Official Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Beta Thread

[digibucc]

digital vs disc would make no difference. the disc is copy protection,(once it's installed) nothing more.

 

[rpsgc]

Naturally, doing all of the audio processing in software puts the CPU under some extra strain. Since Xbox360/PS3 has fixed hardware and both have multiple cores available to do many things in parallel, you could say this is only an issue for the PC SKU where we may end up having less cores than on console. In Bad Company, all audio processing is performed sequentially on a single hardware thread regardless of platform. For PC this means that a CPU with a higher frequency will help more than one with more cores. But of course, there are other areas of the game that execute in parallel, so having more than 2 cores will help the game in general. This is an area we're constantly looking to improve and the results of our efforts will show up in future titles.

An Audiophile's Guide to BF:BC2


No the guy isn't "nuts". It's all software mode (CPU). No hardware acceleration from the sound card.

 

[1Kurgan1]

rps havent seen you commenting too much, you been enjoying the game more, or still having some issues? (beyond other players skill that is, lol)

 

[twicksisted]

Is it because it is digital instead of disk ? Sounds great on my system. When they come and bomb the crap out of the pipeline at the end it is BA.

All I heard / read was that the cpu overhead with the game audio is high in the beta as the audio engine in the game wasnt finished properly... not sure exactely of the details myself

EDIT: just read rpsgc's post and that pretty much explains it

 

[Easy Rhino]

that is interesting. ive got a mixamp coming for my headset that using optical for dolby digital surround. i am very exciting to play this game with those audio settings becaus the beta sounds great just using 2.1 audio

 

[rpsgc]

rps havent seen you commenting too much, you been enjoying the game more, or still having some issues? (beyond other players skill that is, lol)

Yes, though it's getting a bit old the same map over and over and over and o... over

No issues here, I mean, except for most of my teammates that is --> "Defend B", I can't stress that enough

 

[TheLaughingMan]

What badges do you guys have.

Im working on getting the 500 kill assualt badge, then 500 kills sniper badge, then light machine gun 500 kills
ganna be alot of killing and playing.



I hope my profile inports to the acctualy game when i buy it


Also my biggest game with all pionts racked up was 14,500 pionts

Most points in 1 round was 22055.

First Badge was the Squad Service badge for 200 squad spawns. I also have the Medic and Recon Badge, and some others I do not recall. Hell I got three of them that round with the 22055.

 

[1Kurgan1]

I don't think I have ever really watched my bonus score since after the game it's gone forever, kinda of weird they don't track it.

 

[digibucc]

you can look at your past medals. i will try and find exactly where, but they are just a little hard to find. there are more options on almost every screen in game than you think at first.

 

[1Kurgan1]

you can look at your past medals. i will try and find exactly where, but they are just a little hard to find. there are more options on almost every screen in game than you think at first.

Yeah you can look at your medals I believe on the weapons and gadgets tabs, but you get a score from them in game (that no one else sees), that score as far as I know is not tracked by anything, so once you move onto the next game, it's gone forever. So I never really look at my bonus score, especially since it is kinda luck, like if you just happened to be close to a gold medal on multiple things and you got all those gold medals in 1 game at 5000 bonus points each. Could have been a horrible game you played, but the bonus would be high compared to a great game with no gold medals and a low bonus.

 

[digibucc]

i see, yep - no way to see that i don't think.

 

[TheLaughingMan]

Yeah you can look at your medals I believe on the weapons and gadgets tabs, but you get a score from them in game (that no one else sees), that score as far as I know is not tracked by anything, so once you move onto the next game, it's gone forever. So I never really look at my bonus score, especially since it is kinda luck, like if you just happened to be close to a gold medal on multiple things and you got all those gold medals in 1 game at 5000 bonus points each. Could have been a horrible game you played, but the bonus would be high compared to a great game with no gold medals and a low bonus.

There is a My stats section that will keep track of all of your medals, pins, badges, total score from combat, score from awards, and for your knifing bastards, dog tag name list and how many tags you got from that person.

It is mostly luck, but most of the match awards are the pins given for kill people, helping to kill people, unkilling people, etc. so I still think it was worth bragging about a little.

In that round with the 22055 I have 4700+ for combat and I was Number 1 on the server.

