BFBC2 Beta Bug Status

A few of the things that are being sorted out for final release...

Closed Beta bug status
Here we list some of the bugs which have been reported in the Closed Beta, with confirmed info from programmer, Mikael Kalms.

How is DICE working on the game?
Fixes are made directly in the retail game. Then, depending on how much time and effort it takes, we also lift the fixes into the Closed Beta. When we have a new good build of the Closed Beta, we will release a new client.

The focus for most of the team right now is stability, not game balancing. Therefore the list below contains mainly reported stability issues.







Flashing water and terrain on Crossfire

• Fixed in retail game.

Particle shadows disabled on SLI + DirectX9

• They used to cause a huge performance drop. Fixed in retail game.

DirectX9 crashes

• We have improved stability some in the retail game, particularly when "losing" the graphics device due to alt-tab

WinXP 32 / WinXP 64 compatibility

• We have done a few crash fixes, although we have no data specifically on XP64 yet.

Updater fails downloading patch and gives a nonsensical error message about "unable to download patch, check your internet connection"

• Fixed in the retail game. The problem is both in the game's installer and in the updater.
• Closed Beta workaround: launch the Updater as Administrator.

Some or all of WASD keys stop working

• If you have a joystick connected, and it is not perfectly calibrated, then it will signal tiny movements in some direction. These tiny movements overrule the WASD keys. We are aware of the problem.
• Closed Beta workaround: Disconnect your joystick

Crash during level load on ATI x1900 cards

• The game requires driver version 9.12 or later to function. 9.11 crashes hard inside the driver. Unfortunately there are no new enough drivers available for the X1900 cards.
• Closed Beta workaround: Rename BFBC2Game.exe to BF2.exe, and launch BF2.exe directly.

Sometimes you keep moving even after you have released a key

• Noted. We have reproduced it at the DICE office too.
• As a side note: this never happened to a single developer during the past 6 months' worth of testing. Strange.

"Connection to server has been lost"

• This one is tricky. We have no solution yet.

Some sounds are played in the wrong speaker

• Audio team are investigating.

Crackups in sound

• No data yet.

Weapon balancing and tuning

• When we created the first Closed Beta, we picked the most stable build we had. (Well, you have all seen how well that build fared when it faced the real world...) We had to choose either stability or new content -- and stability won. Due to this, all content in the Closed Beta was some weeks old already at launch.
• Weapon balancing is on-going in the retail game, and we are following what's happening on the forums.

HBAO is very GPU hungry, resulting in low framerates on high-end machines

• We are working on faster versions of the filter.
• Closed Beta workaround: disable HBAO. Looks less pretty, runs better.

The game has high framerate on a machine, yet the input is very laggy

• We have a fix in the works.

The game accepted my serial key, but then failed logging in to EA Online

• Are you having any exotic characters in your password? One person who had the character ‘}’ in his password had that very problem.
• Closed Beta workaround: Change your password (using www.ea.com) to a password that only contains the characters A-Z, a-z, 0-9. Then try logging in in the game again.

So, that is where we are at now.

We will try to keep this list updated every few days. Thanks for your feedback, everyone!

-kalms

"Connection to server has been lost"

• This one is tricky. We have no solution yet.

They haven't sorted this since the 1.3 patch for BF2

Originally Posted by GoRedwings

"Connection to server has been lost"

• This one is tricky. We have no solution yet.

They haven't sorted this since the 1.3 patch for BF2

Thats so annoying when everyoen jsut starts runnign on the spot and you wounder why you cant kill anyone, and then it just cuts out, at least i know its not a hardware problem on my side of things (for once), i hope they take out the c4 being able to take out points, as fun as it is, i can see how it could be annoying

Originally Posted by Vexx

Thats so annoying when everyoen jsut starts runnign on the spot and you wounder why you cant kill anyone, and then it just cuts out, at least i know its not a hardware problem on my side of things (for once), i hope they take out the c4 being able to take out points, as fun as it is, i can see how it could be annoying

Think they just need to make that one person can't do it, so they either need to make it use 8 c4 bricks and you only have 6 without reloading, or cut down on the bricks a recon person has.

If you stick the Thompson on the assault kit it allows you to use c4, and you've got the ammo crate to resupply. If you made the bomb points need 8 instead of 6 I dont think it would work, half the time people kamikaze in and die in the process, in which case they'll get more c4 to go and do it all over again. Personnally the only time I do it is the first B point, after that I'll plant c4 on a site then plant the bomb and use the c4 to stop the bomb being disarmed

Originally Posted by GoRedwings

"Connection to server has been lost"

• This one is tricky. We have no solution yet.

They haven't sorted this since the 1.3 patch for BF2

Exactly, good bloody luck with that one - you've already been working on it for 4 years.

lol you can only place a max of 6 c4 charges every one after that replaces one you already put down same for anti tank mines

The game has high framerate on a machine, yet the input is very laggy
We have a fix in the works.

I really hope they fix this!

Same here abby but remember - it will never seem as direct as MW2 due to bullet travel. People think they have slight lag when infact they have none because they haven't played a game with bullet travel since 2142

i still can't choose a server? just join them through join button? any ideas?