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.

The next issue was actually in game; LAG, horrible horrible lag, you couldn't move at times and when you did you moved forward and then got sent back. Another problem was the server browser, it would cause the game to just crash when you tried to bring it up. Both of these issues have been acknowledged by DICE in the scrolling message at the bottom of the Main screen and they are working on them. Luckily, they took a page from console gaming and included a "Play Now" button which automatically searches for a server for you. That seemed to work, but, yes there's a but to this too, most often ALL the servers were full and it would just come back saying you lost connection. As a side note, as usual during PC betas from EA, the majority of the servers are in Europe. In the past, the US game hosts have managed to jump into the fray with more servers, but this beta is only a month long so they better hurry!

Graphics in the game were excellent even though they did not seem to be as good as one might think. I played the game with everything on high and my AA & AF both set to 4. I don't think it's going to be as intense on your graphics card as we were led to believe. Fire was the best i have seen yet in a PC game. Destruction 2.0 brought some interesting explosions. You could watch trees fall and the sides of buildings disintegrate.

In just a little over a month, everyone will be able to play the finalized version of Bad Company 2. I believe the wait will be worth it. I also strongly encourage everyone to purchase the PC version as opposed to the console version as you will have a much better gaming experience, especially playing with your fellow clan members.

See you on the battlefield!