The AT Battlefield Bad Company 2 F.A.Q.

[Tristicus]

Can't wait!

 

[GullyFoyle]

User Foot Fingers on the EA UK forums is posting various unlock stats from what is implied to be the retail PC game. There are no screenshots or videos to back it up, so take it with a grain of salt.

Here is a summary with links to the OP's:

Kit Unlock Scores

Assault Kit Unlocks
Ammo Box : 1,180
Xm8 Prototype : 3,020
40mm Smoke Launcher : 5,410
F2000 : 8,100 Score
40mm Shotgun : 10,900
AR Red Dot Sight : 13,900
AR 4x Rifle Scope : 17,000
STG.77 AUG : 20,200
Marksman AR Training : 23,500
AN-94 Abakan : 28,200
M416 : 35,300
M16a2: 47,000

Engineer Kit Unlocks
Repair Tool : 1,070
SCAR-L : 2,510
Anti-Tank Mine : 4,390
XM8 Compant : 6,500
M2CG : 8,700
SMG Red Dot Sights : 11,100
SMG 4x Rifle Scope : 13,500
AKS-74u : 16,000
M146 : 18,600
Marksman SMG Training : 21,300
UZI : 25,600
PP-2000 : 32,000
UMP45 : 42,600

Medic Kit Unlocks
Medic Kit : 1,410
M249 : 3,340
Defibrillator : 5,800
Type 88 : 8,600
Medic Kit Improved Heal : 11,600
LMG Red Dot Sight : 14,700
LMG 4x Rifle Scope
Medic Kit Improved Range : 21,300
M60 LMG : 24,700
Marksman LMG Training : 28,300
XM8 LMG : 33,900
MG36 : 42,400
MG3 : 56,500

Recon Kit Unlocks
Motion Sensor : 860
Type 88 Sniper : 2,190
Mortor Strike : 3,930
SV98 : 5,900
Sniper 4x Snipe : 7,900
12x Scope : 10,100
Sniper Red Dot Sight : 12,400
SVU : 14,700
Sniper Spotting Scope : 17,100
GOL : 20,500
VSS : 25,700
M95 : 34,200

All Kit Unlocks

Points represent Global Score

870 Combat : 6,800
Saiga 20K Semi : 10,900
MP-443 Grach : 18,500
WWII M1911 .45 : 28,300
Lightweight Combat Equipment : 39,900
Ammo Hip Bandolier : 53,000
Gernade Vest : 67,600
Explosive Leg Pouch : 83,400
Extended Shotgun Magazine : 100,400
WWII M1A1 Thompson : 118,500
Tracer Dart Gun : 137,600
MP-412 REX : 157,700
M93R Burst : 178,800
Ceramic Body Armor : 200,700
Magnum Ammo : 223,500
12-Gauge Slugs : 247,200
Improved Demolitions : 271,600
SPAS-12 : 296,800
M14 MOD 0 Enhanced : 322,800
NeoStead 2000 : 349,500
USAS-12 Auto : 376,900
G3 : 405,000

Multiplayer Ranks

1 : Private Bronze : 500
2 : Private Silver : 900
3 : Private Gold : 1,500
4 : Specilalist Bronze : 2,400
5 : Specilalist Silver : 3,700
6 : Specilalist Gold : 5,300
7 : Corporal Bronze : 7,400
8 : Corporal Silver : 10,100
9 : Corporal Gold : 13,400
10 : Sargeant Bronze : 18,000
11 : Sergeant Silver : 23,000
12 : Sergeant Gold : 29,000
13 : Staff Sergeant Bronze : 37,000
14 : Staff Sergeant Silver : 46,000
15 : Staff Sergeant Gold : 58,000
16 : Master Sergeant Bronze : 71,000
17 : Master Sergeant Silver : 88,000
18 : Master Sergeant Gold : 108,000
19 : First Sergeant Bronze : 133,000
20 : First Sergeant Silver : 162,000
21 : First Sergeant Gold : 200,000
22 : Warrant Officer Bronze : 240,000
23 : Warrant Officer Silver : 290,000
24 : Warrant Officer Gold : 350,000
25 : Chief Warrant Officer Bronze : 430,000
26 : Chief Warrant Officer Silver : 470,000
27 : Chief Warrant Officer Gold : 530,000
28 : Second Lieutenant Bronze : 580,000
29 : Second Lieutenant Silver : 650,000
30 : Second Lieutenant Gold : 720,000
31 : First Lieutenant Bronze : 790,000
32 : First Lieutenant Silver : 880,000
33 : First Lieutenant Gold : 970,000
34 : Captain Bronze : 1,080,000
35 : Captain Silver : 1,190,000
36 : Captain Gold : 1,320,000
37 : Major Bronze : 1,460,000
38 : Major Silver : 1,610,000
39 : Major Gold : 1,800,000
40 : Lieutenant Colonel Bronze : 2,000,000
41 : Lieutenant Colonel Silver : 2,200,000
42 : Lieutenant Colonel Gold : 2,400,000
43 : Colonel Bronze : 2,600,000
44 : Colonel Silver : 2,900,000
45 : Colonel Gold : 3,200,000
46 : Brigadier General Bronze : 3,500,000
47 : Brigadier General Silver : 3,900,000
48 : Brigadier General Gold : 4,300,000
49 : General : 4,700,000
50 : General of the Army : 5,200,000

 

[GullyFoyle]

User Foot Fingers on the EA UK forums is posting various unlock stats from what is implied to be the retail PC game. There are no screenshots or videos to back it up, so take it with a grain of salt.

