EA did something that was pretty cool in my opinion: they did a live demo of Medal of Honor's multiplayer with 24 people. The actually lowered down 24 screens, and brought out 24 people to play on stage. They had a cool feed of all 24 screens up, and zoomed in on screens to get a better view of the action.
How does it look? Well, I hate to say this, but it looks a lot like cod in terms of core-gameplay mechanics. (although that might be nice to hear for some)
Also check-out the 24 player LAN party that they had going on.
The reticles look very similar, the guns look pretty similar, and the gameplay looked pretty similar. It even had... controllable predator missiles.
Although, where it differs is clearly where DICE decided to leave their mark. The maps look huge, some had hills, some had mountains, but the scope was there. Whether all of that will be playable map-space... I would say no, but I would say that some seem to be on the scale of MW2's Afghanistan, but better and more interesting.
There were also tanks, which is pretty cool. What do you guys think? Is this making itself look like MW3 so that it will capture that audience when people are deciding to go to the cold-war era for Black Ops?
EA confirmed that an expansion pack for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will be coming out this winter.
EA announced the expansion during their E3 presentation. It came with a trailer featuring the iconic Battlefield: Vietnam music, and a Huey flying through thick jungles. I will update this post with the trailer as soon as possible.
Check out the original BF: Vietnam trailer here.
The expansion will include 4 maps built in Frostbite, Rush, Conquest, Vietnam-specific weapons, vehicles, persistence, unlocks, and new achievements and trophies.
What are your thoughts? I personally would love a Vietnam expansion pack, but does it seem like a cheap way to build off of Black Op's hype?
I am going to use my handy rumor tags now...
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A French gaming site, NoFrag, claims to have obtained one of EA's press release announcing EA's new loyalty program supposedly called "Gun Club". The press release includes the web address for the program (www.gunclub.ea.com) Although accessing it will prompt you for a password.
This program would give members early access to betas, demos, and other content. The wording in the press release seems off... there are typos and sentences that just don't make much sense.
The press release also mentions a "brand new expansion pack for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 taking place in Vietnam.
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The full press release can be read at planetbattlefield.
I will be live-blogging EA's presentation at 5:00PM eastern/2pm pacific from my T.V. Yup.
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I am glad EA is providing such a useful service for such a reasonable price.
Don't believe me? Check the blog here.
Onslaught Mode, the co-op mode for Bad Company 2, will be releasing on June 22nd for $10. It will feature new achievements/trophies and in-game pins and awards. It will be based on times and leaderboards.
There are also some pictures.
Again, that is June 22nd for $10.
Today, the Official Battlefield Facebook page, operated by Electronic Arts, updated its status with a simple question:
If DICE were to do a Bad Company 1 map pack for Bad Company 2, what maps would you like to see?
You may remember DICE saying they do not want to charge for maps, but EA said they could not guarantee that (link to story), it seems like this Facebook update might be the start of future Bad Company 2 map expansions, most likely as paid DLC.
Now, DICE has posed questions to the community before, namely: "Do you want the ability to add optics to the G3 and M14?"
DICE never did anything about that despite the large amount of feedback asking for them to add that feature in.
But now, things are different, it is not DICE asking the community themselves, it seems that EA is stepping in.
Would you pay for Bad Company 1 maps?
I encourage everyone to go to the Facebook page and comment on the status, saying you would love the maps from BC1. I believe that if EA sees enough demand for maps, they will step in and get DICE to make more content.
But, there is the chance that EA will not do that, and despite the feedback, will shift DICE almost entirely over to Medal of Honor, so please, tell EA that you want more maps, because I know I sure do.
Here is the official changelist for the 1.04 patch, which will be rolling out today and tomorrow, depending on your location.
EDIT: There has been a bit of confusion about the patches, so let me try to explain this.
The PS3 patches are 1.02, 1.03, 1.04 etc. The change-list below is for PS3 1.04.
- Vehicles can now be damaged by friendly fire when playing Hardcore.
- The MG36 now properly has its red dot sight in Hardcore.
- Damaged vehicles no longer blink on the minimap for soldiers without a powertool.
- SPECACT kits can be used on all SDM and SR levels.
- 40mm Shotgun is now properly rewarded platinum at 500 kills not 1000.
- G3 and Mk14 can now use the AR Marksman specialization.
- Fixed a graphical issue when equipping the GOL with a 4x or Red Dot sight.
- Scoring is now awarded after a player’s death.
- Increased Tickets in Conquest mode and significantly increased Ticket Bleed when holding a majority or more of flags.
- The Conquest Horn now only plays for a short time when running low on Tickets.
- Updated the weapon stats in the Menu to reflect previous weapon balance changes (no additional weapon balance changes were made).
- Increased the power of the UH-60 miniguns at long range.
- Armored Vehicles are now more effective at running over soldiers.
- Fixed an issue on Isla Inocentes where destroying a fence would also destroy the building containing an MCom.
- Fixed various hangs and exploits.
Now, this optional title update (called Multiplayer Update 1 by people at DICE) will be released tomorrow for the Xbox 360.
According the official Battlefield Blog, an optional update for the Xbox 360 will also be released that contains "numerous gameplay tweaks". According to Bazajaytee, a player can decline the update, but will be unable to play on the new servers. " Old clients = old servers, updated clients = new servers."
A lot of the gameplay balances seem fair, an increase to the Blackhawks guns is nice, and I love increasing the effectiveness of running over soldiers.
I can also appreciate the changes to conquest, an increase of starting tickets is nice, but a big change to ticket bleed when holding a majority of the flags should make people concentrate on holding flags, and make conquest less of a deathmatch.
Oh, and they reduced the duration of the conquest horn..
I am currently trying to get more details about the two different updates (360 and PS3), stay tuned.
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