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Just in from EA's Battlefield Blog Battlefield Bad Company 2 hits the streets of Brussels EA Belgium took Battlefield Bad Company 2 to the streets of Brussels... literally. Soldiers plus projectors and a copy of Bad Company 2 brings a new meaning to mobile gaming. (Please visit the site to view this media) http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=14716 More...

Just in from Battlefield Bad Company 2 Twitter Feed OfficialBFBC2: Claim your Battlefunds and kit out your Hero in Bad Company 2 gear - http://bit.ly/blqK77 OfficialBFBC2: Claim your Battlefunds and kit out your Hero in Bad Company 2 gear - http://bit.ly/blqK77 More... OfficialBFBC2: Claim your Battlefunds and kit out your Hero in Bad Company 2 gear - http://bit.ly/blqK77

Just in from EA's Battlefield Blog Claim your Battlefunds and kit out your Hero in Bad Company 2 gear Starting today, March 16th, until 19th April Battlefield Heroes is turning all Battlefield Bad Company 2 with new content and a website reskin. The Battlefield Bad Company 2 tribute consists of: Exclusive Battlefield Bad Company 2 tribute weapons and outfits New health boost item (Sarge’s Stamina Boost) Website reskin The new items are premium content in Heroes so will cost Battlefunds, however if you have your VIP code assigned to your EA account you will get 700 Battlefunds (worth $5) when you log in to www.battlefieldheroes.com when using the same login as you use on www.battlefieldbadcompany2.com. All Battlefield Bad Company 2 PC players are eligible for the 700 Battlefunds without needing the VIP code that console Bad Company 2 has. If you do not have a VIP code you can purchase one through the in game store on PS3 and Xbox 360, that will get you access to the 700 Battlefunds as well as all the extra VIP content that Bad Company 2 will get. http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=14679 More...

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed Battlefield 1943 - My First Arcade Game Last Saturday, DICE developer Patrick Liu took to the stage at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco to talk about Battlefield 1943.... More...

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed Contrarian Corner: BF Bad Company 2 IGN's Mike Thomsen posted an interesting take on Battlefield Bad Company 2 from what he calls a "holistic discussion" of the... More...

Just in from Battlefield Bad Company 2 Twitter Feed OfficialBFBC2: We have posted a Q&A regarding the #BFBC2 server issues: http://bit.ly/cyggBS OfficialBFBC2: We have posted a Q&A regarding the #BFBC2 server issues: http://bit.ly/cyggBS More... OfficialBFBC2: We have posted a Q&A regarding the #BFBC2 server issues: http://bit.ly/cyggBS

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed Bad Company 2 & Prima Guide Giveaway! Planet Battlefield is happy to giveaway some copies of Battlefield Bad Company 2 bundled with the official Battlefield Bad Company 2 Prima guide... More...

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed BF Blog: Bad Company 2 Q&A The BF Blog posted a Q&ampA answering some commonly asked questions by the community. According to the post, a PC patch is scheduled to be... More...

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed Amazon Deal of the Day - Bad Company 2 Amazon is featuring Battlefield Bad Company 2 as the deal of the day for today on all platforms. This ends in about 15 hours.PC $36.99Xbox 360... More...

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed BF Blog: Bad Company 2 Q&A The Battlefield Blog posted a Q&ampA answering some commonly asked questions by the community. According to the post, a PC patch is scheduled to... More...

Just in from EA's Battlefield Blog Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Q&A We have had a lot of questions about Battlefield: Bad Company 2 on all platforms about the issues some have had. Here we will answer some of the more common questions, some will help you get in game, others will give an insight to what we are working on. This Q&A isn't a definitive list by any means and we are aware of and are working on more than these issues: Connection issues to EA servers EA Online has been adding more capacity to handle the high number of player connections to EA servers. This is an ongoing process but we currently have enough capacity to handle all BFBC2 connections. Manually install PunkBuster on PC If you are getting an error that Punkbuster hasn't installed correctly for reasons such as Windows admin permissions not allowing Punkbuster to be installed, then go to www.evenbalance.com and download PBSetup.exe. When prompted, point PBSetup at your BFBC2 install directory and then check for updates. A PC restart maybe needed once this is done for Windows to pick up Punkbusters location. PunkBuster kicks with the following error message : « punkbuster kicked player 'PLAYER NAME' (for 0 minutes) ... RESTRICTION: Service Communication. » This is a Windows Vista/Windows 7 permissions issue that affects all Punkbuster games. To solve this issue download and run PBSVC from http://www.evenbalance.com/downloads/pbsvc/pbsvc.exe When clicking on a server to join, nothing happens. This is fixed in a patch going out on PC today. Server Browser bugged: All the following browser issues are things the team is currently working on improving. Too slow This is caused by the current browser system. - A new system is being developed by the BFBC2 PC team to improve the server browser Displaying inaccurate number of players connected on game servers - This is caused by the difference in server status between when the refresh was initiated and when the results display. No ping displayed - This is caused by Windows admin privileges. To view ping in the server browser run BFBC2.exe with administrator privileges. High pings even on local game servers. We're actually showing game latency instead of ping. This is basically how far behind the client is compared to the server. We try to keep the server a small portion in front of the clients so they in most cases can use replicated data until they get the next ghost update from the server. If they get a lag spike they will start predicting the state when they run out of information, however, the basic idea is to smooth out the experience compared to everything having to be corrected when the predictions are slightly off. After being disconnected, some people got their stats temporary reset. The team is investigating this issue, we have no solution at this point. Please report any stat loss here: http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-bad-company-2-pc/961412-do-you-get-missing-stats.html When people try to reconnect to their profile, the game asks for the serial number again This has been fixed on the entitlement side hence no patch is needed. A really small number of people got affected by this. 360 accounts will be “reset” this weekend? This is a rumour Some players have had trouble redeeming their VIP codes This should have cleared up now, the in game store on PS3 for Europe and Asia is coming soon. http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=14458 More...

