Hidden Post Reveals New Bad Company 2 Map - Panama Canal

[Chris_Redfield]

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looks like one of the maps from MW2.

Maybe because they both take place in South-America, level design wise? A lot of MW2 levels looked like Rainbow Six Vegas levels

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The video looks awesome, but did anyone else feel like the action was purposefully condensed? Like the extremely deceptive BF2142 Titan gameplay video.

[Minmaster]

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yea it felt like they made everyone fight in that one central part of the map.

[imported_Xeq]

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yea it felt like they made everyone fight in that one central part of the map.

Exactly the fights will never look like that with 24/32 players.

[L3adcannon]

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I thought it was MW2 when I looked at the thumbnail.

Lookin good. Im glad to see they added some green.

[Leopardi]

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Exactly the fights will never look like that with 24/32 players.

Which is good, I want some freedom and not be in a blender all the time.

[M0t0rBreath]

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i don't really get the red berets. doesn't it sorta make you stand out and make it easier for the enemy to pick you off? not to mention it offers no head protection. are headgears customizable or are all assaults on that side locked into wearing red berets?

Not sure if I'm right, but on the PC, I think the red berets are the squad leaders. I forgot where I heard this, but seems reasonable.

[M0t0rBreath]

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Exactly the fights will never look like that with 24/32 players.

I disagree. Of course you're not going to get constant action all the time, but we'll see this for sure. Plus the map has a lot of cover and locations for great battles.

[ShadowX8001]

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My GOD this game looks AMAZING! I never played BC1, so I'm coming from BF2/2142 to BC2. So HUGE improvement (in some ways)!!! Good bye MW2....

[TheGuyWhoShotU]

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Exactly the fights will never look like that with 24/32 players.

I have seen fights like that in the beta, it can get intense with just 24 players trust me. That being said 32 will be much better :P.

[RYKUU]

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I don't like the way the gun "wobbles" it looks a bit odd to me, I do like the graphics and the destruction however.

[The_Eliminator]

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Looks great :)

[Minmaster]

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I have seen fights like that in the beta, it can get intense with just 24 players trust me. That being said 32 will be much better :P.

yeah if the maps are more compact compared to bf2/2142 maps, 32 players can be enough. and if the maps are designed to encourage everyone to funnel towards a central "hot spot" and duke it out, i'm sure even 32 can seem very crowded.

[=)BiT(= Evant3k]

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32 is crowded even on BF2, I like 20 player tactical gaming, not nade spam spray and pray pub star fests.

[BrokenMachine]

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32 is crowded even on BF2, I like 20 player tactical gaming, not nade spam spray and pray pub star fests.

Player count is dependant on map design as to how crowded it is. If you played some of the conquest maps from BC1 or 1943 you would see that having 24 players on these maps isn't a lot because of the big map size. If anything the maps were too big and it ended up in a big merry go round, they needed more players on them. I think the PC version of 1943 should benefit from having more players because the map size won't be any different from the 24 player console version.

64 player BF2 certainly wasn't crowded. If you ended up in some random place on the map without a vehicle then you could be running for ages before you got to a firefight. The fights were channelled on some of the maps on BF2 on maps such as Karkand. This doesn't apply as much in BC2 because of the destructible scenery and being able to make your own path instead of following a set path all the time.

[-Shifty-]

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looks awesome, the APCs look great

reminds me of the mine level on Crysis for some reason lol

Yeah

Crysis is awesome, I have both. Just a shame the buildings don't get destroyed they're just huts that have tin walls that fall around. But the physics engine is great.

BF-BC2 engine > Crysis engine.

Then again they're released with 3 years between the two.

Speaking of Crysis, when's Crysis 2 coming out - is it even in development? I think I remember seeing a video about it somewhere.

Codemasters lost their lead AI designer (probably why the AI sucks) to Crytek :laugh: