Battlefield Stories from the Frontlines! [Archive]

Deflex

05-28-2008, 03:14 PM

Because now, there is officially one day left until the release of the early access to the Battlefield: Bad Company demo for those who have pre-ordered it, I have finally created this thread in which anyone can share their stories of their actual game experiences and whatnot. I am excited to hear from everyone and so feel free to post your experience in Battlefield: Bad Company and that way we can all discuss the things in which we have been speculating on for our entire wait for the demo...

Have fun! :)

And to the admins: If it is possible, can we please make this thread a Sticky? Thx!

Flamesfan_21

05-28-2008, 04:30 PM

Sounds cool.

Now all we need to know is if us Europeans will get the early demo, if not, we'll be talking about it on the 5th :shakehead:

StoneCold313

05-28-2008, 07:15 PM

S**t!!!

At this moment it seems that im gonna get the demo on the 5th... :wall:

Unless i get some good news tomorrow when i call to the gamestore...

Reason why i believe this, is that EA took out the store names from the Finnish side of their site, and no info in the webpage of the gamestore...

Unless EA took the store names out because the date is so close...

Flamesfan_21

05-28-2008, 07:34 PM

There is still a bit of time, but yea this is getting real annoying.

sGkillfest has emailed play.com a bunch of times but hasn't got an answer about the demo yet. They only just realized about the sniper code too.

I'm guessing all us poor Europeans/Scandinavians, will be playing on the 5th. :shakehead:

(Sorry Delfex, were not trying to trash your story thread with our sob stories lol)

StoneCold313

05-28-2008, 08:33 PM

I need to call to the gamestore tomorrow and ask what's up with this...

If it really goes to the 5th, i will be disappointed... Since it's been like 1-2 months since i pre-ordered, and EA's site said that the place where i pre-ordered was in the pre-download program...

Flamesfan_21

05-28-2008, 08:38 PM

Its because we would be too good Stonecold, they need to give everyone else a headstart lol :thumbsup:

No seriously, i will be pretty pissed as well. For a multi-million dollar company, the communication is awful.

sGkillfest

05-28-2008, 08:42 PM

If they wanted to appease everyone they could just give the demo out to everyone now instead of staggering it based on pre-orders.. that would be the simplest thing to do, however this is EA we are talking about

Deflex

05-28-2008, 09:09 PM

Man, well you guys will get the demo a week later which isn't entirely bad, but still quite a long wait considering that the more you look forward to it, the longer it takes... I'm so excited for the demo and I can feel your pain. I am very sorry for your luck... Or rather, lack of... :|:

Anyhow, don't give up... Those who get the early demo access will surely be glad to share their experience with you all so please stay tune! :D

Also, if you take videos or screenshots, feel free to post them here, but don't go on Youtube and grab somebody else's video and say that it was you who got a 35 kills in a row using just a pistol, which I doubt will happen unless you play 24/7 and you're playing for money... ;)

Anyway... I'll be sharing with you guys soon so cya around! :)

StoneCold313

05-28-2008, 10:21 PM

For me the week isn't that bad, since i got lot of things to get for the new house...

But still, EA should really fix their community connections... I mean the communication is just terrible...

And, who ever get's the demo tomorrow(technically today for me), needs to give us/people who get's it on 5th an first impressions ASAP... :D

Deflex

05-28-2008, 11:03 PM

For me the week isn't that bad, since i got lot of things to get for the new house...

Good luck mate! ;) Hope all goes well...

But still, EA should really fix their community connections... I mean the communication is just terrible...

Mostly true... Yah, it's too bad. They wait till the last minute sometimes, but it's the end products I care most about anyways... :D

And, who ever get's the demo tomorrow(technically today for me), needs to give us/people who get's it on 5th an first impressions ASAP... :D

Looking forward to it mate! ;)

StoneCold313

05-29-2008, 12:15 AM

Good luck mate! ;) Hope all goes well...

