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Battlefield 2 can't be bought nowadays, but that doesn't stop a small community from working on mods even now. Forgotten Hope 2, one its biggest mods (a complete WW2 overhaul), had a new release last Friday.

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That’s awesome! I’ll check it out.

Forgotten Hope was originally a badass mod for BF42 that added a ton of extra units. That and Desert Combat got me into gaming and modding back in the early 00’s!

I learned how to write scripts and markdown running cod and BF servers.

Battlefield 2 was the last battlefield game I really enjoyed, after that the scale of the game got a lot smaller it seemed. Other than the kinda clunky gunplay it feels like the high point of the series to me still.

Many of the community mods have excellent gunplay. I really recommend playing them. The 2005 graphics are offset by the very high framerate we can achieve on modern hardware. Also mods like forgotten hope have fixed many of the original game 's bugs.

Do you still need a valid product license to play online anymore?

Officially yes. In reality no.

Forgotten Hope 2 has its own workarounds and launcher. Other mods (and vanilla players) use BF2Hub, which wraps around bf2.exe I think to redirect DNS calls to the defunct EA and gamespy servers.

I used this guide last week, it worked and now we play on TheGreatEscape where there are ~20-40 players nightly.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Battlefield/comments/6xx6za/bfl_the...

edit: this was for BF1942. We haven't tried BF2.

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