Just got my Medal of Honor beta code fro…

Just got my Medal of Honor beta code from GAME and eventually managed to get an online code. Their site refused to accept my EA login, but on the third page it asks for your EA id. I typed in what it could be and it worked! Hell of a security system EA, that’s totally screwed up!

So, I’ll try MOH tonight, but I’m not expecting much. From all I’ve heard it seems like a right pile of pooh. I wonder if Amazon.co.uk will send me a beta code too. If they do, who wants it? Only regular commenters need apply please! 🙂

Oh, if you’ve played the beta and can reproduce any of the freeze bugs, take a look at this forum thread and reply if the bug isn’t covered yet. Thanks Sgt_Roach_ for linking to my post below with Geoff’s video showing the freezing bugs he found! Saved me the job!

What did Bad Company 1 look like?

I was a big fan of Bad Company 1, the single player game, last year when I bought it. Night after night I played it until I got to the village where you have to blow up the bridges to stop US forces advancing. No matter what I did I could not complete that stage! It was so frustrating! I bought MW2 and a Gold subscription to Xbox Live shortly after and haven’t really looked at BC1 since.

So, it was nice to see that bharlan2002 has posted a commentary on “Harvest Day”, a map set in rolling hills and farmhouses. Unfortunately his commentary is too low but I still enjoyed it and I wonder if DICE will bring back some of the maps from the previous game. There are still two VIP slots left in the store. Let’s hope they fill them with real map packs, and not “mode packs”.

In a tough game of Bad Company 2 it’s a…

In a tough game of Bad Company 2 it’s always great when you steal their tank. Thanks Dave for the lift in the Hind, and Tye for all the repairs! They hadn’t a clue, and I got a few kils on my way back to the final base on Isla. A team that beat us several times finally succumbed to our awesome fighting skills!

KDR remains unchanged which I was surprised about. I made it to level 26, and thanks to Conor who nudged me to play BC1 online I’m now a veteran and unlocked the Garand. I also unlocked the recon’s RDS.

Tough bloody games with Mike, David and later TyeWebb.

Edit: How did my skill level go up? No wonder they were difficult games if I was killing so many players with higher skill levels than I had!

Proof positive if any was needed that a …

Proof positive if any was needed that a team composed of recons will not win a game of Bad Company 2 rush. We were defending on Port Valdez and there was 3-4 snipers on the hill with a medic reviving them. They were annoying but they never made it past the first base.
They never stood a chance defending. It was with pleasure I took out of those snipers after their second base went down. They were sitting up on the pipes behind Alpha taking pot shots at people, so I snuck around the containers. Took aim, 1 down, adjust aim, 2 down! Another sniper was taking shelter on the other side of the base and he suffered a similar fate. Unfortunately their medic came along at the wrong moment and made mince meat of me with his M60.
I probably shouldn’t have stolen the Apache from the last base. We didn’t need it! Dave would have done more damage with it on the ground. And yes, I drove it like a drunken judge. I couldn’t remember how to go up. Ooops.

Oh, and I started on Arica Harbour as usual. Defending, and we stopped them at the third base, and then won attacking in the next round. I joined a good team! 🙂

All in all, some great games. David invited a PSN buddy, Jackmufc (I think?) and later Cardsnumber7 joined us and did a fine job taking out the annoying snipers I mentioned earlier. I only got one I think. I’m still trying to get the hang of the 12x scope.

My KDR didn’t increase, but my skill level did, from 22 to 105 (although BfBC2 says it’s 176!). That probably explains why we tore up the other team as I was first into the game. Win/Loss ratio has jumped from 1.54 to 1.60 which is always nice. And woohoo, got my sixth gold star for the AN-94!

Freezing problems in Medal of Honor Beta

If you haven’t played Medal of Honor yet you may have seen people mention how easy it is to cause the beta to freeze your PS3, requiring a reboot of the machine. I wonder if this is why the Xbox version is delayed a week?

Anyway, Geoff has the beta, and created MoHbeta2010, a new channel where he’ll be posting videos from the beta. The one above is easily the most informative of the videos I’ve seen today. He talks about guns, hit damage, the super powerful tank, and “hit streaks”. And of course how to freeze the beta too.

One freeze is triggered by getting 40 points through gun kills. Shoot 3 or 4 people without dying and your machine will freeze up! Crazy isn’t it?

Sorry Cole, I hope you never do this aga…

Sorry Cole, I hope you never do this again. You camped in a hut the whole game after laying down C4 around Bravo. The C4 was hit by stray gunfire (imagine that!) and made a huge dent in the crate’s health, then the same thing happened to the stick you dropped on top of the crate? Ouch.

The other night Mike and Gavin played in a game where one of the team constantly blew up their own crates. He ended up with a score of -5860. Bloody idiot. Looking at you popipipo.

The same may have happened during one of our games where an enemy player ended up with -1660 but I can’t remember if we were attacking or not. Either that, or he was helping his friends boost. It’s just ridiculous. Why don’t you just buy the shortcut kits if you’re that desperate?

Medal of Honor Gameplay Video

Cardsnumber7 is the first person on my subscriber list to post a Medal of Honor gameplay video to Youtube. He says himself that he’s figuring out how to play the game and the commentary isn’t very good but it gives a good idea of how the game looks and plays.

Geoff held a streaming session on justin.tv playing MOH but when I hopped onto his channel he was playing Arica Harbour in BfBC2! I guess MOH came later.

Now I’m wondering how many of my online friends are taking part in the MOH beta. Field Operative is, though he’s on Xbox and the beta is delayed a week on that platform. Geoff is, on PS3, Mike too?

Field Operative linked to more videos, I hope he doesn’t mind if I post them too. They’re tiny on his blog!

Ah feck, tempted now to pre-order it to get in the beta!

Some crazy games of Bad Company 2 last n…

Some crazy games of Bad Company 2 last night. We won 4 and lost 2 rounds. It was late at night and the games were sometimes quite empty. One game we were attacking only had 2, then 1 enemy defending. Needless to say we won that one. In the next round we were defending and this one player was joined by a pretty good team who put up a good fight and eventually won.
Unfortunately the rest of our team left except for our squad so it was tough.

Poor Mike. If Dave‘s latest video is anything to go by, he doesn’t have much luck when he gets into a Hind with either of us.

On Port Valdez he got in the Hind after I said I’d drive, err fly. We zoomed into the air and off to shoot some enemy butt. Unfortunately we failed miserably. We got hit a few times, aircraft health plummeted to 27 points and I did a mad turn about, screeching through a tight circle and headed home. We hit the ground by Bravo just as the health hit 1 point and jumped out to fight another day.

Thanks Mike and Conor for some great games. I didn’t do all that well, suffering from a negative KDR for the evening. Still though, my skill level plummeted so I should get an easier game the next time!

When defending the third base on Arica H…

When defending the third base on Arica Harbour in Bad Company 2 destroy the blue fence overlooking the crates.

I did that yesterday in a game and surprised a medic who fell to my AN-94. It made it slightly harder for the enemy team to destroy the crates, although in this case the enemy overran both crates quite quickly anyway. It’s still a good defence tactic and one I’ll use again.

This is just one of the tactics discussed in this Defence Tips for Bad Company 2 post I made a few months ago.