official Battlefield: Bad Company 2

[sbauer]

I have friends with it on the PS3 in real life, I was just asking a question in this topic to see if any Neowin members owned the game on the PS3. Sorry I haven't read all 282 pages to see what Neowin has been doing.

Honestly, what on earth is wrong with asking that?

Dude, I was joking. It was my response for the guy saying something about people on this forum having XYZ version.

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Dude, I was joking. It was my response for the guy saying something about people on this forum having XYZ version.

KK, sorry, Imma way play the game and shutup :p

[gkl]

A nice read regarding the development of the patch - http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-bad-company-2-pc/1199353-software-engineering-file-formats-build-processes-packaging.html

[~WinGz~]

Audio I have it for PS3 just not the onslaught pack unfortunately, no cash to purchase it since losing my job. If you wanna game though just add me.

wingzx-

[trag3dy]

A nice read regarding the development of the patch - http://forums.electr...-packaging.html

All I got out of that is that they don't have enough people to do the work that needs to be done to fix the game in a decent amount of time. EA is to blame for that, I guess. And no new maps until that Vietnam expansion.

[Hedon]

I wish PS3, PC and 360 owners could just all play online together.

[trag3dy]

It would be interesting if that happened, to say the least. I think part of the problem though is that the pc version and console versions are using different balance changes and have completely different game play bugs. I'm not sure how they would mesh together.

[SimplySchizo]

Anyone else on Neowin actually own this on the PS3?

I could do with some help being a complete noob....

You can add me as well man. I haven't played in a bit (still lvl 31).

I haven't gotten the Onslaught pack yet.

I finally got done with Bioshock2 today and pretty much done with RDR so.. I should be back to bc2.

http://bfbcs.com/stats_ps3/schiz-o-phren-ic

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

So it's 7am gmt, which means Tuesday night for those of us in the US?

Wednesday morning (at 1am EST). :)

According to this, most of the servers should be back up by 5am EST on Wednesday.

[BlueDraGon]

Well, as usual, 1:08 AM EST and no patch... very susprisingly.....NOT

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

According to this tweet, the server update is underway.

EDIT: Steam version is updating.

http://store.steampowered.com/news/4006/

EDIT 2: The game has returned to its former glory. This patch is just awesome! Things are back to normal, the new chat system is great, and performance seems to have been improved. The only downside is the key bindings which were reset.

[trag3dy]

Downloading the patch now.. I finally believe it's actually coming out. I'm going to be so rusty. :laugh:

Maybe it's just the fact that everyone in the world is downloading the patch...but damn the first game I tried was so laggy. Hit registration seemed to be good though.

[sbauer]

Downloading the patch now.. I finally believe it's actually coming out. I'm going to be so rusty. :laugh:

Maybe it's just the fact that everyone in the world is downloading the patch...but damn the first game I tried was so laggy. Hit registration seemed to be good though.

I didn't have any lag. I thought the registration was pretty good too. I only played two games, but so far so good.

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

I'm experiencing some lag too.

[sbauer]

According to this tweet, the server update is underway.

EDIT: Steam version is updating.

http://store.steampowered.com/news/4006/

EDIT 2: The game has returned to its former glory. This patch is just awesome! Things are back to normal, the new chat system is great, and performance seems to have been improved. The only downside is the key bindings which were reset.

The chat is much better. I don't know what they were thinking before.

[trag3dy]

Well I was playing on a server that displayed a latency of 42 in the server browser. And I was definitely not the only one that felt the lag. Everyone on the server was complaining about it. Maybe I'll try a different one.

[Pupik]

Just installed the patch and after testing a game on a server that gives me 11 ping (76 in game), I didn't noticed any lag on my side and so did the players that answered in game chat.

edit: Tested the PC version, that is.

[trag3dy]

I tried a different server and there wasn't any lag. So I guess it was just the first one I tried. Anyways, not to keen on the new chat window, I thought we would be able to reposition and resize it as we wanted. The patch seems pretty decent right now. And I'm already getting killed by CG's left right and center... I didn't miss that for a second.

[Singh400]

You mean I'm not allowed to buy a game for a platform of my choice then ask for people to play with?!

Oh my, I better retire from the internet.

Sure buy it for whatever platform, but don't complain to us when it isn't popular on that platform :p

A nice read regarding the development of the patch - http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-bad-company-2-pc/1199353-software-engineering-file-formats-build-processes-packaging.html

Frankly, I don't care any more. All I want is the patch.

I tried a different server and there wasn't any lag. So I guess it was just the first one I tried. Anyways, not to keen on the new chat window, I thought we would be able to reposition and resize it as we wanted. The patch seems pretty decent right now. And I'm already getting killed by CG's left right and center... I didn't miss that for a second.

ZOMG you mean it's actually here?! Only just got into work, this is going to be a LONG LONG day for me. Damn it, haven't played for a couple of weeks now. Can't wait to get back in the game.

[rajputwarrior]

this patch is taking a long time to download

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

this patch is taking a long time to download

You bet. The Steam patch comes in at a whopping 976.3 MB.

[Pupik]

I tried a different server and there wasn't any lag. So I guess it was just the first one I tried. Anyways, not to keen on the new chat window, I thought we would be able to reposition and resize it as we wanted. The patch seems pretty decent right now. And I'm already getting killed by CG's left right and center... I didn't miss that for a second.

Not to keen on the new chat either. Mainly because sometimes there's a slightly visible blue window that goes all the way to the bottom from the chat (on the top).

And also because now it's on the top. Hard to read during the game when you're playing on 1920x1080.

[trag3dy]

Yeah, same, I play at 1920x1080 as well, and it's in the upper left corner and even partially cut off.

Something else that I've noticed since the patch... the game takes drastically longer to load now than it did before. Before the patch it took me around 20 seconds or so to get into a map. Now it's 1+ minutes. Don't know if it's just me or what. I have my directx version set to 10 so it's not that problem.

[sbauer]

Not to keen on the new chat either. Mainly because sometimes there's a slightly visible blue window that goes all the way to the bottom from the chat (on the top).

And also because now it's on the top. Hard to read during the game when you're playing on 1920x1080.

I'm playing on the same resolution and it was awful before. I don't know how you liked it. After a few announcements and random talk from people, it was very difficult to see with the text in the way.

[zeke009]

You bet. The Steam patch comes in at a whopping 976.3 MB.

I was real happy to see that Steam downloaded this overnight!

Yeah, same, I play at 1920x1080 as well, and it's in the upper left corner and even partially cut off.

Something else that I've noticed since the patch... the game takes drastically longer to load now than it did before. Before the patch it took me around 20 seconds or so to get into a map. Now it's 1+ minutes. Don't know if it's just me or what. I have my directx version set to 10 so it's not that problem.

I thought the DX11 bug was back, I do feel a little better knowing that it happens on DX10 as well.

I'm playing on the same resolution and it was awful before. I don't know how you liked it. After a few announcements and random talk from people, it was very difficult to see with the text in the way.

I play at 1680x1050 and think this looks good so far. Maybe someone will find a setting in the ini (nothing jumped out at me) to reduce the amount of time it stays or increase transperancy.