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Have you realized they fixed pings for non admins? I mean I read it, but I couldnt believe the "alternate method"(a proper one at that i believe) works the same for administrators and non.

I wish Xfire Overlay and/or Steam Overlay worked. It worked with BETA, but then went down hill. Xfire overlay never worked, told me to run xfire as admin, i do, and still no overlay in BC2.

Anaron, also has to alt tab, as do i to talk through steam, so does anyone have this issue?

I believe its common, and i hope they figure it out, hell atleast you dont get kicked for fraps running via Punkbuster for "disallowed program/driver"(cod4 pb, still no change to this).

But other then that, I can finally kill with the M95, games havent lagged for me at all, but pings do help a lot now.

But once SC2 beta starts, no more BC2 lol. But its fixed now, so I can play it instead of taking 2 months off like i already did. Still @ lvl 24 with everything completed but tanks(hate tank whoring).

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Map Pack 4 has been leaked.

Atacama Desert Rush

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Port Valdez Conquest

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White Pass Rush

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Nelson Bay Conquest

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The map list provided by MadMuthaMonk (link):

Battlefield Bad Company 2\Package\levels\

Conquest

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Nelson Bay - mp_008cq

Port Valdez - mp_012cq

Rush

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White Pass - mp_007gr

Atacama Desert - mp_005gr

Squadrush

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Laguna Presa - mp_009sr

Laguna Alta - mp_003sr

Squad Deathmatch

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Nelson Bay - mp_008sdm

Panama Canal - mp_001sdm

Links to photos:

http://www.gamer.ru/games/814-battlefield-bad-company-2/posts/46239

http://img706.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=bfbc2gametotalbfru1.jpg

http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-bad-company-2-ng/1207395-map-pack-4-info-2.html#post16396982

thanks dice... would it kill you to make another map?

thanks for the info though SCRISP (Y)

Totally agree, I would love some different maps that have not yet been seen. I just hope they bring some NEW maps out before Vietnam.

Although i'm looking forward to Port Valdez Conquest, it's got two attack helicopters.

Haha, "Map packs" my ass.

come on seth, you should know this is a map pack to Dice/EA by now... at least they arne't charging for them (if they were i would go all brown on them and fly a plane into dice's headquarters...)

Totally agree, I would love some different maps that have not yet been seen. I just hope they bring some NEW maps out before Vietnam.

Although i'm looking forward to Port Valdez Conquest, it's got two attack helicopters.

honeslty more then anything, i wish in hardcore mode at least, they would take out the tank in squad deathmatch, or at least give the server the option of removing it...

stupid nubs hoping in the tank

White Pass is probably the best map ever. Be interesting to see how Rush plays out on it.

Personally I think this will turn out into a disaster. People are going to be sat on the roof of the create building sniping the attacks as soon as they spawn. This map will turn into an easy spawn raping match for the defenders on the first base.

Good find trag.

I do have to admit, playing all the BF games this one is a "let down" with the random bad patches and then really good ones and then bad.

I mean, if anyone played BF2 at launch, it was PLAGUED with problems, but finally they smoothed it out and thousands of people sitll ply that game.

Hell i go back to it more because I love flying jets, or just rushing in Strike at Karkand(favorite map of all time).

Wish DICE wouldnt listen to demize, leave him to the consoles and get someone sensible or PC. Hopefully BF3 is STRICT PC, so we can get full BF2 + BC2 + new idea awesomeness in the mix.

It seems odd that they're not forcing all servers to be R16 though.

Anyways, I wouldn't get any hopes up for BF3 being an exclusive pc game. There is simply to much money to be had by releasing it on the consoles. I could see maybe nVidia or ATI trying to get them to release it exclusively on the pc to sell hardware but I really doubt that will happen. Especially if EA gets their say in the matter.

Anyways, I wouldn't get any hopes up for BF3 being an exclusive pc game. There is simply to much money to be had by releasing it on the consoles. I could see maybe nVidia or ATI trying to get them to release it exclusively on the pc to sell hardware but I really doubt that will happen. Especially if EA gets their say in the matter.

Exactly that. Consoles are too important to be left in the cold when developing such AAA titles as the Battlefield series. It's dumb to assume that EA would consider making BF3 only on PC as the income wouldn't be high enough. Unless they introduce some sort of subscription, ie, WoW, but that would be retarded.

Demize99 I don't make balance changes based on the popular opinion in forums. That way lies madness.

@oskarki Underused but over effective. There's two other AT weapons if you don't like it. Variety is it's own spice.

I'm wondering what he bases his balance changes on? Whims? This guy needs to be fired asap. And that ladies and gentlemen is the man who is in charge of balancing this game. I guess it explains why he nerfed the AT4 into uselessness though. Because no one ever complained about it on the forums.

I'm wondering what he bases his balance changes on? Whims? This guy needs to be fired asap. And that ladies and gentlemen is the man who is in charge of balancing this game. I guess it explains why he nerfed the AT4 into uselessness though. Because no one ever complained about it on the forums.

The mans an idiot and I hope he wasnt with them for BF2 because I like the balancing in that game. In this game, he is the reason of the downfall.

He needs to get his ass kicked out of there fast.

Also, its not STUPID to think BF3 will be PC only seeing how majority of BF games were PC and the first BC originally came out on Console by EA so when DICE jumped in or was brought in for BC2, they brought it into the PC world.

I really hope if anything, BF3 stricks truly to PC and console players are left with a ****ty port and not the other way around.

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