DICE Senior Producer Patrick Bach: 4 Maps / Gamemode

[amazingstuff]

Originally Posted by GamerOfFreedom

Now that we are talking about BFBC2 DLC, can you tell us if all DLC is free on PC or only selected maps weapons etc? and (probably not) tell us of either Wake Island or Strike of Karkand will be in the first day DLC or later DLC?

(Yes i cant wait 9 days)

Oh please save Strike of Karkand to BF3, doing it in BC2 would pretty much ruin the map feeling it had in BF2.

[therealdrifter92]

Originally Posted by Xlinkcee

Would the complainers be happy if Bad Company 2 was not out on PC? The answer is no that's why you are still on the Beta forums. I don't know how many times DICE have to say it's not like the other PC Battlefields in the forum for some to understand.

Me like a lot of PC players are glad to have BC2 on PC to add to the battlefield series of games. I've spent the past month on one map and I'm still having fun. No other game has still been fun with one map after a month, maybe something from Valve.

There are plenty of maps in BC2 to keep me playing for months even years. Lets just wait for the full game then we will see if there are enough maps or not.

That's true, though I was expecting more variation. Each game mode on each map.

[Bazajaytee]

Originally Posted by therealdrifter92

Honestly, I'd much rather prefer some BC1 maps like Par for the course or Oasis

Especially if we can have the golf carts in there, they were great.
/me goes off to put in a request with the team

[amazingstuff]

Originally Posted by Bazajaytee

Especially if we can have the golf carts in there, they were great.
/me goes off to put in a request with the team

I only played them like 1 times, but I think they would fit much better than BF2 maps. Save them for BF3

[Bazajaytee]

Originally Posted by UmPato

DICE went into damage control must sooner than I predicted though, I must confess.

It is interesting that you see us participating and trying to answer peoples questions as "damage control".

[UmPato]

Originally Posted by Bazajaytee

It is interesting that you see us participating and trying to answer peoples questions as "damage control".

No offense meant, but why didn't DICE come forward with the number of maps then before someone found the answer on the net? Wouldn't it have been better saying it here, no matter how disappointing the answer would be? Why talk about the maps now that the truth about them is out and not before when everybody was asking about them?

[JimminyCricket]

Originally Posted by UmPato

No offense meant, but why didn't DICE come forward with the number of maps then before someone found the answer on the net? Wouldn't it have been better saying it here, no matter how disappointing the answer would be? Why talk about the maps now that the truth about them is out and not before when everybody was asking about them?

maybe they had to stay quiet about it

[GamerOfFreedom]

Originally Posted by Bazajaytee

It is interesting that you see us participating and trying to answer peoples questions as "damage control".

No answer on my DLC question?

UmPato did you try ask directly either here or on Twitter?

[amazingstuff]

Originally Posted by GamerOfFreedom

No answer on my DLC question?

UmPato did you try ask directly either here or on Twitter?

Maybe he doesn't know. It's not an interview/interrogation...

[spectralheaven]

Originally Posted by UmPato

Mount&Blade Warband? Yes they're serious. Yes, the game kicks major rears. And unless you're part of the closed beta, the fact that this game while being in beta already has 50+ clans speaks for its quality.

Oh God, I laughed so hard I had to post. And since when random clans being created one day just to be disbanded the next week speak of quality of a game? This way we can simply assume that CS is still the best damn game out there ever, 'cos no other could top the number of clans being created there..... people for christ sake think before you post anything.
How does a game that is hardly known, where u run as a knight top a widely known brand of Battlefield which is shooter, the only thing they have in common is the fact they're both multi - where BF is being produced by people who know how to produce fps games and that knight game is being produced by.......... exactly.

[UmPato]

Originally Posted by JimminyCricket

maybe they had to stay quiet about it

Won't say the wouldn't, but you realize it's close to a week till retail time. Holding crucial details as that for so close to retail time will only hurt them. OR are you going to say that if that was indeed a policy it's better than finding out second hand? And if that was the policy, why did that DICE employee talked about it in the interview in the first place instead of posting here first about the news?

[GamerOfFreedom]

Isnt it lol i know that just wondering

[Bazajaytee]

Originally Posted by UmPato

No offense meant, but why didn't DICE come forward with the number of maps then before someone found the answer on the net? Wouldn't it have been better saying it here, no matter how disappointing the answer would be? Why talk about the maps now that the truth about them is out and not before when everybody was asking about them?

Marketing control the flow of information and when/how it gets released. I have to follow those rules even though I have bent them a little in the past

[JimminyCricket]

Originally Posted by UmPato

Won't say the wouldn't, but you realize it's close to a week till retail time. Holding crucial details as that for so close to retail time will only hurt them. OR are you going to say that if that was indeed a policy it's better than finding out second hand? And if that was the policy, why did that DICE employee talked about it in the interview in the first place instead of posting here first about the news?

lol, all im saying is they might had to stay quiet about it m8, i dont really know, just trying to get some answers too

[Pr7_Danny]

Baza
Will be Linux files ?
I know there wont be public files,
but will the RSP get Linux files?

