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.
According to a Russian website, which claims to have details on a new patch, Bad Company for PC will be getting an infantry-only mode, alongside several improvements, like a better chat function and the ability to toggle on/off crouch and zoom. Knife-combat is set to be improved as well. Also, there appears to be a new map as well, but this remains unconfirmed (and unlikely, a this point).
We’ll have more details soon, and DICE is expected to make an announcement in a few days time. No news on whether the infantry-only mode will be carried over to consoles as well.
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.
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.
The new game mode for Bad Cmpany 2, Onslaught, has received a lot of attention, and we finally get to see how it works, as in the video above, DICE producer Bjorn Johnsson explains.
DICE has released a few new, small DLCs on the PS3 which were previously available on the Xbox 360. They include the SPECACT kits, which are available as separate kits for $2 per kit, or a bundle of four kits for $5. The kit DLC was released on the Xbox 360 last month, and there is no word on whether it’ll be available on the PC.
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.
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. 
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 
According to a Russian website, which claims to have details on a new patch, Bad Company for PC will be getting an infantry-only mode, alongside several improvements, like a better chat function and the ability to toggle on/off crouch and zoom. Knife-combat is set to be improved as well. Also, there appears to be a new map as well, but this remains unconfirmed (and unlikely, a this point).
Anyways, the screens are in 1080p quality, so you can even use them as a wallpaper.