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed Unofficial Bad Company 2 Stats Site Launches The first unofficial Battlefield Bad Company 2 stats site launched today. According to the creator, there are over 1500 statistical values per player... More...

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed GDC: Patrick Liu Talks Battlefield 1943 DICE's Patrick Liu spoke today at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. Liu explained how they made the game with a limited... More...

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed Bad Company 2 Five Top Tips GameSpot posted a video with the top 5 tips for supporting your squad.If you haven't picked up Bad Company 2 yet, Walmart has the Xbox 360... More...

Just in from Battlefield Bad Company 2 Twitter Feed OfficialBFBC2: EA Maintenance has now completed. All new hardware is in place and ready to server your BFBC2 needs. OfficialBFBC2: EA Maintenance has now completed. All new hardware is in place and ready to server your BFBC2 needs. More... OfficialBFBC2: EA Maintenance has now completed. All new hardware is in place and ready to server your BFBC2 needs.

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed Battlefield Bracket Challenge - Final Match The Battlefield Bracket Challenge is down to the final 2 teams in the championship match between 28 Guns and Charlie's Angels. Get on over and... More...

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed Patrick Bach on Electronic Playground TV Electronic Playground spoke with Bad Company 2 senior producer, Patrick Bach. More...

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed Patrick Bach on Electronic Playground TV Electronic Playground spoke with Bad Company 2 senior producer, Patrick Bach. More...

Just in from Battlefield Bad Company 2 Twitter Feed OfficialBFBC2: If you can't connect to BFBC2 servers on your Xbox 360 turn your console off and on and try to connect again. OfficialBFBC2: If you can't connect to BFBC2 servers on your Xbox 360 turn your console off and on and try to connect again. More... OfficialBFBC2: If you can't connect to BFBC2 servers on your Xbox 360 turn your console off and on and try to connect again.

Just in from Battlefield Bad Company 2 Twitter Feed OfficialBFBC2: The EA Online team is looking into why some Xbox 360 players can not connect to game servers. OfficialBFBC2: The EA Online team is looking into why some Xbox 360 players can not connect to game servers. More... OfficialBFBC2: The EA Online team is looking into why some Xbox 360 players can not connect to game servers.

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed Next Battlefield Game Starting to Ramp Up? Small hints of possibly the next Battlefield game are starting to show up. For example this tweet by DICE Senior QA Analyst, Tim Kjell asks for people... More...

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed Shutdown of Emtpy BC2 Servers Clarified The Battlefield blog cleared up some information that was posted yesterday explaining how empty Multiplay servers were being shut down to lessen the... More...

Just in from Battlefield Bad Company 2 Twitter Feed OfficialBFBC2: DICE is looking for a Battlefield Community Manager. Think you have what it takes? Check out Job Openings at http://www.dice.se/ OfficialBFBC2: DICE is looking for a Battlefield Community Manager. Think you have what it takes? Check out Job Openings at http://www.dice.se/ More... OfficialBFBC2: DICE is looking for a Battlefield Community Manager. Think you have what it takes? Check out Job Openings at http://www.dice.se/

Just in from EA's Battlefield Blog High Game Server Demand pushes capacity past 150k player slots Yesterday an article went up at VE3D stating that DICE has asked all GSP’s to turn off idle servers and it caused a bit of a stir in the community. While there is some truth to the article it also has a number of inaccuracies which we’ll explain here. This was not asked of all GSP’s but only to one of our closest GSP’s, Multiplay.co.uk. We approached them with the idea of shutting down servers that have had no players in the server for 8 hours with the option of opting in or out for the server owners. We did not make this decision lightly but as an attempt to temporarily lower traffic on EA servers that is caused by the game server browser while we work on a client fix for the browser here at DICE. After previously shutting down all EA Public servers which accounted for approximately 40,000 player slots we have actually gained approximately 50,000 more player slots from new rental servers. We currently have enough server capacity to allow over 150,000 players to get in a game server at once and that is just on PC. As those who have servers at Multiplay will be aware you can opt out of your server being shut down during times of inactivity, however if you aren’t aware of how to do this and you would like to opt out of allowing your server to be shut down when idle you can do so through your account at ClanForge. Goto ClanForge -> Servers, select your server and Click Edit Once in the edit screen configure your servers "Auto Restart Interval" to something other than None e.g. 1 Week Save your server settings If you chose to opt in to allow your server to be shut down during times of inactivity you can start your server again at any time and as often as you like. Other server hosts may offer a similar option on their servers. Please contact your server provider directly to see if they have any plans and if so how you can opt in or out. This temporary solution will help reduce the server load until we can release a client fix to help reduce server browser load while keeping enough game server slots running for everyone to be able to get in game. Once our client update is complete, Multiplay will not use the idle shut server down setting and we will start up all of the EA Public servers again. http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=13590 More...

Just in from Planet Battlefield - RSS News Feed BF2 Combat PoE2 Tour BF2Combat.net announced they will be using Point of Existence 2 for their next tour. Sign ups are now open.We at BF2Combat.net just wanted to let... More...