Battlefield Bad Company 2

[Chupacabra]

I've never really followed these kinds of games before, but I really enjoyed Cod:Mw2 and Mw1. I'm only interested in single player and co-op modes.

Any idea how singleplayer is going to be in BF:BC2? Will it be of comparable quality of MW?

[Nightshade]

I played Bad Company on the 360 and it was ok, don't know if there was a co-op mode. I watched the vids for the MP for BC2 yesterday and it looks pretty fucking sweet. Why are you not interested in the MP?

[Chupacabra]

oh ok, thanks for the info.

i'm not too interested in the MP for a few reasons. 1) i dont like how quickly you can die in there 2) seems like theres a big learning curve+i'm not very good at it and i dont have much time to figure it all out 3) the first time i played cod:mw2 MP i died really easily from dudes that were really good. apparently theres an RPG-ish build up your character kidn of thing that doesn't really appeal to me. 4) any kind of deathmatch just doesnt appeal to me as much as q3 did (dm perfection!)

[Nightshade]

Well, I share your distaste for the speed at which you die in the MW games, it does lessen as you get better. I wouldn't write off the MP for BC2 without trying it, I'm hoping that Dice can take the squad-based gameplay a bit farther in the right direction. I'm not expecting anything revolutionary, but it looks fun.

Check out the vids: http://badcompany2.ea.com/

[bitWISE]

As someone who has never played any of these type of "warfare" fps, the MP beta for BC2 is downright fucking annoying. It seems like they handed me nerf guns while everyone else is playing on instagib mode. I can't even snipe because the scope is so fucking terrible that guys with assault rifles pick me off first. I spend most of my time either completely missing the combat zone or being killed by people I never see. Then you do see people and you get killed reloading because the other faggot has a better kit.

[bitWISE]

Once you get better though...this game is fucking awesome. S20K and a combat knife ftw.

[+JuggerNaut+]

[bitWISE]

Thought you guys might appreciate my change of heart over the last few days lol. Mainly had to get down the flow of the map. Up to rank 4 so far.

[bitWISE]

Downloading at 1.3 mbps

[Don Carlos]

My mate showed me this earlier...looks good but I am not sure...

[bitWISE]

Its loads better than the first one. Finally got to play it on my friends 360. It isn't as fast paced and deathmatchy as MW2.

[Don Carlos]

Looks like loads of stuff breaks...

[Nightshade]

Have my PC version copy in my bag...THIS WORK SHIT NEEDS TO END, NOW.

[m4shke]

:E Shoulda pre-order from da states

[bitWISE]

The single player seems pretty damn epic so far. Graphics are ace.

[Nightshade]

:monitor envy:

Installing as I type...

[YourGrandpa]

Waiting on mail.

[Nightshade]

Waiting on stupid fucking online authentication.

[Nightshade]

Well, this sucks a lot of ass. Can't even launch the SP. Stupid thing tells me that my computer isn't online and that it can't verify ownership. I had originally chosen the online authorization instead of disc authorization, so when it didn't work I uninstalled and reinstalled choosing disc authorization instead. So, it's still telling me that it can't find a connection and I can't even play the fucking thing. Awesome. So, I'm uninstalling it again.

Great.

[Scarface]

Bought it today, pritty good so far. Haven't jumped into mp yet, but im sure it'll be as good as bc1 if not better

[tnf]

Picked it up today. I wish the FOV was the same as MW2 - I'm playing that game again through on Veteran and think its controls/view are implemented much better. Seems like the humor aspect has been toned down a bit in Battlefiled BC 2 from what I've seen thus far. I hope it picks up a bit later on - that was a draw with the first one and I think its something this game needs. To those of you who are further along, does humor play a part in the writing later on?

[tnf]

Well, this sucks a lot of ass. Can't even launch the SP. Stupid thing tells me that my computer isn't online and that it can't verify ownership. I had originally chosen the online authorization instead of disc authorization, so when it didn't work I uninstalled and reinstalled choosing disc authorization instead. So, it's still telling me that it can't find a connection and I can't even play the fucking thing. Awesome. So, I'm uninstalling it again.

Great.

This sort of bullshit is why I'm not even bothering trying most of these games on the PC - even though I'd much rather play an FPS on a mouse/keyboard setup.

[Nightshade]

Yeah, it fucking blows dog.

[bitWISE]

Picked it up today. I wish the FOV was the same as MW2 - I'm playing that game again through on Veteran and think its controls/view are implemented much better. Seems like the humor aspect has been toned down a bit in Battlefiled BC 2 from what I've seen thus far. I hope it picks up a bit later on - that was a draw with the first one and I think its something this game needs. To those of you who are further along, does humor play a part in the writing later on?

Yea, I've been laughing my ass off. After you get out of Japan you actually take control of Bad Company from then on out.

There is lots of "Sweet jesus you crazy fucking liberal hippy", "lets go un-fuck this situation", and commentary on their favorite scenes from Predator.

The sound quality has me more impressed than the graphics to be honest. The guns are all very distinctive and change dramatically within the environment. The way they squeeze in all the sounds during a battle is intense.

[Nightshade]

I finally got the SP to launch after the second reinstall. It turns out that if you choose Online Authentication then there's a GL.ini file that gets written to, and does not get deleted during uninstall. Consequently the authentication was still set to Online, for reasons I don't get. I chose Disc Auth., so one would think the ini file would get over-written. Apparently not.

Game's great so far, still can't play MP, saw that EA is aware of the issue and is working on a fix.