Bad Company 2 Multiplayer Beta

First impressions

All the server trouble didn't really make it easy, but I managed to get a game going twice tonight. When there is no lag, this is truly a great game. I have some minor quibbles like no prone, no (active) voice comms and the weapons not feeling entirely right yet, but that aside it is a very worthy successor to BF2.

The sound is indeed one of the best features of the game. At one point while playing on defense I was attacking in force with tanks and other infantry while Warthogs flew overhead, pounding the enemy with their Gatling gun. The noise accompanying that spectacle was so incredibly awesome.

I also enjoyed the new game mode a lot. During my last game I was on offense and we managed to push all the way through to the end. The gradual opening up of the map and the focus it brings, pushing the team forward in stead of all directions like BF2, really is a big improvement imo. It sorta reminded me of Dustbowl in a way, only with more points to capture.

Technically the game seems pretty sound, although this is a Battlefield game so it isn't bug free. Unfocused mentioned the artifacts, there is the crashing server browser and of course the lag (which hopefully is due alone to the overloaded servers). Other than that I was surprised at how smooth the game runs. My settings are halfway between medium and high, and the game runs pretty much without a hitch, even in the middle of intense combat situations.

We really should plan to play together this weekend. Going offense with two or three HL2.net squads working together should offer lots of awesome experiences.

Oh and @Unfocused: behold my sucky k/d ratio.

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Ravioli said:
No point in trying to play right now guys, theres too many people. Their servers are getting overloaded. They said they are working on a fix right now. Il just wait till tomorrow when they fix the servers on their side.
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what a quitter, you should be ashamed of yourself!
 
CyberPitz said:
For those talking about Prone:

At first it sucks, but you'll quickly get over the fact. After a bit, you'll forget why you wanted to go Prone to begin with! (Not really, but you just won't care)

I'm hoping the server problems are resolved by the time I get home, I wanna play!
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When playing 2142 I rarely use prone anyway for some reason (I think it doesn't give such an advantage as in BF2), but I still missed it when I was sniping in BC2.
 
Unfocused said:
When playing 2142 I rarely use prone anyway for some reason (I think it doesn't give such an advantage as in BF2), but I still missed it when I was sniping in BC2.
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Yeah, being a sniper crouched makes it tough to not be seen, but from my experiences being sniped, even knowing the general location of a sniper on a hill made it silly hard still. Imagining if they were prone, I'd never have killed them!

I thought I read that they resolved the "Spam target spotted button so you can always see them on the minimap" issue. Is this true?

God, 1 more hour until I dive into this game
 
Was hoping they'd resolve the issue by now, but now they recommend using the "play now" button. Problem is I'm constantly getting "Connection to game server lost" after I press it. I managed to get in once, but the lag was immense and I got disconnected 3 minutes later. Hopefully they'll figure something out by tomorrow.
 
i've tried about 5 different sites without luck, anyone find a good one for those of us that have to WORK ALL DAY!!!!!!!
 
Well, when you think of how huge this is for the PC community, it's pretty easy to misjudge the volume and random bugs. *Thinks back to release of HL2....*
 
If anyone's got a quadcore - apparently adding +fullproc to the shortcut will give you a nice performance boost. Apparently. I'd try it myself but I've only just started downloading the torrent. One hour to go.
 
Qonfused can't play, ha! <3

Half way through rank 2 now, got my first set of dog tags too :D

I'm enjoying it a lot and I'm starting to get a hang of it. Played mostly as sniper but starting to like assault and engineer now.

Got over the prone thing, its not really needed. The guns are accurate enough when crouched, so its fine.
 
Ren.182 said:
Qonfused can't play, ha! <3

Half way through rank 2 now, got my first set of dog tags too :D

I'm enjoying it a lot and I'm starting to get a hang of it. Played mostly as sniper but starting to like assault and engineer now.

Got over the prone thing, its not really needed. The guns are accurate enough when crouched, so its fine.
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You're playing now, you ****er? (<3) I tried a few minutes ago multiple times and couldn't get in :frown: Will try tomorrow.
 
Man, this game is awesome!

My connection is pretty bad, so aiming becomes an issue (0.50 K/D ratio :\), but I'm loving it so far. Medic is the role for me.

