Battlefield: Bad Company 2

[Engels]

I will most likely be joining you fine fellows soon's the game has stabilized somewhat. Please keep reporting stability/playability experiences, good or bad. All I have played for the last year is CoD W@W and its getting a bit long in the tooth. I thirst for the dulcet tinkle of brass casings upon the pavement.

[kildorn]

I'm hoping for a server browser crash fix, but yeah, the game is a lot of fun. Played a Conquest map with 4 cap points, all city based, and tons of tanks. Soooo many engineers. Soo few people feeding me ammo for my SCAR of death.

[Draegan]

I'm downloading this now.  Wheeee.

Everyone's in Bat Country?

[Xuri]

Okay. I'm already regretting buying this game because of the slowest. server. browser. in. history.

Refresh server list? WAITING FOR DATA
Add server to favourites? WAITING FOR DATA
Check list of favourite servers? WAITING FOR DATA
Apply filter to already downloaded server list? WAITING FOR DATA

Worst of all, in the "waiting for data"-dialogue that pops up there's NO indication whatsoever of any activity taking place, how far along the process it has come, etc. For all I know it could be doing nothing at all and I could sit here waiting half a day thinking "it's probably ALMOST done now! Maybe!".

I'm aware that this topic has already come up earlier in this thread, but fuuuuuuuuck.

Edit: Jesus Christ - I tried adding a server to my favourite list 10 minutes ago and it's STILL saying WAITING FOR DATA? Have they made this game simply to fuck with people's minds? If that's the case, it's working.

[Pennilenko]

I'm downloading this now.  Wheeee.

Everyone's in Bat Country?

I don't think that we have an official clan going, we all just put the f13 tag on for easy recognition.

[Malakili]

Just had a really good game on Bat Country, started out with just a few people online, but the server filled up after 20 minutes or so, so definitely join the server even if its low on people, as the match making service will get people into the server even if they aren't looking for it. (not to mention the server is going to ping well to most of the US).

Medic seems to be insanely easy to get points with, defending on some rush map (jungle, can't remember name), I had nearly 7000 points BEFORE medals were awarded.

[kildorn]

God damn this game refuses to let me play online today. Sigh.

[Modern Angel]

God damn this game refuses to let me play online today. Sigh.

Same. It's all the more irritating because when I *am* in game it's quite frankly breathtaking. I loved the bigger, 64 man maps of BF2 and sort of miss them but the tighter focus, smaller maps and more restricted air power make for some fucking intense firefights. It's just so hit or miss if I can get into a game, any game.

[Pennilenko]

The magic number of people to have on the server before the matchmaking dumps people in is either 4 or 5. It seems once you get to 4 or 5 people you blink and its full.

[taolurker]

I will most likely be joining you fine fellows soon's the game has stabilized somewhat. Please keep reporting stability/playability experiences, good or bad. All I have played for the last year is CoD W@W and its getting a bit long in the tooth. I thirst for the dulcet tinkle of brass casings upon the pavement.

This is basically me as well, and at some point over the next month this game might be a purchase. I definitely would be interested in playing with you folks again but have other games. I also am sensing with my luck and the current frustration factor of the server browser, that waiting is in my best interests.

Just wanted to maybe point out that currently the Server Page for the server you created has a mysterious link: "No clan info is available. Are you the game server owner? If so, claim this server to add your clan's information to this page!" which maybe someone from here should click.

[Azazel]

Probably my game of the year. Except for this:

the slowest. server. browser. in. history.

Refresh server list? WAITING FOR DATA
Add server to favourites? WAITING FOR DATA
Check list of favourite servers? WAITING FOR DATA
Apply filter to already downloaded server list? WAITING FOR DATA

And especially this:

God damn this game refuses to let me play online today. Sigh.

[fuser]

Modified the server a bit hence the restart moments ago:

CONQUEST
levels/mp_001
levels/mp_003
RUSH
levels/mp_002
levels/mp_004
CONQUEST
levels/mp_005
levels/mp_007
levels/mp_009cq
RUSH
levels/mp_006
levels/mp_008
levels/mp_012gr

So basically it will rotate modes and maps for the full cycle besides the DM options.

[brellium]

Awesome, the only BF game I've bought, and it blows

30 seconds waiting for the server browser to update
EA screwed up their servers so it fails to respond half the time
and when I get it to list servers it fails to connect, no message, just fails to connect.

Back to TF2

[Strazos]

Was having stupid Punkbuster problems earlier...sigh, why can't people just use the Steam solutions?

[Malakili]

Awesome, the only BF game I've bought, and it blows

30 seconds waiting for the server browser to update
EA screwed up their servers so it fails to respond half the time
and when I get it to list servers it fails to connect, no message, just fails to connect.

Back to TF2

Yeah, it is annoying when you can't connect, but I really urge you to try back in a few weeks after EA has gotten their crap together.  If you just throw your arms up and say "back to TF2" never to return, you are missing a really great game.  I understand your frustration, but the game definitely doesn't "blow."

[Morfiend]

Was having stupid Punkbuster problems earlier...sigh, why can't people just use the Steam solutions?

Was thinking about buying this, and then I saw this on the Steam page.

3rd-party DRM: SecuROM™

[brellium]

Awesome, the only BF game I've bought, and it blows

30 seconds waiting for the server browser to update
EA screwed up their servers so it fails to respond half the time
and when I get it to list servers it fails to connect, no message, just fails to connect.

