Master Arica Harbor with these Bad Company 2 beta tips

one thing I noticed in the beta is defenders trying to sneak into attacker spawn area while attackers are successfully taking objectives.. Makes NO SENSE.. those idiots definitely don't understand the concept.

Loving the Beta though.. Playing less MAG though... MAG is good but it needs work.. it is a bit sloppy yet.

im just hoping the single player still focuses around the same four guys.. the story in the first one, while simple had me hooked somehow and im really excited for this installment

BC 2 is fun and all, but I played and enjoyed MAG more I love the whole teamwork aspect...that is if people actually start doing some teamwork it'd be better. Oh and there are still codes for MAG here.

http://psnbeta.us.playstation.com/MAG/getBetaVoucher.php

This will be better then modern warfare 2 - MW2 is just too small scale, your too confined, nothing is destructable and its way too tweaker, the battlefield series has always been better because its open warfare and i always find myself using new strategies on 1943 more so with tanks and vehicles.

This will be better then modern warfare 2 - MW2 is just too small scale, your too confined, nothing is destructable and its way too tweaker, the battlefield series has always been better because its open warfare and i always find myself using new strategies on 1943 more so with tanks and vehicles. MW2 maps are predictable, wasteland for example is boring.

vehicles is something the call of duty series has always been missing, battlefield feels so much more natural, its less about reaction time and more strategy, using cover and taking checkpoints, not to say it isn't accurate, i can get headshots with a rifle from the other side of the map at times anyway - the squad system in 1943 is perfect, spawning on each other as a team battlefield games are just superior in design, modern warfare just has every prepubescent teenager on thier xboxs all boarded onto a giant hype train of bullshit.

owning multiple PS3's and having big games with the boys after work is something i do everyday, so i put alot of games through heavy quality testing, tests etc -you can shoot down planes with the cannon fire in 1943 with some practise ;) - anyway i've found infinity wards match making system to be broken, sending me overseas at times and sometimes breaking up our party by pulling singular players into other lobbys.

vehicles is something the call of duty series has always been missing, battlefield feels so much more natural, its less about reaction time and more strategy, using cover and taking checkpoints, not to say it isn't accurate, i can get headshots with a rifle from the other side of the map at times, it just plays better, feels better. the squad system in 1943 is perfect, spawning on each other as a team is what i love.

owning multiple PS3's and having big games with the boys after work is something i do everyday, so i put alot of games through heavy quality testing -you can shoot down planes with the cannon fire in 1943 with some practise ;) - anyway i've found infinity wards match making system to be broken, sending me overseas at times and breaking up our party by pulling singular players into random lobbys about to fill.

i'm not saying MW2 is shit, i've loved the game the past few days, i have afew copys of it. its simply a snack before i can play something better. namely this. MW2 has a number of problems which i believe should be addressed

*you cannot turn off the auto aim, causing your camera to sway when you try to melee
*hip fire doesn't destroy claymores
*magazine size isn't shown on the weapons selection
*the matchmaking is broken for australian users (me)
*running into or close to team mates causes random jolts.
*when climbing a ladder, your sometimes caught on a slice of clipping 2 steps from the top if you don't angle your camera right, leaving you vunerable for afew seconds as you adjust
*ping isn't shown in lobby

any MW2 fanboys that don't respect this game can get fucked. biased pre-teen turds.

Here is a tip if you don't know how to use the UAV helicopter thing than don't waste it.

People need to realize there are targets that can be destroyed without planting. And the UAV is a major key when it calls airstrikes. I now because of the UAV don't receive many kills but my team wins since I knock some of the targets after a couple of minutes.

First things first... Learn to SPELL!

wtf? Arica? You mean Africa...

Recon is a great package for defense or offense. With a little skill c4 charges are solid gold, you can defend with them, blow up tanks very easily with them, even suicide rush the crate on attack and blow up your stuff when you respawn.

Pistols are quite effective except for the ammo capacity but one on one it's not hard for a pistol to take out just about anything else.

Then you have the flexibility of a sniper rifle on your package so you can deal with enemy snipers or just general long range kills.

Oh and then there's the motion sensor you get.... I mean come on!

I find the best place to snipe as a defender is from somewhere where you can see your enemy's back and cover the crates at the same time.

Please fix the title misspelling!

it would kinda help if u didnt die in like 5 hits.

I only played a bit of the beta but from what I've played I tought that the Sniper class is REALLY over-powered this time.
I HATE camping and I can't get myself to play anything but Assault class, so I kinda didn't liked these new class changes.

I loved everything else though.

Oh and by the way, does anyone know if you can unlock health packs/injectors for assault with upgrades or not? Thanks

Have you guys, who have played the beta, seen the "Morro de Arica" in the map?

This one:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/43/102863097_ae8c3a0bac.jpg

The tanks are too strong and ruin the fun most of the time and the helicopter is not even in the beta.And if you have a problem with too many snipers on the other team just snipe them back from time to time or ge the jump on them from behind a few times with a machine gun that will piss them off helplessly getting gunned down while they try to shoot at you with the pistol ebtas fun as shit and free fuck it enjoy it i am. d.soucy

This game's beta looks SOOOO good I have never been sadder about the fact that I can't get into beta's until now. It sucksto be from the UK be get everything last! Oh well, I guess we'll just have to wait till March : (

Btw I have a MAG Beta Code up for grabs at http://systemfailnews.blogspot.com/
seen as though I can't use it......

As a beta tester for the PS3 version I can say that these tips are absolutely useless aside from maybe tip for 4th base.

The first base tip it useless because you'll have at least two tanks coming in at a given time plus UAV and being a lone tank that far away from your spawning buddies is a bad idea even if you get a little piece of shielding. Plus shells come from above, not head on.

2nd base tip hahaha I dare you to stand on top of the building. Go on, try it! If they 5+ snipers don't kill you, then high level player with range optics on a machinegun will certainly make you run away.

3rd base tip is effective if you have a couple medics... and if no one throws grenades in there... and if there isn't a tank around to blow that confined space up to hell. You should focus on anti-tank mines and hanging on the flanks by the coast and in the bushes.

4th base tip is actually kinda useful but enemies will come along that other side and can sneak up behind you. Generally speaking there isn't a whole lot of players that venture in that line of sight unless they are snipers in the distance.

5th base tip DO NOT destroy the walls. That is a bad bad idea. Snipers will see you and tanks will see you as well. You do not want to be seen inside that base. You should focus on killing the tanks and killing enemies that flood in.

After playing the BC2 and MAG betas I'm even more impressed with MAG, in retrospect.

The BC2 engine ROCKS, no doubt, but the MAG engine/servrer/voice prompts are so much better at directing players to keep them on task in the game. I was amazed the first time I played it that they were able to make the objectives clear, etc, there were 64 players on line and it seemed like the vast majority were on task most of the time and I really was not a disoriented noob for long at all.

But, I'm STILL disoriented in BC2 and humping it to the hot zone for two to three minutes only to get hit by a sniper even though you're trying to follow cover in, isn't particularly fun...