This is the map info posted. I marked the DICE advertised March DLC in Red.

Here is a summary with links to the OP's:

RUSH Multiplayer Maps. (I dropped the detail about what vehicles are present)

Valparaiso
Isla Inocentes
Arica Harbor
Nelson Bay
Laguna Presa
Port Valdez

Conquest Multiplayer Maps (I dropped the detail on what vehicles are present)

Panama Canal
Laguna Alta
Atacama Desert
Arica Harbor
White Pass
Laguna Presa

Squad Rush Maps

Panama Canal
Atacama Desert
Arica Harbor
Laguna Presa

Squad Deathmatch Maps

Arica Harbor
White Pass
Laguna Presa
Isla Inocentes

 

[GullyFoyle]

ign.com review of the Xbox 360 version of the game - Text Review, Video Review (lots of new footage).

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Two videos from a guy that got his hands on the retail version of BFBC2 for the PS3

** Spoiler Alert **

Video of the first few minutes of the first mission in the game: YouTube.

Video showing all Weapons & Unlock points (PS3): YouTube.

**Interesting to note, values shown on this PS3 version are slightly different than the PC numbers posted by Foot Fingers, above.

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[Tab]

Tab, you've been spending all of this time looking in to the files for weapons stats, are the points required to unlock something documented there?

I'm just curious if the guys at BattlefieldBadAss pulled their stats out of their, well, ass.

At first glance, I'd say so. Though, Demize99 says they're still adjusting weapon values. I'll go through the values once again when the game goes retail. With that said, I believe the 1911, AKS74U,UMP,XM8P,AUG,AN94,SV98,GOL,T88L,XM8L will be the "popular" weapons with everything else being useless or just not that great.

Think of it as Counter-Strike, no reason to buy anything but the deagle, mp5, m4, ak47, awp.

 

[CottonRabbit]

At first glance, I'd say so. Though, Demize99 says they're still adjusting weapon values. I'll go through the values once again when the game goes retail. With that said, I believe the 1911, AKS74U,UMP,XM8P,AUG,AN94,SV98,GOL,T88L,XM8L will be the "popular" weapons with everything else being useless or just not that great.

Think of it as Counter-Strike, no reason to buy anything but the deagle, mp5, m4, ak47, awp.

No love for shotguns or machine guns?

 

[scooterlibby]

ign.com review of the Xbox 360 version of the game - Text Review, Video Review (lots of new footage).

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Two videos from a guy that got his hands on the retail version of BFBC2 for the PS3


Video of the first few minutes of the first mission in the game: YouTube.



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God that kid was annoying as hell, but didn't the last part of the map look like the Submarine map from Return to Castle Wolfenstein multiplayer? Pretty cool.

 

[ImDonly1]

The game just hit the warez scene. FYI. Not that it matters seems like everyone in this thread is buying it after playing the beta. Everyone wants to play online anyway, so you have to buy.

 

[lsquare]

Five bucks cheaper (w/free shipping & no sales tax, of course), and it's still transferable with respect to the singleplayer portion, since letting SecuROM phone home at install is optional (assuming of course that you don't try to log in to multiplayer with a different EA Account).

EDIT: Doh! Amazon bumped their price back up to $50, so if you didn't have it preordered already, it's not $5 cheaper. Their preorder price guarantee is nice - I preordered when it was $50, they dropped it to $45 for a while, so my order got updated, now it's back to $50 but my preorder is still $45. Excellent.

Kudos again to DICE/EA for bringing the first game to market that gives consumers a choice between DRM mechanisms - phone home for those who hate swapping discs, and disc-check for those who hate phoning home. Obviously this is ignoring EA Accounts on multiplayer, but I still think it was an important milestone in the evolution of the industry - more choice is better! I hope other publishers pick up on what EA did here and imitate it going forward.

JTrain,

I'm not sure if I understand you here. So would I be better off buying from Steam now that there are no discounts for buying the retail version of the game? You seem to indicate that there are two options in terms of DRM, but IIRC, wasn't there a limit to the # of activations?

 

[whistleclient]

JTrain,

I'm not sure if I understand you here. So would I be better off buying from Steam now that there are no discounts for buying the retail version of the game? You seem to indicate that there are two options in terms of DRM, but IIRC, wasn't there a limit to the # of activations?

