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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Kestastrophe on January 30, 2010, 04:38:17 PM

Title: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: Kestastrophe on January 30, 2010, 04:38:17 PM: Will, Beezy and myself are in. Let's shoot for 8 or 9 EST. All are welcome*, just shoot me a friend invite.

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Title: Re: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: Stoney Mason on January 30, 2010, 04:55:53 PM: I'll be on.

GT: Stoney Mason
Title: Re: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: huckleberry on January 30, 2010, 05:41:19 PM: I have to work until 1AM but if any of you are still on I would definitely be up for some killin'.

GT: StarsOrion
Title: Re: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: CHOW CHOW on January 30, 2010, 05:42:55 PM: videogames on a saturday night? get a life, nerds!

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Title: Re: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: Beezy on January 30, 2010, 07:50:33 PM: Had to do something for a friend. Be on at 8:15
Title: Re: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: Beezy on January 30, 2010, 08:12:04 PM: lets go
Title: Re: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: Stoney Mason on January 30, 2010, 08:15:10 PM: I'm on.
Title: Re: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: Beezy on January 30, 2010, 08:20:23 PM: Kestastrophe is playing ME2 and Willco is away. I guess we're doing this at 9 then?
Title: Re: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: Brehvolution on January 30, 2010, 08:32:58 PM: The later the better for me. I'll try to be on around 9. :-*
Title: Re: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: Beezy on January 30, 2010, 08:44:09 PM: Stoney, accept the friend request. We're on now.
Title: Re: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: The Fake Shemp on January 30, 2010, 10:02:45 PM: Amazing game :lol
Title: Re: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: Beezy on January 30, 2010, 10:32:24 PM: I'm gonna have nightmares about that team.
Title: Re: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: The Fake Shemp on January 30, 2010, 10:37:18 PM: We won, though!
Title: Re: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: Stoney Mason on January 30, 2010, 10:54:06 PM: Since somebody asked during the game here are the MP modes BC 2 will ship with.

Rush

The "Gold Rush" mode in the original Bad Company is now renamed as "Rush." The format is similar where an attacking team must detonate explosives on a defending team's crates until either each stash from multiple bases have been destroyed or the attacker's limited amount of tickets have been depleted

Squad Rush (Preorder Bonus)

A lower scale mode called "Squad Rush" that has only two opposing teams of four players battle against each other with one existing crate stash. Maps are smaller, there are no vehicles and rounds move along a lot faster. The mode will become available for all in April and until then, people can still play Squad Rush mode without pre-ordering so long as they're invited into the game.

[youtube=560,345]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6Zq-bBtYgg[/youtube]

Squad Deathmatch

A single armored vehicle is placed in the middle of the map. 4 squads of 4 players each in a deathmatch. The first squad to get 50 kills first wins.

[youtube=560,345]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDiUGS6ON54[/youtube]

Conquest Mode

The Battlefield standard mode

Hardcore mode supposedly for all the above modes

No Killcam
Friendly Fire ON
No Aiming Reticule - Ironsights Only (and Scopes and Red Dot of course)
Higher Bullet Damage
No Minimap
No HUD whatsoever
No Spotting On-screen Indicators

Hardcore-mode will be available for all online multiplayer gamemodes
Title: Re: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: The Fake Shemp on January 30, 2010, 10:59:16 PM: Conquest :rock
Title: Re: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: Beezy on January 30, 2010, 11:25:32 PM: Thanks, I was the one that asked. I never played a Battlefield game before.
Title: Re: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: Stoney Mason on January 30, 2010, 11:54:59 PM: Quote from: Beezy on January 30, 2010, 11:25:32 PM
Thanks, I was the one that asked. I never played a Battlefield game before.

They have expanded what they normally offer in a Battlefield game in this one. The traditionally popular battlefield mode is Conquest.

It's essentially a 5 base territories style game. Two teams compete at trying to hold down the most checkpoints or territories. The more territories you hold, the faster the other team's tickets (available respawns) goes down. The team that loses all its tickets first is the loser.

I heard that the BC 2 version of conquest will be a 3 base game instead of 5 so everybody isn't spread as thin since you only have 12 on a side on the console versions.

What we played was Rush which is the only mode available in that demo (Which is Gold Rush from the first Bad Company). It's all right I guess but most people play conquest in Battlefield.
Title: Re: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: Kestastrophe on January 31, 2010, 07:58:36 AM: That was a great game last night. I meant to get back on after taking a break, but I ended up falling asleep :(. It is too bad that the demo is only for Rush, since I think Conquest is Battlefield's strong game mode.
Title: Re: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: Brehvolution on January 31, 2010, 08:40:07 PM: So what's the consensus? I had a great time, but I had some annoyances that might have just been lag, hopefully. Had most of my deaths attributed to fumbling with the differences in controls vs MW2.
Title: Re: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: duckman2000 on January 31, 2010, 08:45:24 PM: I can't believe (well, I can) that they turned a multiplayer mode into a preorder bonus. WTF.

