Onslaught mode announced (LIVE, PSN only...)
blogs.battlefield.ea.com/battlefield_bad_comp...Posted May 12, 2010, 9:40 AM UTC
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Appears it isn't free unfortunately =(
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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 brings Onslaught as as the game reaches 5 million
Tee hee.
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'b5h4d0w: Because MW2 invented co-op mode.'
I will pay someone to kill this man.
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You mean "ignorant 12 year old".
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Half of the video is made of company logos ... the other half of generic action scenes. I hate it.
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I came here to say that. I was hoping to watch a video explaining what is new, only to find half of the video go by with nothing but logos. Says something about EA/DICE
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I'd rather just have more maps for multiplayer...
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The possibility of having night maps made me drool a little.
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Like nelson bay?
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Tossing in some night-vision would be in even better.
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I'm happy that it won't be coming to PCs. Hopefully they will give us something better. I hate playing against AI. I only buy games for multilayer mode.
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Co-op can be a lot of fun, but I think what makes it fun is being in the presence of friends. The only decent exception to that would have to be L4D/2, and even with that I find L4D/2 to be more fun as a LAN than online.
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I heard the number of PC players outnumbers the 360 and PS3 numbers combined.. so why are they not releasing it for PC first?
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I suspect that the companies who produce the consoles are try to gain more money.
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I'd play it on PC if it were free.
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shit i havent even played the single player yet... who the fuck wants to shoot bots?
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If it's anything like Horde on GOW2 it'll be a lot of fun.
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On a side note, I just found out about the custom subreddit tags and they're damn cool.
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I hate it when I buy an incomplete game, and I have to pay more than I initially expected to for the full game.
I did buy the game at its asking price with full knowledge of its content though, so I guess the game I bought (at the time of purchase) was worth the 60 bux to me.
Dammit.
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Technically you bought a complete game and are given the option to buy later expansions.
It's rare the find developers that are willing to continuously push out major updates to games without being paid for it. Valve is one of these select few and have been praised for doing it. It'd be nice to see more developers do this, but you've got to face the facts that it's a business and they're in it to make money.
When you have a fanbase of many millions, you'll make incomparable amounts more money by forcing DLCs/Expansions later on than updating for free and hoping to attract new customers. Look at Blizzard, they've made megamillions off of their expansions with WoW.
It sucks and we all hate it, but the developers could decide to just stop developing and move on to new projects instead of continuing to update what they already have. It's all about business.
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Yeah, that's the conclusion I was coming to in my post. I can't really be mad, just disappointed.
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You can be mad, and you should be. The community said "Horde mode!" over and over while BC2 was in development, and it really should have been in the game at release, DICE is just being douches to release it for an additional cost now.
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Oh shit, now I'm mad again. Haha.
I should have bought it for the PC so the modding community eventually supplants the devs.
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"Senior Producer Patrick Bach had these few words to say about Onslaught mode “We want to consistently support the fans playing the game with new ways to get into multiplayer and also challenge the elite players with new experiences to improve their performance online."
Seems like a great update, but what are they going to do about supporting PC fans with giving them new ways to get into multiplayer? They've talked about wanting to stay consistent with their game between platforms, why are they pulling this kind of shit, leaving PC behind?
There's more PC BC2 players than there are 360 or PS3 players, I don't understand why they've sort of left out their biggest market.
Edit: Why the hell are you downvoting me? I asked this question before DICE even gave a response.
http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-bad-company-2-pc/1099654-onslaught-pc.html
Am I the only one who feels like this is kind of BS? We're able to take a 32 slot server and change the game type to what ever we want (Squad DM, Squad Rush) and it changes the client cap. Claiming 'because it only allows 4 players' isn't a good enough reason in my opinion. DICE shouldn't be worrying about what admins are doing with their servers. Also, I think given the opportunity we might only see a few of these servers, and they'd constantly be full. Doesn't seem like a game type that appeals to most Battlefield PC vets.
Well people have suggested alternative ideas to fix their problem with PC and some of them seem pretty decent.
However, what DICE failed to note initially is that Onslaught will not be free. After finding out that you'll have to pay for it, I have no desire to play it. PS3 and 360 can enjoy paying more money to co-op with friends, it doesn't really bother me anymore.
Have to pay for it?! Now the real reason it's not coming to PC is shown ;). I have a better cooperative experience playing Rush or Conquest anyway, i'll pass on Onslaught.
Ah good eye, thanks.
You got my support. I thought exactly the same when I read the news... Why give consoles ANY advantage? Is it not bad enough that some titles only are released for them? It's a damn shame to lock out the maket that made them what they are right now. They develope on PCs for crying out loud! If anything the consoles should play second string!
There is? What is your evidence to support this contention?
This isn't scientific proof, but this is decent evidence to back me up:
http://bfbcs.com/
List of soldiers registered at bfbcs.com:
PC players: 1 301 173
360 players: 1 175 679
PS3 players: 1 060 063
PC has more servers than PS3 and 360 combined as well.
Interesting. I'm kind of surprised how close they really are. I figured there would be more 360 players than anything else due to BC1, but I stand corrected.
The special sales for PC probably boosted the numbers a lot. Steam had bundle sales where you could buy 4 copies of BFBC2 for $150. EA also had a sale for BFBC2 for $20 for a few days.
BC1 was on PS3 as well.
But consider that BC1 came out just before Bioshock, Halo 3, CoD4, and Mass Effect.
Perhaps PC users are more likely to go to bfbcs? That's what I'd assume anyway... I found it through reddit myself.
Those numbers consist of over 70% of users of BC2 on all platforms combined. It's possible that it's skewed towards PC since it's website access, but with only 30% of the market share not registered to it, it's kinda unlikely.