Here's the lowdown on copy protection from the official Battlefield blog:
http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/bat...hive/2010/01/26/BFBC2-PC-Copy-Protection.aspx

 

[lsquare]

Fuck you, dick head. I shouldn't have to play a game obsessively to have access to all of the content I fucking paid for. It pisses me off that I spent half of the summer playing TF2 and still don't have access to all of the weapons. Unlocks shouldn't require players to be socially deficient video game addicts.

I agree with you here. This is why I don't play MMOs or any games that requires an insane amount of time to get everything. I just want to focus on improving my skills rather than gathering points or unlocking items.

 

[lsquare]

Here's the lowdown on copy protection from the official Battlefield blog:
http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/bat...hive/2010/01/26/BFBC2-PC-Copy-Protection.aspx

Perfect, thank you so much for posting that link. Everything is now crystal clear.

However, wasn't EA also the company that gave only a limited amount of activations? Like once a game has an activated x amount of time then it can no longer be activated? Or that policy no longer exist? I will definitely not support any company that will put that kind of restriction on me. I'm definitely buying this game on March 2nd.

 

[bob4432]

The game just hit the warez scene. FYI. Not that it matters seems like everyone in this thread is buying it after playing the beta. Everyone wants to play online anyway, so you have to buy.

welcome to 3days ago

 

[bob4432]

JTrain,

I'm not sure if I understand you here. So would I be better off buying from Steam now that there are no discounts for buying the retail version of the game? You seem to indicate that there are two options in terms of DRM, but IIRC, wasn't there a limit to the # of activations?

i personally don't like steam and if i buy it, i will get an actual disc. have only used steam a couple of times and to me, it takes too many resources, had issues w/ getting the game, in fact the only thing that worked was the key, and i had to get the actual game from alternative locations. not a fan of steam, but that is juts a single experience/opionion among many.

 

[Tab]

Wow.

That hast to be the shortest singe-player campaign I've ever played.

 

[paperfist]

To me it's too different than BF2. No big large maps that takes you a long time to get to the objective is the main reason why it feels so different. Everything is very close compared to the classic Battlefield games.

So more like BF2142 with destructible items?

I played the beta a bit and it just seemed easy to get kills and stay alive. For me that was the BF2142 experience, for BF2 I always seemed to die with one shot and I could unload a whole clip into someone without them falling.

For me I wish the Medal of Honor days were still around, simple game mechanics, fun maps and yes a more arcade like feel.

 

[pontifex]

Wow.

That hast to be the shortest singe-player campaign I've ever played.

so you're admitting that you pirated the game?

 

[Tristicus]

so you're admitting that you pirated the game?

It's horribly easy to get games early, give up with that self incriminating shit. Unless he said I PIRATED THIS GAME, he could have got it any way.

 

[GullyFoyle]

I got Foot Fingers to ID the last Squad Deathmatch map (Isla Inocentes), and I updated the map section of the OP. You can see the numbers add up, 16 original maps, 4 for each game mode. With Day-1 DLC, the number is 18 maps/modes. With 2 more maps supposedly released later in march, 20 maps/modes. The UltimatePrestige site shows a Conquest map version of Port Valdez, but this must be on the list for later release. Also, Strike at Karkand has not been formally announced yet...

So by the end of March, it should be 6 Conquest, 6 Rush, 4 Squad Deathmatch, 4 Squad Rush.

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Got my AKS-74U unlock code from GameStop yesterday.

A note about Piracy. You can't assume that everyone that has their fingers on the game has downloaded it from the internet. Many sources are saying the game has shipped to retailers already. That annoying French Canadian kid showed his retail package (note his game did not allow Squad Rush! North American Version!). A guy on the EA UK forums confirmed Walmart has received shipments (they will even have the PC version in store, despite it not showing on their web site).

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Latest weapons stats: Pic

The guy claims "It is my maths, confirmed to be correct (everything but the AN-94) by demize." Source.

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[JE78]

As a UPS employee I can confirm that Gamestop received there shipment on Thursday. I just wish I could have convinced the guy to sell me one

 

[CottonRabbit]

Perfect, thank you so much for posting that link. Everything is now crystal clear.

However, wasn't EA also the company that gave only a limited amount of activations? Like once a game has an activated x amount of time then it can no longer be activated? Or that policy no longer exist? I will definitely not support any company that will put that kind of restriction on me. I'm definitely buying this game on March 2nd.

EA stopped doing that last year. Titles from The Sims 3 and onwards have not had it.

 

[GullyFoyle]

** Spoiler warning **

More Single-Player footage, 18 minutes total:

Gameplay 1 - Starting from the Menu, the very beginning...
Gameplay 2

 

[zerocool84]

** Spoiler warning **

More Single-Player footage, 18 minutes total:

Gameplay 1 - Starting from the Menu, the very beginning...
Gameplay 2

I wonder if I'm even going to play the single player at all.

 

[JE78]

I wonder if I'm even going to play the single player at all.

Same here. I didn't play any of the single player in BF2, COD 5 or COD 6

 

[pontifex]

Same here. I didn't play any of the single player in BF2, COD 5 or COD 6

BF2 didn't have a single player campaign or anything. All it had for SP was the same MP maps but VS. bots.