It seems a second Battlefield 2 1.4 beta is now available for testing for those that are inclined. Phase 2 removes a US tank from Road to Jalalabad for balance issues and puts several No Vehicles Option settings back to their BF2 defaults with now only extra sprint time given when vehicles are not present, much better.

You can read the changelog for yourself on the ea uk forums. Along with simple instructions on how to safeguard your 1.3 installation, if you have enough hard drive space that is.

largedownloads.ea.com/pub/patches/BF2/BETA/