Battlefield: Bad Company 2

[Butters]

Tools -> Games (I think)

 

Then from there you have radio buttons for DX9 or DX10 if you highlight Bad Company 2.

 

http://bfbc2.elxx.net/sig/detail5/pc/PipBoy69.png

[Butters]

So come on then PC users, show us yer' stats

 

Inf-o-Matic & Sigg-O-Matic! Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Stats & Signatures

[featured_spectre]

I have done! Bear in mind that I have only been playing since yesterday!

[capncrunch]

http://bfbc2.elxx.net/sig/detail4/pc/capncrunch1988.png

[Butters]

My average life expectancy in BC2 is 51 seconds.......

 

Flash in a pan

[featured_spectre]

so far I have the longest life expectancy at 1 min 48 seconds!

 

Although frequently I have broken the 5 minute mark

[featured_spectre]

I was playing in a Rush map yesterday, I was impressed with myself as I was parachuting in, had a sniper, and picked off a moving target with a headshot ...got called a hack and subsequently banned from the server though

[moobsuk]

weeeeee...... Just been and bought me this game! shall run the installer whilst Kids are in the bath then get me some shooting in when they goto bed!

 

Gonna run this on my new gaming rig!

[gshaw]

Saw the advert for BC2 on TV yesterday... if some of that action is really in the single player I'm gonna be impressed

 

That website to get the sigs is slooooooww but here's me...

 

http://bfbc2.elxx.net/sig/detail5/pc/gshaw0.png

[Butters]

Awful K/D ratio there...........need to learn from the master

[gshaw]

Awful K/D ratio there...........need to learn from the master

 

It's improving now I've got something that does more damage than a water pistol and shoots straight

[featured_spectre]

haha very true!! all of the starting weapons are rather crap!

[Duane_Dibbley]

Got this t'other day on pc. My first battlefield game, and i'm impressed. Just a shame they couldn't polish it quite as well as mw2, then it really would be superb. Shoddy servers (is it just me or can no one else browse servers?? I can only use quick game) for online play, and a bit glitchy in places in the single player, otherwise would have been excellent. I'm absolutely rubbish at it, but i'll keep plugging away...

[featured_spectre]

It isnt polished? The physics in the game are mental (in the good way) and the game itself is vastly superior to MW2. I have actually stopped playing MW2. Last night for example I was playing in an 8 man server playing Rush...4 rounds took nearly 2 hours to do!

[Rawns]

here is mine. None too shabby.

 

http://bfbc2.elxx.net/sig/detail4/pc/Rawns.png

[Duane_Dibbley]

It isnt polished? The physics in the game are mental (in the good way) and the game itself is vastly superior to MW2. I have actually stopped playing MW2. Last night for example I was playing in an 8 man server playing Rush...4 rounds took nearly 2 hours to do!

 

Sorry I'm just fussy about my fps's. I have a few graphics glitches is all, nothing major. When i say polished, I just mean the things that make that lil bit extra difference. The single player storyline is of a similar quality to mw2 (i.e. not great) but the voice acting and script aren't quite as good. The graphics glitches are prob just me playing it at 1920x1200 on high, but then again ive got an i7, 6gb ddr3, and a gtx285 which i would expect to be able to handle it.

 

That and it just doesn't quite 'feel' right to me...but it is my first battlefield game so it's something i'll get used to.

 

Like I say, i'm just being fussy.

 

What i don't get, and this is a criticism of lots of new games MW2 most certainly included, is why it seems so difficult to get servers working correctly. HL and HL2 based games have been doin it for years with fantastic results and support, why do companies now feel they need to try and emulate the console model? Sorry...completely off topic

[SteveB]

That and it just doesn't quite 'feel' right to me...but it is my first battlefield game so it's something i'll get used to.

 

I would definitely try the renderahead tweaks to improve the responsiveness of the game.

[Rawns]

What i don't get, and this is a criticism of lots of new games MW2 most certainly included, is why it seems so difficult to get servers working correctly.

 

Servers?! & MW2?!

[Duane_Dibbley]

I would definitely try the renderahead tweaks to improve the responsiveness of the game.

 

I'll definitely give em a go tonight

[featured_spectre]

renderahead tweaks are definately worth it!

 

As for the game being your first battlefield...this one is a massive leap forward in the series, and having had the BF games from BF1942 onwards, I have to say with each game (bar the 2142) they did VERY well for the game of its time.

[Duane_Dibbley]

Servers?! & MW2?!

 

Servers...connections...56k dial-up game hosting. u know what i mean

[Rawns]

renderahead tweaks are definately worth it!

 

As for the game being your first battlefield...this one is a massive leap forward in the series, and having had the BF games from BF1942 onwards, I have to say with each game (bar the 2142) they did VERY well for the game of its time.

 

I agree. I still dabble in BF2 now and again. It's over 5 years old and there are still loads of servers and players on it! And they patched it again end of last year. Patching a game over 5 years old has to say something about it!

[ZeroHour]

The biggest issue with the BF series is EA, I have been playing bf since bf2 and EVERY launch has been hell with connection issues and crashes to desktop etc. EA has never yet launched a BF on pc that has *just worked* in my experience. The server list part is a complete joke, it has so many issues its stupid and since you cant directly connect (aka run bc2.exe ip=192.blah to connect) you cant get around it.

A tip is if your having the magical disappearing "connecting" messages take a look in the top right corner, you will notice your username/rank has disappeared. If you log out and log back in repeatly it does eventually let you connect to the server.

Edited March 18, 2010 by ZeroHour

[fafster]

The biggest issue with the BF series is EA, I have been playing bf since bf2 and EVERY launch has been hell with connection issues and crashes to desktop etc. EA has never yet launched a BF on pc that has *just worked* in my experience. The server list part is a complete joke, it has so many issues its stupid and since you can directly connect (aka run bc2.exe ip=192.blah to connect) you cant get around it.

A tip is if your having the magical disappearing "connecting" messages take a look in the top right corner, you will notice your username/rank has disappeared. If you log out and log back in repeatly it does eventually let you connect to the server.

 

Yeah, the joining a server issue bugs the hell out of me. Cheers for the IP address tip, if I find a decent server I'll use it.

[Rawns]

From my perspective, the first week was nasty. I bought the game on the Friday it was released and could not get online until Sunday evening, and even then I got D/C'ed/PB kicked constantly. The rest of the week was buggy, crashy and completely unplayable. I feared it was going to be another Operation Flashpoint 2 style release (That was £15 quid well spent! )

 

I have found now that since the 2 patches, and 2 weeks to get their act/server farm together, I have hardly no issues online! Log in is almost instant, I can see all my friends on-line, sure I have one or two occurrences where I can't connect for whatever reason, but when I'm in game, the minor issues that exist are tiny compared to the enjoyment I get blowing up a building!