Modacity BC2 Platoon (BC2 $20 on Steam)

*** Bad Company 2 is going for $5.00US $20 on Steam Today Only! (July 2nd, 2011) ***

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Make sure you pick up a copy or two and join us in the Official Modacity Battlefield Platoon!

Alright ladies and gents, what I've got here are running lists of people who play Bad Company 2 on PC, X360, and PS3. What I need you guys to do, if you own the game, is make a post that includes your in-game alias, the platform you play on, and the time zone you are in. Once we have a decent number of people on the list, we will try to create events where we can all roll together depending on what time zones people are in. We may have multiple sessions for an event to cater to people in time zones of drastic difference to North America.

Note: This group is mainly for PC players. I don't think there are many console players here. Depending on how many people sign up on those lists, there may not be events to play unless somebody who plays the game on the console wants to organize their own events. Sorry.

This should help you find your time zone if you don't know it: World Time Zone Map

I'll go first.

In-game: Delphi Two-Six
Platform: PC
Time Zone: GMT-5 (Eastern Standard Time)
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Member Lists:

PC

1. =SW=Warlord | =SW=Warlord | Greenwich Mean Time
2. AbduRahman | Abdu-Ramen | GMT-8
3. Aerowyn | [GA] Aerowyn | GMT-5
4. Amit | Delphi Two-Six | GMT-5
5. Caboos001 | Recon V17 | GMT-8
6. Cagerrin | cagerrin | GMT-8
7. Cheezdue | Radiated Spoon | GMT -6
8. CN3089 | CN_brosef | GMT-5
9. DELTA_011692 | DELTA_011692 | GMT-5
10. ejburke | SmokePants | GMT-5
11. ExAm | BestProduceEver | GMT-8
12. Freelancer | Xero852 | GMT-7
13. Guardian | TC-Guardian | GMT+12
14. hobojoe | ~S9~HoboJoe | GMT-8
15. ICEE | Red Walrus | GMT-8
16. Ifafudafi | Ifafudafi | GMT-6
17. MrBig | Mr Kwatz | GMT-?
18. MXC | MXCoriginal | GMT -6
19. Phopojijo | Phopo Jijo | GMT-5
20. Pyong | ? | GMT-?
21. SeanTheLawn | SeanTheLawn | GMT-5
22. t3h m00kz | t3h m00kz | GMT-8
23. ThePlague | TearShade or Jubal Early BH | GMT-7
24. Timo | zTimo | GMT+12
25. TVTyrant | TVTyrant | GMT-8
26. Warsaw | Von Krupp | GMT-5

Please join the Battlefield Modacity Steam Group and use it to coordinate adding people to your in-game friends list.

X360

1. Caboos001 | Recon V17 | GMT-8
2. TeeKup | TeeKup | GMT-5
3. Warsaw | Von Krupp | GMT-5

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BF3 Alpha Trial

PC

1. Amit | gordon9821 | GMT-5
2. Cheezdue | ? | GMT-6
3. ExAm | cabbageofdiscord | GMT-8
4. ThePlague | tearshade | GMT-7
5. Pyong | guyaneseroyboy | GMT-?
6. Seanthelawn | ? | GMT-?

360. My times can be sporadic depending on when I work. Typically sometime around 2 - 3 pm/am (go into work at 5pm typically get off at 2-3 am)

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360. My times can be sporadic depending on when I work. Typically sometime around 2 - 3 pm/am (go into work at 5pm typically get off at 2-3 am)

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I'm assuming your in-game name is TeeKup?

In, if I can get past the please wait spinner(apparently BC2 hates xp64)

Cagerrin | cagerrin | GMT-8

PC, Xero852

PC, DELTA_011692, GMT -5

I'm GMT -7 if that really matters.

Time zones are really only to take into consideration the people who live in Europe or other regions of the world, like those down under in Aussie land. Time zone differences prevent a lot of people from getting on at certain times because it would be like 4 in the morning for them. If you're in North America, you're fine.

360

Gamer Tag: Von Krupp

Time Zone: Eastern Standard Time (GMT -5)

Working on getting PC version as well.

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I'm assuming your in-game name is TeeKup?

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Yes.

Amit, edited time zone to GMT -5.

My EA account name is Red Walrus. I play on PC. US west coast time zone

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My EA account name is Red Walrus. I play on PC. US west coast time zone

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Great, but I all I need is the name of the character you show up as in the Scoreboard. I don't need your EA account name.

That's it. Red Walrus.