Back to TF2

Yeah, it is annoying when you can't connect, but I really urge you to try back in a few weeks after EA has gotten their crap together.  If you just throw your arms up and say "back to TF2" never to return, you are missing a really great game.  I understand your frustration, but the game definitely doesn't "blow."

Yeah, got into a game after a few more refreshes, it seems to play alot like red orchestra

[kildorn]

Well that was nice. The game stayed stable for two hours and let me have some fun. I mean, besides the part where I hate grenades with a passion and the accuracy with which other people seem to toss them <3

Now 500 more points for my engie's red dot sight.

[Strazos]

Was having stupid Punkbuster problems earlier...sigh, why can't people just use the Steam solutions?

Was thinking about buying this, and then I saw this on the Steam page.

3rd-party DRM: SecuROM™

Does Securom even matter if it's a digital copy?

Also, nice server...badly needs an autobalance mod. Teams getting stacked by catasses doesn't make for great games.

[Engels]

According to SecuROM, they do not use any drivers.

Also, what's up with the server listing code? Wasn't that ironed out circa 2001 or thereabouts?

[fuser]

The server side is a mess.

The auto changing of modes is broken, huzza!

Reserve slots do not work at all. If you add a person to the list it consumes a server slot. If you have say 10 people on reserve slots it turns the server into a 22 player server. Also if a user joins that's on the reserve slot player list it takes up one of the 22. I purged the list of reserved slots in order to allow the 32 slots to be used. Add me to your friends list on steam and just send a message if the servers full and I'll make room. If you don't use steam my msn address is on my profile.

The only good news is the server R5 patch on Friday resolved a lot of connection issues.

[kildorn]

My connection was pretty great after that server patch. Did the patch mess up map rotations? The Bat Country server seemed to be playing the same map about 6 times in a row.

[AcidCat]

Was thinking about buying this, and then I saw this on the Steam page.

3rd-party DRM: SecuROM™

Was thinking of buying this too, then I played the demo and realized that after many years, I think I am finally burnt out on playing armyman.

[Furiously]

Was thinking about buying this, and then I saw this on the Steam page.

3rd-party DRM: SecuROM™

Was thinking of buying this too, then I played the demo and realized that after many years, I think I am finally burnt out on playing armyman.

Are you a communist?

[fuser]

My connection was pretty great after that server patch. Did the patch mess up map rotations? The Bat Country server seemed to be playing the same map about 6 times in a row.

Yeah it was the bug with the server list. I tried to have it rotate conquest and rush maps. It's fixed as of this AM.

Also disabled the requirement for punkbuster on the server. Let's see if that resolve's some player issues on Bat Country.

[NiX]

Glad I waited on this one. Love the game, but this doesn't seem worth it right now.

[Pennilenko]

A very large portion of the servers have punk buster disabled.

[stu]

I feel for you PC guys. Even though the PS3 version costs ten bucks more, I haven't had a single problem with multiplayer. I remember something like this happening with BF 2142 a few years ago and it sucked. I'm almost positive my copy of MW2 is retired now. Maybe I'll play once in a while to join a match with friends, but that's it.

[kildorn]

Was having stupid Punkbuster problems earlier...sigh, why can't people just use the Steam solutions?

Was thinking about buying this, and then I saw this on the Steam page.

3rd-party DRM: SecuROM™

Does Securom even matter if it's a digital copy?

Also, nice server...badly needs an autobalance mod. Teams getting stacked by catasses doesn't make for great games.

Auto balance/team shuffle would be nice. The cooldown on team switching is odd, and should not trigger when moving to the smaller team.

My peeves are how quickly a game can go from nice to "half of one team just ragequit and nobody noticed", and people who take tanks and proceed to overextend with them in the first 15 seconds of a game. Or people who run from engineers trying to repair them.

[Lounge]

I feel for you PC guys. Even though the PS3 version costs ten bucks more, I haven't had a single problem with multiplayer. I remember something like this happening with BF 2142 a few years ago and it sucked. I'm almost positive my copy of MW2 is retired now. Maybe I'll play once in a while to join a match with friends, but that's it.

I'll second this.  I'm like 30 seconds from the main menu to in a match and everything runs great.  This game is a blast.

[WayAbvPar]

But you still move like you are underwater and have to aim with your thumbs. Let's call it even.

[ffc]

My PS3 copy has frozen on me three times.  After a match I get stuck while the next map is loading.  I can hear my squad continue to talk in the new match but nobody can hear me and I have to power off through the XMB. 

I did finally get to enter my VIP code after repeatedly being told it was invalid or in use.  However I still can't access the in-game store.

[WayAbvPar]

Does anyone know what the black numbers in white squares next the names on the scoreboard mean? They seem to run between 1 and 7, with more than 1 of each number shown, but only a few players have them. It shows up between rank and the name. I can't seem to get a screenshot with my crude methods.

[Pennilenko]

Does anyone know what the black numbers in white squares next the names on the scoreboard mean? They seem to run between 1 and 7, with more than 1 of each number shown, but only a few players have them. It shows up between rank and the name. I can't seem to get a screenshot with my crude methods.

That is veteran status, its the number of battlefield game titles they have registered at EA.

[fuser]

Those are battlefield veteran ranks, where you can enter your CD-Keys and info from previous games to get a rank.
Too slow 

See: http://veteran.battlefield.com/