- improved Multiplayer Sprint/ADS behaviour | thanks gfhhhf
- fixed several small issues in Story Missions | thanks OldLu
- fixed some small typos
- increased Multiplayer interaction distance from 125 to150
- fixed issue with key rebinding
- added option to reset key bindings to default
You might need to refert to default Key Bindings in order to have them work properly! Servers are currently updating and should be online soon!
Beyond Enemy Lines 2 is now available!
Welcome to Beyond Enemy Lines 2!
Take the role of a special agent deployed deep beyond enemy lines where terrain and conditions are barbaric. You will seek, locate and destroy the enemy while causing havoc and confusion. Emerge a hardcore tactical experience in vast, nonlinear missions where skill and tactical decisions matter!
Jump right into the action?
https://youtu.be/RGOfjNXCTfY
What is Beyond Enemy Lines 2?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp68ie58agY
The Roadmap - Whats coming next?
Beyond Enemy Lines 2 will recieve quite a lot of post launch content. I would like to show you whats coming up in the next months.
There are currently 11 Content Updates planned for the future of the game.
For 2019 I will release 10 content updates, 2 Updates / Month. Each update will will add one or more new maps to the game.
Beyond Enemy Lines 2 will recieve quite a lot of post launch content. I would like to show you whats coming up in the next months.
There are currently 11 Content Updates planned for the future of the game.
For 2019 I will release 10 content updates, 2 Updates / Month. Each update will will add one or more new maps to the game.
Content Update 01 (August 2019)
One new Team-Deathmatch Map - TDM_Outpost
Content Update 02 (August 2019)
One new large scale Singleplayer Mission for the Warhead campaign
One new Conquest Map - CQ_Harbor
One new Coop Mission - COOP_Harbor
Content Update 03 (September 2019)
One new large scale Singleplayer Mission for the Warhead campaign
One new Conquest Map - CQ_TankBase
One new Team-Deathmatch Map - TDM_TankBase
One new Coop Mission - COOP_TankBase
Content Update 04 (September 2019)
One new Singleplayer campaign with 3 missions set after the main campaign
Very difficult! Beyond Enemy Lines 2 provides no handholding and punishes your mistakes with a fast ingame death. It takes time to master the weapon handling and know how to use the terrain to your advantage. Being difficult is a core component of this game!
There are some options to tweak the difficulty mode, but even then it's not comparable to a Mainstream game.
Is this game like Call of Duty?
No! If you are looking for a experience simmilar to Call of Duty, then Beyond Enemy Lines 2 is not what you are looking for. Sure you can have a ton of action packed gameplay, but this requires a very large amount of skill and is definitly not easy!
Is there any Replayability?
Yes! All missions have multiple ways to complete them, optional mission objectives, assignements and a final mission rating. You can compare your mission stats with the traget stats and your personal best. The AI is not scripted and can always take a different patrol path, reacts different for each combat situation. Every time you try a mission, something will be different.
Why is the Multiplayer in Early Access?
Because this game is developed by a single person. Initially it was planned to release the Multiplayer post launch as a free update but it's now in a that stable stat that I don't want to hold it back. But as I'm the only person working on this game, it's hard even with several Beta's and stress tests to get a feeling how it will perform in the public. In all tests there where no gamebreaking bugs, but please do not expect a entirly bug free experience at this point.
Which gamemodes are available?
Singleplayer
Multiplayer -> Conquest, Team-Deathmatch and Coop
How different is this game from the first Beyond Enemy Lines?
Everything in Beyond Enemy Lines 2 is developed from the ground up new. Everything got reworked and improved, features replaced (like the map computer). While Beyond Enemy Lines 2 keeps the feeling of the original, it's a far more immersive experience in larger and more complex missions, better AI and even more freedom with the weapon customizations.
Do I need to know Beyond Enemy Lines 1?
No.
Is this game a spiritual successor of Project IGI?
Yes and No! While the first Beyond Enemy Lines was designed as a spiritual successor of Project IGI, Beyond Enemy Lines 2 takes a step further. Missions are larger and more open and do not only focus in infiltrating a compound. However, the roots to Project IGI are still very much noticable.
Do you have any other questions? Feel free to ask them!!
Trainyard is the first mission of the Warhead Campaign, your mission is to find and secure Mikhail Volkov.
Content: 1 Mission at Launch (7 additional following until December 2019 as DLC's)
Playtime: ~1h per Mission (on first run, depending on skill and playstyle)
Story: This mission has top priority. Target: Mikhail Volkov. You are to locate him and bring him out for debriefing. Mikhail Volkov is our only link with the heist of the warhead. Mikhail is held at a military tank base. The whole area has excellent air defenced. We have to place you some distance from the target until those defenses are disabled. You will travel to the next goods yard - there you will resource transportation. The whole operation is simple - there are three stages:
1) Acquire transportation assets.
2) Disable air defences
3) Find Mikhail Volkov and safely extract him for debriefing.
Beyond Enemy Lines 2 will launch with a Multiplayer and so servers are a big topic. You want a quick match with a friend? Just host a Peer-2-Peer (P2P) session from ingame and your friends can join. You want to run a 24/7 Server, then a dedicated server is the best way for you.
Dedicated Server Files are included and you can either start them from within your Beyond Enemy Lines 2 installation with the DedicatedServer.exe or the Beyond Enemy Lines 2 Dedicated Server Tool available in the Tools section or for download with SteamCMD. Dedicated Server files are currently only available for Windows.
Launching the DedicatedServer.exe will open this window:
This window let you setup your server. By pressing "LAUNCH SERVER" your settings will be saved and the server will be started. Starting the DedicatedServer.exe will reload your last saved settings. Changing the gamemode will result in reseting the core options to the gamemode default settings.