I do wish it kept track of your highest score, most kills, etc. in a round.

 

[bigtye]

Yeah same, I wish it better track your scores. I got the 5000pt repair badge as well as best in server.

I had a killer round with 38 ground pounding kills and then another 40+ kills gunning in the chopper with clan mate flying. Epic round with 17700 points and massive amount of awards. Caused everyone on the other team bar 3 to quit for the next round.

Really enjoying playing with clan mates, working together on a flank can really hold up an enemy push or conversely drive all the way into an objective, with guys covering the entrances while the comm station is activated.

Rearming, healing and spotting really builds on each of the classes strengths and an organised squad is really worth more than the sum of its parts.

Just playing solo for me can get stale, as someone said, just looking for stuff to shoot. But there is good scope for both styles of play in the game.

Not missing prone anymore either, just use cover in a different way eg reverse slope and the ability to actually hide in the terrain rather than be standout like in bf2.

Tye

 

[digibucc]

does anyone know where there is a list of all medals/etc and what they mean? most are easily understandable but others I'm not sure.

 

[1Kurgan1]

There is a My stats section that will keep track of all of your medals, pins, badges, total score from combat, score from awards, and for your knifing bastards, dog tag name list and how many tags you got from that person.

It is mostly luck, but most of the match awards are the pins given for kill people, helping to kill people, unkilling people, etc. so I still think it was worth bragging about a little.

In that round with the 22055 I have 4700+ for combat and I was Number 1 on the server.

I do wish it kept track of your highest score, most kills, etc. in a round.

I didn't realize it counted in bonus score to your score for the leaderboards, but I see that now. I still feel it's usually the round score that matters, but for a amount of bonus points scored over a lifetime, then I can see them valid as it shows how many objective based things you consistently get, but things like a gold star in a single round don't mean much, just too spikey for scoring.

4700 is a great score though.

does anyone know where there is a list of all medals/etc and what they mean? most are easily understandable but others I'm not sure.

I don't think there is a list beyond what you can see in Weapons & Gadgets, I haven't really ran across any that were confusing.

 

[Reefer86]

Multiplayer > My stats > Awards

Medals and pins are in there.

 

[eidairaman1]

There is a My stats section that will keep track of all of your medals, pins, badges, total score from combat, score from awards, and for your knifing bastards, dog tag name list and how many tags you got from that person.

It is mostly luck, but most of the match awards are the pins given for kill people, helping to kill people, unkilling people, etc. so I still think it was worth bragging about a little.

In that round with the 22055 I have 4700+ for combat and I was Number 1 on the server.

I do wish it kept track of your highest score, most kills, etc. in a round.

Kick ass Avatar

 

[1Kurgan1]

Anyone still up and want to get in a game? Seems Laughingman is asleep at the keyboard

 

[shevanel]

i just installed bc2 on the new hdds aboutt o play

 

[1Kurgan1]

Well; seems like you guys got off in time, looks like EA servers went down

 

[rampage]

any one having issues connecting to the EA server ? im in australia in in the last hr i have only been able to connect once, net and network are working fine at this end

**edidt just noticed 1Kurgan1's post above me

 

[TRIPTEX_CAN]

Any ATI users feel like testing something? Supposed to boost performance but I'd like to see some opinions here. http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/...889064-fps-advice-ati-users.html#post12615664

 

[digibucc]

holy wow.

Catalyst AI brought the flickering back, on weapons water and signs. I'll figure that part out for myself...

but yeah, this made me go from <50 avg fps to 70 AVG.... insanity. very nice find! doesn't look as beautiful with AA set to performance, but still damn good and it gives me hope for high textures.

 

[Bjorn_Of_Iceland]

ah the joys of cat

 

[TRIPTEX_CAN]

holy wow.

Catalyst AI brought the flickering back, on weapons water and signs. I'll figure that part out for myself...

but yeah, this made me go from <50 avg fps to 70 AVG.... insanity. very nice find! doesn't look as beautiful with AA set to performance, but still damn good and it gives me hope for high textures.

Yeah I noticed it didnt look as pretty either. I think AA is just not actually being applied and that's why you see an improvement. Although @ 1920x1080 it can be a little tough seeing effects of AA.