By Jim Rossignol on November 23rd, 2010 at 4:32 pm.
This weekend I found myself on the RPS BFBC2 server – as part of our rather oversubscribed RPS Game Club – and I began to remember why I have played more of that game than any other this year. Despite its flaws there’s a big bag of What Is Right About Multiplayer Manshoots in there, and I love it. Having done that and then taken a look at this new excellent new video for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam I began to get rather more excited about the upcoming historical expandalone than I had been up to this point. I’m starting to understand how Vietnam will change the dynamic – bringing the combat in even closer – and it’s looking pretty fantastic.
I notice there’s still no release date for this, despite it being slated for “Winter 2010″. I guess that must mean it’s out in December. It’ll be download only, initially only in the EA Store. I will be downloading it.
23/11/2010 at 16:39 Taverius says:
You changed the image! In the RSS feed it one of a guy in a funny hat who could not, possibly, see what his rifle was pointing at … I was pleasantly bemused for almost a minute.
I demand funny-hat-rifle-man back! Down with flamethrower-GI!
23/11/2010 at 16:54 outoffeelinsobad says:
Dude looks like Boba Fett.
23/11/2010 at 16:55 Skurmedel says:
His name really doesn’t work in English :D
23/11/2010 at 16:56 Arthur Barnhouse says:
I showed up for Man Shoots on saturday and sunday and could find no one on the TF2 server, and I never could find the Bad Company 2 server, no matter how many variations on “Rock, Paper, Shotgun” I searched for.
23/11/2010 at 17:00 Jim Rossignol says:
Odd, they were definitely both full to the brim from about 7 UK time.
23/11/2010 at 17:01 clive dunn says:
I used to just search for ‘rock’. seemed to find it.
23/11/2010 at 17:04 Arthur Barnhouse says:
Maybe I dreamed the whole thing, who knows.
23/11/2010 at 17:49 Oak says:
I couldn’t even get into the TF2 server. It was like being turned away from an exclusive club, only the people in the club are shooting each other and there are no women.
23/11/2010 at 19:10 frenz0rz says:
I struggled to find the RPS BC2 server, until I noticed that half of my filters were wrong. Reset all the fields to default, and you should find it by searching “rock”.
23/11/2010 at 16:59 clownst0pper says:
The TF2 server started off jam packed. It’s now dead, which is a real shame. Many organise a fight night?
23/11/2010 at 17:12 Cooper says:
It tends to fill up very quickly whenever an announcement is made on the RPS group.
So whoever can post group messages on the RPS Steam group. Do so. More often. Kthxplsbie
23/11/2010 at 17:26 Greg Wild says:
@Cooper:
I’ll put an announcement up for a game tonight at 7pm GMT.
23/11/2010 at 17:48 Cooper says:
I’ll be in the pub by then, but thanks much anyway!
23/11/2010 at 18:21 Greg Wild says:
I’ll try to remember to put them up more often :)
23/11/2010 at 22:13 Dances to Podcasts says:
Can’t you set it so bots fill any empty spaces and get bumped when a player enters? At least then people will have something to do.
23/11/2010 at 17:03 Linfosoma says:
Hopefully it’s released somewhere besides the EA store, I want to buy it, but I cant buy at their store since it wont properly recognize my region.
23/11/2010 at 17:08 Miker says:
I bought Bad Company 2 off of the EA store for $20 a month after release, so as interested as I am, I can’t see myself putting down the same price for a fraction of the content in the vanilla game.
23/11/2010 at 18:40 BreakDown says:
So… it isnt going to be avivable on steam?
is it going to happen like with mirrors edge? (also from dice)
23/11/2010 at 18:40 Turin Turambar says:
Remember to use EASTORE10 for a 10% discount.
23/11/2010 at 18:54 coldwave says:
It looks cool, but.
>2 maps
Ok, seriously.
24/11/2010 at 10:30 ShaydeeAdi says:
It has 4 maps yo, still a bit light but they should be big enough to keep it interesting.
23/11/2010 at 19:03 GoodPatton says:
Definitely the best multiplayer manshootem’up of the year, unfortunately CoD Blowhard will steal its thunder. Oh sales ratings, how many ways do I despise the way you affect peoples perception of a game.
23/11/2010 at 19:23 Sublett says:
Being a RPS newbie.. how do I become apart of this “oversubscribed RPS Game Club”-thingy?
23/11/2010 at 19:27 Sublett says:
Nevermind, found the Steam group. Guess that is what is being reffered too.
23/11/2010 at 20:03 Vandelay says:
Whatever happened to the Bloody Good Time RPS Game Club session? Did I miss it or did it never happen?
23/11/2010 at 20:29 Sassenach says:
You can’t really hide from a flamethrower.
But I have also yet to meet one who could outsmart bullet.
23/11/2010 at 20:35 battles_atlas says:
I WANT THAT ULTRA EXPERIENCE OF YOU-BEEN-IN-THE-JUNGLE-A-LONG-TIME
23/11/2010 at 20:49 Frankle says:
Really enjoyed the Bad company 2 session on saturday (annoyingly the only day I could get in a game last week). Just a shame that the rest of the time the server seems to be completely empty, or am i just missing everyone on it?
24/11/2010 at 08:08 ata says:
It would be good to see the server that busy more often, it’s always jolly good fun.
23/11/2010 at 21:36 Kevbo says:
2 maps…. there better be more in the final game or at least allow people to make custom maps for god’s sake :(
23/11/2010 at 22:00 Shatners Bassoon says:
I just wish I had a PC capable of even playing this so I can relive my BF:Vietnam days of breakdancing Hueys.
23/11/2010 at 22:24 Nick says:
So. Much. PR. Bullshit.
24/11/2010 at 00:57 nmute says:
as a human being deeply horrified and disgusted at the bayoneting, torture, mutilation, mass executions, gang rape, child rape, baby beatings, destruction of dwellings, destruction of food, poisoning of water and mass chemical defoliation of vietnam’s countryside and all attempted cover-ups and subsequent vilification of the tiny number of heroes who tried to stop or expose such hideous crimes, i hereby petition for:
all US forces to be renamed “Invading Force” and
all NVA/VC forces to be renamed “Invading Force”
a civilian single-player campaign to be implemented, where I may play as an ordinary person trying to help her/his people survive and defend themselves. this could include an incongruous and not really necessary interlude level where I’m a student in Kent State being murdered by Ohio national guardsmen, who subsequently get away with it.
fat chance.
24/11/2010 at 02:12 Killer6 says:
Battlefield series hasn’t been the same since BF2, BC2 just got retarded with the amount of people just firing endlessly into the floor or walls just to watch shit blow up.
24/11/2010 at 16:02 Walsh says:
That’s different than every other mutliplayer FPS on earth, how?
24/11/2010 at 02:17 BrendanJB says:
2 maps? Really?
I’ll be waiting til this thing is <$10 for such an extreme lack of content.
24/11/2010 at 15:14 Thunderkor says:
I’m inclined to agree with you. I was initially excited, but only 2 maps on a $20 expansion? Nah. Can’t do that. Especially when I also got the full game for only $20 shortly after release.
30/11/2010 at 13:51 Chwynn says:
Turns out it is on steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/47880/