Battlefield Bad Company 2 (56k) - (Weapon rebalance coming)

Release date: March 2nd 2010

Platforms: PS3, 360 and PC

There is a multiplayer demo out now on the 360 and PS3, as well as a beta for the PC.

Trophy List

Achievement List

Videos:

Leaked singleplayer footage. The game begins in WWII!

Port Valdez Demo Gameplay Trailer

Squad Rush Multiplayer Mode Trailer

Single-Player Reveal Trailer

Battlefield Moments Episode 1

Battlefield Moments Episode II

Battlefield Moments Episode III

GC 09: Squad Stories Trailer

Reviews:

Game Informer- 9.5

Gamespot- 9.0

IGN- 8.9

GamePro- 5/5

Screens:

CIasses:

Unlocks:

Primary: AEK-971, XM8, F2000, AUG, AN94, M416, M16
Gadget 1: Underbarrel Grenade Launcher, Underbarrel Smoke Grenade Launcher, Underbarrel Shotgun, *C4* (C4 Only when the M1A1 [all 'all kit' weapons?] or Shotguns are Primary)
Gadget 2: Ammo Pack
Perk 1: ACOG, 4x Scope
Perk 2: Grip

Strategy: Press the attack. Your loadout doesn't give you many options to take town vehicles, but you are an antipersonal machine. Remember to drop ammo boxes for yourself and your teammates.

Unlocks:

Primary: 9A91, SCAR-L, XM8C, AKS74U, UZI, PP2000, UMP45
Gadget 1: RPG-7, M2CG, M136, Anti-Tank Mines
Gadget 2: Repair Tool
Perk 1: ACOG, 4x Scope
Perk 2: Accurized Silencer

Strategy:

Stay in or near friendly vehicles so that you can keep them repaired. Use your rocket launcher to take down enemy vehicles. Your SMG is great at close range, and weak at long range. Fire in short bursts when engaging an enemy at a distance.

Unlocks:

Primary: PKM, M249, QJY88, M60, XM8LMG, MG36, MG3
Gadget 1: Defibrillator
Gadget 2: Health Pack
Perk 1: ACOG, 4x Scope, Health Pack Speed Upgrade
Perk 2: Health Pack Range Upgrade, More Accurate Barrel

Strategy:

Keep your teammates alive, and provide cover fire. Your LMG is a fantastic gun. It has at least a 100 bullet clip, and some have more. Don't be afraid to be a bullet barfer. If one of your teammates goes down, use your defib kit to bring them back. A good Medic can change a match in ways that no other cIass can. Remember to drop health packs for your teammates when they are in trouble, and also drop them behind your defense walls as a defender, as your team is likely to be huddled around those areas.

Unlocks:

Primary: M24, QBY88, SV98, SVU, GOL, VSS, M95
Gadget 1: Sensor Ball
Gadget 2: C4, Mortar Strike
Perk 1: 4x Scope, 12x Scope, ACOG
Perk 2: Auto Spotter

Strategy:

Use the 'select' or 'back' button to spot enemies. This makes it easier for you to track them at long distances, and it gives your teammates the recon they need. If you snipe someone, move to a new place and set up again. You are easy to sneak up on when you are looking through your scope. Use motion mines and your pistol to defend yourself at close range. If you see an enemy tank, flank them and plant C4 on them. It works really well. As a sniper, you need to spot enemies for your team and try to blow up heavy vehicles if you want to be truly useful.

Unlocks for all cIasses:

Primary: M1A1 (Thompson SMG), 870MCS, S20K, SPAS12, T194, USAS12, NS2000, SPAS15, M1 Garand, G3, M14 MOD 0 Enhanced
Secondary: M9, M1911, MP443, MP412, TRCR-4 (Tracer Dart), M93R,
Perk 1: Increased Sprint Speed, Double Ammo, Double Explosives/Rockets, Double Grenades/Underbarrel Ammo, Higher Accuracy Sabot Rounds (Shotguns)
Perk 2: Ceramic Plating, Marksman Bullets, Explosive Damage Upgrade,, Increased Capacity (Shotguns)
Vehicle Perk: Sensors, Armor, Stronger Ammo, Faster Reloads, Smokescreen, Optics Upgrade, Coaxial Gun
Special: Knife, Grenade

Maps:

Port Valdez

Arica Harbor

Panama Canal

Valparaiso

Atacama Desert

Laguna Presa

White Pass

Laguna Alta (No footage yet)

Nelson Bay (No footage yet)

Isla Innocentes

Battlers: (PM me your PSN and XBL gamertags if you want them in the list)

PSN-

Ragnar

360-

PC-

Gamespot Steam Group

See you on the Battlefield!:)

First post!

