Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Will Revisit World War II

[rhyno435]

The beginning in WWII might be to show the beginnings of

Spoiler: Not really a spoiler, it was shown in the trailer.

How the enemy started making their "secret weapon" that the Americans are so scared about.

 

[AgDr_ODST]

WWII is FAR more interesting than Modern Conflict. It was war on an epic scale never seen before or since. Sure fictional modern war can be fun, but the realisation that all the things you're doing in a good Historical WWII game actually happened really touches me.

I second this opinion

 

[WestMountain]

That explains why they bothered to have an unlockable Tommy gun in multiplayer, because they just could copy&paste it from singleplayer easily :]

 

[Shycte]

Really?

That's pretty cool...

And yeah, the Beta kicked ass!

 

[BeeRye]

That explains why they bothered to have an unlockable Tommy gun in multiplayer, because they just could copy&paste it from singleplayer easily :]

Yeah was thinking the same, and there's a Garand in there too. I think it could be an interesting idea too, the notion of WWII combat itself doesn't bore me, but another whole game based on it would, so just a quick few missions could work well.

 

[Viruzzo]

Drill combat was present in the first game too: it did such a low damage that it was impossible to kill anyone, except maybe distracted snipers and vehicles on 1% health.
Defib however is decent as a weapon: even if not as good as the knife, it's worth to use it instead in melee only for the humiliating factor.

 

[obisean]

I remember when I read that EA wanted to kill MW2 with this game, and I kind of laughed a little. To me it sounded like someone killing WoW, not going to happen. But when I played Beta, I was blown away at how good this game was. Truthfully it is just MW2 (though I think the game play in BC2 is better) but with a destructible environment. I mean people play games just for destructible environments (Red Faction Guerrilla: par game play overall, made great by destructible environments), so having good game play AND destructible environments is just pure win. I honestly and truly think that this will stomp MW2 if given a chance by all the "OMFG MW2 IS TEH GR8ST GAME EVAR" crowd, but then again, I want as few 13 year old shit talkers in my game as possible

 

[Joshimodo]

Well that'd be cool and all if I could actually get the beta to work right :/

Try it out on one of the consoles if you can, it's definitely worth it. Best Battlefield since BF2. Drill combat is much the same on each platform.

Drill combat was present in the first game too: it did such a low damage that it was impossible to kill anyone, except maybe distracted snipers and vehicles on 1% health.
Defib however is decent as a weapon: even if not as good as the knife, it's worth to use it instead in melee only for the humiliating factor.

Actually, me and the BF:BC players in my clan killed many a vehicle (and a few people) with the drills. It's great against vehicles.

Is the beta still closed or is it open now??

Open across the platforms, my good chum.

 

[pneuma08]

I smell DLC. Or expansions, maybe.

Which could potentially be quite awesome. The potential for gunplay in any era? WWII maps with modern weaponry or vice-versa? Maybe even modified game modes where you start out with WWII guns and pick up modern ones with limited ammunition, or custom weapon limitations like "defib and Springfield".

I'm trying not to get excited for this game, but it's not working, dammit.

 

[Doc Shaftoe]

Japanese gold. I'm calling it RIGHT NOW.

As soon as I read that all I can think of is a little story by Niel Stephenson called Cryptonomicon. One in which a group of modern day adventurers go after a horde of Japanese War Gold, which is stashed by characters during the second world war! HMMMM....

Japanese WWII gold is definitely going to factor into the game in a big way. Bad Company has always been about chasing after gold, and knowing the alure it represents, I'm sure it'll be in the game in some way.

 

[ygetoff]

I think it'll be a "Kelly's Heroes" style story, featuring Japanese Gold found and then lost during WWII... Also it's an excuse for DICE to package the BF1943 maps with the game.

 

[Viruzzo]

Drill combat was present in the first game too: it did such a low damage that it was impossible to kill anyone, except maybe distracted snipers and vehicles on 1% health.
Defib however is decent as a weapon: even if not as good as the knife, it's worth to use it instead in melee only for the humiliating factor.

Actually, me and the BF:BC players in my clan killed many a vehicle (and a few people) with the drills. It's great against vehicles.

Well it's "great" against vehicles like "worse than any firearm and explosive weapon", so basically "better than the knife and the medikit". Any decent driver can easily avoid drill damage by moving (and possibly running over the offending support), something you should do anyway unless you want to be reduced to confetti by a C4 wielding spezi.

 

[John Funk]

I would love to play the Beta since I don't have access to a cred card nor digital money, on top of that, the release date in my country is around December 2010... I want to explode sometimes...
In any case, having a WWII mission or two would be great, but I really hope they start to move a bit forward from WWII; Korea, Egypt, Iran/Iraq, Afghanistan (The Soviet campaign I mean) if you want to include Falklands, or fictitious conflicts, CoD 4 excels at that, even though MW2 did not.
The Premise for OPR was amazing... but the game not xD
BF:BC/2 CoD 4 approach is the best so far to me.

 

[Joshimodo]

Well it's "great" against vehicles like "worse than any firearm and explosive weapon", so basically "better than the knife and the medikit". Any decent driver can easily avoid drill damage by moving (and possibly running over the offending support), something you should do anyway unless you want to be reduced to confetti by a C4 wielding spezi.

Yeah, seeing as the driver wouldn't notice for a few moments, and that is does considerably more damage than you seem to imagine/remember. Plus, the moving or killing Support thing is laughable. If you're being attacked by drillers, chances are you're in a town/crowded area where you can't move around. Plus, good luck killing the offending drillers while in the tank, and good luck surviving the hail of gunfire and knives if you step out.

 

[Viruzzo]

Yeah, seeing as the driver wouldn't notice for a few moments, and that is does considerably more damage than you seem to imagine/remember. Plus, the moving or killing Support thing is laughable. If you're being attacked by drillers, chances are you're in a town/crowded area where you can't move around. Plus, good luck killing the offending drillers while in the tank, and good luck surviving the hail of gunfire and knives if you step out.

Well, I can't say I really ever used offensive drilling (I mainly run demo and spezi), but at least I can say that I've never been drilled to death (maybe, like once) in vehicles (and never in melee), so it wasn't really that popular (on Euro servers, from Italy).
I can see it being more effective with more supports in team tough.

 

[danielsharpe1634]

it would be sick if what you did in the WW2 portion of the game directly affected the gameplay in the modern portion.