[Attachment 6573]That was a bit of a mouthful. To elaborate; Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is now being played by Americans right across the United States - that's if they've downloaded the additional 300mb patch which delivers "assorted fixes, some perf improvements, fov controllable via Settings.ini (fov=55 default I think)". An official patch change-list is expected later today...
As for us Australians, Milenko points out in the BC2 release schedule article that pre-loading is now available! If you're still seeing "Bad Company 2 Pre-load" and/or "Bad Company 2 Beta", restart steam to be graced with "Bad Company 2" in your games library, with the option to start pre-loading. It's coming down at a miserable 150kb/sec at my location - let us know if you're having better luck.
The world is going BC2 crazy right now. From the official Battlefield blog:
[quote]The BC2 site is experience a high amount of traffic and is having intermitent accessibility! Please be patient while we work on resolving this as quickly as we can.[/quote]
Oh, and a Steam update has just been released with some critical fixes. Just in time for our BC2 pre-load.
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[LIST] [*]Fixed not always decrypting a game on launch [*]Really fixed offline mode not always working [*]Fixed cases where a game would stop downloading for no reason[/quote] [/LIST]
Mine came down at a steady 1.4mb. Just waiting on the unlock now. I did have to apply the latest steam update and turn off steam watch to get it to start downloading.
I usually find if I'm downloading at 1mb+ it's from Australian servers and un-metered. If it's about the 300k mark, like it is now, it's coming from abroad and counts towards my cap.
Why the fek can't we make a location preference anymore.
Quote: Since 5am this morning the dedication has shown outside Webhallen in Stockholm as queues for tonight's midnight launch started forming. Braving the -5 degree temperatures it seems they can't wait to get the game, just hoping they don't get too cold during the day that stops them playing tonight.[Attachment 6579]
hmm couldnt find the server browser in the server tab - only had History and Favourites - only way I could find a game was to hit Play Now - which is always arse. Did i miss something? is there a browser somewhere else?
oh, and do you have to select your equipment first time you use a class? I spawned as medic and had nothing but a pea-shooter and MG. I don't recall having to select gear from the equipment setup on first run in the beta.