Battlefield BC2 looking dam sweet

Psypher5 · 23 Jan 2010 at 01:57

Dist said:
If you want it on steam can you not simply buy it from Play for £8 cheaper and then enter the CD key into steam for it to register on steam as an available game and then throw away the DVD?

Nope. Only a few special games can do that.

Dist · 23 Jan 2010 at 01:59

Psypher5 said:
Nope. Only a few special games can do that.

Ah OK. I thought perhaps that any game available to buy on steam would be available to accept a valid CD key and add that game to your account. I think I will end up buying it on steam then, for the added simplicity of not only patching and no DVD like has already been mentioned, but also I can download as soon as its available and that will be faster than installing off a DVD.

Psypher5 · 23 Jan 2010 at 02:00

Dist said:
Ah OK. I thought perhaps that any game available to buy on steam would be available to accept a valid CD key and add that game to your account. I think I will end up buying it on steam then, for the added simplicity of not only patching and no DVD like has already been mentioned, but also I can download as soon as its available and that will be faster than installing off a DVD.

haha that too, I have 50meg so may aswell pay to use it

thevet · 23 Jan 2010 at 02:02

cancelled play.com and re-ordered with steam,also been accepted here to test new and upcoming Beta games including Bc2
https://www.combattesting.com/

Shakeel · 23 Jan 2010 at 02:13

looks really good

Aedus · 23 Jan 2010 at 02:22

Cancelled Play.com, will order from Steam tomorrow

£10 but LE AND beta, win/win

silversurfer · 23 Jan 2010 at 02:26

http://cyri.systemrequirementslab.com/srtest/download.aspx

Gerard · 23 Jan 2010 at 02:37

How exactly is jan 28th "early" beta access when thats always been its start date with play.com getting it on the 26th :confused:

I woulda ordered from steam but the lack of preload (happens with most non valve games) means on release day its usually a mad scramble to get it dloaded, often at low speeds

4p · 23 Jan 2010 at 02:41

Sheet

Just realised this game doesnt support Windows XP.

Aedus · 23 Jan 2010 at 02:44

Gerard said:
How exactly is jan 28th "early" beta access when thats always been its start date with play.com getting it on the 26th

I woulda ordered from steam but the lack of preload (happens with most non valve games) means on release day its usually a mad scramble to get it dloaded, often at low speeds

But steam is releasing it on the 02/03/10 so they say, where as play.com claim it to be 05/03/10.

Aedus · 23 Jan 2010 at 02:44

Thorpy said:
Sheet

Just realised this game doesnt support Windows XP.

Minimum:

OS: Windows XP
Processor: Core 2 Duo @ 2.0GHz
Memory: 2GB
Graphics: 256 MB Video Card (GeForce 7800 GT / ATI X1900)
DirectX®: DirectX 9, 10, and 11 support
Hard Drive: 15 GB

Gerard · 23 Jan 2010 at 02:48

Aedus said:
But steam is releasing it on the 02/03/10 so they say, where as play.com claim it to be 05/03/10.

Yeah but the 2nd is the american relese date, uk is the 5th. Steam usually sticks to the release schedules so it will be unlocked here on the 5th.

beechgrove · 23 Jan 2010 at 02:50

Gerard said:
How exactly is jan 28th "early" beta access when thats always been its start date with play.com getting it on the 26th

I woulda ordered from steam but the lack of preload (happens with most non valve games) means on release day its usually a mad scramble to get it dloaded, often at low speeds

According to play they don't start the beta till the 28th like everybody else, they just send out the beta keys from the 26th.

Pre-Order from Play.com and receive a code to access the PC BETA before anyone else! The BETA is due to start on the 28th January 2010 (subject to change). Codes and instructions on how to access the BETA early will be emailed two days prior (currently 26th January) to the start of the BETA. Please note, pre-orders already taken will automatically receive a code.

Aedus · 23 Jan 2010 at 02:52

Gerard said:
Yeah but the 2nd is the american relese date, uk is the 5th. Steam usually sticks to the release schedules so it will be unlocked here on the 5th.

Yeah but what I'm saying is, if you order it off steam I doubt they will stop you downloading the game files on the 2nd even if they wont unlock your key until the 5th, which means you have 3 days in which to download the game before you can play it anyway.

Gerard · 23 Jan 2010 at 02:53

Aedus said:
Yeah but what I'm saying is, if you order it off steam I doubt they will stop you downloading the game files on the 2nd even if they wont unlock your key until the 5th, which means you have 3 days in which to download the game before you can play it anyway.

Doubt it, i remember dloading crysis warhead off steam, we only got access to the files on release day, no preload of any kind.

Gerard · 23 Jan 2010 at 02:54

beechgrove said:
According to play they don't start the beta till the 28th like everybody else, they just send out the beta keys from the 26th.

Then theres this line:

Codes and instructions on how to access the BETA early

That says access the beta early, not get a key early like in the other line.

Aedus · 23 Jan 2010 at 02:58

Gerard said:
Doubt it, i remember dloading crysis warhead off steam, we only got access to the files on release day, no preload of any kind.

Oh, that is pretty lame indeed.

Would steam not let you just over-patch the BETA for the release? It's the same basic files so surely they wouldn't expect you to download the whole client again?

Psypher5 · 23 Jan 2010 at 02:59

Aedus, if ea do it right itll require more than an overpatch if its a proper beta.

also thinking, you may get the code earlier from play, but the client will be downloaded from the beta page on official website. Which probably wont be early or unlocked early?

Gerard · 23 Jan 2010 at 02:59

Aedus said:
Oh, that is pretty lame indeed.

Would steam not let you just over-patch the BETA for the release? It's the same basic files so surely they wouldn't expect you to download the whole client again?

The beta for the ps3 was 900 odd meg, id expect the pc version to be similar in size, retail version will be much larger.

thevet · 23 Jan 2010 at 03:01

Steam normally let you download the game long before its released,well in my experience they have with l4d1,l4d2,borderlands etc
But the game will unlock at midnight on the release date,at least if play.com **** up the orders(arriving 1 or 2 days late) at least i know ill be able to play the minute its unlocked on steam