We Have TOO FUCKING MANY Servers That No One Ever Uses
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GET ON VENT! We don't have enough nerds with nasally voices and no social skills in there yet! <<
Ventrillo:
server: V53.DARKSTARLLC.COM
port: 11065
pass (if necessary): wang
Servers!Sladvan's & Tyrannus' (this is the best server if you like terrible admins and worse players)(Donate):
Hardcore Servers!Fraglerock's Hardcore Rush ServerPC Steam GroupIf you are on on PC, this is the place to be: Penny Arcade: Bad Company 2PC EA Account Things (PM me to get added. I will miss or ignore any requests for it in the thread.)
In-game soldier names!
1upgamer
A
Angry Scotsman
Arsenic7
ash-housewares
B
Blaize Athaedos
Bobby Newmark
Bolthorn
BombBoyGT
BongRipsPalin
Boogdud
brautigan219
Bullio Marf
C
CarbonFire
CasinoGhost
catharsis
Chartes
Chiablo
Cokesakto
CorriganX
cwar
D
Daemonion
deconstructr
Desrever
DietarySupplmnt
digitalsyn
Dirtmuncher6
Dodger42
docken
Doomninja
dracil
E
Enders
Etch
F
Fig-D
FlippyD
FoolishChaos
Funbags
G
genrand
Ghost_master2000
Glory2Hypnotoad
goggles
Goomby G
Gudge
H
H.Costanza
Hacksaw22
Hardtarget24
Heffling
Helloween45
HeroDood
HM3 Victor
I
IceNein
[iddqd]
J
Jakorian
Jamsque
Jaunty
jdarksun
John.Freeman
JZoidberg
K
klyka
Knorreworst
Kthulhu
L
Lokiness
Lurkingchimes
M
Machismo
MagicPrime
Malkor
MasterCronus
Masume
Max Harder
McRunfast
MegaMek
mere_immortal
MetzgerTroll
Morkath
Mr. Def
N
Nailbunny
ninjasnarl
Nova_Collision
O
Obersmith
OkieMurse
P
peewi
ProfMoriarty
ProtoSound
puffin
Q
R
Rentilius
S
S.J.
satsumomo
sceptre
Shiflett
Shortfool
Sladvan
soal
sonelan
Span_Wolf
SPIsaurus
spoit
stlobus
subedii
syphonblue
Syrionus
T
TheDuggler
The Cow King
tim_spork
Toothcake
torfu
Twisted Jester
TychoCelchuuu
U
V
Vacorsis
Venstes
Verrsplosion
W
Warcry616
Wavefront
X
xmojojoeox
xwonderboyx
Y
Yontouryu
Z
Zen Vulgarity
Zzulu
Xbox 360
Bathtubb
Centrilion
Disoriented80
jefe414
Jeb of Arabia
Metatag: PA Battlefield
PS3 Stuff
Antiwhippy
Cincitucky
Elliotw2
Fourier_series
Grillaface
Indrik
LegallyTired
Masked_Unit
Marikir
Mostlyjoe
Optimal_NZL
Von_Pixel
Zero3002
And maybe you! I might have added you to the wrong list already, just let me know if this is the case.
PC System Requirements!
[B]Minimum Frostbite PC Specs[/B]
* Processor: Core 2 Duo @ 2.0GHz
* Main memory: 2GB
* Graphics card: GeForce 7800 GT / ATI X1900
* Graphics memory: 256MB
* OS: Windows XP
* Free HDD space:
o 15GB for Digital Version, 10GB for Disc Version (BFBC2)
o 10GB for Digital Version, 4GB for Disc Version (BF1943)
[B]Recommended Frostbite PC Specs[/B]
* Processor: Quadcore
* Main memory: 2GB
* Graphics card: GeForce GTX 260
* Graphics memory: 512MB
* OS: Windows Vista or Windows 7
* Free HDD space:
o 15GB for Digital Version, 10GB for Disc Version (BFBC2)
o 10GB for Digital Version, 4GB for Disc Version (BF1943)
Game Modes
Single-player
There is single player! In a battlefield game! Weird, I know!
Squad Rush: 4v4
Each team has an M-COMM station. Kind of like CTF but the flags don't move.
Squad Death-Match: 4v4v4v4
Played on a smaller map, this is just a straight up team-dm with a single vehicle dropped in the centre to fight over. Get your mates, grab your guns and start shooting.
