Shauk

Comes out in about a month.



who's getting it for sure? (or already pre-ordered.)

Lasereth

Bought it today on Slickdeals.net: The best coupons, deals and bargains to save you money! for $20 brand new.

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Shauk

you slut, lol.

Nikilidstrom

I wish people would stand still for me like that when I'm sniping. Anywho, pre-ordered and ready to go. My nick is WhattaHoot if anyone cares, hope to see you guys in game.

Shauk

PC players get a special treat.



preorders and new box buyers get a treat as well


people who buy it used can opt to buy these maps as DLC though.

Gabbyness

Dude, I wasn't going to check these vids as the BF/CoD games kinda lost me a couple years ago, but holy craptastic, that first clip was totally bananas.

Gonna have to get me some!

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Reese

For those of you that play the single player campaign, How do you feel BC2 compares to MW2's single player?

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Shauk

I'm really looking forward to trying out the conquest maps, they haven't showed any of that in the demo's that I've had a part in and it makes me wonder if it has the classic feel of the battlefield mechanics that they pioneered?

BF1942 was an innovative title from that conquest mechanic alone, it was funny to watch it get ripped off and adapted by star wars:battlefront games. haha. Oh well, March 2nd needs to hurry the eff up.

Lasereth

Even though my preorder was canceled I'll still probably get it.

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That dev walkthrough was great.

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Shauk

what happened to your preorder?

Lasereth

It was canceled? Shit on slickdeals.net gets canceled all the time because half the crap on there are fluke prices.

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Shauk

AH, bummer

well tiding myself over with cool montage videos.

Shauk

I demand more interest in this game. Dont be a punk and settle for your MW2 games

Lasereth

Man that first montage was totally badass.

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Radio Monk33

Heh..skillful edits. I like how he shoots at helicopters that are going down so it looks like it's been shot down by small arms fire.

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Oh and I've pre-ordered...I'm sad to lose my 11 levels earned in the beta. And then I'm away on vacation for half of March..grrr.

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remy1492

I got a lot of unlocks in BETA and rank , dang. Gotta start all over oh well, its fun blowing stuff up with C4 and RPG dudes from far away.

Gabbyness

That was a very impressive "tutorial." This game looks really excellent.

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BurntToast

My only hope is that the rest of the maps hold up as well as Port Valdez did.

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Radio Monk33

Anyone have any luck with getting it off steam? It's supposed to be out today..I was hoping for a midnight release last night.

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Lasereth

CAN'T WAIT TILL 5 PM!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Shauk

1st off.

ADD ME in game "Shauk"

2nd off, it's bittersweet, my retail copy of Win7 wont be here til thursday, so i'm suffering from the pre-release shut down every 2 hours ;_;

3rd, holy shit I love all the maps so far.

4th, I've yet to figure out how to adjust the FOV like they said i'd be able to because right now, everyone is hella tunnel visioned, I walked up and took out an entire squad with my knife and pistol as recon because I just happened to be sitting like 45 degrees to the left of them as they all walked right past me.

Sometimes I wish this game had UT sound effects "m-m-m-m-ega killllll"

Shauk

Well so far I've done a few multiplayer rounds, again, still enjoying the maps, they'll take me a while to learn the ins and outs and how to approach them with each class.

I had a weird issue with it crashing to desktop without an error of any kind whenever it would finish loading a map.

I tried messing around with some settings.

if you go in to my documents/bfbc2 it stores some config files there.

settings.in has a line that says
directx=auto
I changed auto to 9 even though my card supports 10 because apparently people were reporting really good frame rates.

You can also edit the FoV in there.

that so with that, I went ahead and loaded it up and it stopped crashing.

I went ahead and filled out a post about how I think it's the dx detection that's crashing the game for some people so.. hopefully if anyone here has that problem, that'll solve it until they fix it.

I'm only up to the "crack in the sky" mission right now. I plan on beating it before I get too entrenched in the multiplayer

Radio Monk33

The multiplayer is terribly buggy right now. Hella hard to get into a game..a few times got the punkbuster kick (wtf). Othertimes it looks like major connection issues trying to get a game. Looks like its fairly widespread. maybe too popular right now.

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remy1492

yeah in 2 hrs I got to play one complete map.

The single player WW2 thing threw me for one, was just like call of duty WAW.

Lasereth

Sounds like a typical BF game. When will DICE get their shit together with coding?

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Shauk

I dunno if you got it for steam but I decided to skip it this time because I had all sorts of punkbuster kick issues with CoD/punkbuster due to it not getting along with steam for some reason.

that said, seems to work fine for me now. Browser still needs some tuning, still takes a long time to get a list of servers or join a game, but eventually does so.

