PSA: Activate Bad Company 2's M-COM stations early to avoid picking up kits

by Alexander Sliwinski on Mar 28th 2010 10:30PM

DICE informed us at PAX East that it will continue to support its hit title Battlefield: Bad Company 2 with patching -- however, one thing it won't "fix" is players accidentally picking up kits from corpses when trying to activate M-COM stations in rush mode. With millions of copies sold so far, the kit kerfuffle is a problem we've consistently heard and experienced. Little did we know that there's been a remedy to the issue all along, as Bad Company 2 producer Gordon Van Dyke told us that players can press the M-COM activation button early. He expressed that BC2 players should spread the word.

It turns out that if players hold the M-COM activation button (example: the B button on Xbox 360) before the prompt displays, they'll be able to initiate (or deactivate) the station once in range. This avoids the frustration of picking up kits off the stacks of bodies that inevitably pile up next to the boxes. It's a rather simple solution to one of the most frustrating elements in the excellent multiplayer shooter.

Tags: bad-company-2, battlefield, battlefield-bad-company-2, DICE, Electronic-Arts, m-com, m-com-stations, Microsoft, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (62)

I really didn't think it was that big of a problem.

Yeah, ive experienced it a couple times, but it has never been a terribly huge issue for me. Cool fix though

Happens to me everytime I try to arm/disarm them.

It never happens to me - I too think its not much of a problem.

Just keep on holding O (or whatever it is in the 360 version), and once you pick up a new kit, you'll start arming the charge about half a second later.

I was getting mad that I kept on picking up kits today instead or arming a charge, but then I realized that the M-COM was already charged. xD

I find that if you look straight at it it doesn't happen as often.

Oh didn't know you can hold down the arm/disarm button early. Good to hear, but when they say "continue to support" I'm a little confused as there hasn't actually been any patches yet for the game. Grated its a rock solid very stable very balanced games but certainly could use some tweaks for stuff like the M60 and M1911 both being a slightly overpowered. And those couple new maps won't hurt either.

This happened plenty of times to me and in critical situations. Although, I think "just push the button early" is sort of a cheap response. There are times when you're fighting off defenders or attackers at the M-COM and you can't push the activate button in advance.

Eh, doesn't matter anyway. I've already went back to MW2.

lame. and roadkilling is broken too. it actually worked better in the first

doesnt stop me from playing., but it would b nice if they patched things like this.

I'd rather have that than morons running around with two lever-action shotguns and the ability to knife you from ten feet away...

the problem is that an entire clip of bullets doesn't kill a man with a knife no matter how fast you are.

the only problem ive had with BC2 knives is that people using them dont make footsteps, so it's crazy hard to know if anyone's sneaking up behind you. I do remember one time knifing a guy right in the brain, so surely that blood even came out, but no damage was done and I died, but that's not really a knife specific problem

It's a server latency problem. Play COD4/MW2 long enough, and you'll understand. It doesn't mean dick if you empty a clip into an opponent (according to your 360/screen) if the hosting 360 doesn't register it. To use a gun effectively in these games, you've got to score multiple hits. A knife only requires one hit. As the server is registering your ten bullets, it's also registering that one knife, and statistically speaking, the one knife has a higher chance of registering than the fifth or sixth (etc) bullet does (the one that would have been fatal).

I remedy this completely by playing hardcore. One burst of almost any gun is lethal in hardcore mode, and as such, the knifers have much less of an advantage. Because of this, almost no one bothers knifing (in my experience) which makes for a much less frustrating match.

The same goes for BFBC2. I find the modes where it takes fewer hits to be much more exciting.

I know it's a latency problem. Get rid of the knife.

Yeah guys, get rid of the knife; let's use spears and shields instead...gah...

Please dear god give me a way to turn off the fahking Conquest endgame horn.

Easy, dont lose. hahaha

God it wasn't in the PS3 beta, and man is it ever annoying. All they need to do is show a message or something on the HUD instead.

Conquest wasn't in the beta though...

It is fixed on PC, it only horn once at 10 tickets left.

Seriously, the horn blows!

The funny thing about that is, I honestly played conquest for the first time the other day, and that was the first time i heard that awful noise.