Conquest: 16v16 PC, 12v12 PS3/360
A Battlefield mainstay, this mode makes its return here. No major changes announced, and there've been hints at classic maps making reappearances as DLC.
Rush: 16v16 PC, 12v12 PS3/360
Players choose to join either the Attacking team or the Defending team, and spawn in their respective bases. Attackers try to set up demolition charges on a set of 2 M-COMM crates in the Defending team's base. For each Attacker killed, the team loses one life, or "ticket." If the Attacking team's tickets run out, game over. If they manage to detonate the M-COMM's, a new Defending team base opens up, and the process repeats itself until three bases have been destroyed and the Attackers win.
Kits (Loadouts)
Assault
The basic offensive loadout. Main features are an ammo box that replenishes ammo when dropped, and a 40mm launcher that can be used for grenades, smoke grenades, or a slow-reloading shotgun attachment. Assault Rifles are the Assault's main primary weapon. Against vehicles, the Assault will generally not fare so well.
Medic
Similar to the Assault's ammo box, the medic gets a first aid kit. Once dropped, it will replenish health to everyone within a fairly tight radius. The medic also gets defib paddles, which can resurrect recently deceased teammates. These teammates, still caught in the limbo of the spawn timer, will be marked on your minimap (and on screen if HUD is enabled) by a little green or blue heart-rate monitor symbol. The medic's primary is the Light Machine Gun, making him great for infantry support. Against vehicles, though, he is worse off than the Assault.
Engineer
The engineer's specials are a welding tool that repairs friendly vehicles (and deals damage to enemies!), and the choice between RPG's or anti-tank mines. RPG's have the added benefit of being able to lock onto anything that has already been marked by the cross-kit unlock tracer dart pistol, while anti-tank mines will not harm friendly vehicles and stay deployed even after you die or switch kits. Engineer's primaries are Sub Machine Guns, generally pretty weak but also silenced and fairly accurate.
Recon
The recon's specials are a choice between remote-detonated C4 and the ability to call down a mortar strike on a target with which you have line-of-sight. They also gets the incredibly useful motion sensor thing, which spots all enemies within a decent radius for a limited time. The recon's primaries are sniper rifles. Also it can't be overstated how much proper hiding will help you in this: people will walk within 2 feet of you if you're in the right bush, the ghillie suit is your friend.
CarbonFire's Turret Mouse Fix
CARBONFIRE'S Mouse Smoothing and Turret Speed Fix for BFBC2
This fix will change the way your mouse works in-game for both your regular infantry view and when using stationary / vehicle turrets or Choppers.
Currently Battlefield Bad Company 2 has mouse smoothing on by default, with no way of turning the feature off in the game's settings. Mouse Smoothing normalizes your mouse's input, "smoothing out" very fast or very slow movements. The result of this smoothing is often aiming that feels floaty or laggy, which is obviously not desirable in an FPS!
Also BFBC2 turrets tend to turn at a much slower rate compared to normal infantry mouse aiming. This fix will solve that problem and opens the potential for turrets to reach their maximum turning speed without affecting infantry movement. This will also make vehicle turrets turn faster, but they have a hard-coded maximum turning speed, so don't expect to pull a quick 180 with a tank turret anytime soon.
DISCLAIMER: This fix involves changing values within key game files that are relied upon to properly run BFBC2. It is advised that you back up these files prior to editing, and that you don't go changing any values outside the ones shown below. Use this fix at your own risk, you assume all responsibility if you mess up your game.
Ok, with that out of the way, here are the steps to killing mouse smoothing and fixing those slow turrets:
Go to your
My Documents > BFBC2 folder. We will be making changes to the
Gamesettings.ini file, as well as the files within the
<input> folder, so go ahead and make back-up copies of those first.
IF YOU DON'T HAVE AN <INPUT> FOLDER, IT IS BECAUSE YOU ARE USING THE DEFAULT KEYBINDINGS.
You must go to your settings in-game and bind at least one custom control (doesn't matter which) before the game makes this folder with the proper files inside.
THE FIX
- Make sure BFBC2 is closed
- Open GameSettings.ini and make the following changes:
Sensitivity0=0.000000
Sensitivity1=0.000000
Sensitivity2=0.000000
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Scheme0Sensitivity=2.50000 <--- This value will be your normal in-game mouse sensitivity, it seems to have no effect on turrets or vehicles. Feel free to experiment with this value and change as necessary. I found 2.5 to be a good compromise between fast turning speed and precision with a 1000DPI mouse, but YMMV. Values from 0.001 to 100+ are valid.
