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More info?)
"Clint" <cfinch@swcp.com> wrote in message news:42ADFA8E.6010500@swcp.com...
> This is some great info but I'm not seeing where it tells me how to run a
> singleplayer game with the larger map.... maybe I'm just missing
> something....
>
> Schrodinger wrote:
>> "Clint" <cfinch@swcp.com> wrote in message
>> news:d8ko8f$57u$1@iruka.swcp.com...
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>Is there anyway to use the larger map sizes for the single player game in
>>>the demo? Would be nice to get some offline practice w/the Heli and
>>>planes. I can do it creating a local server but the game won't start
>>>until at least one other player joins the game, so this really isn't a
>>>good option.
>>
>>
>> This is pasted from a post in alt.games.ea.battlefield:
>>
>> I have applied all the tweaks and it works ok, except - 31 bots lags my
>> machine to hell and the bots don't work very well in the enlarged map...
>>
>> just to make things easy, lets combine all known tweaks into one post
>> smile.gif
>>
>> 1) to run BF2 in 1280x1024 resolution:
>>
>> add these parametres to your BF shortcut
>> "C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 Demo\BF2.exe" +menu 1
>> +fullscreen 1 +szx 1280 +szy 1024
>>
>>
>> 2) to remove the tutorial voice:
>>
>> open the Common_client.zip file in mods\bf2\ and in the sound\english
>> directory in the archive there is a directory called "help_vo" just
>> delete this directory and the tutorial voice will bother you no more
>> smile.gif
>>
>> 3) to remove the intro/nag screens:
>> in the directory mods\bf2\movies there are all the bik files that get
>> played when the game is run...
>>
>> just replace the bik files with text files of the same name (eg delete
>> the EA.bik file, then create a new text document called EA.bik ...
>> just leave it as an empty file) replace all of the file in the movie
>> directory except for the menu, menu_loggedin & noise bik files... they
>> are the main menu background videos...
>>
>> 4) to remove the SP timelimit: (thanks masterpie smile.gif )
>> To get rid of the single player time,
>>
>> open the following file in wordpad: gpm_cq.py
>> Find the following line host.registerHandler('TimeLimitReached',
>> onTimeLimitReached, 1), put a # in front of it.
>>
>> 5) to increase the bot # higher than 16: (thanks shadowknight
>> smile.gif )
>>
>> edit the mods\bf2\ai\aidefault.ai file with notepad. Rem out the 3
>> lines above the section mentioning the unsupported bot numbers, and
>> then un-rem the 4 lines below..
>> you can change the number of bots from 32 to whatever... 50 seems a
>> good maximum number for the gulf of oman 16 player map... nay more and
>> it gets too bottlenecked
>>
>> feel free to add stuff to this post
>>
>>
>>
http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~bf42players/index.php?s=c57896af145b52a6c6ee6e0f7b84e949&showtopic=2021&st=0
>>
>>
>> ============================================================
>>
>> And another link from the previous site
>>
>> ============================================================
>> Enables the 32 singleplayer map (I tried it, it works but the AI path
>> finding is all messed up... The bots do fly the heli's and fly them
>> well
>>
>>
>>
>>
http://forums.totalbf2.com/showthread.php?t=5718
>>
>>
>> ============================================================
The link at the bottom (just above this text) goes to the single player
large map mod.
Maybe there is still hope for the single player BF gamers.
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