Battlefield Bad Company 2 PC Beta starts January 28

http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/battlefield_bad_company/archive/2010/01/07/bfbc2-pc-beta-update-fr-229-n-dice.aspx

"As promised here is the PC Blog on the Beta & a few other things, yes some people, places, and things may have leaked a little something, but we are here to clarify everything and make it all official since we can now commit to the listed dates! :-)

BETA Details:

Beta Begins/Ends

Jan 28th/Feb 25th

Map Name

Port Valdez

Players

32

Game Mode

Rush

Environment

Snow

Theme

Vehicle and Infantry

Back Story

The battle for Port Valdez is fought alongside the waterline towards a great oil industrial landscape in the Alaskan mountains. Using basically everything they've got the Russian forces are launching an airborne assault to knock out the oil industries in the area. In their arsenal there are Main Battle Tanks as well as fast-moving Quad Bikes and mobile armored AA. It's a vehicle focused battle, but with plenty of infantry combat.

How to Download: Check back to the Battlefield Bad Company 2 Beta Page closer to beta launch date for download instructions.

How To Get Access: Reserve Battlefield Bad Company 2 is the most sure fire way and right now we are still finalizing which Retailers & e-Tailers will participate (it's up to them). If you're eager to ensure you get in confirmed distributors to Pre-Order consumers are the EA Store and at GameStop.com. We'll have another Blog to update new retailers & e-Tailers that have teamed up with us as well as alternate channels to obtain a Beta Key.

Misc. Details

Steam Beta: Yes there was a leaked image of a Package file we propped on Steam. People with illegal accounts can see games in this environment, but this is not a Beta in the term of Public Test Beta, but a real development Beta installer client for the Steam version of the full game. We are however working with Steam to have the Public PC Beta available on Steam, but can't confirm this quite yet so cross your fingers Steam users. :-)

Anti Cheat: We're going with PunkBuster supporting the same options BF2 and BF2142 had to run unranked without PunkBuster.

Mod Tools: There will not be mod tools for BFBC2. However a majority of the the games logic is controlled by the server and there will be Serverside control options for the dedicated servers.

Public Server Files: We will not distribute these publicly. There are many factors for why we have decided this with the biggest factor being security & integrity of our game & Dedicated Servers."

Disappointed by lack of mod tools. :(

Disappointed by lack of mod tools. :(

JDBar

So is the lack of mod tools only for the beta, or was that talking about the full game?

So is the lack of mod tools only for the beta, or was that talking about the full game?

arto1223

He writes specifically "for BFBC2," so I assume he meant the full game. If that's the case, I definitely will get the Steam version, then. I was thinking I'd order it online in case some cool mods came out for it, but if that's not going to happen, I'll just go ahead and get it off Steam.

Great news..thx for the heads up...been playing the PS3 beta off and on and it's alotta fun. Look forward to seeing what my rig can do with this. :)

From what I played of the PS3 beta, the game looks very very good. It has a relatively large map, and it feels very rewarding to use veichles. The map isn't necessarily BF2 big (probably saving that for BF3 which is in development), but it is big enough. It also has very varied places such as tight streets/buildings and open/elevated land. The destructability is also pleasing. I am looking forward to this game very much.

Seems like there's not that many ways that you can get the beta outside pre-ordering.

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Disappointed by lack of mod tools. :(

DanielDust

me too, but i haven't played that much mods with earlier battlfields, so i don't really care. modding is merely a little bonus (modders might, ofcourse, disagree), but this is gonna be a great game while waiting for BF3.

ability to prone checkDJ_Headshot

wow i didn't even know they made proning PC exclusive :D

Awesome! I loved the PS3 beta, I wanna see the grahical difference of the PC version,

No mods for the full game? ohh thats disappointing :( and they are releasing the beta right before ME2 comes out? sighs, looks like i wont be playing much of it. Dante2710

Well Battlefield 3 will most likely have those. Dice is commited to the PC gamer, they are giving us dedicated servers and server browsing for the PC version of BFBC2.

Thank you Jesus!!!!!

Oh lawd! I'm gonna upgrade my video card just for the beta :D

[QUOTE="Dante2710"]No mods for the full game? ohh thats disappointing :( and they are releasing the beta right before ME2 comes out? sighs, looks like i wont be playing much of it. Wasdie

Well Battlefield 3 will most likely have those. Dice is commited to the PC gamer, they are giving us dedicated servers and server browsing for the PC version of BFBC2.

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[QUOTE="Dante2710"]No mods for the full game? ohh thats disappointing :( and they are releasing the beta right before ME2 comes out? sighs, looks like i wont be playing much of it. Dante2710

Well Battlefield 3 will most likely have those. Dice is commited to the PC gamer, they are giving us dedicated servers and server browsing for the PC version of BFBC2.

It was announced during summer I believe. EA said it themselves ^^.gunmaster55555

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Well Battlefield 3 will most likely have those. Dice is commited to the PC gamer, they are giving us dedicated servers and server browsing for the PC version of BFBC2.

Dante2710

There has been no official confirmation of it; however, there have been various leaks and indicators that it was in the works, chief among them being this online resume of a DICE employee that somehow got leaked out to the public.

It was announced during summer I believe. EA said it themselves ^^.gunmaster55555

No, there has been no word whatsoever from DICE or EA that Battlefield 3 exists. What you're probably thinking of is when they announced that they had 5 Battlefield games in the works shortly before Bad Company 1's release. Two of them were already known - Bad Company and Heroes - and two were given details on what they would be - one was another console-focused Battlefield game (Bad Company 2) and one was a game they were working on collaboratively with another developer for the Korean market. The fifth one was not detailed at all, and it's safe to assume that game is Battlefield 3.

Did the release the system requirements yet?! :roll:MrLions

[QUOTE="MrLions"]Did the release the system requirements yet?! :roll:DanielDust