official Battlefield: Bad Company 2

[what]

As amazing as those maps look. None of them look like Strike At Karakand which is possibly my favorite multiplayer map of all time from my favorite mulitplayer game of all time. Why cant they just include it? :cry:

Because people want new maps to play on. If you want to play on a map from 5 years ago, play the game from 5 years ago.

[SMELTN]

I wonder how open they will be to custom maps? I mean Dice said they aren't working on making the admin console flashy because they were going to leave that to the community to do, wonder if they have the same feelings towards mods or custom maps?

[Sethos]

God I hate "teamwork" based games where teamwork is so forced upon you! The majority of gamers are a bunch of retarded momos with the brain processing power of a duck.

Why am I being ressed 3-4 times in a row in a hot-zone without cover and dying one second later, STOP RESSING ME?! I have medics constantly tail-gating me when I'm trying to hide out in the terrain just to constantly throw packs at me for easy points, why do people who seem to be sleeping occupy the machine-gun positions in whatever vehicles you take because they never fire a single shot and when they actually do fire, they shoot at armoured targets they can't hurt?! Get out and let someone with some common sense take over the position.

Arg! I wish there was a "lock" key that would disable ressing outside of squad, disallow people outside of squads to enter vehicles and people outside of your squad to gain points by aiding. That would make me very, very happy.

[Spookie]

Because people want new maps to play on. If you want to play on a map from 5 years ago, play the game from 5 years ago.

With a good bit of work it could still be a good BC2 map though. ;)

[Sethos]

ESRB rating description reveals WWII mission in BFBC2

[Spookie]

ESRB rating description reveals WWII mission in BFBC2

Spoilerific if you're a purist. :D

[Spookie]

I've got a spare PC key if anyone wants it. PM me quickly. :D

Edit: Gone

[Sethos]

I am digging the sig Sethos, looks awesome

Thanks man :) (Y)

[laz45]

I wonder how open they will be to custom maps? I mean Dice said they aren't working on making the admin console flashy because they were going to leave that to the community to do, wonder if they have the same feelings towards mods or custom maps?

Didn't they say they weren't going to release any mod tools?

[trag3dy]

I don't know what's been changed because I haven't played for a few days but in matches I'm in tonight every time I die my game crashes, it's really irritating, anyone experience this or know anything about it?

[Sikh]

Because people want new maps to play on. If you want to play on a map from 5 years ago, play the game from 5 years ago.

You might be confused sir. Im not attacking you but do you know HOW MANY PEOPLE play BF2 still? Hell BF2 + PR will make BF2 the longest running PC FPS most likely, seeing even after BF3 comes out BF2 will go for 2-3 years till the PR team fully adopts BF3. Also I still play BF2 because Strike at Karkand has to be THE greatest map ever. I love it that much, most of the time i see myself playing it thats why whenever I go to a lan or another server its like "hummm, kubra damn?, Wake Island, wtf THERES MORE MAPS!?" lol. Ive started to play them more, and I do agree that one map looks like Kubra Dam but it adopts the BF BC2 style which is better imo.

Now, to stay on on topic, the last 4 pages ive read of System performance, Im running the following System

Phenom 2 X4 3.0 Ghz 940

4Gigs OCZ DDR2 Ram

260 GTX 216

...etc

Anyway, with the following essential parts, im running average 52 FPS at 1280*720 @ High with NO HBAO, AA/AF @2x(these have NEVER been a big deal to mean, ive never noticed a difference, is there a difference to have AA/AF up? Ive always kept it down regardless of game or performance as my system can handle any game pretty well seeing how i dont play at my monitors native resolution), Vsync Off(of course).

I went to 1920*1080 Everything High and got a stable 28 FPS. Game still felt fluid and stable, I just cant play at anything over 1280*720. Even my desktop is at 1280 while my monitors native reso is 1920.

Also, all this with DX at Auto, havent touched the settings file, dont feel a need to as the game is always playable.

I did do the CPU Launch thing, wanna see if that makes a difference, after this post ill try it out and post back, but before all cores looked like they got utilized because "CPU USAGE" was at 45% on the gadget and task manager, and ram at 1.5 gigs. Regardless, system ran nice alt tabbing and etc.

