[mxlm]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW9qHrjN62s&hd=1

Dude. Dude. That hill looks fantastic.

[QuantumDelta]

My performance is still very random :<
Some games; 7/1 before the first two mcoms have blown up, and got both the plants on those mcoms, other games, 2/16 t_t

[MR_T3D]

I don't play it that often, but on the PS3, I beast, going quite *postive* in K/D, and often solo'ing bases and/or arming several crates.
sometimes even braking 4000 points, before awards, once over 5000.
So much fun when it goes well.

[Bob-san]

I made a new file and have been purely playing Assault. Anyways--my K/D is >1.0 so I'm happy. It's more representative than my other file with is .7-.8.

[IceFire]

Alright.. can someone clear something up for me then? I saw that BFBC2 is on sale for $20 on Amazon.ca so I *might* think about ordering this up for PC. I was going to wait until Battlefield 3 came out but hey this might be fun in the meantime and right now fun sounds good.

Anyways my question... All of the map packs that EA has put out. Are those all free patches? And how does one get Vietnam on PC? On console it seems to be through the respective online stores. What about for PC?

[Lt.Cannonfodder]

On PC, all the map packs are free and included in the patches.

The Vietnam DLC can be bought through EA Online store.

[IceFire]

On PC, all the map packs are free and included in the patches.

The Vietnam DLC can be bought through EA Online store.

Cool and thank you! I just bought the game today for $20 with some Christmas money.

[sigtau]

On PC, all the map packs are free and included in the patches.

The Vietnam DLC can be bought through EA Online store.

Last I checked, the map packs were free and included for Steam users.  Not sure about non-Steam users (they might have to get the patches elsewhere).

[General Battuta]

They're free on EADM.

[Ravenholme]

Magnum Ammo makes me rage, as a lowly Private I who favours assault, I have access to no specialisations that mean I can take on a player with Magnum ammo and have a huge chance of being the victor, it only works if I manage to get the drop on them. If we spot each other at the same time and open fire at the same time, he kills me in half as many hits as it takes me to kill him.

[General Battuta]

just play hardcore (where the game is teh balanced)

[Ravenholme]

just play hardcore (where the game is teh balanced)

I might try that, I'm a complete teh newb to BFBC2, so I have no idea what hardcore mode actually does, but if it levels the playing field a bit, I'm all for it

[Gortef]

Hardcore mode removes all visual helps -like 3D spots (orange triangle above enemy if someone spots 'em), minimap and crosshair- and makes the guns more powerfull. And puts FF on.
I actually like HC mode aswell (especially with engineers silenced weapons and UAV) , but time to times it's also fun to go to AD/HD normal mode.

[Bob-san]

A Magnum-upgraded shotgun is beast in either difficulty. I've been using one recently and, in one firefight, killed 4 campers in 4 shots (though was quite injured by the end of it).

[MR_T3D]

Shooting them in the head nicely cancels out magnum ammo.
hell, I use mrksmn training (better spray) more than mag. ammo with the beastly F2000

[Snail]

So I'm installing it now.

[qazwsx]

I'm on a pretty decent server atm, it's hardcore, but there's minimaps, spotting and all that jazz, pretty damn good

[Snail]

It's taking bloody forever to update so I'm going to just leave it overnight.

[Unknown Target]

I would say that the new expansion is really meant to be played on hardcore. It makes more sense to the era, and the maps/weapons/gameplay style of the expansion are all much more balanced against each other in that mode.

[General Battuta]

I was going 14-1 and I stopped to talk to Hades (stupid Hades)

then I entered the zone

the future of your server is an Apache circle-strafing your spawn forever