Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Demo 360

[Malacite]

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Okay I really need to give it another try but so far I'm absolutely hating the game.

Played 2 games last night and they were both a 1-sided laggy slaughter of my team. I really don't like you can't strafe at all, you have to move the right stick to turn (wtf?) and it's really beginning to piss me off when I go for body shots on a still target and somehow miss. Reticle is dead-center on the asshole, yet I miss. Ok then.

It's even worse with moving targets as I'll frequently have my shot lined up perfectly only to see them teleport 5 meters ahead >_>

And just now my Xbox froze so bleh... really didn't like the flight controls etc etc...

I dunno, I had a fairly decent run of it a moment ago (the 1st half of this was started this morning and I forgot to finish LOL so here I am hours later) but over all I really do not like the game. The controls are god awful & at times confusing and the lag is intolerable.


Though, I do have to giggle a bit that my very first kill in the game came from a freaking no-scope of all things on a guy who spotted me 1st with an AR about 5 feet from my face. He must have been some pissed off...

[Durahansolo]

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@ Mal you do know that this isn't Modern Warfare with instantaneous bullet travel and there are bullet trails right? You have to aim in front of moving targets and aim above far away ones.

Also @ controls, you can change them to be the same as BF1 which switches the knife and the weapon swap buttons, I didn't check the other configurations.

[Malacite]

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@ Mal you do know that this isn't Modern Warfare with instantaneous bullet travel and there are bullet trails right? You have to aim in front of moving targets and aim above far away ones.

What's your point? Bullets from a Sniper Riffle carry a lot of energy. Yeah I can see having to aim ahead a bit with something like an Assault Rifle or God forbid a pistol, but I've been killed in sniper wars against stationary targets after shooting them in the chest area at least 3 times but then on the after death it says they're @ 100% HP.

Bullshit. And I just don't really like any of the layouts tbh. For all the things that are annoying about Modern Warfare 2, at least that game's controls are really really tight.

[Durahansolo]

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in the chest area at least 3 times

Well Since I haven't experienced that Mal (On this game yet) I'm gonna let you have your fun. I like the M24, it makes me not miss the other bolt action rifle from BC1 so much.

NOEZ! I just realized that the Recon gets Mortar Strike! That was the main reason i used to play Medic on BF1 >_> looks like I'll be playing Recon more since it gets MS and C4 too.

but then on the after death it says they're @ 100% HP.

I was in a gun fight with a medic earlier and on the death screen it said he had 0% HP and he was still walking around long enough to heal himself. (Maybe he got revived before the death screen came up.) I got in a war once with a guy and on the death screen it said he had 1% HP. *Shrugs* its only a demo.

[Malacite]

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So what?

It being a demo is no fucking excuse. The MAG beta managed 128 vs 128 with total chaos on the battlefield, all without any lag. And by Chaos I mean bombs and mortar strikes raining down from the skies while APCs are driving around and bullets flying everywhere constantly.

And yet I can barely move around in this game at all. Some games have been better than others, but oh man the lag in general is just God awful and needs to be addressed. This is why I f'ing hate 360, because they rarely allow for dedicated servers and XBL's netcode is just plain shit compared to PS3. I've yet to experience lag, ever, while on my PS3. Not trying to be a fanboy here, just going on my own personal experience. PS3 doesn't have host advantage like 360 does either (another thing I've always hated)


The basic game itself is pretty well done and I like it, I just wish it was actually playable. You know, without all the bullshit. A couple of things struck me as very strange however.

Like, why does the Assault Class carry the extra ammo instead of the Engineer or Medic? You do not want the guys who are going to be too busy charging the objectives carrying all the spare ammo, that's what support classes are for. And why does the Recon of all classes carry C-4?! THAT is what the Assault Class should have instead of the Ammo. At least to me, it makes a hell of a lot more sense for the guy who's gonna charge head long into the fortifications to be carrying the explosives and not the guy who's sitting back miles away sniping > _ >

[Durahansolo]

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I've yet to experience lag, ever, while on my PS3.

