continue long into the future! Enjoy, The Project Reality Team |
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2014-05-16, 11:55 | #2 |
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 113
Canada
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Re: PR:BF2 and GameSpy
Dutch Forces?!?!!?! :O
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2014-05-16, 11:56 | #3 |
Join Date: Feb 2010
Posts: 528
United Kingdom
Location: Liverpool, UK (GMT)
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Re: PR:BF2 and GameSpy
Excellent news, with some new stuff to boot!
Nice work to everyone involved, maybe a name change to xXx=Snip3rSt3v3=xXx is in order to celebrate :P Cheers, Murkey. |
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2014-05-16, 11:56 | #4 |
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 404
Germany
Location: middle of nowhere
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Re: PR:BF2 and GameSpy
Damn Devs always surprising us with stuff we did not expect.
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2014-05-16, 12:00 | #5 |
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 1,572
Europe
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Re: PR:BF2 and GameSpy
Awesome, the Dutch forces is a big surprise, I wasn't expecting this one!
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2014-05-16, 12:09 | #6 |
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 580
United States of America
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Re: PR:BF2 and GameSpy
Glad to hear about the gamespy workaround! Dutch forces too! Wow AM spoiling us.
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2014-05-16, 12:16 | #7 |
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 48
United Kingdom
Location: in my house
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Re: PR:BF2 and GameSpy
Awesome!
So, uh, any improvements to the British APCs? The scimi is a potato in its current state, realistic or not it's useless against more or less everything. Any plans to stop people stealing usernames when the change occurs? Or will it be first come first serve? |
2014-05-16, 12:27 | #8 |
I wanna be a DEV!
Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 706
Norway
Location: Enebakk, A-hus
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Re: PR:BF2 and GameSpy
Sweet! does this mean that all our old accounts will be deleted so we can get our old account names which we've forgotten both the email and password and therefor can't get them back?
Also dutch!? SWEEEET! still waiting on the Norwegians tho... |
Its SO evil, it may actually encourage EA to support Modding again - Pantera
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2014-05-16, 12:28 | #9 |
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 1,772
Netherlands
Location: The Pub
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Re: PR:BF2 and GameSpy
The cheeseheads will take over PR!
PR DEVS SO MUCH LOVE FOR YOU! FULL HOMO! Next paycheck I will donate some monaay. |
We are staying up!
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2014-05-16, 12:38 | #10 |
Join Date: Mar 2013
Posts: 273
Austria
Location: Glock country
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Re: PR:BF2 and GameSpy
Never trust EA!
Awesome work DEVs and thanks for the workaround. |
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gamespy, prbf2, shutdown, upcoming |
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