Master Arica Harbor with these Bad Company 2 beta tips

by Xav de Matos on Nov 29th 2009 9:30PM

If you find yourself coming up short in your quest for victory in the PS3-exclusive multiplayer beta for Bad Company 2, the development team at DICE has a few pointers to help reduce the gap between your win and loss statistics. Bad Company 2 level designer Inge Jøran "Pirelli" Holberg posted a laundry list of tips for attackers and defenders for the beta's Arica Harbor map.

With the map's design in mind, Holberg's tips feature a slew of ideas on how you can destroy specific areas of the map to redirect adversary foot traffic -- right into the sights of your favorite firearm. Our tips? Keep shooting people on the other team and you're bound to win eventually. We're professionals here, folks.

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Tags: bad-company-2, battlefield-bad-company-2, beta, dice, ea, electronic-arts, tips

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Here's a tip...

LEARN TO FREAKING PLAY.

I'm tired playing with a team that doesn't understand the concept of arming and disarming the bomb...

LOL I'm tired of playing with a team that thinks the game is Team Deathmatch and just proceeds to camping/sniping.

That happens in every shooter, specially MW2.

Yeah ok xxxsnip3rxxxdouchebagxxx, you went 42-10 in a Domination round...but we fucking lost cause you wouldn't defend/capture any bases.

As a sniper, call in a mortar strike or 2 on any buildings that house the crates. This should bring down the whole building. Also, a sniper with the extra C-4 perks can easily blow up a crate with 5 C4's.

Sort of flawed IMO, I've done this many times for an easy win. Throw motion sensors, sneak around and plant a bunch of charges - win. There's way too many people sniping in this game though, pisses me off when I spawn behind one of my squadmates only to find they're a mile away from the next enemy base.

Classes need rebalancing, Engineers are gods, Assault is okay, and the medic class is weak as hell. If it wasn't for the fun revive paddles i wouldn't even play the class.

oh and FIX THE DAMN GAMMA!

I was once in a team where we were defending. Literally everyone on my team was a Sniper, and i was an Engineer. You can't understand how badly we were losing, and how frustrated I was with my teammates. I eventually ended up quitting the game since I couldn't take wasting my precious time with idiots.

^ lots of people don't like being the flag runners b/c of the high probability of taking a k/d hit. Or they just want the easy kills.

But yeah...when played right...domination is a blast.

That's what happens when kiddos get a hold of beta codes.
They don't care about the development of the game, they just wanna brag about being in the beta with they're low life friends.

Those are actually some good tips. I'm liking the one with the "train tunnel".

Anyone know if they made the hit detection better?

The first BC had pretty shoddy hit detection.

I don't see anything wrong with it. It's fine for me.

the damage it takes to kill someone is lower if thats what you mean.

Hit detection is great so far in the PS3 beta, and guns seem a lot better too, people die a lot faster as well.

So far the beta's OK, it was really fun at first but its a little dry compared to the awesomeness of the first game...

That's what happens when you play 1 map too many times in a row.

it was dry the first time i played the beta. there was too much running and camping. i would spawn, run for five minutes to the enemy base cause some douchebags took the tank and other vehicles out for a spin and then i get killed by a sniper once i get there. then i spawn 5 minutes away behind a camping teammate, and it starts all over again. after about 20 minutes of that, i quit the beta for good.

Try organising a decent squad dude. You should not play BF games on your own.

LOL, at first I thought these were tips on how to get a girl (1st base, 2nd base, etc.)

I agree with them about "keep shooting the other team". Works for me. But disarming and activating the bombs is pretty straightforward, so I can understand Czar's frustration.

Here's another tip...buy a microphone, ha ha. Whats the use of VOIP if you don't use it. Oh and don't run off with tanks 1/2 loaded, its suicide.

Not including a headset in the system hurts the percentage of people who talk on PSN.

Though if that means fewer screaming 12 year olds, it's worth it.

@Bradwart:
It [the PS3] connects with any Bluetooth headsets though. But you already know this and yes, the silence of being able to concentrate on the friggin' game is pretty golden.

but the only people who already owned a bluetooth headset are those d-bag "business" people who talk real loud in restaurants.

everybody should go out and buy a usb headset...they're less noisy

Is that a screenshot or a real picture? I really can't tell :T

it's a shame that there is no anti aliasing in the game though. Just imagine that pi with jaggies on all of the edges. They obviously apply AA to these shots (probably pc version)

A glorious screen shot of in-game play. The graphics are so good it brings a tear to my eyes.

