Contextualizer said:
What exactly was wrong with BFBC2?
For my friends and I, it's honestly the best FPS out there. And we've been playing them for longer than most people here have been alive.
Long post is long. But you asked, so don't tl;dr me.
1) Lag / latency issues. I live in London, and have a 5 Down / 1 Up line (supposed to be around 10 down, 3 up, but they never deliver what's promised, do they...), and still experience unacceptable levels of lagging, warping, rubberbanding etc.
2) Rubbish hit detection systems. I can stand at 15m and shoot a pellet shotty at a dude who's not moving and is completely unaware of me (love me some sniper-bait), and still not get a hit with a single pellet. I can do the same with an assault rifle, and only hit with 2-3 bullets. And it's got nothing to do with aiming - I've tested it with clanners. Even when you DO get hits (blood spray and hit indicators), it's fairly common that the enemy takes no damage.
3) Very poor weapon balancing. There's a large numbers of weapons that are almost pointless, in comparison to others. There's something like 30 weapons in the game, and something like 75% of weapon usage is made up by 3/4 of 'em!
4) The number of glitches and invisible walls around e.g.:
- Knife bugs that let you sneak up on a dude and knife him four times (unsuccessfully) before he hears you, turns around, fires a CarlG at point blank, kills you and walks away.
- Firing a CarlG at an enemy at point blank and surviving.
- The number of areas on the edge of the map that have invisible walls a sniper can hide behind, but stick the barrel of his gun through, so that he can shoot you, but you can't shoot him. You have to get BEHIND him in order to make a shot!
5) Poor game support for the PC. Consoles have received:
- patches that worked, at least according to the forums (even with more patches, the PC still has significant unsolved bugs... some that DICE insists are solved!)
- DLC for consoles only (they keep promising it for PC, but every time there's a patch, the DLC is still broken, so isn't included)
- New maps and game modes (at the point I have up on BFBC2, there was no indication that this would be made available to PC)
6) DICE is now working on a purchased expansion pack (for Vietnam - WTF - talk about going BACKWARDS). They haven't even finished fixing the INITIAL release, and they're planning on dumping more problems on it!
7) Poor game design decisions. Combining anti-tank and specops was a poor decision. Combining medic and support was a poor decision. Seriously... does it make sense to give a single class the medpack, the resuscitator, and a LMG?? Particularly when one of those LMG's, for MONTHS, was nearly as accurate as a sniper rifle, had a similar range, could equip a x4 scope, AND fired at 600+ RPM with a 100 round ammo box? Balanced? I think not... why else were there so many Rambo's around? And it got even worse on all-infantry maps, where you'd get whole squads of the muppets. Unless you managed to locate and kill the entire squad, they'd just rez behind your lines. And if you spend time looking for 'em, the next all-medic squad would chew your front lines because you're down some guns.
8) Massively poor customer service. My clan roflstomped another clan in a ranked match. Unfortunately for us, one of the EA forum mods was in that clan. Since then we've been harrassed:
- our threads and posts deleted,
- our recruiting posts have been locked for 'TOS violations' - all of which are in other clans threads (incl the clan of the mod that's harrassing us), but no action is ever taken against them. Sometimes, our recruiting threads have been locked for TOS violations that were committed by trolls on our threads, who aren't even part of the clan. And even after reporting the trolls, when we open up a clan thread the next day, the troll is back.
- several of our members got banned for complaining about the above treatment. And because EA links everything to your EA account, those people lost access to the forums, all their EA games etc. We got the bans reversed, because it was clear that this was pure harrassment, but it was a massive headache to get everything sorted out.
- and even after numerous complaints by our members to the customer support lines about the above treatment, with all the examples included, the best they can do is "We'll report the issue to the forum team and they can look at it." And since it's a member of the forum team harrassing us, no action has been taken, and we (at least, those few members who still play BFBC2) are still being harrassed.
