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Post by sovietstu on Mar 3, 2010 18:49:11 GMT
It was waiting for me when I got home today! Nice kris. It's being activated on steam at 1am, friday morning (or thursday night, however you wanna say it). We need to plan in an epic session friday evening, get everyone on. The head-count of purchasers, as far as i'm aware thus far, is as follows; Moi Iain Terry Bjorn Kris Lee (XtremeKadavre) Lee (Lime) Barnett Did I miss anyone? Is Rik and Greebo Si joining us for the awesome?
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Post by ozorgnax on Mar 3, 2010 18:55:31 GMT
I hope we're talking PC now, otherwise I'll have to come over and rip your spleens out.
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Post by sovietstu on Mar 3, 2010 19:01:29 GMT
Of course i'm talking PC version, muppet!
Incidentally, launch trailer;
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Post by Razorik on Mar 3, 2010 19:17:37 GMT
It was waiting for me when I got home today! Nice kris. It's being activated on steam at 1am, friday morning (or thursday night, however you wanna say it). We need to plan in an epic session friday evening, get everyone on. The head-count of purchasers, as far as i'm aware thus far, is as follows; Moi Iain Terry Bjorn Kris Lee (XtremeKadavre) Lee (Lime) Barnett Did I miss anyone? Is Rik and Greebo Si joining us for the awesome? Probably not at this stage, would prefer to see if anyone is still playing it regularly in 3 weeks or so, or if everyone has just gone and bought it on (insert console of choice here) and are playing with joypads instead.
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Post by BtizeF200 on Mar 3, 2010 20:59:12 GMT
LOL - no way am i buying this game on xbox
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Post by sovietstu on Mar 4, 2010 10:18:07 GMT
Unlocks tonight at midnight, bitches! Quick pro-tip re: battlefield veteran status. So, to have access to the m1 garand (and who knows what else in future?), you need to have a battlefield veterancy level of at least 1 on the ea account you're using for bfbc2. Go to veteran.battlefield.com/ and you'll find the page. If you have old bf2/1942/Vietnam cd keys, put em in. If you don't, all you need to do is do is sign up to battlefield heroes and play 1 game, or download the official bf2 or 2142 demos from ea. These also count. Then you have at least veterancy level 1 and have access up the Garand, which is awesome, I was owning noobs hard with it last night...
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Post by Falgorn on Mar 4, 2010 13:08:01 GMT
So... how good is this game?
How would you rate it against MW (original) Left for Dead 1/2?
Try not to be too fanboi in responses, I'll just end up disregarding them. If this is something that looks really good and that will be played long term I could get into it.
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Post by BtizeF200 on Mar 4, 2010 13:24:08 GMT
well all the reviews so far are around 9-9.5 if thats anything to go by.
single player story is cool and quite engaging... multiplayer 'looks' awesome but im still waiting to try that. im sure stu can fill you in with the details. apparently his xbox360 version is working on live already!
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Post by Falgorn on Mar 4, 2010 17:31:03 GMT
Are you guys getting this on retard box or PC?
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Post by sovietstu on Mar 4, 2010 18:34:30 GMT
PC of course.
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Post by sovietstu on Mar 5, 2010 3:25:16 GMT
Ok. It's 3am. I best go to bed. So, game launched tonight. Few thoughts and tips. Conquest sucks. Rush rules. The EA servers are overloaded, and it was difficult to join a game pre-1am. Literally once barnett went to bed about 1, i got into every single server first time Snipers are gay, but it's ok cause the jokes on them. They ain't doing anything productive and the side with the most snipers generally loses. Game has a pretty harse initial 1-2 hours learning curve, especially if you're used to MW2 shooting. But once it clicks in your head, you'll stop dropping people easily. Game is more optimised than the beta, i had a much higher framerate initially, and did a few things to keep the fps between 45-60 despite turning the gfx all to high, which had a huge bearing on my performance in game. Started topping the scoreboard for my team. Higher fps = better medic stu Ok, here's a few bits; - make sure you have the latest nvidia drivers (196.75), can't speak for ATi. - Find the settings.ini file, and turn bloom to bloom=false. It gives you a huge fps boost and you aint missing much. Game looks better with it off, really. - If you're running the game at 1920x1080, seriously, turn FSAA off. You hardly notice the difference, since jagged edges aren't an issue at such a high res, and the fps loss with it on even 2x is fairly harse. It makes the "feel" of the controls feel clunky with it on. Anyways, once i got my fps sorted (and not at the expense of the graphics quality, mind) i really was pwning, compared to my first hour where i was just points fodder. And despite the M1 Garand being in my list of unlocks, i don't have it in game, seems a common bug atm.
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Post by si on Mar 5, 2010 9:08:14 GMT
Damn barnett clogging up the inetrnet tubes! Stay off. Messing with INI settings for a game is pure BS.. A "standard joe" computer user won't have a clue. Options screen have been around for quite a while now, you'd think even the freakin' Swedes would know this
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Post by sovietstu on Mar 5, 2010 9:22:45 GMT
I've unlocked the med pack and defib now, so I'm all ready to go. Just need some non-retarded squad/team mates to keep up so we can win
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Post by sovietstu on Mar 5, 2010 10:08:26 GMT
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Post by BtizeF200 on Mar 5, 2010 10:15:06 GMT
haey borss. can i join yer team? we lost our cow matilda and mommas gettin hungry. i been shootin chickens all my life and now i gotta leave home. shucks, it would be an honour to serve in your pressance presants squad
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Post by sovietstu on Mar 5, 2010 10:22:06 GMT
Friends list is working now, just added iain
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Post by BtizeF200 on Mar 5, 2010 10:32:00 GMT
awesome. cant wait for some online action tonight. i was thinking, would it be worth hosting a server on my awesome broadband? i should have more than enough bandwith for people to get at least 100ms and a spare 'dedicated' machine to boot.
8 people, 2 squads + our own server = good times?
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Post by BtizeF200 on Mar 5, 2010 10:43:41 GMT
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Post by BtizeF200 on Mar 5, 2010 11:04:33 GMT
well, i'll leave karma to you. i have a paypal account if you want to contribute - barnett_time@hotmail.co.uk well here it is! should be up and running tonight. server is based in london, 32 players and is ranked. - awwwwww yeeaaaaah
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Post by BtizeF200 on Mar 5, 2010 11:23:42 GMT
servers installed. greebo si and stu, you have full admin to it so feel free if you want to set it up (i cant till tonight). also, ive pm'd you the login details through the pm function on this forum. enjoy! looks like we can use this to control it: www.bc2cc.com/downloads.htmlwill have to read through the server faqs :S
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