Poll: ****Official Battlefield Bad Company 2 Thread*****

[ScarySquirrel]

I haven't used the VSS yet unlocked it last night i have trouble seeing where my bullet went so maybe i need to start using that one instead.

When you fire a sniper rifle, hold left mouse instead of clicking, this keeps the scope up so you can see where your bullet goes.

 

[iMacMart]

Should have my i5 750 rig built next week, can't wait reading all this info and watching the game on youtube is killing me

 

[Mart2912]

As for ammo requests, just walk up to them, shoot them in the helmet so it makes a nice loud "ping" noise, then press Q. Seems very effective in my "tests". Not reccommended on FF servers.

Hmm interesting. Will give that a try.

 

[Swi1ch]

If I'm assaulting with it, I just spray and pray unscoped, I seem to be rather good at guessing the aimpoint. Have you noticed it doesnt appear to suffer much, if any bullet drop, at long ranges?

There are 3 bullet types, normal, sniper and heavy.

Sniper is all the bolt actions except M95. Suffer mavity.
Heavy is M95 and mounter weapons, suffer less mavity.
Normal is everything else, pretty much unaffected by mavity.

The VSS/Other semi snipers use normal, so there's pretty much no drop, but their damage output is much lower (39 at close, 25 at long for T88 and SVU, 25 at close, 20 at long for VSS) and only get a multiplier of 2.1x for headshots as opposed to the 3.25 for bolts.

 

[Marine Iguana]

When you fire a sniper rifle, hold left mouse instead of clicking, this keeps the scope up so you can see where your bullet goes.

Ooh thanks for the tip

 

[Tefal]

The VSS/Other semi snipers use normal, so there's pretty much no drop, but their damage output is much lower (39 at close, 25 at long for T88 and SVU, 25 at close, 20 at long for VSS) and only get a multiplier of 2.1x for headshots as opposed to the 3.25 for bolts.

Silly considering the VSS does a hell of a lot of dmg but drops very fast in reality

 

[Parky]

Jesus this is taking the biscuit, having to update to the latest version to find some servers, but the updater has been running for about an hour now and its only approx 75% done

 

[LOAM]

I ahve just had 20 mins of server connection issues , WTF its Thursday afternoon at 16:25

EA Plasma backend collapsed, taking lots of servers with it.

Edit: that also doesn't sound very good either, not as bad as "sex in your hand" though

 

[gizmoy2k]

Bad Company 2 - Plasma Issues
Mar 25 2010 17:30:03 by Dentist
Bad Company 2's backend systems (Plasma) have just failed causing servers to all fail.
Once EA have fixed the problem, servers should be able to be restarted.

 

[LOAM]

Dentist

Tell young Dentist {SAS}Stalker says its not all of them He'll like that, say hello as well

 

[Le_Petit_Lapin]

When you fire a sniper rifle, hold left mouse instead of clicking, this keeps the scope up so you can see where your bullet goes.

Didn't know that, cheers. Might have to have another blast with the M95/M24 later, seeing the drop would definately help, a lot.

 

[A[L]C]

Are there three other people who would like to buy this from steam with me? Its £80 for a squad pack, so £20 each.

 

[Le_Petit_Lapin]

I think I might need to upgrade my PC, currently on a C2Duo (2.4ghz), 4850, 8GB ram and at times the game will just stutter and lag for about 10 seconds before coming back to a reasonable speed, seems to be when theres a fair bit of explosions and smoke on screen.

 

[A[L]C]

Actually better check my pc will run it ok

Ive got Q6600 @ stock
4gb ram
768 mb 8800 GTX
Windows 7 64 bit enterprise

If not im gonna have to buy a 360

 

[FrenchTart]

I think I might need to upgrade my PC, currently on a C2Duo (2.4ghz), 4850, 8GB ram and at times the game will just stutter and lag for about 10 seconds before coming back to a reasonable speed, seems to be when theres a fair bit of explosions and smoke on screen.

Probably your CPU more than anything else. Can you overclock it at all?

 

[FrenchTart]

Actually better check my pc will run it ok

Ive got Q6600 @ stock
4gb ram
768 mb 8800 GTX
Windows 7 64 bit enterprise

If not im gonna have to buy a 360

Should be fine as it's a quad core. You may want to oc it a little though - you'll prob get better performance with it.

 

[FrenchTart]

Sorry if anyone got kicked from OcUK server just now. Had to restart it :/

 

[Gecco]

"connection to the game server has been lost" every 3rd game.

no firewall, all other online games play fine


this is ****

 

[A[L]C]

Should be fine as it's a quad core. You may want to oc it a little though - you'll prob get better performance with it.

Its a dell

 

[FrenchTart]

Its a dell

Ah :/

Well, from what I've heard quad cores tend to do well enough at the game at stock anyhow. It's dual cores where you really need above 3ghz to be able to avoid slow downs.