BFME2 Patch 1.06 Is Live Print News | Mail News | Category: B4ME2 For those of you sick of the online lobby lag created from EA's BFME2 patch 1.05, you have something to be happy about. EA has just released the new 1.06 patch less than 1 hour ago; the patch only fixes the online lobby lag so no point in looking any further into it. Log into BFME2 and join multiplayer and the patch should auto-download.
BFME2 - The Battle Begins! Print News | Mail News | Category: B4ME2 - Community IGN has pickup on the Dell XPS Battle for Middle-Earth II Tournament, for all you die-hard gamers looking for some payback for all those hours you spent spamming troops to their end. As we covered last week Dell has teamed with Gamespy and will be giving away a Dell XPS 700 Desktop PC and $2,000 in cool cash. But also a bit of news we didn't know about is that, IGN is also running a sweepstakes in conjunction with Dell XPS's sponsorship that will award $500 dollars worth of games from Direct2Drive to one lucky gamer.
So if you have that competitive edge and think you can out class a few hundred other BFME2 players head on over to GameSpy Arena and sign-up today.
The Third Age Battle and Speed MOD by Lord of Nazgul and Ultimate Battle Mod (BFME2 Game Mods) -- Hello! I know you've been waiting to see my next map pack,...
BFME2 ROTWK Website! Print News | Mail News | Category: B4ME2 EA has re-skinned its BFME2 site to represent the upcoming BFME2 Rise of The Witch-King. The new layout greets you with a large image of the Witch-King along with a dark tone that revolves around the new expansion. Check out the new layout here.
BFME2 Selling in the US Top 20 Print News | Mail News | Category: B4ME2 - Community EA's Lord of the Rings Battle for Middle Earth 2 has found itself still selling in the top 20 games for the last 6 months. The average amount of games needed to be sold to be listed in this list is just below 3,000 games per week. By doing basic math, if EA sold 3,000 per week for the last 6 months that is 72,000 copies of the game sold in the US. But realistically I am sure EA sold more than 3,000 games per week in the first few months here in the US. So for the US to say EA sold 200,000+ copies would be a good assumption along with saying globally EA is probably peaking 500,000+ copies sold.
1) Company Of Heroes (DVD) - THQ
2) Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy - LucasArts
3) World Of Warcraft - Vivendi
4) Company Of Heroes Collector's Edition - THQ
5) The Sims 2 Glamour Life Stuff Expansion Pack - Electronic Arts
6) The Sims 2 - Electronic Arts
7) Company Of Heroes (CD) - THQ
8) Civilization IV - 2K Games
9) Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - 2K Games
10) Age Of Empires III - Microsoft
11) Warcraft III Battle Chest - Vivendi
12) Guild Wars Factions - NCsoft
13) Battlefield 2 Deluxe - Electronic Arts
14) Madden NFL 2007 - Electronic Arts
15) The Sims 2 Open For Business Expansion Pack - Electronic Arts
16) Star Wars: Empire At War - LucasArts
17) Civilization IV: Warlord Expansion Pack - 2K Games
18) Heroes Of Might & Magic V - Ubisoft
19) Lord of the Rings: Battle For Middle Earth II - Electronic Arts 20) Guild Wars - NCsoft
Now Relics/ THQ's Company of Heroes is sporting over 11,600 copies sold in the week listed above, and that was only with a US release. Now doing a bit more math, if EA did sell 500,000 copies of BFME2 at a rough cost of $50.00 per game EA has dragged in roughly $25 million dollars, which is a great indicator why we are seeing an expansion on the horizon.
MOD SDK Version 1.01 Print News | Mail News | Category: B4ME2 - Community EA has pushed forward the first update to their Mod SDK, the first release wasn't that long ago, but here is what EA had to say about this new release.
Behold, the one RTS Mod SDK to rule them all is here! This Mod SDK contains much more power than meets the eye and for all aspiring 'modders' out there, it will provide you with some extremely useful developer tools to greatly enhance the production of your mod projects for The Lord of the Rings™ and the more recent Command & Conquer™ RTS games. We are extremely excited to see the new models and art practices, as well as open the door to easier production processes for community 'modders'.
This MOD SDK v1.01 is compatible with the following games:
* The Battle for Middle-earth™ II
* The Battle for Middle-earth™
* Command & Conquer™ Generals: Zero Hour
* Command and Conquer™ Generals
* Command and Conquer™ Renegade
Hopefully with this new Mod SDK it willmake things easier on our community modders. Make sure to download the SDK here. "Filesize: 32MB"
BFME2 Patch 1.06 Print News | Mail News | Category: B4ME2 - Community EA Predator has updated us once again about the current online Lag within BFME2 and the news that Patch 1.06 will be rolling out next week.
