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Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed X-Play: Secrets Of Success - Bad Company 2 XPlays Abbie Heppe spoke with ex. producer Gordon Van Dyke to talk about how the game has been received and how players are helping make it an even... More...

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed ATI Hotfix for Slow BC2 Loading Times ATI released preview drivers today that provide a fix for slow loading times in Battlefield Bad Company 2. Right now this fix is only for 5 series... More...

Just in from EA's Battlefield Blog Original Xbox - Battlefield 2: Modern Combat the end of an era On the 15th April, Microsoft will be closing down access to the original Xbox Live services. This unfortunately means that Battlefield 2: Modern Combat on Xbox will no longer be playable online. http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/battlefield_5F00_bad_5F00_company/modern_5F00_combat_5F00_xbox.jpg DICE would like to thank all the players that kept Battlefield 2: Modern Combat on Xbox so popular since launch and we hope you take time out of playing Backstab on repeat and take this last chance to play all the other mutliplayer maps like: Bridge Too Far, Deadly Pass, The Black Gold, Little Big Eye, Frostbite, Honor, Full Frontal, Dammage, Cold Front, Missile Crisis, Russian Border, Harbor Edge, Hidden, The Nest and Special Op. Feel free to discuss the last hours of the original Xbox version of BF2:MC on our forums and arrange some last games with friends. For more details on the original Xbox Live service and its closure check out Major Nelson's blog. This won't affect the Xbox 360 version of Battlefield 2: Modern Combat which will continue to be playable online. http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=16745 More...

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed Team Warfare League Kickoff Tourney Finals The Team Warfare League's Bad Company 2 KickOff tournament finals match starts tomorrow, matching up Rival Gaming and Next Level Gaming.TWL has... More...

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed Make War, Not Peace - BC2 Metal Music Video TEAMHEADKICK takes on Bad Company 2 with a metal tribute featuring a beastly guitar solo, double bass kick drums, and body count galore. Enjoy! More...

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed Battlefield DLC Codes from Taco Bell Taco Bell is now offering codes for ingame content in Battlefield Heroes and Battlefield Bad Company 2. Simply buy a large fountain drink from Taco... More...

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed BC2 R7 Client and R10 Server Pushed to Next Week Unfortunately it looks like we won't see the Battlefield Bad Company 2 patch this week, but rather next week.The client (R7) and server (R10)... More...

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed Ex MW2 Creators Won't Be Working on Battlefield The big story today is of course former Infinity Ward cofounders Jason West and Vince Zampella creating a new studio called Respawn Entertainment... More...

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed Cadred.org: Bad Company 2 Needs You! Martin Bowman from Cadred.org explores the competitive nature of BC2 and gives his thoughts on what DICE needs to implement in order to satisfy... More...

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed Project Reality v0.91 Released Project Reality released v0.91 today, which is mainly a bug fix along with compatibility fixes for the BF2 1.5 patch. The award winning Project... More...

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed FraggedNation Bad Company 2 Tournament FraggedNation and BattleStrats are partnering up to offer a Battlefield Bad Company 2 Xbox 360 4v4 squad rush tournament. Information and sign ups can... More...

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed BF2 Mods You Wish Bad Company 2 Supported Over at FilePlanet they have compiled a list of the top Battlefield 2 mods in light of no support for Bad Company 2. Hopefully this can hold you... More...

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed Bad Co. 2 All Kit Optics? Senior Designer Alan Kertz recently blogged about why the 'all kits' weapons in BC2 purposely don't have unlockable optics (scopes).A... More...

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed NY Times: "Bad Co. 2 Is A Better Game Than MW2" Journalist Seth Schiesel gave his thoughts on both BC2 &amp MW2 and why he thinks Bad Co. 2 is the better game.Battlefield Bad Company 2 is a... More...

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed Bad Co. 2 All Kit Optics? Senior Designer Alan Kertz recently blogged about why the 'All Kits' Weapons in BC2 purposely don't have unlockable optics(scopes).A... More...

Just in from EA's Battlefield Blog Where are my G3 and Mk14 Optics? A significant number of community members have recently asked "Where are the 4x Rifle Scope and Red Dot Sight for the G3 and Mk14?" After all, they appeared briefly in some preview videos, and were in the game at some prelaunch community events. Where'd they go? Simply put, optics on the All Kit weapons were removed before we launched the game. Why were All Kit optics removed? Tests internally and with playtest groups showed that when equipped with the 4x Rifle Scope these All Kit weapons functioned similar to the Recon kit's weapons. Removing these optics preserved the distinct combat roles of each Kit, and generally reduced the amount of sniping on the Battlefield. Without optics the G3 and Mk14 are interesting alternate weapons for each class, without becoming overpowering. Will we ever see All Kit optics return? We don't currently have any plans to introduce optics for the All Kit weapons. But we are eager to hear even more opinions from the community. Do you want to see All Kit optics? Discuss this in our forums! http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=16036 More...

