I'm going to give my props to Steve for coming here and defending his review, it's nice to see that happen.

I agree with you changing a review at a later date is retarded, and it is definitely deserving of a 9/10 despite its problems.

I'm not saying I agree with devs releasing a game that is full of bugs nor am I saying that I agree with releasing a beta and fixing almost 0 of the bugs that came up in that.

A review should stay the same though and to do that you should take into account every aspect of the game which does include how it will play after bug fixes.

E.T.

So what if the 9/10 shows up on the EA website, the more people that buy this game the better way I see it, I could do with some more nubs to pwn.
It is an awesome game and personally I think you are blowing some of the problems a bit out of proportion.
The game still works and there is nothing really game breaking, and its still fun which is the most important thing.
I'm not saying don't hassle the devs to fix the problems but at least do it somewhere where they are going to read it like the EA BC2 pc forum.

It would be a shame that a good game would get a 5 or 6 because of a few weeks at release but company's shouldn't get the kudos for a s*** heap at release.

L4D2 got the same treatment from Aussie reviewers even though it was an awesome game and quite a quick and easy process to avoid the censored version.

BTW, whats the problem?? The majority of people dont have issues with multiplayer. Steve said himself that he had no issues getting into games and whatever issues are currently being reported presently are being delt with by the DICE team.

Whats the problem here, that it doesnt work for you? should he knock down the score for your sake?

'Take that you heartless multinational corporation, strike one for the little guy, even though i like the game i dont care'.

Ohh btw, you should check out a site called metacritic.com man it will blow your mind. You got plenty of complaining to do though cause not a lot of people actually agree with you.

I have two friends playing regularly, both say the game is very buggy and have had problems with it.

I mean E.T. have you ever read a review in your life??

interface functionality??? that is not a sub group.

It just s***s me when people try to have an opinion on something they have no idea about.

interface functionality??? that is not a sub group.

Unscannable!!!

seriously, wtf? plenty of reviews split their scores out to reflect where a game performs badly. i.e. the single player experience may get 9/10 whereas the multiplayer may get 5/10

hey pricks...! :)

my kids love this...after two (count em) two fukin years on a s***ty wireless connection in our new home Smelstra finally have set me up with an adsl2+ port at last!!

Adam, my eldest is pretty bloody awesome in this game let me tell yas. he plays often as 'somedudewithguns"..i keep telling him to play on GA servers but like other he can't seem to find that many.

might even get 'into' this and show him some old school, quake style fraggin!

:)

omg it's a semi annual post by Psycho!

I feel your pain - dial-up from Jan 2004 through to Jul 2007. It sucks hard!

THIS GAME HAS NO LAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

when i buy a game that is meant to have such good multiplayer capabilities (as to be expected from any battlefield game) i also expect all of my friends and myslef to be able to get together and LAN!

sorry but, if i were to meet the game devs, i would be saying awesome job, but im not buying cuz it has no LAN.

and they keep saying that they may include LAN into a later release, but thats just not good enough for me.

LAN is dead :( It's pretty sad. But I don't think it's coming back any time soon.

this game kicks the s*** out of mw2

your loss..

when I'm at a lan with m8's, we all jump into a pub server anyway.. or setup our PC's, don't play at all and have a major piss up party..

i dont think lan is dead, we have at least one lan party a month... and we would just jump onto a public server but then we get retarded 12 year olds from the states calling us noobs and saying that we hack just cuz they r loosing. plus most of the time we the only place we can setup doesnt have an internet conection. but really what is better than being able to lean over a table and yell "HEAD SHOT" at a real person! rather than typing it.

I think the PS3 version of this is a 9/10 i think the PC version is a shoddy 6/10 and i got both.

Whilst the writer can say his setup runs it fine theres a lot of people out there that cant and im one of them with:

E6750 C2D OC @ 3.0Ghz
1GB GTX285
4GB DDR2 800

I found the PC version to run terribly slow 25 fps on most maps even on low, no aa or af, and res of 1024x768 improves nothing (my rig kills all other games).

The server browser is useless and looked as if it was hacked up in the week before release (favs dont work, theres no refresh or auto-join), i could never even join a game at all in fact i couldnt play multiplayer for the first 3 days at all. Plus i seem to get no hit registration like the auto server join is putting me on a server in china.

PS3 version, looks fanbloodytastic, plays fanbloodytastic, join almost every single time, great hit registration every time. I love this game on PS3.