Excellent.

Platform: PC

EA Account: ~S9~HoboJoe

Time Zone: GMT-8/ West Coast



Great to see some activity on this game again.

Time Zone: GMT-8/ West Coast

Platform: XBox 360

Gamer Tag: Recon V17

Looking to have some fun

PC

ID: BestProduceEver

Time Zone: Pacific Standard Time (GMT -8)

Played with BestProduceEver once.

so did I. I don't think he knew how to walk, he stayed in a helo the entire time. He also must not have known how to cap, because he only hovered over our capture point, firing down on us the entire game. :v:

Surely it wasn't an uncap. I shoot down teammates who do that. And I'm not in charge of what my pilot dies if I'm gunning.

You could have just hopped out :)

I'm still not sure what you're talking about, I didn't fire on any uncaps.

Well, now that's settled.

We have seven guys for the PC. One more and we'll have two squad spots filled already. What I'm going for is four squads of four people. Sixteen total. Of course I hope for many more than this number to sign up since I'm quite sure that not everyone will be available at the same time. So, the more the merrier! Also, once we do start to join servers as a group, we will most likely not all be able to make it on to the same team unless the server is quite empty. That's no a problem. We can just organize certain times people linger at the main menu (while logged in) so we can add each other to our friend lists. After that is done, a single person from the predetermined squads will join the same server, create a squad (and lock it), and then their squad mates can join into the squad through the friends list (the lock only applies to people who don't join the squad through the friend list). It might also be a good idea to cycle members through squads so that everyone has the opportunity to play with each as a squad.

Should be fun, but I sort of see us in the future ditching that plan and just joining any squad you know Modacity members are in. Also, we could just find an empty server and personalize the battle by doing Modacity only battles. Which means that Two squads are on each team...and any other people (that we know) that want to play.

We should come up with a tag for easy identification while playing as a Modacity group.

[MBP] for Modacity Bad company Platoon maybe?
or
[MBCP] if you're picky.

I like that idea. [MBP] seems good, but [MBCP] seems like too much. I like [MOD] too, but it seems like somebody would have used that by now.

Yea I figured anything with MOD in it would be pretty common and four characters I think is to long.

why not make it stand for Modacity Battlefield Platoon, since there is more than one battlefield game...

I guess, that works. Anyone still got BF2 and BF2142? I played a lot of BF2 back in the day but last year I got back into BF2142. Since March it's been mostly BC2 for me.

I had cracked versions of both A LONG time ago, don't anymore though. Especially not after that fiasco where 2142 leaves spyware on your system when you uninstall.

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I had cracked versions of both A LONG time ago, don't anymore though. Especially not after that fiasco where 2142 leaves spyware on your system when you uninstall.

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Ha luckily I never installed it on any of the more recent machines I've used. I had a cracked version of BF2 as well a real long time ago but I loved the multiplayer combat so I just handed over the $30 to play it. One of the best decisions in gaming I've ever made. COD4 was one of those too, except I skipped the crack and bought the game. I bought COD2 on steam and had high expectations for COD4 multiplayer.

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Yea I figured anything with MOD in it would be pretty common and four characters I think is to long.

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How about [MDC]? Not liking MBP since that's the acronym for a certain laptop.

Timo | zTimo | GMT+12 on PC

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How about [MDC]? Not liking MBP since that's the acronym for a certain laptop.

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Doesn't matter who thinks that we are Apple freaks. They'll learn so enough that is not the case.

Or maybe we could have [M<#>C] for "Modacity 1st Company," with 1st Company having the most frequent players, 2nd having the next most frequent, etc.

Thing is, we don't even have enough people for a platoon. I'm not sure where we'll get the people for even one company. Let's not make this complicated guys. I appreciate the thought, though. It shows you care.

Although I rarely play BFBC2, my nickname is the same as my user here.
My steam is indestructible Honey badger for if anyone wants to contact me through that about this.
GMT-London time and I play on PC.

PC, Abdu-Ramen

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And his timezone is GMT -8

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I'm still not sure what you're talking about, I didn't fire on any uncaps.

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I respectfully disagree.

Anyways, how do we get connected with one another? It seems like the friends system is pretty borken

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And his timezone is GMT -8

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I figured since he's from LA.

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I respectfully disagree.

Anyways, how do we get connected with one another? It seems like the friends system is pretty borken

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Like I said before, we will all have to jump on some sort of voice communication software at the same time and idle at the main menu of the game. Only there can we add each other as friends and have it work.

