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

bloodline76 said:
That sucks then. Because they could revive you, then you die, then you get revived and die again.
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That is exactly what happens when playing with randoms who are either just plain stupid or doing it for the Medic Ops pin/insignias.

It's like ground hog day or Job 14:2 when an enemy player is at a mounted gun. Still at least the tickets aren't wasted :(

EDIT: Revives save a ticket, only the medic ticket is wasted, but it's inevitable with players like that ;).
 
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finite said:
That is exactly what happens when playing with randoms who are either just plain stupid or doing it for the Medic Ops pin/insignias.

It's like ground hog day or Job 14:2 when an enemy player is at a mounted gun. Still at least the tickets aren't wasted :(
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Yeah but the tickets are wasted because you usually both end up dead when they just revive without looking.
 
Picked this up yesterday for £25 after hearing good things, and getting annoyed with Call of Duty: Unreal Tournament 2 jumping deathmatch quick-scoping games.

Seems pretty good so far. Ive only been palying hardcore, the game feels much more involving than MW2. Larger scope, more emphasis on figthing a whole battle rather than just a skirmish, Also feels a lot more gritty and immersive, what with the screen bob and fantastic sound effect engine.

My only gripe is that it doesn't seem to run all that smoothly, which is something I'd never thought I'd have to complain about with a console game. Whereas MW2 runs like silk, in some maps on BC2 I can tell the FPS is dropping a little. But, I can forgive that as it's a much larger game in scale.
 
agnes said:
Don't think it's 30, play fable 3, thats at 30, huge difference.
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Here's a quick snippet from Eurogamer's Face Off - http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-faceoff-battlefield-bad-company-2

Results reveal that in the heat of gameplay, there is very little to tell the two version of Bad Company 2 apart. Both are capped at 30FPS and both will drop v-sync before losing frames, the idea being to maintain controller response and keep overall frame-rate as high as possible. In the clips above, lowest frame-rate was 25FPS on PS3, and 26FPS on 360: the difference essentially unnoticeable when averages are at 29.4FPS and 29.8FPS respectively.
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Ive just been palying this for a few hours, and while its very good, theres one thing which ruins it.

Snipers.

Seriously, what? I dont think Ive yet played a game where at least 50% of the players wern't snipers. I dont mind when you have perhaps one, maybe even two. But when the majority of the players are sitting 5 miles away in a ghillie suit racking up kills through the scope, its just boring. I play games like this so I can get invovled in a decent firefight and enjoy a battle, but instead I spend most of my time getting shot from some ******** with a scoped rifle.

I joined a server early...spawned...1.5 seconds later, shot in the back by a sniper. Respawned at a different location entirely, survived about 5 seconds before...getting shot by a sniper. The third time, I followed a teammate into a building only to get shot by a pistol...being held by a sniper hiding behind a door. Nearly every player I came across wore a ghillie suit.

What the hell is peoples' obsession with being a sniper? It's not as if these players are even good. Yeah, they might be able to shoot. But they never seem to attack objectives and quite often are sniping from the same predictable spots, oblivious to their surroundings. At least it makes them easy to knife.

I seriously wish games like this would make more effort to curb the amount of snipers. It's not as though I even dislike camping; I'll happily hunker down for a few minutes to defend a bottleneck while the point is being captured, or lie in wait for a few minutes anticipating some enemy movement. For more tactical, slwoer games like this, its simple common sense. But something about getting shot for the umpteenth time by some knobber sitting on the grassy knoll thinking hes a l337 sn1p0rz whilst he racks up the kills really makes me seethe.

Seriosuly, snipers; go away.

Rant over.
 
I discovered to my horror, the snipers are even more prevalent on hardcore mode. And you have no idea where they are without the killcam. Even though I sang the praises of hardcore mode just a day or two ago, I can't do with being shot by invisible assassins.
 
I find that as long as you always keep moving, and if you have to cross an area that's likely to be covered by enemy sniper, I always make sure to jump and weave about a bit, as it makes it really hard to predict how you are running to shoot you.

Personally, I feel Snipers are much more useful and necessary than on other FPS, like COD. I never usually bother playing sniper classes, but don't mind every now and again in this game.

I'll agree though that the biggest problem is when you are on an attacking team and half of which decides to be Snipers, shooting all the way back from the starting base. It just doesn't win you games.
 
ic1male said:
I discovered to my horror, the snipers are even more prevalent on hardcore mode. And you have no idea where they are without the killcam. Even though I sang the praises of hardcore mode just a day or two ago, I can't do with being shot by invisible assassins.
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Yes snipers can be annoying but if you use the terrain then you can avoid them. I use mainly assault for hardcore but do sometimes find myself the only one attacking.