Add me, my name is Wanted Bob.
 
Thank you...someone! I just got a good two hours play on a UK server by complete pot luck doing the 'play now' button. It was crazy, a bit tricky to work out what the hell I was doing but awesome.

Some people seem to already have considerably better weapons than me :( But I found assault (or whatever it's called) the easier to pick up and play. I keep forgetting I have the ammo now (not support...damn bf2).

It looks beautiful, sounds are incredible. The effects are really manic and it makes it pretty difficult to see clearly or aim precisely due to the chaos. Need to play it with other people for more fun. Promising.
 
Well, managed to connect to a decent server (some rubber banding every now and then) and it was ****ing awesome. Runs smooth as silk maxed out DX9, which was surprising considering I've read a ton of performance complaints from people with much better rigs. I guess it's DX10/11 related. Although strangely after the game finished it just came up with some page about twitter and the game closed. Hopefully my XP wasn't lost as I finished top that round. :D The other team only managed to blow up the first crate.

My in-game name is Jim236, hopefully we'll get some games going soon.
 
I enjoy it so far but holy **** it takes a lot of ammo to kill someone.
 
Seriously, is the game meant to close after every round or is my game just borked? I get some 'Join us on twitter' bullshit and I'm back to the desktop.
 
Jimmeh said:
Seriously, is the game meant to close after every round or is my game just borked? I get some 'Join us on twitter' bullshit and I'm back to the desktop.
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borked. After the twitter message you get a basic stats / medal screen I think, then it has a button saying 'join game' to go to the next round. You can just continue on playing (teams swap sides - attack v defend).
 
Ok, first impressions:

It works. Kind of.

Bit laggy, though. I can't seem to be able to choose my own servers for the time being.

Um... feels a bit too much like MW2, the weapons, I mean.


My ID is, naturally, 15357. Are we gonna have clan tags like we did for BF2?
 
15357 said:
Ok, first impressions:

It works. Kind of.

Bit laggy, though. I can't seem to be able to choose my own servers for the time being.

Um... feels a bit too much like MW2, the weapons, I mean.


My ID is, naturally, 15357. Are we gonna have clan tags like we did for BF2?
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Beta, you can't fault it for bugs or lag.

Feels like MW2 because it feels like every other modern game lately. To BC2's defense, the PS3 beta started 9 days after MW2's release, so they couldn't have copied too much in the line of game play feel. I think it feels more like BC1 than MW2.

*EDIT* Add me to the friends in game, CyberPitz *obviously*
 
Wow, I ****ing love this so much! Game runs beatifully at 1920x1080 on Medium (it was default, I'll try High and see how it goes).

Add me!

Name: Iced_Eagle
 
Played it a few rounds. I Am surprised by how well the game is optimized. I run it at high settings without any hiccups whatsoever. It's definitely suffering from consolitis. The lack of prone, voice commands and the addition of health regen proves that. It's a fun game nevertheless. Gotta be honest, i am a bit short on money atm. I Am gonna wait and see how the new AvP games turns out be before i decide which one i am going to get.
 
I gave it a really short go yesterday(about 20 minutes), and I was kinda dissappointed with my first impression

-Lots of connection problems, got kicked from some servers when joining, when I finally managed to get in a game it was extremely laggy
-Disappointing graphics. Anti-aliasing doesn't work, low draw distances with everything maxed, and still no great performance(40-60FPS isn't that great for the specs I have)
-It takes a lot of bullets to kill someone
 
Managed to get into a game first time i fired it up. Since then, every time i tried to join a game through "play now" it would give the old "connection to the server lost" message, and if you try to use the server browser it would CTD.

When i did manage to get into a game, it ran dog rough and didn't look that great at all. Gameplay wise i haven't had long enough to make a judgement.

However, i fully accept that this is a beta and things will improve over time. I'm sure it will be great, it'll just take time to get to that point.
 
Didn't pay atention to the damage, but during the PS3 beta headshot was pretty much a one shot one kill with any weapon. I felt like the damge system was perfect during the beta. If you just spray bullets to the body it'll take a clip to kill them (maybe more when they get the armor upgrade) but if you take time and shoot for the head you'll drop them in a second.

