Battlefield Bad Company 2 Clubhouse

[TheLaughingMan]

My play experience for the pass few days has been up and down. Some times I can play for hours with no issue, then others I get kicked as soon as I reach first place in the round. Damn you EA!

I want my points for those pins I did not get.

 

[Soylent Joe]

Do NOT buy unless you have a 2-3 thousand dollar computer. I have a fairly powerful computer consisting of 3GB memory, 2.4gH processing speed, and a 256 MB video card (NVidia GT8600),running windows 7, and I CAN'T even play this game on the lowest settings. DICE did a horrible job of optimizing this game, DO NOT believe the minimum requirements. The only reason I give it a 1/10 is because i managed to play about an hour online, before video lag got the best of me.

> fairly powerful
> 256MB 8600GT
> lol

So, I'm really considering buying this game inn a matter of minutes. I figure I should be able to get 45FPS or above on medium settings right? There's nothing I hate more than paying full price for a game then not being able to run it properly.

Also, why are you guys getting kicked? I assume it has to do with your ping or something right?

 

[TheLaughingMan]

> fairly powerful
> 256MB 8600GT
> lol

So, I'm really considering buying this game inn a matter of minutes. I figure I should be able to get 45FPS or above on medium settings right? There's nothing I hate more than paying full price for a game then not being able to run it properly.

Also, why are you guys getting kicked? I assume it has to do with your ping or something right?

You should be able to get 50+ FPS on high settings, I don't know what that guy is talking about. He should pick better servers. Please also note he is use a 2 gen old, low tier card. You have a 1 gen old gamer/enthusiast tier card.

The kicks are related to EA's Master server being overloaded and some bugs with the final release. It has gradually gotten better, but has not be as good as day 1 since the "initial fixes". The kicks are far less frequent and should be completely gone in the next day or so/ revision R8 of the server structure.

 

[EastCoasthandle]

Report that EA is asking GSP's to Switch off Servers with 8+ hrs inactivity

At DICE's request, all GSPs will switch off all public and privately rented Battlefield: Bad Company 2 servers after eight hours of inactivity, in an effort to reduce load on EA's crash-happy master server:

Due to the continued issues with the EA master servers, DICE have requested we turn off servers which aren't actively being used by players.

As we want you guys to enjoy this excellent game with as little problems as possible, we are going to be turning off all servers which have had 0 players for over 8 hours.

Please note that this is a temporary measure, which we hope everyone will support; however we also appreciate that some of your may not want your servers turned off.

Just to confirm this will only effect servers if they haven't seen a single player for over 8 hours so there is no need to worry that your server will be turned off when its full.

This follows the shut down of public servers, accounting for around 40,000 player slots.

Read more about it here

Update:
This appears to only effect Multiplay.

 

[El Fiendo]

I rarely get kicked, probably about twice in 5 or 6 hours of playing. However, does anyone else notice the spot button doesn't always work even if you're squarely on the enemy? Is it restricted by a range? It happens most when the enemy is out of effective range of my gun but I can still clearly see them. I've also noticed a few times where the spot button didn't work and then none of my keys on my keyboard worked for several seconds either, though this seemed more like a game / lag freeze than anything. Its the only time it happens, so I doubt my G15 is dying.

Also, is this of interest to anyone?

http://www.battleforpax.com/prizing

 

[EastCoasthandle]

I'm not going to speculate. All I will say is that there was one person I couldn't spot although I could spot the person behind him. And I could also spot people who were further away. In any case, you're not the only one who's noticed this.

 

[TheLaughingMan]

This will not effect us any, but that is a strange thing to do. I don't see how inactive servers will help resolve anything unless all the servers report in activity from time to time. That would contribute the bog down if a server is logging into the Master server every 30 minutes to go, "Hey, no one here still. blah blah blah." If that is the cause, tell them all the shut up for a while may help a lot.

And dido on the spot. I also don't like the lack of structure for squads. There needs to be 1 and only 1 person called "Squad Leader" that can give attack and defense orders. I actually like my follow orders bonuses, but I rarely get them, if I am not the one giving the orders. And since it is the same system, I too have trouble giving orders and spotting stuff at times.

 

[EastCoasthandle]

Other titles ran at GameSpy stats backend, this is the first BF PC title to run at EA for everything. So it is a learning process for the EA Online teams on what kind of demand you guys can generate on their hardware.

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Odd, why not get GameSpy to help out with the load?

It is caused by the fact that the longer the list the more time it takes to get the list and the bigger the file downloaded by each client and as the current client refreshes the whole list every time and all the time you go into Server Browser that is a lot of requests for information.

Both EA and DICE are working on improving the system and by adding extra hardware and fixing the client to cause less load and allow more servers.

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This is regarding his earlier statement that empty servers cause extra load.

 

[cadaveca]

Sounds like Baloney to me...they are trimming the fat to stay in budget. No other reason, IMHO.

But I have noticed that going onto my other connection @ 350k, the load time is much longer, so it seems the list isn't even compressed, as it's easily 10x as fast now.

Even account authentication is far faster. Too much data is being exchanged, period, and I doubt this will have much impact.

 

[Tatty_Two]

Installed the game tonight, played a little single player to get a feel for it.... was not that impressed TBH although I appreciate the GREAT strength of this game is Multiplayer, when I came to give multiplayer a try I couldn't create an account with EA.....kept saying "unable to create account" ..... am I doing something wrong?

 

[AphexDreamer]

i find it refreshing

lol

YES! i find it really annoying to have to reset all the classes every single time...

I find it really frustrating. Sometimes classes reset between rounds on the same server too - especially specialisations and vehicle bonuses...

Did they really think we wouldn't mind. I almost thought it just wasn't working like Voice Chat. PATCH!

