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

[Spike]

Dang, all of a sudden I dropped out... I am so close to 22 (2k points left to go) and I leave the country in 4 hours... NOOO!!!

 

[MedicBob]

EA = Down

ATOT TB Up but EA has to be up also.

 

[Spike]

EA = Down

ATOT TB Up but EA has to be up also.

That explains it. Ah well, I'll be rusty after 2 weeks away but I figure I can still get that last 2k when I get back.

Dang EA...

 

[zylander]

Back up....

 

[zylander]

Nm, looks like it just went down again.

 

[Exterous]

Nm, looks like it just went down again.

It was weird - a couple of players and I were able to get on and play right after the crash

 

[zylander]

Well, guess Im going back to GTAIV Ballad of Gay Tony.

 

[TheRickRoller]

This is my favourite bug yet. Failed to connect to ShittyOnline, and behind that message box the server list is filling up and shaking randomly, and lagging like mad. Until you alt tab to try to close it, since it lags too much to hit exit game. But before you can right click the icon, it crashes. A+++ coders, would buy a dice game again.

 

[KayGee]

I am about the same, switched from 8800gts to a 5850...I wonder why that is

Forcing DirectX9 in the settings.ini file makes a huge difference in loading time. After changing that, I am the first one in almost every time.

 

[matas]

so... any idea how to fix the freezing issue? If only the bf2 froze that would be nothing but now my entire pc freezes and requires a restart which is bad for a hard drive and other parts.

 

[43st]

I am about the same, switched from 8800gts to a 5850...I wonder why that is

AMD knows about it, it's how the shaders are loaded apparently. You can force Dx9 in settings.ini (you'll not have anti-aliasing), or just wait.

Some claim Dx11 is faster than Dx10, so you could try that as well.

 

[TheRickRoller]

GAHHH! I was going to make a post about a theory concerning the new lag.

I finally was able to join a server though. So I was going to instead post about how much I love dice and want to have their babies.

And then it crashed.

WHY DO YOU HATE ME BC2?

 

[zylander]

God, I am so fucking sick of DICE/EA, this is bull shit.

 

[TheRickRoller]

God, I am so fucking sick of DICE/EA, this is bull shit.

I'm upgrading this to Blue Whale shit. I have now had 5 8 crashes in 2 3 minutes. Working on #9 now...He doesn't really mean to hit me, he just gets angry sometimes... We're all victims of EA/Dice's abuse... they hit us, and we keep coming back.

And where IS EA during this fustercluck, btw? No twitter/blog/forum post, at all.

Edit:

Why does it taunt me? Why?
I'm finally able to connect to a server. It loads. Its about to show me my loadout screen. Its black right now. Cool, it'll show me my loadout in a few seconds. Please. Please god, I need this like crack. No. No, don't do what you're thinking. DO NOT CRASH. DO NOT FLIPPING--

 

[CrystalBay]

yeah EA is sucking hard this weekend...

 

[zylander]

Is it just me or is there little to no splash damage in this game?

Tanks
RPG
UAV
Helicopter rockets

You almost have to hit an enemy dead on or else they wont die.

The UAV is the worst; long reload times, impossible to hit anything, can be shot down with a LMG and on top of all that, there is barely any splash damage. I fire at a small shack with a couple guys inside. The explosion is enough to practically destroy the shack but the guys just get injured and run away. Its like the only way to ever kill anyone with that stupid thing is if they are AFK.

 

[JE78]

Does anyone at EA/DICE work monday-thursday? Why do we all downtime on the weekends when they're "updating"?

 

[Jschmuck2]

Are the EA servers shitting the bed right now? I'm not home to check.

 

[Udgnim]

Is it just me or is there little to no splash damage in this game?

Tanks
RPG
UAV
Helicopter rockets

You almost have to hit an enemy dead on or else they wont die.

The UAV is the worst; long reload times, impossible to hit anything, can be shot down with a LMG and on top of all that, there is barely any splash damage. I fire at a small shack with a couple guys inside. The explosion is enough to practically destroy the shack but the guys just get injured and run away. Its like the only way to ever kill anyone with that stupid thing is if they are AFK.

there isn't much unless using the Explosive unlock

it's a good design choice to keep splash low imo

 

[paperfist]

I'm upgrading this to Blue Whale shit. I have now had 5 8 crashes in 2 3 minutes. Working on #9 now...He doesn't really mean to hit me, he just gets angry sometimes... We're all victims of EA/Dice's abuse... they hit us, and we keep coming back.

