The latest Battlefield 2 Community Update highlights the BF2 Combat: The Battlefield 2 Tour of Duty mod (it has nothing to do with the cult tv series though), made by the Planet Combat team. Here is word on the content:

So this mod adds a persistent flavour to Battlefield 2. With the approval of EA, heavy clansupport and enough servers in Europe it all looks too good to be true. There is a catch however and that is the fact that participants will need to pay a fee for this mod. Apparently, this isn't the only mod that'll provide this kind of experience as there is also the 21st Century Warfare project for BF2.

Another point of interest in the community update is a new and improved ranked server admin program, also made by the people behind the BF2 Combat mod:

Nice that stat cheaters will get punished (on a limited number servers though). But EA probably didn't yet think of doing something about the excessive unintended teamkilling (and thus the many kicks) caused by the highly damaging physical contact with vehicles or the mysterious enemy tags appearing on friendly troops.

More positive is the news that the mod toolkit has gone into Closed Beta phase. It should be out within a couple of days too.

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