The AT Battlefield Bad Company 2 F.A.Q.

[Peppered]

I just started playing BC2 again. Last time I played was during the Beta LOL.
I just was wondering what class seems to be need the most. I would guess recon is over populated. I started a Assault class but see a lot of them too.

 

[mwmorph]

I just started playing BC2 again. Last time I played was during the Beta LOL.
I just was wondering what class seems to be need the most. I would guess recon is over populated. I started a Assault class but see a lot of them too.

It seems engineers and medics that play according to how the class should be played. Medics with +R and +H upgrades or engineers that follow a tank and repair it tend to be rare. Everywhere you turn, it another medic with magnum rounds or engineers with shotguns pushing the front lines.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

I really hope they allow RDS/ACOG on the G3/M14. At this point the purist snobs have had more than enough time without these "crutches", but IMO I would love for things to be mixed up. Why can't they enable such features for just a short while in the game's waning months?

After the patch, is there even a point to the M60? It does the same damage per shot as the PKM, has a 100rpm lower rate of fire, the same accuracy and higher recoil. The only advantage it has is 0.5s to reload time. On top of that the M60's iron sights are terrible so it becomes a much bigger decision on getting Medkit+ or red dot.

I understand nerfing a weapon, but no point in making it useless.

To punish the noobs that crutched on it so hard before this nerfing?

Its not the only weapon that doesn't have a purpose, the T88S is rendered even more useless to the SVU than the M60 to the PKM. They do the same damage but the SVU gets 10 more rounds and is silenced and doesn't leave tracers...

But I suppose you're right, the M60 was fine before. Sure, baddies still crutched on it and abused its power but at least it wasn't better than the other LMGs in every aspect. Its slower ROF and reduced ammo capacity was generally enough of a balance after the initial nerfs that made it less godlike from its original beastliness.

I just started playing BC2 again. Last time I played was during the Beta LOL.
I just was wondering what class seems to be need the most. I would guess recon is over populated. I started a Assault class but see a lot of them too.

Medics who first and foremost look to heal and revive teammates. Medics are popular because the LMGs are the easiest weapons to master and the medkits can be used to heal one's self, so combat medics are just as much of a plague as retard recons who sit back at the spawn and pop worthless shots at the enemy base.

On vehicle heavy maps, engineers to defend friendly armor and/or attack enemy armor are also rare.

The sad part is that its actually pretty easy to score a ton of points by playing as actual support medics/engies to rank up and top the server score board, but people care way too much about KDR it seems.

 

[mwmorph]

Medics who first and foremost look to heal and revive teammates. Medics are popular because the LMGs are the easiest weapons to master and the medkits can be used to heal one's self, so combat medics are just as much of a plague as retard recons who sit back at the spawn and pop worthless shots at the enemy base.

On vehicle heavy maps, engineers to defend friendly armor and/or attack enemy armor are also rare.

The sad part is that its actually pretty easy to score a ton of points by playing as actual support medics/engies to rank up and top the server score board, but people care way too much about KDR it seems.

The big issue with it is squad selection. I played a few games today and could not find a single squad that used orders, communicated or even stuck together. The ones that did were already full. As a support medic, that means a ridiculous number of deaths and extremely low points.

When a squad sticks together and plays intellgently, medic is a great choice, unfortunately, that doesn't happen 95% of the time when you have 1 guy on your squad piloting a uav and 2 more recon snipers laving just you to assault and attack the m-com stations or base cap flags.

 

[RavenSEAL]

Each class to its own:

Assault, a lot of people noob-tube
Medic, Campers that self heal
Recon, campers that camp campers at long range
Engineer is truly the only class that actually goes beyond stuff that isn't considered noobish, and now that the CG is at level with all the other RPGs, it's even better. I for the most part play engineer and do my job fixing tanks whenever possible, easiest points in the world.

 

[minmaster]

CG is still way way better than the other AT weapons.

 

[Peppered]

I went with the Engineer class got to spec 4 and a red dot on my sub machine gun, tried to fix as many tanks as I could seems like a suicide most of the time but I feel it is my job anyway. later on in the night seems like lv 40 + folks keep camping the spawn area and make it hard for you to get out of the area so I gave up for the night.
I do miss not running out of ammo when playing the assault class though I seemed to only got grouped with medics, Recon and maybe another engineer lol. But i still enjoy the game more than I did COD Black ops

 

[GullyFoyle]

New Battlefield Blog Post: Vietnam Hardware #8: Junglify your Desktop

* BY: H Brun
* POSTED : Nov 26, 2010, 12:00AM



Welcome to number 8 in our blog series on everything Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam. Just a quick note that you can now get this sweet Vietnam wallpaper for your PC. Also, themes for PS3 and Xbox 360 are live.


The Xbox 360 Premium Theme for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam is out, available on Xbox Live Marketplace. Hit the pic for a larger preview.

