Though not yet available on the main Battlefield 1942 Website, the ¾Ô¦a­·¶³1942 (Taiwanese BF 1942 site) is offering downloads of what seems to be the new version 1.3 patch for the WW2 shooter (thanks Kpp). My Chinese is a bit shaky, so it's difficult to determine if this 47 MB patch is official, a beta, or what versions of the game it patches, so prudence suggests that this is a "use at your own risk" situation until further details become available. Update: An explanation/warning about this patch has been posted to our forums:

WARNING ON LEAKED 1.3 PATCH

Hi All, Sorry for the confusion, but our colleagues at EA Taiwan have inadvertantly posted an old, work-in-progress version of the patch. That version was sent to them for review...but not for posting. We are still nailing down some issues which are in that version...and the official version has yet to be finalized.

So, the official release won't be compatible with the version released by EA Taiwan. This is because the executable will most likely be changed to address the issues we're currently working on.

We will be releasing the official 1.3 patch soon (and for those who've speculated, yes, after the whole 1.2 release we've decided that we'll only mention the patches when we're ready to release it).

Our goal is to keep improving your Battlefield 1942 experience and we apologize for any confusion this may have caused.

Jamil Dawsari aka [EA] Saracen Associate Producer Battlefield 1942