necrosis wrote on Jun 7, 2010, 16:52:
Outsourcing 4TL.

It's due to where Dice is located, not because of EA wanting to save money or something.

I think they meant to say Mortar Strike.

They so need to nerf the fucking snipers in this game. They ruin it on SO many levels.

Everyone is a sniper and no one goes for the MComn stations or flags if they are a sniper. They are the bane of BC2. That and the fucking aimbots.

Funny, most complaints I hear about involve the medic and how heavy machine guns are overpowered.

Outsourcing 4TL.

Verno wrote on Jun 7, 2010, 15:46:
It's a common misconception but most of the time QA teams find a disgustingly huge amount of bugs and the publishers ignore them to get the game out at release time. Some bugs are also deemed acceptable at the time but end up being more severe due to unforeseen factors. QA teams work pretty hard, they are the grunts of the industry so don't be playa hatin

Figured as much. Well, I'll divert my cynicism towards DICE then.

It's a common misconception but most of the time QA teams find a disgustingly huge amount of bugs and the publishers ignore them to get the game out at release time. Some bugs are also deemed acceptable at the time but end up being more severe due to unforeseen factors. QA teams work pretty hard, they are the grunts of the industry so don't be playa hatin

fujiJuice wrote on Jun 7, 2010, 14:44:
Wow, I didn't even know they had a QA team, learn something new everyday.

One might even argue they really don't have one.

/cynicism

Wow, I didn't even know they had a QA team, learn something new everyday.

Surf wrote on Jun 7, 2010, 11:52:
I think they meant to say Mortar Strike.

They so need to nerf the fucking snipers in this game. They ruin it on SO many levels.

Everyone is a sniper and no one goes for the MComn stations or flags if they are a sniper. They are the bane of BC2.

I disagree the snipers play a very important role & as far as OP goes no WAY have you played a regular game (Not HC) the snipers are so damn weak. I only play on HC mode and the snipers are well balanced IMO. However they should have class limits on the servers!

haha, they're outsourcing my department to romania where I work, wonder if the project team took this into account. Even during the tube strikes in London most people can still get into work, just takes a little longer...

I guess Dice or EA or whoever doesnt pay their employees enough to BUY a car it would seem...

SPECACT is the uniforms I was refereeing to. They are basically camouflaged weapons (yay?) and new badges and achievements. I really could care less about that in light of more pressing things.

The "Infantry only mode" refers to the ability to remove vehicles from the game (or your server at least).

EDIT: ill expand on all those things:

-A new map usually means they take a map that was used for say Conquest only, and make it into a RUSH map. It's really a new game mode on an old map. (is that worth calling new? I dunno discuss).
-The new Chat mode is being able to type works when you're dead. It seems like a no brainer, but when you die you CANNOT communicate.

No the Game mode isn't coming

I saw this on here last week:

Bad Company 2 Plans

[Jun 01, 2010, 8:11 pm ET] - 25 Comments
Planet Battlefield has some details on changes in an upcoming patch for the PC edition of Battlefield: Bad Company 2, DICE's military shooter sequel. Some of this comes from a future build of the game that a Russian blog got their hands on, with DICE's Barrie Tingle confirming the bona fides of some of what they learned. This includes plans for an exclusive infantry mode for the PC, the implication a new map is coming, and a new chat mode. Finally, the developer also known as Bazajaytee mentions one further addition: "Good guess The SPECACT will be patched into the PC version and made available on EA Store to unlock it." Thanks Ant.

I have no clue what the free map is nor what "SPECACT" is, I assume it's some co-op game mode? I don't know, I haven't been playing much since I've been waiting for the patch to fix balance issues.

This comment was edited on Jun 7, 2010, 12:49.

straylight wrote on Jun 7, 2010, 12:39:
No the Game node isnt coming, but the neat little alternative uniforms are.

Which comes in the form of paid DLC and rumors say is the reason the patch keeps getting delayed.

No the Game mode isn't coming, but the neat little alternative uniforms are.... great.

I'd give it all up for a working anti-cheat measure and for them to fix the ridiculous bugs they have in game.

Definitely the last DICE game I buy, the whole game was poorly managed for PC gamers from the start- which is ironic considering how the PC version outsold the PS3 and Xbox versions.

I play this game every other day or so, but thats just because I bought it. If STEAM would let me get my money back I'd do it in a heartbeat.

the new game mode that isn't even coming to the PC as of now...

Didn't they announce that mode was coming for free last week? And the PC version has had patches before the console versions before. In fact the Steam version has had two patches before everyone else including other PC retail users. So I'm not quite sure what the favoritism argument is for when it seems very misplaced. This patch is taking a long time because it's going to fix up the majority of issues with the game, going by the patch list anyways. It's a reality of the industry that PC Q/A takes longer by default anyways, the sheer number of system configurations involved ensure that alone.

Strike or not, DICE have clearly shown that they give preference to the console versions of the game. This is not a one off occurrence... the console versions get all forms of post release content before the PC version, be it balance patches, bug fixes, 'new' maps, the new game mode that isn't even coming to the PC as of now...

DICE leveraged the anti-MW2 sentiment amongst PC gamers very well for PR purposes before their game released, but now it has become abundantly clear that their priorities lie elsewhere.

I think they meant to say Mortar Strike.

They so need to nerf the fucking snipers in this game. They ruin it on SO many levels.

Everyone is a sniper and no one goes for the MComn stations or flags if they are a sniper. They are the bane of BC2. That and the fucking aimbots.

Nice job punkbuster.... you suck.

I have a feeling BC2 may be the worst release on PC in a while. The game's barely 3 months and its population is dropping away fast. In a couple month's more if nothing is done this game will be very, very dead.

ffs this is like 6 days old and this usually being a very well up to date site I posted it a few places only to be told it was old news (and the linked article is from the 1st).

Fail on both of our parts, Blue.

You'd think that even if Romania didn't have any cars (which they apparently don't have for a bus strike to shut down entire companies) they should still have some sort of pack animal hauling a cart or I dunno, legs?