Well.... I managed to get my new computer started up, BF2 loaded and played a few rounds, and downloaded/installed BC2 and even played a round or two ....got all that done last night after getting home from work.

Bad Company looks good on my new system. Cranked everything up to high settings, set the resolution to 1920x?1280? (not sure if it was 1280 or not) and it played nice and smoothly.

What I can see now is that I'm gonna like it. But I can also see that old man fly is gonna be on a learning curve again. Most of the keyboard/weapon stuff will come quickly. But the situational awareness and what the mini-map is telling me didn't come to me right away. Guess I should do some reading and learning from you guys (who probably pick it up faster than me). Once I get my bearings about what the info is telling me, and learn the map a little bit....I think it will be fine.

So far all I've done is poke around a little in 2 or 3 rounds. First round or two all I did was die (with no kills) while I was messing with controls and figuring stuff out (like apparently there is no prone option). Eventually, though, I did start to make a few kills and turned things around just a wee bit. I managed to hop in a tank for a few moments and also circled the port in a chopper a time or two. Don't think I hit much with the chopper, but flying it was pretty easy....pretty much like in BF2.

Got a couple soldier names reserved. No surprises on mine, but the one for Flyswamper_jr will be new to you guys:

Mine is: Flyswamper
Jr's is: Snizzicks

I'm thinking I might want to grab another name or two just for good measure, but guess I'll have to do that tonight when I get home.


You are still gonna see me in BF2 a fair bit for the near term until I collect that 3-star rank, but this one will definitely get some time from me.

I'm pretty sure that Fly_jr (aka Snizzicks) will *probably* spend a lot of time in BC2 beta and probably less in BF2....but we'll see I guess.

What sucks, for the moment, is that about 60% of the time when you try to use the server browser I get a crash (I'm using Win7 64-bit). Apparently this is known problem, but it means I have to get into games where the server is auto-picked for me. Makes getting into server with other WGO/CMI guys a bit difficult.


Another thing I'd like to do/change and poked around a little but didn't see how to do is..... I'd like to get rid of the opening "splash screens" that come up with you load the game/software. In BF2 you add a command line switch that is "+restart" and it does this. Haven't figured out if there is a way to do it with this beta and Win7 yet...

I tried it out today and I like it alot. I'm going to be on the learning curve again too. Not use to how everything looks in First Person. It seems like everything is foggy. Also one thing I'm not liking is there is no prone. You can't lie down as a sniper. Another thing are there no knifes? Also after I got done with the game it crashed my system and I had to reboot my computer twice to get it back. I was wondering maybe if I should update my video driver. Anyway the graphics are good and very realistic. I play was playing it while I was on a teleconference so couldn't really get too engrossed in the game but I'm diffently going to move forward on this and not look back. Bye Bye 2142 and BF2!

What is everyone's in game name?

Jam, yes there are knives... I suspect its an unlock though (?). I use an 880 series gpu, and my game used to CTD within 5 mins of loading in. I updated my video driver to current (196.21 ?), and all is well now.

Again, my ingame name is Giteen (no 7).

I'm guessing ya got a beta key? I signed up but nothing yet. I downloaded it and installed but can't get anywhere...lol

There are knives you have to go into your on foot and set it to a key.It is under Melee Attack.

So far I'd give this new 'rush' game mode a thumbs up. I'd sure to like to see some of the other maps but valdez is alright for starters. The graphics sure are better than previous battlefield games and the destructible environment is interesting to navigate around.

When I first really played this yesterday I was trying to go at it like this is just battlefield 2 but with better graphics - bf2 it is certainly not. I still got to get used to cycling through some of the weapons easier and not having grenades on your kit but instead a key bind like the knife is definitely a new experience.

Fun game though - I think it was a wise investment to get that pre-order in. That frostbite destructible game engine is great - but who knows if they'll use it when battlefield 3 comes around.

I think I'll bind the nades and knife to my mouse...

I decided today I'm NOT going to pre-order it until I know that I can get the game to run faster.... It will be pretty close to a waste of $50 if I dont improve. That means, all you computer nerd builder types: We have 29 (?) days to get my framerate up! Ideas?

Buy new stuff.

Like moi...

It's a laptop right Zach?

By the way, how did you get your serials for the BETA?
I registered and downloaded the game but I haven't recieved anything back from EA.