Re: Game infos before release - Jan 30 2010, 17:05

Zippy, i am really sorry this game still isn't working for you. It was fun to have you around though!

I am loving it! the sound and the graphics are a 10. If you are in good squad it makes fun as hell + you get loads of points for i dono what... But in a couple of things zippy hit nail. The serverbrowser is either not working for the beta or it's just a big load of horse shit. You can't search for friends nor for server names and further you are not able to join through an ip. WTF? Why do they have to reinvent the server browser? they got one working for BF2, an  improved one for 2142 and made a good thingy with the "join your friend" system for Heroes. AND you will find nothing of that in BC2. MORONS !!!!!!!
Then it comes to the classes... why is it so fucking hard to put in a limitation for snipers??? maximum 16 players on each side and you are surrounded by snipers. At least they are not able to camp away cause you can tear down everything but they are still a pain in the butt. Sometimes it seems that their pistol have more power then your freaking assault rifle. The engineer sucks at the begining because his secondary weapons is a bit weak compared to those of the other classes.
Beside that seems like i am one of those lucky bastards without problems. Sure i had 2 CTD in about 5 hours today but that's fair i guess. The lags dissapeard on the servers i ve been playing on and the game runs just smooth.

I can't wait for the official release and to play the other maps.


Edit: the specs trotter posted there are almost those i have and it looks great!!

When reading the EA site you dont have to buy to try, just apply for a beta key and download the beta files.

As far as machines go my pc is more than likely down the scale now but still must match the "masses". For the game I have tried all settings from everything off to everything on, makes no difference, the problems are lag, epic lag, and nothing but the lag. I have found some servers in usa that run a bit better but still I find I am getting knifed or pistol killed by guys that I have shot whole clips in from point blank range. I bet over 50% of my deaths are by knife and pistol the rest by sniper fire. Maybe these are players pressing the famous "play now"
button and living in Siberia or Alice Springs. I dont know, the game has potential to be a lot of fun, a pretty good squad based game. What the game needs is,
1 Better server browser,
2 Get rid of friggin sniper class
3 remove grenade launcher from assualt rifles
4 pistols do too much damage, more than assualt rifles

  Now my pc is a AMD 5200 with GT8800 512 ram O/C the window 7 rating gives me 5.5 out of 7.9. So not great but not crap either.

What marti says about snipers is true. Yesterday I was running down the death alley into town and I counted 7 snipers on the rocks alone LOL
While looking and laughing I died of a sniper round 

So do I like the game? well in some strange way I do  the finished product has to be better I would imagine.
So today with the game running abit smoother, I would give it 6/10

Change my mind, game is crap and I would not give higher than 3/10

From the BFBC2 Twitter feed:

BFBC2 Lead Designer RT @locust9: Fyi we will not add prone based on anything. You can stop asking now, but share your feedback with me.

Yeah yeah, the wanker is back and totally taken over this thread 

Well I never knew there was HC mode being on a few servers, well let me tell you what a diff it makes to this game. Well you still got you 50% snipers but the guns work.... I jumped up and down, wet myself shouting "wooop...I shot some one whoooo!!" Different strategy is needed in this mode(no mini map) as you now get killed by spry and pray and splash damage from nades and tank shells. You cant hide in houses for sure now, that tank becomes king. I get killed way more in this HC due to playing the old way, cover is needed and you really have to check where you are going. This mode without sniper wankers would be awesome.
I have to delay my return of game while I play this HC more.

Todays rating, (now tommorow this could change depending on my wrath of game mood). Drum rollllll......7.9/10   

Ok now to help with the toggle crouch, you know not all of us can have fancy fang thingys 
Change your BFBC2 crouch to "z",
Using glovepie,


enter the following script. then you can stay crouched and aim.



    // hold z when lctrl is toggled
var.z = z
if (!var.last_crouch) and (lctrl) {
var.z = !var.z
}
var.last_crouch = lctrl
if (lshift) {
var.z = False
}
z = var.z

// toggle x when right mouse is held
if (x) {
x = False
}
if (Mouse.RightButton || var.count > 5) {
if (!lshift) and (var.last_right != Mouse.RightButton) {
x = True
}
}
var.last_right = Mouse.RightButton

if (Mouse.RightButton) {
var.count++
} else {
var.count = 0
}