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This Week in Co-Op Nick and Jim take the latest Battlefield: Bad Company 2 DLC for a spin. Called Onslaught the $10 dollar download adds a four player co-op mode to the game across four maps. Each map is vastly different but offers the same objective of progressing forward and capturing strategic positions.
How did Nick and Jim fair in the battle against their egos? Read on.
Dice has posted what is on their fix list and status. Very comprehensive – impressive communication – let’s hope they get to this stuff quickly.
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Not to be outdone by the impending release of a beta on the PC, the Xbox 360 has secured some Battlefield Bad Company 2 action of its own, with the surprise release of a demo.
Originally intended solely for the Australian market, the demo has now been downloaded – and played – by people all over the world. People who care not for the fact the demo wasn’t supposed to be out until February 4; it’s out now, servers are working, so they’re going at it.
If you’re worried about it being locked down by EA and/or Microsoft, don’t sweat it: it has the official blessing of DICE, so have at it.
In a message to Dice’s Rendering Architect – Frostbite Engine Repi , via twitter, @pekhe asked the following in regards to Bad Company 2:
@repi Do you still know if the PC version will have a developer console tab? Any news on the FOV?
His short and sweet answer:
@pekhe No console
A thread was then started on the official EA forums over in the UK, where Repi offered more information regarding the no console comment.
Quote from one of the EA forum members:
But it’s still no excuse for removing the dev console, record and so on. Sure, serverfiles are one thing, they don’t want them get hacked but it’s a bit… “meh” reason. Don’t give the hackers a reason to hack it then!
Repi’s reply:
We have not removed a console from BC2. The simple reason is that BC1 and BC2 never have had an in-game console. Which also means that the game won’t be possible to hack in this regard.
So after all the Modern Warfare 2 calling out by Dice, I guess this is another watered down console version ported to the PC.
Does anyone get why BF2 has been so popular for so long? Hint, it’s not because there’s no access to the console, or because of the modding community or because you can’t run your own server on your own hardware.
Here we go again……….
Minimum Frostbite PC Specifications for BFBC2
Processor: Core 2 Duo @ 2.0GHz
Main memory: 2GB
Graphics card: GeForce 7800 GT / ATI X1900
Graphics memory: 256MB
OS: Windows XP
Free HDD space: 15GB for Digital Version, 10GB for Disc Version (BFBC2)
10GB for Digital Version, 4GB for Disc Version (BF1943)
Recommended Frostbite PC Specifications for BFBC2
Processor: Quadcore
Main memory: 2GB
Graphics card: GeForce GTX 260
Graphics memory: 512MB
OS: Windows Vista or Windows 7
Free HDD space: 15GB for Digital Version, 10GB for Disc Version (BFBC2)
10GB for Digital Version, 4GB for Disc Version (BF1943)
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