Bad Company 2 – Page 23 – Something Odd!

2 quick tips for Bad Company 2

So here I am sitting in a beautiful room looking out onto Dingle Harbour in County Kerry. The weather has unfortunately been less than favourable, but at least the rain has retreated and low cloud covers the waterfront. A stiff breeze blows but does nothing to move the seemingly perpetual mist.

What am I doing? I’m looking at Bad Company 2 videos on Youtube! Three cheers for free hotel wifi! Here’s two excellent tip and guide productions from BadCompany2Training.

The little window on two story houses marks the stairs, and where you should blow the wall to gain access, plus maybe kill an enemy or two.

And an in-depth guide to destroying buildings with C4. Love the bit about planting the C4 high to destroy the walls on both floors. Dave blogged another of their videos showing a sneaky way to get into an attic. Wonderful stuff. We played that level but unfortunately someone nabbed the quad bike and got to Alpha before us!

Surviving an earthquake in Bad Company 2

This has to be the strangest bug in Bad Company 2. Every destructable building on Isla was spontaneously destructed and lay flattened after a few seconds.

It’s not C4 planted in each building as even the crate at Bravo 2 was gone despite the fact the location graphic was still visible. Reminds me of the bug I reported a few days ago.

I finally hit level 18 in Bad Company 2 …

I finally hit level 18 in Bad Company 2 and kept that level. Unfortunately my PS3 froze and I had to leave the game just after I leveled making me nervous about my score but I didn’t need to worry. It was recorded.

I love the Saiga shotgun. It rocks! 🙂

First few games were very tough but then around 11.30pm we found a more evenly matched team and had good fun again. I lost count of the number of helicopters I took down! Took down two blackhawks on Isla, the last one exploding almost over my head, and I saw the hapless pilot parachute into the hills where there’s no way he made it back into the safe zone in time. 🙂
(Edit: Dave posted about the games and has a 14 minute low res video of it too. It’s impossible to make out names but I recognised scenes from it. Damn, I want a PVR now!)

Thanks Conor, Dave and Mick for some great games!

They fixed the Alpha 2 bug on Isla. That’s the one where you could destroy an mcom station by knifing two bits of wood behind the building. Unfortunately it’s still buggy. I entered this game on Isla when the building holding Alpha 2 was destroyed. The graphic showing the Alpha crate still showed up so I entered the rubble and crouched right in front of it but failed to set the bomb. I spent a good 5 minutes trying to get at it, even taking a tank and firing on the rubble. I was about to leave the game when my team took Bravo 2 and and announcement to move up sounded!
The screenshot above shows Alpha 2 as well as Alpha 3 and Bravo 3! It didn’t happen in the next game. (Submitted to reddit)

Phoar! Kick ass game of Bad Company 2 on…

Phoar! Kick ass game of Bad Company 2 on the Xbox 360 with a group of strangers, who all used their mics! It was great! We destroyed the other team while defending, holding them off on base 2 of Nelson Bay, and almost holding them off on the first base. They were down to 2 tickets and got Alpha by destroying the building!! Argh!

We had great times on Arica Harbour too. I took the second Alpha. Shot a guy point blank as he rounded the corner. CG into the garage door and set the bomb. A squad mate spawned on me and between us defended the crate until it blew up!

We were quite unlucky on Nelson Bay. We lost the first bravo quickly but held off the attackers until they were at 2 tickets. I changed to the Saiga and it rocked, but unfortunately they got the base by destroying the house. (I did the same to them on Arica Harbour!) We stopped them dead on the second Alpha. The shotgun proved it’s worth clearing out the crate time and again.

The final level was on Arica Harbour attacking, and we won again. I think we lost one game but I was placed on a great squad and it made a world of difference.

Oh, the people we played against hardly ever used tracer darts. When I was blowing Alpha 1 apart on Arica Harbour I was an easy target but not one dart to be seen. We were hit by a mortar strike and an AT rocket (survived both and repaired) but I wonder if the tracer dart is common knowledge among players?

Just finished the Bad Company 2 single p…

Just finished the Bad Company 2 single player campaign. Good fun, and setting things up for a third game too! I really hope they improve the dialogue in the cutscenes though. Some of it was terrible!

Mick and myself fairly rocked through se…

Mick and myself fairly rocked through several games tonight. We won some, lost others, had a great time and ruled in tanks and on foot.

Unfortunately the server disconnected in our last game, but I think the score remained (I leveled to 17, and I’m 21k points to 18 already!) but the dog tag I got from sneaking up behind an attacker is gone.

Our team made good use of tracers on Arica Harbour. I had one too but in one game we faced two tanks but I didn’t have to pull the tracer out. Others did the job and I locked on and fired. I think others are still getting the hang of it. We were traced in another game and yet rockets flew harmlessly past. Shame the server disconnected, we were having such a good time!