I just recently reinstalled 2142. I was real hardcore in it long ago. I even have the special preorder SCAR. Though some people argue that it covers too much of the screen, I was never bothered by it. It's coolness was well worth it.

Anyway, my friends list works fine. I'll try adding some of you

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I respectfully disagree.

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I just don't do that unless it's directly at an AA gun or tank trying to take me down. You can't fire out and expect not to be killed in self defense. I'm a sport, I like to let people get out of the base because fair fights are just more fun.

Must. Get. PC version.

There is a dirth of 360 players, and PC controls are way better anyways.

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I just don't do that unless it's directly at an AA gun or tank trying to take me down. You can't fire out and expect not to be killed in self defense. I'm a sport, I like to let people get out of the base because fair fights are just more fun.

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Except you killed me two times within seconds of me spawning, before I could even fire a shot

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Except you killed me two times within seconds of me spawning, before I could even fire a shot

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He probably didn't realize it. Shit gets crazy in battle.

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Except you killed me two times within seconds of me spawning, before I could even fire a shot

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Really, I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. Either I have a split personality, you've substituted me for someone else in your memory, or you were standing next to an AA gun whore who needed some killin'. I'm pretty adamant in my position on base raping. I froth into a righteous fury over it.

I was playing on a server that had a defined zone around uncaps, if you killed a player in that zone you were killed automatically by the server. This was on Atacama Desert, I can't tell you how annoying that was, having someone on AA in their base and not being able to kill them...

They should implement a system where you can kill them if they are in uncaps, but if you venture into them or into the airspace above them, it will kill you after a set amount of time (say, five seconds).

I seem to remember in the beta at least for a short time there was a area where the defenders couldn't enter or the server would notify you of being outside of the battle zone.
This greatly reduced the amount of spawn killing when I was playing.

That's only on Rush iirc.

I don't understand the concept of attacking uncaps. How could you not be allowed to enter and kill people who are in that area? Unless uncaps mean the uncappable areas, such as main bases. Then I understand fully.

That's exactly what they are.

Freelancer: I've been on some servers that seemed to have a plugin that allowed you to kill the guy in the AA gun without repercussions and no one else, though I'm not sure.

I'm sure you're not consciously doing it, exam; I believe you when you say you don't mean to. But it is happening, and it is annoying :\

Icee, sorry, but I haven't killed more than one or two people in an uncap in the last two weeks. It takes a conscious effort to aim into an uncap and bombard it, and I haven't done it for any reason other than to shoot at an AA gun or tank firing out. If you made up both of those people I killed, then you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Either that or you're flat-out misattributing the action. I have not and will not shoot at an enemy uncap for any consequential length of time, and have been known to countergrief teammates who do it enough by putting their chopper into a nosedive with a tank shell or rocket. I loathe base raping with a passion and I'm not going to stand accused of it. End discussion.

Ok, well suffice it to say I wont be playing with you again. You did it and I know it.

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I'm sure you're not consciously doing it, exam; I believe you when you say you don't mean to. But it is happening, and it is annoying :\

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Maybe you should get some skill instead of whining about flaws in the game or other players, you bad kid.

(ironometer)

on some maps its hard not to kill people in their uncaps... ie:oasis , ive been playing that one quite a bit and being in recon class and being on a small map... sometimes i end up finding myself way down map ....

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Ok, well suffice it to say I wont be playing with you again. You did it and I know it.

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This baffles me. I am baffled. Really, no.

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Ok, well suffice it to say I wont be playing with you again. You did it and I know it.

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Well if you want to be in the platoon, you will have to play with him once we get sessions going.

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Ok, well suffice it to say I wont be playing with you again. You did it and I know it.

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That's really not an attitude we need here.

Kiss and makeup, thanks.

Got BC2 for PC. Downside is that I can't play it until after my birthday (read: Christmas, since it's the same day). Other downside is that I have to unlock everything again...ugh.

Not sure if it's the same as on Xbox but I was able to unlock all the kits by low-mid 20's... Didn't take a long time.

Yeah. I'm only only lvl 19 and I've unlocked everything since lvl 18

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Not sure if it's the same as on Xbox but I was able to unlock all the kits by low-mid 20's... Didn't take a long time.

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It is the same. Got everything I honestly care about by level 16. Just have the non-SPECACT weapons to get.

Well, unless by some stroke of luck my neighbour throws out a computer again so I can put Win7 on it, I can't play. Game refuses to load levels at all on xp64, and I don't want to run 7 on my main computer.

