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

[minmaster]

i shudder at the thought of DICE patches. while they may fix some things, they usually break a whole new set of stuff.

 

[zerocool84]

i shudder at the thought of DICE patches. while they make fix some things, they usually break a whole new set of stuff.

lol I'm surprised this game even has widescreen

 

[GullyFoyle]

First off, the "It's Gold!!!" tweet has been deleted. See for yourself: twitter

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Here is a picture of the back of the BFBC2 DVD case, with a 9.5/10 rating from Game Informer: Source

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Here is a source for the level descriptions I posted above, with pictures of the levels: www.bf-games.net

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Another Blog post Fan Made BFBC2 Montage!

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[GodlessAstronomer]

First off, the "It's Gold!!!" tweet has been deleted. See for yourself: twitter

In other words, "it's gold, but don't tell anyone because the quality is still very poor".

 

[zerocool84]

I wonder if they give you anything special for being a BF Veteran?

 

[bob4432]

I wonder if they give you anything special for being a BF Veteran?

widescreen

 

[minmaster]

lol widescreen would throw off the BF veterans as they were always against giving it to us.

 

[uclaLabrat]

I wonder if they give you anything special for being a BF Veteran?

I think you get 6 unlocks off the bat.

 

[GullyFoyle]

I wonder if they give you anything special for being a BF Veteran?

It's in the...oh, whatever. :biggrin:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=29305588&postcount=484

 

[zerocool84]

I think you get 6 unlocks off the bat.

lol @ the comments above but that's cool. What sucks is that I thought we would get the unlocks for preordering right away but I'll probably earn them already by the time the game comes out.

 

[Jschmuck2]

You don't get to keep your unlocks from the beta, I'm afraid.

 

[uclaLabrat]

Nope, stats get reset after the beta, everyone starts over day 1.

 

[zerocool84]

You don't get to keep your unlocks from the beta, I'm afraid.

Nope, stats get reset after the beta, everyone starts over day 1.

GAH!!!!!!!!!!! Oh well still fun.

 

[minmaster]

locust has taken back "it's gold" tweet. now he's denying it's gone gold...

wtf?

 

[GullyFoyle]

Overhead pictures of some of the new maps on Planet Battlefield, including some views showing the locations of Crates in Rush, or Flags in Conquest. Interestingly, I'm not seeing any indication of different map sizes for different numbers of players, ala BF2.

 

[bob4432]

Nope, stats get reset after the beta, everyone starts over day 1.

like iw did w/ mw2?

 

[VashHT]

In other words, "it's gold, but don't tell anyone because the quality is still very poor".

Just curious but can you list some of bugs you keep talking about I haven't noticed many tbh.

 

[bob4432]

zerocool - how does the beta play on your rig in sig? and @ what rez do u plat @

 

[MBrown]

Is this worth pre-ordering?

 

[Bulldog13]

Is this worth pre-ordering?

It's a contarded version of 2142 (never played BF2). I pre-ordered cause I'm sick o waiting for BF 3.

 

[Mike Gayner]

Just curious but can you list some of bugs you keep talking about I haven't noticed many tbh.

You haven't noticed any bugs in this game? Wow.

 

[zerocool84]

zerocool - how does the beta play on your rig in sig? and @ what rez do u plat @

It plays real well. I'm @ 1920x1080 and it's smooth. I played at 8xAA but got slowdowns when things exploded around me when there was lots of smoke/dust so went down to 4xAA and it's plays well.

 

[bob4432]

It plays real well. I'm @ 1920x1080 and it's smooth. I played at 8xAA but got slowdowns when things exploded around me when there was lots of smoke/dust so went down to 4xAA and it's plays well.

do you know if you were cpu or gpu limited? assuming gpu but the 5870 is a killer card...sounds like you have more than enough cpu too....what os?

 

[zerocool84]

do you know if you were cpu or gpu limited? assuming gpu but the 5870 is a killer card...sounds like you have more than enough cpu too....what os?

Vista 64

There's a discussion going on in the Video Card forum about how cpu bound this game is. Since it's the Beta and they said they are still going to add functionality and optimizations to the game, people are arguing about it over there. Supposedly it doesn't stress 2 cores correctly but that's for those people to argue about. I didn't get any FPS increase when I went from 3.4GHz to 3.53 but that's such a small bump I doubt it'd register at all but since I could easily tell the difference between 8xAA and 4xAA performance that says it's probably more GPU bound.

Here's some benchmarks that someone did in that thread:

http://gamegpu.ru/images/stories/Ab.../Battlefield_Bad_Company_2_Beta_1680x1050.jpg

http://gamegpu.ru/images/stories/Ab.../Battlefield_Bad_Company_2_Beta_1920x1080.jpg

 

[Jschmuck2]

First: it's been said a bunch of times that this is an old client we're working with here AND that the high res textures aren't in said client. So trying to judge performance and what have you at this point isn't really worth your time. Do yourself a favor and wait until launch.

Second: let's rent a server. If we get it from Gameservers it's ~$40/mo for a 32 slot server. If we have eight to ten people donate a few bucks a month (for admin rights, natch) we could keep it up and running. Who would be down for that - apart from me?