Quote from: Zero Hero on January 31, 2010, 08:40:07 PM
So what's the consensus? I had a great time, but I had some annoyances that might have just been lag, hopefully. Had most of my deaths attributed to fumbling with the differences in controls vs MW2.

Haven't played the 360 demo, but the PS3 beta was hot stuff. The MW-related fumbling was rampant during the first week there, with just about everyone screwing up knife fighting in particular. :teehee
Title: Re: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: Stoney Mason on January 31, 2010, 08:48:45 PM: Quote from: duckman2000 on January 31, 2010, 08:45:24 PM
I can't believe (well, I can) that they turned a multiplayer mode into a preorder bonus. WTF.

I was pissed about it also since I'm probably going to gamefly the title for a month or so first and then buy it down the road but now that I know people can invite you into the game mode, I'm less pissed about it. It's a lame practice (although well within their rights) holding off parts of a game until some preorder timer wears off but that's the current state of the industry.
Title: Re: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: Stoney Mason on January 31, 2010, 08:51:01 PM: Quote from: Zero Hero on January 31, 2010, 08:40:07 PM
So what's the consensus? I had a great time, but I had some annoyances that might have just been lag, hopefully. Had most of my deaths attributed to fumbling with the differences in controls vs MW2.

I thought it was incredibly fun. It seems like a great game and will even be better in conquest mode which is more appropriate to the battlefield style of play than the rush mode which I'm not overly a fan of. And they have fixed a lot of things that piss me off about Bad Company (although a few remain).

I've mentioned this before but the nice thing is that the game has a completely different feel and focus than MW 2 and this time it feels like they got it right so its worthwhile to split my time between the two rather than discarding BC off to the side like I did the original.
Title: Re: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: cool breeze on January 31, 2010, 09:22:16 PM: I've been playing more of the beta and am really liking it now. Most complaints I have outside of performance and FOV are pretty much solved with hardcore mode.

If you guys do this again, I'll download the 360 demo and jump in. Is the 360 demo on the snow map too?
Title: Re: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: Stoney Mason on January 31, 2010, 09:26:44 PM: Quote from: swaggaz on January 31, 2010, 09:22:16 PM
Is the 360 demo on the snow map too?

Yep.

We should do it again this week some. I'm down any night. (Except for tonight)

It's also best to have a 4 man squad going. Me and Beezy suffered when it just us because we could only respawn on each other. With 4 people there is much more of a chance somebody will be alive and further up near the objective when you go to respawn.
Title: Re: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: brawndolicious on January 31, 2010, 10:18:56 PM: yeah I'd be down for tomorrow night since I'm studying a lot tonight. I'm still pretty rusty though since I haven't played BF: BC in like 6 months.
Title: Re: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: AdmiralViscen on January 31, 2010, 11:02:51 PM: Medic is busted as fuck :lol

I just got 930 points in one shot from throwing down a health pack and standing on it for a while.
Title: Re: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: huckleberry on January 31, 2010, 11:06:33 PM: Is there no way to mute player ingame? I know you don't want to exactly mute players on your own squad but some douche was holding in his mic...
Title: Re: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: Stoney Mason on January 31, 2010, 11:44:58 PM: Quote from: Arde0 on January 31, 2010, 11:06:33 PM
Is there no way to mute player ingame? I know you don't want to exactly mute players on your own squad but some douche was holding in his mic...

I couldn't figure out how to do it either. In this day and age it baffles me when a game doesn't have a mute option.
Title: Re: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: cool breeze on February 01, 2010, 12:20:52 AM: alright, I downloaded and am trying the 360 demo.

GT is Linkzg64
Title: Re: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: Stoney Mason on February 01, 2010, 12:40:22 AM: I can't wait to unlock some of the stuff like the Red dot and acog in the full game. I have a hard time playing games where I don't have some sort of aiming mechanism like that and have to use the default iron sights.

One of the reasons why I avoid most WW 2 games.
Title: Re: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: brawndolicious on February 01, 2010, 10:20:37 PM: I'm playing right now, is anybody else going to be on Live tonight?
Title: Re: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: Stoney Mason on February 01, 2010, 11:00:13 PM: I'm down for tomorrow evening if anyone wants to play.
Title: Re: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: Herr Mafflard on February 02, 2010, 03:30:01 PM: wow this game is laggy as hell on the PC. might have to wait for an actual demo before I bite.
Title: Re: Boresquad Demo Night - Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8 EST)
Post by: Stoney Mason on February 02, 2010, 06:18:41 PM: If anyone wants to play tonight just shoot me an invite if you see me online. I'll probably be playing MW 2 but I'll switch over if we get more than a 2 man squad. (Any less and it gets frustrating with the respawning)