BFBC2 Vietnam's 'Operation Hastings' unlocked on PC

by Alexander Sliwinski on Dec 30th 2010 12:00PM

The PC warriors in Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam now have access to the "Operation Hastings" map, having completed the required 69 million team actions. Vietnam combatants on Xbox 360 are more than halfway through the unlock challenge, while PS3 players are approaching 30 million actions.

Team actions require you to assist your teammates by spotting enemies, healing, reviving, repairing and resupplying ammo. And when you're not doing those things, you're probably setting your flamethrower on the opposition in DICE's excellent $15 expansion.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam (12/17/10)

[Thanks, Peter]

Source: Battlefield site

Tags: battlefield-bad-company-2, battlefield-bad-company-2-vietnam, DICE, EA, Electronic-Arts, microsoft, pc, playstation, ps3, xbox

Reader Comments (48)

owned

Good to see PC gaming is still going strong.

...Gonna go help out with that PS3 version now. We're kinda behind.

Awesome! Too bad Cod stole some of our players

@ThanatosXSR True, but in all fairness BFBC2 made quite a few COD:MW2 players jump ship & they never looked back!!!

@Dukk420 I am a living example. played BC2 beta in Feb, and I have not played COd Much since then, only when my friends play private mathces.
I can't wait for BF3

*does the secretariat dance*

Not too sound rude or anything, but holy crap PC players need to get a life! :P

...Anyways, gonna go help out with the 360 version since I've been playing a lot of Reach and Mass Effect 2 lately and havent played Vietnam since the day it came out!

@trickybuz93 PC gamers are usually older, and thus are likely to have better teamwork skills

@Friv0lous Oh give me a friggin break. There are complete assholes on every system. Go play TF2 or Counterstrike for an hour with a headset and tell me that those guys have better manners than console gamers. No. They don't.

@Mr Esc is the namesarcasm is my Agreed... though my favorite class to play is medic simply because I can rack up 4-5k points per match just by healing and reviving... and it's incredible how actually playing your part helps your team win all the time!!!!

@trickybuz93 I am unsure how you could not interpret that as being rude, being a PC gamer.

That aside, good to know BC2 is still going strong on PC. I imagine it can't hurt the launch of CoD: BO on the PC was a SNAFU.

@trickybuz93 Could simply be that more PC players have it. BFBC2 has been dirt cheap on Steam and elsewhere for the last several weeks.

@evanset6

Too true. I play on every platform I can, and if one thing is universal, there are crappy players and good players on every system. I think it's funny how people insist that the grass is greener on the other side of the internet.

These numbers only have one true conclusion; Hastings is unlocked for PC.

@evanset6

Actually my experience is the average medic will revive you directly in front of a tank with an empty mag and no rockets simple for the points.

@Mr Esc is the namesarcasm is my
I agree, it drives me nuts playing on 360 makes it not as fulfilling

@IUP If you combined the scores of the PS3 and the 360, they still wouldn't even touch the PC's, even though both systems have played twice as much.

I know it's fun being ignorant and all, but facts are facts.

Remember everyone, PC gaming is dead! lololol

Speaking of which, can't wait for Portal 2... and I'm gonna play some TF2 and/or Minecraft after work today...

@The MAZZTer Yeah, for a dead industry they sure kick a lot of ass. :D

Just downloaded the 360 version last night, looking forward to throwing my support towards the cause tonight!

I own this game all systems. Glad to see we got the PC version unlocked, time to help the PS3 and 360 version as well.

Time to fire it up and help my 360 brothers!

Detailed stats:
PC
Hours Played 54,888,468
Total resupplies 337,317,480
Total repairs 149,827,820
Total revives 165,506,952
Total spots 90,867,232

360
Hours Played 94,837,278
Total resupplies 325,733,168
Total repairs 206,201,736
Total revives 217,578,580
Total spots 70,531,668

PS3
Hours Played 89,966,378
Total Resupplies 318,479,696
Total repairs 162,341,752
Total revives 193,181,008
Total spots 85,933,156

Turns out you console guys aren't team players, suck it!

@fischju
Wow this is a huge discrepancy, makes me glad I bought the PC version.

