Finally, after a few weeks of rumors and deliberation, DICE has confirmed that the new Onslaught mode will be coming to the PC version of Bad Company 2 as well. The news was confirmed in PC Gamer, where it seems it’ll be the same Onslaught mode that exists for consoles, only ported to the PC, with the same four maps: Valparaiso, Atacama Desert, Isla Inocentes, and Nelson Bay. Also, since Onslaught for consoles is a paid DLC, expect to pay for it for the PC as well. Price: $10.

The new Onslaught mode is now available to PS3 owners of Bad Company 2, while the Xbox 360 version is apparently going through some red tape and will be available in a few days. The new DLC costs $10.

At E3, EA revealed the first expansion to Bad Company 2, or rather a DLC called “Vietnam”. It consists of 4 new maps (multiplayer only) and possible new weapons and vehicles as well.

According to EA, Bad Company 2 won’t beat arch rival Modern Warfare this time, at least when it comes to sales. Considering that Modern Warfare 2 sold over 12 million copies, and Bad Company 2 has just passed 5 million, it’s a no-brainer that Bad Company 2 won’t beat it.

However, Bad Company 2 did get a lot of the market share for online shooters, and, as EA points out in an interview in MCV, the game also grows the audience.

EA and DICE are rumored to be working on Battlefield 3 at the moment, and Bad Company 2 should be a good testing ground for the new engine, and to increase the fan base for future Battlefield games.

After Bad Company 2 came out, it immediately climbed to the top of the multiplayer charts, but lately, it’s been in a steady decline, at least according to gameplay statistics from Xbox Live. Why? According to GameInformer, it’s simply too easy to attain all the ranks and unlocks, leaving little left to play for after a month or two.

Unlike Battlefield 2, where it took a long, long time to get some of the ranks and awards, Bad Company 2 has eased up a lot since it’s also on consoles, and console gamers aren’t as hard core as their PC counterparts.

GameInformer points out that in some of the competing games, like Modern Warfare 2 and Call Of Duty: World At War, it takes a lot longer to get some of the ranks as opposed to Bad Company 2. Which is also the reason why both games are now more popular than Bad Company 2.

DICE has released a brand new Bad Company 2 wallpaper, base don the new Onslaught mode (which PC users unfortunately won’t have). Click the image for the full sized wallpaper (1920 x 1200).

In the above video you can witness the countermeasures (flares) that have been added in the R8 patch — we’ll have more details on the patch soon. Check out another video with some extended Apache action here.

DICE has revealed the global stats for consoles — Xbox 360 and PS3 — taken from the official stats page, and they compare the Xbox 360 vs PlayStation 3 stats, and as you can see, it seems that there are a bit more Xbox 360 players, but that PS3 players seem to be better at getting tog dags, at least compared to the amount of time they played.

PlayStation 3

• Total Bodycount: 1,398,249,600
• Total Time Played in hours: 33,821,001
• Total Dog Tags: 48,877,238
• Total Resupplies: 103,791,348
• Total Repairs: 59,556,406
• Total Revives: 71,397,406
• Total Spots: 20,473,549

Xbox 360

• Total Bodycount: 1,937,940,576
• Total Time Played in hours: 45,894,223
• Total Dog Tags: 58,811,177
• Total Resupplies: 146,294,744
• Total Repairs: 101,453,514
• Total Revives: 107,925,128
• Total Spots: 25,470,598

DICE has released a batch of screenshots of the new onslaught mode. It doesn’t reveal much — we’d rather have a good tutorial video Anyways, the screens are in 1080p quality, so you can even use them as a wallpaper.

DICE has announced a new DLC for Bad Company 2, which includes a new mode called “Onslaught”. However, the announcement is only for the console versions of Bad Company 2, and the new mode and DLC will not find its way to the PC. The reason? As DICE’s Barry Tingle says:

“The problem we have on PC is that all our servers are dedicated with providers. Changing a server from Conquest 32 players to Onslaught 4 players cuts out 28 player slots from the total amount available. This could have a dramatic affect on the PC online environment if enough servers changed to Onslaught.”

Tingle added that they’re looking into bringing the new mode to PC without affecting how many player slots are available. They do face a legitimate problem: if enough servers converted from 32 players to 4 player onslaught modes, there simply wouldn’t be enough lots for everyone to play.