official Battlefield: Bad Company 2

[Chasethebase Veteran]

How can I best increase my performance? Will I have to reduce the resolution of the game? I run it on Lowest settings at 1440x900 and still get lag occasionally (usually from particle effects).

[ViperAFK]

Just dl'd the pc patch. Jumped intoa server quick to test the new chopper handling. MUCH improved. Before it was really difficult to strafe with the chopper making flying around so your gunner can kill people very hard. Now just moving my mouse side to side makes it strafe side to side making things much easier.

At 1680x1050 the text box doesnt bother me at all, I hardly even noticed it. And the chat is massively improved so its worth it.

Probably not going to play today because so far as expected all the servers are doing their usual post update lag storm.

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Are there new patches out for the consoles or is it just PC?

[trag3dy]

Are there new patches out for the consoles or is it just PC?

The consoles already got most of the fixes that we got in this latest patch.

man i am so annoyed (pc version).

Their last patch ruined the whole melee knifing, collecting dog tags thing. They are going to undo that with the next patch which was planned for release in may i think. but they're adding more crap i guess, i dunno.

I want my knife back! half the time now it doesnt even work, which makes the game less fun for me.

I unlocked everything months ago which sucks. hopefully they'll provide new weapons in the next patch.

The knife was fixed with the patch. I knifed several people and it worked fine.

[trag3dy]

It was a problem that they were trying to fix in the single player portion of the game that had to do with knifing that screwed it up. And no they haven't done anything to the CG again.

[Spookie]

Chopper flying difficult? It?s a piece of ****! Desert Combat or BF2 would have had you raging if you thing BC2 is hard. I can?t do nearly hard the stuff I could in BF2. I use to be able to barrel roll in BF2 (and survive I might add!)

[ViperAFK]

Chopper flying difficult? It’s a piece of ****! Desert Combat or BF2 would have had you raging if you thing BC2 is hard. I can’t do nearly hard the stuff I could in BF2. I use to be able to barrel roll in BF2 (and survive I might add!)

Dude chill. You cant barrel roll of course but this game isn't even big enough for maneuvers like that to work well. I could also fly the bf2 chopper well and do barrel rolls. The reason I said it was "hard" (not hard in that I crashed or anything) before the patch was it was so un-maneuvererable you couldn't really do anything... On the pc version anyway, the console version already had decent handling. The PC chopper was nerfed to all hell before this update.

[rajputwarrior]

they didn't fix my m16 at all :(

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

Chopper flying difficult? It’s a piece of ****! Desert Combat or BF2 would have had you raging if you thing BC2 is hard. I can’t do nearly hard the stuff I could in BF2. I use to be able to barrel roll in BF2 (and survive I might add!)

The helicopter handling in BF2 was unrealistic. In BC2, it's slightly more realistic. There aren't any big maps in BC2 like there was in BF2 (which gave you the room to do crazy stunts).

they didn't fix my m16 at all :(

The only assault rifle that they "changed" is the AN-94.

[killmaster84]

Looks like I'm re-installing this game now

[Tech Star]

How do you control the helicopter? I get in, pilot it, and crash 10 seconds latter. :p

[Chasethebase Veteran]

How do you control the helicopter? I get in, pilot it, and crash 10 seconds latter. :p

I did that generally with helicopters, not just in this but in BF Heroes as well. Haven't played the update yet so we'll see, been too preoccupied with Counter-Strike again :p

[Hedon]

How do you control the helicopter? I get in, pilot it, and crash 10 seconds latter. :p

Can you give me lessons? Best I can do is 5 seconds :)

[trag3dy]

Use the arrow keys along with WASD. That's always seemed to work pretty decent for me, but I haven't tried to fly since the patch so who knows now.

[Spookie]

The helicopter handling in BF2 was unrealistic. In BC2, it's slightly more realistic. There aren't any big maps in BC2 like there was in BF2 (which gave you the room to do crazy stunts).

Doesn't matter to me it's unrealistic. It's more fun. You could do a damn sight more in BF2. Incoming Javelin? DO A BARREL ROLL.

[Singh400]

Had a quick play last night first of all, lost all my custom bindings. Crouch seems broken for me (yes I am aware of the new crouch toggle).

At the moment, it is worse than before for me. But then again I haven't played in almost three weeks. So it may take a while to get back into the flow of things.

