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[BC]

Sanjuro taught me something new today. If you're friend is on, select that row and at the far right with the > click that and you will join the server they are on.

Post your Tips and Tricks if you got them!

[{FPSN}FAT JONNIE]

shoot the buildings the target is in. It will eventually fall and the target will be destroyed. If you can plant c4 on the corners of the building it will fall faster.
I dropped an entire building last night with my grenade launcher.

Edited by {FKR}FAT JONNIE, 06 February 2010 - 11:51 AM.

[{FPSN}FAT JONNIE]

Spotting enemy's When looking around the battlefield, keep tapping the "Q" key to spot enemys. When they light up orange, you know you got it. Specially in the UAV drone. Just keep tapping Q and you can spot the entire team from there. Don't forget to spot the enemy UAV drone too.
As soon as the map starts, I start taking down trees so the enemy has no where to hide.
Use the mounted machine guns. You can nail snipers across the map with it. As long as you can see the orange spotted marker, keep shooting.

[JAFO]

This worked for me.

The following is from this link in the EA forums:

In the server browser, if the latency is only showing up as a hyphen, do the following:

• Browse to the BC2 Beta install location (default is Program Files\Electronic Arts\Battlefield Bad Company 2 - BETA)
• Right click on BFBC2Game.exe and click 'Properties'.
• Click on the 'Compatibility' tab at the top.
• Tick the box "Run this program as an administrator".
• Repeat for the file BFBC2BetaUpdater.exe

Thanks to the original poster "wayofthehunter".

[{FPSN}sleeve84028]

Tanks are weakest in the rear and the turret (from the top)

[{FPSN}DogOne]

if you want to use c4 but don't fancy running round dressed as a wookie, select the thompson.

[{FPSN}Killer Monkey]

If you hit enter you can bring up the menu to change your class, manage your squad, and change teams.

If want to play as assault and want to use C4 instead of the noobtube, select a weapon that doesn't have a nade launcher attached to it.

[BC]

Battlefield Bad Company 2: How to unflip a helicopter



otally by accident and so far has worked for me 2/3 times that i purposely flipped the chooper. i will list the steps below but plz first rate comment and sub.

steps:
1)get out of the chopper and immediately start repairing
2)once the blades start to slow down immediately pop back in and heli should flip up
3) get out and fix the dam thing

Note: this only has a 75% chance of working and other factors could change the outcome. this video is just here to show you how you can try and save your heli. if all else fails may the captain go down in his ship.

Source

[BC]

http://veteran.battlefield.com

Get those extra perks!! Can you say, 12 gauge Sabot round?


Hmmm - hmmm - good!

[BC]

Go to your my documents folder > BFBC2 Beta > Gamesettings.ini

Find the line: FavoriteGames=

Then afterwards type in name of server ; to separate them.

FavoriteGames=GameServers.com;

Now it lists just GameServers in my Favourite Servers!

[BC]

How to adjust your FOV -Field of View *New in Retail
-In your Settings.ini we showed you before in My Documents/BFBC2 the default is FOV=55 you can adjust that up to 120 (per repi)

The FOV in the settings.ini file is the vertical FOV, people usually talk about horizontal FOV, so you have to convert your desired HFOV to VFOV using this calculator: FOV calculator.

Enter your screen resolution in pixels (e.g. 1920×1200), then the desired HFOV, click calculate, and it will show you the VFOV setting you need to put in settings.ini. -Thanks to Renegade from UK forums for this info -

[BC]

Use FRAPs to display FPS in game
This game is CPU intensive with things like sound thrown at the processor it will not work on single core.
Performance should be much better for everyone now with full optimization and it will get even better after some patches and more stable.
All the items here should still work and help esp shadows and going to dx9.

