As most of you know, the new Bad Company 2 update is coming out on May 11th. While it addresses some of the bigger issues with the game, some of the other changes are going to change my style of game play. After the jump, you’ll find the good and the bad (does not include every update).
As many of you know, Dr. Pepper has provided new ‘DLC’ for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 by means of a promotion. Essentially, you buy a Dr. Pepper product and are able to redeem it for the final weapon of any class (M16, UMP45, MG 3, M95). In addition to the weapon, you get new camo for both your weapon and character. While all of this sounds great, it ruins the dynamic of the game (especially for Snipers).
Have people been killing you with special gold weapons lately in BF: BC2? Has someone been sniping your ass with the M95 SA and you are wondering how the hell they got it? We can help.
Before you deep dive into the codes, here is a little background which may help answer some questions you are sure to have. First, if you live in the UK, you can purchase each weapon for 140 pts, or all four for 440 pts. Each major class has the last obtained weapon outfitted in special camo and appears gold in your kit selection. There are achievements with these, but currently only for those who bought the DLC. If you use the Dr. Pepper promotion codes, you will get each weapon and new badges and medals. The achievement is unlocked after you get each of the following with the SPECACT (SA) weapons: 5 kills in a row, 8 kills in a round, and 100 overall kills. These are independent of each other and will be recorded in your medals screen. EA says they will reward the achievements retroactive once they fix the bug. So just hold tight on that. Now for the good stuff.
Like many of you, I have been logging a ton of hours into BF:BC2 since I picked it up last week. The game is just that awesome. Anyway, when we play at my house, we always go nuts whenever one of us scores a knife kill which results in the acquisition of that player’s dog tags. We akin the experience to a man taking another man’s “innocence” in a prison shower like in Oz. Since most of the tags we get are bronze and every now and then we get a silver, I have been searching forums and FAQs to see just what the exact rankings are for each dog tag. This is what the consensus says, so I may be a rank or two off. If I have erred, by all means correct me. Here are the ranking breakdowns. Just scroll down the guide.
I pulled these from forum consensuses, so if you have a better explanation and proof of it, I will update and give due credit.
EA DICE has returned us to Battlefield: Bad Company with our good friends Sweetwater, Marlowe, Haggard and Redford. Get ready for some shooting, wisecracking, and blowing up EVERYTHING. Is it fun? Is it blast-tastic? Is it worth buying? Is it better than Modern Warfare 2? You can find out after the break.
I picked up Battlefield the other day in hopes of finding a new multiplayer experience that could drag me away from Modern Warfare 2. After playing a little through the single player, I figured I’d give the multiplayer a shot.
While attempting to join a game, I was instantly booted back to the Xbox 360 dashboard. I figured it was just a minor glitch so I tried again to no avail. After being booted to the dashboard twice, I figured I would try again later. I asked my friend about the issue and he said he gets it every once in awhile.
Have any of you guys experienced this yet?
The release of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 couldn’t have come at a more perfect time than when it did. You see, I’m one of the thousands of gamers that put Modern Warfare 2 on the back-burner for an undisclosed amount of time. As soon as the glitches started to hit, I had to put my controller down until they were fixed. Thousands of you gamers out there cried out to Infinity Ward as glitch after glitch hit the multiplayer fronts online. God mode, unlimited ammo of everything, the “fast running glitch”, rocket jumpers, all of these paved the way for patch after patch being put into place by Infinity Ward. Why do I want to play that with all of this crap going on?
Today for me is like nudie magazine day for Billy Madison. No, it has nothing to do with Sony finalizing fixing the PSN or Bad Company 2 being released (although I am picking up my copy of that after work). Today has more meaning: baseball. That’s right, today is the first Spring Training game of the year as the Mets take on the Braves.
Not only that, but this year’s baseball games get unleashed upon the world. While I have very high hopes for MLB 2K10, I’m not sure it can dethrone The Show. We’ll know shortly, though.
How about you? Are you picking up either baseball game today, or is Bad Company 2 making you go from six to midnight? Stop looking at me swan.
In case you couldn’t get in on the PS3 Beta for Bad Company 2 and your PC will barely run Windows 3.1, you won’t have to wait until March to get your hands on Bad Company 2. EA and DICE confirmed a console demo will be released before the game ships, but no further information was revealed.
While the game is shaping up to be damn good, we’ve had some internal debate here at Loot Ninja on whether it can compete with Modern Warfare 2 on both consoles and PC. I think yes, some others think no. So let’s get you to weigh in on the issue. Do you think Bad Company 2 can be as good as or better than Modern Warfare 2 in the multiplayer realm?
If the PS3 Beta for Bad Company 2 didn’t give you enough or you just prefer the mouse and keyboard, EA and Dice are launching a Beta on PC January 28th. You’ll be able to play with up to 32 players in Rush on the Port Valdez map with Snow. Both Vehicle and Infantry will be available, so you’ll get a feel for headshots and tank cannon blasts. The Beta will run through February 25th giving you plenty of opportunity to get your multiplayer gaming fix.
You’ll have to preorder the game through EA or GameStop to ensure getting into the Beta. Other retailers will hop on board, but nothing is final as of press time.
I have a feeling the PC Beta will be just like the PS3 Beta for the first few days — people running around checking out the map and getting a feel for the destructible environments, not having a care for the game type objectives. That changed towards the end on the PS3 and I’m sure it’ll be the case on PC as well. The real question is will this contend with Modern Warfare 2 and others in the online FPS space. Based on what I’ve seen and played, it very well could come out near the top of the heap.
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