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The pre order gubbins only relates to 360, they cancelled it for some unbeknown reason, PC demo commenses 28th Feb (could be Jan) as advertised
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PC beta is out tomorrow for those getting it
Really does look a lot different from previous Battlefield games, much more like call of duty now. Time will tell if that’s a good thing or not, but I suppose one thing COD always lacked for me, was the teamplay aspect in BF, which hopefully this will sort out.
PC Beta’s available on steam from about 5pm tonight, if I’m reading the timezones right on the BF blog post about it the other day.
presumably you will need a beta key from ea : http://www.battlefieldbadcompany2.com/beta
Well I’m sure there are at least a few of you wondering what the beta’s like, and unfortunately I’m still wondering as well. I managed to get into a game during the early evening last night, but the game performed poorly and my graphics had a very bright blue tint to everything that made it virtually unplayable. Major new game, new drivers I thought, so I downloaded and installed the latest catalyst drivers (released wednesday) either side of a TF2 match. Sadly by the time I got around to trying BC2 again, a major bug had developed within the games server browser which was crashing the game, and the “play now” option was failing to find me any games. This problem’s persisted overnight, and even first thing this morning I couldn’t get onto anything. They are of course aware of the issue, and ingame there’s a news feed advising us all that they’re tying to get to the bottom of it. Given that early access to the beta was used in the marketing of the game, Doc’s probably quite right with his comments last night that this is very poor PR for the company, however before it turns anyone off around here, this is a beta and not a demo, or anywhere near a complete game.
My main concerns are that I’ll have to find some cash for an upgrade, as I’ll be shocked if the initial performance problems are fixed by a single driver update, but I reckon I can do it reasonably cheap so it’s hopefully not too much of a problem. It’ll still be TF2 for me over the next few weeks though, while I work this one out. I’ll post my PC specs later when I’ve seen what difference the driver update has made, so you’ll have an idea of what will not cope with the game, but i suppose I could say that I’ve got borderline minimum spec requirements, and that doesn’t seem to be good enough at this stage.
Blimey where you getting the new hardware from thats cheaper than 360?
I’ve been reading on other forums re PC version thats its good, as expected the gfx are nice, however some concerns as to “no prone” and having to hold crouch key down to crouch, which wouldnt bother me tbh
I’m off to read more updates as sure some have posted since this AM
will report back soon
Yea I noticed the prone thing as well, and it doesn’t feel right despite me being used to TF2, but I wonder if it’s related in anyway to the swan diving that went on in previous versions? Who knows, but snipers aren’t going to be happy about it for sure. As for the upgrade, I’m hoping I can manage it with just a new MB, CPU, and RAM, as anything beyond that will be too expensive.
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