That sucks man. But what can you do. Thanks for trying to get it working!

Yes, after chasing this bug down for the past year, I was really hoping that we could get stable singleplayer release.

I was contacted by a DEV from BF2 Project Reality this summer and gave them permission to do a infantry focused port to BF2.   If they do go forward with the project, I will offer to fix up the navmeshes.  At least then all my work on doing the AImeshes for all the objects would not go to waste.

Talon,

I update my announcement as a news post and send it to you.  Maybe you can get a chance to update it this weekend.

I am going to zip up the mod files and upload it as the next release of First Strike WIP.   Just in case anyone wants to try it out or a solution to the BF2142 comes around.   It's possible that EA might one day sell BF2142 to steam or another secondary market company and start another master account server.

Oh yeah.  BF2 has no stability issues with an offline account.   BF2 handles offline accounts differently than BF2142.   Unlike BF2142, BF2 creates an offline profile by default.   BF2142 allowed you to play singleplayer and coop with your multiplayer account - but you could only gain experience from multiplayer.   So, Bf2142 was designed to allways use the multiplayer account.   It's only when playing the game with no internet connection did it use an offline account.   This bug must have been there all along, but it would only be in the rare case of playing without an internet connection that it would ever occur.   We have had singleplayer bug reports in the past but not able to replicate it because the only way to play with an offline account in BF2142 is to only play the game without an internet connection.   Thanks to EA dropping the Master account server, now that is the only way to play.   What makes it even hard to track down was that it only happens after a map change.   All this happened at the time when I was working on changing up the kits, so I was looking at a kit or weapon bug, not a BF2142 game engine problem.  I confirmed it by trying out other BF2142 mods and asking other people to try the same thing.   Bingo! 

It may or may not show up in Multiplayer now, but if a player is missing a weapon in kit he will just not use it and since it doesn't happen to every player, he will probably be fine the next time he dies and respawns in.  Unless it's the primary weapon, the player may not even notice it.   But a bot will get confused and crash the game because he doesn't know what to do with a kit that is missing a weapon that the loadout tells is supposed to be in there.

I also tested it with Deathlok Clan server fix, but apparently that server is not a true master account server.    Gameranger won't work because it uses offline account as well and it doesn't support mods.