Mostly true... Yah, it's too bad. They wait till the last minute sometimes, but it's the end products I care most about anyways... :D

Looking forward to it mate! ;)

If everything goes as planned with the house, then it should be a smooth ride... But because of Murphy's Law's, i have come up with a fail safe plan.. :D

Yeah, if the product is good at the release, then i can let the bad communications go... But if the game is a mess, then we should start petition about EA keeping their hands out of Battlefield series in the future.. :D

BTW

(the first) Sticky we go!! :yay:

I guess there must be staff around here lurking after all... :D

Deflex

05-29-2008, 02:52 AM

Yeah, if the product is good at the release, then i can let the bad communications go... But if the game is a mess, then we should start petition about EA keeping their hands out of Battlefield series in the future.. :D

That could be a really good thing, or a terrible mistake... :laugh:

(the first) Sticky we go!! :yay:

I guess there must be staff around here lurking after all... :D

Lol. Yah, I actually sent a PM to [MyIs]Spawndemon, the Total Network Director if he could sticky this for me, and he did! :D

StoneCold313

05-29-2008, 03:30 AM

That could be a really good thing, or a terrible mistake... :laugh:

Lol. Yah, I actually sent a PM to [MyIs]Spawndemon, the Total Network Director if he could sticky this for me, and he did! :D

Everything from here would be step to the better... Atleast if you look at this whole demo thing...

And i tought that there is some staff around this place... :)

Deflex

05-29-2008, 03:42 AM

I just discovered there is no way in heck I'll be getting the demo tomorrow... :(

Please still use this thread though, cuz for all of us that'll be getting it June 5th, we will have our revenge one way or another...

Actually, I'll be gone all next week at our High School Camp at our church, so I won't be playing on the 5th... *sigh* Oh well, I am looking forward to church camp much more anyway, so screw the demo.

Oh, and EA... Nevermind... Just... Nevermind. :shakehead:

StoneCold313

05-29-2008, 04:00 AM

Damn.... We still have hope though... 2 hours and im gonna make that call... I need to ask about that sniper unlock code too while im at it...

Deflex

05-29-2008, 04:11 AM

Go for it, and if you have to... rape! rape! rape! :laugh:

I'm just kidding of course... Last time we got on that subject, I knew it would get out of hand so... :)

StoneCold313

05-29-2008, 04:17 AM

Here we go again... :D

The "Battlefield Stories from the Frontlines!" title is bit mis-leading....

Deflex

05-29-2008, 05:07 AM

Now I'm afraid that nobody will be posting anything here...

How sad... :(

EA should of just gave early demo access to all the pre-order offers.

StoneCold313

05-29-2008, 05:37 AM

I'll update you guys as soon as i have made the call to the gamestore..

sGkillfest

05-29-2008, 05:39 AM

Please do, i may send play.com another e-mail later if i get time and see if i can coax a few demo codes out of them

StoneCold313

05-29-2008, 06:46 AM

Ok so i made the call... And everything is still open...

The guy who i spoke to, did read the same thing as i(about the finnish retailers getting the code). But the problem is that EA haven't told the retailers anything about it(way to go EA)...

The guy did send email yesterday to their connection at EA and also to the EA's sales executive(here in Finland most likely). And no response yet...

But he told me, that they have the sniper unlock codes, and everyone who pre-ordered is gonna get one.

He also said that he's gonna update the webpage as soon as he knows something about this...

So i guess that means more waiting...

I'll keep you guys updated. As soon as i know something, i'll let you know...

BrokenMachine

05-29-2008, 07:30 AM

Cheers man. Hopefully if you hear something then the rest of us will get some good news as well. I only hope EA pull there finger out and get it sorted but what are the chances of that happening?

Deflex

05-29-2008, 03:00 PM

Well, I know I'm getting the sniper unlock, but no demo code... :(

This is sickening. When I woke up this morning, I was hoping that it was all just a dream...

Flamesfan_21

05-29-2008, 05:04 PM

Yea, play.com confirmed the sniper code for us too, but still no demo code, even through they said they would send them.

Deflex

05-29-2008, 05:16 PM

Gosh, I hate this Bullcrap... If EA can't make things clear to the community, then they've lost their support. You can make the greatest game of all time, but if you can't make your customers happy by just providing very basic and simple information, then you've lost your creditbillity and trust...

StoneCold313

05-29-2008, 08:29 PM

Same here... Sniper code confirmed... No demo code... :(

BrokenMachine

05-29-2008, 08:34 PM

I've got to wait till monday now as Play are useless. I'm suprised you guys haven't got your demo codes yet. Hopefully you'll find out tomorrow.

Flamesfan_21

05-29-2008, 09:01 PM

I've got to wait till monday now as Play are useless. I'm suprised you guys haven't got your demo codes yet. Hopefully you'll find out tomorrow.

Same here mate, im right there with ya lol

Limehouse

05-30-2008, 10:14 AM

*dances*
:yay:
I finally got it!
7:17 this morning, in my Junk-Mail folder, from Gamestop.

YAY!

