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Bad Company 2's Squad Tactics

Four teams enter, one team leaves in Battlefield: BC2's new Squad Deathmatch mode.

Dec. 18 2009

Posted by: Jeff

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Battlefield: Bad Company 2

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I like this.

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lookin good!

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I did not see a new game mod like this coming from DICE, they tend to stick to the conquest, looks like good fun.
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Holy shit. The first half of next year is like the biggest orgy of great games in existence. It's official: Q1 is the new Q4.

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I could not be less interested.

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Looks alright. Not like it's a revolutionary game mode or anything. Will probably still avoid this game; I think FPS oversaturation has finally hit me.

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Definitely Battlefield!

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Waaay better than modern warfare 2, i've already stopped with that game, but this will keep me occupied for a while.

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WOOT

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nice 

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Sooooo looking forward to this game, had it on preorder since september =D

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As i said in the other thread: What took so damn long? They should have had more than two sides in a battle ever since regular BF2. Why include three factions if only two are battling at a time?
 
I hope it makes it into BF3, full scale. Three teams of 20-24 player each sounds like a blast.
 
edit: Also the map looks good. I'm all for more colorful and shaded environments. It reminds me of one of those Chinese swamp maps from BF2. I hope they include a night map.

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I love how they just split team deathmatch down the middle and are now calling it "squad deathmatch" as if it was some revolutionary new thing.

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Yeah getting it for the pc.

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@Rocospi: TBF most TDM has little to do with actual teamwork. In most games it means that not everybody is trying to kill you, and that's all it means. The squad mechanics and rock-paper-scissors nature of BF make it something different. Especially since it hasn't made it into a BF game before.
 
Having said that, I would have still liked to see it applied to Conquest mode instead of wack-ass DM.
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They're calling it "Squad Deathmatch" because it's deathmatch, and you're in a squad.

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This looks like a ton of fun.

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I hope PC version goes up to at least 6 v 6 v 6 v 6.

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Oh god, with this Mass Effect 2, Halo: Reach Beta and everything else, I'm gonna fail out of school next year!

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@jmrwacko:
i've heard it's gonna be 4v4v4v4 all around 
 
..still looks awesome to me, this game to me just has way more appeal then mw2.

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Looking good.

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Gears did it well with wingman, the principle is the same - just on a larger scale. 
 
So its safe to say it will be well recieved and functional
Might make for some intense multiple clan matches!!

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I would love to see the GiantBomb crew play this game mode.

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Multiple of teams needs to be implemented more frequently in games.

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With 3 other friends I can see this being a great mode, just hope the maps are big enough to support small skirmishes rather than a clusterfuck in the middle of the map.

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Woah! What a simple, brilliant idea. TDM with more than two teams?!

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Yes, yes, and triple yes!

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  @FrankCanada97 said:

" I would love to see the GiantBomb crew play this game mode. "

GB vs Bitmob vs Gamespot vs 4 GB community members would be great.
 
@Vorbis said:

" With 3 other friends I can see this being a great mode, just hope the maps are big enough to support small skirmishes rather than a clusterfuck in the middle of the map. "

One word: Battlefield. It's in the game's DNA to have large areas. At 41 seconds in, at the spawn screen you can see the playable area in the minimap and translate it to the rest of what you see on-screen for a sense of scale.
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 It boils down to 12 vs 4. The odds are stacked against you. Always. Good mode to get my infantry kicks!
 
Definitly gonna be intense and fun. The new map is super beautiful too.
 
March can't come soon enough.

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This is where incompetent teammates will thrive.

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I hated the BC2 beta for the first couple of hours.I thought the map was way too big and the action was to sporadic.
 
But thanks to a friend's recommendation, I stuck to it for a while and now nearly 20 hours later, its one of my fav. multiplayer shooters. That's 20 hours on a single map doing the same thing. Insane replay value.

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CANNOT WAIT

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that looks pretty damn amazing. i can't wait for this game. judging from the beta, it'll be one of the most finely tuned shooters out there.

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Lookin awesome!

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@FrankCanada97 said:
"I would love to see the GiantBomb crew play this game mode. "
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This game keeps looking better and better. Cannot wait.

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@jmrwacko: lol, they will port it to PC, it will probably be like MW2 and have no dedicated servers.
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YES squad mode!

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@Rocospi said:
" I love how they just split team deathmatch down the middle and are now calling it "squad deathmatch" as if it was some revolutionary new thing. "
well a lot of people wanted to see this kind of mode for lan tournaments so you don't need a huge team to compete.
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@first2die said:

" @jmrwacko: lol, they will port it to PC, it will probably be like MW2 and have no dedicated servers. "

Quite the opposite actually. There are press releases alleviating concerns for both of these issues. It is being built right for PC and that version will also be dedicated servers. Just because it's multiplatform doesn't mean the PC version is a port. Nor does it mean DICE have stopped listening to the community, like some other devs.
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Great concept.

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JUNGLES! And you can run over trees with your tank! Ooooooh, this is gonna be awesome.

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JUNGLES! And you can run over trees with your tank! Ooooooh, this is gonna be awesome.

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Awesome!!

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Nice I was hoping for new game modes in BFBC2

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This looks seriously good. I'm really liking the sound effects.

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The map they're showing here looks sweet.
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@rateoforange said:
" Woah! What a simple, brilliant idea. TDM with more than two teams?! "
Indeed, it brought me back to ten years ago playing the same mode in quake 2, must be considered retro now.
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@first2die said:
" @jmrwacko: lol, they will port it to PC, it will probably be like MW2 and have no dedicated servers. "
Do you have actual tested capability in logical reasoning?
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Everything in this trailer is freaking sweet.