Battlefield: Bad Company dev lists 'issues' to be fixed

by Christopher Grant { Jul 2nd 2008 at 12:58PM }

So, despite internet kvetching about Battlefield: Bad Company's DLC strategy, turns out it's a pretty good shooter with a fair amount of – you're not going to believe this – innovation. And it doesn't stop there. Developer DICE is still working on the game, putting the finishing touches on the "Conquest game mode" along with the Conquest-flavored conversions of the maps. But when they're done with that, they're looking to address some of the more persistent complaints about the game, including:

Clan support/private rooms/team chat
Auto balancing on servers
Continued support against stats exploits
VoIP issue on PS3 (working with Sony on this)
Squads might be split up when joining a server as a squad. This is due to team balancing in the games that are being joined, and usually resolves itself in round 2.

No promises, of course, but if you had an email drafted to jerks at DICE dot se bemoaning the lack of clan support, your finger hovering dangerously close to the send button, you can probably file it away for later.

[Via X3F]

Tags: Battlefield-Bad-Company, BFBC, DICE, EA

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

MC Double Def DP @ Jul 2nd 2008 1:09PM

how much are each of these gonna cost me?

tlarkin79 @ Jul 2nd 2008 2:15PM

It won't cost you a thing, if you bought the Gold Edition. Or, you could go to the website, sign up for 3 newsletters, register a couple games, and record yourself saying EA rules and posting it online and they'll send you a code to unlock the content.

WRE (PSN: WorstReviewEver; Gamertag: HaloKissesBoys; Wii Friend Code: 4204-4590-6106-3583) @ Jul 2nd 2008 1:09PM

Should I get this?

SuperCoolSplasdfkjl3!0 @ Jul 2nd 2008 1:15PM

dis g4me wil be super kewl (liek me,, jk) the chars R phunny maybe betta than da FF series on a diffrnt lvl. n e way,, i urge ppl to buy this g4me when it cums out cause it will rock ur c**k (im buyin 3 copys 4 my 3 xboxes)!!

natels @ Jul 2nd 2008 1:17PM

It's out already.. And I bet you're getting sick of trying to think of different "1337" ways of typing those sentences as much as were getting sick of reading them.

Brodie-san @ Jul 2nd 2008 1:36PM

God I hope you're trying to be funny with that post. Because if you honestly type like that you should be made eat that keyboard.

SuperCoolSplasdfkjl3!0 @ Jul 2nd 2008 1:46PM

WAIT!! wait 1 min...

wut game R we talkin about aga1n? :-/

Slayer @ Jul 2nd 2008 2:04PM

While his typing is horrible, nobody said you guys had to read it. You could have simply skipped over it.

Christopher Grant @ Jul 2nd 2008 2:23PM

banned

Donald @ Jul 2nd 2008 3:43PM

Praise the baby Jebus.

xGeneral DEATHx @ Jul 2nd 2008 4:17PM

Many thanks.

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Martez @ Jul 2nd 2008 1:20PM

Maybe they should work out the kinks before adding in MORE stuff?

Game rocks. The issues are irritating. Fix the freaking mic problem- after the hassle of getting everybody together in a squad (fix the invite/lobby system, too), we only get about 10 minutes before someone's mic drops out. Annoying as hell, and I understand most of these problems were brought up in the beta, but not fixed (maybe EA rushed them?). I love the game, but DICE is losing a lot of points with me each day this isn't taken care of.

That said, just jumping into a game is still a blast and very intense, but it's so much better when the voice chat is working properly. I can't believe they didn't fix it before it shipped.

natels @ Jul 2nd 2008 1:29PM

You're probably right with EA rushing it. They most likely wanted it to get some substantial playing time before COD5 comes out.

potato @ Jul 2nd 2008 2:17PM

Did you expect anything else? DICE has *never* shipped a game relatively bug-free in my experience. BF1942 has *huge* lag problems (and graphics performance problems) at release, as did BF2 and BF2142. I like DICE for their innovation and gameplay, but man do they make crappy software.

The only other company that regularly does so badly with the quality of their code is Gearbox. They both suck badly.

Martez @ Jul 2nd 2008 2:22PM

And yet they both make two of my favorite FPS games... I got into BF2 late so I must have missing when there were big problems, since it always played decently for me.

KingOfGods @ Jul 2nd 2008 1:37PM

It's a nice game but is there any way you can communicate with more than 4 people?

Martez @ Jul 2nd 2008 2:19PM

No, the game is set up in that way to try and force squads to stick/work together. With all the mic issues, this doesn't work out too well. Full squad chat was kind of annoying in BF2 anyway, although proximity chat would be great for telling someone who's not in my squad to wait while I repair their tank.

The gameplay is solid, they really need to iron out the bugs though.

Martez @ Jul 2nd 2008 2:20PM

typo- Full TEAM chat in BF2 was annoying. Especially when you got an idiot that just played music the whole time.

License to ill @ Jul 2nd 2008 3:48PM

"Especially when you got an idiot that just played music the whole time.

Yeah what is up with that shit? Guess thats why I host most games so I can kick those tards...

TJordan0331 @ Jul 2nd 2008 2:42PM

Is the patch going to fix the horrid film grain placed on the less then stellar next-gen frostbite engine? Or will it be able to fix the horrible camera placement in the first person? Or how about the script that the special kids over at their local high school wrote?

I've owned every BF since the beginning but this one takes the cake as "Worst In Series".

Charlie_Six @ Jul 2nd 2008 5:55PM

Yeah, I hate the film grain effect, too. Very annoying on the eyes. We need an option to remove that, as well as an option to disable head bobbing.

NESv1 @ Jul 2nd 2008 3:14PM

Hmm. Glad to hear this. I'm still "eyeing" Bad Company. Will I end up getting it? Not sure yet. Still weighing my options.

I liked the demo, but... I'm still on the fence (which is destructable, btw)

zoltek @ Jul 2nd 2008 4:06PM

this game rules, alot of my friends got it and hated it day one, and 2 days later they love it... the squad stuff is good but bad becuase i play with more then 3 other people quite often and its hard getting everyone in the same game.

regardless its a very very good xbl game.