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In this post I’m gonna write some cool tweaks for Battlefield2, Please make sure you’ve already read Part I & Part II because things here won’t be explained in much detail.
Open any .tweak file of a weapon and try these tweaks 😉

1-Shoot walls from your gun
To protect your self against tanks or other soldiers you can shoot a wall!  just change the projectile type of a weapon to barrier_blocks_high_8m , if you try it now you’ll end up stuck inside the wall haha! 😀
You have to add this line (got it from c4_explosives.tweak and changed some values):
ObjectTemplate.fire.projectileStartPosition 0/0/7
Search for the block that begins with the line
rem —BeginComp:SingleFireComp —
and add it there..
This means the projectile (a wall in our case) will have a position of 0 units on X, 0 units on Y , 7 units on Z which means the wall will be 7 units in front of you. note that  x,y,z are relative to the player…
The cool thing is that these walls are real! yes, bullets cannot get through :D!

A bunker 😉 make sure you leave a door!

Someone! help me get down! 😦

2-Change reload time & magazine size
Search for the block that begins with the line
rem —BeginComp:DefaultAmmoComp —
and inside the block you’ll find the lines that define the number of magazines (nrOfMags) , magazine capacity (magSize) and reload time (reloadTime).
Note that changing reload time will break the sync between actual reloading and reloading animation.

3-Projectile velocity
The line ObjectTemplate.velocity defines the speed of the projectile..if your projectile is something static like a wall, the velocity will have no effect and the wall won’t move!
4-Define maximum number of objects allowed
If you’ve ever increased the ammo of c4, you’ll notice that you can only plant 5 at a time… to get rid of this,open c4_explosives.tweak find the line
ObjectTemplate.fire.maxProjectilesInWorld 5
and replace the 5 with any number you want..

5-Weapon of destruction!
Use agm65_maverick as a projectile 😉 every thing can be destroyed with one shot! tanks, radar , UAV posts and artillery canons! soldiers will fly when get hit with such a weapon! 😀

6-Tweaking vehicles
In the folder Objects_server\Vehicles you’ll find the .tweak files you need!.
The principle is the same, open the .tweak file, replace some values… vehicles .tweak files are very long! but every thing is organized and should be clear if you go through the file line by line..

7-Kits and soldiers
The folder Objects_server\soldiers will enable you to change two main types of soldiers : light & heavy
the main thing you might wanna change is the hit points (health) and the stamina.
The folder Objects_server\Kits you’ll find .con files that well enable you to change the weapons each soldiers carries & unlock levels.

8-Unlock locked weapons
In the folder Objects_server\Kits choose an army (eg. ch for china) then choose a soldier (eg. CH_Assault) and change the lines:
ObjectTemplate.unlockLevel 1
ObjectTemplate.unlockLevel 2
to
ObjectTemplate.unlockLevel 0

9-That’s All 😉

You might wonder “Why would I ever want to modify the original game?”
My Answer : you’re right! The game is great as it is!
but I did what I did only after playing the original game for countless hours 🙂 so for fun I wanted to see the game structure, and then I found the file Objects_server.zip and began to mess with it!

Again I have to remind you : your modified game won’t work in multiplayer games unless you replace the Objects_server.zip with the original one…
But if all players have the same version of the file the game should work!

The file Objects_client.zip contains the same files found in Objects_server.zip…My guess is that when you create a multiplayer game you’ll use the file Objects_server.zip while other players will use Objects_client.zip

I hope you had fun reading this series 😀
If you have any notes, ideas or questions feel free to use comments on my blog 😀