Lets not sugar coat this game, this is a console game ported to PC, which is a real shame but its the truth...

It just s***s me when people try to have an opinion on something they have no idea about.

This just had to be quoted, for irony's sake.

I think if half you f*****s had been receiving the "Failed to connect to EA online" message for 2+ weeks, you definitely wouldn't be saying how f***ing glorious this game is.

I am yet to see a single server in my browser, and EA is doing f*** all about it. I have e-mailed them with all the solutions I have tried, and they told me to TRY IT ALL AGAIN. ARE YOU f***ING s***TING ME?










f***

like i said, game works perfectly for me and plenty of others. maybe its time to upgrade or maybe your a giant nub

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OWNED !!!!!

if your looking for aussie servers
Type in "GameArena" (exactly like its spelt) into search term
Many aussie servers put that into the name even if they arent GA servers

i dont even bother with the favourites list anymore (because it only updates 5 at time anyway!)

Many aussie servers put that into the name even if they arent GA servers

only until we catch them and tell them to stop being a jerk!

But trog, they say Not GameArena! :P

The initial online experience seems to be split. I have had pretty much no issues apart from the odd CTD which is understandable giving buggy software.

A lot of you just sound like a bunch of winging newbs. Just use a bit of tech savvyness and get it to return some results. I agree its buggy but in no way in my opinion should that have stopped the release.

You forget games developers work for a business, a business that wants to make M O N E Y. Yes, that's right money.

Multiplayer. In this department Battlefield: Bad Company 2 delivers intensity in spades with excellent game modes, a solid destruction model, dedicated servers and a tight engine.

Do any servers anywhere give a ping of less than 200? I've not seen anyone with a ping of less than 150-200 even on servers claiming to be hosted on gamearena and even servers claiming to BE game arena servers (I'm with telstra big pond). The server browser will say the ping is about 16, then when I get in game it's more like 160 and to be honest I'm noticing about the same amount of lag in this game from when I pull the trigger to when bullets hit/people die as I do in MW2 so it's really quite sad coming from a dedicated server.

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E6750 C2D OC @ 3.0Ghz
1GB GTX285
4GB DDR2 800

Something is wrong with your PC then because you've got pretty much the same specs as me and I can run it everything on high @ 1920 x 1200 although I turn all the AA and AF down to 1x because seriously who needs AA at that res?

I've got:
E6850 @ 3.3Ghz
GTX285 1Gb
4Gb of geil s*** running at who knows what but CPUz says it's running at 372mhz.

I'm also using 32bit windows because I'm too lazy to migrate to 64bit to take full advantage of all my memory.

Fraps says I get about 62fps whenever I look at it but I tend not to care to look while I'm being shot at or in a firefight but I don't notice any slowdowns most of the time.

You forget games developers work for a business, a business that wants to make M O N E Y. Yes, that's right money.

I remember a time when buggy hardware/software meant customers would stay away from that product for quite some time, seems these days nerdy gamers need their games so badly they're willing to put up with buggy s*** time and time again so long as it gets patched "eventually".

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i dont even bother with the favourites list anymore (because it only updates 5 at time anyway!)

What's with this? Is it a bug with the favorites?

It's easy to find aus servers in bbc2. Just click on server browser, click on the Oceania tab and click search. Hundreds of aus servers should pop up. Works for me. By the way, your internet speed needs to be above 1 Mbit/s to play online.

By the way, your internet speed needs to be above 1 Mbit/s to play online.

i think you will find that is the wrongest thing said anywhere on the internets today

iWhoop, the ingame latency reading is not the same as a server ping. a 100-200 ingame reading is normal.

I get pings of 32 in the server browser, which is about right for most servers that I play on for steam games.

There are various settings.ini (or whatever) tweaks that you can use to make the game feel better, a particular one is renderahead (set it to 1 or 0) and something else that you set to your ping. Google it.

duuuuuuude, I posted that like, 2 months ago. Thread necromancy FTL.

p.s. pings in the browser for GA servers is around 15 :)

Blame the other guy.

I forgot what i posted that caused it to be nooked.

Now i'm curious about what i said in my own post.

:/

LAN is dead :( It's pretty sad. But I don't think it's coming back any time soon.

we've all known for some time that you haven't the time for lanning Dave. still the Qgl crew set an example that many have followed in the hope they they measure up to your standards.

no one in the AG crowd who work for a living talk about their love of gaming. why is that? and who who is this Steve F dude?

Jim pops up occasionally - though I think he has Daddy issues :/