Hey. At the request of Twigs, I am posting this in the bug reports section. There seems to be issue with Battlefield 2142 (and, by extension, this mod) where playing completely offline (or at least not connected to the EA Servers) causes all weapons that are classified as unlocks (in First Strike's case, any weapon beside the first equipped primary weapon of each class at the start of a match) is locked. This makes offline play a little frustrating. The best I could do to alleviate the issue was to modify all of the classes to optimize them for offline play. There seems to be a window where all weapons are unlocked after playing one match. The thing is, all matches have to be consecutive afterwards for the weapons to stay unlocked. Otherwise, they lock again after quitting a match (disconnecting from the offline server). The classes I modified were based around the limitations. Here is a list of changes I made (some are a matter of personal preference. So, be aware of that as you read);Support: Replaced with a dedicated Sniper (Scout) class, and its weapons and abilities have been redistributed to other classes. The Scout is armed with (in addition to the melee weapon and pistol) the Soldier's Sniper weapon, MicroBinoculars, and Tracking Beacon from the Soldier class (Still a work in progress)
Soldier: Replaced the Sniper weapon with the former primary weapon of the Support Class (Bowcaster and MG-15). Replaced the MicroBinoculars with Thermal Detonators (for some anti-vehicle firepower, and somewhat in honor of Star Wars Battlefront). Removed Tracking Beacon.
Heavy Weapons: Split into two different versions. One for vehicular-based maps, and one for infantry maps (using the existing heavy_weapons and heavy_weapons_sp classes in the mod files). Both replace the Personal Shield Generator with a Fusion Cutter, and gain anti-personnel mines from the former Support Class. The vehicular-based map version starts out with a rocket launcher and the infantry map version starts out with a repeating blaster. Maps are modfied where appropriate to make use of the right class.
Medic: Gains the DEMP2 as a unlockable weapon. Gains an Ammo Box to replace the Support class's E-Web generator (slight reference to the Pilot/Engineer class in Battlefront, in how they can both restore health and resupply ammo).
Well, this is how I set it up, just for ideas. May I suggest if the FSdev team, if they were to use this idea, use special offline versions of each map (or offline gamemodes, at least) and offline classes meant for these maps so the regular maps don't need to be modified. If a player was connected to the EA servers, then they can use the normal maps and classes because everything will be unlocked as intended.
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