_{by Bazajaytee}

After last nights EA server outage on PS3 and PC, EA have found the issue and put a fix in place and brought the servers back online. This  means that both PS3 and PC players can return back to playing Bad Company 2.

 We are aware of a number of remaining disconnect issues on PC and we have released the “R5” server to hosts yesterday to address some of the disconnects. We are continuing to work on the remaining disconnect issues to have a solution as fast as possible as well as looking into reports of other issues raised on the forums for consoles and PC. 

Battlefield Bad Company 2 has managed to prove so popular that yesterday the concurrent users in Battlefield: Bad Company 2 surpassed that in Battlefield 2 which has been going strong for almost 5 years.

Lets hope this list stays short.

If you can't find your BF: BC2 error in this list; leave a post in HERE.  

First : Update your nVidia and ATI video / Graphics cards to their latest drivers.

1. Getting kicked from online matches by Punkbuster while Playing Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PC.

Try Reinstall Punkbuster Services

And make sure (Vista or Windows 7) you run ALL as Administrator. For example: copy the BFBC2 Updater shortcut. Right click on the shortcut and go to properties. There should be a box that says Run as Administrator. Check the box and use that shortcut to launch your game. This should take care of most connectivity issues with Vista and Windows 7.

2. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 crashes / crashing to desktop.

Try:  Go to Documents - BFBC2 Folder
Find settings,click it
Find “dxversion=”
Change it to DXversion = 9 (or 10)

3. You get a graphics glitch / error when playing Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PC.

Turn off bloom.

4. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 won’t install on Windows 7 x64 using EA Download Manager.

Disable your virus scanner and re-download Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

If you can't find your BF: BC2 error in this list; leave a post in HERE. 

Just a quick "what to expect from the BF: Bad Company 2 game" .

Gamasutra made a list of online Professional Critics reactions to EA DICE's FPS sequel Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

Mapmodnews made selection of most interesting quotes.

"With Infinity Ward's Modern Warfare 2 being regularly victimized by bugs, glitches, hacks and other exploits, there's an opportunity for another game to come in and do some real damage," Dyer notes in conclusion. "Bad Company 2 definitely has the necessary chops to give the current king of, well, modern warfare, a run for its money."

"Destructible cover isn't anything new in shooters," he admits, "but no game I've played has ever implemented it as well as Battlefield: Bad Company 2. In the past, 'destructible environments' meant I could blow apart a few boards or shatter a few windows, but here, almost everything save the heartiest buildings (or pieces thereof) can be shattered to bits, given enough explosive power."

"In times when 'modern' is the word-of-the-day for military-themed shooters, Bad Company 2 proves you don't need to stand at the top of the medal podium -- you simply blow it to goddamn smithereens."

"Bad Company 2's multiplayer modes are more successful. "The maps are brilliant and work across all modes, while Squad Rush is the highlight of the new additions - sacrificing some tactical nuance to cram more action in,"

"So while Battlefield Bad Company 2 has improved in single-player, it's the leap in multiplayer that makes it worth the reinvestment."

So lets hope this game will hopefully win over tides of players. Seems to be an awesome game. Because we  (gamers) deserve some quality after the Modern Warfare 2 crew only took our money and left us with nothing more then a heap of errors and disappointment...

Have a look.... DICE is taking a swing at IW.

_{By Luke Plunkett}

Infinity Ward Founders Suing Activision Over Unpaid Royalties

Jason West and Vince Zampella, the men at the centre of this week’s drama at Call of Duty developers Infinity Ward, have filed suit against Activision over claims they are owed “substantial royalty payments”.

“Activision has refused to honour the terms of its agreements and is intentionally flouting the fundamental public policy of this State (California) that employers must pay their employees what they have rightfully earned,” said the pair’s attorney, Robert Schwartz, of law firm O’Melveny & Myers. “Instead of thanking, lauding, or just plain paying Jason and Vince for giving Activision the most successful entertainment product ever offered to the public, last month Activision hired lawyers to conduct a pretextual ‘investigation’ into unstated and unsubstantiated charges of ‘insubordination’ and ‘breach of fiduciary duty,’ which then became the grounds for their termination on Monday, March 1st.”

West and Zampella are coming out swinging. “We were shocked by Activision’s decision to terminate our contract,” Jason West says. “We poured our heart and soul into that company, building not only a world class development studio, but assembling a team we’ve been proud to work with for nearly a decade. We think the work we’ve done speaks for itself.”

“After all we have given to Activision, we shouldn’t have to sue to get paid”, Zampella adds.

You now even can read ( it's amazing how suddenly people get so open after they get hurt themselves... ) the 16-page complaint filed by the founders of Modern Warfare 2 development studio Infinity Ward against Activision online.

The Court Documents:

Ex-Infinity Ward Heads Claim "Orwellian" Moves By Activision and Activision's public reply in read more.

^{And of course our Mapmodnews Opinion about all this...}

Destroy All MCOM Satellite Uplinks Guide

The Achievement Hunters do good job of describing the locations.

Jack and Geoff get Bad in this Battlefield: Bad Company 2  guide. Included in this wonderful video are the locations of the first 12 M-Com stations that you must explode for great glory.  

Video Battlefield Bad Company 2: M-COM Stations 13 - 24 in read more.