The release of Battlefield Bad Company 2 has released with a fury.  The latest in the Battlefield series from EA/DICE is doing even better than expected. This past weekend, due to such high volumes of players, EA had asked server providers to take down the EA public servers and to hold putting up new servers for their clients  while they upgraded their systems to handle the volume. During this time, a new server version was released to help improve stability and another release was in the works and expected to deploy early this week.

Routine exploring expedition. That's what it was supposed to be. At the beginning of the day, he could not have known that he would never lie in that same bed again. Of course, this is the Odyssey of Slayrman1919, Clone 1.

Hey everyone, the beta is finally here for the PC version of Bad Company 2. Day one of the beta produced numerous problems, first of which was trying to download it. Two out of the three sites were already "down", five minutes after the beta went live due to the high volume of traffic. File planet successfully stayed up, but with 5 minute page loads as you walked your way to the actual download link.

Well as you can see the website is in progress with a new make over design. I am currently helping out designing the new layout and  our clan leader bigbadjames is putting up new updates to the =MOFC= like modules, blocks and some mods for the forums. Keep checking the website for further updates.

As promised here is the PC Blog on the Beta & a few other things, yes some people, places, and things may have leaked a little something, but we are here to clarify everything and make it all official since we can now commit to the listed dates! :-)

BETA Details:

Beta Begins/Ends
Jan 28th/Feb 25th
Map Name
Port Valdez
Players
32
Game Mode
Rush
Environment
Snow
Theme
Vehicle and Infantry
Back Story
The battle for Port Valdez is fought alongside the waterline towards a great oil industrial landscape in the Alaskan mountains. Using basically everything they've got the Russian forces are launching an airborne assault to knock out the oil industries in the area. In their arsenal there are Main Battle Tanks as well as fast-moving Quad Bikes and mobile armored AA. It's a vehicle focused battle, but with plenty of infantry combat.

How to Download: Check back to the Battlefield Bed Company 2 Beta Page closer to beta launch date for download instructions.
How To Get Access: Reserve Battlefield Bad Company 2 is the most sure fire way and right now we are still finalizing which Retailers & e-Tailers will participate (it's up to them). If you're eager to ensure you get in confirmed distributors to Pre-Order consumers are the EA Store and at GameStop.com. We'll have another Blog to update new retailers & e-Tailers that have teamed up with us as well as alternate channels to obtain a Beta Key.

Misc. Details

Steam Beta: Yes there was a leaked image of a Package file we propped on Steam. People with illegal accounts can see games in this environment, but this is not a Beta in the term of Public Test Beta, but a real development Beta installer client for the Steam version of the full game. We are however working with Steam to have the Public PC Beta available on Steam, but can't confirm this quite yet so cross your fingers Steam users. :-)
Anti Cheat: We're going with PunkBuster supporting the same options BF2 and BF2142 had to run unranked without PunkBuster.
Mod Tools: There will not be mod tools for BFBC2. However a majority of the the games logic is controller by the server and there will be Serverside control options for the dedicated servers.
Public Server Files: We will not distribute these publicly. There are many factors for why we have decided this with the biggest factor being security & integrity of our game & Dedicated Servers.