Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Demo 360

[Malacite]

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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?

<edit: was royally pissed off last night before reading last response, edited out the hateful comeback. Point still stands though>

No, I don't suck. There's not a whole hell of a lot I can do when someone comes charging at me and then magically disappears from my view. Or I'm aiming in one direction then the screen magically shifts to the other, or I'm stuck in zoom on a heavy machine gun despite not holding the zoom trigger.

The lag is just God awful for me and it's really pissing me off. And I only ever experienced a bit of rubber-band lag in MAG in 2 games for about 2-3 min each throughout the 2-week beta. That was it. PS3 does not lag. Funny how on the service that's free there's never any lag, but I get plagued by the shit on the one I do pay for.

I'm beginning to wonder if it's just my 360 fucking up on me, as I've been told if the fan is clogged it can lag me badly, among other possible causes. In the odd cases where I'm not lagging I can pretty well beast on most people I run into. I don't care if I get out-shot by someone, I only get really angry when I know I died because of lag. Man, I wish I could record some of my plays. Yeah I've died a few times either to the other guy having the advantage or just my own stupidity, but if you could see the BS that I have to deal with...


And there's no reason for it. At all. I have a 10 mbps cable connection (confirmed it @ speedtest btw so yes, I am getting the full effect of it. it's not being clogged by too many users in my area) so really isn't any excuse for the lag other than;

1) Crappy servers, which I've been told lately is a common issue with EA games.

2) People still using freaking ADSL. Seriously, I'm sick of running into game hosts on XBL who are using that crap. Anything under 5 MBPs should be banned.

[Nandito]

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I'm really trying to wonder where you're getting all this lag from, I've yet to experience any.

Also, tanks need flares, dammit.

[Malacite]

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I really think it's my Xbox, but I can't say for sure. I can play most games largely lag-free, but whenever I'm on a shooter (or occasionally halo wars) I get lag.

At least on HW it slows down *everyone* though not just me, and it's pretty much always someone else's connection. Like I said I have a damn good connection, I think my fan needs cleaning or something. I've been meaning to pick up a can of pressurized air to clean it out.

[DakAttack]

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Today I fired one rocket and took home 380 points. I nailed the tail end of an attack helicopter and brought it down on top of one of the objectives we were defending. I think I must have raked in a bunch of savior points as well as taken out a few other enemies that were on the ground beneath the chopper. It sure as hell was a sight to behold.

[Malacite]

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FINALLY had a couple of rounds lag free miraculously and wow, was it ever fun (finally)

I still get annoyed at bit of the random BS (like stabbing someone only to magically fail and be stabbed right back etc etc) but over all I can tell when I died, why, and accept it and just have fun.

So all that aside, I think the only thing they really, desperately need to fix is Tank Armor vs the .50 Cal machine guns. Tanks are tough, but they shouldn't be able to withstand over 10 seconds of sustained heavy machine gun fire, that my friends is total bullshit. Otherwise freaking love the game and just wish people would function more cohesively as a team.

XM8 Prototype FTW! Well, that or the shotgun. Oh good lord finally another game that does shotguns justice. The kill range on it is CRAZY, and you can actually hit people a good distance away (avg shotgun IRL has eff. rng. of 20m) yet it somehow doesn't feel as cheap/cheezy as in MW2. Maybe it's the lack of Akimbo idk but it just feels right


I may yet pick this up. Just need to get the hang of the flight controls.

[Nandito]

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I may yet pick this up. Just need to get the hang of the flight controls.

Ugh. NEVER let me fly a heli. Was just getting out of a spawn when two of my random squad mates called me over to a Blackhawk, apparently they wanted me to fly it (I know, shocker. Xbox Live players giving someone a vehicle?) so they could mount the guns. We get in and let those roters spin! We were ready for action~

...

I then proceed to ascend backwards, hit my tail on a building, flip the damn heli over and explode.

Then I did it again, only this time I crashed into an oil rig.

[Durahansolo]

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lol if only there was a helicopter simulator on the game so that you could practice flying outside of multiplayer. Only because if you try to practice any other time you get ridiculed by teammates for grabbing the heli and not being able to fly it. That's part of the reason I stay out of helis and only get in a tank if somebody else is driving it lol.

[DakAttack]

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The game is really frustrating when you're losing, but then again, what isn't... I remember other BF games allowing me to do my own thing, even if we're losing, but because the maps are so small a lack of effort by your team means being overrun and basically spawn killed for the rest of the match.I make a really good engineer on defense, but only when my team isn't entirely composed of snipers being held down in a single building by tanks and other snipers. I can handle all the vehicles on my own, no problem, but I can't babysit the objectives.

It's pretty enjoyable nailing a vehicle with a tracker for thirty points, and then blowing it up for 230+. Depending on where I am, I might be able to tack on fifty for offense/defense, or another fifty for savior/revenge.

[Malacite]

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Yeah that tracker's a real bitch O.O;

But again, I must confess my love of this game's shotgun. It is simply orgasmic how it rains death on people. And so are the heavy machine guns for that matter, though I really do think they need their damage increased. It takes waaaaay too many bullets from those things to drop someone unless you get lucky with a head shot.

