PC Beta Details And Date Thur 28th

Dcully

Pornster do you mind explaining the spotting system please.

While i do agree with those saying the ui sucks but hey BF series ui always suck.
Once in the game its great fun imo.

Make sure you use the "play now" option instead of using the server browser.

Anti

The spotting thing works by pressing the social button when you are hovering your sights over a enemy, it marks them on the map. Well thats what i could work our from what the guys that stayed up all night were saying on teamspeak at 6am. Some of them are rank 15 already

youcancallmeal

Peglegged wrote: »

If you want a beta key http://www.i3d.net/bf-bc2-beta-keys-signup.php is the place to go. They still have over 600 keys left. It's a simple 30 second form to fill out.

No keys left now

Ponster

As Anti said :

Pressing Q doesn't bring up the rose like it used to do in BF2. Now you point at an enemy and pressing 'q' will spot him on the map (little red triangle). If you point at a friendly medic you'll ask for a medic. If you're in a tank you can spot an engineer to request repairs (haven't tested this one).

Now for spotting bad guys it works fine, but expecting me to recognize an engineer from a medic in the heat of the battle is crazy.

Anti

youcancallme>al wrote: »

No keys left now

Drop me a pm, i have a spare key

Ponster

"Spot Assist"

Remember when we played the demo of BF2 and tried to figure out how the points system worked? One of the ideas was that enemies spotted and then killed by others added to your score.

Well it does now

dreamers75

Spare keys?

cherryghost

played it last night...

negatives:
- yeah, snipers are waaay too powerful
- fov is a bit off, tho they have mentioned they'll put it in the option of it

positives:
- graphics are amazing
- gameplay is definately solid, fast paced, intense.
- i like the idea of limited ammo, means less wallspam or anything going on
- the frostbite destruction was irritating at first, but it made me learn some better cover spots and hence improve my strategic movements on the map
- spawning beside members of squad works perfect. love it.

i dont really care for the commander option in bf2 tbh, so i dont mind if its gone.

Anti

dreamers75 wrote: »

Spare keys?

Sorry bud, only had one key and its gone to al.

cherryghost

actually i think my friend has a key, ill PM it on if he has it (and once i get hold of him)

Br4tPr1nc3

anyone else got a spare key?
would really love to play!

BeansBeans

cherryghost wrote: »

played it last night...

negatives:
- yeah, snipers are waaay too powerful
- fov is a bit off, tho they have mentioned they'll put it in the option of it

positives:
- graphics are amazing
- gameplay is definately solid, fast paced, intense.
- i like the idea of limited ammo, means less wallspam or anything going on
- the frostbite destruction was irritating at first, but it made me learn some better cover spots and hence improve my strategic movements on the map
- spawning beside members of squad works perfect. love it.

i dont really care for the commander option in bf2 tbh, so i dont mind if its gone.

Just to make it worse the buggers get a mortar strike as an unlock!

Ya its growing on me a lot its great fun. After a lot of fiddling with pitch and yaw and sensitivity i nearly got my mouse sorted.

Another tip for attackers, get into the light tank with the mortar style gun and just persistently pound the back left defenders building. You get loads of snipers and people camping a mounted MG and a TOW in there. Makes it much easier for your team to get down the hill.

I actually love how the tanks work, seems like a much better balance now. The apache is worryingly powerful (ehm wheres the AA?) when someone has no lag and manages to stay up its rather scary.

Ponster

beta update available but for some reason I can't seem to download it...

SeantheMan

No Chance to try out choppers

When the enemy managed to push us so far back that they would actually spawn, noobs just jumped in and turned them upside down.

The game although in Beta is average , and not worth pre-ordering.
Hopefully they sort a lot of the issues out.

Mapping of buttons etc and menus are still glitchy.
Trying to type to team/squad/all is awful difficult sometimes, especially upon death.

SeantheMan

Oh, and anyone else's gfx a bit glitchy ? some textures, especially the water.

Not sure which setting is causing it, shouldn't be the hardware on my PC
4gig Ram, Intel Extreme 6800, Radeon 4870X2, which generally runs all games on highest spec.

Default settings on this were 1024x1080 on Medium, and it looks glitchy. Still not bothered tweaking it to highest or lowest though....as the game annoys me so much atm...same map...same snipers...no BF2 i have to say

Anyone know when BF3 is out ?

dreamers75

Spare keys ?


dammit didnt know my pic didnt work earlier

BeansBeans

SeantheMan wrote: »

Oh, and anyone else's gfx a bit glitchy ? some textures, especially the water.

Not sure which setting is causing it, shouldn't be the hardware on my PC
4gig Ram, Intel Extreme 6800, Radeon 4870X2, which generally runs all games on highest spec.

Default settings on this were 1024x1080 on Medium, and it looks glitchy. Still not bothered tweaking it to highest or lowest though....as the game annoys me so much atm...same map...same snipers...no BF2 i have to say

Anyone know when BF3 is out ?

A couple of years time id say
I know im no help

cherryghost

my logitech g19 is telling me the lag in the servers are about 200ms :mad:

the_syco

BeansBeans wrote: »

Just to make it worse the buggers get a mortar strike as an unlock!

Which brings down buildings, but doesn't kill people.

=-=

Pro's:
No crashing when selecting servers.
No CTD's.
Choppers are piss easy to take out, using a fixed machine gun, or fixed rocket launcher.
No AC130/etc.

BeansBeans

oooh good to know about the mortar, i was wondering why they were going off around me and i was alive.

But the choppers i have to disagree, they fly like bloody UFOs ridiculously manouverable. Cant hit them with a competent pair playing. Its certainly not the apache of BF2 SF ah ill see, might just have been lag.
Its very hard to judge anything at the moment, although that patch did help a lot.

Dcully

Which brings down buildings, but doesn't kill people.

Ive got quite a few mortar kills in fairness while targetting buildings i know enemies are holding up in.

Anti

Sweet mother of jebus. Got the patch last night when i got home and i think i played for about 8 hours non stop. Sniper is soooooooo Overpowered, but i like the way i can quick scope with it

cherryghost

guys whats your friend addys for bad company 2?

mines cherryghost, add me, will be on tonight

Ponster

ptegan

pity the friends system isn't working.

cherryghost

aye, for future reference though

Dcully

I dont think sniper is overpowered at all, many times i need 2 shots or more to kill someone but yeah more often than not its a 1 shot kill.
After all it should be more powerfull than other guns.

BeansBeans

Ah even if it took 4 shots to kill, look at the kit as a whole. Its mad.
Also the gun is just too easy to use, too forgiving. Im a horrible sniper if you look at my BF2 stats but found it really easy in this game.
It feels like the hitboxes are bloody huge!

Leucifer

Haven't been able to join any game yet :mad:
Keep getting that stupid "Connection to server lost"

From what I've seen posted here and from Youtube, the sniper rifles do seem a bit strong alright, at least for standard mode.

But for those who want it to play more realistic (like me) it seems we will have a Hardcore option Notice bottom right of server options.

http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/8374/85405906.jpg

As much as I liked the old BF games, having to empty nearly a full clip into someone to kill them was annoying.

Ponster

Leucifer wrote: »

Haven't been able to join any game yet :mad:
Keep getting that stupid "Connection to server lost"

Lots of people getting that, even after forwarding ports and putting pc into DMZ.

Also ATI 3xxx and 19xx cards don't seem to work with it.

Dcully

But for those who want it to play more realistic (like me) it seems we will have a Hardcore option

If its anything like COD4 and MW2`s so called hardcore it will ne more like noobcore.,far too easy to kill someone imo.