Battlefield 2 stats, tips and info
I’ve been hunting and pecking for nuggets of info for Battlefield 2 and haven’t found a single source that has everything. So I thought I’d create a quick little repository of all the info I’ve found thus far.
Note: I will continually update this page as I come across more information so bookmark it and visit often.
Update:6/29/07
I found another cool player stats site called BF2Player.com that is definitely worth checking out and also offers a large number of custom signatures that you can use. Below is the one I selected but there are a bunch more.
Update:6/23/07
- There have been several comments regarding Stats not getting updated I’ve found a thread that discusses the issue here
How to re-install with Expansion Packs & Add-ons
- I recently had to re-install on a new machine and it was a bit tricky considering I had purchased add-ons using the EA downloader. Luckily I found a thread that explained the sequence of loading stuff here
Info Snapshot
- Current Version 1.41
- Official Home Page here
- Download patches and demos here
- More downloads at GamersHell
- Top 100 Mods available here
Tweaking
- A guide to tweaking your system for Battlefield 2 can be found here
- A guide to tweak your complete system for gaming in general can be found here
- Having trouble with crashing to desktop or other lockup issues Some have mentioned that it may be a good idea to clear your cache
Great new overall Tips & Strategy site. This is probably the best and most comprehensive one out there now. It has all the standard stuff like rank and badge requirements but has much more to offer. This includes a guide to piloting helicopters, to specific tactics on all the maps. It even includes easter eggs in the game. Check it out now at http://www.secretsofbattlefield.com/
WidgetBucks – Trend Watch – WidgetBucks.com
Best stats website I have found
BF2s.com
This site goes way beyond any others in regards to stats. It has a super clean design using some fancy css layout that allows for individual column sorting within tables. You do a head to head comparison with another player. And they provide the html to create the fancy image insertion you see below.
You can look me up here.
I found a Wordpress Plugin that allows you to display your stats from bf2s.com. The plugin is available here. An example of the output with my stats is below:
Ultimate Tools Utility for Battlefield 2
I came across the following tool which has lots of good features
You can download it here
The best site I have found to contain the most detailed information is Ubar which is now part of BF2S
- Battlefield 2 Ribbons Requirements
- Battlefield 2 Badges Requirements
- Battlefield 2 Medals Requirements
- Battlefield 2 – Special Forces Ribbons Requirements
- Battlefield 2 – Special Forces Badges Requirements
- Battlefield 2 – Special Forces Medals Requirements
Below is some other basic info.
| Badge / Ribbon | Criteria to Receive |
|---|---|
| Basic Combat | (i.e. Sniper, Assault, Medic, Engineer, Support, AntiArmor, SpecOps) you just need to get 10 kills with any of your handheld weapons within one round. Kills within any vehicle or ground weapons doesn’t count. |
| Basic Vehicle | (Transport, Armor, Helicopter, Ground Defence, Air Defence, Aviator) you just need to be in one of these vehicles for 30 minutes. You must be the driver of the vehicle except in the case of ground defense and air defense which are mounted on the ground. |
| Basic Knife Combat | 7 kills with the knife (regardless of kit) within one round |
| Basic Pistol Combat | 9 kills with the pistol (regardless of kit) within one round |
| Basic Explosive Ordinance | Kill 10 people with C4 (Special Ops kit) within one round |
| Basic Command | Win 50 points as a commander within one round |
| Basic Engineer | 10 points repairing your commander equipment (Artillery, UAV Trailer, Radar) or by repairing vehicles that you are in or have team members in them within one round |
| Basic First Aid | 10 healing points by giving first aid within one round. Healing yourself doesn’t count |
| Basic Resupply | provide 5 resupply points by throwing ammo kits on the floor or standing near teammates with ammo in hand within one round. Resupplying yourself doesn’t count |
Best First Weapon to Unlock
After reading posts on many forums, the overall concensus appears to be either the Spec Ops or Medic kit
If you want evidence of this it can be found at the Total BF2 Forums here
Remove intro demo movies
This will allow you to automatically bypass all intro movies and take you directly into the game.
