Bad Company 2 Beta - thoughts, opinions?

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SixtyWattMan said:
Anyone else think engineers should be able to repair the M-Com station?
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Nope. I don't want to drop a realism argument (taking a drill to your laptop to fix it?!?), so I'll settle for saying they could stand to either increase the amount of C4 that a crate can take by 3 or so, give a nerf to C4 carrying dudes w/ the explosives gadget, or get rid of the explosives gadget. I'm for fixing it in that way because in Bad Company 1, you could sneak in and more or less insta-pop the crates in a similar way, but it took more C4 than you carried and there were no mobile ammo kits. Soooo, you'd squad up with your pals, set out on your mission and have some of the best battlefield teamplay imaginable. Remember that friendly fire is on in all ranked BFBC1 servers. Made things a bit more challenging as you can imagine.
 
specs of my rig are in sig

just curious what kind of performance i can likely expect? i know the 5770 will be my limiting factor, but i've only got a 17" lcd to play on, so i'm maxed at 1280x1024 res.
 
Jason said:
specs of my rig are in sig

just curious what kind of performance i can likely expect? i know the 5770 will be my limiting factor, but i've only got a 17" lcd to play on, so i'm maxed at 1280x1024 res.
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Leave it at 1280x1024 and try everything on High and see how it goes? Adjust as needed... Congrats, you can play the game.
 
jbauer2485 said:
I generally enjoy the game so far. Environmental damage with no lag or fps issues is amazing.

The only major problem I have with the game is the control scheme being very clunky. Seems like there is a bit of input lag or something. It reminds me of far cry 2 controls if anyone is familiar with that failure of a game.
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i agree, hopefully this is because it is the older build they are talking about.
 
GoldenTiger said:
Odd, I think it sounds amazingly good, myself... much more realistic than the BOOM BASS EXPLOSION gunshots of other games.
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No, they way over did the echo and reverb. It sounds like we are having a war in a sewer pipe instead of a canyon.
 
Armoured said:
:rolleyes:

Back at ya. This guy WAS targeting the head......all the time........I didn't show you a video where a noob was playing.......watch it again.
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Oh, cause this game has been out for years and there is no way he couldn't be a noob.
 
xSystemFailurex said:
Nope. I don't want to drop a realism argument (taking a drill to your laptop to fix it?!?), so I'll settle for saying they could stand to either increase the amount of C4 that a crate can take by 3 or so, give a nerf to C4 carrying dudes w/ the explosives gadget, or get rid of the explosives gadget. I'm for fixing it in that way because in Bad Company 1, you could sneak in and more or less insta-pop the crates in a similar way, but it took more C4 than you carried and there were no mobile ammo kits. Soooo, you'd squad up with your pals, set out on your mission and have some of the best battlefield teamplay imaginable. Remember that friendly fire is on in all ranked BFBC1 servers. Made things a bit more challenging as you can imagine.
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Yeah but all they're doing right now is loading up ATVs and UAVs with C4 and wrecking them into the M-Com stations. Also don't drop a realism argument on me when you can take a drill to a tank being shot my RPGs and fix it back to perfect in a few seconds.
 
So what's the difference between DX11 and DX10 in this game? I don't notice any tesselation at all, shadows?
 
SixtyWattMan said:
Yeah but all they're doing right now is loading up ATVs and UAVs with C4 and wrecking them into the M-Com stations. Also don't drop a realism argument on me when you can take a drill to a tank being shot my RPGs and fix it back to perfect in a few seconds.
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I personally haven't seen this one, but my point's still valid. It's up to the defenders to actively defend to the best of their ability. Incoming vehicles won't kill themselves (usually). I don't see mines used often enough.

I said "I don't want to drop a realism argument", so I didn't. What was in the parenthesis was meant jokingly. I did not make an actual realism argument. If you read the rest of my post, you'd notice.
 
SixtyWattMan said:
Yeah but all they're doing right now is loading up ATVs and UAVs with C4 and wrecking them into the M-Com stations. Also don't drop a realism argument on me when you can take a drill to a tank being shot my RPGs and fix it back to perfect in a few seconds.
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I agree with xSystemFailurex's points, but I also agree with your anti-realism with the tank repairing, hell, we need to put a garage in and have the engineers stuck there, the tanks have to be driven in and then the engi has to diagnose the damage and fix it virtually for real....:p

Anyway, what he said about BC1 is accurate, and I've done that with a coordinated squad and won many rounds. It is also possible to take out a crate as a single Specialist by using all C4, grenades, and a few clips into the crate. Of course that is much more time consuming and similarly more dangerous, as you have to go to an ammo crate in order to be useful again.