The game does look great. Aweosme graphics.

Great OPs rag. :P I'm surprise MAG didnt get an honorable or dishonorable mention. lol

First post!

The game does look great. Aweosme graphics.

Great OPs rag. :P I'm surprise MAG didnt get an honorable or dishonorable mention. lol

S0lidSnake

Why is there one achievement that requires you to beat the final level on hard but no others? Does that mean finish the game on hard? Anyways, I'm having fun on BC1 right now. Helping keep my mind off of BC2. ;)

Why is there one achievement that requires you to beat the final level on hard but no others? Does that mean finish the game on hard? Anyways, I'm having fun on BC1 right now. Helping keep my mind off of BC2. ;)

RobboElRobbo

[QUOTE="RobboElRobbo"]

Why is there one achievement that requires you to beat the final level on hard but no others? Does that mean finish the game on hard? Anyways, I'm having fun on BC1 right now. Helping keep my mind off of BC2. ;)

rragnaar

Here.

[QUOTE="rragnaar"][QUOTE="RobboElRobbo"]

Why is there one achievement that requires you to beat the final level on hard but no others? Does that mean finish the game on hard? Anyways, I'm having fun on BC1 right now. Helping keep my mind off of BC2. ;)

RobboElRobbo

Here.

[QUOTE="RobboElRobbo"]

[QUOTE="rragnaar"] I haven't even seen the achievement/trophy list. I'll hunt that down and add it to the the thread.rragnaar

Here.

Yeah, I'm extremely glad we don't have to play it all on hard (hopefully :?) and the multiplayer cheeves are nice. Knife 5 friends could be tough though, I think I'll just FR the other team before every game. :P

Game looks really good so far. Sadly, I won't be able to get it on release since my pre-order got canceled.

Can't wait.

Great Work, OP!

I played the BFBC 2 beta for a bit. Went back to BFBC 1, to get my beans, bullets, and bandages trophy. Once that was done, I needed some fun off the MP battlefield, so I started killzone 2 single player.

GS has a new hands on article about the game:

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Hands On

They've also got a video:

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Daily Demo

The singleplayer looks to be pretty solid. I'd buy the game for the MP alone, so this is all just icing on the cake.

Loved BFBC1 and I'm loving the demo for 2, REALLY looking forward to this, normally I don't enjoy shooters online but things are different with BFBC.

Couple of things that annoy me about the online, more specifically the way players are online:

Nobody ever wants to stay still in their vehciles and let you repair them, even when there are no enemies around!

People que up to use the UAV, giving those of us who are actually being useful a more difficult time.

People seem to insist on placing a charge or defusing a charge when somebody else is already doing it, what's the point? You should be standing gaurd if somebody else is already on it!

People who will drive/fly off instead of waiting 5 seconds for somebody else to get on board.

Couple of things that annoy me about the online, more specifically the way players are online

AdmiralRJW

I agree with your list of annoyances...

I would add this... I frequently will go way behind enemy lines and intentionally wait for my squad mates to use me as respawn point. It rarely happens which means that most peeps seem to be unaware that you can spawn with fellow team mates.

EM

[QUOTE="AdmiralRJW"]

Couple of things that annoy me about the online, more specifically the way players are online

Evilmeanie

I agree with your list of annoyances...

I would add this... I frequently will go way behind enemy lines and intentionally wait for my squad mates to use me as respawn point. It rarely happens which means that most peeps seem to be unaware that you can spawn with fellow team mates.

EM

Great work rragnarr! It's going to be great! Been playing BF for 4+ years, and Bad Company since it's release. It's going to be great!

rragnaar

Good to know! Thanks for letting me know - that will change my game play a bit :)

EM

Can't wait. The multiplayer demo has had me playing more than 30 hours already!racing1750

i have put around 10 hrs in the demo. one map just doesn't keep my interest for long

racing1750: love your sig Top Gear is awsome

[QUOTE="rragnaar"][QUOTE="RobboElRobbo"]

Why is there one achievement that requires you to beat the final level on hard but no others? Does that mean finish the game on hard? Anyways, I'm having fun on BC1 right now. Helping keep my mind off of BC2. ;)

Here.