Just in from EA's Battlefield Blog New York Times Sides with Bad Company 2 "Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is a better game than Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2." Those are the first 15 words you will see when reading the In This Electronic War, Momentum Shifts to the Underdog New York Times review. The review also mentions how great the PC experience is, especially with a three-monitor setup. http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=16045 More...

Just in from EA's Battlefield Blog Battlefield Bad Company 2 PC R9 servers are live Today we have sent out BFBC2 PC server update known as "R9" to all our server providers. They will be bringing up servers during the day and into the weekend. Stability of the servers is of course our main focus and we have some server crash fixes in place as well as the following changes: • admin.say command implemented - the output currently looks a bit funky on the game client, like so: Player: [server]: but with the next game client it will look like: Server: • admin.yell to squad has changed (you need to specify both team and squad) • squad numbering has changed – the “no squad” squad has ID 0, and real squads are 1 and up. • Autobalance improved, it shuffles people both during and between rounds now, and does a better job - Currently there is no way to turn it off • mapList* commands reworked • banList* commands reworked • listPlayers command added • admin.listPlayers command reworked (GUID, kills, deaths, ping and score added) • Players have non-PB GUIDs now (these are distinct from PB GUIDs) • onChat event reworked - now it specifies target player subset as well - shows text before profanity filtering - client-originated chat messages starting with “/” make it to the server, and broadcast via onChat, but are not broadcast to other game clients - use “/!” if you want to be able to send commands to your homemade rcon tools without showing the commands to other players • player.onAuthenticated added (it’s triggered when a player receives GUID) • player.onSquadChange, player.onTeamChange implemented • Couple of crash fixes • Support for server-side “region” setting (not yet used by the game client) • Ranked ON forces game-password OFF • Ranked and PunkBuster settings can only be changed during server startup • A server is marked as "hardcore" either when Friendly Fire is enabled, or when all the typical hardcore settings (hardcore killcam minimap etc) have been flipped • exposed number of rounds per maps in maplist.txt, and via the remote admin commands Discuss the R9 servers in the Official Battlefield Bad Company 2 Forums at http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=16035 More...

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed Bad Company 2 R9 Server Released DICE released the R9 server build to official raked providers today. The changelog can be found below.We have just sent out servers labelled R9 to the... More...

Just in from Battlefield Bad Company 2 Twitter Feed OfficialBFBC2: The New York Times: ?Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is a better game than Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.? - http://nyti.ms/aj67C3 OfficialBFBC2: The New York Times: ?Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is a better game than Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.? - http://nyti.ms/aj67C3 More... OfficialBFBC2: The New York Times: ?Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is a better game than Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.? - http://nyti.ms/aj67C3

Just in from Battlefield Bad Company 2 Twitter Feed OfficialBFBC2: Battlefield Bad Company 2 PC R9 servers are out with the server providers. Check the details here: http://bit.ly/cecpi2 OfficialBFBC2: Battlefield Bad Company 2 PC R9 servers are out with the server providers. Check the details here: http://bit.ly/cecpi2 More... OfficialBFBC2: Battlefield Bad Company 2 PC R9 servers are out with the server providers. Check the details here: http://bit.ly/cecpi2

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed Gordon Van Dyke Leaves DICE for Visceral If you've been keeping up with twitter lately you might know that Battlefield Producer Gordon Van Dyke has left DICE for Visceral Games (also an... More...

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed Battlefield 1943 Wins More Awards The Battlefield Blog announced that Battlefield 1943 won two awards in a vote put on for the best games on Xbox LIVE Arcade.A poll to find your... More...

Just in from Battlefield Bad Company 2 Twitter Feed OfficialBFBC2: RT @EA: BioWare is in the running for top developer in The Escapist's 2010 March Mayhem & needs your vote. Vote here: http://bit.ly/dpdsKS OfficialBFBC2: RT @EA: BioWare is in the running for top developer in The Escapist's 2010 March Mayhem & needs your vote. Vote here: http://bit.ly/dpdsKS More... OfficialBFBC2: RT @EA: BioWare is in the running for top developer in The Escapist's 2010 March Mayhem & needs your vote. Vote here: http://bit.ly/dpdsKS

Just in from EA's Battlefield Blog Battlefield 1943 wins more awards A poll to find your thoughts on the best XBLA games of 2009 has come to an end on Xbox Live. Over 1 million votes later Battlefield 1943 came away with two top spots taking the awards for the Best Co-Operative Multiplayer and Best Competitive Multiplayer categories. You can see the full list of awards and winners over at MajorNelson.com. Thanks to everyone who voted for Battlefield 1943. http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=15988 More...