With no prone, I will settle for toggle on crouch. Personally I think it is silly not offering prone as it is an integral part of sniping. It's a bit like putting a tank in where the turret doesn't swivel or a helicopter that can't fly. What'll be next? Not being able to reload whilst running? Not being able to sprint and strafe? Oh wait, that one you can't do.
BC2 BETA... Your thoughts and SCREENSHOTS of it
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You can't really compare sprinting and strafing in real life to in a game. In a game, your direction is dictated by the way you're looking, so you can't run forwards while looking sideways. I think of sprint-strafing as being a way of running forwards while looking sideways, which you can do in real life.
Soldiers wear helmets for a reason you know 
Whilst my last response was designed to be somewhat flippant, I must confess I find your belief that sprinting and strafing is not a "real-life" ability. What do you think an American footballer does looking over his shoulder whilst running across the pitch to catch a ball for a touch down is doing? Or a soldier for that matter in Afghanistan sprinting across a street whilst keeping his focus on the source of gunfire, seems a perfect example to me.
that is not a strafe
because the footballer just turns his shoulder a bit and his head but the hole body is not moving sideways therefore no strafe
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I've just lost all my ranks and unlocks.... has this happened to anyone else?
I disagree, often the footballer is top half turned to one side whilst sprinting in the other. Don't forget most fps implement strafing in a totally unrealistic fashion whereby headmovement of the mouse also dictates the entire body orientation. Play Arma II and wear a TrackIR headset and you will see that as it is not like most other FPS when it comes to controlling the body.
If you are consistently getting the same message, I would say it is total bs, someone else out there is using your key. I have never once had that message.
ok the footballers top half is turned. do we have any options to only move the upper body in BC2? No so why should we be able to sprint and strafe at the same time then? As long as we can't control upper body movement in a game it should be impossible to sprint and strafe or for people who actually want it really bad make it sprint forward 50% faster than walk and sprint+strafe 25% faster happy now?
i dunno about arma2 never played it so i can't comment on this
theres a few people here that have gotten it, its in the registration process, ridiculous. Doesnt sound at all right, I assume its contacting the server successfully since I can get invalid keys too.
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Why are so many people complaining about not being able to strafe while sprinting? Did these same people moan about BF2?
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I did last night just restarted and all was ok again
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Games to to print(known as going "gold") about 2 weeks before the release date. SO in theory all patches from the first two weeks of beta will be in the final build. They can always repeat what happens to all EA games and have a day 1 patch.
Actually the discussion for me was the inconsistency in the provision and omission of features in the game. I can live without both run/strafing and going prone but I think it is sad that they omit things because people whine. Maybe they will put the snipers in bright orange jump suits next because the whiners don't like not being able to pick them out in the trees.
Yes I had big problems with it last night and then it just fixed itself, after a game ended and the server restarted from memory.