The PS3 Multiplayer Demo is here today, yes today, Feb 4th 2010, in Europe (it's not a country) and North America (that includes Canada) you'll be able to download the best Multiplayer demo currently on PSN on store at no cost!  So, if you have a PS3, a EU or NA PSN ID, and the internet you need to go download this demo now and experience awesomeness of Battlefield Bad Company 2 and don't forget to pre-order the Limited Edition before it's sold out! :-D


Additional Details to Note

MP Demo will end February 25th 2010, so play now or lose your chance.

Demo contains the 24 player "Rush" gamemode on map "Port Valdez" for a cool alpine snow war experience.

Demo releases in Asia Feb 9th, blame rain for the delay.

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Tomorrow morning, 3rd Feb at 2am PST, 10am GMT and 11am CET EA will restart its servers for maintenance, this will affect Battlefield Bad Company 2 Beta. During the time the EA servers are down you will be unable to log in, view up to date stats, view the server browser or play in games of Bad Company 2 Beta.
This down time is expected to last between 10 and 15 minutes.

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Here is a Singleplayer preview lineup by Gordon Van Dyke:

I hope everyone is enjoying the BFBC2 PC Beta and Xbox 360 Demo!  I know here at DICE there is much enjoying, but not without collecting a lot of great feedback from the PC Beta.  Now with all this Multiplayer goodness we wanted to give some Singleplayer love for this post.  So far feedback from the Press warrants this love and has been very positive making the team feel very proud of their work.  We're also extremely excited for the first ever Battlefield PC title to contain a proper Singleplayer campaign!  So without further rambling lower in this post is a collection of great write-ups on BFBC2 Singleplayer (and some Multiplayer) from our Press events over January, all are well worth a read or watch. :-)


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Battlefield Bad Company Preview

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Bazajaytee posted at the official EA forums a Beta bug status

Flashing water and terrain on Crossfire

• Fixed in retail game.

Particle shadows disabled on SLI + DirectX9

• They used to cause a huge performance drop. Fixed in retail game.

DirectX9 crashes

• We have improved stability some in the retail game, particularly when "losing" the graphics device due to alt-tab

WinXP 32 / WinXP 64 compatibility

• We have done a few crash fixes, although we have no data specifically on XP64 yet.

Updater fails downloading patch and gives a nonsensical error message about "unable to download patch, check your internet connection"

• Fixed in the retail game. The problem is both in the game's installer and in the updater.
• Closed Beta workaround: launch the Updater as Administrator.

Some or all of WASD keys stop working

• If you have a joystick connected, and it is not perfectly calibrated, then it will signal tiny movements in some direction. These tiny movements overrule the WASD keys. We are aware of the problem.
• Closed Beta workaround: Disconnect your joystick

Crash during level load on ATI x1900 cards

• The game requires driver version 9.12 or later to function. 9.11 crashes hard inside the driver. Unfortunately there are no new enough drivers available for the X1900 cards.
• Closed Beta workaround: Rename BFBC2Game.exe to BF2.exe, and launch BF2.exe directly.

Sometimes you keep moving even after you have released a key

• Noted. We have reproduced it at the DICE office too.
• As a side note: this never happened to a single developer during the past 6 months' worth of testing. Strange.

"Connection to server has been lost"

• This one is tricky. We have no solution yet.

Some sounds are played in the wrong speaker

• Audio team are investigating.

Crackups in sound

• No data yet.

Weapon balancing and tuning

• When we created the first Closed Beta, we picked the most stable build we had. (Well, you have all seen how well that build fared when it faced the real world...) We had to choose either stability or new content -- and stability won. Due to this, all content in the Closed Beta was some weeks old already at launch.
• Weapon balancing is on-going in the retail game, and we are following what's happening on the forums.

HBAO is very GPU hungry, resulting in low framerates on high-end machines

• We are working on faster versions of the filter.
• Closed Beta workaround: disable HBAO. Looks less pretty, runs better.

The game has high framerate on a machine, yet the input is very laggy

• We have a fix in the works.

The game accepted my serial key, but then failed logging in to EA Online

• Are you having any exotic characters in your password? One person who had the character ‘}’ in his password had that very problem.
• Closed Beta workaround: Change your password (using www.ea.com) to a password that only contains the characters A-Z, a-z, 0-9. Then try logging in in the game again.

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EA Forums Thread

New Battlefield: Bad Company 2 beta version out.


(To update manually: use the BFBC2BetaUpdater.exe in your install directory.)

The RC2 contains the following fixes:

Front end:
Fixes server browser crashes. Server browser more resilient against corrupt online service data, and better support for large number of servers.
Several server browser ping issues resolved.

Windows XP stability:
Fixed crash on windows XP at end of round, exit game and display mode changes and.
Proper window style / mouse confinement when starting game maximized on XP .

Options dialog:
Mouse sensitivity setting gives more effect.
Mouse sensitivity loaded on game startup.

The update to RC2 will be 8.4Mb

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As i promised, here is ONE beta key for Battlefield Bad Company 2. First-come, first-served.

Orginal EA Store preorder key. They send me one despite the fact that i canceled my order there. :P And, i have no use for this key...


Some may follow!

Anyway, you can try to get a key here: http://badcompany2.ea.com/beta

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Stockholm, Sweden - January 28, 2010 - DICE, an Electronic Arts Inc. studio (NASDAQ: ERTS), today announced that first-person shooter fans will get early access to the best-in-class online war experience in Battlefield: Bad CompanyTM 2. Players can now download a free* console demo worldwide on Xbox LIVETM Marketplace. A PC beta is also now available to players that pre-order** the game at participating retailers in North America, Europe and Asia, and through select community channels. On February 4th, the demo will be accessible on the PlayStation®Network in Europe and on February 11th in North America. Defined by its increasingly intense vehicular warfare, destruction, variety of weapons and huge sandbox environments, Battlefield Bad Company 2 promises to be one of the finest online FPS games of 2010.

"After the success of the PS3 beta, we're excited to provide gamers -- especially our long-supporting, rabidly passionate PC fans -- with another opportunity to get into the game before release," says Patrick Bach, Senior Producer on Battlefield: Bad Company 2. "Our fans have been a huge part of the franchise's success and we can't wait for everyone to experience the amazing gameplay and unforgettable Battlefield moments in Battlefield: Bad Company 2."

The Battlefield: Bad Company 2 console demo and PC beta will feature Port Valdez, a new vehicle focused map where up to 24 players (32 on PC) will compete against each other as either the US or Russian armies in the game's Rush multiplayer mode. Players will have access to five land and three air vehicles where the Russian side can use everything in their arsenal including Main Battle Tanks as well as the fast-moving Quad Bikes and Mobile Armored AA. The fight will also be packed with plenty of infantry combat fought alongside the waterline towards a great oil industrial landscape in the Alaskan mountains.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will be in stores on March 2, 2010 in North America and March 4, 2010 in Europe for the Xbox 360® videogame and entertainment system, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and the PC. The Limited Edition can be pre-ordered now on all platforms at no extra cost, with participating retailers worldwide (while supplies last).

* Internet connection and Xbox LIVE Gold membership required. Demo will end on February 25, 2010.
** Available at participating retailers in North America, Europe and Asia. Offer and codes expires February 25, 2010.

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The Xbox 360 Demo for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has just released on Xbox LIVE Marketplace!  Go download now!

The size is 1.35GB.  Start downloading as soon as possible to avoid the rush!
Maps included: Port Valdez

(For PS3, the demo should be available later this evening; Jan 28)

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