Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PC Beta Delayed, Upgraded
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PC Beta Delayed, Upgraded
Posted 12/01/2009 at 12:53am
| by Nathan Grayson
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At first glance, you might think the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PC beta’s last-minute leap into early 2010 is just another example of PC gamers getting the shaft. After all, PS3 owners are taking the beta for a spin right now, so what’s the hold up on PC? Well, as it turns out, DICE is merely saving the best for last.
“With the huge success of the PS3 Beta we decided to drastically increase the PC Beta's capacity to insure as many people as possible could participate. Unfortunately this meant we had to delay the Beta to very early next year giving us more planning time to make it happen and implement more optimizations,” producer Gordon VanDyke wrote on the Battlefield blog.
Oh, he is so cruising for a boycot-- wait, what'd he just say?
VanDyke also emphasized that Bad Company 2’s PC iteration will come loaded with an increased multiplayer count, dedicated server support, extra graphical settings, and tons more. Basically, the whole thing’s a spicy love letter to PC gamers, peppered with all the fixings we like best. Is this what it feels like to be… acknowledged?
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logicmaster2003
December 01, 2009 at 4:53pm
I know in terms of playability / multiplayer support, Battlefield series always wins and always will be.
But is it just me or is the Graphic Quality hasn't changed much from BF2/BF2142 ? Meaning the color and tone of any object still look 2005-era. I want more physix type of thing also !
I'm really hoping that the graphics will be similar to that of Far Cry 2 ! I believe MW2 is on the same boat as FC2 in terms of graphic quality.
Caboose
December 01, 2009 at 11:42am
I'd like to see the CoD MW2 multiplayer numbers before BC2 comes out, and then after. It'll be intersting to see how many people leave MW2.
I myself will be busy playing Star Trek Online when this comes out, but will pick it up none the less.
Hey, since this is Bad Company 2, is there a proper single player campain? All the video's I've ever seen have been multi-player and look like how Battlefield 2 were, only newer.
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
crazitrain02
December 01, 2009 at 10:10am
I'm glad that there is finally going to be another Battlefield coming out soon. I'm glad to see that EA and DICE is slapping Infinity Wasn't across the face with their Dedi servers and increased multiplayer. This will surely be the next 800 hour game for me.
ocnier
December 01, 2009 at 7:24am
Dedicated servers and increased mutiplayer counts... hmmmmmm...... Infinity ward i hope your taking notes on how it should have been you idiots!!
nekollx
December 01, 2009 at 9:45am
Infinity who?
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Biceps
December 01, 2009 at 9:59am
My thoughts exactly!
Happy to wait till January for the beta if the game is better for it. YAY for dedicated servers.
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