Battlefield Bad Company 2 PC walkthrough gets into the nitty gritty

Ew, stop spreading your awesome-sauce, premature ejaculation man. You're getting it everywhere!

But yes, BC2...awesome.

I just traded in MW2 and put the store credit towards BC2 so it's getting the attention it deserves on my end.

i tried the demo, and i just couldn't get into it. having to run for a long while before you get back into the action really slows down the pace of the game for me.

i'll stick with MW2, but i don't fault anyone for choosing BFBC:2 over it. different strokes, different folks, i guess.

Or uh, they could keep making awesome ones and I'll keep playing them.

No, it doesn't.

The day FPSs take a "break" is when Japan stop producing mediocre JRPGs.

As a PC gamer? EVERY gamer should be anticipating this awesome game.

i find it funny how "caring for the PC" is just doing what every shooter used to do for PC 2 years ago.

oh, how our standards have fallen.

Unless it's changed from the beta, the interface is still a little cludgy. I always hope that new developers will license/copy the Valve's server browser and menu setup because it's the BEST on the PC. Minimalist, no fancy animations (a little fade in at most), and fast.

Honestly, building a PC isn't difficult. If you don't know anybody that can build one, then you become that person. There are a bunch of walkthroughs online. For me personally, it was also a pretty fun experience, and very rewarding.

Yeah, it's not that difficult and there's always forums where people will gladly help you out if you have questions about the build. It's a great feeling when you power it up for the first time and everything works as it should.

Oh, lol, I know how to build one- they don't.
Also, funding is an issue, and they're all students so we have no cash XD. I love the rig I built, and I wouldn't mind teaching them, but they're too lazy XD.

Generally console users wont want to/know how to rent and maintain a server.

No, I'm not talking about hosting your own servers. I just want a game server list, so I can pick which game/map I want to join, instead of randomly being put in one...

I suck at FPS's but I'll be picking this one up :) That and the original rocks, had that one gifted to me.

I'm glad you are not discouraged because of your skills. You will get better with time. Just don't run in Rambo style.

i must have missed something.....have you worked at both infinity ward and DICE? do you have first-hand experience of either of those companies making this game to claim that one "broke their back" during development while the other didn't? man, you must be really sought after all of that work experience.

trying to rally up support for a game you're excited about is one thing. talking out of your ass and making things up is another.

@David.

I'm not trying to make things up. I don't like to make things up. If I'm wrong, correct me. No, I don't work for either company.

I only speak ill of IW because their latest release has less multiplayer features than their previous releases. MW1 and MW2 do not really have major differences between gameplay or visuals (not that it is a bad thing). They already had previous experience with developing the gameplay, so that should've been fairly easy. However, I am speaking for both PC and console gamers.

In previous CoD titles, you would be able to have 4 people on one console playing online, and it has been reduced down to 2 people. Dedicated servers were helpful for online and LAN helped with local matches, and both were shafted literally weeks before its release.

It also does not help that the PC version is a literal port of the 360 version, since the PC version was known to try to connect to an Xbox Live party.
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The previous CoD titles have more multiplayer features than MW2. I would also say IW "broke their backs" if these features remained in MW2 because multiplayer coding is serious. They did less and still got paid.

They honestly did do less on MW2. A lot of people that dislike MW2 originally did not want to dislike it since they expected a lot more from IW, as I did.

I apologize if you feel like I am talking out of my ass. I honestly expected more from MW2.

if you were disappointed with MW2, then fine, feel free to pontificate on that all you want. but to pretend you know anything about the effort that the people at IW or DICE are putting into their respective games is, i maintain, talking out of your ass.

Okay, fine. I do not know how much work either developer puts into their game. Without comparing the 2 developers, IW seemed to cut back on their latest release.

I'm not even trying to pontificate my opinions about MW2 as the absolute truth. I didn't post on a Battlefield related article to hate on MW2, even though my one statement about IW in my original post seems to say otherwise. That was not my complete intention. I don't hate it like some people tend to show.

I do not know what amount of work or effort they put in MW2, but they could have put more effort into it. The multiplayer should have been fleshed out much more than it is right now.

@ Mystictrust You can still impact how the game unfolds even without a ton of kills. Going medic and reviving your mates can turn the tide of a match, same goes for repairing tanks and throwing ammo packs. Just do what feels natural to you. :P

@Crimson Cortex It's encouraging to hear that. I usually go support and go around healing people, but when I switch to Demolition I can run and jump all around a support guy for "days" and not get one single med pack. There needs to be more active healing in these games.

While I agree that there should be some Xbox 360 games on PC also, I do not think it will happen.

Halo 1 and 2 were developed for both Xbox and PC. The franchise became very big at that point, yet somehow, the 360 received Halo 3 and PC received nothing. Microsoft bought out and promoted exclusive rights to Halo 3 in order to sell 360's, and it worked.

While that is an old example, a newer example would be Alan Wake. Alan Wake was recently deemed a 360 exclusive when it was originally announced a PC/360 game, and the game is made by a developer that produced PC games in the past. Microsoft also bought out exclusive rights to Alan Wake as well. Their reason for doing so was to "protect the intimacy of the game by keeping it only on the Xbox." Apparently, they do not know how to be "intimate" with PCs.

The main reason Microsoft does not focus on PC is because they are not making the money they want off PCs besides their OS. Had they found some kind of market on PC gaming or if their want for money wasn't so high, we would see epic combos of games occurring.

You's incorrect son.
The XM8 (and most other H&K guns) are all ambidextrous. You can practically hot-swap the ejection port. The soldier using that gun just likes getting hot brass shot all over his face.

When messing with the C4 packs in BF2, I always wished you could rig buildings to blow/collapse.

Made me think that a new gametype would be fun; have all the buildings/infrastructure destroyable, but make it so that blowing that stuff up detracts from your team's score; after all, in real conflicts inside cities, you don't want to destroy the places where people live, you want to keep it in tact.

Couldn't really work though, since so many people would grief by just blowing everything up anyway.

The glory of server banning. *whimsical sigh*

I agree. It's really annoying having a few people just rush the M-COM station in an ATV, rig it with some C4, and blow it up. Maybe the attacking team should get far less extra reinforcement tickets if they do it this way?

No, it is not a shame. This is a game worth buying twice for different systems. Do not feel guilty if you ever do so.