BETA Details:
Beta Begins/Ends
Jan 28th/Feb 25th
Map Name
Port Valdez
Players
32
Game Mode
Rush
Environment
Snow
Theme
Vehicle and Infantry
Back Story
The battle for Port Valdez is fought alongside the waterline towards a great oil industrial landscape in the Alaskan mountains. Using basically everything they've got the Russian forces are launching an airborne assault to knock out the oil industries in the area. In their arsenal there are Main Battle Tanks as well as fast-moving Quad Bikes and mobile armored AA. It's a vehicle focused battle, but with plenty of infantry combat.
How to Download: Check back to the Battlefield Bad Company 2 for a new Beta Page closer to beta launch date for download instructions.
How To Get Access: Reserve Battlefield Bad Company 2 is the most sure fire way, but we are still working with some other Retailers & e-Tailers that wish to participate. If you're eager to ensure you get in the two confirmed distributors to Pre-Order are the EA Store and at GameStop.com. We'll have another Blog at a later date with an update on the retailers & e-Tailers that have teamed up with us as well as alternate channels to obtain a Closed Beta Key.
*NOTE: This promotion is with participating retailers only. Please check with your local retailers if PC Beta Code is available through their stores.
Misc. Details
Steam Beta: Yes there was a leaked image of a Package file we propped on Steam. People with illegal accounts can see games in this environment, but this is not a Beta in the term of Public Test Beta, but a real development Beta installer client for the Steam version of the full game. We are however working with Steam to have the Public PC Beta available on Steam, but can't confirm this quite yet so cross your fingers Steam users. :-)
Anti Cheat: We're going with PunkBuster supporting the same options BF2 and BF2142 had to run unranked without PunkBuster.
Mod Tools: There will not be mod tools for BFBC2. However a majority of the the games logic is controlled by the server and there will be Serverside control options for the dedicated servers.
Public Server Files: We will not distribute these publicly. There are many factors for why we have decided this with the biggest factor being security & integrity of our game & Dedicated Servers.
Wow DICE!!
Just to recap quickly.
DICE @ PC Players: 'don't worry, we got your back'
So far we have:
No developer console.
No PBBans. (No offence GGC but I hadn't even heard of you until this fiasco)
No Server client.
No Mod tools.
No Screenies/Videos.
Delayed Beta.
No Demo.
Lower Sound Quality than Consoles.
Silly features we don't want instead of ones we do.
No Moments 1 HUD.
No battlerecorder.
No good RCON (Unknown but I'm not holding my breathe with any features.)
This effectively means:
No competitive community.
No mappers community.
No potential Forgotten Hope 3 community.
No potential Project Reality 2 community.
No BF3C, 21CW etc.
Over run with hackers, padders & glitchers
Therefore no hardcore pub clans/communities.
And so on.
This also hurts the normal pubbers because:
Many comp clans/teams have a pub server or two. Also many comp players swap back to vanilla every so often & see bellow.
Mod community keeps the game alive, most mod players swap back to vanilla every so often & this helps stop the game dying.
Admins will have hard time running a good server. This will mean there are less, this will mean less community & choice for players.
All of the above means less clans & therefore less servers.
If you don't believe me just look at ETQW, FFoW, 2142. They have so few servers & population now it's just ridiculous.
Game server stats at time of writing:
ET:QW: ~40 active servers. Many with only 1 or 2 players in, probably idling.
FFoW: 9 active servers. 5 have under 10 players.
2142: 143 active servers. 51 have under 10 players.
You do not want your game to turn out like that!
Also - Please give me a good reason why I should stick with DICE & this game because there are other games with seemingly better support & community relations etc etc that I could go switch my pre-order to. I now realise the only reason I am still here is because I LOVE the PC Battlefield games. I'm sure others are here for the same reasons, if this game didn't have the "Battlefield" title I wouldn't have given it a second thought after hearing about the 'features'.
Izvor:
http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-bad-company-2-pc/875386-wow-dice.htmlThis post from the UK EA/DICE forums says it all. BFBC2 is DEAD. This Dice bunch are as sleazy and greedy as Infinity Ward.
Preuzeto sa sajta SC klana.
