Battlefield: Bad Company 2

[analog dog]

The lack of prone is a total ballache!
For a sniper it's almost a game breaker (I'm not a sniper btw)

[EvilBoris]

I think it cuts down on campers as they are a size silloUette to shoot back at

[MJ]

I hope it's the demo that Dice have been using for press events, the level set in a valley looked beautiful.

That's a single player level and I think the demo is multiplayer only.

Shame that you can't go prone any more or at least I couldn't figure out how.

You couldn't go prone in Bad Company or 1943 either. You soon adapt to it.

[FelixofMars]

Bad Company one didn't have prone, I didnt mind because you could still hide as a sniper. Also gives others a chance to see you. These levels are massive, so scanning the whole area for a sniper in prone is almost impossible.

The lack of prone is a total ballache!
For a sniper it's almost a game breaker (I'm not a sniper btw)

[FelixofMars]

Had a quick game last night and multiplayer seems about what I expected, I mean I did play the PS3 beta already so I knew most of the basic improvements. I am finding the Xbox 360 to have a better controller layout for me personally also it is not as washed out. I have no idea why but the PS3 version looked like someone had put a layer of white wash over the screen.

We had some sneaky sniper in one game camping at the back of the map crouched behind a concrete barrier. Thankfully the deathcam pointed his location and I stabbed him for his trouble. He kept going back to that point so I headshotted him the next time. Why do people bother camping like that? If someone knows your location I mean.

[MJ]

Here's a video a gamer has put together with clips from their games on the demo and there are some great moments in it:

[MJ]

Gold

BC2 has gone gold.

Gentlemen and women, start your engines, we are gold!!!!!

Twitter / David Goldfarb

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Is Gold

[Family Fry]

I am seriously pumped for this and it's out next friday.
Just on last level of Bad Company and I have really enjoyed the single player, nice to hear there are lots more set pieces in Bad Company 2 single player, put you right in the thick of it.
Although having played BC2 and going back to BC multiplayer almost seems frantic, know I would feel different it BC had been my first experience, I'm more used to BC2.

[PeteJ]

Next week?!?! L

[nonny]

Great video but for me this game is a major annoyance. Like BF1943 before it I have never, ever gotten into a match that didnt lag to the point it was absolutely futile to play.

EA/Dice refuse to give the Asia/Oceania region local servers so we get dumped into US matches with disasterous effect. I actually got EA to give me a full refund for the MS point I spent on BF1943 because they actually promise local servers and didnt deliver.

So I had high hopes for this but with the demo, nothing has changed. I hope they bloody listen come launch day because otherwise this is a game I have no choice but to ignore.

[Uli]

so what's the status on co-op?

[Family Fry]

No co-op on release but DICE said they are looking into adding it later via DLC.
Could possibly be in form of co-op specific missions rather than story mode.

[Hype2k]

Is this going to have dedicated servers on the 360 or is it matchmaking lag fest like MW2 ?

[PeteJ]

Dedicated servers.

[Uli]

No co-op on release but DICE said they are looking into adding it later via DLC.
Could possibly be in form of co-op specific missions rather than story mode.

so EA will release a triple a shooter without any co-op mode? can this be called brave or pathetic?

however, "looking into" was what they said after the first game was released. so this is just a further poor excuse for refusing to do homework properly.

i am sure the game will sell well and be worth playing without co-op. but it would be a shame not to have it in, especially as the campaign is pretty much about squad missions.