Battlefield Bad Company 2 Clubhouse

[Tatty_Two]

Really nice pic/avatar That's one of my favorite spots

The only screenie you will get of me is lying dead in peices

 

[lemode]

Slugs don't dispearse...

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That is death

I don’t like the thought of anything penetrating me but that’s exceptionally frightening!

 

[Hybrid_theory]

Is it normal to suck royally when starting this game? My K/D is like 3 -15 or 1-12 or 3-8, that kind of thing. mw2 its more 10-10, 50/50 style

 

[MT Alex]

Absolutley normal, from my perspective. This is one game where you get your proverbial ass handed to you until you unlock some better weapons. Unless your some kind of game god like a few other members of this club.

I'm at level 27 and I usually end up just in the positive each round, say 19/16. Much of it is I just don't care about dying. Let the weak of heart sit back and snipe and crouch. It's just a game! Run headlong in to the fray! Especially in Rush mode, which is mostly what I play.

 

[Hybrid_theory]

Absolutley normal, from my perspective. This is one game where you get your proverbial ass handed to you until you unlock some better weapons. Unless your some kind of game god like a few other members of this club.

I'm at level 27 and I usually end up just in the positive each round, say 19/16. Much of it is I just don't care about dying. Let the weak of heart sit back and snipe and crouch. It's just a game! Run headlong in to the fray! Especially in Rush mode, which is mostly what I play.

yeah my best luck was picking people off when defending a rush game. that medic mg has rediculous range. Pretty easy to see em with a 24" monitor too

 

[EastCoasthandle]

Is it normal to suck royally when starting this game? My K/D is like 3 -15 or 1-12 or 3-8, that kind of thing. mw2 its more 10-10, 50/50 style

IMO, no that is not normal. This game isn't that hard to play unless you are running a mock. If you are noticing that your shots aren't registering try another server.

 

[TheLaughingMan]

Absolutley normal, from my perspective. This is one game where you get your proverbial ass handed to you until you unlock some better weapons. Unless your some kind of game god like a few other members of this club.

I'm at level 27 and I usually end up just in the positive each round, say 19/16. Much of it is I just don't care about dying. Let the weak of heart sit back and snipe and crouch. It's just a game! Run headlong in to the fray! Especially in Rush mode, which is mostly what I play.

I can agree with that. The only two guns you get by default that work well are the AEK-784 (or whatever that gun is called) and the M24 Sniper Rifle. If you want to be on level field for those first 10 or so levels, stick with hardcore or stick with Assault and Recon until you get the Shotguns. You can use the 820 shotty and Saiga to help the other kits unlock their stuff. That is how I did it.

 

[Hybrid_theory]

I can agree with that. The only two guns you get by default that work well are the AEK-784 (or whatever that gun is called) and the M24 Sniper Rifle. If you want to be on level field for those first 10 or so levels, stick with hardcore or stick with Assault and Recon until you get the Shotguns. You can use the 820 shotty and Saiga to help the other kits unlock their stuff. That is how I did it.

On that note as you level, do you get the unlocks for each class or just the one you play

 

[Apocolypse007]

On that note as you level, do you get the unlocks for each class or just the one you play

The unlocks that are used for all classes are unlocked by reaching a certain rank. If an unlock is only used for a particular class, you must use that class in order to earn it, exp earned for each class is shown after each battle.

 

[1Kurgan1]

AWESOME POSE MAN! Love it!

Anyway Tatty is right. Slugs are not bullets. They lose their knockdown power and accuracy MUCH faster. So he is 100% correct in his statement. The range of slugs in this game is just stupid.

Yeah, the pose was spur of the moment and the story / combat makes it even better.

I agree that they aren't the same as bullets, but 200m isn't out of range of a slug from a 12 gauge. To get headshot at that range is still quite hard, I have used the slugs a bit, no scoping from that far isn't easy.

I don’t like the thought of anything penetrating me but that’s exceptionally frightening!

Thats not what you said last night... Sorry had to.

Then it's not a "slug" but a bullet and as a shotty barell is not rifled like a....erm.....rifle then I'm still having non of it!