I hope it all works out for you guys too, and it'd be good to meet up ingame, my PSN is NeighborhoodLaika, see you there! :salute:

Limehouse

05-30-2008, 10:33 AM

Update:

URGE TO KILL.... RISING... RISING!

:cry:The code... after all that, after all that waiting... it's ****ing invalid!

I swear, if I ever meet an EA employee... :mad:

BrokenMachine

05-30-2008, 11:20 AM

Thats really harsh man. I'd get on to Gamestop straight away if you haven't already or maybe try EA. You might still be able to get it sorted by the weekend.

Deflex

05-30-2008, 04:06 PM

What a rip off... I'm sorry to hear it didn't work.

What first started off as miscommunication has turned out to be a disaster!

StoneCold313

05-30-2008, 10:14 PM

That's just f*cked up...

You need to call to the Gamestop. And demand a new code...

Deflex

05-31-2008, 12:53 AM

Here's a really nice video I found of somebody playing the demo.

All I could do was watch and marvel because of course, none of us here got lucky, so I figured I would try to put this whole mess behind me and just sit back and enjoy. So officially, I'll be practicing my patience until next week.

Enjoy! :)

http://www.vimeo.com/1089412

Again, this is not me playing the demo. It belongs to somebody on the Xbox 360 forums called RedBean... Not to mention, the video has absolute great quality!

StoneCold313

05-31-2008, 01:44 AM

^^

For once, someone knows how to record from TV and doesn't record with one hand on the joystick, and the other holding the camera... Awesome quality..

One thing i really like in the game(no, i don't have the demo) is the gun sounds.. They are just amazing. And more realistic...

Deflex

05-31-2008, 02:06 AM

Awesome quality..

Yes... I love it! :D

One thing i really like in the game(no, i don't have the demo) is the gun sounds.. They are just amazing. And more realistic...

Yes, I noticed that too, and I thought they were simply awsome! :nod: Wish I was playing the demo too... :(

BrokenMachine

05-31-2008, 08:03 AM

Yeah good video. Shame you didn't see more of the chopper tho. I loved the BF2 choppers and I hope these are pretty similar.

sGkillfest

05-31-2008, 02:16 PM

awesome vid, however it's just making me want to play the game more now. loving the tag + rocket combo... :)

Deflex

05-31-2008, 05:45 PM

For once, someone knows how to record from TV and doesn't record with one hand on the joystick, and the other holding the camera... Awesome quality..

RedBean (on the Xbox 360 forums) actually told everyone what he used, but it's very expensive after looking it up, not to mention, very bad ***! ;)

I use the Hava Wireless HD to capture the video in 480p, then upconvert it to 720p with Sony Vegas 8, and upload it to Vimeo, which hosts video in 720p HD.

Flamesfan_21

05-31-2008, 07:07 PM

Well if play.com's word is worth anything anymore, Us Brits 'should' be playing it by Monday.

What i like from the demo footage is it seems the weapons damage is right now, as you can watch any beta footage and see that it takes near enough a whole mag to drop someone. So im glad they sorted that.

Neeeearly there, cant wait.

Limehouse

05-31-2008, 08:06 PM

Yeah good video. Shame you didn't see more of the chopper tho. I loved the BF2 choppers and I hope these are pretty similar.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but they're completely different :cry:

You use both joysticks in manoeuvre, which is awfully tricky, and sometimes it'll tilt upwards for no reason and you'll keep going backwards into infinity and beyond...

Although, that might be just because I suck... :rolleyes:

StoneCold313

05-31-2008, 08:24 PM

RedBean (on the Xbox 360 forums) actually told everyone what he used, but it's very expensive after looking it up, not to mention, very bad ***! ;)

Some people uses just normal video cam to record. But they don't record the TV screen, they connects the cam straight to TV what gives really good quality...

Sorry to burst your bubble, but they're completely different :cry:

You use both joysticks in manoeuvre, which is awfully tricky, and sometimes it'll tilt upwards for no reason and you'll keep going backwards into infinity and beyond...

Although, that might be just because I suck... :rolleyes:

That's what im thinking too... :D

j/k

It can't be that difficult to do... You just need to get used to fly with joysticks...

For example, at first, i was terrible pilot in GTA. But after few hours of flying i started to understand how it works, and i personally think that im pretty solid when it comes to flying now(although i still manage to crash and burn time to times)...

:D

Limehouse

06-01-2008, 12:44 AM

Some people uses just normal video cam to record. But they don't record the TV screen, they connects the cam straight to TV what gives really good quality...

That's what im thinking too... :D

j/k

It can't be that difficult to do... You just need to get used to fly with joysticks...

