Battlefield Bad Company 2

[Blacky]

Squad Rush mode looks exciting

[don_xvi]

Any word on what I'm going to have to do to get going on the beta?
I've preordered from someone in the beta keys program, but don't know what to do next other than wait by my inbox!

[Decami]

Any word on what I'm going to have to do to get going on the beta?
I've preordered from someone in the beta keys program, but don't know what to do next other than wait by my inbox!

as stated in this thread, beta starts the 28th, information will be more than easy to find then. For steam users it is available to DL threw steam on that date from what i gather.

[reasons]

Didn't see it posted. 7 minutes of SP posted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8aeccSFU5M

[don_xvi]

yes, that's exactly my point, this thing is right around the corner, I'd like to get this download started and know what I'm supposed to be doing to make it work!
I'll just sit tight here by my gmail...

[SunTzu69]

yes, that's exactly my point, this thing is right around the corner, I'd like to get this download started and know what I'm supposed to be doing to make it work!
I'll just sit tight here by my gmail...

From an official rep's blog:

When's the Beta

First, let's start by making the official time and date of the Beta the start of this Blog in what will be and EPIC moment in DICE's PC History! The PC Beta begins this Thursday, January 28th at approximately 6pm CET, 12pm EST, and 9am PST time!!!!!!! :-D

Where to Get It

The Client will be downloadable from server partner websites and Steam starting at the above listed time at a file size of 1.5GB. Here's a hyper-link reminder http://bit.ly/4GJk2a on which retailers will provide PC Beta access through pre-ordering

[Campo]

WOW This game looks AWESOME! Can't wait. Haven't pre-ordered though. Can anyone with the beta tell me if it's worth pre-ordering?

[SunTzu69]

I have seen the Beta and played it very briefly on PS3. I can tell you the graphics and especially the audio is amazing. I had this thing hooked up to my Denon and my RF-82's and I could swear WW3 was rolling through my county (background explosions and rumbling from far off).

The MP gameplay will far surpass MW2 as well because of the Squad mechanics - being able to rejoin the action right beside your best buddies, and having enough time to think about your next move and position yourself so you control the situation = fun. MW2 = turn around a corner and get shot at...

[SunTzu69]

Holy mother of God.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WOO9...layer_embedded

BC2 demo/beta reveal trailer. There will be an apache, and a blackhawk in it. Look at that Apache being blown out of the sky at about 2/3 of the way in and tell me you are not impressed.

If this workday can end, I will be grateful.

[reasons]

Holy mother of God.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WOO9...layer_embedded

BC2 demo/beta reveal trailer. There will be an apache, and a blackhawk in it. Look at that Apache being blown out of the sky at about 2/3 of the way in and tell me you are not impressed.

If this workday can end, I will be grateful.

And that was just the console version. DLing now. Don't have class until 1-3 today and now work. Thank God because I have a feeling I won't be moving much today. Steam is being decently slow (1/5th my total speed) though, I guess a lot of people are going right now.

[CAUTION]

WOW This game looks AWESOME! Can't wait. Haven't pre-ordered though. Can anyone with the beta tell me if it's worth pre-ordering?

I just purchased the game from steam, and I am installing it as we speak.

I will update you when the download has completed. This install is taking forever though

[nullface]

Wow the steam servers are slow has hell, max DL 80kb/s... but i sorta expected it to be that slow.

[BobyTT]

I am between 160 and 800KB/s on steam and 80% done...

[>HyperlogiK<]

Don't hold your breath, I just played a 2 hour sesh and it's not that good. I just finished a 2 hour sesh of the PC beta and I have to say it's the most disappointing DICE game I have ever played [and I thought that BC 1 for Xbox wasn't too bad].

The squad system is completely broken, why no on the fly squad creation? Squads were the cornerstone of tactical gameplay in BF2, screwing them up like this just turns the game into MW2 with vehicles.

The new engine isn't wonderful, the HDR is very overdone [it almost looks like Serious Sam 2]. There also seems to be some serious lag when blowing up terrain, and that is on a fairly high end machine playing on what should be reasonably local servers. It may just be me but I also seem to have a lot of texture flickering with CF'd 4870s.

I realise that this is a smaller scale more action oriented game than previous Battlefield titles, but Valdez is tiny. There isn't even any point in having vehicles because there basically isn't anywhere to go.

Finally the class loadouts just seem stupid. A medic with a PKM? seriously!? Assault with Ammo packs? Mixing scout and sniper together was a good call, but removing support and dumping his various bits of kits randomly into the other classes was silly.

[reasons]

Don't hold your breath, I just played a 2 hour sesh and it's not that good. I just finished a 2 hour sesh of the PC beta and I have to say it's the most disappointing DICE game I have ever played [and I thought that BC 1 for Xbox wasn't too bad].

The squad system is completely broken, why no on the fly squad creation? Squads were the cornerstone of tactical gameplay in BF2, screwing them up like this just turns the game into MW2 with vehicles.

The new engine isn't wonderful, the HDR is very overdone [it almost looks like Serious Sam 2]. There also seems to be some serious lag when blowing up terrain, and that is on a fairly high end machine playing on what should be reasonably local servers. It may just be me but I also seem to have a lot of texture flickering with CF'd 4870s.

I realise that this is a smaller scale more action oriented game than previous Battlefield titles, but Valdez is tiny. There isn't even any point in having vehicles because there basically isn't anywhere to go.

Finally the class loadouts just seem stupid. A medic with a PKM? seriously!? Assault with Ammo packs? Mixing scout and sniper together was a good call, but removing support and dumping his various bits of kits randomly into the other classes was silly.

Well it is a beta so let DICE know this. They release betas to hear opinions.

[SunTzu69]

There are a few things you must realize. This is a Beta. In the PS3 beta the scopes weren't even in there... just their general outline like if you were looking through a plastic hoop.

Alot is being added and tweaked through this Beta. Just check the list of changes they made to the PS3 version after the beta... they acted on what info they got.

Also, this is not BF2, or BF3, or BF 2.5. Those are a separate franchise. BC2 is intended to be a competitor to MW2, with more strategy involved than simply action/shooting. I am confident the squad system will be just fine when it comes out.

Also, this game wants more than 2 cpu cores. The reason for this is that the audio is not being produced by your sound card, or on-board sound, but is being rendered by one of your cpu cores. The developers have stated why this was done, and how superior audio is achieved for this reason. You should consider this if the game is not feeling quite as smooth as you expected - maybe play with the audio settings and see.