Thats a slug outside of it's casing, but thats not the sabot rounds that are in game, heres sabot rounds that are in game (look at that chunk of metal in the end, that doesn't disperse, it just destroys)

Saboted slugs are lead-cored, full copper-jacketed projectiles supported by a plastic sabot, which is designed to engage the rifling in a rifled shotgun barrel and impart a ballistic spin onto the projectile. This differentiates them from traditional slugs, which are not designed to benefit from a rifled barrel (though neither does the other any damage). They can take the usual variety of shapes, but for maximum accuracy are typically ogive. The slugs are generally significantly smaller than the bore diameter, increasing the ballistic coefficient, and use the sabot to seal the bore and keep the slug centered in the bore while it rotates with the rifling. Saboted slugs, when fired out of a rifled barrel, are generally far more accurate than non-jacketed slugs out of a smoothbore, with accuracy to 300 metres (330 yd) approaching that of low-velocity rifle calibers.

 

[1Kurgan1]

Well this is annoying, right now I have Marineborn and another friend over playing BC2/Killing Floor. And we all went to play BC2, me and Marine connected fine, but my other friend was dropped from a server and then he couldnt connect to any server out there. Then all of a sudden my friend gets in my game and it boots me for a connection error and now I can't connect to any games. It's almost like only 2 from my IP can be connected, though the other day all 3 of us were playing, makes no sense.

 

[Tatty_Two]

Is it normal to suck royally when starting this game? My K/D is like 3 -15 or 1-12 or 3-8, that kind of thing. mw2 its more 10-10, 50/50 style

Join the club! As many have said, things to get better with rank and unlocks, I have found with recon, even though I have about 5 sniper rifles so far (just about to unlock the Golum or whatever it's called) none are as good as the M24, I think the key is the upgraded ammo, especially at close range, you know, when in Engineer having to pump 5 rounds into the guy at close range to drop him, meanwhile he only needs 2 to drop you

I am on 11 atm, soon to be 12 hopefully, I think Magnum ammo comes in about 16, thats a long way off for me. Most of my games now though I tend to get more kills than deaths so things are looking better, I think my best short game so far is 9 kills to 2 deaths but that was a fluke!

 

[GullyFoyle]

Map Pack 3 out for PC:

Map Pack 3 is out since a few hours.

It includes the following two levels:

Laguna Alta, Squadrush - (code name "mp_003sr")
Nelson Bay, Squad Deathmatch - (code name "mp_008sdm")

If you are a player

There are already some servers up & running the new maps. Go look for them in the server browser!

If you are a server administrator

The maps are available to your server once your RSP has performed a configuration change [essentially: added a commandline option].
After that, the server recognizes the new maps in maplist.txt.

Trailer

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Apparently some servers are running a leaked R16 exe modified to allow SPECACT weapons, AND allowing people to get the All Bronze Weapons awards. Here's a video of SPECACT weapons in use. I think there may be a few other similar vids floating around on YouTube:

twitter.com/mennodings: "@zh1nt0 there yah have SPECACT: ... (shall i also make DICE slug video ?)
YouTube - Bad Company 2(PC) - SPECACT unlocked (HD) - youtube.com"

twitter.com/cod6tweets: "@zh1nt0 are you aware people are using the r16 server on home pc's? is this game going to go the way of ..."
twitter.com/zh1nt0: "@cod6tweets We are aware of it"

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BC2 + some Antivirus/Internet Security products: Server browser problems:

As noted in several forum threads, Client R8 doesn't work very well with some antivirus products.

Kaspersky Internet Security

Symptom: The server browser freezes for a long time when it is about to return results. The more servers that your search will return, the longer the freeze.

Reason: The server browser has been modified to do server-pinging using the non-admin Icmp* functions in Win32. (Earlier it used raw sockets.) This change makes the server pinging also function for non-administrators, but Kaspersky triggers on the game's behaviour.

We are in contact with Kaspersky Labs about this. We have no ETA for a fix.