Assuming you installed in the default location:
Go to C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 Demo\mods\bf2\Movies
Create a folder called backup
Move all files into this folder EXCEPT for:
noise.bik
menu.bik
menu_loggedin.bik
Others instructions state to delete the files, but I feel safer moving them to another folder in case they become necessary in the future with a patch.
Run game in 1280 x 1024 resolution
This is a common resolution that people are running that isn’t supported within the in-game menu.
Simply modify your shortcut to the game to include these parameters:
+szx 1280 +szy 1024
So your shortcut should look like this if you installed in the default location:
C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 Demo\BF2.exe” +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 +szx 1280 +szy 1024
Console Commands and other inforamtion
A comprehensive list with additional information is available here
Graphs & Charts of Weapon Damage and more…
A table containing this information and more is available here
Rank Requirements and Weapon Unlocks
Below is a breakdown of the Global score necessary to achieve a rank and whether a weapon unlock will become available.
| Global Points | Rank | Weapon Unlock |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Private | nothing unlocked |
| 150 | Private First Class | nothing unlocked |
| 500 | Lance Corporal | 1st unlock |
| 800 | Corporal | 2nd unlock |
| 2500 | Sargeant | 3rd unlock |
| 5000 | Staff Sargeant | 4th unlock |
| 8,000 | Gunnery Sergeant | 5th unlock |
| 20,000 | Master Sargeant | 6th unlock |
| 20,000* | First Sargeant | no unlock |
| 50,000 | Master Gunnery Sargeant | 7th unlock |
| 50,000** | Sargeant Major | no unlock |
| 2,500,000 | Sargeant Major of the Marine Corps | no unlock |
* Also requires + Awards: Basic Knife Combat Badge, Basic Pistol Combat Badge, Basic Assault Combat Badge, Basic Anti-tank Combat Badge, Basic Sniper Combat Badge, Basic Spec Ops Combat Badge, Basic Support Combat Badge, Basic Engineer Combat Badge, Basic Medic Combat Badge
** �Also requires + Awards: Basic Armor Badge, Basic Transport Badge, Basic Helicopter Badge, Basic Aviator Badge, Basic Air Defense Badge, Basic Ground Defense Badge
File downloads – Patches, Demos, Movies, Screenshots, etc…
I think the best collection of these can all be found on this single page at 3D Gamers
It was only a matter of time before someone created a Battlefield 2 Wiki. I haven’t checked it out yet but this could be a great source of info.
Battlefield 2 Case Mods
these case mods are awesome!
Robin Williams plays Battlefield 2 as a sniper
You can read about it here
Tom’s Hardware tears EA and Dice a new one on Battlefield 2’s early release
The pull no punches in there story available here. I will start off by saying that I love BF2 but the fact does remain that we have all become frustrated for a product that really wasn’t ready to be released to the public. Let’s hope they learn from this.
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August 4th, 2005 at 2:39 pm
this is what i put on the shortcut for the original icon for battlefield 2 “C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\BF2.exe” +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 +szx 1280 +szy 1024 but when i started the game there steel was no option for any resolutions higher than 1024. what should i do now?
August 4th, 2005 at 6:07 pm
Chris, you don’t need to go to the video selection screen with this change. In fact you won’t see it available in there as you found out. But this will already have set your resolution and you can go straight in and play.
August 11th, 2005 at 4:35 pm
I unlocked the spec ops gun on first unlock and have to say apart from slightly more damage i.e. medium instead of low/medium it is not worth it you lose the scope sight and if you are lying down you can’t sight with it. All in all very dissapointing and seems it is 10500 until next unlock I would advise looking else where for a better a gun….
August 17th, 2005 at 5:28 pm
Yeah so following on the unlocks I picked the PK machine gun for the support class and I am very happy. I loved it in DC and it plays well in bf2 aswell. It’s VERY strong and does have good range. Cheers!
