Battlefield Bad Company Beta on Live now!

EGriff

So i guess this is over since it won't let me connect to a game. Thought it would go on till sometime tonight at least.

Denisoftus

It is over indeed, looking fowards to getting the full game.

Not The Real Scarecrow

well, I'm sold. Goodbye MW2 and hello BC2.

AdMMM

Traded in a load of old muck today to preorder this. The video review on IGN looks great and I can see myself setting MW2 to the side for a while to make way for this!

RAIN

Reviews incoming.

Eurogamer http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/battlefield-bad-company-2-review?page=3

They liked it...a lot

MayoForSam

First day purchase for me - didn't bother pre-ordering as I want this on Friday. Which bricks+mortar shop will be doing the best deal does anyone know?

Jip

It's looking good on metacritic, I think this will tempt me to buy a game for the first time in months, maybe even renew my Live membership.

Denisoftus

game.co.uk has just posted BC2 Limited, I wonder, is it up for sale in the shops, or preorders are usually send out earlier?

Mr Freeze

Denisoftus wrote: »

game.co.uk has just posted BC2 Limited, I wonder, is it up for sale in the shops, or preorders are usually send out earlier?

Ya, mine was posted yesterday from Game too, they try to get the preorders to you on release day.

Mr Freeze

Pre-order never arrived....

Woe is me...entire friends list is playing (nearly)

miju

gotta say the single player capaign is short and sucks ALOT. But online kicks ass

Denisoftus

CKWPORT wrote: »

Pre-order never arrived....

Woe is me...entire friends list is playing (nearly)

I think, it will on Monday, it usually takes a week.

Not The Real Scarecrow

Ea server down last night so you're not missing much. Apparently fixing stuff up to improve game play.

Chairman Meow

miju wrote: »

gotta say the single player capaign is short and sucks ALOT.

Ummmm no, no it doesnt.

rizzla

From the BFBC2 twitter

"Today there will be a restart of our BFBC2 Xbox 360 systems at 3:00 AM PST, 11:00 GMT. Please spread the word."

I wonder how long they'll be down for.

miju

Chairman Meow wrote: »

Ummmm no, no it doesnt.

Different stroke I suppose. Online play is savage though, have nearly maxed all my assault perks , now if only I could learn to snipe in this game, problem is I've no patience for sitting somewhere so usually end up dead when I go on the attack LOL

Ri_Nollaig

miju wrote: »

gotta say the single player capaign is short and sucks ALOT. But online kicks ass

I was surprised with the single player tbh.
I was expecting just the mulitplayer in singleplayer with bots; but was done well. Easily on par with MW2 anyway (that didn't take much).

Would have prefered a helicopter flying mission, might have some idea what I was doing then when I went online...

miju

Ri_Nollaig wrote: »

Would have prefered a helicopter flying mission, might have some idea what I was doing then when I went online...

True some kind of trainer mission or being able to set up a private match (without having 8 other players) woulda been a nice addition.

Anyways, enough of the negative. Is anyone up for a private match tonight?

Mr Freeze

miju wrote: »

Anyways, enough of the negative. Is anyone up for a private match tonight?

My copy should be arriving today!

Can you rank up & unlock stuff in Private matches and does that carry over to public? Probably not

miju

haven't a clue TBH as I've not had a private match yet. maybe even a squad in a public match if you like?

Mr Freeze

Sound, your on my friends list already I think, so my copy ever arrives (better be here today) I will give you a shout.

My favorite class, the specialist is gone in BC2 though, so it will take a while to get used of a new class, Recon or Medic/Support I am thinking.

AdMMM

I think I have a few people added to my friends list but feel free to add me. I'm still at the stage where I run up to people and crouch in front of them instead of knifing them though

miju

CKWPORT wrote: »

Sound, your on my friends list already I think, so my copy ever arrives (better be here today) I will give you a shout.

My favorite class, the specialist is gone in BC2 though, so it will take a while to get used of a new class, Recon or Medic/Support I am thinking.

yeah you are on my friends list alright. I'll send ya an invite to a private squad later.

I haven't had much fun on recon and still havent played medic so dunno what medic is like

Mr Freeze

I'm just thinking having a Defibrillator is gonna be cool...wonder can you zap live enemies with it?

muppetkiller

I love it ..played it all weekend and was so impressed with the multiplayer I traded in MW2 as I can't see myself playing it again.
Some of the maps are simply brilliant and huge in size.
The single player is good fun but a bit easy (even on hard) ..
Only negatives are the checkpoints in the single player can be in very frustrating locations so clearing out the same areas time after time can be a pain..
Also some times it's impossible to get a game online. the game just hangs on the searching screen and you have to exit to the dashboard before you can play again.

miju

CKWPORT wrote: »

I just thinking having a Defibrillator is gonna cool...wonder can you zap live enemies with it?

yep you can kill with the defib, has happened to me once so far :mad:

mise

My copy just arrived this morning.. I'm hoping any Bad Company skills I have from the first one come back to me quite quickly, didnt have to most successful time in the Beta..

Feel free to add me

Gamertag - colmise

miju

mise II wrote: »

Feel free to add me

Gamertag - colmise

already on my friends list so will send ya an invite later

Mr Freeze

"Preorder" arrived today too.

Pretty sure I have colmise on my friends list too.

super_furry

miju wrote: »

yep you can kill with the defib, has happened to me once so far :mad:

Awesome, I didn't realise that, must give it a go. Loving the medic class at the moment - so much exp, especially on defence.