Earlier in the evening I booted up the Xbox to check if BC2 had been patched there and it appears it hasn’t. Field Operative was online though and I joined his squad after he sent me an invite. Unfortunately we were up against a very tough opposition on Nelson Bay. I joined after we took Alpha, then took Bravo. Got the second Bravo but the last Alpha was just a war of attrition which of course we lost. Too late we realized we should have flanked them. The game ended just as I got around the back of Alpha. 🙁

Later: Bah. I just checked the screenshots I took and noticed that I lost all the points earned in the last game. I had leveled up to 18 but I’m back to 17 now. I wouldn’t mind if I had done badly.

Mick blogged about the games too, concentrating on Valapariso which I had forgotten about but where we made great use of the tank and pushed hard attacking.

Bad Company 2 Onslaught

Onslaught has just been announced. It’s a coop game for Battlefield Bad Company which sounds really interesting.

Onslaught is bringing co-op gameplay to Battlefield for the first time on console. The new game mode puts you and up to three friends against the enemy on Valparaiso, Atacama Desert, Isla Inocentes and Nelson Bay – redesigned with new lighting, time of day, added vehicles and other effects. Each map has a dedicated gameplay focus, requiring different levels of teamwork in order to complete the objectives against an onslaught of enemy AI. Vehicle warfare comes to the forefront in Atacama Desert while Nelson Bay focuses squarely on infantry assault. Players can compete in squads and check individual progress via the dedicated Onslaught leaderboards.

(The video is nothing special, 1/3 of it is company logos!)

The one fly in the ointment is that it won’t be free. If it gets good reviews and if my friends on PSN and Xbox Live want to buy it I’ll probably pick it up.

Unfortunately if you’re on PC, you’re out of luck due to the way they’ve deployed/designed their servers.

Bad Company 2 has been patched on consol…

Bad Company 2 has been patched on consoles. I had a quick 10 minute game and shot down 2 Apache helicopters on Isla after placing a tracer on them and seriously damaged a Blackhawk.

Wow, this is game changing. The blackhawk pilot did have vehicle smoke (I know because he killed me as soon as I entered the game) but after I planted the tracer he didn’t try to remove it by firing the smoke.

The tracer isn’t quite fast enough that you can point at a moving vehicle and hit fire, you’ll have to lead it a bit but it’s much easier than before.

Edit – Mick has listed the changes by soldier class making it very easy to see what has changed in each.

Bad Company 2 has not been patched yet, …

Bad Company 2 has not been patched yet, but I think the prospect of playing the patched game has attracted all the good players back. We had a tough time of it, but we fought well for the most part. The night is a blur and my eyes are crossed from the effort.

Thanks Mike, Dave and belatedly David, you joined us just as we lost defending on Isla. It’s amazing how fast that game ended since we had got them down to about 13 tickets on the first base. We played really well on the first base. Perhaps people quit and another squad joined the other team? Then again, as I raced for Alpha I took out one guy behind the fence, and noticed in amazement as our own team stared blankly ahead at the hill, totally ignoring the bomb on the crate! I got mowed down at the crate unfortunately and we lost the game.

I loved how we took Isla in the round before. Defenders had us pinned down on the hill. We were at 32 tickets, and Dave pushed forward and took Bravo. We supported him, I died but took an enemy or two with me, and then Mike lead the charge on Alpha, with smoke swirling around us. I think Dave set the charge and the rest of us kept the enemy off it. I stopped at least two defenders and possibly got a headshot over the cement barrier!

We were very lucky on Arica Harbour too. Mike, Dave and I were defending the last crate, Bravo (the upstairs one anyway) and doing a damn fine job of it when we were overrun. The enemy were down to 3 tickets. We all spawned, the siren for the bomb was already blaring, it looked hopeless but then we won! Close thing! The other team must have been fuming! 🙂

I followed Geoff’s advice in one confrontation. I spotted a guy, got a few rounds into him but he disappeared behind a wall and lobbed a grenade in after him. Kill!

Oh, Mike got called a noob for using the heavy MG in the town. I think he pissed off someone! We did tear up the other team though. I was on the stationary AT and took out a fair number of enemy, and spotted more to see them falling, over and over again as the MG took them out.

I unlocked the STG.77 AUG twice tonight….

I unlocked the STG.77 AUG twice tonight. First time I was having a great game and got disconnected, losing all my score! Joined another game and thankfully had another great game, which MJ joined. Unlocked the AUG again and I like it!

I popped the FPS Freek on my PS3 controller as an experiment, upped the sensitivity so I’m not moving like a glacier any more and did quite well. I’m positive it was because of the players I was against but earned a positive KDR twice, and my aim did marginally improve. Could be that I’m playing at 8pm and not 10pm and the evening has been quiet so far so I’m nice and relaxed. Who knows?