Im not sure if it was a bug but I had a red dot on my M24 rifle. Forced me to go to the frontline and hide into the bushes 5m away from enemy.

I've been experimenting with different cIasses and loadouts. On the attack team I've been using the Assault cIass with a shotgun and C4. You have to stay hidden and move from cover to cover to avoid being picked off, but if you can sneak into their base you can drop an ammo box for yourself and throw enough C4 on the crates to blow them up without arming them. It is a great way to take down the crates without alerting the defenders to what you are doing.

It almost seems unfair to be able to give yourself infinite C4 as an Assault cIass, but having to have the shotgun instead of an assault rifle seems like a fair tradeoff.

Battlefield Bad Company 2 may be the one and only shooter I am looking forward to this year, and likely the game I've been wanting most for Q1. I just finished putting in twenty hours to the demo the other day, coming to the conclusion that the Engineer class is by far my favourite. The SMG is great at short-mid range distances, RPG is a godsend, and the power drill is the most useful tool avaliable. Plus you can kill people with it.

The tactical aspects to the game play a huge role and it's good to see players already coordinating and carrying out preconceived strategies. This will only develop after the game's release as more maps and game modes become avaliable.

Hi, a couple question, beta related:

1. Does anyone know if the recent beta patch has been uploaded to Steam yet?

2. Will stats from the beta carry over to the final product? I dont really care, honestly a fresh start would be fine, but I am curious.

Thanks. I really love the game thus far, and I have a feeling Rush will be my least favorite game mode and its a blast lol. Tons of fun, so happy I preordered this and not AvP

Hi, a couple question, beta related:

1. Does anyone know if the recent beta patch has been uploaded to Steam yet?

2. Will stats from the beta carry over to the final product? I dont really care, honestly a fresh start would be fine, but I am curious.

Thanks. I really love the game thus far, and I have a feeling Rush will be my least favorite game mode and its a blast lol. Tons of fun, so happy I preordered this and not AvP

mrbojangles25

Hrm... I don't know about the patch. I'm guessing the stats will reset though. My stats from the PS3 beta didn't cary over to the demo. I'm sorta hoping the stats reset. My friends play the demo on my account, and some are better than others... or rather... some of them aren't that good.:P I hate it when they mess up my KDR.

Holy ****! Have you guys seen this incredible single player footage?

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/single-player-campaign-battlefield-bad/61959

It looks spectacular. Shades of KillZone 2! The sound is just phenomenal. The graphics especially for a huge scale game like this are stunning to say the least. I saw some screen tearing in the Gametrailers vid, but none in the gamespot vid so it's probably just gametrailer's flash player. I really really hope there is no screen tearing in this game. It's beginning to ruin games for me. :(

But the game looks fantastic. I am loving the scope on the Assault Rifle. The shotty however doesn't look right. The destructibility, the shooting and the level design (enemy placement) all looks top notch. MAG has ruined BC2 multtiplayer for me, but now I am dying to play the single player. Haven't played a decent single player since KillZone 2 came out.

EDIT: Just a quick edit to say that after playing the BC2 beta and watching this totally rad single player footage, I am beginning to believe that this game will be a GOTY contender come December. It looks too good.

Fake Edit: This game also reminds of how awesome Resistance 1 was. The vehicle sections really made the single player for me. I cant believe they took em out in the sequel. If Insomniac goes back to RFOM's roots, and brings back the vehicles both in single player and online, it.would.be.awesome!

Holy ****! Have you guys seen this incredible single player footage?

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/single-player-campaign-battlefield-bad/61959S0lidSnake

Yup! The graphics in the singleplayer are nuts.

For anyone playing the demo... what do you guys think about lumberjacking when you are on defense? Is it fair to spend the first two minutes of the round knocking down every tree so that the attackers have no cover? Sometimes I feel bad about it. I don't think it is on the same level as straight up spawn killing, but I've noticed that in rounds where I've successfully Paul Bunyan'ed all the trees on the first base, we dominate, and most of the attack team quits. Is it good strategy on my part, or am I simply exploiting the map to ruin someone else's game?

