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

[Capt Caveman]

no ETA great

11:59pm Im guessing then

Rumor has it that Vietnam will be active at 1am PST on Saturday. We have two servers ready to go - one will be a Vietnam Rush and the other will be a Vietnam Conquest.

 

[HybridSquirrel]

no i didnt buy it at early access stores. i got mine at d2d

sucks 4 u...are they the only place making you wait? because it says pc version available tomorrow, consoles the 21st

edit: i was just at gamestop getting sims 3 for my girlfriend and they were having a midnight for pc release.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Rumor has it that Vietnam will be active at 1am PST on Saturday. We have two servers ready to go - one will be a Vietnam Rush and the other will be a Vietnam Conquest.

I'd say its more than a rumor when the checkout specifically states:

Code will be emailed to you starting Saturday, December 18 at 09:00 GMT / 01:00 PST.

 

[Capt Caveman]

I'd say its more than a rumor when the checkout specifically states:

Yeah but it doesn't mean that the servers will be activated. There's actually some stuff we also need to do to the servers to get them online.

 

[zerocool84]

Rumor has it that Vietnam will be active at 1am PST on Saturday. We have two servers ready to go - one will be a Vietnam Rush and the other will be a Vietnam Conquest.

Damn I was hoping I'd be able to play it tonight at midnight. Oh well

 

[Capt Caveman]

Damn I was hoping I'd be able to play it tonight at midnight. Oh well

Can't wait an extra hour?

 

[zerocool84]

Can't wait an extra hour?

Ohhhh duh I can't read, that's 1am PST. For some reason I saw 1pm.

 

[zerocool84]

Just played about 5 rounds and it's definitely fun. Injects some much needed life into Bad Company 2. If you didn't like BC2 then you won't like this as it's exactly more of the same but it's fun if you enjoy the gameplay. Seemed much more fast paced than regular BC2.

 

[GullyFoyle]

Now Available - Battlefield Bad Company 2: Vietnam

Product Release - Valve 00:50
Start playing now! Battlefield Bad Company 2: Vietnam is now available on Steam.

Get ready for a whole new war, as DICE's massively popular online shooter Battlefield: Bad Company 2 makes the journey back to the 60's and the infamous Vietnam war.

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twitter.com/zh1nt0: "Vietnam codes are gradually being rolled out to everyone who pre-ordered."

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I ordered from the EA store and just got my code via e-mail!

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[Patrickz0rs]

Maps are terrible.
Many reused guns from BC2.
Only 5-6 guns per class.

The only thing this game has going for it is the soundtrack.

Not worth $15.

 

[GullyFoyle]

I just played a few rounds of Vietnam. Thoughts: Awesome!:awe: Awesome! Awesome!:biggrin:

Everything seemed to be unlocked already, to me.

Didn't notice until the end of one round that someone that someone was trying to get my attention in chat, ie, "Is this Gully from Anandtech.com?" Sorry, I was not ignoring you, I just didn't notice the messages in the heat of battle. Yeah, it was me

 

[Zargon]

Maps are terrible.
Many reused guns from BC2.
Only 5-6 guns per class.

The only thing this game has going for it is the soundtrack.

Not worth $15.

wow you feel way different than every review ive read

 

[scooterlibby]

Am I supposed to get my activation code from steam if I pre-ordered? I haven received anything.

 

[lolbron]

vietnam is amazing.

that is all.

 

[scooterlibby]

When did you guys get your keys? Did you get them through email?

Edit: For anyone understandably confused by the Steam method of activation (I woke up and found it gone from my games list).

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1658824

 

[abaez]

I just spent 3 hours playing it. Godamn AWESOME. The maps are great visually. Very back and forth. The sounds (love the grenade launcher FWOMP), the guns. Love it.

For some questions: I don't think you have to unlock anything, I had all guns available to me.

The key is there when you right click properties on BC2 in your steam games list. I lost the game entry but just went through the main menu in BC2 to Vietnam (it's a button on the left).

 

[minmaster]

are stats accumulated on top of vanilla bc2 stats or does nam keep its own stats?

 

[potato28]

are stats accumulated on top of vanilla bc2 stats or does nam keep its own stats?

The points just accumulate to the BFBC2 stats.

 

[CrystalBay]

I like it also,the graphics are nice and there seems to be some new lighting effects...

 

[zerocool84]

wow you feel way different than every review ive read

There are very few guns and of course the guns are reused from BC2 cus that's what they used back then but the guns definitely feel different. I enjoyed the few hours I played last night.

 

[Maximilian]

Where does mortar come from?

 

[Termie]

Had a good few rounds with Zargon. The game is pretty tight. Graphics are good but definitely a different, darker feel than BC2. Love the burned out level and the rice paddy level. FPS is solid - a bit higher than BC2, and much more constant - I was getting 61-69 FPS, no spikes.

As for weapons...love the crack of the m16. And that m79 Bloop Tube - not too precise but oh so much fun when you have Charlie pinned down. Flamethrower I'm not so sure about yet...only good in the really CQC areas, of which there are only a few.

Oh yeah, and after 8 months of trying, I finally got my naval warfare pin after about 30 seconds on the gun of a patrol boat. Just shows how stupid the grenade launcher on the vanilla BC2 boats is.

 

[stag3]

game feels WAY smoother than vanilla bc2

game hangs at updating stats when exiting a game for me

 

[zerocool84]

I don't remember yet and won't play this game until tomorrow but is AA fixed in Vietnam? I remember 2x and 4x AA made almost no difference in vanilla.

 

[stag3]

wtf ea login servers borked right now?
it reset me to level 2 and i can't connect to any games