Battlefield 2 over LAN?

[Cyber-Mav]

hi all, i was wondering can i play battlefield 2 over the lan with my cousin? i can get the game to work but it has no options for bots? so its kind of silly just the 2 of us running around on a 16 player map

thanks all.

 

[Jimbu]

you need the 1.3 patch or above to gain the bots for lan

 

[benjo]

Or, if you don't want to patch, theres a bug that you can do to get bots.

One person makes a server.
Second person finds it in the server list and keeps it highlighted, but make sure you dont refresh.
The first person then closes the server, and starts a single player game with the map of his choice and bots.
Second player joins the server he has highlighted in the server list (that doesnt actually exist). He'll be redirected to the single player game with the bots

 

[Cyber-Mav]

i will use patch 1.3 but its over 400mb big guess its going to take some time to download