Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Trailer Celebrates PC Gaming, Reveals Rush Mode Map

A couple of years ago this would have made me want to build a new PC, but now I am so used to my Xbox 360 controller that I suck playing with a keyboard. The mouse is still better for aiming than the analog stick, but my fingers know the locations of all the other buttons on the controller better than the keyboard now.

Adjustable FOV? Great! That's a good first step. Now take off the fov limit. Gah! They still don't get it:

200 fov is NOT cheating. If anything that will make it harder to play, imo, because the opponents will be tiny even if they're standing dead in front of you. But why limit how someone wants to play anyway? The thing about PC gaming is that we can tweak our systems until we absolutely love the gaming experience. Hell, I have an expensive, high resolution gaming mouse that helps me aim faster -- does that mean I'm cheating? You gonna limit that too? Oh, and my monitor is 16:10 instead of 4:3 -- why don't you limit that while you're at it and force me to run at 4:3? Or, if someone wants to spend the money and play with three monitors then so be it! If it makes them a better player then good for them! We don't go out and buy expensive gaming equipment because we like throwing away money, we do it because it enhances the experience. Setting limitations on how we interact with the virtual environment is exactly why PC gamers such as myself cannot stand the "everyone must be equal" mentality of console ports. Why is this so hard for them to understand? We all know they can do it, they simply refuse (I spent a good two hours "deconsolizing" Borderlands yesterday -- this game was in production for YEARS, and they still couldn't take an hour to make it a PC game? WTFS?

Personally I can't play beyond about 93 fov or it makes me dizzy, but who am I to tell people how they can or cannot enjoy their own damn game? High FOV is not an exploit, cheat, or unfair advantage -- it's an option just like what mouse, monitor, gfx card (etc.) you want to use.

Adjustable field of view, yay! Can't wait, got mine pre-ordered.

Hey, DICE, no LAN and no public dedicated servers are still just a notch about IW's shitty IWNet.

Less social shit and more useful features.

Love the beta. Got bored of the one map pretty quick though. I look forward to new maps!! See and/or kill you on release day.

played on 360. sluggish controls... i hate how you bump into anything and it vibrates your controller.

killing shit is unsatisfying.

i hope they release a demo. i'd like to know if me getting disconnected from the server after two minutes of play, logged outta the EA system and unable to reconnect is a bug in the retail code.

No LAN/network play? I'm still disgruntled and before someone says people don't LAN game anymore, wrong? I went to a LAN party with 30 people a few months ago. You only need 2 or 3 to LAN. DEVS STOP REMOVING THIS FANTASTIC FEATURE!!

I was very excited for this game to come out so I could get the hell out of IW NET. Pre ordered on steam played for a few days in the beta and them promply returned this piece of garbage. This is like a alpha of BF3 and they are making you pay for it by calling it something else. O well the wait for the true sequel to BF2 goes on.

Too bad the beta runs and lags like shit on PC compared to Xbox

Did anyone have to download anything extra with this game? Is the install anything like GTA4 was? I have a clean install of windows, so wasn't sure what extra service packs, and crap it may make me download.

Lol, even with 1 server in the browser (likely on their own network) it takes 4 seconds to refresh.

DRM Info in reply. Sorry for the all caps, that's how it is on the Steam store page:

Don't really understand people complaining about how a free beta meant for testing andfixing problems is not working like a brand new game right out of the box. The whole point of the beta is to fix the kinks and get it ready for launch day, not to give people a free demo.

This game is absolutely amazing, though. Its really fun for people like me who enjoy games based on strategy and teamwork rather than run and gun. Runs great on my q9550 with 4gb of ram. If I wasn't broke, I'd preorder this thing first chance I got.

Ah yes, all the things that DICE are doing to help the PC gamer. Like convoluted SecuROM activation DRM: http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/62114

As an old school shooter FPS guy I am having an illegal amount of fun with the beta. I can't wait for this to come out. Jungle maps with the destructible foliage should be insane.

Alice, 'Squad Rush' is exclusive to Gamestop pre-orders for the first 30 days, not regular 'Rush' mode. They're two separate modes.

Wait, I thought SQUAD Rush was only available to GS pre-orders for the first 30 days, not regular Rush.

Yes please!