There is no body armor on earth that will save you from 12x14 mm rounds folks. Dragon Skin is pretty awesome against 7.62's, but the hell if it's taking .50 cals at 600+ RPM. Ditto for tanks, really sick of not being able to rain on them with machine gun fire. Obviously a tank is going to resist the damage, but they're seemingly immune which is total bullcrap. It's only a few inches of reinforced steel, eventually it's going to give way.

I think the most fun is either driving the tank (since you get to use the main gun as well, something I only just discovered earlier today) or gunning in a Heli. Oh man, is it ever hilarious seeing infantry run for their miserable little lives. That said, I've actually managed to shoot a few down with my XM8 Prototype, so don't screw with me!

[DakAttack]

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Apparently, you can destroy the objectives with explosives without every priming them. Me and four people were guarding one when a tank started chewing its way in, and I'm guessing it nailed the objective with a round because everything exploded and we lost. There were no other people there, and it wasn't primed to explode.

Why can't I use anything but the pillow thrower on the damn UAV? What the hell is that things purpose if not to kill people? Every single person I hit with the rocket takes NO damage, and they barely notice me. If that wasn't bad enough, the rocket has such poor accuracy that I usually miss.

I don't know if they're stacking the teams or what, but when we're losing it seems like we're completely outnumbered. There's always at least one person in a vehicle, and they can capture both objectives almost simultaneously. On the other hand, I'm looking around and I'm not seeing enough people to cover one objective, much less two, and there's not a god damn person in my squad. The game just isn't fun when you're losing, you have no breathing room to do your own thing.

[Durahansolo]

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Apparently, you can destroy the objectives with explosives without every priming them.

On the first BC Demolitions/Engineer used to put anti-tank mines around it and then shoot a mine with a shotgun which would take about 90% of the crate health. Special Ops used to C4 them but they didn't do as much damage as Tank Mines. The demo doesn't have the land mines, but the real version will

[DakAttack]

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On the first BC Demolitions/Engineer used to put anti-tank mines around it and then shoot a mine with a shotgun which would take about 90% of the crate health. Special Ops used to C4 them but they didn't do as much damage as Tank Mines. The demo doesn't have the land mines, but the real version will

I didn't know you could shoot at it. In one match they had blown out all the walls surrounding the objective, which made it super hard to secure, but we somehow managed to keep it.

I figured out what I was doing wrong with the UAV. For some reason there's a perk, or something, and of the three beyond what guns you can choose it's the third. This perk allows a secondary mode of fire for most vehicles. The machine gun was nice to have, but it wasn't as powerful as I thought it would be.

I put a rocket from the UAV into the side of a helicopter for 480 points. My new record.

[Malacite]

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Apparently, you can destroy the objectives with explosives without every priming them. Me and four people were guarding one when a tank started chewing its way in, and I'm guessing it nailed the objective with a round because everything exploded and we lost. There were no other people there, and it wasn't primed to explode.

Yeah I was wondering how the hell that kept happening when no charges were set off.

Also is anyone else getting tired of one guy always managing to sneak in and kill a tonne of people? I'm really starting to get sick of either having a dude sneak up on me (despite several team mates nearby) and stab me and then proceed to kill the rest, or I'll be the only one watching a specific direction and again, same thing happens. Dude comes up, kills me, rest of the team is totally oblivious or worse yet they all notice and STILL fail to kill ONE GUY.

Been seeing that with disgusting frequency.

[DakAttack]

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Yeah I was wondering how the hell that kept happening when no charges were set off.

Also is anyone else getting tired of one guy always managing to sneak in and kill a tonne of people? I'm really starting to get sick of either having a dude sneak up on me (despite several team mates nearby) and stab me and then proceed to kill the rest, or I'll be the only one watching a specific direction and again, same thing happens. Dude comes up, kills me, rest of the team is totally oblivious or worse yet they all notice and STILL fail to kill ONE GUY.

Been seeing that with disgusting frequency.

That usually happens when we're losing. Everybody is too busy giving each other hand-jobs to notice they're sneaking in and stabbing everybody. Although, I've noticed that a lot of people have difficulty identifying enemies, even if they're standing directly in front of them.

[Durahansolo]

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In one match they had blown out all the walls surrounding the objective, which made it super hard to secure, but we somehow managed to keep it.

In one match I was in the tank and I think I shot all the walls out of a house causing the roof to fall on the crate and blowing it up, but it might have just been a coincidence.

Everybody is too busy giving each other hand-jobs

Most of those are the guys waiting on the UAV to respawn lol. Other day there were like 4 guys on our side just standing around looking at the computer.

Speaking of UAV: I was just playing a little while ago and got 9 kills with the UAV, Unfortunately we didn't make it past the first base >_>. I was doing a decent job of pointing out key enemies and taking out gun placements. Once you get to about the 3rd base while attacking the UAV doesn't do you much good because usually some jackass pilot will jump in a heli and come blow up the area where the controls are. I got lucky one time and took out a heli as it was taking off 2 kills lol. Eventually that guy came and killed me and then just started camping the UAV so I left it. He killed about 5 guys that went after it and eventually he flew offscreen and crashed the chopper. After taking off again I got him with a lucky RPG while he was hovering.