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The Project Reality 0.8 core and level files are now available for download via FilePlanet. While you're waiting, be sure to read the Project Reality 0.8 Guide



Remember, you'll need both the level pack and the mod core to play. Also remember to delete the previous version of Project Reality as well as its shortcuts before installing 0.8.

For those of you who do not wish to wait in the FilePlanet line, Total Gaming Files will be mirroring the files at approximately 2:00 PM EST on the 29th of August.

See you on the Battlefield, soldiers!

Our very own community member Freakboy recently attended NVision 2008 where he was able to score an exclusive video interview for his site Gamers Verse with DICE Associate Producer Aleksander Grondal. The interview lasts 20+ minutes and is full of some great info on Battlefield Heroes. Check it out below:

Interested in playing some US Intervention? Well the guys from the Multi-Mod Ranking System have setup a fight night for everyone to join. Listen up:

Our friends of the Multi-Mod Ranking System (MRS) are happy to announce another of their famous “Fight Night”s. This time they invite everyone to play USI on their server and get back to the hot iraqi desert once again. The date for the event is Saturday, August 30th, 7:00pm (London time). If you do not live in europe and get confused by the timezones, we have created a countdown for you. The battle will go down on the following server:

If you still need to download USI, you can do that on our download page. The latest release is 0.17 and BF2 patch 1.41 is required. We hope that there will be as many players as possible and can’t wait to see each other.

So be sure to mark this date and time on your calender if you're interested in playing some USI!

The Forgotten Hope 2 mod team has posted up their latest media update today showing off some new player models and weapons. Take a look:

Hello and welcome back to another update of Forgotten Hope. Today, we can finally show off our Italian player models as they now have their own helmets, hats, bags and pouches. We also have two new weapons for the allied forces in Normandy.

You have probably already noticed our Italian player models in Forgotten Hope 2.0 and 2.1, but we never showed them in any of our news updates because they were still missing much of their own equipment. They were still using German helmets, for example. In the upcoming 2.15 patch we are getting rid of all these placeholders. We have already shown the new Italian weapons in an earlier news update, now here are the finished Italian player models. These Italians soldiers were all modeled, skinned and coded by Jodonnell.

To learn more about the FH2 mod and this update, visit here.

We recently released some new Battlefield Heroes character art and today EA has taken it a step further by creating some new graphics out of them. Check all four of them out below:


Be sure to check back in later for the four more additional new graphics.

A new Battlefield Heroes blog has been posted today which includes a clip of the ever popular theme song. Take a look:

Because the Battlefield Heroes theme is so popular we decided to offer you a compact version.

Battlefield Heroes Sample 1:



• MP3 - Good quality (128 Kbps)
• MP3 - Great quality (256 Kbps)
• MP3 - Outstanding quality (320 Kbps)

So if you enjoy the theme song, be sure to grab the clip above!

As of 08.18.2008, Punkbuster released a server side update aimed at tackling Macros/hotkeys. It will be flexible to give admins some decisions on how it works. Here is what they had to say:

Version 1.683 of the PB Server for BF2 has been released to our PB Master Servers for auto-update and to our website download page.

Release Notes for PB Server v1.683:

The setting pb_sv_restrictions will now accept a value of 2 for cases where a server admin wants PunkBuster to be more restrictive with regard to certain macro or hot key type programs; pb_sv_restrictions will continue to default to the value of 1; admins who want to enforce the additional restrictions must configure "pb_sv_restrictions 2" either at the command line or in the pbsvuser.cfg configuration file in the server's pb folder

We are interested in hearing feedback from both players and server owners on the effectiveness of this update.

1UP has released a lengthy video today that shows off some more of the gameplay in Battlefield Heroes. Check it out below:

The guys over at AMD Zone have posted up some new performance benchmarks for Battlefield Heroes today. Check it out:

FRAPS was used for testing and unfortunately on the Village map in the game. Benchmarking FRAPS isn't the most accurate all the time but a multi-player game adds in added variations. We tried to re-produce the same exact results though despite these results we feel are very accurate but take them with somewhat a grain of salt that FRAPS adds.

The game is very limited in graphics options from "High", "Medium", and "Low" being the only options with no details or advanced section. The gameplay matches the engine in it's simplicity so that isn't a big deal, as you'll see the game runs well even on "High" even on older hardware.

For more details from this benchmark be sure to visit here.

The Battlefield Heroes website was updated today with a wrap up from Games Convention 2008. Check it out:

GC `08 is now over; we had a great time and definitely have some fond memories. Hopefully everyone who visited enjoyed it and had time to try out Battlefield Heroes.

Not only was the community feedback very good, it was also great to have the opportunity to meet some of you personally.

In addition to articles, galleries and videos from the EA-CT.de team (without whom we couldn’t have pulled this off. A huge thanks to them and all the folks over at EA Germany!), you will find some pictures in our Community Heroes section.

Be sure to stay tuned for more!