Until then, known workarounds:
1) Use join-by-friend, or your favourites list, or your history list
2) Make sure you search queries are so narrow that you only get 10-20 results
3) Uninstall Kaspersky Internet Security (merely disabling will not help; neither will adding an exclusion for BFBC2Game.exe) -- NOTE: this makes you vulnerable to viruses and the like.

ESET Smart Security

Symptom: All ping times are displayed as - or 999

Reason: ESET Smart Security thinks that all the ping responses are coming in from servers are the result of a Denial-Of-Service attack that has been triggered from some other machine, and it begins to ignore those the incoming ICMP PING responses.

We have not yet been able to reach ESET about this.

Workaround:
In ESET Smart Security, go into Setup> Personal Firewall> Advanced Personal Firewall Setup> IDS and advanced options> ICMP protocol attack detection: disable
This will not make your machine vulnerable to viruses, it only means that someone can crash your computer remotely using an ICMP-based Denial-Of-Service attack (which is a very unlikely event).

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If you experience either of these symptoms:
* Server browser freezes
* Server browser shows - or 999 in ping column for all servers

... then reply to this thread, and state:
* Which symptom you are experiencing
* which antivirus/internet security product you currently have installed (incl. version number)
* if you found any workaround not yet mentioned - do tell

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BFBC2: MYTHBUSTERS EPISODE 1

The history of DICE, parts 1-4.

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Hmmmm...

twitter.com/pbalau: "@zh1nt0 Any chance to get an answer about the last 2 insignias for PC? Got all bronze stars, still no insignias"
twitter.com/zh1nt0: "@pbalau We are aware of an issue with it. You don't need specact for that however "

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twitter.com/RealHorrorsh0w: "@Bazajaytee R15 PC: AT4 nerf for no reason (its useless now), G3 damage unchanged. Any chance of fixing these soon?"
twitter.com/Bazajaytee: "@RealHorrorsh0w Will need to get @Demize99 to check them when he gets back from vacation to see if its as he intended."

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[AlienIsGOD]

Join the club! As many have said, things to get better with rank and unlocks, I have found with recon, even though I have about 5 sniper rifles so far (just about to unlock the Golum or whatever it's called) none are as good as the M24, I think the key is the upgraded ammo, especially at close range, you know, when in Engineer having to pump 5 rounds into the guy at close range to drop him, meanwhile he only needs 2 to drop you

I am on 11 atm, soon to be 12 hopefully, I think Magnum ammo comes in about 16, thats a long way off for me. Most of my games now though I tend to get more kills than deaths so things are looking better, I think my best short game so far is 9 kills to 2 deaths but that was a fluke!

I find the GOL Sniper Magnum to be my weap of choice for recon. That with the Mag Ammo = a good combo.

Also, I'm enjoying the patch so far, weaps shot a lil better and load times are down

 

[lemode]

Thats not what you said last night... Sorry had to.

well at least you wore your cowboy boots and rhinestone cowboy hat while your wife cheered us on enthusiastically...1 upped, son!

 

[brandonwh64]

So when will the SPECACT weapons be released for PC? what do we have to do to unlock them?

 

[Wrigleyvillain]

Was tired of the game for a good while, then decided to wait for patch and now am happily back into it again. Are there any TPU servers left and if not where do you guys generally frequent?

 

[ZenZimZaliben]

I play a lot on B^3, SOH, TTT, digital-Anarchy servers. Otherwise I just look for the lowest ping on the game type I feel like playing. Game handle is same.

 

[GullyFoyle]

Apparently, the PSN Store says BFBC2 VIP Map Pack 4 is to be released tomorrow. The maps included are Atacama Desert Rush, Port Valdez Conquest.

Now, time to find out if the item in the last PC patch ("Client - Support for Map Packs so PC gets future VIP maps at the same time as consoles") will hold true.

twitter.com/Killzone_Kid: "@zh1nt0 Dude how come the ingame store says Map Pack 4 released 7/7/10 which is tomorrow and you have no news for us?"

twitter.com/zh1nt0: "@Killzone_Kid Yes yes, they are being released tomorrow. I only work 9 hours and am bound to miss something you know "

Fersis "owns" the BFBC2 thread over at NeoGAF (primarily a Playstation Site) and had this to tweet:

twitter.com/Fersis: "Hell yeah! #BFBC2 VIP Map Pack 4 tomorrow!! Atacama Desert Rush, Port Valdez Conquest."