 

[OnBoard]

Hmm, pretty demanding level that trainyard thing (edit: panama canal)where TPU server was just while ago. Had to lower settings and still wasn't that smooth :/ And got kicked out with 'not enough room on the server' or something like that message

Tatty_One: no idea on that, had my account quite a while now.
Seems others have same issue too, maybe it's just when server is loaded?
http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/423965.page

Did they really think we wouldn't mind. I almost thought it just wasn't working like Voice Chat. PATCH!

It took 1½years to get kit save in a patch to BF2142 I reallyreally hope it'll come sooner to this. Although at the moment I don't mind a bit as I have nothing unlocked (once I'll do it'll start bugging more and more, the more you unlock, says Michael Moore in his upcoming EA document )

 

[boise49ers]

For iPhone owners, there’s an app that allows you to track you bad co 2 stats!

there is a paid version as well that lets you compare stats Pins insignias or battlefield news features.

just search iTunes for 'Battlefield Bad Company 2 stats Lite'

How much? I only usually do free apps. I think maybe if
I log on to my game it'll give me the same info for free

 

[boise49ers]

> fairly powerful
> 256MB 8600GT
> lol

So, I'm really considering buying this game inn a matter of minutes. I figure I should be able to get 45FPS or above on medium settings right? There's nothing I hate more than paying full price for a game then not being able to run it properly.

Also, why are you guys getting kicked? I assume it has to do with your ping or something right?

You'll be able to run it on high. I do with my specs at 1680x1050

 

[Mussels]

From what i understood, there trying to give us a bigger latency to the server so they can predict what will happen next for lag spikes that can happen, to smooth down the lag spike

My post said if people had good internet connections we wouldnt have to worry about lag spikes,

because no matter how much money you have, you cannot buy a lower ping.

 

[boise49ers]

lol





Did they really think we wouldn't mind. I almost thought it just wasn't working like Voice Chat. PATCH!

I think if you can just hook up and play a few rounds
with out a disconnect you'd be happy. I know I am.

 

[TheLaughingMan]

post
Odd, why not get GameSpy to help out with the load?

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This is regarding his earlier statement that empty servers cause extra load.

That explains way too much. EA, you do not test new ideas related to the backend of a system on one of the most anticipated and largest titles in your portfolio. You wanted to "test" stat tracking, go do it with Battlefield Heroes. People can't really complain about free stuff not working 100% of the time.

Stat tracking should, as Digi said, be assisted by GameSpy. Stat tracking is kinda what they do and they do it well. Maybe they need to call the people who handed the BF2142 stat tracking contract and ask them how that system worked.

I was defending them and giving them time to sort this out, but this is plain BS. They dropped the ball on that one and now I am pissed off.

Installed the game tonight, played a little single player to get a feel for it.... was not that impressed TBH although I appreciate the GREAT strength of this game is Multiplayer, when I came to give multiplayer a try I couldn't create an account with EA.....kept saying "unable to create account" ..... am I doing something wrong?

Honestly, the Single Player was a bit flat to me. I liked the fact they tried to keep the pace up, but some of the cut scenes were just boring to watch and badly explained. I miss the goofy, stupidity from the original which was entertaining. On the same note, the story gets better and the cut scenes get funnier as you go along.

Side note. Single Player is the story and the multiplayer seems to literally be fecal matter hitting the oscillating air flow device that stuff in single player caused.

 

[OnBoard]

I'll start a "IHateSovietMissileMissilesInMyHead" fanclub xD

Intense stuff that squadrush thing, but had couple good rounds, this one particularly

But too good you all still, though doesn't really help that every map is a new one And my tags are now all over the place :/ Stabbed Easy Rhino when he was disarming a charge, saw the animation and kill, only to get head shot by Soviet Missile and didn't get the tags

 

[Frizz]

Anyone know if you could get a kill pin with the repair tool? I've been trying.. its harder than using the knife though.

On topic, the single-player gives me headaches I don't know about anyone else but I'm dying on some spots over and over because of BS AI hehe, playing on hard btw.

 

[digibucc]

Anyone know if you could get a kill pin with the repair tool? I've been trying.. its harder than using the knife though.

On topic, the single-player gives me headaches I don't know about anyone else but I'm dying on some spots over and over because of BS AI hehe, playing on hard btw.

yeah it gets ridiculous at points. it helps with multi though, to play on hard.

 

[TRIPTEX_CAN]

Anyone know if you could get a kill pin with the repair tool? I've been trying.. its harder than using the knife though.

On topic, the single-player gives me headaches I don't know about anyone else but I'm dying on some spots over and over because of BS AI hehe, playing on hard btw.

The AI on hard is pure hax. I can think of a few spots that took several attempts to get through.

 

[Mussels]

you cant rush in in SP. sneak around, blow up walls, that kinda thing.

 

[lemode]

I'll start a "IHateSovietMissileMissilesInMyHead" fanclub xD

Intense stuff that squadrush thing, but had couple good rounds, this one particularly
http://img.techpowerup.org/100311/BFBC2Game_2010_03_12_03_07_28.jpg
http://img.techpowerup.org/100311/BFBC2Game_2010_03_12_03_07_41.jpg

But too good you all still, though doesn't really help that every map is a new one And my tags are now all over the place :/ Stabbed Easy Rhino when he was disarming a charge, saw the animation and kill, only to get head shot by Soviet Missile and didn't get the tags

lol i love getting headshots...i had the perfect spot to pick you guys off...

 

[Mussels]

i should try joining the TPU server, see how bad the lag is. probably too much tho.

 

[Frizz]

i should try joining the TPU server, see how bad the lag is. probably too much tho.

touche, was thinking that myself