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Damn, it’s amazing how quickly you can pick this up. Just the other week I was struggling on jump 2 on the rckteer map, and now I can clear the whole level in 5 minutes 😯 Still struggle on jump 3 and 13 though, but even the last one is only taking me a few tries now. I honestly can’t believe the speed of the improvement.
😆 I love the way they thought opening the doors and jumping out was the way to salvage that situation.
Save your GFX card for Bad Company 2 Turks, it’s going to be awesome. As for TF2, get on TS and join us for a game. If you’re playing by yourself all the time, or picking crap servers, it’d be no wonder you think it’s gash.
That’s fantastic news Milo, it’d be great to have you back 🙂
To answer your question, there have been a few threads about this recently from various people, and I suppose you could use them as a point of reference. WET was looking at some very high end specs which you can read here viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5356.
Munkee was looking for something a bit more reasonable, and I found this link http://www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/2993521/art/ankermann/quad-hd-special.html which is for a PC that should probably cope with most games over the next 2 or 3 years (according to the person who brought it to my attention).
I’m quite out of touch with new PC specs as well, but I’ve picked up quite a bit from comparing the options floated about recently.
http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/
Info posted a couple of days ago re the PC beta:
As promised here is the PC Blog on the Beta & a few other things, yes some people, places, and things may have leaked a little something, but we are here to clarify everything and make it all official since we can now commit to the listed dates! 🙂
BETA Details:
Beta Begins/Ends
Jan 28th/Feb 25thMap Name
Port ValdezPlayers
32Game Mode
RushEnvironment
SnowTheme
Vehicle and InfantryBack 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, but we are still working with Retailers & e-Tailers that wish to participate (it’s up to them). If you’re eager to ensure you get in the two confirmed distributors to Pre-Order are the EA Store and at GameStop.com. We’ll have another Blog at a later date with an update on the retailers & e-Tailers that have teamed up with us as well as alternate channels to obtain a Closed Beta Key.
Misc. Details
Steam Beta: Yes there was a leaked image of a Package file we propped on Steam. People with illegal accounts can see games in this environment, but this is not a Beta in the term of Public Test Beta, but a real development Beta installer client for the Steam version of the full game. We are however working with Steam to have the Public PC Beta available on Steam, but can’t confirm this quite yet so cross your fingers Steam users. 🙂
Anti Cheat: We’re going with PunkBuster supporting the same options BF2 and BF2142 had to run unranked without PunkBuster.
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.
Public Server Files: We will not distribute these publicly. There are many factors for why we have decided this with the biggest factor being security & integrity of our game & Dedicated Servers.
p.s. is this not your job WET? 😉
Anyone here interested in learning this side of the game with me? I’m really getting fed up with the 32 man servers out there these days as they just feel far too spammy, and with that many players you’re just constantly running into each others brick wall. I still like the smaller servers out there, but at the 6v6 level you really see a game and teamwork. The pickups are like a step between public servers and matches, and are definitely not as hardcore as I first thought. It appears that the real hardcore players view pickups as a bit of a fun distraction for a laugh, but for the likes of us, they’re definitely a step up from what we’re used to.
If anyone is interested, let me know because it’d be a lot easier to learn with someone else at the same level as myself, than rely on my own interpretation of a game.
I’m going back to the drawing board on this TF2 idea. Matches are brilliant, but it’s proving difficult finding a team who aren’t full of 12 year olds, or flexible with occassional breaks. I just got kicked from a team essentially because I was home over Christmas for 10 days 🙁
Anyway, I’ve seen enough of the other side to know what’s required but I need to sit down and figure out how to make it compatible with XDC, as regular games would be impossible with the level of organisation we currently have.