If there are too many snipers then just grab a vehicles and go straight for the bomb site.

I have found my k/d ratio going down seriously since i have been playing Hardcore. I did have a k/d of 1.10 but now its down to 1.01 :(
 
When I am a sniper, I have 2 roles, 1) spotting, helps 100% of the time on attack and 2) mortar strike, this is devastating when placed in the right spot. The sniping part is just the fun between the above 2.

My fave class atm is between medic and assault. Love playing sniper but not that great if you don't have a few mates playing with.

ags
 
agnes said:
When I am a sniper, I have 2 roles, 1) spotting, helps 100% of the time on attack and 2) mortar strike, this is devastating when placed in the right spot. The sniping part is just the fun between the above 2.

My fave class atm is between medic and assault. Love playing sniper but not that great if you don't have a few mates playing with.

ags
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There is no spotting in hardcore mode though. Sniper is really good if you dont have any friends on. Its a very selfish role but you can get a good few kills with it.
 
Have to admit I vary it up quite a bit as have been playing with 3-4 other real life mates so everyone switches roles.

Few favourites are Engineer - UMP/RPG w/Red Dot simple but simplicity is key in some instances :D

Also Recon - GOL/Mortar w/4x Scope have managed so many lucky escapes with this combo its unbelievable, can't imagine some players were happy when they thought they had me and I manage a lucky close range headshot lol

Been playing hardcore a lot recently as well, I actually kind of like the no red triangles now, I used to spot first shoot second which got me killed a lot of the time but helped team mates etc and the amount of kills I got shooting at red behind a tree line was a bit ridiculous. Although in hardcore sometimes a few players can be very annoying camping way back with a sniper the general shooting is much better at keeping you aware, cautious etc

Only really bad thing is teamkilling, they need to include some kind of vote system. In a game the other day I had a 2 guys shooting me and a medic reviving me constantly, they alternated who killed me so it didn't look to suspicious. Ended up having to leave as really nothing I could do about it as don't wanna lose 1000 points shooting them.
 
Gonna sell this. Has just become to frustrating playing it. If you get stuck on a team of morons you're screwed. Nothing else to unlock as well after like level 12.

Just bought the 2 map packs for mw2 and prestiged so that's keeping me much more entertained than this. 3months of fun though.
 
This is most peculiar. A month ago I created a new Xbox 360 gamertag on my console for one month's free gold access. I registered my VIP code for BFBC2 under this tag. It's now expired so I went back to my old tag with no VIP code.

However, when I fired the game up it's still given me access to the VIP map packs! Is the VIP code supposed to be per gamertag or per console?
 
I think it's just the way the DRM works as long as that GT with VIP is on the same machine you can use it.

I'm seriously struggling with unintentional crouching during firing, because MW2 lets you get away with being heavy handed pinching the controller as long as you hit the trigger first. It's a nightmare with the height of most of the windows in BC2 and the seemingly weaker bullet penetration.
 
Just got back from another evening of playing this game and found another old enemy that had reared its head: spawn killing.

Joined a game playing the big desert map. Within minutes, two guys from the same clan had jumped into two helicopters, pushed us back to our spawn, then proceeded to strafe sideways in circles around our deployment zone raking us with gunfire constantly. This went on for about ten minutes, following a pattern of spawning, firing rockets at them in vain, then getting blown to pieces. I managed to jump into an APC and give one a burst with the HMG before he blew me up. This is how the rest of the game went. We lost soon after.

Dickheads, both of them. I get even more enraged playing this on Xbox because I cant tell them what utter ****s they are; not that they'd care. They're the usual sort of ******** clan members, playing on public servers doing nothing but increasing their kill score, no matter how mundane and trudging their quest to do so. Seriously, get out of the overpowered choppers, come down to ground level and actually play the game.

And Ive just left a game on the Nelson Pass map, the one where you spawn parachuting down? Guess what happened; got pushed back, and the enemy camped in the trees picking us off as we fell. Brilliant. There was nothing I could do, returning fire from a parachute is nigh on immpossible, and I was dead before I hit the ground. Rage quit after about the 9th time it happened.

Oh, and there's still too many snipers. Dickheads, the lot of them. Seriously, why are there still so many complete ****wits playing this game?
 
I was in a game yesterday, the new snow map... About 70% of our team were snipers and the rest just gave up and started messing around. I got bored and kept storming in as med, layed down a couple of bombs on the mcoms, dies a lot but tbh, i dont care about score. Within about 5 mins of me doing the above, the rest of the team realised that it was possible to win so started pushing with me. Low and behold, we won, and the next map, and the next. We dominated.

I think people are just bored now as there is nothing to achieve after rank 24...

ags
 
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