For example, at first, i was terrible pilot in GTA. But after few hours of flying i started to understand how it works, and i personally think that im pretty solid when it comes to flying now(although i still manage to crash and burn time to times)...

:D

I was going to use GTA as an example, actually :P Saying how it's much easier than on BC... although now i've turned look inversion on... even though it makes it off, it now works better, but still, it doesn't feel like an 'old school' BF2 Heli.

StoneCold313

06-01-2008, 02:04 AM

You need to remember that the "old school" BF2 was for PC... And this is for consoles... Of course it might feel really difficult, because you aren't controlling with mouse&Keyboard or with "real" joystick...

With the joystick on consoles, everything is slower to do.. From aiming to moving around... And everything is faster/easier with mouse.

This is the same reason why i think that it takes skill to be good at console FPS's... It's really difficult to master...

BrokenMachine

06-01-2008, 09:34 AM

OK well if you see me getting into a chopper in the first few days then don't hop in cos I'll probably crash into something if the controls are wierd :p

Limehouse

06-01-2008, 01:29 PM

OK well if you see me getting into a chopper in the first few days then don't hop in cos I'll probably crash into something if the controls are wierd :p

You know how hard it is? Remember in BF2/2142, everybody would rush for the chopper? Half of time it's just left there as most people know as soon as they get in, they're as good as dead :P Practice makes perfect I guess.

And I'm in love with this demo, I just for a round score of 566 (most rounds, 1st place is 200-300) with 39 kills 18 deaths :) I guess i've gotten over the 'spawn-die-spawn-die-spawn-die-spawn-kill-die' routine then :thumbsup:

StoneCold313

06-01-2008, 11:55 PM

What? No more waiting half of the round for chopper, and when it spawns some idiot steals it??

That's awesome... Maybe i finally can get into that whole flying thing in BF series... :D

Flamesfan_21

06-02-2008, 09:38 AM

BrokenMachine

06-02-2008, 10:27 AM

Im just looking forward to spawning in and not getting J-10'ed.

Tanks will finally have a reason to be used!

Its gonna be great not being bombed every 30 seconds :D

Flamesfan_21

06-02-2008, 10:39 AM

I know, I've never been a jet fan, so i like the fact that they took them out. I know alot of people don't like it, but it worked in 2142 so I'm glad they stuck with it.

Limehouse

06-02-2008, 05:31 PM

Im just looking forward to spawning in and not getting J-10'ed.

Tanks will finally have a reason to be used!

Hey Limehouse i got a question, how is the snipers bombing device? is it uber-easy to use? like overpowered? or is it fairly balanced?

I've not personally used it, and it's fairly decent. The tank-driver gets a warning, and unless you're moving at some speed, chances are it'll hit you.

Great for when you're pinned down by that rogue tank :P Bizarrely though, once, I spawned on a sniper who was currently using the device, and I actually spawned as the airstrike thing, and died instantly... :shock:

sGkillfest

06-04-2008, 08:12 PM

Im just looking forward to spawning in and not getting J-10'ed.

Tanks will finally have a reason to be used!

Hey Limehouse i got a question, how is the snipers bombing device? is it uber-easy to use? like overpowered? or is it fairly balanced?

I think it's fairly balanced.. once the bomb is dropped you have to manually guide it to your target using the right thumb stick... if the driver didn't get any warning it would be very overpowered but as it is i think it works well..

Flamesfan_21

06-04-2008, 08:29 PM

Funny you should say that mate, pretty sure i dropped one on you tonight lol.

Limehouse

06-10-2008, 02:34 PM

Ah, bliss.

Firstly... I'm in love with the specialist class, and ever more so after I managed to take out a Humvee with nothing more than a tracer dart, and lightning reactions :P If you've ever seen 'Matrix Reloaded', and the scene where Morpheus takes down that SUV with 'the twins' in it, you'll know what I mean. Basically, an enemy humvee comes hurtling towards me, so I fired a tracer dart at it(like you do), jumped out of the way, just in the nick of time, for the hummer to go slamming into a building behind me, exploding in a lovely shower of death. +23 points for me.

Secondly, not quite as cool, but still pretty good, I managed to somehow, avoid being hit by an uncoming enemy buggy. It seemed to hit a bump in front of me, and go over my head, avoiding me by the smallest of margins...

I love this game :yay:

Limehouse

06-11-2008, 04:24 PM

Hows this for you, enemy sniper, taking out all of your team, so you decide to go recon to get that pesky bastard. You get him in your sights... aim... finger on the trigger...

