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Bad Company 2: BC2 night every Thursday

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  • That_GuyThat_Guy I don't wanna be that guy Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    tofu wrote: »
    No, you have to have a Steam copy of BC2 to work with the Steam copy of Vietnam

    No, you don't. I read a post by zh1nt0 (he works for DICE) on the UK forums that says any version of Vietnam will work with any version of BC2. You don't need to match steam to steam or EA downloader to EA.

    Check if you don't believe me.
    http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-bad-company-2-pc/1377491-vietnam-ea-store-steam.html


    EDIT: The content is already downloaded. A large chunk of the last patch was all the resources needed to run Vietnam. All you get when you purchase Vietnam is a code. Hell, it looks like Vietnam is just locked until you enter that code.

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  • musanmanmusanman Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    will I be using the same character or whatever in vietnam? or will everybody start over?

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  • That_GuyThat_Guy I don't wanna be that guy Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    musanman wrote: »
    will I be using the same character or whatever in vietnam? or will everybody start over?

    You will carry over your rank. The rank is shared between Vietnam and BC2 so you can play either to level up.

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  • tofutofu Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    That_Guy wrote: »
    tofu wrote: »
    No, you have to have a Steam copy of BC2 to work with the Steam copy of Vietnam

    No, you don't. I read a post by zh1nt0 (he works for DICE) on the UK forums that says any version of Vietnam will work with any version of BC2. You don't need to match steam to steam or EA downloader to EA.

    Check if you don't believe me.
    http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-bad-company-2-pc/1377491-vietnam-ea-store-steam.html


    EDIT: The content is already downloaded. A large chunk of the last patch was all the resources needed to run Vietnam. All you get when you purchase Vietnam is a code. Hell, it looks like Vietnam is just locked until you enter that code.
    Steam wrote:
    Notice: Vietnam requires the base game Battlefield: Bad Company 2 on Steam to play
    I bought it through Direct2Drive anyway because it's cheaper

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  • That_GuyThat_Guy I don't wanna be that guy Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    EDIT: Not going to continue this.

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  • -Loki--Loki- Don't pee in my mouth and tell me it's raining. Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    tofu wrote: »
    That_Guy wrote: »
    tofu wrote: »
    No, you have to have a Steam copy of BC2 to work with the Steam copy of Vietnam

    No, you don't. I read a post by zh1nt0 (he works for DICE) on the UK forums that says any version of Vietnam will work with any version of BC2. You don't need to match steam to steam or EA downloader to EA.

    Check if you don't believe me.
    http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-bad-company-2-pc/1377491-vietnam-ea-store-steam.html


    EDIT: The content is already downloaded. A large chunk of the last patch was all the resources needed to run Vietnam. All you get when you purchase Vietnam is a code. Hell, it looks like Vietnam is just locked until you enter that code.
    Steam wrote:
    Notice: Vietnam requires the base game Battlefield: Bad Company 2 on Steam to play
    I bought it through Direct2Drive anyway because it's cheaper

    Steam says that for every game to cover their ass. In this case, if you have a retail copy of BC 2 and buy Vietnam on steam, it's fine, because all you're buying is an unlock code you enter in the game.

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  • -Loki--Loki- Don't pee in my mouth and tell me it's raining. Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    In other news, my month worth of donation for the server is on hold That_Guy. I'm being forced to take a 3 week break from my new workplace over Christmas, and with no accrued annual leave, I get no pay for those 3 weeks. So I can't pay for a month of server bills for you. When I get back to work, I should be able to.

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  • That_GuyThat_Guy I don't wanna be that guy Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    -Loki- wrote: »
    In other news, my month worth of donation for the server is on hold That_Guy. I'm being forced to take a 3 week break from my new workplace over Christmas, and with no accrued annual leave, I get no pay for those 3 weeks. So I can't pay for a month of server bills for you. When I get back to work, I should be able to.

    That's ok. Other donations have covered the server cost for this month and half of next month.

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  • tofutofu Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Steam doesn't say it for all DLC and expansions

    It might work or it might not, I certainly wouldn't risk it until Steam changes the page

    Plus it's cheaper elsewhere and guaranteed to work

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  • YallYall Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    My vehicle sensitivity is all sorts of messed up. Does anyone still have a link to the recommended settings/tweak so my turning speed when in turrets, etc. isn't total shit?

    nm - found it

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  • That_GuyThat_Guy I don't wanna be that guy Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I wanna play this game, but there is no one on the server. How can we fix this?

