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

Which type of game play would you prefer

  • Normal Rush Mode

    Votes: 481 33.4%

  • Hardcore Rush Mode

    Votes: 222 15.4%

  • Normal Conquest

    Votes: 507 35.2%

  • Hardcore Conquest

    Votes: 229 15.9%
  • Total voters
    1,439
~>Dg<~ said:
Adrianr you pre knife :p

depends on server latency sometimes you can knife 3 or 4 secs away :D
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Sounds like it! As I say this is clearly what I'm doing wrong. I'm knifing when I'm actually in realistic striking distance of knifing, not pre-empting it by a few seconds thinking I'l slash at thin air. Will get practising, it's something hugely lacking from my game. Always used to knife the **** out of people on COD, but then it was a much more instant procedure compared to BC2.
 
Adrianr said:
Sounds like it! As I say this is clearly what I'm doing wrong. I'm knifing when I'm actually in realistic striking distance of knifing, not pre-empting it by a few seconds thinking I'l slash at thin air. Will get practising, it's something hugely lacking from my game. Always used to knife the **** out of people on COD, but then it was a much more instant procedure compared to BC2.
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Sounds about right, my experience too... it's total bs
 
~>Dg<~ said:
Adrianr you pre knife :p

depends on server latency sometimes you can knife 3 or 4 secs away :D
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What helps to get low latency? Does graphics settings on high matter even if you have 60-80 fps at all times ?

I should get my new headphones today so I hope I can hear you before you get my tags :D

Also loving the M249 LMG :D seems easy to control/aim and a 200 round clip helps :)
 
Adrianr said:
I think that video highlights where I'm going wrong with the knife. Half the time on there you're not even stabbing into anything, and you're starting the process from much further away. I just find the delay is far too much. I hit my mouse button and it feels like it doesn't actually start moving for aaages. More than once I've been caught out trying to stab someone only for me to lunge past them and them shoot me in the face.
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It is quite remarkeable how far away the stabber can be from the victim. If you get it right you will warp towards the victim at 2x or more speed and lunge kill them. I had around 400 Knife kills, mostly through luck, and then went on a knife/defib enforced server and practised for a couple of hundred knife kills and went from there.

A lot of the time once the stabis initiated the lunge takes over and turns you automatically so sometimes it looks like I missed but in fact the stab was more or less spot on.

The video records from the moment I press stab, or at least more or less so it might be missing a few milliseconds of footage from where I may have been more pointed towards a victim.

Not all stab kills work out though. There are a couple in the video and a lot more which were discarded.

There were no Setter stabs in that video sadly. I am glad you like the song though. I discovered Floyd after they did that one off show for charity a number of years back, was a tad too young I guess when they initially brought this stuff out.
 
Adrianr said:
I think that video highlights where I'm going wrong with the knife. Half the time on there you're not even stabbing into anything, and you're starting the process from much further away.
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It's a bit daft really isn't it, I often find most of my knife kills come from my just randomly swiping into the air but the game registers it as a hit! Somehow!
 
Good idea CK. Here's quick how to.

Grab the AutoHotKey application, install or whatever http://www.autohotkey.com/download/

You will need to launch AHK and then right click on it's taskbar icon and choose
'Edit this script'

There'll be a lot of text in there. All you need is the following text in there.

Mbutton::
Send {F9}

Sleep, 3000

Send {F9}

Anything with a ; in front of it is treated as a comment and ignored

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What this does is listen for the Middle Mouse button and then performs the following actions, Sends a keystroke F9, waits 3 seconds and sends another F9. Simples.

Now for MSI Afterburner

To record video and sound you'll need the Beta.
http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/images/MSIAfterburnerSetup220Beta.zip

Install and run the program.

Go to Settings.

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There's a Video Capture tab, go to that.

In the videos I've made so far I had the Quality at 80% and the frame size at 1/2 frame and noticed no lag or delay so have changed it to the settings shown but as of yet have not tested. I found the videos a little low def recorded at only 840x525 and you couldn't quite make out the name of the victim so hopefully the full frame recording won't be too demanding or too much larger in file size.

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30FPS is just fine I think.

Then when you run both AHK and MSIAB while playing BC2 you'll get a recording for every time you press Middle button. You'll get a recording for every stab but also every fail stab and door breaking stab too.

You may also need to edit MSIAB to not crash your system with Punkbuster and it's retarded detection systems. To do this you'll need to rename the RTCore.cfg to something like RTCore.cfg1, you'll find this file in the MSI Afterburner root folder.

To create a montage I just remove all unwanted videos I've recorded and chuck them all in sequence and encode with Windows Movie Maker.
 
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scamartist said:
I'm glad the names were blurry Teal.

I'm pretty sure there would be a shedload of scam tags.

Although mine are about as valuable as bling made from Kitkat wrappers.
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At least 3 of mine the other night....although Neil UAV blasting me was the worst! I need some serious revenge for that.
 
Im still unable to find any servers in the server browser.

Samething yesterday.

The little circle keeps going round untill it finally tells "Failed to connect to EA online, try again later".

Was playing no problem on Wed, and nothing has changed since.

Edit*

Im able to log in as my tag, but pressing the search for server button, brings no results just the "Failed to connect to EA online, try again later" message.

No firewall blocking it, search criteria is all.

I can only conclud its an EA issue. It was working on Wednesday... :(

Considering this has been working 100% fine since I had my BT Infinity installed 3 weeks ago, do I now need to start port forwarding?
 
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Just went on a randon empty server and i got this error.

(This pb server requires a1382 c2.237 error loading pbcl)

I take it is nothing for me to worry about and it's just the server that needs the update?

(edit)

Just updated PB so it was my problem :D
 
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