Uh, why not? 7 64-bit is so much better than XP 64-bit.

I absolutely despise 7's UI, Lakrits doesn't work on 7, it's generally slower than xp64...

Could go on and on. One game isn't worth all the trouble 7 would cause.

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I absolutely despise 7's UI, Lakrits doesn't work on 7, it's generally slower than xp64...

Could go on and on. One game isn't worth all the trouble 7 would cause.

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Windows 7 wouldn't cause any trouble at all. Causes less headache than xp64, anyways. Simple solution: don't use that theme. Move onto something that looks better. Also, I find that Windows 7 runs faster for me than Windows XP.

"don't use that theme. Move onto something that looks better"

I've looked all over, can't find a theme that I like better than Lakrits.

I've seen a few, but Lakrits looks boring to me so our tastes obviously differ.

Windows 7 is overall faster than XP, so long as you're running it on a computer that has the Windows 7 recommended hardware specs or better.

If any of you ever decide to upgrade an XP system to 7, make sure you have at least a dual core processor. I upgraded my old XP 32bit to 7 32bit and the poor old 3.2 GHz single core couldn't even keep up with playing ME2(So any UT3 engine games), even with a decent video card and 2 gb RAM. I guess the jump from DX9 to DX10/11 relies a lot on processing power.

My old Pentium 4 630 3.6 Ghz HT runs windows 7 just as well as this laptop I'm using. Although, I have to keep games set to DX9 on it instead of DX11.

Yeah, just run games in DX9 mode when using 7 on an older system. I don't know why you were having issues Delta. My old rig with a single core AMD 64 2.0GHz ran shit just fine, even maxed out UT3.

I looked into running stuff in DX9. For ME2 specifically, I researched there was was a value to change in a .ini file for DX9/10. But further research showed that ME2 ran in DX9 no matter what OS you're running. I had a drastic drop in FPS, most notably around a large number of NPCs, say on the bridge of the Normandy. It doesn't matter, it still happened to me, so do it at your own risk. That rig is no longer my primary anyway.

Just got my new PC up and running and picked up another copy for, well, the PC. Game runs beautifully, kinda hard to get used to a mouse and keyboard again, and I have to rank up and gather my unlocks again; but hey I'm ready to play any time. So put me on the list for PC as well.

Name: Recon V17
Platform: PC/360
Time Zone: GMT-8

BC2 is $6.79 on STEAM TODAY only. Buy it and join our Platoon!

And of cores I buy it the day before the sale, at the regular retail price. That's about $13.00 I could of saved =/

Done. GMT -5.

How much more of an investment will it take to catch up in terms of post-release maps and unlocks?

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Done. GMT -5.

How much more of an investment will it take to catch up in terms of post-release maps and unlocks?

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All free.

Gentlemen, i had a revelation today. i both signed up for steam and purchased this game. at the same time i realized that i can get deals like every bethesda game since morrowind for like 70 bucks (and my friend just bought new vegas on his 360 for 60 bucks). i am now sure that pc gaming is wholly superior to console gaming. i have seen the light.

on that note, my steam id is TheKillerDonut. im still downloading the game. im on eastern standard time, pretty sure thats GMT -5

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Gentlemen, i had a revelation today. i both signed up for steam and purchased this game. at the same time i realized that i can get deals like every bethesda game since morrowind for like 70 bucks (and my friend just bought new vegas on his 360 for 60 bucks). i am now sure that pc gaming is wholly superior to console gaming. i have seen the light.

on that note, my steam id is TheKillerDonut. im still downloading the game. im on eastern standard time, pretty sure thats GMT -5

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Jesus, what have you be waiting to get Steam for? They have the best deals in gaming.

We need your BC2 ID once you download and create an EA account. May I suggest your BC2 Persona be named TheKillerDonut?

My soldier ID is SmokePants. I still have to get up to speed on the game, though. I've played other BF games, just not a Bad Company. Vietnam is tempting, because at least I'd be on somewhat equal footing. I'm not bothered by the price. I paid $15 for BF1943 and felt it was worth it.

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My soldier ID is SmokePants. I still have to get up to speed on the game, though. I've played other BF games, just not a Bad Company. Vietnam is tempting, because at least I'd be on somewhat equal footing. I'm not bothered by the price. I paid $15 for BF1943 and felt it was worth it.