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  • Handsome CostanzaHandsome Costanza Ask me about 8bitdo RIP Iwata-sanRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    That_Guy wrote: »
    I wanna play this game, but there is no one on the server. How can we fix this?

    by changing it to hardcore


    BADUMTISH

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  • -Loki--Loki- Don't pee in my mouth and tell me it's raining. Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    That_Guy wrote: »
    I wanna play this game, but there is no one on the server. How can we fix this?

    by changing it to hardcore


    BADUMTISH

    Heh, I played a hardcore server once, and quite enjoyed it. After that, I avoided hardcore sevrers like the plague for some reason. Guess I just didn't enjoy it as much as normal BC2.

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  • Handsome CostanzaHandsome Costanza Ask me about 8bitdo RIP Iwata-sanRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    -Loki- wrote: »
    That_Guy wrote: »
    I wanna play this game, but there is no one on the server. How can we fix this?

    by changing it to hardcore


    BADUMTISH

    Heh, I played a hardcore server once, and quite enjoyed it. After that, I avoided hardcore sevrers like the plague for some reason. Guess I just didn't enjoy it as much as normal BC2.

    I have long pined for the ability to not have to put 90 million bullets into a body even at close range to kill.. so hardcore mode was like a godsend to me.

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  • -Loki--Loki- Don't pee in my mouth and tell me it's raining. Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    You see, I don't have that problem in normal BC 2. As long as I don't get killed first.

    I'm looking at you Carbonfire.

    I could be on the other side of a map, have the drop on someone, and a bullet Carbonfire put through someones head on his side of the map magically makes its way over to my head.

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  • Handsome CostanzaHandsome Costanza Ask me about 8bitdo RIP Iwata-sanRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    when is Vietnam supposed to unlock for pre-orders? tonight? or tommorrow?

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  • Smaug6Smaug6 Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    If I haven't played BC2, should I start with Vietnam? Or just play the vanilla game?

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  • SJSJ College. Forever.Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    when is Vietnam supposed to unlock for pre-orders? tonight? or tommorrow?

    The 18th?

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  • Handsome CostanzaHandsome Costanza Ask me about 8bitdo RIP Iwata-sanRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    SJ wrote: »
    when is Vietnam supposed to unlock for pre-orders? tonight? or tommorrow?

    The 18th?

    I thought you get it 3 days early if you pre order.

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  • CarbonFireCarbonFire See you in the countryRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    SJ wrote: »
    when is Vietnam supposed to unlock for pre-orders? tonight? or tommorrow?

    The 18th?

    I thought you get it 3 days early if you pre order.

    That is 3 days early. The game's actual release date is Tuesday the 21st.

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  • Handsome CostanzaHandsome Costanza Ask me about 8bitdo RIP Iwata-sanRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    CarbonFire wrote: »
    SJ wrote: »
    when is Vietnam supposed to unlock for pre-orders? tonight? or tommorrow?

    The 18th?

    I thought you get it 3 days early if you pre order.

    That is 3 days early. The game's actual release date is Tuesday the 21st.

    the scroll on bc2 seems to think that the release date is the 18th for pc and 21st for consoles. Unless they have it wrong and they called the early release the release.


    edit: mk the scroll is just retarded.. PC early release is the 18th.

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  • YallYall Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Ok, even after using that utility to set up my mouse, my controls are totally borked. After using it, the in game options have the mouse sensitivity slider at zero. I can move and aim fine but turret speed is super slow. If I move the slider up, turret speed is ok, but my mouselook speed on foot is waaaay too fast. Anyone have advice?

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  • ghost_master2000ghost_master2000 Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I can't wait for the Vietnam expansion.

    When the vietnam side runs out of tickets, am I allowed to say "All your gooks are belong to us."

    Is that even the right racial slur?

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  • WarcryWarcry I'm getting my shit pushed in here! AustraliaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I can't wait for the Vietnam expansion.

    When the vietnam side runs out of tickets, am I allowed to say "All your gooks are belong to us."

    Is that even the right racial slur?

    It is.

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  • ghost_master2000ghost_master2000 Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I wonder if any of the audio will use that term, or if that's considered going too far?

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  • HyperAquaBlastHyperAquaBlast Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Hey BC2 comes out for the iPhone tomorrow!

    So now all you geese can say "Get on teh iPhones naow!!!1!!!"

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  • CarbonFireCarbonFire See you in the countryRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Yall wrote: »
    Ok, even after using that utility to set up my mouse, my controls are totally borked. After using it, the in game options have the mouse sensitivity slider at zero. I can move and aim fine but turret speed is super slow. If I move the slider up, turret speed is ok, but my mouselook speed on foot is waaaay too fast. Anyone have advice?

    Which utility are you using? The patch before last changed a lot of things WRT mouse speed/smoothing, and any fix made before that point will no longer work correctly. I plan on revisiting the whole mouse smoothing / turret speed issue once Vietnam is out - I want to see if they do any further tweaking first before attempting to "fix" anything.

