Battlefield Bad Company 2 Clubhouse

[brandonwh64]

Ill test BC2 Vietnam out tonight

 

[ShiBDiB]

Already knew that stuff from you know, playing the game. They get creamed by tanks more often than you think.....stupid pilots think sitting still so their friends can shoot is a smart idea. lol.

And I played Nam in hardcore mode. It was not as bad as I thought it would be. Definitely worse, but helpful for me as I seem to get the first shot off a lot more often than I thought. I spent a last night with a 2.25 average for like 10 games. But I will not play Hardcore on Nam again cause it did two very stupid things. One, shooting the tank with no crosshair sucks when the barrel is slightly off center. This gives a distinct advantage to the American T54. And the M40 = 1 hit kill creates too many weak ass, hiding in the bushes, not helping anyone, wannabe snipers.

I can't be a sniper for long cause I will get bored or frustrated. Then I end up on the frontlines shooting people at short range with the GOL and starting pistol fights.....well at least I had a pistol. So it really pisses me off when I have to pick up a Rifle just to kill off 3 or 4 snipers my team decided to ignore. It is a waste of my time.

thats the same in bc2 hardcore.. its a sniper fest and a waste of time. unless u find a server that kicks snipers.

 

[char[] rager]

I just replaced my video card and did a fresh install of Windows 7 and subsequently, Bad Company 2. Now, I am being PLAGUED with crashes to desktop, it NEVER fails, everytime I am in a game, EVERY ROUND, it crashes to desktop????

My system is as stable as stable can be, CPU, RAM and GPU have been THOROUGHLY tested for stability, and have been deemed stable.

 

[sapetto]

WTH wrong with the hitboxes recently?! If someone is running most of the time its impossible to kill him, it shows blood from the body and the hit isn't registered no matter the distance. And its not lagg because if i use assault rifle it does damage. Now i cant rush using my SV98 No scope close kills cant fail but if he is running no hit registered...

 

[blu3flannel]

I had one of my best games just now, I was like an aimbot with that chopper.

 

[brandonwh64]

I got vietnam earlier and i played a few rounds and i must say..... i like it , i have questions tho?

Is there an unlock system or what you get is what you get kinda thing?

 

[char[] rager]

Guys, what is wrong? I was having the crashes because I had the DX version set to 11. I have a GTX580, why do I have to set the DirectX level to 10 in order to stop the crashes to desktop?

 

[1Kurgan1]

WTH wrong with the hitboxes recently?! If someone is running most of the time its impossible to kill him, it shows blood from the body and the hit isn't registered no matter the distance. And its not lagg because if i use assault rifle it does damage. Now i cant rush using my SV98 No scope close kills cant fail but if he is running no hit registered...

The hit boxes got f'ed in R10. Instead of leading your target, aim slightly behind them the amount you would lead them, thats where they actually are. The game guesses where people are going next and displays them there, so if they are full out sprinting, their hitbox is slightly behind that. Hopefully they find a work around sometime soon.

I got vietnam earlier and i played a few rounds and i must say..... i like it , i have questions tho?

Is there an unlock system or what you get is what you get kinda thing?

No unlocks from what I understand, maybe 1 scope for snipers, but thats it.

 

[TheLaughingMan]

I got vietnam earlier and i played a few rounds and i must say..... i like it , i have questions tho?

Is there an unlock system or what you get is what you get kinda thing?

Well there is an unlock system, but they line up with level and point unlocks for BC2 reg. In other words, if you have already unlocked say the first new gun for assault in BC2 reg., the first new gun for assault in Nam is ready as well.

If you are like most of us and are already well beyond getting unlocks, you already have everything you are going to get anyway. The only think we get is a new map once the community team assist points hit something.


*And I did not intend for my comment earlier to come off as rude or harsh. I just don't get some of these videos showing player's stuff they can learn in 30 seconds of play. I personally figured out the "you can shot the chopper blades" and "all guns seem to do damage" points in the first 5 minutes of Nam. I shot at a chopper with the M14 hoping to hit the gunner. After I finished off the clip, I learned both those points. I usually put any game through a battery of testing. I learned the Sniper points the same way we did in BC2 regular. I got a rifle, got to the enemy chopper spot, waiting til someone jumped in and killed him. When I get stupid ideas that I don't think will work like say, shot the pilot out with a mag. slug shotty or how much C4 is needed to bring a building down (6 explo. upgrade in well placed spots), I get Tc2r to help. We get on an empty server and test stuff out on one another.

I am glad you posted it for those that didn't know, but I think you could have just written down the sniper rifle vs. Huey info. for us and been gravy.

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

i got $12 left in paypal.... and im considering vietnam possibly if Steam dosent give me a way better deal on better games. granted i have to order it from EA.... since my games a non steam version but i dont know Vietnam just dosent appeal to me much...

 

[travva]

do it crazy eyes! stop postponing the inevitable!

 

[travva]

Guys, what is wrong? I was having the crashes because I had the DX version set to 11. I have a GTX580, why do I have to set the DirectX level to 10 in order to stop the crashes to desktop?

i would be willing to be that your gpu oc that you think is stable really isn't. bc2 is a very good OC tester for gpus. it's as good as crysis was/is imo. are you getting white/grey screen? i see your OC says 810, is that stock voltage? if so there's your problem.

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

yea i bought a huge swath of games today.... im hoping for a Mass Effect 1+2 combo deal so i can grab them up cheap for some friends. and got my eye on a few other games

but i ended up buying Dragon Age Ultimate pack Men of ware + expansion Resident Evil 5 and a bunch of others today

as for the guys crashes i had the same issue with my 5850s i was forced to run DX9 mode because DX11 = the game would constantly drop out of fullscreen and then re go back into it constantly on DX11 and DX10 would just crash alot so its system dependent and thats at stock settings lol. No issues right now tho on 6900s thankfully

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

and im sorry if it aint teamspeak or vent im not hopping on i got enough useless junk installed i dont need more of it aka xfire etc lol

 

[char[] rager]

@travva

My card is factory overclocked. I would venture to say that if it is factory overclocked, the card is able to support itself at those speeds.