And where IS EA during this fustercluck, btw? No twitter/blog/forum post, at all.

Edit:

Why does it taunt me? Why?
I'm finally able to connect to a server. It loads. Its about to show me my loadout screen. Its black right now. Cool, it'll show me my loadout in a few seconds. Please. Please god, I need this like crack. No. No, don't do what you're thinking. DO NOT CRASH. DO NOT FLIPPING--

What's the alternative though, CoD xxx/MW xxx ?

 

[TheRickRoller]

What's the alternative though, CoD xxx/MW xxx ?

I'm not saying theres any alternative, I'm just saying that this game hates me when all I do is show it love. Im seriously jonesing here, 5 hours in a row without a single match. But seriously, whoever has worked on their servers and network code needs to get out of 1990 and into 2010.

Up until this very day, I have been able to play. Sure, theres been lag. Sure, I think there was one other day with a few lame hours. But I have logged over 80 hours of complete gaming bliss. I need more.

 

[KaOTiK]

Anyone else having the problem of when searching for a server it just drops you to the desktop totally closing the game out? Was playing earlier with no problems, now I can't find a server, and when I got into one through my favs list real quick it DC'd me.

First issues I've had with the game thus far.

 

[zerocool84]

I haven't played in a week and am going to set some time tonight to play. I need to get my fix.

 

[JE78]

Anyone else having the problem of when searching for a server it just drops you to the desktop totally closing the game out? Was playing earlier with no problems, now I can't find a server, and when I got into one through my favs list real quick it DC'd me.

First issues I've had with the game thus far.

I have this weird issue that if I do a search for server and have not empty checked it will CTD on me.

 

[GullyFoyle]

Client update 523648 will be available during Monday

It’s cleared QA for both non-Steam and Steam.

This is a small update for a bug that was found the same day that we released the previous patch.

Changes:
• Server browser downloads 100 entries instead of 500 in a chunk – this makes the “Cancel” button more responsive
• Fixed crash during server browser refresh
• Low-level networking library switched back to the optimized version (the game client was temporarily running with one that had more debugging logic in it)
• Localization fixes in the scoreboard

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Here's some of the other issues they have been looking in to:

Adding a region filter to the server browser, Updater not working, Not being able to see through the window on the fixed machine gun shield, Saving kit configurations, Issues with two people in the same house both playing the game, VOIP issues, Server full messages from Play Now, Cheaters on the Leaderboard, Server autobalance, a squad rush changemap crash.

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This is a particularly interesting post on the BFBC2 start-up and update process:
Source.

First off, I presume that the OP is using the non-Steam version of the game.

Due to some reason, the updater isn't finding the update and therefore you letting you into the game using the original (515195) version of the game. You need to be on version 519874 or later in order to see any servers. (They speak a newer network protocol.)

So the question here is, why is the updater unable to find any updates?

The updater (BFBC2Updater.exe) will try to download the following file: http://easo.ea.com/easo/editorial/BF/2010/BFBC2/config/PC/version
If it fails, then it will assume that you don't have any Internet connection and the updater will then silently launch the currently installed game version instead.

If it succeeded with this, then you would get a dialog saying, "you have version X, and version Y is available, update?"

So why is BFBC2Updater.exe unable to access a file via HTTP? It's difficult to say why precisely. One good guess is that you have firewall software that is blocking BFBC2Updater.exe from going onto the internet at all. Is that the case?

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Very interesting post/thread on Points after death/VOIP after death:Source (JoeGrant is the QA manager at DICE)

Two issues are being constantly raised as "bugs" that I would like to bring some clarity to.

These are design issues regarding VOIP after death and Points after death.

VOIP after death.

We found occurrences of people running into enemy areas, dying intentionally and using VOIP to notify their team of where the enemy was located. As a result we turned this off in game. It is still possible to do this using external VOIP (or even other real world communcation systems). In this game, Dead Men cant talk.

Points after death.

We intentionally removed "the suicide bomber". Loading vehicles with C4 and driving them into packed enemy locations to gain points when you die was something we looked at for some time. The whole human controlled guided missile system could be used to great effect, especially when bringing in air vehicles, C4 and destruction. Therefore we removed the points gained by this type of "misadventure" - it includes a "look what you could have won" points tally. We realise people who die bravely fighting to the end also suffer a points loss at this point but it is difficult to separate the two in the current system.