Make sure you download the latest video drivers from Nvidia and ATI. Use beta drivers at your own risk. (March 5th, NVIDIA recommends reverting back to the older 196.21 drivers until they figure out what is going on.) Source

In Game Settings

1. Turn settings to lowest resolution and low setting
2. Turn sound down from hi-fi to headset (you will have to do this each time you load the game) BC2 uses a lot CPU for sound. If your PC can handle it wartapes is the best)

Settings File is located – Here

1. Change sound quality to low (also changeable in game menu but resets every time to hifi)
2. Change DXVersion-auto to 9 to force DX9
3. Change Bloom=true to false
4. Change HSAO=true to false (also settable in the in-game “advanced” graphics settings)helps esp with quad core
5. Change renderaheadlimit to 0 instead of 2 *New in Retail

Other settings.ini changes that you can try: (from BadCompanyTwo.Com)

- Undergrowth=”medium” – Put this to low, if experiencing frame-rate issues. This map has a lot of it.
- Water=”medium” – Not really any water to traverse in this map, go ahead and set this to low.
- MSAA=”2? – This is Anti-aliasing, this will always use up a lot of a gpx cards resources. Set this to “0?
- Shadows=”medium”- you can also set this to low to improve performance
- Textures=”medium”- Setting this to low can improve FPS at the cost of visual eye candy.
- Aniso=2 – Set this to 0 to disable Anisotropic filtering.

To force the use of all processors:

- Add “+fullproc” without the quotations to your desktop shortcut or Steam game’s “launch options”. (this should be active at release)

-You can go to Task Manager and manually heighten the priority to force it to use more CPU See Picture

To fix sticky controls (for those who get key shadow/lag with wasd etc):
- Delete the joystick controls under foot (options->controls->foot), then it works fine

To run the game in a window:
- Simply hit alt+enter and change your resolution to something smaller than your desktop.

To enable the Steam overlay on DirectX 10 and 11:
- Participate in the Steam client beta (Settings > Account > Beta participation).

For sticky/laggy mouse issues:
- Disable mouse acceleration in the game’s mouse settings, and turn off Vsync in the graphics settings.

What ports should I open for multiplayer if I’m having connectivity trouble? (from EA UK forums)
- Port: 80 TCP
- Port: 18121 TCP
- Port: 18126 TCP
- Port: 18126 UDP
- Port: 13505 TCP

You can’t look up-down and/or left-right – “my mouse isn’t working”
- You’ve accidentally bound something to the axes that BF2 uses for looking around.
- Reset your controls to fix this
- In future, when binding things to your mouse, pay close attention; if you move the mouse at all while binding, it will register & bind that horizontal or vertical movement axes, replacing your look ones.

Also if you are having problems there are beta drivers available that are supposed to fix some problems (ie reflective water with ati cards)..check the forums

If your game is constantly Crashing:

- Make Sure you are running the game as Administrator

If you have an ATI Card:

-Set Catalyst A.I to max

How to adjust your FOV -Field of View *New in Retail

-In your Settings.ini we showed you before in My Documents/BFBC2 the default is FOV=55 you can adjust that up to 120 (per repi)

The FOV in the settings.ini file is the vertical FOV, people usually talk about horizontal FOV, so you have to convert your desired HFOV to VFOV using this calculator: FOV calculator. Enter your screen resolution in pixels (e.g. 1920×1200), then the desired HFOV, click calculate, and it will show you the VFOV setting you need to put in settings.ini. -Thanks to Renegade from UK forums for this info -

Here is what the changes will look like.


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[BC]

55 FoV = ~80 horizontal FoV
65 FoV = ~90 horizontal FoV
75 FoV = ~100 horizontal FoV
85 FoV = ~110 horizontal FoV
95 FoV = ~120 horizontal FoV

[BC]

Yeah, rumor smash! There's not been any change in bullet drop between PS3 beta, PC beta, and Retail. Still 9.81m/s.
11:15 AM Mar 13th via Digsby

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Good to know when you're use to COD's laser trajectory.

[{FPSN}sarge]

This is an oldie.... but my game stopped crashing when I set vid graphics 'in game' res settings to same as 'desktop' res.

I know this is standard gamers advice, but I forgot this time... did you?

[{RHR}Rabid Turtle]

youtube embedded link fail....but here it is anyhow.....

"How to" with the helo hellfire...

Edited by BC, 17 April 2010 - 10:34 AM.