Lasereth

Shauk I added you as a friend last night

I tried to get into 10 games and got into 2 of them. All I wanted to do in my short amount of time last night was fly a helicopter and I never found one. rage

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Shauk

Gotcha. Got a couple adds from people I don't know who didn't identify themselves too so. *shrug*

remy1492

we allz need friends

Lasereth

Bleh couldn't get into any servers last night either.

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Shauk

Yeah i did a "compare" to you and say you had like 2 kills 1 death. It was pretty hard for me to get in to a game, took me half an hour or so to populate the server list, apply filters and then spam join on the server I wanted to play on till there was an opening.

EA's server was really intermittent with connectivity. It wouldn't work for several minutes at a time but as soon as it got me in, it was all good to go.

I am starting to think that anyone intending to level a recon class should just play defense with the machine gun option on conquest maps, since snipers only really feel useful in rush mode to me.

I tried being a "sniper" mode recon guy for the 1st 3 levels and just got raped repeatedly because they're so vulnerable to machine gun fire from pretty much any distance >.>


Once I unlocked the 12x scope though, it was night and day in my survivability.


they just released a new server side update to help with connectivity issues, though I didn't really notice anything being faster/better on my end

Jinn

I hate to rub salt in wounds, but the 360 matchmaking is absolutely impeccable. I played a good 8 hours yesterday and the day before, and never once got kicked from a server or had to wait more than 30 seconds to connect.

To console you, (heh, KUN-SOUL, not CON-SUL)the graphics on the 360 look very BF1943ish compared to the PC.

Game is awesome though, that we can all agree on.

I love playing medic.. something about having a machine gun and health kits fits my personality exactly.. run like a maniac, machine gun, run like a maniac, machine gun, sprint past a tank to heal some peeps, revive some peeps, repeat.

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Shauk

haha, well, to be fair the consoles style matchmaking service in the PC version works fine, it's just the server browser that causes all the delay for me. It's functional, just not 100% so.

This is one of those games that if you ever decided to sell your console version, you can still opt to pick up a pc version and come play with the rest of us at least

Jinn

I was a diehard PC gamer, especially shooters, and honed my skill with the likes of Doom, Quake, and ultimately Counterstrike (including cal competition) but I've had to move to consoles as of late simply because I find comfort knowing that the playing field is more even in terms of rendering, and that what I see on my screen with regards to foliage is what they see. Likewise, hacks for console FPS' are historically more difficult to create and maintain, in large part because of the closed nature of the console hardware.

Entirely single player games I still purchase for the PC, like Mass Effect 2, because mouse and keyboard is far superior as a control system. But in competitive games I much prefer the relative equality of consoles, knowing that TV size aside, we're much more even than someone playing on a brand new computer and someone playing on a two year old computer.

Back on topic, I absolutely love the 'armor' perks. It's nice to have a little bit of control beyond standard armor, to say.. hey, I want a bigger sensor range, or I want larger shells, or I want faster repair, or I want more health, etc. I wish they were able to do something about C4'ing a tank as it spawns (before someone gets in it) as it largely deters people from climbing in, for fear that someone has already mined it.

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Shauk

"btw: PC currently has more people playing and are in game servers than
both the consoles."

/flex
PC Gamers win this round. muhahaha.

Updates to the servers now and soon - Electronic Arts UK Community

Radio Monk33

I hope PC gamers flock to BF2 in droves after Infinity Ward/MW2's big fuck you to PC gaming. I'm having more success today..but still a bit glitchy for joining servers through the browser and seeing friends online. But hey, at least I'm not getting kicked anymore.

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Shauk

TBH I'm not even sure who to blame for that fiasco anymore.

Activision bought IW for a mere 5mil, and IW turned around and made them BILLIONS, then on top of that, Activision fired the heads of IW mere weeks before bonuses were due, I guess they got pissed off at the gorilla treatment from Activision so they filed a pretty nasty lawsuit against them. The document basically accuses Activision of forcing them to come out with the sequel when they didn't even have plans to make it, having overly aggressive development schedule demands, and being responsible for the underdeveloped feel of MW2 and all the bugs and balancing issues that MW2 suffers from as a result.

Should be an interesting case.

Lasereth

Can't get in a server today either. Says EA server is down or something. Ugh

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Radio Monk33

Yeah, expect more outages..they are rolling out additional server updates all the time from what I've read.

Makes me sad..im 300 points away from level 5.

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Shauk

Battlefield Blog

400% higher load than they've had beyond all the previous battlefields so they def got caught with conservative estimates. Now we're paying the price of early adoption :\

It's pretty bad but once I get in to a server, I tend to hang on for dear life