More downtime scheduled for Bad Company 2 tomorrow

PC suck again

I guess Loki doesn’t know much about networking then..

Man, the game was launched last friday and its spent more down time then up time. WTF is going on?!! Online gaming is older than the underwear I am wearing

Game is freakin’ awesome… the best multiplayer game for the last 5-6 years i have experienced… I’m so hyped for this, but…

fucking down time since launch is the worst since all multiplayer games i experienced in my entire life. Thats horrible.

Makes you wonder what the downloadable ‘Beta Phase’ was for…

Damn hype machine I reckon!

=]

Well, they said they sold 3 times more copies in the first week than they did BC1, so I’d imagine that the game was a big surprise for them too!

D’oh. I was just getting into it, too.

While it’s far better than when I played it in beta, I fail to see what makes this a CoD-killer. I’m having fun because it’s new and it’s different, but the balance in terms of weapons/unlocks favors people who simply play a lot rather than people who just play well. The weapons are jumping all over the screen, while the smoke and dust is constantly obscuring your view, and for some reason everybody’s Iron Man, soaking up hot lead like there’s no tomorrow, which doesn’t exactly serve to make the twitchy weapons more appropriate.

Then there’s the interface, the “Play Now” (Or never) feature, server browser, lack of anticheat on most servers, people abandoning the game at a certain map etc.

It’s a fun distraction, but at the end of the day I still prefer a game like MW2 that is all about skill, rather than how much time you spend unlocking and learning the crazy jumping patterns of the various weapons. In MW2 you can compete from the first time you log in, and it never wastes your time when you’re just looking for a quick fight.

@7 First person shooter without ballisticks, vehicles and physics in 2010? Owwww please.

@8 Completely missing the point. All of those things are completely useless if they don’t heighten the overall experience.

Jesus, it’s a day or two out of your lifes, in a game that’s only be out a week. If that’s “too much downtime” for you, you need to get out more. Play something else until they get things stabilised. Lord…

These problems occur *all* the time for games of any time. If you think they don’t, and if you think this is a “severe” case, you’re deluding yourself.

“I’m having fun because it’s new and it’s different, but the balance in terms of weapons/unlocks favors people who simply play a lot rather than people who just play well.”

You mean… just like Modern Warfare 2? See below.

“It’s a fun distraction, but at the end of the day I still prefer a game like MW2 that is all about skill.”

If you think Modern Warfare 2 is “all about skill”, you know absolutely nothing about the existing mechanics behind the game as it stands right now.

Modern Warfare 2 is an *utterly* unbalanced mess, with specific set-ups being over-powered beyond belief to the point of being completely game-breaking.

Bad Company 2 perks and upgrades give you fairly minor advantages, and there is nothing in it that will give any player an insanely huge advantage. The game also requires far more team-work to do well.

@4
Gotta agree with you there, it is an awesome game, but they have gotta sort out the servers.

If you hadn’t heard the ps3 version was delayed here in Australia… delayed until oh yeah tomorrow

@10.
If only that was the case. This will be the 5th day for some who have experienced problems. I posted last Friday that you couldnt connect to servers.

Then Saturday, the EA master server went down and the same thing happened again on Sunday. Its not a good start for a game that essentially is an online game