@fischju PC has less time played than consoles, and more team actions (and if you look) higher kills and accuracy.

@fischju I find it ironic that 360 players are the best at repairing and riving.

@Gamerer reviving* >.

@fischju 360 players spot least? Urrgh I hate this. Spotting is highly helpful people!

Might have something to do with the spot button on 360 controller is harder to press

@fischju

Source on those numbers?

@ybfelix

Acutally has to do with the fact that on PC you dont even have to press the spot button. You can map it to the same thing as the fire button, so you automatically spot every time you fire a weapon.

@fischju
Where did you get your stats from? If you break down each action performed per hour then your stats don't make any sense. You would have about 3-6 resupplies/hr, 3 repairs/hr, 3-4 revives/hr, and only 1-2 spot/hr.

@R Planteer

http://www.battlefieldbadcompany2.com/globalstats

@fischju Your numbers are weird.

It clearly shows that 360 users revive and repair more than PS3/PC players.
So how's that being bad at teamwork again?

@trickybuz93 Check the 'Hours Played' and compare the two. Per hour played, the PC is far ahead in all objectives.

@trickybuz93
Better teamwork because PC players have those numbers at lower playtime than PS360 players.

@Mr Esc is the namesarcasm is my Hi, actually, you don't need be a recon to spot! Press the Back button(or Select if on PS3), every class can put a triangle on enemies' head

@ybfelix
I think it might the button. My friends and I have always found that pressing the back button doesn't always work. I can spam it 5 times before it spots the guy, if it spots him at all. I've used several different controllers and none are any better.

@Gamerer Static targets are more attractive.

Considering the PC version came out like three or four days earlier then the 360 & PS3 versions came out, I'm not really surprised that they unlocked it first.

While there's a good chance PC would've won anyway, the race would've been much closer if everybody had started at the same time.

@Mcmax3000

Our(PC) accumulation for Operation Hasting didn't count until it came out for the consoles. So, basically, everyone started out at exactly the same time. Minus the fact that the PS3 version didn't get theirs until later in the day.

I'd be interested to know what the saturation numbers are for the different systems. Meaning, in order to get a better idea what the numbers mean, we'd have to consider the availability of the content over each platform.

Yes, the stat tracking started at the same time, but you'd have to factor in all manner of things; like price point (the PC version of BC2 has been less expensive for a longer period of time), the fact that the Vietnam content was available for longer on PC (probably meaning more players ready to go on day one of stat tracking), not to mention the fact that typically a PC is more readily available to most people throughout the day than a console (play at work lol). There's just so much data that one could consider in this debate.

I'm not saying that console gamers don't suck at team actions, I personally feel like there has been a decline of spotting & revives since the Vietnam DLC (on PS3 btw), but what I am trying to say as with just these numbers, they don't add up to shit besides the fact that PC gamers have Hastings now and the rest will get it eventually.

Now, back to some of those team actions!

Not to try and stick up for the 3-60 mafia cuz I can never get resupplied to save my life but it seems to me that spotting is what the pc peeps are overwhelming better at. I would think that would be much more an issue of the controls being easier than maturity level.

Hax!

The forums are pretty crappy over this atm. Personally I think it was a really bad idea to have a "competition" like this where PC players have a really large advantage ( game is cheaper, spotting can be mapped so its automatic, larger team sizes = more team actions, more people on PC probably owned the game on the 22nd due to the head start). And the threads are really nice. Stupid PR move by Dice if you ask me. I personally would have just done something along the lines of 200 million actions total, and just combine all 3platforms scores.

But hey, what do I know...

@R Planteer

No idea why I said "the threads are really nice." That should be "the threads are really nasty due to PC players insulting console players."

I should sleep more...

Congrats to PC players..Now I must help my own..The 360..

360 Community! ASSEMBLE!!!!!!!!

Damn, PS3 is really that behind? Gee I would love to help, but my ability to do that is quite limited because I keep getting disconnected from the EA servers!

@ELITESOLDIER56 I was just about to post that the PS3 seemed to be pretty far behind a week ago but seems to be keeping pace now with the 360

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam

BFBC2 Vietnam's 'Operation Hastings' unlocked on PC

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam (12/17/10)

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