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Battlefield : Bad Company Series

It's hardly a positive for those that have lost so much work over the past week or so, but the latest news from the BC blog :

Tomorrow, 12th March, and Saturday, 13th March at 8:00GMT/9:00 CET:12:00 (midnight) PST, EA will take the servers down, this time we will come up with even more hardware with more capacity to handle all the BFBC2 traffic. Once the maintenance is complete you will experience an improvement to your online experience.

This will be extended maintenance to allow the new hardware to be installed and affect all three platforms (PC, PS3 and Xbox 360).

Since launch a week ago, BFBC2 has already put EA servers through the following stress:

The 4 different soldier types have gathered a score of more than 34 Billion.
There's been more than 400M kills made.
1.3M roadkills
Squads and Teams have assisted each other to 6.2 Billion points.

Now we are adding more capacity to let you smash those numbers multiple times over in the weeks to come.
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glad I haven't got this yet. Will get it next week, hopefully it will all be running smooth by then :))
 
BobbyBox said:
glad I haven't got this yet. Will get it next week, hopefully it will all be running smooth by then :))
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I have to admit, even with the server issues (of which I'm yet to experience anything as bad as losing ranks/points/unlocked items), the game is fantastic. The only problems I've suffered online are the stuttering and skipping during gameplay. It's annoying as hell, but at least it's evident from the start. What I mean is, if I enter a Conquest mode and there's no sign of stutter/graphic problems, the entire campaign from that moment will be fine. It's if I go in and it's noticeable straight away, I know it will be constant throughout the battle, in which case I'll just switch it off, move to Single player for a while, then go back to multiplayer to see if it's rectified. I've never had an instance where it's been fine, and then will suddenly start to skip halfway through.
 
Why are the PS3 servers going down? I've not had any problems online and not really read anything about there being lag or disconnections errors.
The only problem we're all suffering from is not being able to access the store to download the VIP items but they said that patch has been sent to sony already and is just awaiting their seal of approval.
 
So how long is it down for? Christ was hoping to play it this evening.

Game night is ruined fuck sake - jay I'm going to come from behind and knife you. (soon)
 
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Problem i've experienced is that when I go to "Rush" multiplayer, it never gets there because the game kicks me out completely all the way to the xbox360 Dashboard.

I really have been enjoying the single campaign though. Graphics used in this game are very nice and realistic. The game feels epic to me.
 
Yes, the single player is pretty sweet, I have to say.

Judging by the latest news, I'm presuming it will be down tonight at 8pm GMT (but that could be 8am, I'm unsure. Seems they'll be unavailable until tomorrow at the earliest, anyway. Hopefully get more news soon.
 
As far as I understand it will be fine tonight..and it was down this morning and will be down again tomorrow morning.

Twitter:
"EA servers will come down tomorrow and Saturday morning "

"Maintenance on Friday 12th will last for 4 hours - 8:00 GMT to 12:00 midday "
 
Leo said:
Yep, you destroy it in a similar fashion like repairing one of your own, the health points counts down until it's completely destroyed.:))
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..and you will want to run away when the "vehicle health bar" is empty - it will explode in a few seconds and you will die if you stay.
 
Cheers mate. Also, I've tried drilling holes in walls with the drill, but to no avail. I know this was mentioned a few pages back but is it actually evident in the game, or just wishful thinking?
 
Ouch :

Well, pleased to confirm the servers are back and running. Bad news, it is a complete and utter lag fest, I mean really bad. Jumping all over the place making it really hard to kill people. I found it ok before they fiddled with it, this is mid afternoon too, dread to think what it'll be like when everyone is on tonight. Oh and the online store......still not there. Rubbish EA, rubbish! Maybe tomorrow's downtime will fix things but at the moment it's worse than before. This is on PS3, hope it's better for everyone else.
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Scutch said:
Cheers mate. Also, I've tried drilling holes in walls with the drill, but to no avail. I know this was mentioned a few pages back but is it actually evident in the game, or just wishful thinking?
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You can drill into walls but only light walls, like the kind on Arica Harbour that are protecting the crates in Rush.



The number of dogtags isn't up to date but the rest seems to be, not bad considering the official stats page still isn't up yet.
 
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