Changelog for Battlefield Bad Company 2 - 522175 UPDATE

522175 reports itself as 522175 in the auto-patcher, but does still say "522174" in the game's splash screen.

On the heels of Valve Software's recent announcement that it will be bringing Steam to Mac computers in April, EA Dice's executive producer Karl Magnus Troedsson has stated EA is considering bringing Battlefield: Bad Company 2 to Apple computers via Steam.

  From the Universal Gaming Database:

EA DICE's executive producer Karl Magnus Troedsson, made mention of the announcement on his Twitter account today stating, "Steam for Mac - Gabe, we like it." The Universal Gaming Database questioned Mr.Trodsson about the possibility of future Battlefield games coming to Mac via the new Steam client, Mr.Trodsson stated "We're currently investigating the possibility of making BFBC2 available on Mac."

DICE has released three titles on Steam for Windows; Battlefield 2: Complete Edition, Mirror's Edge, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Limited Edition and a Bad Company 2 four friend pack similar to the Left 4 Dead's four friend pack. The last DICE game to be released on Mac was Battlefield 2142 in August of 2008. Currently the Windows version of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has more players online then the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 version combined, the addition of Mac gamers into the mix would push these numbers even higher.

The new server patches (upto R6 at this point), have yet to address any of the problems which is causing the most trouble and seem more of a bug them self as the server has to be stopped and updated to bring the game uptodate, giving just more downtime. For a game that certainly has so much to give, its been hampered with such major server bugs.

EA sent a tweet about servers causing problems earlier in the morning, stating that "EA servers are currently down stopping login to a number of EA games. EA is investigating and will be back online as soon as possible."

This was only a few days after the servers had previously been taken down on Sunday evening. Despite coming back up this afternoon, there will also be planned down time tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. GMT,  with no time yet stated as to when the servers will come back after that.

It's not been a great launch for EA and Dice. We had plenty of problems playing over the weekend and it hasn't exactly been perfect since the 'fix' was issued either. Even on servers we know have been updated there still seemed to be disconnection issues and the server list still takes about 3 minutes to load up, complete with incorrect information about ping and player numbers.

Let's hope this 'maintenance' period fixes some of those issues.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PC Errors - Freezes, Crashes and Install problems

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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.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PC Errors - Freezes, Crashes and Install problems

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.

5. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Paul.dll error

Try completely uninstalling the game, delete any folder structure that may be left under the installation directory.
Get the securom removal tool from vendor https://support.securom.com/removaltool.html. Use it

Try reinstalling the game.

Note if you have any other games that use securerom, you may need to uninstall/reinstall them after this.

If you have any virtual cd/dvd emulators running, these can interfere with securerom.

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...