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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 VIP Map Pack 4 Trailer

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Jul. 7 2010

Posted by: Matt

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Battlefield: Bad Company 2

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@halfameatball said:
" I think Dice is releasing modes instead of maps so they can work on MoH and pretend like they are supporting BFBC2. I don't think any extra work has gone into supporting BC2. All these modes for the existing maps could have probably been included at release. "
actually, one of their dev docs quoted some stats of the studio, something like 130-150 people, ~50-70 per AAA game
 
there's mirrorsedge2 & BF3 that probably take up the most resources right now, MoH is just mp & there isnt THAT much to put in it, at least employee-wise
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Edited By KimChi4U

I love how everyone complains about something they are getting for free.  
 
EA - "Here loyal customers. We're adding different modes to the maps you know and love and we're not going to charge you for it." 
 
Gamer - "SCROO YOO EA!  LOLZ!!111  MAPZ ARE SAAAMMMMEEE!!111  I WANNA PAY FOR MOAR MAPZ111  TAKE MY 15 DOLLLARZZZ." 
 
Geez, if you play bfbc2 and don't like the free stuff, just don't play the maps when they come up in the queue. If you don't play bfbc2, then why do you care? Activision is more than happy to take your $30.
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@Death_Burnout:  you sir have just made yourself an acquaintance nice to meet you. we can hate Ninja Warfare 2 and dream of Vietnam together.
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@nail1080:  Hey I spot no matter who I'm playin with. I wanna win when I play Battlefield
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YAY new rush map

also that helicopter maneuver was cool, im gonna try it next time i play

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Both of these maps could play very well on the respected game types and Why are people complaining? it's not like there're charging for them.

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Edited By darkjester74

Hey guys, you do know that the NEW new maps are coming in BC2: Vietnam right?  I mean that so-called "expansion", as best as I can tell is just a regular old map pack.  I wonder how much they are going to charge for that puppy?

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Edited By Zatoichi_Sanjuro
@Jiujitsuka said:
" It brings variation to the playlists, and it's free. Nothing to complain about. "
Other than the fact it should have been in the game from day one, and it isn't free we paid for it.
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@Xeiphyer said:
" @Jethuty said:
" @AlwaysAngry said:
" When this first came out everybody was saying, 'OMGZ FREE NEW MAPS THANKS DICE BATTLEFIELD PWNZ0R MW2 SUX!!!" And now it's funny to see people actually realizing that DICE and Battlefield aren't the saviors of the world. Sure, I have to pay to get new maps on MW2, but at least they give me the option to get them. DICE just keeps throwing the same old maps at you and calling them new! "
you do know that you have to pay 30 dollars, just to get what, 4-5 new maps? rest is literally just copy-paste maps.   I dunno, i rather have free maps than having to pay half the game for 4-5 new ones. "
They may be releasing the same maps, but those are maps that were previously only for other modes, and they play very differently depending on what mode you play on them. So its pretty awesome, and they are free, so who cares.  ---------------   Also, this video is totally unrealistic and obviously fake. Nobody would use a spot assist in a real game because they are all fucking retarded. >_>" Nobody spots anymore, and its stupid because its incredibly useful for your team.  They probably shouldn't have put it on select though, that button is no fun to reach. "
play with friends if you want spot assists!
 
Also these trailers for these simple features which should be in the game from the start without needing to use some stupid pc-like code suck!
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Edited By JiuJitsuka85

It brings variation to the playlists, and it's free.
Nothing to complain about.

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Edited By EnchantedEcho
@moojuice said:
" *sigh*
Still want new maps "
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Edited By MrKlorox

I miss real conquest mode. Sick of these Rush conversions.

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Edited By EthanielRain

I have a blast every time I play this game (and get into a good group), so I won't get all grumpy about them not being "new" maps.  Still, it would be really nice to get something fresh.

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@Mr_Ahh: do you want to ruin his gaming console by letting that disc into the tray?
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Edited By confideration

I spot like crazy - you can get a good amount of points for spotting from a UAV with the zoom modifier thing. Just sit at max distance with a nice TV and hit the back button to spot people repeatedly then rain down smart bombs on snipers.

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Edited By johnzimmerman

bout time they added atacama to rush and port valdez to conquest.  i was hoping for actually "new" maps but more maps is good too.

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Man this game is so good. It's got me hooked.

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Edited By Zatoichi_Sanjuro

It's so awesome being a VIP. Out of my way everybody! I'm getting free map packs! Can't wait to see what these new maps look like.
 

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Edited By manapause

 To be fair, it's "free" in the sense that you have to pay $10 for the VIP access, because even if you got the game brand new, you have just lost $10 of resell value as soon as you opened the wrapper. Thus for my $10 I would hope to see a few NEW maps, not just rehashed map modes. 
But more than that, I'd love it if they fixed the rubberbanding... or actually supported the game in countries where they released the game (like here in Japan that only seems to have servers during the day...)

