Battlefield Bad Company

XPE · 18 May 2008 at 17:34

Marcos said:
i hate it when they take cheap way out

Red Faction has better damage than that and its what, 7 years old now?

Yep its 7 years old now, I’ve always been surprised that no other dev have tried to use this tech.

silversurfer · 18 May 2008 at 17:37

Was red faction multiplayer like that. If the damage was random, think of the amount of network traffic communicating where every single item of debris landed.
It will allready strain the server just with what they have implemented which does sound similar to the bf2 engine, we have something similar in the pr mod and its capped to 256 destructible objects

XPE · 18 May 2008 at 17:42

silversurfer said:
Was red faction multiplayer like that. If the damage was random, think of the amount of network traffic communicating where every single item of debris landed.
It will allready strain the server just with what they have implemented which does sound similar to the bf2 engine, we have something similar in the pr mod and its capped to 256 destructible objects

It varied, some games you could blast a tunnel under the ground into the other base, other time after a certain amount of holes were made before it stopped.

ScarySquirrel · 30 May 2008 at 15:22

Demo comes out 5th of June I read today.

I will try it as it's free, but I found the beta pretty boring.

Kmodo · 30 May 2008 at 16:01

I wanted to like the beta but I agree with the other posters... it was pretty meh

however the imba sniper rifle was fun

da_mic_1530 · 30 May 2008 at 16:13

going to agree with everyone else, it was just pants

Nymins · 30 May 2008 at 16:22

Its annoying cause it had the potential to be good. Once you get past the destructible environments its a pretty bland game. And the destruction is hardly dynamic either, all the buildings have set bits that blow up.

silversurfer · 31 May 2008 at 00:14

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n--Jkd-UJnQ

Nymins said:
Its annoying cause it had the potential to be good. Once you get past the destructible environments its a pretty bland game. And the destruction is hardly dynamic either, all the buildings have set bits that blow up.

You can get destructible buildings in bf2 right now and it operates in basically the same way as this game it sounds like. It works best when its a wall they are hiding behind and you just blow the wall up till they have nothing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F071_rSNjI&fmt=18

norm · 31 May 2008 at 09:36

I had high hopes for BF:BC having extensively played BF2:MC on the 360 previously. But the truth is DICE have transformed the game to be more like COD4 and now it's lost some of the sandbox feel.

As for the destruction, it's one of the major selling points for DICE, but ultimately it's just a gimmick and you soon forget about it.

XPE · 31 May 2008 at 09:43

Dam, after reading all that this game is not looking good

I loved BF2 as well.

Jabbs · 31 May 2008 at 13:52

I would take no notice of this thread m8, play the demo and judge it by that people are complaining about a beta of it, you can't judge till you play the final game.

Kreeeee · 31 May 2008 at 14:13

The beta was near final code.

Jabbs · 31 May 2008 at 14:46

Kreeeee said:
The beta was near final code.

The vids i seen it looks rather good abit like bf2 just you can blow buildings etc up.