Yup, that's right. If you have the need for some kickass imagery to go with your PC desktop, just hit the pic above and save. Also, our new Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam theme is live on both PS3 and Xbox 360. The PS3 version is free as usual, while the Premium 360 version (complete with jungle surroundings for your Friends avatars) is yours for 240 Microsoft Points.

For more info on Battlefield: Bad Company 2, visit the Official Site. Tweets directly from DICE here.

 

[HybridSquirrel]

why dont they ever just say when the hell its going to be released

 

[bunnyfubbles]

The big issue with it is squad selection. I played a few games today and could not find a single squad that used orders, communicated or even stuck together. The ones that did were already full. As a support medic, that means a ridiculous number of deaths and extremely low points.

When a squad sticks together and plays intellgently, medic is a great choice, unfortunately, that doesn't happen 95% of the time when you have 1 guy on your squad piloting a uav and 2 more recon snipers laving just you to assault and attack the m-com stations or base cap flags.

Naw, if you can't get into a good squad you need to try and find one that can at least give you some spawn points and then move in and try to support the other squads. You don't have to play strictly within your own squad

Its super annoying when I die in the middle of 3 or 4 medics regardless of whether or not they are in my squad and none of them make a move to try and revive me or anyone else.

Sure, you'll get a ton of bonus points for doing medic duties specifically for your own squad but you'll still get lots of points for healing and reviving any other teammates.

Just for sh*ts and giggles I've actually played a round of medic where I never used my gun, I think I ended up 0-20 or so as far as KDR but I had the top score in a full server because I easily had 60+ revives and many more heals.

CG is still way way better than the other AT weapons.

for anti infantry yes, it is way better, but definitely not for tanks. CG has always been terrible for tanks and is almost a non-threat against a dedicated engie tank team

 

[GullyFoyle]

How many maps in BFBC2: Vietnam?

A Russian blog has somehow gotten a copy of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam early and posted a video going through all the games menus (weapons, awards, vehicles, maps). Kinda hard to read anything since it's all in Russian. They also claim a release date of December 22nd. Thanks BizzyBox.

We now have a translation of the map drop down seen in the video. It appears there actually only 5 maps, since the top text says "All Maps". The 2 additional maps are Kaoson Temple and Operation Hastings. Thanks to gBGummyBears and BattlefieldTsk for the translation.

 

[GullyFoyle]

These look like the new load screen maps from MP7 & Vietnam: At Dead Man Walking Clan

 

[CrystalBay]

looking very good , Dice has my loyalty and 15 when it hits Steam...

 

[Spike]

Is the bronze weapon star award thing working? I FINALLY got all the bronze stars (I hate sniping, took forever to get those last 25 M95 kills) but after that no dice. The only weapon I don't have a star with is the tracer pistol but I do have over 140 plants so I'm somewhat confused.

I have starts for most of the gadgets as well with only the repair tool, smoke launcher, 40mm shotgun, and ATA 4 lacking. Any ideas if this award is working currently?

Thanks!

BTW, here is my info. I'm under MrSpike.

http://bfbcs.com/stats_pc/MrSpike

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Is the bronze weapon star award thing working? I FINALLY got all the bronze stars (I hate sniping, took forever to get those last 25 M95 kills) but after that no dice. The only weapon I don't have a star with is the tracer pistol but I do have over 140 plants so I'm somewhat confused.

I have starts for most of the gadgets as well with only the repair tool, smoke launcher, 40mm shotgun, and ATA 4 lacking. Any ideas if this award is working currently?

Thanks!

BTW, here is my info. I'm under MrSpike.

http://bfbcs.com/stats_pc/MrSpike

You're missing tank mines and 40mm shotgun

but as far as I know the bronze crap is just flat out broken seeing as how I should have gotten the badge ages ago and several times over

last I knew the speculation was that the conditional M1 Garand and SPECACT weapons were causing the problem but I stopped caring when I got to level 50 without the points for the badge.

 

[GullyFoyle]

It should work if you earn it now, since the last patch. If you satisfied all the criteria before the last patch hit, they have neglected to implement any catch-up provision.

 

[minmaster]

word is the upcoming patch has fixed the bronze awards. it's currently broken for most.

 

[Bill Brasky]

Does anyone know how the patch went for the PS3? Can we expect the update soon for PC?

Blast their stinking Frostbite engine and the impossible patching system.

 

[Spike]

You're missing tank mines and 40mm shotgun

but as far as I know the bronze crap is just flat out broken seeing as how I should have gotten the badge ages ago and several times over

last I knew the speculation was that the conditional M1 Garand and SPECACT weapons were causing the problem but I stopped caring when I got to level 50 without the points for the badge.

Tank mines and 40mm shotty should only count for the overall bronze patch, I'm going for the weapon one. I'll have the rest of the stars soon but regardless I should have the weapon now as I just got the M95 bronze yesterday.