@Overlay issues with DX10+: If you joined the steam client beta before it was done, that was the overlay fix for D3D10/D3D11 posted by steam. They said the week OF BF:BC2, they will have the offical update out fixing the overlay issue.

So, my overlay didnt work the first day, till i joined the beta after finding out about it, it updated steam and overlay has worked since.

[ahmz]

Whats the CPU launch thing?

[ObiWanToby]

Whats the CPU launch thing?

It was rendered a false optimization by DICE. So pay no attention to that.

[Sikh]

^ Was it? I thought it didnt make an improvement, but like i said, by fault the game utlized all the cores. Thanks for the heads up Obi.

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

So, I finally see my friends on the friends list but I can't see them online. Anyone else having that issue?

[John Freeman]

So, I finally see my friends on the friends list but I can't see them online. Anyone else having that issue?

Yup. Thou that doesnt stop you from joining their game if you know they are playing. Just click that > thing and join.

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

Yup. Thou that doesnt stop you from joining their game if you know they are playing. Just click that > thing and join.

I tried that before and it didn't work. Maybe my friend wasn't in a server when he said he was playing. I'll try it again later. :p

[Digitalx]

*face palms* i hate snow/arctic maps. Should have only had single rubbish port map in the beta, if that. Even with DX10 or 11 games just can't graphically recreate the awkward visual elements and climate of arctic/alpine warfare. It's one of biggest hate ons i had in recent years was the snow/arctic sections of bad company 1 i think it was or maybe it was BF2 modern warfare on ps2. I guess at least some light at end of the tunnel even though i'll buy this game, my hopes now fall with MoH making a better game with frostbite engine.

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

*face palms* i hate snow/arctic maps. Should have only had single rubbish port map in the beta, if that. Even with DX10 or 11 games just can't graphically recreate the awkward visual elements and climate of arctic/alpine warfare. It's one of biggest hate ons i had in recent years was the snow/arctic sections of bad company 1 i think it was or maybe it was BF2 modern warfare on ps2. I guess at least some light at end of the tunnel even though i'll buy this game, my hopes now fall with MoH making a better game with frostbite engine.

It's not perfect, but I don't think it's bad. Everyone has their preferences though. I personally don't like dark jungle environments. I prefer arctic or desert environments. As for Medal of Honor, I believe the Frostbite engine will only be used for the game's multiplayer component. The singleplayer component will be powered by Unreal Engine 3.

[ahmz]

I'm loving this game, I may even finally upgrade my 9600GT to play it in it's full glory.

[FlibbyFlobby]

I haven't had so much fun playing an online shooter in quite a while. This is definitely a day one pick up for me!

The only annoyance I find is when you get stuck on a team of idiots. Getting stuck in a squad of snipers (who don't even bother to spot tag enemies) is a royal pain in the arse. It usually means you can spawn miles away from the objective back at base, or miles away from the objective on top of a cliff with three snipers. It's rewarding when your tactics and intelligence prevail though. Oh, and it's fun to clear a building of snipers using just your knife because they've no idea what's going on around them. I love the Recon class, I just wish people would use it better. :p

[ahmz]

Yea I got stuck on an attacking team with 5 snipers on the same hill and 2 medics with them..

[Spookie]

Metacritic has put up the Game Informer review for BF: BC2 -

Not content to settle for second place, DICE throws down the gauntlet with Bad Company 2, delivering its best multiplayer package since Battlefield 2 and a remarkably improved single-player campaign that openly mocks its rival while cribbing from them at the same time. [issue#203, p.84]

:o

[SMELTN]

Yea I got stuck on an attacking team with 5 snipers on the same hill and 2 medics with them..

HAHA yeah I am getting that A LOT too now, and it sucks too because I quit sniping since I maxed it out, but last game they made me so mad that I went back to sniper and owned the fools...

Metacritic has put up the Game Informer review for BF: BC2 -

:o

NICE !!

[John Freeman]

Holy... wow. Just managed to snipe chopper pilot from air as well. Nice "no-****ing-way feeling" :D