Bad Company Beta

[chedabob]

Can you imagine the bitter tears if the Gold Edition players had an advantage? Now do you see why they charge for those weapons? If the weapons were free, there'd be epic tears from Gold players.

[chedabob]

Well the servers are live. OMFG I'm in game

EDIT: OMG ITS EPIC LULZ PLOWING THE TANK THROUGH BUILDINGS LOLLOLL

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So how is it, cheda? Any good?

[chedabob]

It was good, until my 360 shat bricks and kept crashing

EDIT: My 360 is fine now :s

[rounds1]

How many players in a match at a time? Also, how large are the maps?

[chedabob]

Maps are pretty huge. I think I've seen >24 players.

It plays a little bit like Frontlines: You progress forward to each new objective, and it opens up new areas of the map.

It's totally awesome plowing through a wall in a tank

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Originally Posted by chedabob

Maps are pretty huge. I think I've seen >24 players.

It plays a little bit like Frontlines: You progress forward to each new objective, and it opens up new areas of the map.

It's totally awesome plowing through a wall in a tank

That's right...I forgot it was supposedly fully destructible environments. I can't believe I'm excited about an EA game!

I haven't played Frontlines, so I can't say as I know what you're talking about there.

[chedabob]

The environments aren't fully destructible, but they are pretty close. And they kind of destroy in sections: You can't half blow-up a wall, it blows up the whole thing. It's still cool, but not the same level of destruction as Red Faction.

The master server is struggling at the moment. I haven't been able to get in a game for about half an hour.

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Originally Posted by chedabob

The environments aren't fully destructible, but they are pretty close. And they kind of destroy in sections: You can't half blow-up a wall, it blows up the whole thing. It's still cool, but not the same level of destruction as Red Faction.

The master server is struggling at the moment. I haven't been able to get in a game for about half an hour.

So you shoot a rocket at a piece of a house and the whole house tumbles to the ground (for example)? Kinda dumb, but I'll wait to see it in action before I judge. I'm mostly looking forward to huge maps and lots of players, plus a game popular enough to keep it going. Frontlines was good, but I don't think it's popular enough.

EA's probably having 1st-day issues right now. Hopefully they'll do the right thing for once and sort it out. You'd think by now these companies would be prepared, but it still happens every time.

[chedabob]

No, I mean, if you shoot a rocket at the house, it'll take out a segment of that wall. It won't punch a unique hole in the wall. Everytime you shoot that spot of the wall, you'll get the same outcome. The damage is pre-computed, so you are able to blow through the walls, but you can't blow half of one wall, and half of another in one shot. It'll be all of one of them, or all of both.