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Edited By DrewHughes

Atacama Rush looks like a good time, always wished that map had rush. Pretty pumped for the Vietnam DLC. I wish there was something more for 1943 but hey, maybe that'll come later.

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@BulletStorm: Actually, making maps in BFBC2 would probably be a lot easier. Buildings are all pre-fab. Other than placing objects, buildings, and using a paint tool to adjust the landscape, there isn't much. Call of Duty still has the arena feel to the level designs, where each room and building must be hand crafted.
 
In CoD, if an area isn't working out, they need to tear apart everything and rebuild it. While BFBC2 would just involve moving around some objects or sculpting some earth.
 
Not that I'm defending CoD, I'm a total BFBC2 nut. It's just that I've had experience designing maps in old Unreal engine games... it isn't easy.
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@Jethuty said:
" @AlwaysAngry said:
" When this first came out everybody was saying, 'OMGZ FREE NEW MAPS THANKS DICE BATTLEFIELD PWNZ0R MW2 SUX!!!" And now it's funny to see people actually realizing that DICE and Battlefield aren't the saviors of the world. Sure, I have to pay to get new maps on MW2, but at least they give me the option to get them. DICE just keeps throwing the same old maps at you and calling them new! "
you do know that you have to pay 30 dollars, just to get what, 4-5 new maps? rest is literally just copy-paste maps.   I dunno, i rather have free maps than having to pay half the game for 4-5 new ones. "
You get 4 new maps, and 4 old favorites. The 4 old ones play vastly differently thought because of all the new features from Modern Warfare to Modern Warfare 2. I rather have the option to pay for new content instead of having old content forced on me, free or not. Yeah, the Battlefield add-ons are free, but that's all they got going for them. It's not like the devs actually took time to make something new. And when they did (onslaught mode,) they made you pay for it! 
 
 
Though it's great that the devs are giving us anything, because of course, they didn't have to, it would be nice if we could get something NEW every now and then. And considering I have to buy the game new to get the add-ons in the first place, it's costing a good extra $20.00-$25.00, so I wouldn't call these "free" add-ons free at all.
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lol 
when are they going to make a new map instead of just adding modes to maps that should have already had them in the first place? 
 
pathetic.

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I need to start playing this game again.

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This might also be an unfair comment to make, but, did anyone think about how much longer it takes DICE to make a map than it does Infinity Ward? What with destructible environments and vehicles and what not to account for?  
 
Plus, DICE added that survival mode right? I forget its name though ... but also on the flip side of that Infinity Ward already had a lot of Co-Op stuff... in another mode whose name escapes me right now.  
 
Also, in making comparisons between IF and DICE it might also be important to consider that IF already had map packs in development at launch and dated - whereas DICE's development of BC2:VIETNAM, well, who knows when that started?

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Edited By Cheapoz

This is BS of the highest order.  
 
Yo Dice, I would pay real people money for ACTUALLY new maps! 
 
They've taken far long to do that now.

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Yeah - the new maps are great fun. Already played a couple of hours on them. Albeit I could be bickering about many things, like Atacama not being a true tank warfare map.
 
But who am I to argue with fun...

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@misplacedcircus: I don't think that Dice is trying to play anyone as an idiot here - the basic fact is that one map's conquest mode is a completely different file from the same map's rush mode - they aren't calling them new maps, and they aren't calling them new modes; although it'd be completely in their boundaries to call them new maps, don't you feel respected in the least that they aren't trying to spin this in any other way than "here, we added this game type to this map". 
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@Jethuty said:
" @AlwaysAngry said:
" When this first came out everybody was saying, 'OMGZ FREE NEW MAPS THANKS DICE BATTLEFIELD PWNZ0R MW2 SUX!!!" And now it's funny to see people actually realizing that DICE and Battlefield aren't the saviors of the world. Sure, I have to pay to get new maps on MW2, but at least they give me the option to get them. DICE just keeps throwing the same old maps at you and calling them new! "
you do know that you have to pay 30 dollars, just to get what, 4-5 new maps? rest is literally just copy-paste maps.   I dunno, i rather have free maps than having to pay half the game for 4-5 new ones. "
They may be releasing the same maps, but those are maps that were previously only for other modes, and they play very differently depending on what mode you play on them. So its pretty awesome, and they are free, so who cares.
 
---------------
 
 
Also, this video is totally unrealistic and obviously fake. Nobody would use a spot assist in a real game because they are all fucking retarded. >_>" Nobody spots anymore, and its stupid because its incredibly useful for your team.
 
