Looking forward to this game a lot though, hope it's a big step up from the Bad Company series. Prone, jets, and large maps are all coming back, which is good. That's really all I was able to gather reading that article. I hope they come up with a good number of large, well-designed maps. If Bad Company failed in any one area the most, it was having narrow, small maps with sparse cover and tight choke points that limited your options to a few paths through the map.

that was by design. they were trying to appeal to the CoD camp. it really made the game suck more than necessary.

I thought the BC 2 was a really great game with awesome maps, it is my first BF game tho. My only complaint about the game and this is HUUUGGE, there were just to few maps. Way to few. If they would have just doubled the amount of maps the game would have had so much more playability. 2 months in I was just sick of the same old 6 maps for Rush and got sick of the game cuz of this.

Any clue how many maps this game will have? Id like to get this game but Im not messing around with some silly game that has just a handful of maps.

Aren't the Battlefield and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 different games?

Like as in, Battlefield 1, 2, 3 and Battlefield: Bad Company 1, 2?

Or is it just basically like CoD 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 - with different names?

Its basically their modern warfare. They have had ww2 and vietnam stuff in the past so bad company seems to be the modern day stuff.

Is this Bad company 3? This is like their 5th or more Battlefield game I think.

No. BF2 was modern day. BF 2142 ( very awesome too ) was futuristic. The real distinction was that BF was made for PC, Bad Company for console.

BF:BC is the dumbed down console version of BF and a COD copy.

BF2 was a PC only masterpiece, with huge maps, endless land, sea and air vehicles and an intriguing squad system.

bft, greatest fps ever made imo

the bf2 squad system was amazing, yeah, bf2 was awesome.

Sonos has been playing BF2 on JTV lately, but everytime I watch him it's like a 3min wait to get into the game. Then the host cancels the game. Then a 3 min wait to get into the game.

Then they just run around for a little bit and get into trucks. Someone drives somewhere. They get out. Run around the truck, get back in and drive some more. See a helicopter, shoot at it. And then run around some more.

Seemed really super boring.

He does have the legit original game, right? Because BF2 runs on dedicated servers. I don't see how "the host" can terminate the connection unless your buddy has a cheating program and he need the right server.

Also, I doubt it's hard to find people to kill on a legit 64 man server.

is bf2 any good anymore, anyways? its pretty damn old

It depends, I bought it for 2$ during the xmas sale, so for me it's a super yes ( I also still had my old account with the unlocks ).

It shows some problems, especially now that it's integrated in Steam when it was originally designed to work only with gamespy. Obv the graphics suck compared to fresh AAA titles, and it lacks some basic elements that today are considered standard ( like a kill-cam ), or has some annoying exploits.

But if you find a few people to play with, it's still worth the monies. If you play solo I wouldn't recommend it tbh - it's a team based game, and most people aren't very communicative these days.

I don't know if these guys still run bf2 servers, but texasteamplayers (apparently team player gaming now) used to pretty strictly enforce squad-based play and communication (ban for lone-wolfing!). If there's anywhere in bf2 world where you can find 63 other people with mics who are willing to work together I'd imagine it's here. That is if they still have servers:

http://teamplayergaming.com/content/

TTP always had the best servers.

Yeah I don't really know what was going on. I know they were sitting there waiting for like 3 minutes in the lobby. Then it went to start the game and it zoomed out to just a big open land, and then the 3min countdown started again and he was wondering what was going on. Someone said the host canceled the game or something.

I just assumed since it was on PC that someone could manipulate that?