Maybe this will excite you more than Map Pack 3

 

[boise49ers]

Was tired of the game for a good while, then decided to wait for patch and now am happily back into it again. Are there any TPU servers left and if not where do you guys generally frequent?

I killed my gamer and now I'm waiting on RMA refunds and playing this on a p4 3.0 with a 9500 GT : ). It is playable though. It won't even play it with Vista on the p4, but this machine has XP. I didn't realize how much of a hog Vista was until I tried this. When I get the Quad going I'll run Vista on that , but make my dual core an XP machine.

 

[TheMailMan78]

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Apparently, the PSN Store says BFBC2 VIP Map Pack 4 is to be released tomorrow. The maps included are Atacama Desert Rush, Port Valdez Conquest.

Now, time to find out if the item in the last PC patch ("Client - Support for Map Packs so PC gets future VIP maps at the same time as consoles") will hold true.

twitter.com/Killzone_Kid: "@zh1nt0 Dude how come the ingame store says Map Pack 4 released 7/7/10 which is tomorrow and you have no news for us?"

twitter.com/zh1nt0: "@Killzone_Kid Yes yes, they are being released tomorrow. I only work 9 hours and am bound to miss something you know "

Fersis "owns" the BFBC2 thread over at NeoGAF (primarily a Playstation Site) and had this to tweet:

twitter.com/Fersis: "Hell yeah! #BFBC2 VIP Map Pack 4 tomorrow!! Atacama Desert Rush, Port Valdez Conquest."

Maybe this will excite you more than Map Pack 3

I wonder when a map pack will contain I don't know...........NEW F#$KING MAPS.

I'm sick of developers tacking on features that should have been in the game to begin with and acting like they are doing something for the community when they unlock shit THATS ALREADY THERE.

 

[1Kurgan1]

well at least you wore your cowboy boots and rhinestone cowboy hat while your wife cheered us on enthusiastically...1 upped, son!

Yeehaw!

 

[Bo$$]

still this one up from COD packs, £10 for old maps and 2 new ones

 

[GullyFoyle]

New Battlefield Blog Post: VIP Map Pack 4 Released!

Map pack 4 is already released for consoles and will be released for PC at around 16:00 (GMT+2).

Alright Ladies and Gentlemen! New Map pack 4 is out so my suggestion is you turn on your machines, download it from the in-game store and get right into the action!

Atacama Desert Rush mode - A Russian Naval Group is preparing a massive amphibious assault. Defending the shore are 3 U.S fortifications and a string of artillery defenses. Deteriorating weather and sandstorms, U.S. Command has consolidated all available forces to meet the Russian threat.

Port Valdez Conquest mode - Russian Forces are poised to attack the harbor in an attempt to seize the Trans Alaskan Pipeline. No fallback exists for either side, this engagement will decide the outcome of the war.

VIP Map Pack 4 Trailer

The map pack is available with a VIP code, which is included in every new copy of Battlefield: Bad Company 2. A VIP code can also be purchased via the in-game store. PC users will not need a VIP code and will receive the new map pack via an in-game patch.

PC Map Pack 4 is out now:

At 15:50 (GMT+2) I flipped the switch for all the game clients. The RSPs are gradually enabling the map pack on game servers.

It includes the following two levels:

Atacama Desert, Rush (code name "levels/mp_005gr")
Port Valdez, Conquest (code name "levels/mp_012cq")

If you are a player

There are already some servers up & running the new maps. Go look for them in the server browser!
The search filters in your game client will be updated if you restart BFBC2.

If you are a server administrator

The maps are available to your server once your RSP has performed a configuration change [essentially: added a commandline option].
After that the server needs to be rebooted. Then server will recognize the new maps in maplist.txt

 

[Mussels]

paid map packs are fail, servers cant run them, cause the players already on there get booted when the new maps are put in rotation... and with BC2 servers, who the hell is gunna pay for a server so few people will use?