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InputAcceleration=0
- Save and close GameSettings.ini
- Navigate to the <input> folder, open infantry.dbx using notepad
- Search for the following line:
<field name="ConceptIdentifier">ConceptPitch</field>
- Below this line you'll see several similar-looking blocks of data. Make the following changes:
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- Just Below this section you'll find a similar section with the following header:
<field name="ConceptIdentifier">ConceptYaw</field>
Again, find the appropriate block of data and make the following changes:
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- Save and close infantry.dbx
Mouse Smoothing should be effectively disabled at this point. However this change will render turrets and vehicles nearly impossible to use, so make sure you follow the remaining steps...
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- In the <input> folder, open land.dbx using notepad
- Search for the following line:
<field name="ConceptIdentifier">ConceptPitch</field>
- Again, you'll see several similar-looking blocks of data below this section. Make the following changes:
Note: 10 here is a suggestion, again feel free to experiment. Values below 5 seemed too sluggish for my taste, while values far greater than 20 did not seem to make turrets any faster at turning, just more "squirrely" (changing directions more quickly, making it harder to stay on target).
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- Just Below this section you'll find a similar section with the following header:
<field name="ConceptIdentifier">ConceptRoll</field>
Again, find the appropriate block of data and make the following changes:
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- Save and close land.dbx
Note: The next section applies only to piloting Helicopters (not including the UAV). Gunner seats and the UAV seem to follow the "land" control guidelines for turning speed. Also this fix was only tested for mouse flight. If you fly with a joystick or keyboard-only controls, you'll probably have to play with these settings a bit more to get them to work with your setup. Good Luck!
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- In the <input> folder, open air.dbx using notepad
- Same as before, search for the following line:
<field name="ConceptIdentifier">ConceptPitch</field>
Below this line you'll see several similar-looking blocks of data. Make the following changes:
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- Search for the following line:
<field name="ConceptIdentifier">ConceptRoll</field>
Again, find the appropriate block of data and make the following changes:
Choppers seem to need much higher values to compensate for setting the "main" mouse sensitivity to zero in step 2. Much lower than 100 and the chopper is hard to move. I tried up to 300, and while it worked, it wasn't a significant change. Again, experiment and find a value that suits you. Like turrets, there is a hard-coded maximum turning speed that the game allows, so don't expect this to transform your chopper into a super stunt machine.
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- Save and close air.dbx
- Start up BFBC2
- ENJOY!
- (optional)Curse EA as the servers go down again and go play single-player instead ;-)
One final note: Vehicles / Turrets will always be affected by some smoothing, as there is no Scheme#Sensitivity or other setting I was able to find in GameSettings.ini that changed vehicle/turret behavior.
Hope this tutorial makes your BC2 experience just a little more awesome.
See you on the Battlefield soldier 8-)
UAV Controls Un-Invert
If you swap [the
red underlined] value the UAV and the helicopters will be the same inversion. To find these values, please refer to CarbonFire's turret fix.
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Adding servers without using the horrible browser
I think this bears repeating:
To easily add some PA servers (Angry Dome in particular) to your Favorites tab, edit
GameSettings.ini (Found in MyDocs/BFBC2) and add:
75443431,958a33dd-6071-4f61-bb1e-bfe803481ae5,The Angry Dome;3789002014,22595a7b-ccf6-404f-97ea-b854175e34d4,Penny Arcade West Coast Server;2408473747,c8876d1f-8914-4edd-a77e-b63930390661,Black House Combat [Seattle];
That'll add The Angry Dome, PA West Coast, and Black House Combat. I couldn't find any mention of the other PA servers while digging around for these. This should go in the OP. Also, add
Zetty to the PC-EA Account Thing.
Posts
Can't wait for that to get fixed.
Of course then the other team is always all "Hey let's shoot down that helicopter with a bunch of rockets"
And I'm all "DON'T GET HIT DON'T GET HIT DON'T GET HIT" and then some lucky bastard pulls off a shot at the chopper and I go down.
Well unless I'm in the hind. Then I stay in the air forever.
