What are your impressions of the PC beta of BFBC2? 
 
 What I noticed: 
 
-Has some lag issues that ruins gameplay. 
 -The first server I connected to put me on the Russian side. So I was using AEK rifle. Our side one, attackers, and then the next round I was switched to defenders(American side) 
       What I don't understand is that both sides use the same guns? I was American side and using Russian weapons... it seemed weird. Maybe I missed a detail.

I got the key for free from http://www.fileplay.net/
 
and I used a mirror from http://techpowerup.com to get the client... I was getting it at over a megabyte per second... http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/1747/Battlefield:_Bad_Company_2_Beta_Client.html

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beta is at 83%, have heard there are a lot of bad framerate issues

I dislike that there is no way to choose toggle/hold for things like sprint crouch and sights.
 
I also dislike that the game actually makes it past loading 17,500MB only once out of every 15 to 20 times I try to launch it. And once it does launch, you have can only join a game by clicking "play now" (or crash) and then you have to try that another 10 or more times before getting into one of the limited, ultra packed beta servers.
 
But fuck the one game I played as defender was fun and I rose to the top of the board without even realizing it. Points everywhere!

- crashes on server browser 
- laggy 
- low framerate
 
+ amazing gameplay
 
That's my conclusion thus far. I might also buy it on PS3. I was really surprised with how fun it was on PS3.

Without the lag I think it will be interesting. There's no prone though. Prone allowed you to lay low and hide in cover, it allowed for some interesting sniper spots. But even with the crouch in BC2, I didn't see the ability to toggle crouch.... I don't want to hold the crouch button. They should allow a toggle key for crouch since no prone in this version. This way I can stay crouched for as long as I want. It's stupid that the default stance is standing; you don't stand in a battlefield, you stay low........... 
 
 You cannot name your squads. So there will not be any fancy/humorous named squads. They just have the standard names for squads like delta, foxtrot, hotel, etc... They are already made squads but are empty until you join. You hit the enter key, while in game, and you see a menu for the management of it. You are able to spawn on living members of the squad.
 
I thought there was too much arc on the tank rounds, it's reaching the level of bf1942. I don't think there was as much tank round drop BF2 as there is in BC2. However distances in BC2 may be larger than BF2... I'll observe this in the future again to see.

" beta is at 83%, have heard there are a lot of bad framerate issues "

" beta is at 83%, have heard there are a lot of bad framerate issues "

Lack of Prone is no problem for me. But hold crouch/sprint and toggle aim certainly are.
 
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@MrKlorox said:

Woah! They fixed the inability to edit either post if you post two in a row and nobody has posted a followup! Thanks GB/Whickey Media site staff for not writing it off as an 'anti-spam feature' like the mods told me. "

Oh the idea is like team 'US' vs team 'THEM' ? 
 
So then BC2 is more 'arcade-ish' than BF2. It would be nice if each side had their own different weapons. So the Russians would start off with Russian weapons and the American side would start off with American weapons. This way when you hear the gun fire, you can identify friend or foe... to an extent, unless the enemy picks up you side's weapons. That's part of a strategy. But seeing that EA doesn't have the game setup in this manor, I think it's starting to become clear that BC2 is more casual style of game. 
 
It would be like in BF1942... if you spawn as Nazi... you spawn with Thomson or garand... it's like what the heck?

" Oh the idea is like team 'US' vs team 'THEM' ?   So then BC2 is more 'arcade-ish' than BF2. It would be nice if each side had their own different weapons. So the Russians would start off with Russian weapons and the American side would start off with American weapons. This way when you hear the gun fire, you can identify friend or foe... to an extent, unless the enemy picks up you side's weapons. That's part of a strategy. But seeing that EA doesn't have the game setup in this manor, I think it's starting to become clear that BC2 is more casual style of game.   It would be like in BF1942... if you spawn as Nazi... you spawn with Thomson or garand... it's like what the heck? "

" It would be like in BF1942... if you spawn as Nazi... you spawn with Thomson or garand... it's like what the heck? "

I've got the steam version and it won't let me launch the game through steam, but I can launch it from the steamapps folder, but can't log into EA servers.  Pretty disappointing day.

Anyone getting a terrible graphic glitch?? I would screen shot it but that does seem to work..

played it on the 360, sure there were some bugs and lag issures but i thought it was awsome

Still can't get into a server.
 
"Connection to the game server is lost. Please check your network connection and try again."
 
Over and over.

I haven't played BF1943 yet. :) 
 
 Anyway.. after finding a stable BC2 server, fun was had. Seems like a decent game.