    My suggestion for now is to revert everything to stock. Turret speeds will be back to their slow turn rate, but it should be better than nothing.

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  • MrDelishMrDelish Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    CarbonFire wrote: »
    I wan't to see if they do any further tweaking first before attempting to "fix" anything.

    what

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  • ghost_master2000ghost_master2000 Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    MrDelish wrote: »
    CarbonFire wrote: »
    I wan't to see if they do any further tweaking first before attempting to "fix" anything.

    what

    Lol, it took me like 30 seconds to spot what the hell you were talking about, but I finally did and it's hilarious.

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  • rRootagearRootagea MadisonRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
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    I am now the proud owner of 26 thatguy souls.

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  • That_GuyThat_Guy I don't wanna be that guy Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    CarbonFire wrote: »
    Yall wrote: »
    Ok, even after using that utility to set up my mouse, my controls are totally borked. After using it, the in game options have the mouse sensitivity slider at zero. I can move and aim fine but turret speed is super slow. If I move the slider up, turret speed is ok, but my mouselook speed on foot is waaaay too fast. Anyone have advice?

    Which utility are you using? The patch before last changed a lot of things WRT mouse speed/smoothing, and any fix made before that point will no longer work correctly. I plan on revisiting the whole mouse smoothing / turret speed issue once Vietnam is out - I wan't to see if they do any further tweaking first before attempting to "fix" anything.

    My suggestion for now is to revert everything to stock. Turret speeds will be back to their slow turn rate, but it should be better than nothing.

    I have come across a partial fix. In all your game settings(onfoot, air, gound, ect), turn off mouse smoothing. It the turning rate is still a little slow, but the smoothing makes it so that you can aim better.

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  • That_GuyThat_Guy I don't wanna be that guy Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    The full map list for Vietnam has been released. Just in case you were wondering what the maps look like behind the scenes.
    Vietnam map names to use on the maplist.txt:
    CONQUEST
    levels/nam_mp_002cq
    levels/nam_mp_003cq
    levels/nam_mp_005cq
    levels/nam_mp_006cq

    RUSH
    levels/nam_mp_002r
    levels/nam_mp_003r
    levels/nam_mp_005r
    levels/nam_mp_006r

    SQRUSH
    levels/nam_mp_002sr
    levels/nam_mp_003sr
    levels/nam_mp_005sr
    levels/nam_mp_006sr

    SQDM
    levels/nam_mp_002sdm
    levels/nam_mp_003sdm
    levels/nam_mp_005sdm
    levels/nam_mp_006sdm



    CONQUEST MAP NAMES
    levels/nam_mp_002cq Conquest Vantage Point
    levels/nam_mp_003cq Conquest Hill 137
    levels/nam_mp_005cq Conquest Cao Son Temple
    levels/nam_mp_006cq Conquest Phu Bai Valley

    RUSH MAP NAMES
    levels/nam_mp_002r Rush Vantage Point
    levels/nam_mp_003r Rush Hill 137
    levels/nam_mp_005r Rush Cao Son Temple
    levels/nam_mp_006r Rush Phu Bai Valley

    SQUADRUSH MAP NAMES
    levels/nam_mp_002sr Squadrush Vantage Point
    levels/nam_mp_003sr Squadrush Hill 137
    levels/nam_mp_005sr Squadrush Cao Son Temple
    levels/nam_mp_006sr Squadrush Phu Bai Valley

    SQUAD DEATHMATCH MAP NAMES
    levels/nam_mp_002sdm Squad Deathmatch Vantage Point
    levels/nam_mp_003 sdm Squad Deathmatch Hill 137
    levels/nam_mp_005 sdm Squad Deathmatch Cao Son Temple
    levels/nam_mp_006 sdm Squad Deathmatch Phu Bai Valley

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  • rRootagearRootagea MadisonRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    rRootagea wrote: »
    a fix for mouse smoothing?
    Tinit5190 wrote: »
    CarbonFire wrote: »
    I found that was a little fast for infantry movement, and a little slow for the chopper, but overall a pretty good range (could be because I have a 1600 DPI G5 rather than that 1800 DPI beast of a Razer).

    The numbers I found to be better for my setup:

    gamesettings.ini
    ►Scheme0Sensitivity=0.0001

    infantry
    ►ScaleValue = 0.20

    land
    ►ScaleValue = 12 (Pitch), 15 (Roll)

    air
    ►ScaleValue = 300 (Pitch), 250 (Roll) (I found the Pitch to be too underpowered when they were both set to the same value)

    Also don't forget to change the camera pitch/roll values in the land and air files, otherwise you won't be able to look around in first person view.