When the PS3 demo comes out let me know how it is, I'd download it myself, but I have the 20GB HD for PS3 and it is pretty full

I'm still confused at what you mean by not being able to move, if it is that bad then something is seriously wrong there lol.

And why does the Recon of all classes carry C-4?!

I think taking specialist out seriously broke the game. Recon no longer has the JDAM Goggles but has medic's airstrike and specialist's C4... Anybody can use the shotgun as a main weapon lol. Something stupid I did earlier, I gave my Engineer class the tracer dart, so not only can I use the tracer dart, but I can also lock-on and fire the rockets as well.

Oh the reason I keep bringing up demo is because iirc the first bad company had more issues with the demo than i remember it having in the real game, especially with lag OMFG it would get extremely laggy. But about a day after Bad Company came out they added a bunch of servers and straightened out the network making it 100x more enjoyable than the demo. I swear after every 1-2 games I'd have to drop and enter into a different game because the one I was in was too laggy on the demo.

[Malacite]

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Giving the Mortar strike to the Recon is actually the most sensible thing you can do. You WANT the guy who can see targets from a mile away to be the one calling in the bombs.

But this lag has GOT TO GO. It's like I'm constantly being pushed backwards, as every time I stop I end up moving back just a bit. It's the main reason I stuck to the Recon class because I just get fucked up by lag when I"m up close with anyone. I'm not going to even try fighting someone when they're teleporting all around me or taking a full magazine and still managing to knife me.

[Durahansolo]

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Giving the Mortar strike to the Recon is actually the most sensible thing you can do.

I'd say the JDAM is still better for the sniper, but since you can't use the strike in the demo I figure it is probably more powerful than it was on the first game, either that or they made it weaker since recon has other explosives now. Only because I used to use the JDAM on anything whether people were in it or not, and then as the missile was falling I'd aim it at an occupied vehicle. That way nobody knew it was coming.

[DakAttack]

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Giving the Mortar strike to the Recon is actually the most sensible thing you can do. You WANT the guy who can see targets from a mile away to be the one calling in the bombs.

But this lag has GOT TO GO. It's like I'm constantly being pushed backwards, as every time I stop I end up moving back just a bit. It's the main reason I stuck to the Recon class because I just get fucked up by lag when I"m up close with anyone. I'm not going to even try fighting someone when they're teleporting all around me or taking a full magazine and still managing to knife me.

Maybe you suck? I've had minor problems with lag, but nothing horrendous. And the PS3 has lag too, so don't tell me it doesn't. MAG lagged like any other game in all the same ways. Running behind cover but killed pulled out and dead? Nothing new there.

Where are people getting the UAV?

[Durahansolo]

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Where are people getting the UAV?

It is a box looking thing on the map and I think only the attackers have it. On land it looks like a computer screen surrounded by blinders. I tried to use it earlier and couldn't figure the damn thing out, but it is easier to fly than the helicopter LOL. When defending I've shot down about 3 of those with the sniper rifle, they usually go down in 2 hits.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNkb3pzS2Bw&feature=related"]YouTube- Battlefield: Bad Company 2 "UAV" Gameplay[/ame] that's what it looks like.

[DakAttack]

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Except I saw it, and when I went back to find it in another game, it wasn't there. It's strange.

[Durahansolo]

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I think the station can get destroyed. Every time the UAV gets destroyed it takes awhile to spawn again, probably similar to the Artillery from BC1.

[DakAttack]

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Ah, the vehicles do take an oddly long time to respawn sometimes.

[Spazz]

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may seem like a stupid question... but is this game cross platform? Ive been playing almost nonstop on PC Beta ... and OMFG! I love it!!!!

But friend doesn't have a PC good enough to run it so he has his PS3 -- which is why I ask.

I have another question... is it me, or is there no way to stay crouched without having to hold down the button? Atleast thats how it is on PC.

[TheGrandMom]

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I haven't read the most recent stuff about it but from what I have read, no it will not be cross platform.