September 11th, 2005 at 10:45 am
Hello, I am hopeing some one has created a no cd application. I really could use this before something happens to the disk.
Thanks for your help
September 22nd, 2005 at 8:43 pm
i need f***ing 7,500 freakin more points till freakin corporal that sucks balls!!!!!!!!!!
October 1st, 2005 at 3:34 pm
stupid noob americans you may all suck my sweet chocolate balls. thx. pwned. oups.
October 14th, 2005 at 6:59 pm
patch 1.03 lowered the points needed for rankings and much other things
October 22nd, 2005 at 11:34 am
iwas wondering how to extract or copy the “Jungle_Stream” folder to your
“Battlefield 2/mods/bf2/levels” directory?
October 26th, 2005 at 10:12 pm
Misc Battlefield 2 Links
A page of Battlefield 2 stats, tips and info, lots of good info about my latest addiction. My own stats here….
November 5th, 2005 at 2:31 pm
It seems that the ‘unlocks.py’ file cheat for SP doesn’t work under 1.03. Is it just me or does it not work now for other people?
November 7th, 2005 at 4:05 am
i agree – just got the spec ops unlock and so far haven’t been too impressed. seems lame to trade in the laser sighting and accuracy lying down for a bit more wallop.
November 8th, 2005 at 8:50 pm
Guys maybe any of you know. For some reason my rank stop moving up , iam still recieving the points and awards…………but rank stays the same. Any idea why?
Thanks
November 13th, 2005 at 8:27 am
Great site…Your points for unlocks needs to be updated….1.03 patch greatly reduced points needed to get unlocks…does anyone know where I can get stats about the game for other players…outside of the game. I don’t want to have to enter the game for the stats. Is there a site where you can search for other player stats outside the game ??
November 13th, 2005 at 9:04 pm
Thanks Mike,
Yes I need to update the unlocks and I will do that soon. As far as a site to lookup other player stats. That can be done at a site I list above called bf2s.com. You can also do a comparison of your stats to another player’s on that site as well.
November 16th, 2005 at 2:05 am
your stats are all wrong, i only have 1674 points and im already a corporal. Also a friend of mine is a Master Gunnery Sargeant and is no where close to 250000 points.
November 16th, 2005 at 2:07 am
whoops. should have read it before i posted. sorry mark.
December 17th, 2005 at 9:56 pm
Hey people. i was just wandering how u get the new unlcoks from the patch 1.12.
people say uget them from promotion but when i just got promoted and i needed that spec ops weopon SCAR-L i couldn’t get it because it didn’t show up in the unlock menu.
please leave a comment for me plz.
oplz and tys bye bye.
December 28th, 2005 at 9:52 am
Hey all, i need some help here, i am playing for a long time but my score in not really going up, i am making a lot of kills and stuff but it doesn’t help.
plz help
January 17th, 2006 at 3:54 am
I found another good stats site. It is http://www.formitron.com/ . The interface isn’t as good as the one that you listed but if you hover your mouse over each of the medals, it will give you an idea of what you need to get each medal or move up to the silver or gold version.
March 8th, 2006 at 10:39 am
there are 2 unlocks for each kit but how do u unlock the 2nd unlock to each kit? thanks
March 8th, 2006 at 10:46 am
im having the same problems as johnny can anybody help?
March 28th, 2006 at 6:09 pm
try bf2tracker.com it is the most detailed, join servers directly from the site
April 20th, 2006 at 4:50 am
As far as i can gather, the second unlock becomes available when you have SF installed too. Once i installed it, i got two unlocks for becoming corporal. Speeds things up a little!