    Again, some pretty good values there, good work :^:

    Ya, I noticed it was a 'lil bit fast for sniping after finally playing some Rush. I use your settings aside that I have Infantry down to 0.15. Makes sniping really easy. Now your going to have to go to all the posts with this thing in it and change them to reflect the new settings lol.

    make sure to backup your Documents/BFBC2 folder and ctrl-f the word "conceptpitch" or "conceptroll" until you get to pitch/roll, making sure to skip the ones for controller with tag "GameSharedResources.PadInputActionData" before the ones for mouse

    I have infantry.dbx scalevalue at 0.12
    isAnalog is true, normalizeInput is false

    This is what I use right now and while turrets aren't that nimble, mouse lag is still lower than default

    I guess the default BFBC2 folder doesn't even have *.dbx for you to edit: try sticking http://www.mediafire.com/?s21bi3i53d5x3py into your BFBC2 folder

    in addition to editing gamesettings.ini with changes
    Sensitivity0=0.000000
    Sensitivity1=0.000000
    Sensitivity2=0.000000
    Sensitivity3=0.500000
    Scheme2InputType=0
    Sensitivity4=0.500000
    Scheme4InputType=0
    Sensitivity5=0.500000
    Scheme0Sensitivity=0.000100

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  • That_GuyThat_Guy I don't wanna be that guy Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    rRootagea wrote: »
    rRootagea wrote: »
    a fix for mouse smoothing?
    Tinit5190 wrote: »
    I found that was a little fast for infantry movement, and a little slow for the chopper, but overall a pretty good range (could be because I have a 1600 DPI G5 rather than that 1800 DPI beast of a Razer).

    The numbers I found to be better for my setup:

    gamesettings.ini
    ►Scheme0Sensitivity=0.0001

    infantry
    ►ScaleValue = 0.20

    land
    ►ScaleValue = 12 (Pitch), 15 (Roll)

    air
    ►ScaleValue = 300 (Pitch), 250 (Roll) (I found the Pitch to be too underpowered when they were both set to the same value)

    Also don't forget to change the camera pitch/roll values in the land and air files, otherwise you won't be able to look around in first person view.

    Again, some pretty good values there, good work :^:
    Ya, I noticed it was a 'lil bit fast for sniping after finally playing some Rush. I use your settings aside that I have Infantry down to 0.15. Makes sniping really easy. Now your going to have to go to all the posts with this thing in it and change them to reflect the new settings lol.

    make sure to backup your Documents/BFBC2 folder and ctrl-f the word "concept" until you get to pitch/roll, making sure to skip the ones for controller before the ones for mouse

    Yeah, most of that you do not want to do. Several patches ago these settings broke a bunch of things.

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  • HawkHawk ColoradoRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I've been back in BFBC2 since VIP Map Pack 7 came out.

    I'll buy Vietnam here shortly so that I can get in on it early.

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  • CarbonFireCarbonFire See you in the countryRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    MrDelish wrote: »
    CarbonFire wrote: »
    I wan't to see if they do any further tweaking first before attempting to "fix" anything.

    what

    :P
    :oops: I had worded that differently, I think I had originally typed "won't" in there, then forgot to take out the apostrophe when I changed it.

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  • YallYall Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    CarbonFire wrote: »
    Yall wrote: »
    Ok, even after using that utility to set up my mouse, my controls are totally borked. After using it, the in game options have the mouse sensitivity slider at zero. I can move and aim fine but turret speed is super slow. If I move the slider up, turret speed is ok, but my mouselook speed on foot is waaaay too fast. Anyone have advice?

    Which utility are you using? The patch before last changed a lot of things WRT mouse speed/smoothing, and any fix made before that point will no longer work correctly. I plan on revisiting the whole mouse smoothing / turret speed issue once Vietnam is out - I want to see if they do any further tweaking first before attempting to "fix" anything.

    My suggestion for now is to revert everything to stock. Turret speeds will be back to their slow turn rate, but it should be better than nothing.

    I just removed the input folder (well, renamed it to be more accurate) so as to reset everything. To my surprise, things are mostly OK, although the turrets are a touch slow.

    Thanks again.

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  • HyperAquaBlastHyperAquaBlast Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    rRootagea wrote: »
    5264176272_f5c3c29504_z.jpg

    I am now the proud owner of 26 thatguy souls.

    Wait....is his name seriously 420thatguy? A PA dude with an actual 420 screen name?

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    edited December 2010
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  • YallYall Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Gah! Damn your sig again. I saw ES V and nearly broke my finger clicking on it so fast! :P

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