Battlefield Bad Company 2

    Preordered from GAME for £10 less than the Steam price, both Limited Edition.

    May have the bonus of not being fucked over by Valve and their notoriously unreliable unlock times.

    The DLC is free for all new copies. They did the same thing to ME2. You will only get these maps if you buy a new copy of the game. EA is trying to weaken the used sales market.

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    Nom nom nom nom. Runs a whole lot better than the beta did. Looks great!

    The EA Online network is being wonky, as I feel it's like a 50-50 chance I can select the M1 Garand when I join a server, which is available to anyone with 1 or higher Veteran rank. But then no launch have ever been smooth!

    The game is great fun, especially with friends in your squad.

    My favorite map of all is Atacama Desert for both Rush and Conquest. It seems to be the largest level in the game and includes 2 tanks, armored vehicle and copter on both teams. White Pass is also very large.'

    What I miss about BC1 Conquest Mode. The sprawling open levels such as the huge farmland or the Golf course. I hope to see these maps come in free dlc.

    Now thats out of the way here are my rants about BC2:

    - The maps for conquest are even smaller then those in BC1, but some are very well made and a lot of fun.

    - At the start of Valparaso if Defending in Rush Mode, you are completely shoved into small corners where it feels like all you can do is camp. Rest of the map felt better tbh.

    - US army vehicles = AWESOME< fast and handle with agility, but the Russian Vehicles = Slower and less agility. The Russian copter has to be the worst; very hard to steer compared to the US. This completely unbalanced the vehicles in the game.

    - No radios / No way to tell another squad for support ( not that I know of)

    - Hey, all great games have them but one that really steamed my rollers last night was a rollback of my perks. I spent an hour and some in a conquest game when the next map loaded up and I notcied everything I unlocked in the previous game had rolled back somehow.

    - pockets of a level that make the world vanish, heh.

    - No Interface feedback at times of who won or lost the game.

    - Cannot use weapons for so many seconds when re-spawning (maybe an added feature not in the demo, I donno)

    Got it yesterday, but I got home late and didn't have that much time to play it, but I did join a Rush session that some of my friends were going at. I donno, Rush just isn't as much fun as Conquest in my opinion. I think it's mainly because it really requires a lot more teamwork and coordination than Conquest, and although that's awesome with a good team, then my experience so far with BC2 hasn't been that positive in that regard.

    But it was only one round, and I'll give Rush mode some more chances, but overall I just don't get why they're pushing Rush as the main mode rather than Conquest. [/broken Record]

    Just played a few hours of Conquest, it's pretty fucking good. Without a doubt the best BF game since BF2, and possibly even better. Time will tell

    Really irritates me that the Medic doesn't have any proper explosives though, I'd really like to be able to revive folks but I always seem to face every tank on the planet when I choose the Medic class and vice-versa when I play Engineer. But I guess that's kinda the idea

    Server browser is a joke. Worst I've ever used. And the FOV is only vertical and not horizontal. Dumb as anything. Developers have tried really hard to obscure your view with everything you do. Aim down ironsights you get blinded by the massive muzzle-flash and surrounding ironsights. Tank view is just garish and bright as the sun. FOV, as mentioned does its best to limit your view. If you shoot a tank 4 times in the rear it is left with 10hp so the crew are allowed to vacate it easily so all that effort you put into fighting it is a waste as they get away scot free. Both teams all have the same weapons, boring. Snipers are stupidly easy to play and infest servers.

    Not impressed with my £34 investment so far. The beta gave hope but so far this is a mess.

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