A Bad Company 2 patch for PCs will hit servers tomorrow and among other bug fixes and tweaks this little change caught my eye. Hope it comes to consoles soon, but I haven’t seen many people C4ing crates recently so perhaps it’s a little late for this patch ..
Reduced all weapon damage to the MCOM by 50%
Lots of other changes, including an AN-94 change to reduce it’s short range damage.
So, is this patch too little, too late for Bad Company 2? Will we be still playing this game 2 years from now?
Hell of a Bad Company 2 gaming session last night with bigpresh and his friend (who I don’t remember right now). We rocked every game, winning almost all of them, and racking up the kills. I’m pretty sure we got best team in each game too.
After watching this video by Colin I decided to try the 40mm shotgun attachment but I really never got the chance to use it effectively. The one time I knew an enemy was waiting for me behind a corner I missed him and ended up knifing him. Then 2 of his squad mates showed up, I knifed one, and shot the other just as he shot me. It all happened so fast the second dog tags came up as I was respawning! Got a nice 300 points for that encounter!
In other news, if you’re RPGing an MCOM station on Nelson Bay, please make sure you check your corners. Thanks for the dog tags! 😉
My global KDR increased to 0.85, skill level plummeted to 1.75 (don’t care, gets me easier games in the future) and my KDR for the night was 1.59!
Great games.
What to do when you’re being chased by an enemy aircraft in Battlefield 1942. Wow. (via)
NSFW chat but it’s hilarious. Thanks Mark!
Bad Company 2 Conquest went well tonight. First with Mike and then with Duck. We didn’t win every game but they were enjoyable and that’s the main thing isn’t it? Got the “Flag Attacker Pin” 3 times too. Capture 4 flags in a round.
The other night my brother called over and we played some split screen Halo Reach. Good fun in Firefight, and Duck joined us again. We were slaughtered when we joined a game of Swat Magnums. Ouch. Tye joined us just as we were logging off, so hopefully we’ll get a few games in another night.
Congrats David on getting 1000 subscribers to your channel. Great achievement and a testament to the entertaining videos you upload!
I rendered a Halo Reach game and while I did upload it to show a few people, I want to add some sort of commentary on it before I make it public. Here’s a tip for Linux users, who have a remote server and who render videos on Bungie Pro. Download the video from bungie.net on to your server. I used wget in an ssh session. It downloaded the full 515MB in a matter of minutes. Then launch Chrome, Firefox or your favourite browser from your server and display it on your desktop machine using the remote desktop ability in X and login to Youtube. Now hit the upload form and when you browse you’ll actually be browsing your server’s home directory! I uploaded that 515MB file in about 2 minutes. My home broadband would have been there all night doing that as the upload speed is much slower than download!
The new Bad Company 2 Vietnam expansion pack will cost $14.99 or 1200MS points, so says the new in-game trailer announced this morning by DICE.
The trailer looks good, but it’s not quite “in-game”. I’ve never seen a BfBC2 gameplay video shot from those angles!
I’ll be buying.
That was the funniest game of Bad Company 2. Only one defender on a game of Rush (and he eventually left) so we all loaded up with C4 and it was a race to blow the crates! The last crate was the best. Someone was dancing on the crate, spinning around and around like in Cardnumber7’s intro while 2 or 3 more players threw C4 on there for special effect. Oh how we laughed.
A following game on Isla against a team who piled helicopter after helicopter into the MCOM stations was a touch and go thing. As an engineer I stood in front of the first Alpha, heard the heli incoming, saw it and fired a rocket point blank range and got a vehicle destruction. It couldn’t have been more than a few feet from the ground! It was a really long game and they managed to push us right back to the last base. They took Bravo and Alpha was on it’s last legs. They had 29 tickets but we whittled them down, until we eventually won.
I went recon during that game just to unlock a few more items. I also got my “Long Service Surveillance Ops” pin for 100 motion mine assists. Had some fun with the SV98 too, getting a few noscope kills and I unlocked the sniper spotting scope. Good games with Tye, Mike, Duck and Conor.
I have a new favourite game and it’s VVVVVV. I’d never heard of this game until this post brought it to my attention.
Apparently it’s an indie hit on modern platforms, but here it is for the venerable C64! Having played it I’m tempted to buy the modern original game and I’m looking forward to seeing the final C64 version!
So, go grab a C64 emulator like Vice or any of the other ones out there and give it a whirl. If you’ve no idea what I’m talking about check out the faq on c64.com.
Great game.
Is the lag in Halo Reach coop as bad for anyone else as it is for me? Conor got himself an Xbox 360 and even though we’re separated by a matter of 20 miles or so the lag in Firefight and campaign coop was terrible!
Good game of Swat though! Skill matching rocks when you’re a noob! 🙂
The good people at GetJar.com are now offering Angry Birds as a free download for mobile phones running Android.
The game is ad supported but as far as I can see, adverts appear at the start of the level and don’t appear on each one so they’re not intrusive. Works flawlessly on my Samsung Galaxy S too. Great job!
Oh, you might have to wait a while before downloading. The GetJar website is currently down, but persevere and you’ll get it!
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