It appears to cover all Battlefield games, and curbing the use of an item or weapon is against it. Now I doubt any PAers are going to report the Angry Dome for kicking someone for being a dick for abusing a CG or M60, but a pubbie might. It sucks that you can't ban things like that and still keep a ranked server, I really wanted to ban RDX hoppers in 2142 but had to deal with it. Source is from http://support.ea.com/cgi-bin/ea.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_li=&p_sid=ynSvdyXj&p_sp=&p_faqid=14865&p_iid=0&p_created=&p_prod=&p_cat=&p_cv=&p_pv=&p_prods=&p_cats=&prod_lvl1=&prod_lvl2=&prod_lvl3=&cat_lvl1=&cat_lvl2=&cat_lvl3=&p_hidden_prods=&p_search_text=&p_new_search=&p_accessibility=&p_page=&p_lva=14865&nextlink=
Well, success is directly proportional to manliness. And as we all, know the Garand is the pinnacle.
*BAM, BAM, BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM PINNNGGG*
The stupid goddamn veterans status is still broken for me so I can't comment on the garand.
No one's banning anything.
The only people that we seem to have problems with are PA people that think they're justified anyway.
Well, you see, a friendly fun game is when you pull out all the stops and win at all costs.
Limed because APC suggests the HUMVEE and other light vehicles are armored, when in fact they blow up when I sneeze near them.
Also, it's loads of fun with only 14 people on the server and the entire defending team is using M60s or grenade launchers. Just a total blast.
Above all I want my time with a game to be fun. I don't want to grind ad nauseum to unlock things, I don't want to feel like I die a thousand cheap deaths, I don't want my attacks to feel broken.
Most of all, I want things to just work for everyone.
I love killing snipers, or when all the snipers are killed.
As long as the snipers are dead it's alright by me.
I like you.
We got a server to try and serve the community here. We do not believe that less than balanced weapons lend itself to an enjoyable gaming experience for all. That's cool if you disagree, I'd just ask you to go spam your CG's somewhere else, at some other community that has views similar to your own.
Guys like you. You just don't understand. You don't get it.
Also, there's nothing like throwing out a motion sensor with a mortar strike ready and picking up a huge pointy red blob all clustered just over a hill or something. It's not Christmas just yet, but give it a few seconds and Santa will be dropping some presents down the chimney.
I never said all. I knew some of you damn, dirty wookies were still around there, but couldn't kill you all before the MCOM exploded :P
Also, Snipers give Recon a bad name.
What's not to get? Snipers exist solely to get knifed in the neck and then tea-bagged.
I have my settings set to 40 posts per page, so on my end it's only 62 pages long, not 100...
You couldn't kill the only one that mattered. :j
What, is the PC CG more effective than the console version?
I hate Nelson Bay for two reasons.
a) I can't see a goddamn thing and there are no vehicles. It's a little slice of MW2. Which is awful.
b) Zooming in on that map drops my FPS like you wouldn't believe. I think it's all the pine trees.
You don't know what it's like to pull off the perfect marksman headshot. You don't get it. If you got it, you'd be sniping too.
Staring through your scope, invisible in the distance, crosshair raised over an enemy's head. The roar of the rifle, the tracer streaking through the air in a perfect arc, the puff of red, the ding of a marksman reward, the metallic slap of the bolt, the brass hitting the ground.
It's the best feeling in the world.
Well, that's lovely for you, but at 25 posts per page, it was at 100 and we don't have threads longer than that.
otherwise, it's a shit map. Also, Engineer is the best class, represent yo
Seems that way. I did a single spawn as a CG packing Engineer on the XBox.
I fired it into an attic where I knew an Assault was hiding in Port Valdez.
PROTIP: He didn't die. Got a hit mark, so I know it hit, but the little dude still had health.
ALSO! Add my tag to the OP XBox list. TKane708th
Anyways, I'm going to go play S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and get mauled horribly by Snorks on meth.
If you can't kill people without using an explosive round, go back to Quake and whore the rocket launcher there.
Oh no you revived 4 guys and then got shot and wasted a ticket...but saved more than the one that you lost reviving a bunch of people.
This is exactly what he did to me yesterday.
WHY DID YOU REVIVE ME THERE'S LIKE 5 ENEMIES THERE YOU IDIOT I'M MUTING YOU YOU FUCKING DUMBASS
vent is fun and games, guys
Most of my honest rage tonight was at the game crashing, but I certainly do get annoyed at getting CGed all the time. (I have no problems with the m60)
It almost seems like the developers wanted people to use the CG a lot since the regular weapons shoot nerf balls. "You mean I can kill a guy in 1 shot without having to aim for the head?"
Only your squad can hear it so no one uses it.