April 30th, 2006 at 2:10 pm
i have a problem with my game. i am a staff seargent and i have the 4 unlocks but i cant get any of the second unlocks. my brother plays on the same computer and he is a corporal, but he has 4 unlocks too! and he has the second unlock for support. HELP
May 7th, 2006 at 8:12 pm
update the criteria for basic badges, please
August 12th, 2006 at 10:54 am
i have the same problem as jonathan but im a rank lower i just got my 3rd unlock, but how do you get the second unlock for a gun i want to upgrade my support gun (the pkm), but i dont have the choice of the second unlock, just the first for all the other classes. What should i do about this please help me.
Matt
August 12th, 2006 at 10:55 am
Oh yeh and what is the hotel wall glitch on Karkland, i keep hearing about it just wondering what it is.
October 6th, 2006 at 6:56 am
You get 2nd unlocks if and only if 1) you have special forces installed and associated with your account 2) you have the first unlock in that line (you need the M95 before you can get the L96A1)
October 14th, 2006 at 5:11 am
Hey people just thought id post some tips for the noobs as it was hard for me when i first started.
The best guns to unlock first are the pmk for support as this gun has HUGE fire power and will beat most others in a shot out. It says in the instructions that support is for cover and i often see noobs holding down the trigger, Dont do this its pointless and you wont hit anything. only fire three or four shots at once even if your enemy is very close you will kill them faster
The other best guns are the dao for anti tank Which works well at a longer range then you might fist think and that first medic gun because it will increase accuracy at a longer range
Oh and when you are a medic look after your own life first. Dont run in for a revive straight away wait a few seconds for the enemy to leave or you could try kill him yourself. its always better to heal friendlys while they are still alive so make your medkit a prority over your defibrilator. At least in the begining.
Placing med kits around yourself if you are camping will increase your liklyhood of survival if you are sniped or say hit by a tank shell.
If you find you are getting points but no rank up you might be missing a badge.
The hardest badge to get is the knife badge without doubt.
Some tricks for knifing include laying prone next to a dead enemy waiting for a medic to come for a revive ,and knife then both
people in TOW or stinger sites are easy picking for your knife.
Lots of people will go prone when capping flags! Remember this ,prone people are more vulnerable to a knife. Just pretend your trying to revive them. with a knife;p
on road to jalabad in the second mec base at the bottom of the map there is a ring around the flag!
Camp on the roof just out of flag range and when you see or hear bad guys nearby you can almost bet your balls some of them are going to jump into the ring and go prone. This is when you pull your knife and leap off the roof into the ring and stab as many as you can in a row.
This technique works in many other maps.
Anouther good knife camp is on wake island. be a sniper and find a good spot in between the china air base and the flag on the left hand side .you will see trees with dense grass under them. Ive tripped over more then one pointy sniper in these parts.
I will now tell you the legend of the APC sweet spot;o
Many moons ago there was a great sniper who in his infinite wisdom found that he could snipe drivers out of an APC.
I have never pulled this one off but apparently if you shoot an APC on the turret just below the main gun barral you will hit the driver right between the eyes.
You need the big rifle.
good luck
October 27th, 2006 at 8:04 am
I haven’t been able to find any info on this, but I’m at Gunnery Sgt. and just got a chance to unlock two more weps. The problem is, I haven’t been able to unlock the L96A1 yet and I’ve already unlocked the M95. When will this become available to me? At another rank? Do I need to get a new patch or something? Thanks.
December 2nd, 2006 at 5:29 am
i have like 223 global points but i still wont get the first rank
December 28th, 2006 at 6:41 am
M4roun
If u have BF2 special forces expansion pack you will always when you got enough points have to go into SF and get just 1 point to get the new rank and unlocks. it will show in game precise when you get the point:)
January 11th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a way to play singleplayer with all the unlockables… that way you could decide which is better for you… thanks EA for screwing me.. hard
February 7th, 2007 at 5:31 am
About the special forces bonus 2 unlocks. I started my profile on a computer with special forces then opend up the same profile at home. This allows me the 2 unlocks with out having to get BF2:SF
February 22nd, 2007 at 3:10 pm
I have a problem here. When I look at my stats on BFHQ it shows me ready for promotion, the bar is full with over 23500 points. I also have all the badges necessary. Its been like this for days now, and it won’t promote me. Another thing that’s weird is when I go to BF2s.com it shows my rank as Master Sergeant and shows my next rank as Master Gunnery Sergeant. It skips First Sergeant!! What’s up with that?? I think I’m going to call EA and see if they can help me. Anyone have any ideas??