The RSX still has issues with full AA, I believe. The 360 does do a good job of it, though.

I know Arkham Asylum was much jaggier on PS3 than Xbox.

Really I had no idea that was a screenshot though, it looks really nice, much better than I expected. Despite the beta being out, I still haven't heard much about the game, though, and I think that's kinda strange.

@go

the pic is a lot smaller than what would be shown on your average HDTV so you don't really notice jaggies. it's not that they doctored them.

Hey everyone, Look! It's that game that is going to be better than MW2 in every conceivable way!

No, it won't be able to beat MW2 in 'suckage' factor.

Or 'Developer's Arrogance' factor.

haha you're a funny guy!

I don't wanna play modern warfare... it's multiplayer is dull, short, and mindless...

I like more team oriented games that are not MAGish (so... massive! so... confusing!) and have more meaningfull objectives..

So I guess you guys don't play Search and Destroy? Darth the Halo fanboy comes out again. How much has changed from Bad Company 1? Not much. Played the beta, not exactly better in any way. If you like vehicles it is the only thing I can see people enjoying more.

How much has changed from MW to MW2?

Very little.

Spec ops, New campaign, Kill streak rewards, new gametypes, new weapons, new perks, secondary weapons being redone, new maps, etc...

I didn't say MW2 was any different. But it sure is a much bigger change than Bad Company 2, and Halo.

"Spec ops, New campaign, Kill streak rewards"

That right there was enough for me to buy the game. I can't describe how excited I get when I get a care package kill streak, and it turns out to be an AC130 or a chopper gunner.

I liked Bad Company 1 and I'll like BC2 but you're wrong, sorry. : (

Wrong? I'm buying it as well. I didn't say anything about it being a bad game. I don't have an unhealthy, obsessive hatred over a game like certain people on this site.

Wasn't talking to you, Dreaded, I'm with you. I was saying hamburger-avatar is wrong.

Go play your point and click adventures.

BC2 will blow MW2 out of the water.

Some of you obviously didn't detect my sarcasm. Personally I don't think BC2 will actually be able to compete with COD4, let alone MW2. I've said it before, I'll say it again, some gamers just want to be alternative and not like the biggest franchises in the industry. The people trying to tell themselves that BC2 will be better than MW2 are some of the worst offenders.

Go play Dragon Age while being rammed in the asshole and posting on Joystiq about it, Bradwart.

But yeah Hamburger-Avatar, I'm with you on that. I think BC2 will be really good but I'm not sure it'll stand the test of time like MW2. I was playing MW1 for a long time but BC1, while good, didn't really hold my interest very long.

the beta has me thinking it's not going to be any better. it's really like a watered down killzone 2 with vehicles and building blowing up added, and motion blur and fun taken out.

So far I'm enjoying MW2 quite a bit. It not having changed a whole lot from the pervious title isn't really a bad thing to me, and frankly I'll never tire of "Joint Ops" appearing on my screen after I die.

Bad Company looks really great, but topping MW2 is going to be hard in my eyes.

there are so many hilarious titles in the game. it's amazing how many memes or movie references or just plain funny titles there are. even some guns are references, like how the model 1887 akimbo is a reference to terminator 2...

can we STOP with the BC2 and MW2 wars? they're both excellent games with different strategies and takes on multiplayer. Saying one is better than the other is just opinion relevant to everyone's preferences, if you like runnin and gunnin, then go play MW2, if you like vehicles and strategic game modes, go play BC2 and stop complaining about the other sucking.

I can't stand this because I like both games yet when people bring this up I get so torn.

man having this and mag beta really eats up a lot of my time, both games are really fun to play, quick question does any1 know when the BC2 beta will end?

I hated mag...

It's so overloaded with stuff happening that you can't even tell apart things! It was so confusing to me that i stopped playing it because i couldn't stand dying from a shot from nowhere....

I'm pretty sure the BC2 beta goes until 1/4. I thought I saw that date in the game somewhere or maybe on the site where I got my beta code.

i think it goes into february. press triangle when you have the game selected in the XMB and go to information. it should have the expiration date there.

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