They probably shouldn't have put it on select though, that button is no fun to reach.
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It might not be new maps (which I would prefer, I don't want to have to wait until the end of the year for the Vietnam expansion), but atleast they are using two great maps and modes.  Map Pack 3 was terrible

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Edited By CHIEFMEGADETH666

i stopped playing this game...they never added in any real new maps,opening other game mode maps to other game types ain't a Mappack!!!!,they should of had it on release for fuck sakes...its just a unlock
Holding content from us is not a map pack at all!
I played the maps enough so i don't need to play them anymore
Bring out new maps already!
Do they take us for idiots?

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@natetodamax: Yes, modifications AND unlocks that's already on the disc. 
 
Oh.. and you are bitching about FREE content. Shhhh....
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Edited By natetodamax

Why can't DICE make new maps? These aren't map packs, they're modifications.

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Fucking awsome!
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I love DICE.

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@AURON570 said:
" What happened to the old, let's play one map over and over and over again and never complain about it? I honestly don't understand the desire for new maps in FPS games. "
No one used to complain "in the old days" because every game would have solid mod support allowing for custom community-made maps which often would end up being better than those shipped with the game, also extending the game's life incredibly.. This is not the case with this console port. Moreover, in said old days, games would ship with tons of maps anyway (ut2k4 for example and its massive collection of maps), and not 6 or so maps.  
 
I got tired of the maps in this game 2 months ago, and its not like I sucked at the game either, i stopped due to lack of diversity; and I went back to TF2. 
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I actually might get back into this when this map pack rolls 'round.

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Edited By fastidious

Stopped playing this game about a month ago due to boredom with the same maps.  These so-called 'map packs' don't fool anyone. If they can't get some new maps together in a reasonable amount of time (way past that now) they should get that map editor out so the community can.

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What happened to the old, let's play one map over and over and over again and never complain about it? I honestly don't understand the desire for new maps in FPS games.

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@AlwaysAngry said:
" When this first came out everybody was saying, 'OMGZ FREE NEW MAPS THANKS DICE BATTLEFIELD PWNZ0R MW2 SUX!!!" And now it's funny to see people actually realizing that DICE and Battlefield aren't the saviors of the world. Sure, I have to pay to get new maps on MW2, but at least they give me the option to get them. DICE just keeps throwing the same old maps at you and calling them new! "
you do know that you have to pay 30 dollars, just to get what, 4-5 new maps? rest is literally just copy-paste maps. 
 
I dunno, i rather have free maps than having to pay half the game for 4-5 new ones.
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i dont care about these rehashes of old maps i want new maps its benn almost five months the maps are getting really stale.

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Edited By AlwaysAngry

When this first came out everybody was saying, 'OMGZ FREE NEW MAPS THANKS DICE BATTLEFIELD PWNZ0R MW2 SUX!!!" And now it's funny to see people actually realizing that DICE and Battlefield aren't the saviors of the world. Sure, I have to pay to get new maps on MW2, but at least they give me the option to get them. DICE just keeps throwing the same old maps at you and calling them new!

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Edited By PentaCube

 BC2 hasn't felt like a battlefield game because the maps are so confined.  If they eventually release new maps and they happen to be large maps with real room for vehicles I would gladly come back.  I don't see that happening though.    

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YEEEES!!!  ATACAMA FOR RUSH!!!  FINALLY!!! 
 
Can't wait!
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Agree with general sentiment, while good maps to enjoy, you kind of wish they made brand new ones instead of modifying existing ones. 
 
Altho the flip side is would we be willing to pay for map packs ala MW2 (not necesarily at the same £10 pricemark)

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Edited By EvolutionX0
same maps? ughhh..next.
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Edited By microshock

The Rush versions of these previously non-rush maps are actually pretty good, they can be considered a new map. 
 
But the rush maps that go backwards to conquest or whatever are just a small chunk of that map, which is stupid. 
 
I'm very disappointed at DICE. Even the guys at Infinity Ward, who have like 3 people left making maps, pumped out two map packs. And they don't even have a good game! 
 
Also, is the stupid lag fixed on the East Coast? I swear, it was like my main enemy in every MP game was that damn rubberbanding lag. 

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Edited By Chocobo_Blitzer

Can't argue with free, I guess. Just wish we didn't have to wait till Vietnam to get new maps.... and only four at that.

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@Mr_Ahh said:
" @Death_Burnout: well that's easy.  
  1. get modern warfare 2
  2. spend $30
 
 

"
I already have it, but hell no! i can't stand Modern Warfare anymore, mostly because of the people who play it. But more importantly, i would happily pay dollars, or in my case, pounds, for new maps in BC, no question. 
 
I am not missing the point that these map/mode changes are free to me, i just want something new, i guess i will wait for the BC Vietnam expansion. Fond memories of the original