March 25th, 2007 at 2:46 am
SgtHalo – I’ve had the same thing a couple of times myself and it’s ridiculous that a server that can keep track of your points can’t recognise when you make the grade for a promotion. But just wait a couple of days and it updates. I’m sure it must have since you posted here.
Great page – thanks for all the info and intros to BF2. It’s really helped my game.
March 29th, 2007 at 11:34 am
ok your problem is as the ranks get higher other conditions are required, such as certain badges or a certain amount of play time
April 5th, 2007 at 10:40 am
wats tht glitch in the hotel in the wall i need to know cos every 1 is hiding in ther
April 12th, 2007 at 10:42 am
I play the game in ranked servers, yet, when I do, at the end of each game, the rankings screen is blank, no names or scores are presented, and where the commander names are supposed to be, the game is simply stated to have been a draw. I have never fought a drawn battle to this date.
To my frustration, I find not only that are all of the rankings pages blank, when I return to BFHQ to view my profile, I find that it states that I have not been playing the game at all. I have achieved basic first aid 3 times now, and many other awards once or twice, and I am yet to find any acknowledgement of this in my profile page.
Could anyone comment on this? Has this problem occurred before? Am I just unlucky?
April 18th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Lakey I have had this problem as well. At first I thought I had to disconnect from the game so my stats would update, but they remained blank. Very irritating!
April 28th, 2007 at 4:10 am
Does anyone know how to change the image of the soldier picture on the back ground in the BFHQ menu screen. Mine always displays the black support soldier. I just want to have the sniper or the Spec Ops soldier image to stay there.
Thanks guys and this site is cool! Filled with great info!!
April 28th, 2007 at 4:12 am
Please e-mail any answers to me, I forgot to check the box at the bottom before :(
June 10th, 2007 at 6:34 am
hi, i’ve been having a serious problem on my bfhq page. the personal score is all 0:00:00 and the time i last played is still at my first game. the awards i have won is not there and all my stats are blank or at 0. can anyone give me a link to somewhere that can help me or can someone answer this question and provide me with some advice?
June 16th, 2007 at 9:43 am
Yeah similar for me too.
I’m getting points each time I play, but it’s not updating my bfhq page. It just stays the same score. Can ANYONE please tell me if I need to do anything for my points I get in a game to be added to those in my profile!? I’ve lost so many medals already, it’s getting quite depressing.
Cheers
R
June 16th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Ben & Rich…have you checked your stats on BF2S.com? take a look and see if they look ok there.
June 18th, 2007 at 1:16 am
I’m having the problem with stats not updating- started a new game to take advantage of the Special Forces unlocks that I’ve got from the booster pack, but after a weekend of playing my stats for my new avatar are all still at zero, both in the game and at bf2s.com.
Anyone know anything about this?
June 19th, 2007 at 5:05 am
yeah same problem here i`m playing but my BFHQ shows 0:00:00 and Bf2s.com too shows that i`m on zero have any ideas?
June 19th, 2007 at 9:00 am
am facing the same problem here. my awards and the points i’ve earned the past 2 days is not updated at all. I’ve noticed on bf2s that my last bf login was the 14th . but i just played a few hours ago!
I’ve also noticed that just before the enemies’ flag points hit zero, a ‘there is an error with your connection’ pops up for a second before the end scene kicks in. Do you guys get that?
June 19th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
Yeah I have the same problem everyone else is talking about…And I have seen the connection error thing periodically too…Wtf is going on?
June 20th, 2007 at 2:54 am
i can answer your last post..
sorta..
its a gamespy server connection problem from what i have gathered
it having trouble updating or something?
ive had a wicked last 4 days.
