After months of development, Electronic Arts finally released the long-awaited 1.40 patch for its Battlefield 2142 first person shooter title for the Mac.

And pretty much forgot to tell anyone about it.

The new patch, available via MacGameFiles, which weighs in at 83 megabytes, adds the same fixes and changes as found in the Windows version of the game, including the following:
- Added Highway Tampa map.
- Added an autosave to kit customisations. After you customise a kit and spawn in with that kit, the customisation will be automatically saved until you change it and spawn in again. Note that you must spawn in with a particular kit for it to be saved.
- Titans will now spawn up to two gunships per side
- Squad Leaders no longer have to resupply to re-equip destroyed drones CHANGES
- Exploit Fix: hardcoded the time limits of Orbital and EMP strikes.
- RDX Shotgun now detonates RDX, Motion Mines, AP Mines with minimum of 2 rounds.
- Ported EU Assault Rifle changes to the Best Buy unlock as well.
- Fixed LMG Left/Right Recoil.
- Revised EU Assault Rifle Recoil.
- Increased Clark rate of fire to match Herzog.
- Fixed PAC shotgun attachment recoil to match other Herzogs.
- Further adjustment to Squad Leader drones to prevent them accidentally killing the Squad Leader when deployed.
- Further fix to prevent "pod surfing". Note that some pod movement will still be possible and is an intended gameplay mechanic to allow the player to have some small choice of landing site and to access rooftops.
- Smoke from the CM3-N Radar Grenade deploys more quickly. The Radar range has been slightly increased and endures for the duration of the smoke effect.
- The CM3-N Radar Grenade may now be resupplied.
- The screening effectiveness of all smoke grenades has been significantly improved.
- Adjusted Talon heat source position to improve Gunship missile balance.
- Beta Feedback: Fixed the placement of an AA gun on Highway Tampa.
- Beta Feedback: Improved the visuals of the swimming pool on Highway Tampa.

Players of the 1.25 version will find a reminder to grab the update when they log in, which diminishes the effects of EA's poor marketing of the patch to a certain extent.

If you've tried the new version and have any feedback about it, let us know over in the comments or forums.