BAM! He gets you... but to my utmost surprised, we BOTH managed to headshot each other, from halfway across the map, at exactly the same time :D

StoneCold313

06-11-2008, 07:33 PM

Deflex

06-13-2008, 08:42 PM

Hello well I'm back, and I'm enjoying the demo... :D

Kyle

06-14-2008, 12:53 AM

I love this game for one reason, it feels like real war. (Except when it takes a whole clip of automatic fire to take someone down.)

You've got our squad advancing onto the next base, a few tanks coming in behind us. All a sudden, the tank behind us gets blown to hell from seemingly no where, and everyone starts running to the nearest building... it just looked really epic. :P

I would also like to say the sounds of the guns firing from the distance, and even real close, sound really cool and realistic. I think DICE actually has a winner with this game.

Limehouse

06-14-2008, 09:11 AM

Couldn't have said it better myself, Epic. That's just what it is, it feels epic! No wonder so many BF2 veterans are complaining about it... because I don't think BF2 quite had that... it always felt more arcadey... what with the dolphin-diving :laugh:

StoneCold313

06-14-2008, 11:06 AM

Hello well I'm back, and I'm enjoying the demo... :D

Welcome back... :salute:

I was already wondering where the heck you were... :p

BrokenMachine

06-14-2008, 12:47 PM

Hey Deflex

Did you have a good trip?

Limehouse

06-14-2008, 02:04 PM

Oh yeah, Deflex, how was Church camp, or whatever it was?

Manzi

06-26-2008, 09:04 PM

Ok so today im playing Ascension, and I see a wooden door so i thought i'll hit it open and go on to the next building. Well I hit the ^ i blast the door open a split second later here comes a guy from the other team doing the same thing as me from the other side of the door, and well wadya know.. He got a knife kill..... :shock:

Tomahawk214

06-27-2008, 03:04 AM

This isn't multiplayer but whatever.

Its the Crash and Grab mission, and i'm in a jeep buggy with B Co. on the last part of the mission where you have to go back to the coast. It was like a big hill, I was at the top, the coast was at the bottom. The two adjacent roads had APCs on them, so I decided to just drive through the fence and cut through the windy roads. Bad idea. We tumble down the hill very fast, with russians pelting us with bullets. We barely avoid RPG missiles as we keep sliding down. I have no control over the jeep. It stops on the bottom road, and as i'm about to get out to repair, a tank shot blows up the trees in front of us. I gun it over the ledge on the road, and take a HUGE dive down the rest of the hill, the jeep SMASHES through the walls of a house, falls off another ledge, and safely lands in the river.

That was a crazy WOW moment that made me love my decision to buy this game.

BrokenMachine

06-27-2008, 07:32 AM

Here's my story anyway.

Loaded up Bad Company for the first time last night and thought I'd start off with a few multiplayer games. So I'm waiting for the map to load and it turns out its Oasis. Not really the first map I wanted to play on in the full game but I thought, hey at least I know the map from the demo so I should get a few points.

I was on defence so I thought I'd go with demolition as I love the shotgun but no mines as I had no unlocks yet. Anyway I spawn on the right hand side of the first base and I see this buggy going up to the hills on the right. So I run up the hills after it and I can see this sniper running into the bushes a bit further along from the buggy. So I run up behind him and knife him. I was pretty chuffed my first kill was to get someone's dogtags. :D

Anyway I run back down the hill to my base and I see another jeep go up into the hills. I'm thinking, this is my lucky day. So back up the hills I go and 2 guys have run out of the jeep and gone and hid further along. But as I'm running along I get hit by a sniper bullet which knocks me down to 10 health and then another random bullet which takes me down to 1 health. Luckily I managed to get behind cover before I was killed.

So I creep up behind one the the guys as I couldn't see the other one and I go to stab him but I miss! Then the guy turns around and I'm thinking I'm dead but he doesn't see me as I'm to his right and he goes off to his left where I suddeny saw his friend as well. So I go and knife both of them in the back and get another 2 dogtags :yay:

Ended up coming second on my team in the end and we won overall so not a bad first round as well :D

CoDe 199

06-29-2008, 10:44 PM

So today i'm playing on oasis, get knifed by this guy, later on i knife him, nice bit of revenge. Then he tries to knife me again, misses and we begin to have a knife fight. The funny thing was that his squad began to spawn on him, so I got like 3 knife kills on these unfortunate squad mates. Sadly he did knife me in the end but it was funny just to see people literally spawning onto my knife.

Irish Freedom

06-30-2008, 03:17 AM