This game is fucking incredible. It's every bit the game I wanted it to be. From what I've played this is the Uncharted 2 of military inspired multiplayer FPS'. Of course keep in mind the beta has worked fairly well for me (besides the widespread server browser crash error, but everyone has that right now). I'll probably make a detailed blog post with pics from my games in a day or so but so far from what I've played, it's been absolutely awesome, and incredibly fun.
 
BTW I'm running at high settings, 1680x1050 at a framerate that is high enough that I don't see any slowdown. My system is a C2Q6600 (2.4 ghz), 2 GB DDR2, 9800GX2 all on XP. I am very surprised at how well the game is running.

Just got my beta key in my inbox, loading up now :D

"Oh the idea is like team 'US' vs team 'THEM' ?   So then BC2 is more 'arcade-ish' than BF2. It would be nice if each side had their own different weapons. So the Russians would start off with Russian weapons and the American side would start off with American weapons. This way when you hear the gun fire, you can identify friend or foe... to an extent, unless the enemy picks up you side's weapons. That's part of a strategy. But seeing that EA doesn't have the game setup in this manor, I think it's starting to become clear that BC2 is more casual style of game.   It would be like in BF1942... if you spawn as Nazi... you spawn with Thomson or garand... it's like what the heck? "

btw, be sure to download the new update and use the server browser and choose US based servers (if you are in the US) - clicking play now somtimes gets me european ones which not so good pings.

As many mentioned the lags and graphical glitches I'll talk about the actual game-play.
 
Few things really get on my mind such as why on earth cant I prone.....this is a shooter and believe it or not taking, cover is one of the most impotent things to keep in mind while you take fire not just who shoots first.
Another thing is that same BF2 shooting mechanism, basically you spray you miss and the range doesn't matter that much. Even when you use a god  damn machine gun from a meter and you hold the trigger too long the bullet seem to fly 90 degrees to the place you are aiming.
Also where why am  I forced to be on full auto and cant switch to semi automatic fire mode. And lets not talk about the fact you cant really lean but that's a minor detail  since cover is now plenty thanks to the destruction and the environment.
 
Don't get me wrong , I like the game but some times it really feels fucked up but the things i mentioned above are essential and must be fixed. 

What I noticed: It's really really unoptimized and buggy.
 
Took 3 hours to download and 5 minutes to delete.

Having no problems on the 360 side of things. 

" What I noticed: It's really really unoptimized and buggy.  Took 3 hours to download and 5 minutes to delete. "

" Having no problems on the 360 side of things.  "

" Having no problems on the 360 side of things.  "

" played it on the 360, sure there were some bugs and lag issures but i thought it was awsome "

" @Daryl said:  

" Having no problems on the 360 side of things.  "

@kermoosh said:

" played it on the 360, sure there were some bugs and lag issures but i thought it was awsome "

 Refer to Thread Title. <_< "

" @sodiumCyclops said:

" beta is at 83%, have heard there are a lot of bad framerate issues "

Does this really ruin the gameplay? Plus I'm betting they'll fix it at one point. "

no prone, makes me just not want to buy it anymore.

my impressions are that its going to be a great game. but the beta has a lot of problems. which is to be expected. but its fun and i cant wait. my biggest problem is the low framerate

" my impressions are that its going to be a great game. but the beta has a lot of problems. which is to be expected. but its fun and i cant wait. my biggest problem is the low framerate "

Demo on XBL is awesome, minus some jankyness. 

-looking at someone fire the AEK971 and I see the shells eject from the left side, but they should eject from right side 
 
 -jihad buggies! ... they're practically unstoppable :D 
 
 -evil teammates can c4 your A and B spots, thus helping you lose faster...

I'm having a blast with the beta, excluding the first day it went live and kept crashing, but since then its been pretty smooth, and the sound in the game is incredible. I havn't had any framerate issues, (running on intel core 2 duo 3ghz, 2g ram, gtx260, vista 32bit), settings set to high, 1280x1024. I was worried about performance when I checked out the requirements and people talkin about quad core mumbo jumbo. I've already max'd out my rank and unlocked all I could, my only gripes so far is how sometimes enemies could act like bullet sponges, requiring almost my entire clip to kill, and the fact that the objectives A & B can be damaged by friendly fire. But all in all pretty fun experience, ill probably hop back in now! :)

I just hit the level cap (11) and unlocked almost everything except medic class.  First day lag / crash issues were annoying, and the lag is still an issue.  But I think one of the main purposes of the beta is to look at network  infrastructure.  When you get in a nice stable server with no lag, game is really fun.
@t0ykiller said:

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my only gripes so far is how sometimes enemies could act like bullet sponges, requiring almost my entire clip to kill,

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and the fact that the objectives A & B can be damaged by friendly fire.

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