Battlefield Bad Company 2 Updates

Appears BC2 has had some updates since the last time I played it a couple of weeks ago. Three are annoyances that have been fixed and one is an valuable change to game play. First, the spawn timer used to require you wait until the timer counted down to near zero before it would take your click on the respawn button. Now you can click it anytime during the respawn wait and it will hold your click until the proper time. It used to drop it after a couple of seconds. The second annoyance was that in the server browser, the server did not remember the continent you selected. Each time you searched for games you would have to reset the continent or it would pull them from all over the world. Now it remembers the setting. The third bugaboo applies to friend requests. It used to only work, it seemed, if both of you were in BC2 at the time of the request. Not very useful. Now the request stays alive even if the requester has quit the game. The last change, and an important one for teamwork, is that you can now chat while waiting to respawn. This allows you to pass on information to your teammates like where the ambush is set that killed you. The most useful of the changes. These are the things I noticed.

Now if they would do a couple of things, BC2 would be an awesome First Person Shooter (FPS). First there are too many vehicles. The combination of tanks and the UAV tends to slow down the man to man fighting. The man to man fighting is why we play FPS games right? Second, the map boundaries are too tight. This limits the tactical aspect of the game by severely curtailing the ability to flank the opposing side’s position. It channels the fight into corridors, adding an almost arcade quality to the game.

Check out my progress at BuShWacKeR's BC2 Progress. While you are there take a look at my Delta Force Black Hawk Down screen grabs.

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