While I disagree with suicide runs, is it not an ingenious use of the "rules" of the game? The UAV thing is a little absurd though.
 
I had a lot more fun with the game tonight. My friends rigs running gtx260's in sli had been having the same performance issues that I had, but tonight they seem to be fixed -- not sure if they patched it or what. This game is very enjoyable when it's finally running at smooth frame rates. Unlocked the mortar strike for the sniper and had a lot of fun calling those in and tagging for my squad of friends. This game has a ton of potential, I'm just sick of the snow.

Also the friends list and server history are now working which allows me to play with my friends again -- major plus.
 
Cantonious said:
I agree with xSystemFailurex's points, but I also agree with your anti-realism with the tank repairing, hell, we need to put a garage in and have the engineers stuck there, the tanks have to be driven in and then the engi has to diagnose the damage and fix it virtually for real....:p

Anyway, what he said about BC1 is accurate, and I've done that with a coordinated squad and won many rounds. It is also possible to take out a crate as a single Specialist by using all C4, grenades, and a few clips into the crate. Of course that is much more time consuming and similarly more dangerous, as you have to go to an ammo crate in order to be useful again.

While I disagree with suicide runs, is it not an ingenious use of the "rules" of the game? The UAV thing is a little absurd though.
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I'm not saying it's not smart, I'm saying it's cheap. We killed about 4-5 ATVs trying to hit B earlier and all it took was one to slip past us and destroy the M-Com instantly. One man shouldn't be able to solo an objective with 6 people guarding it.
 
SixtyWattMan said:
I'm not saying it's not smart, I'm saying it's cheap. We killed about 4-5 ATVs trying to hit B earlier and all it took was one to slip past us and destroy the M-Com instantly. One man shouldn't be able to solo an objective with 6 people guarding it.
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There's a Mine for that.

Just sayin'.
 
theNoid said:
***IMPROVED PERFORMANCE***

I was skimming some forums and someone played with the GAMESETTINGS.INI in your \%username%\mydocuments\BFBC2Beta folder. They reported their FPS jumping something like 10-15 and being highly consistent.....

Tweak
In the GAMESETTINGS.INI change the following value

SoundSystemSize=1 to..
SoundSystemSize=2

1=software, 2=hardware

I hope this helps some of you guys out there, give it a shot!

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I have no issues with my game, but i thought i would try out your tweak just for fun.

My gamesettings.ini was already default set at SoundSystemSize=3

So what is 3=?
 
Mafi0So said:
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Doesn't work for me even with that under Win7 64, though I didn't try running the executable directly as admin, just the steam shortcut so far.
 
Daggah said:
Still nothing about fixing the bloody sticky movement key issue?

Can I cancel a pre-order on Steam and get my money back?
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Ask them yourself? It probably is something they fixed already for retail but go find out... kinda silly a thing to cancel over without even checking if you otherwise like the game. If you're dead-set for some reason against buying it because of this, you can contact Steam support to cancel the pre-order.
 
So seems like everyone in this thread ignored my post or didn't see it, but What is the difference of DX11 and DX10 in this beta? Just shadows? Because there sure isn't any tessellation that I see.
 
refraxion said:
So seems like everyone in this thread ignored my post or didn't see it, but What is the difference of DX11 and DX10 in this beta? Just shadows? Because there sure isn't any tessellation that I see.
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I don't believe there is even any DirectX 11 features in the beta.
Hell, they even left out the high textures so I doubt there is any DirextX 11 features being utilized.
 
interested said:
I have no issues with my game, but i thought i would try out your tweak just for fun.

My gamesettings.ini was already default set at SoundSystemSize=3

So what is 3=?
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I figured it out.

"SoundSystemSize=3 and it will use XFI mode."

Makes sense that it was on 3 by default since i have a XFI card.
 
Will we get demo on 4 of FEB ??? so, maybe it will use diffrent build......
 
Personally, I'm loving the game. I haven't had this much fun with a shooter in a long time. The destructible terrain/buildings is awesome.