[trag3dy]

Finally finished getting platinum for my AUG, now I don't know what I'll use next, I'm thinking the 870mcs or the G3.

And my loading time problem seems to have gone away, I don't know if it was just a fluke last night or because I upgraded my graphics drivers. And the performance seems to be pretty good now in the game, I don't think I ever went below 50 fps while playing today.

[Singh400]

Finally finished getting platinum for my AUG, now I don't know what I'll use next, I'm thinking the 870mcs or the G3.

The AUG? Much respect man. I class the AUG and F2000 are some of the crappiest weapons I have ever had the displeasure of using!

Apparently the G3 is the new M60.

And my loading time problem seems to have gone away, I don't know if it was just a fluke last night or because I upgraded my graphics drivers. And the performance seems to be pretty good now in the game, I don't think I ever went below 50 fps while playing today.

Never had any problems with loading time. But my FPS has dropped by around 30 FPS. Used to get a solid 90 FPS, now it is hovering around 60FPS. I can tell the difference.

[trag3dy]

I would put the AUG on par with the M416, it's a really decent gun, imo. I may try the AEK next though, I'm not sure.

And I don't see how the G3 and the M60 can even be compared. The G3 only has a 20 round clip and can't use attachments. The main attraction with the M60 was that it could be spammed almost endless and turned into a sniper rifle with the acog scope. But if all the M60 spammers start using the G3 then I'll use something else, I don't want to be a band wagoner. :laugh:

Are you perhaps thinking the G36 instead of just the G3?

[Singh400]

I would put the AUG on par with the M416, it's a really decent gun, imo. I may try the AEK next though, I'm not sure.

On par with the M416? Are you having a laugh? M416 is a god like gun, compared to the puny mortal that is the Aug. It is no where as NEAR as good at the M416. AEK is decent and often under-rated gun (Y)

And I don't see how the G3 and the M60 can even be compared. The G3 only has a 20 round clip and can't use attachments. The main attraction with the M60 was that it could be spammed almost endless and turned into a sniper rifle with the acog scope. But if all the M60 spammers start using the G3 then I'll use something else, I don't want to be a band wagoner. :laugh:

Are you perhaps thinking the G36 instead of just the G3?

Dunno, might have been the G3/G36 but EVERYONE was using it.

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

Lately, I've been using the AUG and it isn't that good. I prefer the M416 over it because it has a similar rate of fire with better accuracy.

By the way, Singh400... I looked at your stats on BFBCS and damn, how the hell do you have 89% accuracy? Mine is only 33% and that's pretty high compared to the stats I've seen.

[Pupik]

Lately, I've been using the AUG and it isn't that good. I prefer the M416 over it because it has a similar rate of fire with better accuracy.

By the way, Singh400... I looked at your stats on BFBCS and damn, how the hell do you have 89% accuracy? Mine is only 33% and that's pretty high compared to the stats I've seen.

89 percent accuracy on what? Clicking on that page, gives me "Accuracy: 28%" and no weapon got 89%.

[Singh400]

Lately, I've been using the AUG and it isn't that good. I prefer the M416 over it because it has a similar rate of fire with better accuracy.

By the way, Singh400... I looked at your stats on BFBCS and damn, how the hell do you have 89% accuracy? Mine is only 33% and that's pretty high compared to the stats I've seen.

89 percent accuracy on what? Clicking on that page, gives me "Accuracy: 28%" and no weapon got 89%.

Pay no heed to any stats, especially accuracy. They are bugged as hell. One minute I'm 238% (no kidding) and the next I am 13%.

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

89 percent accuracy on what? Clicking on that page, gives me "Accuracy: 28%" and no weapon got 89%.

It showed 89% before. I wouldn't have linked his stats here otherwise.

Pay no heed to any stats, especially accuracy. They are bugged as hell. One minute I'm 238% (no kidding) and the next I am 13%.

You're right. It shows you as having 28% now. :s

[trag3dy]

On par with the M416? Are you having a laugh? M416 is a god like gun, compared to the puny mortal that is the Aug. It is no where as NEAR as good at the M416. AEK is decent and often under-rated gun (Y)

Dunno, might have been the G3/G36 but EVERYONE was using it.

I haven't touched the M416, AN-94, M16, or the XM8 since the last patch so I don't know what it's like now. So I'm comparing the post patch AUG to the pre R7 patch M416.