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Don't be fooled! Vietnam does not set you on equal footing with anything! Vietnam is a completely separate part of the game. You will have to level up and unlock stuff by yourself in BC2. There are no shortcuts...anymore. Vietnam is an overpriced "expansion" pack from EA. It's half a money grab. It's fun, but there's not enough content to keep you occupied for more than a couple hours.

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Don't be fooled! Vietnam does not set you on equal footing with anything! Vietnam is a completely separate part of the game. You will have to level up and unlock stuff by yourself in BC2. There are no shortcuts...anymore. Vietnam is an overpriced "expansion" pack from EA. It's half a money grab. It's fun, but there's not enough content to keep you occupied for more than a couple hours.

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I really like the idea of adding an "expansion" the way they did though. It's more than a map pack but not a full game in itself, if they had added a mini campaign or something along that line it would have been awesome.

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Don't be fooled! Vietnam does not set you on equal footing with anything! Vietnam is a completely separate part of the game. You will have to level up and unlock stuff by yourself in BC2. There are no shortcuts...anymore. Vietnam is an overpriced "expansion" pack from EA. It's half a money grab. It's fun, but there's not enough content to keep you occupied for more than a couple hours.

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I know it's separate, that's what I meant by equal footing. Everybody else would be starting out, just like I would be.

BF1943 was only 3-1/2 maps, based on maps I had already played, and it kept me entertained for 6 weeks, which is about as long as multiplayer game can keep my attention. From what I've heard about Vietnam, it has more content than 1943 and it's good. And it's new and fresh, whereas it's kind of intimidating jumping into a game that people have been playing for 9 months.

I haven't made up my mind yet, though.

cool so this game apparently doesnt work on my computer. it crashes right as i start the campaign when it asks me to use my mouse to look around. im a little disappointed. i set everything on low too.
E: multiplayer doesnt work either. NOW i remember why i play new games on my 360. my computer cant run them.

with multiplayer the game acts like its loading, then the loading screen dims (slowly), then the game crashes. any ideas anyone?

Google does great for that. First though, make sure you've got only one sound driver installed. And you really should have a tricore or quad core processor for this game. It's pretty much coded for those. Anything less and it won't run that well. Single core, forget it.

Pyong bought(loaned the money) me this, can't play till tomorrow though. Will my computer be able to run it good (specs on my page, and getting more ram and psu wednesday)?

Works fine for me and I built my PC in mid 2007. It was a price/performance build with no top-of-the-line parts, either.

I'm finding single-player to be boring. Should I skip it and focus on multiplayer?

Singleplayer is decent. I say go through it just for the sake of getting your money's worth. I felt the same one when playing through. I didn't really see where the story was going. The last two missions were fun, though.

I'll gut it out. I remember the reason I didn't buy this when it came out was because I didn't think I would like the single-player. I'm just not a fan of the gallery style of shooter campaign. I'm mowing down Ivan by the Kremlin-full and it's putting me to sleep. Same thing COD does to me.

Bring back BC1's open levels, DICE! D:

MP actually has an editable FOV and tight controls, so yeah. SP isn't particularly engaging. Find settings.ini in BFBC2 in your Documents folder, change your FOV in there. Be sure to set RenderAheadLimit to 0 as well. You can set bloom to 0 if you don't like it, too. Pretty decent FPS boost.

Hey now, don't tease me with tweaks. I'm going to get my hopes up that I'll be able to turn off textures, muzzle flash, and smoke and make the enemies appear as flashing purple triangles.

Skip single player, it was 3 hours wasted of my life, plus you won't earn the 360 achievements or anything. The best level in the whole thing was the prologue, play that and you'll still have a decent respect for the campaign.

So, I'm back from my university. I added most of you who are on the first post to my friends list, and only one of you accepted it. I can play almost anytime. Also, I hooked my laptop up to my 60" TV via HDMI. This is going to be fun... still takes some getting use to mouse aiming at this distance, and for some reason my natural instinct is to assign the center of my screen high than it actually is, making quick sighting on hardcore a little off. Please excuse my bad score:

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Hey now, don't tease me with tweaks. I'm going to get my hopes up that I'll be able to turn off textures, muzzle flash, and smoke and make the enemies appear as flashing purple triangles.

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No no, these are tweaks you need. Trust me.

Seriously, someone tell me how to disable all the dust and shit on Atacama Desert. I literally can't see anything on that level.

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Seriously, someone tell me how to disable all the dust and shit on Atacama Desert. I literally can't see anything on that level.

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Exam has an easy fix: Fly above the battlefield and pwn everything.