System actually rewards players who take time to aim or are good at aiming. Plus makes the easiest weapon in every game to actually require some skill, the sniper that is.
 
Good god this game is great. Just spent about half an hour with Badhat and Pesh holding out against 3 other dudes. They drove us up to base 2 fairly quickly, but we held out there for a while destroying all the tanks they threw at us. Badhat and I blowing up tanks while Pesh did flybys in the apache. Eventually we got pushed back into the final phase. They started throwing more tanks at us in an attempt to destroy the objective, but we kept hammering them. The enemy got bold and started rushing us with infantry. They finally got objective B, but A held out a while longer with Pesh flying the blackhawk. Then some jackass hijacked it and crashed it. Finally the game ended as a lone soldier blew objective A to hell. Will be picking this up day 1.


Also, Pesh flipped a helicopter into some explosive shit. Good times.
 
I'm beginning to love this game. It's awesome. It's just too bad that I won't be able to play with you guys unless it's an US server. Awful ping, you see.


Speaking of which, wheres that ping caption? I mean, I want to see how my ping is in game.


Edit: I love the sounds. Very awesome. Seriously awesome. The weapons lack some punch though. But still, usually it takes 14 or so rounds to kill a guy. That needs to be taken care of.
 
God damn its laggy this morning :(

Scratch that, found a non laggy server... see ya! :D
 
Ok, the friends system isn't working for me. It just gives me a message that says PC_DIALOG_NOT_FOUND
 
Jimmeh said:
Well, managed to connect to a decent server (some rubber banding every now and then) and it was ****ing awesome. Runs smooth as silk maxed out DX9, which was surprising considering I've read a ton of performance complaints from people with much better rigs. I guess it's DX10/11 related. Although strangely after the game finished it just came up with some page about twitter and the game closed. Hopefully my XP wasn't lost as I finished top that round. :D The other team only managed to blow up the first crate.

My in-game name is Jim236, hopefully we'll get some games going soon.
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Do you know of a way to set it to DX9? In the settings file, directx is set to auto, which I assume means I'm on DX10 in Vista. I'd rather set it to DX9, but there's no saying setting it to 9 will do it. Might be 90, 0, 1, or some other combination.
 
Unfocused said:
Do you know of a way to set it to DX9? In the settings file, directx is set to auto, which I assume means I'm on DX10 in Vista. I'd rather set it to DX9, but there's no saying setting it to 9 will do it. Might be 90, 0, 1, or some other combination.
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If DxVersion=9 doesn't seem to work try =9c. Saw that mentioned somewhere.
 
Anybody know the correct mouse settings? Just tried to play my first game and couldn't do crap because I could only look horizontally and couldn't have free look, which made aiming impossible. I can look left to right but not up and down.
 
How the hell are you guys able to play? I havent been able to log into my account for the past 16 hours :frown: No matter how many times i try, it REFUSES to connect.
 
Escape said:
Anybody know the correct mouse settings? Just tried to play my first game and couldn't do crap because I could only look horizontally and couldn't have free look, which made aiming impossible. I can look left to right but not up and down.
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Nvm, i fixed it. Wish I could play this game on a higher setting.
 
I play mine on medium and it runs perfectly. I might be able to get high settings, if only they had some advanced settings, rather than just low, med, high. :(

Almost rank 5 now, enjoying it a lot :D
 
Well I posted my thoughts yesterday but they magically disappeared. My in-game name is: hool10. I have sent out a ton of invites btw.

Game is just like in the trailers and really fun. It takes for me, 5 bullets to down a guy. Basically if you tap the fire button, you won't spray bullets everywhere. The only lag I get is at the start, and sometimes in the middle of a round or when I go to a new base.

My 2 favorite things in the game is knife kills and the UAV. Knifing in COD is really quick and clean while in this game, it feels real. It literally looks like you put some weight behind the knife and there is some resistance when you jam it in a guys head for his dog tag. :D The UAV is really cool as well.

I don't have any complaints at all really aside from sucking at sniping. *My favorite moment has to be myself in a house yesterday. There was group of enemy soldiers outside and one just comes running in. Well a friendly tank blew a hole in the side of the house and killing the guy sending him doing cartwheels sideways! :LOL:
 
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