I am more or less sold on Battlefield: Bad Company 2, but like so many relationships, it isn't because everything is a-ok between us. It's the same reason you might put up with a 5 personality for a 10 body that I want to purchase BF:BC2: it's worth it (for the short term at least). Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is so hit and miss it just kills me. The thing is, the game itself is a 10 in looks, but a 1-10 in personality, ie. it has multiple personality disorder. The thing is, it's just these nasty habits it has that can be easily remedied and would make it a definite buy for me, rather than a definite eventual buy, which, lets face it, other games are undoubtedly going to snatch my attention away from it as a prospective purchase pretty soon.
1) Squad rush is my favourite BUT for a game that has apparently sold 5 million copies, there is just too shocking a frequency of finding empty or nearly empty games... I mean, what the hell is going on here?
2) Global chat. This is just a no-brainer, really. You can, for some reason, only chat to your squad mates. There is no way to indicate that you are planning on making a push forward, that there are guys behind the team or that you've spotted someone to anyone else but those people in your squad. Ludicrous.
3) Snipers: too many of them. It makes moving around essentially impossible on some maps and seriously unbalances the game (as well as making it incredibly frustrating).
4) An indicator as to who has a microphone plugged in so that you might invite that someone to a squad. The game really gets the adrenaline pumping when everyone has a mic and is communicating well. However, maybe one quarter of online players have or use mics, and as a squad is made up of 4, it might be just you shouting orders at your voiceless drones.It may sound exclusionary, but let those with mics join forces. It really is a crime not to let those who can communicate do so with those who can respond. The only alternative in lieu of this feature is to friend those you have played with that you want to play with again and invite them to your squad when they're online... but I have only found a few players like this, and game times for us do not always align. EA/DICE ought to give us like-minded, headset using gamers a helping hand finding eachother, no?
4.5) The option to join the games your friends are playing... as it stands now you can't just jump in, you have to be invited, which is overly tedious. You should be able to just join.
5) LAG. This is a problem that has plagued the servers on and off since I have begun playing. Hey EA, wake the hell up! (I'm sure they're working on it, so this is just venting, but still... jesus!)
Practically half the people I played with had rented the game, and EA isn't doing the best job of convincing them to buy / never return it.
Thoughts?
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Most of these should have been addressed before the release. Just goes to show most reviewers have an agenda. I always said it was stupid that you can only talk to 3 people on your squad and it makes the game less enjoyable for those that play with a full team and communicate.
Too little too late IMO.
i think that most ppl bought this game for PC since everytime i play i find sh1tload of servers.
1. Not a problem on my end. I find 18+/24 player games 90% of the time.
2. Maybe they could map a button for global chat (similar to the way halo 3 had it in the beginning), and keep squad chat the way it is. I dont really have a problem as it is, xbox's party chat helps alot.
3. Just as long as theyre not in my squad, im ok with it. Although its very annoying to see people sniping on offense, i dont view it as a problem at all.
4. I guess if you play by yourself this would help.
4.5. Really, lol? I can join my friends from the game, and even the dashboard, without an invite. Maybe just a ps3 problem.
5. On/off like you said. But Im not having a major problem by any stretch of the means.
Sounds like you're playing the console version.
And I bought it... so, you know, I guess I don't have the balls to stand behind my criticisms. I guess I love the game all the same.
Oh and regarding the empty games, it's only with the squad rush that I have that problem, Breakfast (lol what a ridiculous name), rush is always packed. Oh and I found that I can join other people's games, EXCEPT (I think) when they joined that game with others to begin with because I think that makes the squad private automatically. Learning more everyday, I am.