Server Stats:
Default Tick Rate 60hz
Default Port 7777
IMPORTANT: We had on some systems the issue that opening the Port 7777 was not enought to get the Server registrated on the Steam Master Server. A workaround would be to forward the entire Server.exe trough your firewall. Definitly not an ideal situation but a workaround. The Server.exe to forward is located in this folder:
...\Steam\steamapps\common\Beyond Enemy Lines 2\BeyondEnemyLines2\Binaries\Win64\BeyondEnemyLines2Server.exe
The Server Manager opens by clicking Server Manager in the Dedicated Server Launcher and will open up this window:
This window let you communicated with your gameserver and is until ingame RCON is fully implemented the only way to interact with your server except of shutting it down.
Update Player List This will fill the list of players on the right sight of the window with checkboxes for each player.
Kick/Ban Player All selected players in the Player List will be either kicked or banned.
End Match Will end the current match and the server will switch to the next map.
Server Message Will print a message with the sender Admin to the ingame text chat.
Warning: If you execute a new command before the last one was executed, you will overwrite the commands. You can not stack the commands.
Each time you press EXECUTE COMMAND, the tool will request the selected options from the server. As the Server is checking every 60 seconds for new commands, it could take up to 60 seconds until you see the result.
Anti-Cheat
VAC Beyond Enemy Lines 2 utilizes VAC to detect cheats and hacks in the game as well as Gameban those players.
Anti-Memory Injection All important variables are protected against Memory Injection and the game checks for memory injection tools and will crash once such a tool is running.
Server Sided Variables All the important variables which are also projected against memory injection are running on the server. Weapon Handling is entire server sided and only result in actions visible to the server. Beyond Enemy Lines 2 does not deal damage on the client side and let the sever confirm this. Here the server gets a request to shoot a weapon from the client and the server checks the players current location, fires the weapon and broadcasts the result.
Global Ban List On each Map change, every Server (Dedicated or P2P trough ingame hosting) will fetch a Polygon Art Ban list. This Ban List contains SteamIDs of players with a game ban. Once a Player joins a server, it's Steam ID gets validated. If invalid the player gets kicked instantly. With each update after the release, the then current ban list will be updated and hard coded in the game as a backup, if the online ban list was not successfully fetched.
Warning: Not only cheating and hacking will result in a game ban. Toxic, racist or other inappropriate behavior ingame or in this community can result in a game ban!
Active Admin + Local Ban List Server Admins can activly kick and ban players from their server. Server Bans will result in a Local Ban List which works exactly like the Global Ban List but only for this server. This Local Ban List works for Dedicated and Player Hosted P2P Servers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C_OpnAmWHE
Beyond Enemy Lines 2 will launch 08.08.2019 on Steam featuring 2 Story Campaigns, 8 unique (13 in total) Multiplayer Maps across 3 Gamemodes.
Launch Price
Normal Price: $24.99
Launch Discount: -20%
Launch Price: $19.99*
*Or your regional equivalent.
As some of you might know from Beyond Enemy Lines 1, Polygon Art does not join the massive discount sales. This will be the best price you'll get for a long time!
Singleplayer
Beyond Enemy Lines 2 Campaign Content: 7 Missions
Playtime: ~10h (on first run, depending on skill and playstyle)
Story: At 06:00 hours yesterday morning contact was lost with Abkhazia, an autonomous region south of the Greater Caucasus. Intercepted radio messages talk about heavy military activity. We still don’t know how it stands on the damages and the origin of the of the occupying forces are unknown.Intel is currently not able to provide any sitrep. All satellites in the region are offline and redirecting satelites will take a while. Until then we are blind. And this is where we are coming in: give us some eyes on the ground!
Warhead Campaign Content: 1 Mission at Launch (7 additional following until December 2019 as DLC's)
Playtime: ~1h per Mission (on first run, depending on skill and playstyle)
Story: This mission has top priority. Target: Mikhail Volkov. You are to locate him and bring him out for debriefing. Mikhail Volkov is our only link with the heist of the warhead. Mikhail is held at a military tank base. The whole area has excellent air defenced. We have to place you some distance from the target until those defenses are disabled. You will travel to the next goods yard - there you will resource transportation. The whole operation is simple - there are three stages:
1) Acquire transportation assets.
2) Disable air defences
3) Find Mikhail Volkov and safely extract him for debriefing.
Multiplayer
Conquest A large-scale game mode with up to 32 players fighting for the control of key objectives. The team holding the most objectives is in the lead and will drain the enemies tickets. The team with the most tickets left at the end of a round wins. Kills and objective captures will reward you with money, which can be used to buy new weapons and equipment. There are no predefined classes!
Conquest will support Ground vehicles at launch only. Air vehicles are in development and are added as free post launch content.
Bruma | Recruit Camp | Deep Forest | Trainyard
Team Deathmatch This mode pits your side against the enemy and you need to defeat as many enemies as possible while protecting yourself and your team mates. Infantry based units combating each other to the death. Kill or be killed!
Cargo | Construction Site | Trainyard | Harbor
Coop Join up to 3 other friends or strangers to fight against the AI in specially designed missions.
Bruma | Recruit Camp | Deep Forest | Trainyard
Coop Generator Let the Random Coop Mission Generator generate a unique cooperative operation deep beyond enemy frontlines in a large, open world map.
Valley
Free Content Updates All future Multiplayer Updates (Maps, Gamemodes, Weapons) will be entirly free for everyone. There will never be be Lootboxes, Microtransactions or an Ingameshop!
Dedicated Server
Beyond Enemy Lines 2 supports Dedicated and Peer-To-Peer Servers, Dedicated Server Files are included within the game folder. You are free to set up your own server with your own rules.
It's your server - you dictate the rules!