I get no kind of gray/white screens during play and no artifacts. It will just randomly crash to desktop.

I just got through fifteen runs of IntelBurnTest on Extreme preset, on all 8 threads, which put my CPU (100% usage) and RAM (~ 96% usage) through approximately an hour of hell, so I know my CPU and RAM are stable.

To test my GPU, I have already pretty much played half the Crysis Warhead campaign through with no problems. I played the entire Metro 2033 campaign with only one crash to desktop. I have ran an hour of Kombustor and Furmark each with no problems. I can run through multiple Unigine Heaven 2.0's in succession with no problem.

I am thinking that there is just some software problem and the game does not like something about my system.

 

[Wrigleyvillain]

do it crazy eyes! stop postponing the inevitable!

Seriously. Dude, I'll send you the three bucks. It's Christmas!

 

[MT Alex]

I had one of my best games just now, I was like an aimbot with that chopper.

http://i786.photobucket.com/albums/yy142/blu3flannel/awesomegame.png

Very nice round.

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

Seriously. Dude, I'll send you the three bucks. It's Christmas!

lol yea yea i gotta mull it over... im already pissed off that my Controller broke so now i have to buy a new one so i can play some of the games i bought today... stupid saitek P990 it held up for half a decade... grrr dont want to pay for a damn 360 controller. Eitherway ill mull it over i already know im gonna rage and with no actually teamspeak or vent server BadCompany2 dosent interest me as much as it did. Im big on Voip.. without it the games meh Squad and or teamplay without voice = fail

 

[blu3flannel]

I'm really pissed that EA isn't letting third party stats sites update my stats. I've gained 2 levels, 2k+ kills and a bunch of stars and stuff and I can only see it through the crappy Bad Company 2 site! Grrrrrrrrr

 

[Black Haru]

lol yea yea i gotta mull it over... im already pissed off that my Controller broke so now i have to buy a new one so i can play some of the games i bought today... stupid saitek P990 it held up for half a decade... grrr dont want to pay for a damn 360 controller. Eitherway ill mull it over i already know im gonna rage and with no actually teamspeak or vent server BadCompany2 dosent interest me as much as it did. Im big on Voip.. without it the games meh Squad and or teamplay without voice = fail

don't forget gully's ts server.

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

ive seen 3 different servers and an xfire server ppl need to fixate on 1 and stick to 1 otherwise its just a damn mess and at that point ill have to start putting my boot into peoples asses to straighten things out if i want to play Badcompany 2

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

uh TS3 is free if u have the bandwidth for it not that hard to setup ive run it off my desktop more then once and my shitty connection was able to handle 5 ppl without effecting my gameplay only 7-10ppl caused me lag tho. Literally you get all the same features as a paid server if your willing to do the leg work im just lazy and i cant afford to pay the astronomical price for the bandwidth needed nor do i have a 2nd pc to dedicate to running the TS3 channel

 

[MT Alex]

How about they just fix the viop in a special patch?
I know, I know, I harp on this all the time. But you didn't need any f'ing TS or Xfire for BF2 because shit worked! It made things a lot nicer. Jesus, this is my main bitch in this game.

I don't want to be in a clique, I don't want to have to log on to some other shit. I just want to push ALT and be able to talk to other fucking members of my squad. BULLSHIT!

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

um theres like 5-10 of you realize that can be run no problem on a just about any connection with greater then 1mbps upload so anyone with say 15mbps down 2mbps up could run a TS3 server for 20ppl give or take theres not THAT many of us. You seem to confuse TPU teamspeaker users as if were a 300 person clan were more like 10 guys that play BC2 off an on of which only 3-4 are ever on at the same time.

 

[GullyFoyle]

The scoreboard for the race to unlock the 5th Vietnam map, Operation Hastings, is up Here

Looks like it is separate, per platform. Go PC! They've passed 9% already, we should be playing Hastings within a week...

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Regarding the past few days' connectivity/server problems (Dec 18th-22nd)

MikaelKalms, DICE

Here is a quick recap of what has happened during Dec 18th-22nd:

During Saturday, the stats database was getting overloaded for PC. This was both due to increased player counts and 3rd party stats websites pulling out stats.
This manifested itself in several ways:
* Sometimes the game would spend a really long time at the "updating stats" stage.
* Sometimes when people logged in, the game claimed that they were at rank 1.
* Sometimes the game would claim that they hadn't achieved anything (no pins/insignias etc).
One thing which is important to note here is that the stats for players have not been modified in any way - it is merely the game client that fails at retrieving them from the database.

We have blocked the main 3rd party stats websites, and are having a dialogue with their developers. Also, we have done modifications to the master server code to reduce the load that game clients cause on the stats DB. These changes were deployed during two master server restarts during Tuesday.

A bit later some networking issues caused something which we refer to as "ghost games" appearing in the server browser. What happened here was that 5-8% of all game servers fell offline, yet parts of the backend was under the impression that the servers were still connected. When the servers tried to reconnect, the backend would deny with the reason "there is already an identical server connected".

The swiftest way of resolving that is also the crudest - restarting the backend. We did so during Wednesday (a bit before lunchtime GMT).

At the time of writing, the backend is doing reasonably well and we are about to surpass 40k players online in less than an hour.

EDIT:
During evening Dec 22nd there are still reports about problems. These are likely due to packet loss that was occurring between two backbone locations in the US (one destination being near the master servers). The ranking DB itself held up fairly well during the night.

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