Also, you should not play on hardcore servers, try playing against your friends in an empty server instead.

Its exciting reaching a level and getting that Shiny New gun, and you feel like you earned it rather than having to start from square one every match. It also adds the opportunity to add more Guns, more equipment and face it, we all like guns.

Yes, unlocks. Unlocks have been in nearly every FPS made in the past five or so years – eg. CoD4, CoD:WaW, BF2 (iirc), Crysis 2, Blops, Far Cry 2, Borderlands (to some extent), Monday Night Combat (as far as perks go), Tom Clancy’s recent games, the list goes on and on. It’s just one of those things. It is an incentive to keep playing – it gives that sense of achievement which has made games like World Of Warcraft so successful. And, it makes the game funner – in Yahtzee’s review of Minecraft, he said that the game doesn’t just /give/ you your golden cock&balls, it makes you work for it!

Also, you were playing Hardcore. If you look at that stats sheet you linked there, you would see that Hardcore players have 60 health, rather than 100. This makes /nearly every sniper rifle in the game, even without Magnum ammo, a one hit kill/. It makes most weapons a four or five hit kill, even, even if it’s the MP-443, which is the weakest pistol in the game (but still my favourite – when you play with 180ms lag like I do, the more bullets, the *better*). That is the first problem.

The second problem is that you’ve not quite got how the perks work. There are three perk ‘columns’. Perk 1, Perk 2 and Vehicle Perk. You can only have one from each column. Perk 1 is “I want more of X, or a scope”, Perk 2 is “I want X to be better”, and Vehicle perk is self explanatory. To start off, you have none of each. (I was a pre-orderer – so I got the coax vehicle perk, the first Engineer unlock, and the two WW2 weapons already unlocked for me.) But, that doesn’t matter one bit! Why? Because they give you some of the best weapons to start off with, and the perks hardly matter! The only unlocks I ever use are Magnum ammo (again, I play with 180ms lag, if I get a bullet in them, /I want it to count/) and the red dot scope. The rest of the perks are reeeeally rarely used by me – the weapons are mostly too spray-ish for the 4x scope, and I hardly ever live long enough to need the extra ammo or nades.

Now, onto the starting weapons. The Assault’s AEK? My favourite weapon in the game. The second Assault weapon unlock, the XM8, is the arguably best assault rifle (my friend has a platinum with it – about 1,100 kills, I think that is). The Engineer’s 9A-91 (iirc) is the best at putting someone down at close range. The Medic’s first chaingun is reasonably good, it’s the least rowdy of the bunch, imo. The Recon gets the M24, which is reasonably good. The whole “unlocking the health kit/paddles” is also kind of stupid to me – but that’s until, like, level 3 or so. Which, if you don’t play Hardcore, you can get easy, just by defending objectives, or getting spot assists (hit ‘q’), even if you’re not experienced enough to be out in the open.

The second problem might just be that your local servers are awful. Even on hardcore maps where I’m completely sucking or being an terrible teammate, I don’t get that kind of abuse – and I’ve heard of similar complaints from American gamers about abusive teammates. Maybe us Aussie gamers are just friendlier to the newbies?

The movement detector is a Recon unlock, but the good thing about the Frostbite engine is that if you have a good pair of earbuds, and just sit for a second, still, the game brings important noise (footsteps) into the foreground, and makes it louder and easier to hear. Also, spam “q” – it’s to spot – it puts a red arrow on top of people’s heads. But not in hardcore. Also, outside of hardcore, you can’t get teamkilled… mostly. (Unless you’re in a building that’s falling down!)

Give it another try, why don’t you? Don’t join a skull (hardcore) map, stick with it for a while, and you’ll eventually get past the learning/unlocks curve. And from then on, it’s sweet sailing and Bad Company.

lets say im an aspiring fencer who has never fenced before. I start hanging around the fencing gym and soon im challenged to a dual. Not ever fencing before I use the first sword that is available to me. I fence other opponents of varying degree of skill many of them are more experienced than me and have better fencing gear and know how to use it better than I do. At first it is humbling how quickly some of them can defeat me and if im not confident it even rattles my nerve. However, I am competative and press on and eventually I learn how to fight back, hold my ground, and even defeat many of them. As i master the art of fencing I learn new skills and new techniques I win more matches acquiring more knowlegde and better fencing equipment. I savor this experience and appreicate each new item and how hard I had battled to gain them. Soon I am an experienced fencer with my own individual strategies and technique and I continued to be challeged by oponents many of them are equal skill some are even novice and quickly out mastered.

this is how i look at bfbc 2 and i still enjoy playing it more each day that i do play. It is an amazing game and I cant think of another game that has the same replay value.

btw i dont work for bf bc 2 & believe it or not i was not sur eif i liked this game early on and then it soon unfolded to be the best game i have ever owned … i await bf bc 3 with high expectations.

there is not another shooter game that allows you to use strategy in such a logical, natural, open ended way, and feels as real as this game does.

my 2 cents

~ RECON

I agree that as soon as you have these choices to choose from, the game becomes “more” fun. But not having access to trying out magnum ammo before deciding on picking handling or whatever still ruins the game in the sense that as soon as you meet a player with magnum ammo you no longer know why you are losing. Did you play well, or did you just not have the correct unlocks to get you the advantage all the other high level players use? Even if you would find out after getting magnum ammo that it was mainly skill, that long process of playing against magnum ammo players still isn’t fun.

The game might be 100% balanced and super fun and competitive once all players unlock everything, but if that is a fact, then why not just skip the unlock process all together?