EA Asks "What Are Your Biggest Issues?" with Bad Company 2

[CptainCrunch]

Bazajaytee posts up the following:

What are your biggest bug issues in BFBC2 PC at this point? Lets try to keep this thread on track, we'll delete any post that isn't constructive or reporting a problem (no, too many snipers on my team is not a bug ).

Issues that we know are a pain and are looking into:

• Revive invulnerability
• Blue chat box square on some PC's and settings
• AT4 weapon balance <!--more-->
• Reload text in the middle of the screen
• VoIP
• Insignia bug (no requirement for SPECACT)
• C4 does not always work
• Custom resolutions
• Horn isn't audible to other players
• UAV on White Pass crashes into trees on first use
• Being shot only affects the model and animation not the aim. It should recoil the aim too
• No vertical line on GOL Sniper reticule
• Server lag

Wants

• SPECACT
• Connect to IP
• New Maps (maps not modes)
• Rank cap increase
• Tweak map(s) to lower spawn camping
• Car radios
• Auto Login
• Steamworks/Games for Windows Live integration
• Red dot sight for M14
• Stats for new vehicles
• More air combat
• City maps
• Bigger maps
• Exit game should go back to server browser instead of "Home"
• Unranked server files
• Server details on score board
• Battlerecorder
• Spectator mode
• Screen shot functionality
• Ability to check PB GUID without being server admin (drop down console)
• Ban by GUID and not just player name
• Mod tools
• Stats per server
• Dog tag stats for who has your tags
• Improved hit detection
• Ability to leave a server during map loading
• New weapons
• Auto Ready button (instead of mouse based GUI)
• Arming radius of CG to reduce spamming

We'll keep this post updated to show the latest issues so check here first to avoid repeat posts.

For those that are wanting something done about a bug or issue in the game, may be now would be the time to post here.

[Minmaster]

Re: EA Asks &quot;What Are Your Biggest Issues?&quot; with Bad Company 2

wtf i never knew the horn isn't audible... i always honk honk and nobody ever turns around. haha

[l=l-ONeill-l=l]

Re: EA Asks &quot;What Are Your Biggest Issues?&quot; with Bad Company 2

I just hope that some guys from EA/DICE would read this and actually do something about it.

[Minmaster]

Re: EA Asks &quot;What Are Your Biggest Issues?&quot; with Bad Company 2

i think guys at DICE would be more annoyed by this new community manager bringing light to their incompetence. :laugh:

[MrChris_CJ]

Re: EA Asks &quot;What Are Your Biggest Issues?&quot; with Bad Company 2

people need to spam the need for the AT4/M16/G3 reversion

[Nate79]

Re: EA Asks &quot;What Are Your Biggest Issues?&quot; with Bad Company 2

Suggestion for revised list ... let's stick to the important things that actually effect gameplay in the pain section. If we don't, the things that need fixed get lost in things we can deal with. Lag? Play servers with lower ping. EA cannot make your PC better than the money you won't spend on it.

Pain
Arming radius of CG to reduce spamming
Revive invulnerability
AT4 weapon balance
UAV on White Pass crashes into trees on first use
No vertical line on GOL Sniper reticule

Wants
Connect to IP
New Maps (maps not modes)
Tweak map(s) to lower spawn camping
Red dot sight for M14
City maps
Bigger maps
Improved hit detection
Ability to leave a server during map loading

[Minmaster]

Re: EA Asks &quot;What Are Your Biggest Issues?&quot; with Bad Company 2

i got one:
ability to leave the game while dead... (in some servers, you cannot do this as the exit button disappears when you die for some reason).

[imported_Gunny]

Re: EA Asks &quot;What Are Your Biggest Issues?&quot; with Bad Company 2

I wish the game didn't have auto switching sides, the gamer should have the option of what side He/She wants to fight on I find that part to much like the console(CoD:MW2). Thank God Battlefield Bad Company2 Vietnam Wont have that because in the E3 post it said(" Enter the jungle warfare environment as either the U.S. Marines or North Vietnamese Army (NVA)").

My OP and Im Sticking to it!

[[Expletive Deleted]]

Re: EA Asks &quot;What Are Your Biggest Issues?&quot; with Bad Company 2

I wish the game didn't have auto switching sides, the gamer should have the option of what side He/She wants to fight on I find that part to much like the console(CoD:MW2). Thank God Battlefield Bad Company2 Vietnam Wont have that because in the E3 post it said(" Enter the jungle warfare environment as either the U.S. Marines or North Vietnamese Army (NVA)").

My OP and Im Sticking to it!

Hate to break it to you...

