BATTLEGROUP-FRONTLINES: D-DAY HAS ARRIVED!

Finally, the day we`ve all been waiting for! After two and a half years of independent development Battlegroup-Frontlines (BGF), the first World War 2 mod for Battlefield 2, is released. The server files have been widely distributed (and currently more than 30 BGF servers are running) and the BitTorrent install has been downloaded in large quantities. The BitTorrent password will be released on our website and also on our forum (http://forum.bgfmod.com) at 2000GMT this evening (Friday 30th November), plus the password and download links to the full install will also be made available this evening on a number of major BF2 websites (with details listed on our forum).

While BGF continues the Battlegroup tradition of our Battlegroup42 releases on Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield Vietnam, as part of our merger with Frontlines and Warfront we have committed to making BGF gameplay as realistic as practical - so be ready for this. If you want high jumping and dolphin diving, go elsewhere. To enter a vehicle you will need to be very close to the driver`s position (no disappearing in from behind) so be prepared to jump or climb up to a driver`s hatch on a tank. Once inside a tank, while the driving and gunning are controlled by the same person, there are independent driver`s visor and gunsight views - swap between them with the F key (often when entering you will be in the gunsight view, so press F to see the driving view). Tanks typically also have other positions, such as the front hull machine gun, rear turret machine gun (on Russian tanks) and sometimes rear hull infantry positions (e.g. on the T-34) - so make good use of these.

This release concentrates on the Eastern Front, 1941 to 1943 - later releases will extend this to the end of the War, and to other theatres and armies. The following 14 maps are included (about half with singleplayer support, marked *):

Dnieper River
Mekensievy Gory*
Kharkov (converted from DICE`s BF42 map)*
Operation Citadel*
Kursk (converted from DICE`s BF42 map)*
Borisovka Bahnstation
Crossing the Dnjepr 1943
Day of Barbarossa*
On The Road To Stalingrad
Rostov Industry
Spartakus Industry*
Strike At Memel River
The Way East
Uman Pocket

There is also a huge amount of new content, including 500+ new statics, new player models and kits, and vehicles. There are about 40 land vehicles (including the Kubelwagen, Panzer III and IV and the T-34 and KV-1) and about a dozen aircraft (including the Stuka and Messerschmitt BF109, and the Shturmovik Il-2 and MiG 3).

Our latest documentation will be kept up to date with last minute changes, and can be found here:

Readme: Click here to download
User Guide: Click here to download
BGF Gameserver: Click here for a view

We thank all the individuals and mod teams who have helped us get to this point (see the readme) and look forward to a bright future for BGF.

Not long now - see you soon on the battlefields of the Eastern Front!