Bad Company 2 PC Beta Details Revealed

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  • Shawn Zipay
    Managing Communities 24/7
    • Apr 2003
    • 69279

    #1

    Bad Company 2 PC Beta Details Revealed

    DICE has finally uncorked the bottle on the details for the PC beta for Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Just when you thought there wasn't going to be one, all of the official details have been revealed.
    Beta Begins/Ends: Jan 28th/Feb 25th
    Map Name: Port Valdez
    Players: 32
    Game Mode: Rush
    Environment: Snow
    Theme: Vehicle and Infantry

    Back Story
    The battle for Port Valdez is fought alongside the waterline towards a great oil industrial landscape in the Alaskan mountains. Using basically everything they've got the Russian forces are launching an airborne assault to knock out the oil industries in the area. In their arsenal there are Main Battle Tanks as well as fast-moving Quad Bikes and mobile armored AA. It's a vehicle focused battle, but with plenty of infantry combat.

    How to Download: Check back to the Battlefield Bad Company 2 Beta Page closer to beta launch date for download instructions.

    How To Get Access: Reserve Battlefield Bad Company 2 is the most sure fire way and right now we are still finalizing which Retailers & e-Tailers will participate (it's up to them). If you're eager to ensure you get in confirmed distributors to Pre-Order consumers are the EA Store and at GameStop.com. We'll have another Blog to update new retailers & e-Tailers that have teamed up with us as well as alternate channels to obtain a Closed Beta Key.

    The blog continues on to say that they're working with Valve to get the public PC beta up on Steam as well, but nothing is set in stone just yet. Read more about the upcoming PC beta for Bad Company 2 over at the Battlefield blog!
  • Scinto
    Retired TGN *****
    • Mar 2006
    • 5387

    #2
    Re: Bad Company 2 PC Beta Details Revealed

    Good, getting closer.

    Mod Tools: There will not be mod tools for BFBC2. However a majority of the the games logic is controlled by the server and there will be Serverside control options for the dedicated servers.
    doh!

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    • garandx
      Member
      • Aug 2007
      • 594

      #3
      Re: Bad Company 2 PC Beta Details Revealed

      As long as the Server control options are as expansive as they are rumored to be the game will be fine without mod tools. Frostbite is still way to young for people to be messing with it.

      Beta in 20 days!

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      • Shawn Zipay
        Managing Communities 24/7
        • Apr 2003
        • 69279

        #4
        Re: Bad Company 2 PC Beta Details Revealed

        Originally posted by Scinto
        Good, getting closer.



        doh!
        It's not as bad as you think. Valve's had this for a while in their games. It eliminates a lot of the cheating not commonly picked up by anti-cheat programs, including custom glowing skins, transparent textures, etc. Stuff that is readily modifiable but not technically a "cheat."

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        • Scinto
          Retired TGN *****
          • Mar 2006
          • 5387

          #5
          Re: Bad Company 2 PC Beta Details Revealed

          Originally posted by garandx
          Frostbite is still way to young for people to be messing with it.
          True, perhaps in the next game BF2 game with Frostbite they will release mod tools, I guess you can only imagine what fun could be made

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          • |TG| Silver.7
            Member
            • Jan 2007
            • 120

            #6
            Re: Bad Company 2 PC Beta Details Revealed

            3 weeks away, that will go fast, great, cant wait to play the beta .... and give relevant feedback to DICE

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            • jesus
              Member
              • May 2007
              • 2413

              #7
              Re: Bad Company 2 PC Beta Details Revealed

              Originally posted by [MyIS]Zips
              It's not as bad as you think. Valve's had this for a while in their games. It eliminates a lot of the cheating not commonly picked up by anti-cheat programs, including custom glowing skins, transparent textures, etc. Stuff that is readily modifiable but not technically a "cheat."
              Games like TF2 still have those problems.

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              • Shawn Zipay
                Managing Communities 24/7
                • Apr 2003
                • 69279

                #8
                Re: Bad Company 2 PC Beta Details Revealed

                Originally posted by jesus
                Games like TF2 still have those problems.
                I never once claimed it was 100% effective. However, you also have to be playing on a server that restricts the custom content. Many servers do restrict the content, many do not have restrictions. So of course you will still see that if you're playing on an "open" server.

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                • JunoPPCLI
                  Member
                  • Mar 2007
                  • 393

                  #9
                  Re: Bad Company 2 PC Beta Details Revealed

                  About time ! But Hooray ! Wait... doesn't this mean that the whole gamestop thing was right ?

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                  • CptainCrunch
                    I am the 1%
                    • Oct 2007
                    • 12976

                    #10
                    Re: Bad Company 2 PC Beta Details Revealed

                    Yep, Gamestop was right.

                    Crunch
                    Twitter: @CptainCrunch
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                    • wolf106
                      Member
                      • Feb 2008
                      • 452

                      #11
                      Re: Bad Company 2 PC Beta Details Revealed

                      do people who pre-order from gamestop.ca get a key??

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                      • Sike
                        Member
                        • Jun 2006
                        • 1742

                        #12
                        Re: Bad Company 2 PC Beta Details Revealed

                        pre-order closed beta, steam public beta, am i reading this right?

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                        • Eglaerinion
                          Member
                          • Apr 2006
                          • 383

                          #13
                          Re: Bad Company 2 PC Beta Details Revealed

                          No mod tools = fail.

                          BFBC2 is going into the same direction as MW2. No sale.

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                          • iQue
                            Member
                            • May 2007
                            • 4925

                            #14
                            Re: Bad Company 2 PC Beta Details Revealed

                            Originally posted by Eglaerinion
                            BFBC2 is going into the same direction as MW2. No sale.
                            Frostbite is a new engine even for them, GvD and other DICE employees have said themselves that they don't have user friendly tools and it's very complicated even for those that has been with the engine from the start.

                            If you accept that is up to you I guess.

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                            • Scinto
                              Retired TGN *****
                              • Mar 2006
                              • 5387

                              #15
                              Re: Bad Company 2 PC Beta Details Revealed

                              Originally posted by wolf106
                              do people who pre-order from gamestop.ca get a key??
                              There should be more places that you can pre-order from to get into the beta as its up to the retailers if they are going to take part, there may also be other sites giving away beta keys so it shouldnt be to hard.

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