The Bad Company 2 beta landed at 4am AEST this morning as promised; it's proven to be quite the popular download! We launched it on time this morning and despite some weird site hiccup it has been churning out quite happily for a few hours.

Our download page will hook you up and also contains links to other popular Australian ISP downloads (if your ISP isn't listed and has a mirror, please let us know the URL and we'll add it in there).

I still haven't been able to get into a game.

Yeah, I haven't got into a game either. Tried the server browser, and that crashed the game, so then I tried the "Play Now" option, and either it would time out trying to connect to a game, or it would put me in a game, spend a minute loading the map, then dump me back to the main menu telling me I've been kicked.

You get better FPS in game if you do this

my documents\BFBC2Beta\settings.ini
edit DXversion=auto to DXversion=9

shouldn't you lot be working or something?

/jealous

Doesn't help... nothing seems to help.Some report getting in after 20 play now clickys... I must have clicked that bitch 200 times and it's just 'connection to server lost'

My flashbacks to Söldner: Secret Wars Beta have been realised. Experience, kids, that's what that is right there.

Isn't EB games pre-order giving beta keys? Humbug...

i cant get in, says something about connection lost to the server :( ive allowed it thru the windows firewall...what else could it be?

Just try it a few times seems to work eventually for me. But it looks like my poor computer has met its match even on low settings.

I don't have a key, but this sounds like AA3 again from the comments, too much load!!

I will be cranking it tonight hopefully.

Been playing this for a bit now, unfortunately on a yank server due to having to use 'play now' (worked first go).
Zero problems so far, gets a bit choppy at times on my rig at 1680x1050 with 2xaa and BOAG set to OFF (it was terrible with it on).
Playable kind of choppy, but noticeable in huge fights when multiple buildings are being destroyed and trees falling over.

In saying this, I'm not sure how much of it was actual 'server lag' as such because I seemed to move fun and my weapon sway seemed to be fine, it was more everything else going on that seemed a bit choppy (other peoples movements etc.)
With a local server this would kill MW2 multi-player imo.
Nothing funnier and more awesome than jumping an ATV over a hill and over an enemies head with you and someone else on board.
Also pulled off a pretty B.S. snipe headshot on some guy on an ATV at close range full speed, the animation of the head jerking back and flying off the ATV as it sped onwards for awhile was awesome.

Brings back a lot of memories of the old BF series, with vehicles being an integral part of it, but not an overpowering presence as they have been previously.

So far, I like it.
Only had two crashes so far:

1) When first booting up the game in options, someone messaged me in steam which opened a new window - this caused it to crash for some reason - also noted you can't shift-tab and get the overlay which probably has something to do with it.

2) When I wanted to see if I could get a local server and hit the server browser :<

My Rig: Probably a constant 40-60fps at least when not a lot happening - not sure of settings to display it to be certain.
Probably dips into the 20's occasionally when in the huge open areas with the snow storm blowing around, trees falling and lots of gunfire/explosions etc.

P6T Deluxe V2
i7 920 Quad Core
6Gb Ram
Vista 64bit
GTX 275

thats a pretty beast machine. wow this engine must be ass. sort of reminds me of bf2 in that respect.

Is it a download and play sorta beta or a "HAHAHA get a key douche" sorta beta?

Ausgamers has keys if you're a cool dude and are following them on facebook.

You guys tried forcing it into dx9 to see if you get a performance improvement?

Huh? Wha? I take no responsibility for other people's shoddy code. I have enough responsibility to take for my own shoddy code!

BF2 scripting appears to be Python based which is really cool but I haven't looked into it much. As for C#.NET - Is it? The engine wouldn't written in C# surely.

Huh? Wha? I take no responsibility for other people's shoddy code. I have enough responsibility to take for my own shoddy code!

BF2 scripting appears to be Python based which is really cool but I haven't looked into it much. As for C#.NET - Is it? The engine wouldn't written in C# surely.

Haha.

Yeah not sure about the actual engine they use.

I have this little gem in my bookmarks on embedding Python into C/C++ which I did once. It's really bloody cool. I hate Python with a passion and it's difficult to debug scripts, but for prototyping and level scripting for scenarios (like capture the flag or whatever) it's so easy - and you don't have to restart your game/level to try different stuff which is the main reason to do it. You just alter the script and try the action again.

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/embedpython_1.aspx

I'd definitely go with scripting if I was a game maker - I'd probs look at Lua or something over Python though.

Yay thx AG

what asshats, it's always the way, try to help out people and someone will take advantage of it and ruin it for the rest.

thanks for the key trog

good old ausgamers/QGL, always delivering

Thx to all the people that signed up multiple accounts to steal as many keys as possible, btw!

That works? Odd cuz when my brother with his own account tries to get one it says he already has one, since we share an IP.

PM me dude if you want your own key, you can have mine

now that's mateship.

=( I can't get the game to work probably
I connect to a server but I can't get past the loading screen, even though the game is technically going.
I can hear sounds, I can fire my own gun but I can't actually see anything but the loading screen.

My specs are above the required as well.

Core 2 Duo @ 2.5gHz
3870 with 512mb
2gb RAM

Are there any actualy Australia servers or ANY server that isent based somewhere in Europe right now?

Best i can find is a 200 ping canadian server...