After doing some adjustments, I'm getting great FPS in the beta. Ambient Occlusion is definitely the biggest offender of being not optimized.

I feel they've got a winner on their hands. Make no mistake, some things needs some tweaks, but this is so superior to the other "Modern Warfare" shooter, its not even funny.

:D
 
Does anyone else love the m1911 as much as I do? If I'm in a firefight between another guy we trade blows until we run out of ammo, then either I switch to the m1911 and finish him off, or he runs away to reload then I chase him and finish him off. :D

You don't even have to go rapid fire on this thing, just carefully aim your shots dead center to the body and injured guys will die in 2-3 hits. On healthy guys I've killed people with 3-5 shots. I've held off an attacking squad killing 3 guys before I died with just with the m1911 and bought enough time for reinforcements to come and prevent the crate from getting destroyed.
 
Playing third day and I have to say Like more and more, Switched to World at War, straight after session in BC2 feel very static. Better textures, but static somehow, and no vehicles.
 
Another thing I noticed is when you kill somebody the game appears to take a couple seconds to display you've killed them. I don't think it's lag but the game itself. I noticed it in some of the videos that were posted here as well.

Also, I find it funny how some people are already canceling their pre-order because of this beta. Sure it may not be what they were expecting which is understandable, but we are still a month away from release. At least wait until you see what the demo is like.
 
FOUND THIS :CONFIGURATOR:
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http://ohlawl.com/liseda.html
But Mcafe showing Virus?
guys, can you confirm??(cos i'm at work)
 
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cnick79 said:
Another thing I noticed is when you kill somebody the game appears to take a couple seconds to display you've killed them. I don't think it's lag but the game itself. I noticed it in some of the videos that were posted here as well.

Also, I find it funny how some people are already canceling their pre-order because of this beta. Sure it may not be what they were expecting which is understandable, but we are still a month away from release. At least wait until you see what the demo is like.
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^Pretty sure the kill doesnt count, just like BF2, until their 5s timer goes out where they cannot be revived.
 
cnick79 said:
Another thing I noticed is when you kill somebody the game appears to take a couple seconds to display you've killed them. I don't think it's lag but the game itself. I noticed it in some of the videos that were posted here as well.

Also, I find it funny how some people are already canceling their pre-order because of this beta. Sure it may not be what they were expecting which is understandable, but we are still a month away from release. At least wait until you see what the demo is like.
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Game is fun as hell. I'm seriously fucking hooked. I only need one more unlock which is the 12x scope and I have everything you can get in the beta.

C4 on boxes is pretty powerful but they are supposed to be upping the amount of C4 it takes to kill a box from 5 to 10. I took out both the first A and B in a single life, B with a jihad quad and A just running in and C4ing it after resupplying (Assault with pump shotty), but I think that was just a bad team. I'm really starting to love the pump shotty though. Some dude planted 6 C4 on the M-Com and he was hiding in the corner ready to hit the switch and I one shotted him... must have sucked for him.

Also do not plant all your mines directly around the M-Com. If one blows up it will kill the ATV but it will trigger a chain reaction which will blow all of the mines up and destroy the M-Com... I may have done that.
 
SixtyWattMan said:
Game is fun as hell. I'm seriously fucking hooked. I only need one more unlock which is the 12x scope and I have everything you can get in the beta.

C4 on boxes is pretty powerful but they are supposed to be upping the amount of C4 it takes to kill a box from 5 to 10. I took out both the first A and B in a single life, B with a jihad quad and A just running in and C4ing it after resupplying (Assault with pump shotty), but I think that was just a bad team. I'm really starting to love the pump shotty though. Some dude planted 6 C4 on the M-Com and he was hiding in the corner ready to hit the switch and I one shotted him... must have sucked for him.

Also do not plant all your mines directly around the M-Com. If one blows up it will kill the ATV but it will trigger a chain reaction which will blow all of the mines up and destroy the M-Com... I may have done that.
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I'm totally with you. And yes, on the mines, that's exactly what happens. I've had the same result. :D
 
OMG, greatest FPS I've played in years. The last Battlefield game I played was Vietnam lol. I've kind of stayed away from modern FPS games. I thought they weren't my speed at all, but after playing BFBC2, I'm hooked!

The sounds, environment and overall game play is just wicked fun! I've been playing as a medic and it's a amzing how well the squad dynamics work, especially when you have a balanced group.
 
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