EA sent out the Battlefield newsletter today for this month featuring

some information on the unlock you will recieve if you pre-order BF: Bad Company 2.

Reserve Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and get instant access to the AKS-74 assault rifle for multiplayer action. Firing over 650 rounds a minute, this silent but deadly little beauty will give you maximum pwnage over your friends and enemies. Available for online and in-store customers, while supplies last.

Secure Some Stopping Power
Attention all Battlefield: Bad Company 2™ soldiers, get an early taste of the ultimate killing machine, a rapid fire assault rifle. It's available right now at GameStop, so don't hesitate with this unique opportunity to deliver some death online.

BF1943 Coral Sea Challenge
With the release of Battlefield 1943, we are asking everyone to chip in with every bullet, grenade and tank shell they can muster. Check out the latest on the Corel Sea Group Challenge, it's easy, everyone gets a new map, just get 43 Million kills!

BFBC2 E3 Trailer
The latest trailer for Bad Company 2 takes you through a typical day for a squad in Battlefield. Avoiding RPG fire, assaulting an enemy position and destroying a gold crate are just a slice of the action we have come to expect in a "typical" day for Battlefield.

BF Newsletter

Thanks to everyone on the Battlefield forums that have taken part in Battlefield 2 Beta 1. We have taken a lot of feedback and made more fixes to come up with Beta 2. Bjorn has made modifications to Operation Blue Pearl so be sure to give your feedback on the new layouts HERE.

Since Beta 1 this is what we have changed, updated and fixed:

• Consensus to revert to 0.3 second delay between jump and prone - Fixed
• Mouse wheel acceleration on jeeps and APC’s - In Test
• Mouse wheel acceleration on parachutes - In Test
• Falcon controller prevents joystick controls being assigned to work especially on jets and helicopters. Falcon always acts as primary controller for pitch and roll. Resets to Falcon at the start of every round. - Fixed
• The jets on Highway Tampa were replaced with attack choppers in 1.50 - Fixed, Highway Tampa is now as it was in 1.41
• The graphics for Highway Tampa are the same as Mashtuur City on create a local match in the menu and load screen. - Fixed
• Picking up the kit of a player who disconnected causes crashes - In Test
• Audio settings do not always save after clicking APPLY - Fixed
• Registry Version remains at 1.4 after Update 1.5 is installed - Fixed
• BF2OpenAL.dll was version 1.1.1.0 - Fixed - Updated to version 2.1.8.1
• ch_gas_station collision mesh on Dragon Valley was inconsistent with other gas station buildings - Fixed
• MEC artillery piece on Operation Clean Sweep changes to the USMC's control when they capture the Airfield flag - Fixed
• Challenger2 HUD icon was incorrect showing M1A2 HUD icon instead - Fixed
• Road to Jalalabad has PLA FAV spawn in place of a MEC FAV - Fixed
• Dragon Valley Chinese artillery used default respawn time instead of 360 seconds as other artillery uses - Fixed
• Bizon (PP-19) had no delay time after weapon switch - Fixed (this now has a delay of 0.666)
• F35B had a lock delay of 1.5 compared to 1 second lock delay of other aircraft - Fixed
• Incorrect camo Humvee was being spawned in Taraba Quarry - Fixed
• UH-60 (Black Hawk) guns had 0.25 splash damage setting, down from 3 making it difficult to hit infantry. - Fixed (this is now set to 1.5 to improve the UH-60's usefulness while not allowing it to dominate)
• It was impossible to pass a claymore unless an engineer disarmed it first. - Fixed (players can now go prone to pass the claymore)
• Allow BF2.exe to use more than 2Gb RAM on machines that support it - Fixed

You can also track what we are doing directly on the Battlefield forums HERE.

Battlefield 2 v1.50 Beta 2 is available from more mirror sites and ranked server providers. Of course if you don't want to find it from your local RSP you can download it from Fileplay.net - HERE. or by BF2games

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DICE is holding an all unlocks weekend for Battlefield: Bad Company running

from April 25 - 26.

Didn't get that sniper rifle you wanted for your birthday? Well now is your chance to get a trial run with that rifle you've always wanted.

This weekend, April 25-26, we are giving everyone total acess to all the multiplayer unlocks for Battlefield: Bad Company.

No need to rank up and use your unlocks, just jump online to build your kit with any and all of the weapons available.

See you on the battlefield!

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Don't jump the gun just yet News about BF2 v1.50 is coming tomorrow.

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Want to see some more screen shots of the map?
Well TV2 in Norway has got some exclusive new ones including map layout and spawn point names. Go check them out here: Battlefield 2 Blue Pearl - Battle|wiki

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From Evenbalance

Some new cheats are now actually hacking FRAPS in order to cheat in the game. We're trying to work with the FRAPS people right now to get this addressed. The current situation is that PB kicks for any version of FRAPS that is not the latest version or any version that has the known cheat hooks. Both Xfire and FRAPS are being used by cheat authors in attempts to hide the cheat without hacking the game or PB directly. The kicks for old versions are restriction kicks rather than cheat violations - players who get the restriction kicks should not be in danger of receiving any kind of ban. A violation kick indicates that PB found a specific cheat hook.

So if you use Fraps or Xfire - that might be your problem. Disable them and try again to play. If your problem is solved then, look out for new versions of Fraps or Xfire.

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