Patch 1.06 is looking to deploy early next week and will fix the lobby lag you have been experiencing. We apologize for this. The error is related to the online development building of The Rise of the Witch-king, there was a code error that could not have been detected until patch 1.05 went live and was under heavy traffic. To put it simply, this error could not be found without the patch being live. We have fixed it this week and should be deploying this patch next week.
It is good to see EA is on the ball in fixing this issue, now lets see if they keep fixing the other issues...
BFME & BFME2 Maps Print News | Mail News | Category: B4ME2 - B4ME We have just added 2 new updated maps for BFME2 and a new map for BFME. Make sure to check out Bunker Hill as it has a 50,000 CP cap.
Maps & More Maps Print News | Mail News | Category: B4ME2 More amazing maps have been added to the vaults, and as you can see the makers have put some detail in certain aspects of these maps. .
Chistopher Tolkien Finishes "The children of Hurin" Print News | Mail News | Category: LOTR - Community Community member Mordor Slayer has found a bit of good news in the Tolkien world, an unfinished story of the famous writer JRR Tolkien has been finished by his son, 33 years after his death. The book - The children of Hurin - is set in Tolkien's known and loved fantasy world and will be in stores next year.
Chistopher Tolkien needed almost 30 years to complete the manuscript of his father. The story featuring elves and dwarves, takes place during the First Age, and you don't have to read his other books to understand it
The question is, has Chistopher Tolkien butchered his fathers work? or will the book follow the same style JRR Tolkien brought to us? tell us what you think here.
MEV Site Director Blog: BFME2 Patch 1.05 Print News | Mail News | Category: B4ME2 - BFME2 Exp. Obviously this week’s big news is all about patch 1.05 for BFME2. For the most part the new patch didn’t just adjust a few things; it created an entire new game. Now I am a person who judges games on how I get them on release “out of box”. Sure there is always a fix here and there and yes there are always instances of OP factions, but the key impression is how the game plays when you first install it. So this weeks Blog topic will direct itself towards EA’s BFME2 Patch 1.05.
BFME2 Online Lobby Lag Print News | Mail News | Category: B4ME2 - B4ME - Community EA Predator has posted over on EA's official forums about the ongoing lag in the online servers. The good thing is the issue is well on its way to being fixed, the bad news is, it isn't fixed yet. Here is what EA Predator had to say.
Hey guys,
Update here, so it appears that we have nailed down the issue causing the lobby lag and it may have to do with a back-end signature requirement related to on-going development of our Expansion Pack. Much like Zero Hour, BFME 2 and the Expansion Pack share similar online infrastructure of course.
This is clearly an unintended error and we're looking on to the best possible fix-it option, which MAY require a quick patch.
I'll keep you posted, but just know that we are intensely working on a fix.
So quick patch or not, I think we can all agree that we just want the issue resolved.
Free Battle For Middle Earth II Xbox 360 Map Pack Print News | Mail News | Category: B4ME2 Xbox 360 - Community For our community members who own and have been playing BFME2 on Xbox 360 we have some good news. EA has released a new three level multiplayer map pack. The pack is titled "The Aragorn's Journey Map Pack" and will remain free through Sept. 29 to download via Xbox Live. So logon and start downloading.
BFME2 Patch 1.05 Impressions Print News | Mail News | Category: B4ME2 - Community EA has released patch 1.05 just 3 short days ago and a whirlwind has hit the community. Our current poll shows mixed feelings on the patch, with some users have an unexpected change and other accepting the changes. With that said let us know how you feel about the new patch for BFME2 here.
Battle for Middle-earth II 1v1 Print News | Mail News | Category: B4ME2 - Community Gamespy & Dell have teamed together to present a new tournament for BFME2. The tournaments dates and sign-ups have yet to be announced but the prizes have been set and here are the details.
Tournament Ladder presented by Dell
Grand Prize:
Dell XPS 700
$2000 cash
Sweepstakes Prize:
$500 Direct2Drive.com Gift Certificate
As soon as I have more information on where to sign-up and when it will launch I will let you know.
BFME2 1.05 Poll Print News | Mail News | Category: B4ME2 This week’s poll targets EA's new patch for BFME2 "What are your feelings on Patch 1.05?" Make sure to vote on the right under the tall ad. As for last week, the results are:
What price will you pay for BFME2: ROTWK?
$50.00+ - 76 votes
$40.00 ~ $49.99 - 64 votes
$30.00 ~ $39.99 - 141 votes
$20.00 ~ $29.99 - 290 votes
$19.99 - 229 votes
Not buying it! - 78 votes
Total Votes: 878
I was actually surprised to see that over 250 users would pay over $39.99. I myself chose the $29.99 bracket as I feel any expansion should never be priced over that. But from the looks of it we will see it retail for about $27.99 - $29.99 in the US.
