official Battlefield: Bad Company 2

[DirtyLarry Veteran]

Well I just finished the SP, so now I can fully concentrate on MP, and honestly I have to say DICE should just stick to what they do best, MP.

It was not awful, I definitely had fun while playing it, but it really suffered from some truly disappointing aspects overall.

As already pointed out by a ton of people, the way they chose to handle the cut scenes was pretty much atrocious. Just really amateurish is the best word I can use for it. No smooth transitions in and out is really the biggest thing of why they were horrible IMO.

Also, I know the whole game is about the destructible environments, but seriously having red explosive barrels everywhere just really, really is cheesy. No other way I can put it.

There was also a whole lot of doing things for no reason at all. Like running down a tunnel, etc. I could go on, but it just seemed like there was a lot of filler areas thrown in.

Finally, it seemed like all they really did to make the ending levels harder was just stretch out the Save points, and that just got pretty frustrating. Just was not a big fan of that approach at all.

Again, I did enjoy some aspects of it, at times it was fun to play, but I almost feel as if they should have not even bothered.

[Massiveterra]

Well I just finished the SP, so now I can fully concentrate on MP, and honestly I have to say DICE should just stick to what they do best, MP.

It was not awful, I definitely had fun while playing it, but it really suffered from some truly disappointing aspects overall.

As already pointed out by a ton of people, the way they chose to handle the cut scenes was pretty much atrocious. Just really amateurish is the best word I can use for it. No smooth transitions in and out is really the biggest thing of why they were horrible IMO.

Also, I know the whole game is about the destructible environments, but seriously having red explosive barrels everywhere just really, really is cheesy. No other way I can put it.

There was also a whole lot of doing things for no reason at all. Like running down a tunnel, etc. I could go on, but it just seemed like there was a lot of filler areas thrown in.

Finally, it seemed like all they really did to make the ending levels harder was just stretch out the Save points, and that just got pretty frustrating. Just was not a big fan of that approach at all.

Again, I did enjoy some aspects of it, at times it was fun to play, but I almost feel as if they should have not even bothered.

Now I'm wondering if I should even bother. I did notice that the difficulty level of Normal is by far harder than the original.

As I've said before, I'm going to forgive this SP since the main focus is MP, and consider it an "add on bonus." I mean, there are plenty of MP games out there at full price that don't even offer single player.

[Xilo]

People play FPS intended for online play for the single player mode? :laugh:

[Richard Hammond]

I thought SP was pretty good for a game that is predominately multiplayer, while the gameplay was lacking i loved the story and the humour.

[Massiveterra]

People play FPS intended for online play for the single player mode? :laugh:

If you look at any of the reviews on metacritic that scored it under 85, it's because of the single player why it scored so low. I don't get it either.

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

Look at the numbers after the decimal. Weird eh?

[w33zy]

still cant play multiplayer. got hunderds of connection timed out :angry:

[Draconian Guppy]

Does the multiplayer have LAN options? sucks if you need internet for multiplayer.

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

Does the multiplayer have LAN options? sucks if you need internet for multiplayer.

None whatsoever. An Internet connection is required to play MP.

[rajputwarrior]

i played for about an hour this morning. it was fun as hell, came first in two games too :) finally ranked up to level 2 private. XM8 is a wicked gun and i got a few dog tags by knifing people. Is it just me or is everyone elses fav part of online shooters knifing people, especially snipers?

[DirtyLarry Veteran]

People play FPS intended for online play for the single player mode? :laugh:

Yeah, I bought Battlefield for the SP mode. :rolleyes:

@ Anaron - I had those weird numbers on Day 1 actually. Also I forget exactly what it was, but text in the stats for me was real messed up, one of the columns. Was on top of itself or something, it was weird.

[LingeringSoul]

Well I just finished the SP, so now I can fully concentrate on MP, and honestly I have to say DICE should just stick to what they do best, MP.

It was not awful, I definitely had fun while playing it, but it really suffered from some truly disappointing aspects overall.

As already pointed out by a ton of people, the way they chose to handle the cut scenes was pretty much atrocious. Just really amateurish is the best word I can use for it. No smooth transitions in and out is really the biggest thing of why they were horrible IMO.

Also, I know the whole game is about the destructible environments, but seriously having red explosive barrels everywhere just really, really is cheesy. No other way I can put it.

There was also a whole lot of doing things for no reason at all. Like running down a tunnel, etc. I could go on, but it just seemed like there was a lot of filler areas thrown in.

Finally, it seemed like all they really did to make the ending levels harder was just stretch out the Save points, and that just got pretty frustrating. Just was not a big fan of that approach at all.

Again, I did enjoy some aspects of it, at times it was fun to play, but I almost feel as if they should have not even bothered.

Thanks for the impressions. Probably not going to bother with the SP then. Or at least, it's very far down on my list of single-player games to play through (beneath about ten other games :)).

[Slane]

Is it just me or is everyone elses fav part of online shooters knifing people, especially snipers?

