The long-awaited patch for Battlefield 2 has been released, and it makes changes to two of the most complained-about aspects of the game: the TK punish system and chopwhoring.
In terms of TKs, all it does is disable artillery TKs by commanders – so all those idiots who call in artillery where their team is about to go will now be safe from any retribution.
Chopwhoring (where 6 people pile into a Blackhawk, and make short work of capturing every CP on the map) , which is a particular problem on Mashtuur City, has been well and truly nerfed – now only ONE additional person inside a vehicle will give a bonus to the capture-time of a control point (e.g. the machine gunner on a tank) – everyone else has to get out of the vehicle.
This doesn’t present much of a problem to those who use APCs for much the same tactic, since they tend to get out anyway to get a better shot at any lurking antitank soldiers, but it might make playing as MEC on Mashtuur actually fun.