Hopefully that next patch will have it working, it really annoys me to not have this award that means absolutely nothing in real life but somehow justifies the hours I wasted staring at a screen

 

[Zargon]

i need to play this more

i find good rounds of this far more rewarding than blops

 

[GullyFoyle]

New Battlefield Blog Post (dated Nov 24th?): Update for Battlefield Bad Company 2 - PC and Xbox 360

* BY: zh1nt0
* POSTED : Nov 24, 2010, 08:31AM

For PC users:

As the title says, there is an update coming for the PC platform and it contains multiple changes to the game.

This update is in preparation for Map Pack 7 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam which is why the update will be approximately 2,6 GB in size. some of the fixes for the Xbox 360 were already rolled out in the previous PC patch. To see a full description, click here.

PC players might encounter some temporary outages or suffer from lag during the server updates (between GMT 08:00 2010-11-30 and GMT 08:01 2010-12-01).

Also make sure you run PBsetup.exe after updating to the latest version of the game.

www.evenbalance.com

How to get the game client updated

* If you are using Steam: the Steam client will automatically begin updating your game client once November 30th, 6:00 AM (GMT) has passed by.

* If you are non-Steam user : then the game’s online updater will find the version online at the same hour and ask you to patch.

* If you are not using Steam: You can get a manual patch from several places...

*Links will be posted shortly


- The main EA CDN: http://static.cdn.ea.com/dice/u/f/bfbc2/Static/BFBC2_PC_Client_R10_602574_Patch.exe
- Here's a mirror in Australia: http://www.ausgamers.com/files/details/html/55988
- And here's a mirror in Croatia: (requires you to create an account first): http://www.diabolic-servers.com/board/downloads.php?do=file&id=135
- And a mirror via Fileplay.net: http://www.fileplay.net/file/12110/bfbc2-pc-client-r10-patch


Here is a complete list of all the fixes for PC in this update:

- Acog and Red dot scope now equippable on MK-14 and G3.
- Fixed an issue where the Bullet Tracers wouldn't display
- Fixed an issue where Play Now wouldn't work
- Added Ticket Count for Conquest end of round.
- Added the server info to the objectives screen.


For Xbox 360 users:

Here is a complete list of all the fixes in the Xbox 360 Update:

- Acog and Red dot scope now equippable on MK-14 and G3.
- Fixed a bug on PC where the G3 would do less damage than intended.
- Reduced VADS push back and damage to balance it with the ZU23.
- Fixed a bug where Vehicle Countermeasures would fail to remove tracer darts at high speed.
- Reduced the reload time for Vehicle Countermeasures.
- Slightly increased the AT4's damage vs armor to emphasize its anti vehicle role while keeping it balanced vs armor.
- Increased the AT4’s top speed and acceleration so users spend less time exposed when firing.
- Increased the AT4's splash damage so it competes with other AT weapons vs infantry. The AT4 still has the least splash damage of all AT weapons.
- Reduced the splash damage of the Carl Gustav to bring it in line with other explosive weapons. The Carl Gustav still has the most splash damage of all AT weapons.
- Increased the 1 shot kill range of the M95 body shot to counter its lower rate of fire.
- Fixed a bug with the SVU that gave it better close range damage than other semi auto weapons.
- Reduced all weapon damage to the MCOM by 50%.
- Fixed a C4 vs MCOM exploit on Atacama Desert.
- Fixed a bug with FOV when aiming the M1911.
- Lowered the close range damage of the AN94 to highlight its long range role.
- Increased the accuracy of the F2000 on the move to highlight its role as a mobile AR.
- Increased the close range damage of the shotguns to give them a greater advantage vs slugs.
- Slightly lowered the damage of the M60 to balance its accuracy advantage vs other LMGs.
- Slightly lowered the damage of the MG3 at close range to balance it with other high rate of fire weapons.
- Slightly increased the damage of the UH6


Xbox 360 players might encounter some temporary outages or suffer from lag during the server updates (between GMT 09:00 2010-11-30 and GMT 09:01 2010-12-01).


If you have any questions regarding the patch, feel free to contact me on my Twitter.


Peace!

// www.twitter.com/zh1nt0

 

[Demo24]

When does the patch come out? And damn, 2.6gb! Also woot, finally red dot for the g3 and mk14. I might actually use them now.

 

[GullyFoyle]

According to this Time Zone Converter:

06:00:00 a.m. Tuesday November 30, 2010 in GMT converts to:

10:00:00 p.m. Monday November 29, 2010 in America/Los_Angeles
01:00:00 a.m. Tuesday November 30, 2010 in America/New_York

 

[Spike]

But but but... where is my bronze star award fix!?!?!?!?!!?

 

[minmaster]

lol they broke the MG36 red dot HC which is precisely what they fixed couple patches ago. gotta love dice and their patches!

bronze star awards fixed though