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The award-winning Project Reality Team is proud to announce the official release of Project Reality: BF2 v1.9!

We want to thank you all for your ongoing support as our work continues and Project Reality enters the 22nd year of its development. A few months ago, we reached the milestone of 400,000 unique active players since 2020, including over 100,000 new players since the last major update. Now, Project Reality is well on its way to reaching half a million active players in the third decade of the 21st century. The development is definitely not slowing down and we keep making plans for future updates. But before you start wondering what comes after v1.9, first see more details of what has been released just now!

Project Reality:BF2 v1.9

Our 42nd major update features the Syrian Arab Army as the 29th faction in Project Reality. This update replaces the placeholder MEC forces on our classic Syrian maps and introduces two new ones: one Syrian and one from a completely different theater. Of course you may expect a wave of various completely new assets as well as variations of those already present in the game. With all this new content, our depiction of the early Syrian Civil War experience is given a new depth and immersion. As always, the update also includes a variety of fixes and improvements, including some graphical changes to shaders. A more complete list of key features and a full changelog can be found below.

Enjoy!




Syrian Arab Army

The Syrian Arab Army was the missing piece in many of our maps featuring the Syrian civil war. Until now those maps used the MEC as placeholder and did not feature any of the unique assets the SAA has in their arsenal. Not only do we bring the fully featured faction to the existing maps, but also bring a new map Talbisah that will feature both the AAS and INS gamemode.


New vehicles

Outside of all the new vehicles features for the Syrian faction, the update also includes some new toys for our existing armies. This includes the T-55 filling in the role of MBT for many of our unconventional factions and two new fire support vehicles for MEC, the Saladin, and the ZTL-11 for the PLA.

Icebreaker

With this new map we expand our winter themed scenarios. You will engage in a coastal assault on a Russian missile silo and will have to breach the bunkers in intense close quarter combat to disable the warheads and prevent the next launch.

Main Features & Changes

KEY FEATURES:

• Added Syrian Arab Army.
• Added T-55A to ARF, FSA, MEC, Militia, NVA and SAA factions.
• Added MIG-23 to SAA.
• Added MIG-21 to SAA.
• Added T-72AV to SAA.
• Added T-72AV TURMS to SAA.
• Added T-72M1 improvised armor to SAA.
• Added BMP-1 improvised armor to SAA.
• Added T-62 improvised armor to SAA.
• Added UAZ SPG-9 to SAA.
• Added ZTL-11 assault vehicle to the PLA.
• Added J-11B to PLA.
• Added Mi-171e to PLA.
• Added Alvis Saladin armored car to MEC.
• Added Talbisah (2x2km).
• Added Icebreaker (4x4km).

Download & Installation

If you are new to Project Reality or are on a very old version, visit the downloads page to download the newest installer.

Official Manual & Landing Page for New Players


Project Reality Mod Support

If you encounter any problems while installing and/or playing Project Reality: BF2, please check out the Project Reality Mod Support forum. If your problem has not already been posted by someone else, please do not hesitate to start a new thread asking for help.

Project Reality v1.9 Server Files

If you currently host a Project Reality game server, you would have received the server files for Project Reality v1.9 via the Server Admin CP already. If you are interested in hosting a new Project Reality server, please follow the link below to apply for a server license.


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- The Project Reality Team

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Will Iran be replacing the MEC?

Kothra wrote: 2026-02-27 14:32 Will Iran be replacing the MEC?

No. That is not planned.

Awesome work guys, will have to check out all the new content!

Thanks for all the hard work!

Oh, finally updated.
I mean, there are some special forces in BF2 SF DLC. Would you consider integrating these organizations into PR? Just like some Instagram teams actually come from SF DLC, I think some nighttime maps are actually very suitable for special forces.

Hell yeah guys!

The game that keeps on giving, see you on the battlefield!