I'd have to say yes, but now I enjoy using the repair tool. It's much more embarrassing.

[Draconian Guppy]

None whatsoever. An Internet connection is required to play MP.

That sux big time... Why do they do this? Most of my "lan buddies" have only a 3g capped dongle :( and their internet get's throttled if they go over 10gb or so.

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

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@ Anaron - I had those weird numbers on Day 1 actually. Also I forget exactly what it was, but text in the stats for me was real messed up, one of the columns. Was on top of itself or something, it was weird.

Is it back to normal for you? I'm afraid my stats will forever be in the decimal range. I don't even know why it changed like that. Like, how did I get 0.999023 points to throw it off? :s

That sux big time... Why do they do this? Most of my "lan buddies" have only a 3g capped dongle :( and their internet get's throttled if they go over 10gb or so.

It does. If I remember correctly, you could create LAN servers in BF2. I don't know why they got rid of this feature. I guess it's to combat Hamachi-esque piracy.

[Spookie]

Hmm funny I've had 0 issues with the game so far. Except the odd high pings and dodgy hit reg occasionally. Just played on my own and a mates server for my Rush/Conquest fix. Played 5 hrs straight too. :D

Right. Time for bed! :p

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

Hmm funny I've had 0 issues with the game so far. Except the odd high pings and dodgy hit reg occasionally. Just played on my own and a mates server for my Rush/Conquest fix. Played 5 hrs straight too. :D

Right. Time for bed! :p

I noticed you playing earlier so I joined your game but I didn't see you. I must've joined the wrong server. :o

[jelli]

Hmm funny I've had 0 issues with the game so far. Except the odd high pings and dodgy hit reg occasionally. Just played on my own and a mates server for my Rush/Conquest fix. Played 5 hrs straight too. :D

Right. Time for bed! :p

I noticed you dropped by a server I was playing, we did fairly well :)

[Sethos]

A friend of mine told me the issues were sort of fixed, so I went searching and found a nice Danish server - Ping was all over the place, despite server browser

reporting it as 31 average. So there's still some ping issues but I actually got in and it was a Hardcore server! That is the most fun I've had in a game for months and months!

Hardcore is so awesome I can't believe it, snipers are powerful now but they aren't even that big of a problem, you just take different routes. I just kept going, 1 hour, 2 hour and

I think I'm closing in on 3 hours and still want more, have to go hit the sack though but I had the biggest smile on my face today ... Epic experience.

Some of the maps I went through are STUNNING, I was watching the scenery as enemies just passed me by.

This is already my GOTY, no doubt about it. This wipes the floor with every other FPS out there and especially MW2.

By the way, what's the stat page URL?

[rajputwarrior]

I noticed you playing earlier so I joined your game but I didn't see you. I must've joined the wrong server. :o

i tried adding you yesterday, must not have worked or you're ignoring me... :(

[Green_Eye]

A friend of mine told me the issues were sort of fixed, so I went searching and found a nice Danish server - Ping was all over the place, despite server browser

reporting it as 31 average. So there's still some ping issues but I actually got in and it was a Hardcore server! That is the most fun I've had in a game for months and months!

Hardcore is so awesome I can't believe it, snipers are powerful now but they aren't even that big of a problem, you just take different routes. I just kept going, 1 hour, 2 hour and

I think I'm closing in on 3 hours and still want more, have to go hit the sack though but I had the biggest smile on my face today ... Epic experience.

Some of the maps I went through are STUNNING, I was watching the scenery as enemies just passed me by.

This is already my GOTY, no doubt about it. This wipes the floor with every other FPS out there and especially MW2.

By the way, what's the stat page URL?

Whoa!!! If anybody now has any shred of doubt about this game they should rest well assured! Sethos here is probably THE most critical, grumpy old guy when it comes to games and for him to write the above means you should probably donate some organs to DICE as a thank you! :laugh:

Haha good to hear you like it dude and I hope you will still be playing this come April when I get my PC rig and we can throw down some games together (Y)

[habnad]

GreenEye, you picking this up for 360?

[Green_Eye]

Yeah dude I was meant to today but the guy at my local store just would not budge on the fact that it releases on Friday, regardless of all my pleading so I'm gona have to pick it up before work tomorrow and I will most likely be on around 10 pm London time, So thats just about the time you yanks jump online right? I should be able to hook up with you guys for most of the night :D DL you down for joining us for a few games?

[Sikh]

Whoa!!! If anybody now has any shred of doubt about this game they should rest well assured! Sethos here is probably THE most critical, grumpy old guy when it comes to games and for him to write the above means you should probably donate some organs to DICE as a thank you! :laugh:

Haha good to hear you like it dude and I hope you will still be playing this come April when I get my PC rig and we can throw down some games together (Y)

haha you are ight about that but I don't think sethos ever had a problem with DICE. He just can't stand EA neither can most of us.

But I'm glad to see the "Sethos Stamp of Approval". (Y)

[Lexcyn]

Added myself to the spreadsheet. What server are you guys playing on?