XX Royal Danish Combat Elite XX - XX-clusive interview

Salutes all
XX aka Royal Danish Combat Elite XX
Are happy to announce an XX-clusive Interview with DICE from Sweden
As you might or might not know, they are the developers of
Battlefield 2

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Royal Danish Combat Elite
has gathered some questions about Battlefield 2.
And we got the chance to ask them directly to

The producers of this very anticipated and great looking game

Battlefield 2

nice water effect

XX is proud to present this interview to you
So without further delay, here it comes:

XX
Earlier this year you talked about a target PC for the game.
This target PC's stats were 1,5 Gh cpu, 512 Mb ram and a graphic card supporting 1,4 pixel shader.
Is this still standing ?

DICE
Those specs are basically correct. We have changed the CPU to 1.7 GHz.
The minimum RAM is 512 and we generally support all video cards with 128MB RAM with 1,4 pixel shaders or higher.
Althought it's not completely locked down yet.

XX
Will BF2 support 1280 x 1024 screen res. or higher ?

DICE
The resolution you can go to is based on your monitor and video card.
Of course the higher res you go, you will see reduced performance.

XX
Have you taken any measures to prevent baseraping and spawnkilling on the untakeable flags
(ex. "dead zones"(no fly/no go zones) around bases ?

DICE
We have included several new methods that we have found are most effective against spawn killers:
* The spawn points around a CP are spread out much more and are not in line of sight of each other,
so a player cannot sit in one location and kill people.
* Since people can now spawn in on their Squad Leader, this makes spawn camping very difficult.
* Commander artillery/UAVs/Satellite makes it hard on campers, as the commander usually drops death on them.

Commander view

XX
Which servers are going to support the new stat system and tracking of
players ? you mentioned "ea official and leased servers" on your site.
But will it be all public servers or only EA approved servers,
and in that case what are the requirements to be approved as official server ?

DICE
It will be only EA approved servers for the simple reason,
that we want to ensure our players that the stats they are getting are correct.
We would prefer it if we could have all servers include their stats in the persistent system,
but ensuring that people are not cheating makes it very difficult.
If we find a solution that allows this, we will do so.

Menu screen

XX
Can you tell us anything about the server requirements

DICE
We are supporting both Linux and Windows versions. Both 32 and 64 bit.

Intel

XX
How big a role will the support & medic class play for teamwork ?
And will there still be ammo boxes and medic scattered around the maps ?.

DICE
All health and ammo will come from other players in the game or from Commander resupply drops.
You can always kill an enemy medic/support class and steal their ammo/health. :)

Medic Class

XX
Will both the programs "fragalyzer" and "BF2-tv" be ready to launch with
the game on 30 june ?

DICE The fragalyzer is an internal tool, that we are looking at possibly releasing
at some time in the future.
The BF2 TV Recorder will be release with the game.

XX
Regarding the planes and choppers. will it still be so easy to fly those,
will you make it harder to fly complicated machinery or are you going for the
"man in from the street flying F16 and Choppers on day 1"
like in bf:vietnam ?

DICE
The aircraft are about half way between DC and BFV in difficulty.
There are also varying degrees of difficulty.
Example: The transport helicopter is easier to fly then the attack helos, but it is also less nimble.

Easy Flying?

XX
How will a TK be punished (Points)?

DICE
TK will be punished both in points and, if the server admin has set it up,
as an auto-kick if they have too many unforgiven TKs.
Players can also forgive others for accidental TKs.

Q button

XX
How XXactly is the VoIP going to work: Will you be able to talk &
listen, across squads/teams/commanders, with a secondary talk-button for
example?

DICE
VOIP works very simply. If you are in a squad or the commander,
just plug in your headset/mic and press V to talk within your squad.
If you are a SL and want to talk to the commander, press a different key.

BF2 is looking great allready, and we are all looking forward to the release

XX Royal Danish Combat Elite XX
would like to say 1000 thXX to

Dice
for the answers.

And we surely will seeing ya all on the battlefield 2-morrow soldiers

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