not liking it at the moment, I love destroying the enviroment, but except for that, its nothing like COD, and never will be. Maybe with more playtime, i will get used to it.

What is it that makes COD better in your opinion?

You're damn right, nothing like CoD. In fact it is far, far better.

I'm temted to say which if DICE will fix server issues it will be the best multiplayer FPS I'vep layed in my entire life.

I agree. Battlefield:BC2 isn't meant to be like Call of Duty. IMO, the Battlefield series is FAR superior than the CoD series for the simple fact that- 1. SP is more interesting. While BF1942 featured a campaign for each faction, you could also play most maps in a "skirmish" mode that was just you a bunch of AIs. How many SP-oriented people would have loved to play a skirmish-style deathmatch game on a campaign map of any CoD game? I am one of them and I'll bet a bunch of others would say "yeah, I'd love to do that".

The other thing is, that the Battlefield series is traditionally far different than the CoD series. It is based around capturing and controlling "Control Points", and not various game modes that really revolve around infantry combat. The Battlefield series gains its superiority from the fact that virtually any vehicle on the field of battle, so long as it isn't fully loaded or occupied by the enemy, can be boarded and employed by the player. It adds an element of warfare not seen in the often touted Call of Duty series. While in CoD4's SP campaign you would have to deal with vehicles, and even get to man the guns of an AC-130U in one mission, it lacks the tactical and strategic play of ANY BF game.

man its way funner then cod for sure but the server issues are bad but they should be soon fixed, if there not then thats gonna be very sad but the time i have spent on it even at the lowest settings and with some fps issues now and then its great as all hell way better then Cod6mw2

Anyone playing this on 360? How's the game on 360? My laptop ain't gonna run the game too well.

Are there any aircraft?

Would you recommend the game if one loved the original BF42? As i said earlier, i liked the way it looked a trailer but lack of demo (anymore) drove somewhat off. Halo3's getting bit old... and i've got nothing to do in MW2 anymore (prestige doesn't appeal, maps are too camping oriented). Of course i'm getting to Halo Reach beta later... but that's later and for limited time.

The SecuROM version is either a disc check or a one time activation (you choose which with a retail copy, or it's a one time activation model if bought online). So it shouldn't be running much in the background, period.

WTF? The forum ate my post. Or maybe moderators did. Unlikely that though. I blame forums. So... a new one. EDIT oh... "Forums restored from backup"? Didn't notice untill after pressing submit.

Soo... I went and bought the game for 360. Love it. Its BATTLEFIELD! It is very well balanced, looks very good too. Sounds are good but the echo effect irritates my ears, as i constanly, without pause hear something. During long sessions, this is annoying. So i have to lower the volume, and by doing so, i can't hear the dialogue or music. Though neither is really worth hearing... The campaign sucks, plot, level desing, AI, everything.

But the multiplayer rocks, as it always has with BF series. I find Rush a bit more interesting than Conquest, though mainly this is due there being too few Conquest maps. Lack of artillery, except UAV and Mortars, is a bit disappointing, loved firing 40 rockets from Iraq's MLRS in Desert Combat (in standard BF42, Artillery sucked (except the russian rocket launcher), though it was fun.) No planes is also a bit meh... but then, they'd be too fast probably.

Controls are a bit ankward, driving controls that is. Why there has to be "accelerate" and "decelerate"? Why couldn't left stick control those and the right turning (or in tank's case, LS the movement and RS the turret) like in Halos? "Fire" is on LB for some reason... Alternate controls are not any better. The controls work though, after getting used to them. While aiming with scope, there's too much dead zone before the controller responds... too fast. This makes fine aiming hard. Of course it could be my controller (all 3 are more or less broken or damaged, not to mentiong being flawed, like 9 out of 10 new 360 controllers are).

The game really feels Battlefield... The game's fast enough, strategic, and the front lines flow back and forth constantly. And of course there are Battlefield moments. I run (assault kit) towards A M-Comm, kill two enemies while running, arm the explosives, sit in corner and shoot the lone enemy that tries to disarm the charges. All happening withing couple of minutes.

What the game needs is more maps and the BF Theme back (the game doesn't have it :/ ).

Sounds good. I might buy it this weekend. Is there a demo to try the game?

Nope. There WAS... in Feb. It was then shut down. Stupid decision if you ask me. If you liked Battlefield [Insert number/place here], and you've got no problem with modern weapons and lack of true artillery or planes, i'd say you're going to like this. There are too few maps though...

Don't buy this as a single player game, it is not.

*sigh* Then I guess I must pray for Battlefield 2142 with the Frostbite engine, and excellent AI, as well as all things classically Battlefield. I count the features introduced in BF2 and continued in BF2142 as "classically Battlefield". Even 2142's "Titan" game mode is classically Battlefield.

I am running an e4300 overclocked to 3 GHz and an 8800 GTS.  I have not gotten a FPS number yet but for me the game plays very smooth.  At first things were a little bit stuttery and ironically the cutscenes were the worst.  I went through the .ini file and disabled bloom.  I also created an Nvidia profile for the game and minimized AA and AF.  I am sure that the game is not AS pretty as it was before that but I cannot see the difference and the whole thing is silky smooth now.

Very happy with the game so far.  I hope to get much more MP in. 

If you want to add me in game it's: Mauxe

After almost 2 weeks of full immersion game I'm ready to say: buy it. If your computer can handle it, it's simply the best multiplayer fps ever made.

Which ini file do you have to adjust to change the bloom? What is bloom anyway?

Bloom

I believe that the settings.ini file is in your My documents/BFBC2 folder.
Here is a link to some info re: .ini settings and nvidia overrides.