3.5 million demo downloads

500 million overall kills , 100 million vehicle kills, 15 million knife kills, 30 million destroyed vehicles, 10 million head shots, and 25 million revives.

I think lumberjacking actually sounds like a pretty good strategy, totally legit.

As for GOTY, I'm really not sure. While it's looking fantastic on all fronts, I'm just not sure if a straight-up FPS can be GOTY. It would have to be a universally liked and recognized game.

Also, I haven't played the demo yet but I was wondering if there are new guns that weren't in the first game besides the Thompson. In the beta it was all the same guns from the first one.

[QUOTE="S0lidSnake"]

Holy ****! Have you guys seen this incredible single player footage?

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/single-player-campaign-battlefield-bad/61959rragnaar

Yup! The graphics in the singleplayer are nuts.

For anyone playing the demo... what do you guys think about lumberjacking when you are on defense? Is it fair to spend the first two minutes of the round knocking down every tree so that the attackers have no cover? Sometimes I feel bad about it. I don't think it is on the same level as straight up spawn killing, but I've noticed that in rounds where I've successfully Paul Bunyan'ed all the trees on the first base, we dominate, and most of the attack team quits. Is it good strategy on my part, or am I simply exploiting the map to ruin someone else's game?

You know on the second set of bases, near Bravo there's that house with the machine gun facing that hill? When I'm defending I'll always shoot down all of the trees on the ridge with the machine gun as well as the fences, giving no cover and allowing me to get easy kills as the guys try and get down from there and over to Bravo. It's strategic.

Not really a fan of FPS's, but I enjoyed the 1st one and certainly looking forward to this one.

I may check this out.

It's nice to see the trend of developers being stupid with online achievements fading (Epic, I'm looking at you).

Incidentally, Amazon will give you a $20 voucher towards another game with the purchase of Bad Company 2.

For anyone playing the demo... what do you guys think about lumberjacking when you are on defense? Is it fair to spend the first two minutes of the round knocking down every tree so that the attackers have no cover? Sometimes I feel bad about it. I don't think it is on the same level as straight up spawn killing, but I've noticed that in rounds where I've successfully Paul Bunyan'ed all the trees on the first base, we dominate, and most of the attack team quits. Is it good strategy on my part, or am I simply exploiting the map to ruin someone else's game?rragnaar

Will this game have games for windows LIVE and achievments for the PC?

We just had a hell of a run. I was playing with two of my friends, and it was almost impossible to get a good score because our entire team was working well together. We'd beat the other team too fast.:P As defenders we lumberjacked like crazy and kept them from taking either of the first crates, and on the attack, we were basically speedrunning it. It felt like a race to get to each objective and arm it before someone else on your team got there first. I love those times. We played a good ten rounds and they flew by.:D

Any clue on when the pre-load will be available on the steam versions? I'm hoping before March, don't want to use my entire download cap for the month at the very start on one game.

How come sometimes the base we are defending gets completely destroyed without anyone planting charges? We work so hard and hold the objective for so long, not allowing anyone in and all of a sudden the entire building collapses...F1Lengend

How come sometimes the base we are defending gets completely destroyed without anyone planting charges? We work so hard and hold the objective for so long, not allowing anyone in and all of a sudden the entire building collapses...F1Lengend

[QUOTE="F1Lengend"]How come sometimes the base we are defending gets completely destroyed without anyone planting charges? We work so hard and hold the objective for so long, not allowing anyone in and all of a sudden the entire building collapses...rragnaar

I'll try that sometime but I have a hard time believing someone was in the building doing that, we had defenders everywhere (since we already lost the base in the ditch). My first reaction was that it was the small helicopter that shot the building down, or someone sent in a missile strike. I've seen it happen twice in my entire playtime, all of a sudden the building makes (one) big explosion. Anyway Ill take your word for it.

Ed: Who benefits from me shooting a tracer shot on a tank? Is it only the small heli or can someone launch an airstrike on it? Can i use it on things other than a tank?

Tanks, RPG's, and UAV's are capable of destroying the bases as well.

I stole a section from GAF dealing with the maps in the game:

Maps:

Port Valdez

Arica Harbor

Panama Canal

Valparaiso

Atacama Desert

Laguna Presa

White Pass

Laguna Alta (No footage yet)
Nelson Bay (No footage yet)