[johnrondot]

Re: EA Asks &quot;What Are Your Biggest Issues?&quot; with Bad Company 2

New maps!!!!!

[Minmaster]

Re: EA Asks &quot;What Are Your Biggest Issues?&quot; with Bad Company 2

I wish the game didn't have auto switching sides, the gamer should have the option of what side He/She wants to fight on I find that part to much like the console(CoD:MW2). Thank God Battlefield Bad Company2 Vietnam Wont have that because in the E3 post it said(" Enter the jungle warfare environment as either the U.S. Marines or North Vietnamese Army (NVA)").

My OP and Im Sticking to it!

i don't get this complaint... so you only want to play on one side? wth?

[Mavrik347]

Re: EA Asks &quot;What Are Your Biggest Issues?&quot; with Bad Company 2

i don't get this complaint... so you only want to play on one side? wth?

Forgive him, he is deluded.

[Shellshock_762]

Re: EA Asks &quot;What Are Your Biggest Issues?&quot; with Bad Company 2

GOL sniper scope
Wake Island Map
Karkand Map

[McSteviee]

Re: EA Asks &quot;What Are Your Biggest Issues?&quot; with Bad Company 2

I have just had one of my major wishes granted - DICE to ask what is REALLY wrong with the game and to listen to the answers and act on it. I'll leave it up to you guys to push the important points cause I trust you - Awwww

[RocketChild]

Re: EA Asks &quot;What Are Your Biggest Issues?&quot; with Bad Company 2

Seems like that list is a very good beginning and it is not too overboard. I know that this game is not really a true "Battlefield" game, and it is a subset called "Bad Company" so it is hard to really push more to make this what it was not intended to be.

If I read that right though "rank caps"....I hope that means do what was done when BF2 came out and up the amount of points or playtime you need to get higher ranks/weapons. We all know gamers on PC play months/years longer then console players so our ranking system should be revised to reflect that.

I saw someone commented on fixing the G3. I would like some elaboration on that, because although I think it could have some marginal improvement, I still like playing with it in its current state. I'm more concerned they'll gimp it when they think they are improving it.

I'll agree with the whole "more maps" thing, but I think it needs to be taken much, much further. EA/DiCE really should look at releasing a map creation kit and allow people to just make maps and DiCE approves some of the popular ones for ranked play. Collin said years ago this was kicked around with DiCE, but it went no where with BF2. I know so many people that have already moved on because of the limit of maps. Yeah, sure there are several, but really why not have 35 maps and then it comes down to 10 really good ones instead of coming down to 3 'sections' of maps.

I never have used the CG...well, OK, I have shot at a couple tanks with it, but I have not tried using it on infantry. So I'll be honest and say I don't know how people use it on players, but I think it should be that either use have to use it with a tracer dart, or you have to hand control the missile into a target...I think it to much a fire and forget round and is beyond what it was designed for (or was it DiCE?).

But I think the GL is fine. It is quite weak and I think if anything was done with the Grenade Launcher, people would moan and that would be a problem. You have to get some cherry shots in BC2 to be dangerous with it, unlike BF2.

I'm happy we have a text/chat feature. Very happy. I think though there should be something you could do in an INI file that will allow you to change the transparency, box location, box size, font size, colors and maybe even put a field in the INI for 0 or 1 for having ingame text spammed into the text box or in its normal location. In all reality, we are PC gamers, and expect a lot more flexibility in our game setups.

I'd like a feature that allows you to join straight to a friends game and on his squad if possible. And to expand on that, if you can't get on his team, you are put in a queue to allow you to be the first team switched to your friends team when someone leaves (not even to his squad, just team). It was mentioned that it would be nice to have an option not to get team switched, well make it so you don't get Team Switched if you are on a team with someone in your friends list.

It is in the list, but allow external browsers to work with the game, I really liked the flexibility of QTracker.

Add in a Stinger as an option for the Engineer class, you can even make it a weak warhead so it takes four shots, but just add it in, especially if more makes come along with more helos.

Make future Squad Death Match servers not allow armor and IO mode.

Put a map voting feature native to the server (excuse my ignorance if this already exists)

That enough I can come up with more.

Oh! This is 2010, not 2005. Servers have more horse power and datacenters more bandwidth then 5 years ago. I work in a huge 10,000+ datacenter, so I'm not talking out of my *** here. Make VOIP defaulted on with all server configs. These machine can handle it and considering we are no longer hosting 64 player servers but 32 player, it should be forced on. And it has to be forced off by the admin if they don't want it. I miss the communication of BF2, TF2 and L4D. Why should I have to run TS or Vent just to talk. It seems more servers have it turned off then have it on.