No Rest For The Wicked

Was playing Bad Company 2 most of the night..  in multiplayer and, again, in single player although I am having a hell of a time finding all the hidden M-Coms in single player. Guess I will have to try harder. Hahaha

Clan KSA was doing it up on a couple servers but, as always, I am a slow starter and still have to figure out the maps enough to really play very well. Not to mention I need more unlocks open so I can actually fight back with any real effort. (Also would help if there were not 1000 snipers on every match)

The game does have many pitfalls in my eyes. Some can be overlooked but there are some that are just too great to be ignored. Connectivity is one of them. The fact that the game seems almost based around sniping is another although, to be frank, it was not Dice’s plan to create a “camp fight” game but, sadly, for the most part that is what has happened.

Also, if you are on a mostly empty server, say 1 on 1, and you are not an assault class, you are screwed..   unless you die, once you run out of ammo you are done unless you happen to take out the enemy and then you are stuck with scrounging his kit to play with and hoping he has anything worth playing with. There should be a way to get ammo besides trying to find someone in game to give you some.  “Teamplay” is truly at a minimum in the game unless you are in a clan so the “asking for ammo and health” thing simply does not function as designed or hoped for. And God forbid you are on the Russian side and the people do not have it set to English voice overs..  then they have no idea what you are saying or asking for to begin with.  (Not that people seem to care)

Frankly, in games and if possible, I will ask for ammo and health and, if after a couple times people do not aid me, I TK them. (TK = team kill.. i.e. kill a teammate)   It all comes down to 3 words… “DO YOUR JOB !”

It all comes down to stupid people. Still no cure for people who hop in a vehicle you are in and just drive the fuck off.  *rolls eyes*

Stupid Stupid Me

So I decided today to just go ahead and but that piece of shit game Bad Company 2.  While I cannot call it a mistake, I CAN say that I was not wrong about it..   at ALL !

There is so much wrong with it…   mainly revolving around the connectivity and server browser but, once in a game, involving the asshats and spoiled 9 year olds playing the game.

Of course, always nice to have a team of 16 with 9 snipers…  :/  Then you have asshats who jump in a truck and drive off (usually straight into the path of a tank)…. WHILE you are on the turret on top defending an objective.  Then, of course, God forbid you need ammo or health cause you are most likely NOT going to get it.  Ask all ya want, it just is NOT going to happen.  This game is about teamwork right ? That is what Dice stated many times. Well, yet again, let me just say you failed miserably.

Then the map changes..  ahhh Port Valdez, a map I know from the beta so I know what I am doing here..   I do my thing, within seconds of dropping into the game I am in the enemy camp, killed 2 and have now armed the objective..   then I die. (not a rare occurrence)

I repeat this about 4 times and wonder “why the fuck does it feel like I am alone in this ?”  

I saw guys so I know I have teammates..  wtf ?  Ohhhhhhhh, during map change, somehow it become 7 against 16 with my team only having 7.  I ask for them to even out teams..  and they replied..  “Play harder”   Grrrrrrrrrrr

So now, somehow, the enemy team got BOTH our tanks (not a clue in hell how the fuck this happened) and every single one of them are on our sniper hill..   except the 2 tanks full of people on our roadways…   spawn, die, spawn, die, spawn, die…  esc., rage quit.  How the fuck is that fun ?

Nice work on this piece of shit Dice..   hope ya didn’t work too hard to make it.  I am assuming you didn’t.

Games Lately

The more games we play, the more it is becoming apparent how PC game makers are slowly but surely backing away from what made them so great to begin with. True “community” is gone and all that is seen by both developer and publisher is “the bottom line”.

I began truly gaming with the game Half-Life long ago in a place far away. (heh) It was something new and creative and just amazed me like nothing else. Excellent storyline, lots of action, and there was the community involvement. To this day, I believe it was / is the best out there.

Half Life allowed the community to actually create their own mods (modifications) for the game and, wow, did they ever. From new playable skins (how your character looks) to maps and then they went a step further…  they started adding new functions to the game and then, amazingly, they started creating entirely new games using the engine that created Half-Life.  WOW !!  The developers were right there hand in hand with the community and they ALL moved forward together. I was there, I was involved..  but this is not a post about me so I digress.

So now here we are today..  gaming on the PC has slowed to a crawl and the 2 main games in the FPS genre are Call Of Duty : Modern Warfare 2 (Infinity Ward) and, the newest, Bad Company 2 (EA/Dice) and let me just say that I am, in no small way, VERY disappointed in what it all has come to.

It seems as if developers are simply throwing out games with the thought “Oh we can just patch that later” and are failing the very community that, indeed, pays them to create these titles. EA/Dice have REALLY dropped the ball when it comes to the Bad Company 2 (BC2) pc game. Terrible connections which, for many, either disconnect for no apparent reason or, for others, simply will not connect at all. Add to that the things like poor dual core support and optimization (Yes, people still use dual cores and there are a TON of us who do) and shoddy video card support at best and you have the base for a GIANT mess.

Looking over the forums (what a mess they are), it is plain to see the gaming community is NOT pleased with how this game was released and it shows when MOST of these issues were brought up during the beta and never fixed. Not one issue, to my knowledge, that was brought up in beta was fixed in any way, shape, or form.  In addition, the beta ended just week (or so) before you could buy the game in stores which is further proof they never intended to fix anything and ran simply with the “we can patch it later” philosophy.  SHAME ON YOU DICE !!!!

Long gone are the days of any form of community. There is no longer any mods nor hope of mods since Dice has admitted they shall not open the game up for them. You get what they give you and nothing more BUT, down the line, they will be happy to SELL you more content for your game. WTF?

As it stands right now, ALL servers for the game are down (for the 4th or 5th time in the past week) and nothing is being fixed (that we are aware of) so here we all sit with a $50 paperweight.  But, on the bright side, they got THEIR money so what do they care now ?

Frankly, THEY are the reason gaming is dying on the pc. It is NOT the economy. It is NOT that pcs are dwindling. It IS that developers like Dice simply do not care about their work, their games, or the peasants they call consumers.

Save your money people..  if they do not care about you, why care about them or their games ?