The unfunny thing about that is, I live across the river from a power management plant, and almost pooped myself when i heard the siren.

"Excellent multiplayer shooter"
I laughed

I didn't see MW2 mentioned, so what are you laughing at?

Fighting hate with hate, are we?

Uh... something something MAG sucks

Yea so did I. Excellent almost plays down how epic it really is.

Bad Company itself IS a parody! That's the style of the series! The first was a modern Kelly's Heroes.

and why wasnt the second one? The first game ended with the guys driving a truck full of gold away from the military, they didnt even explain why they were still in the army

Dont know what you played noob toob, but BF2 is GREAT! Its a completely different pace and feel from MW2, oh the sound over all shits on MW2's looped battle ground sounds in the background...

Suck it!

Seems like it'd be an easy fix for the PC version. Just give a dedicated key for setting the charge on the M-COM, like 'G' or something.

if a player is 1 ft from the m-com, and looking straight at it, it's safe to say they would rather (de)activate the m-com than pick up a kit. that would be an easy fix that would work in almost all instances.

Hope they fix the C4 UAV - lamest way to do in the M-COM ever. Next to the jihad chopper/C4 combo.

damn... didnt even think of that.

Thanks!! ^_^

Another trick that people dont seem to realize is when you are arming/disarming an Mcom you can look around, aim and fire at the same time. Pretty cool when you are arming an Mcom and blow some people away as they come trying to stop you.

screw the M-Com, I want LESS SNIPERS. Put a cap on that shit or something.

Holy hell yes. Every pansy that can't handle a little upfront action plays a damn sniper and acts like it's a tactical decision. It's so much worse when they are your squadmates, meaning you always have to spawn hella far from the action when a game is close.

I don't mind snipers, they can be a great asset (as the game means them to be), but when half the team (yours or theirs) is snipers it's just not fun.

Most of the time when I get sniped I don't die in one hit like in MW2.
Snipers aren't that big of a problem for me in BC2, except in Squad Deathmatch when most or all of you squad mates are snipers which gets your team less kills.

The last couple of games I played, a huge majority of the players on both teams were snipers. Annoying. They should give you the option to get in on class balanced matches or something.

At least at one point, I walked up onto a hill and accidently stumbled upon a group of them, and was able to knife kill 3 enemy snipers, one after the other.

getting vengeance on a sniper is awesome. Especially when you're an engineer or are using a guided AT turret. Just guide those rockets right onto the suckers, it's like giant fiery death is hard to see or something

Enemy snipers I can deal with, the worst is when I spawn into a rush game and 60% of my team are snipers, we're the freaking attackers! why are you standing on a rock!!

speaking for my fellow snipers....*middle finger*

hey look im as hidden as a sniper!

I'm not a sniper. I'm a friggen Recon, and I rush in with my big M95 with a Red Dot on it! I spot enemies with motion sensors, and I blow up buildings and objectives with C4.

Then again, sometimes I hang back and snipe people. Usually, not when there are many other snipers in my team.

yeah man, it's really only irritating when your entire team is sniping and you are the only one capturing positions or planting bombs. same sh!t happens in MW2 though so...don't hate the game, hate the players.

Multiple snipers in a squad isn't too bad; but the problem is that if your entire team is snipers, for whatever reason, only 1 person is actually using the motion sensors. Throwing one in the direction of objectives helps a lot for people that capture objectives, but 95% of snipers have down syndrome or something and never use them.

That being said, whenever I snipe and I'm lucky enough to get an assault guy that actually puts an ammo box on me, I just spam the hell out of the motion sensors onto objectives, helping the team and getting easy "assist" points.

Why don't they just patch it such that the game polls for a key up or button up instead of key/button down in order to pick up a kit?

Please put a limit to snipers per squad ... its the worst thing in the world when you're in a squad with 3 snipers .... good luck trying to capture a position in conquest or camp corner rooms in rush mode ...

Well at least they told us how to avoid the slight annoyance. I also read that they were balancing out the M60 and the M1911. If there's any truth to this I'm glad. I don't see them as TOO much of a problem, but at least they're balancing it...unlike some guns in another game in the same genre. Ahem.

I didn't even notice by dying so many times :/

another thing people odnt know is that u can shoot while disarming

explosive head?! What?!

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