[UmPato]

Originally Posted by spectralheaven

Oh God, I laughed so hard I had to post. And since when random clans being created one day just to be disbanded the next week speak of quality of a game? This way we can simply assume that CS is still the best damn game out there ever, 'cos no other could top the number of clans being created there..... people for christ sake think before you post anything.
How does a game that is hardly known, where u run as a knight top a widely known brand of Battlefield which is shooter, the only thing they have in common is the fact they're both multi - where BF is being produced by people who know how to produce fps games and that knight game is being produced by.......... exactly.

The beta has thousands of players and if you don't like the theme fine. Saying the game is bad, hey, have you played it? No. I could also throw what's been thrown around here too to justify BC2. UIT's A beTA!!!11!!11one Though Warband beta beats BC2 in terms of performance and fun for me. You like shooters, ok, fair enough. M&B already has a huge following however, it will have full dedis, will be fully moddable and already has tons of mods out and the developers actually listen to the userbase's suggestions, imagine the thought! And it has 64 players and works better with 64 players online than BC2 with 12.

To each its own I guess.

[Bazajaytee]

Originally Posted by Pr7_Danny

Baza
Will be Linux files ?
I know there wont be public files,
but will the RSP get Linux files?

Nope, DICE has dropped Linux support from BF2142 onwards. All servers are now Windows based.

[UmPato]

Originally Posted by Bazajaytee

Marketing control the flow of information and when/how it gets released. I have to follow those rules even though I have bent them a little in the past

Fair enough. Hope DICE can change the marketing policy a bit in the future so people don't find out news second hand before an announcement in the forums.

[GunmanTheH]

Originally Posted by Bazajaytee

Thats a very PC Elitist attitude. It is a video game, the medic could have rocket launchers if the designers wanted it. The gun weighs nothing, its all digital media

Ferarri put their name on laptops but thats not the point. A game franchise can contain different off shoots of story lines and features.
Battlefield Heroes, Battlefield Bad Company, Battlefield. Just because it doesn't fit into your views of what is Battlefield doesn't make it any less of a Battlefield game. It is just different is all.

Thanks for your quick response.
It doesn't mean that PC gamers should step down and accept missing features just so that CONSOLE players are happy.

I know I'am PC Elitist, I'am not ashamed of it.

But I get you, you make games so that MOST people enjoy it. It's right buissiness goal, I totaly get that.
More people like it = More people buy it = More money for developers = More money for next projects

But If we (PC community) don't say out loud that we don't like it so much, that It could be better, you could think that you made masterpiece and that would be bad (stagnation of ideas). We have to tell you that some ideas just don't work as good as you thought (32 players, no Q-rose, no mod tools, weapon damage, etc...).

And about medic, It was just that he seems bit overpowered.



P.S. : Hope BF3 will not be limited by CONSOLES.

[therealdrifter92]

Originally Posted by Bazajaytee

Marketing control the flow of information and when/how it gets released. I have to follow those rules even though I have bent them a little in the past

Only a little ? A little more

[chico212]

Originally Posted by Bazajaytee

I can't talk about BF3. Wish I could tell you about it but I like my job.

ill give u cookies

[trayton96]

Baza, can you tell us a date when details about maps will be revealed? The info which everyone is looking for and need to be clarified after Patrick's interview:

- number of total MP maps available in the game with and w/o VIP code
- number of available MP maps available *for each* game mode with and w/o VIP code.

I know this doesn't have to do anything with you but I find it nonsense this marketing strategy. Marketing should support those who put their trust in this game by pre-ordering.
Luckily, in my country there are no consequences canceling the pre-order and I can cancel it on the release day or even one day after.

Originally Posted by Bazajaytee

It is interesting that you see us participating and trying to answer peoples questions as "damage control".

[DocStone]

Originally Posted by chico212

ill give u cookies

Cookies? Hell, if he tells us about BF3 he can have my sisters.

Mind you, that's not much of an incentive now I think about it........

[spectralheaven]

Originally Posted by UmPato

cut because I can

Gotta love people who come to a forum dedicated to a specific game trying to balalalala and advertise another game that is not even under the same producer, reaaaalllly classy.

[MajorBWPayne]

Originally Posted by Bazajaytee

Ahhh thought you meant the maps were small.
The limited play areas are intended to make battles more intense and focused. I know some won't like that and prefer the big open areas you know from BF2 others will like the tighter more intense battles. Its a "marmite" feature.

Having focus battles around the objectives is much more fun than random running around the map looking for the enemy or camping.

I guess everyone is so gun-shy based on what other dev's have produced lately they can't find it in themselves to trust. It's a shame really but not the fault of DICE who have obviously done a great job with this game based on my experience only in the beta.

The one question I have about the different modes and servers is, that if a server is running a mixed rotation of maps/modes, and say it goes from a conquest/rush 32 player to a squad rush (16 players) what happens? Will the modes like squad rush or squad DM have to run on a specific 16 man server where CQ and Rush will be on 32 man servers?