100+ rounds every round..
but none of it is counting =(
June 23rd, 2007 at 12:43 pm
I found a thread that discusses the stats problems issue on the bf2s.com forum you can read more about it at the link below
http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=77386
July 7th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Ya i ahev teh same fricken problem. my score is not updatign and teh same stuff happings. teh “lost connection” thing pops uupf or me too i need help of what to do!!!!
July 9th, 2007 at 5:37 am
Regarding the lost connection problem, I was having this recently and found out it was my firewall (free version of zonealarm). It had updated itself, but for some reason wasn’t allowing all BF traffic through. I gave the program full access and its been fine since
July 10th, 2007 at 5:46 am
What is all this talk of the hotel??? is there a sneaky place to hide?
July 10th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
yeah, I’m having the same problem. I play a game, get points, then I check BFHQ and Im stuck at the same number I was before. It doesnt update my play time or play date either. Ive looked on the forums and it says nothing. Help!
July 10th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Update: I checked with EA, and apparently the stats are just backlogged, and should be up in a while.
July 27th, 2007 at 11:00 pm
i just got bf2 but i can’t seem to get any points, ranks or medals even know i killing people so does any1 know how i do it?
August 7th, 2007 at 12:45 am
i have the same problem with bfhq not updne hasent been updated since early 2006
August 7th, 2007 at 12:48 am
*but mine
August 19th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
I can’t seem to blat myself to the karkand roof access. I keep dying or getting injured. How do u detnate while running?
September 16th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
how do i do that one glitch in the hotel’s wall? caz i donno
October 6th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
I have the samre problem with my stats not updating. I recently got highscores in consecutive games, yet i am stuck on my score from before. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
December 7th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
hey guys quick question im a master seargent with 45000 points i have all of the ulocks except 3rd engineer and 3rd anti tank i have all the badges and meet the requirments for first seargent why cant i promote? also how the hell did i get so many unlocks? Close friend M3cury is only 10000 points behind me and he literally has half as many unlocks as i do?
December 12th, 2007 at 11:48 am
just a quick note to all the fellow newbies playing that don’t get their scores updated… your single player scores don’t count. you have to play on a ranked server, in case, like me when I stared, you didn’t already know that
December 24th, 2007 at 7:20 am
Guys, check to make sure all of your punkbuster filesa are updated, go to the pb website and go to downloads and follow the directiions, and if you have vista, chang you acsess level to ADMINASTRATOR you should be able to do it in computer? my computer on your computer!!!!
MERRY CHRITMAS AND BLOW UP CRAP IN BF2
December 26th, 2007 at 5:55 am
Can u guys know how to promote rank??
Idk how to promote my rank.As i saw in my stats its the bar is stopped there and everytime i played and finish its still there and stopped.
Idk how to promote myself.
And one thinksometimes my PB client were not responding.
Please answer my Question i relly need it.
or email me at tomdeolonge@yahoo.com
January 1st, 2008 at 5:30 pm
on BF2 can you unlock the 2nd unlocks before unlocking all of the 1st unlocks.
YES ALL OF THE 1ST UNLOCKS
March 17th, 2008 at 8:18 am
Hi, i am unable to rank, it said in a match i was sergant, then in bfhq it said corporal and the bar was full, i also cant buy unlocks, Help!
August 7th, 2008 at 8:41 am
i have more than 70 pistol kills but i still have a basic pistol badge and can’t get a veteran badge….i also can’t get medals or ribbons…can anyone help me ???
August 16th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Veteran Pistol Badge requires 7 kills in a round plus 50 global pistol kills
March 18th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Nothing wrong with this, at all, people should get it more.
August 27th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Wow. Good work Soldier.
Needed some BF2 info regarding unlocks, looked at your site, and had the answer within a few clicks.
Nice website.
Keep up the good work Krynsky.
Nik – TheGuvnor
ITG
August 27th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Thanks Nik. Glad it helped you.