DICE has confirmed that Battlefield: Bad Company 2 for PC will receive the Onslaught gameplay mode currently available on console versions of the game.
Bad Company 2 senior producer Patrick Bach told PC Gamer magazine, “We’re thrilled to bring something new and fresh to Battlefield: Bad Company 2 while still keeping Battlefield’s signature gameplay intact. We want to consistently support the over four million 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.
“Effective squad play is the key to success in Battlefield: Bad Company 2 multiplayer and this new mode will provide players with a dedicated environment to test their team skills and rank against the competition,” he said.
EA’s media briefing at the historic Orpheum Theatre in downtown Los Angeles kicked off with the announcement of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. Dated for November 16th, the Criterion-developed title hopes to simultaneously bring the series back to its roots and pave the way for adoption by the so-called “connected generation.”
In it, players compete online, chasing one another as either the police or as renegade mavericks driving outrageously expensive cars. Criterion highlighted Hot Pursuit’s Autolog – a suite of features “to connect, compare and compete.”
DICE studio today announced the first multiplayer expansion pack for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 where gamers will find themselves in an entirely new theatre of war – Vietnam.
Fighting as either U.S. Marines or North Vietnamese Army (NVA), the combat terrain of the Vietnamese jungle will be rendered via the Frostbite engine.
The Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam digital expansion pack will provide the multiplayer Battlefield: Bad Company 2 experience with new weapons, vehicles, unlocks, awards, achievements and trophies.
DICE has announced that a new four-player co-op mode, called Onslaught, will soon be available for console players of Battlefield: Bad Company 2.
Onslaught mode is currently not in development for PC. “We aren't ruling out Onslaught on PC, but at this time we are researching how to bring it to PC without affecting players who don't have Onslaught or their own server to run it on," said an associate producer at DICE. “We haven't given up on a PC version of Onslaught... just we have a lot things to work out first.”
There will initially be four maps available to play in Onslaught mode: Valparaiso, Atacama Desert, Isla Innocentes and Nelson Bay. They’ve all received slight makeovers such as new lighting and vehicles.
DICE has announced that a console version (and more) of last month’s PC patch for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is due on May 12th.
In addition to the PC changes, the console update will include:
As a part of Project Ten Dollar, EA’s new strategy to motive first-hand purchases, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will offer two maps as release-day downloadable content.
The two maps are Laguna Alta, a Conquest map, and Nelson Bay, a Rush map, bringing the total number of multiplayer maps to ten.
These maps will be unlockable with one of the “VIP” codes that ships with every new retail version of the game. Another code will be included which unlocks another two maps in late March. They are Arica Harbour (Conquest) and Laguna Presa (Rush).
In Battlefield: Bad Company 2, the ‘B’ company fight their way through snowy mountaintops, dense jungles and dusty villages. With a heavy arsenal of deadly weapons and a slew of vehicles to aid them, the crew set off on their mission and they are ready to blow up, shoot down, blast through, wipe out and utterly destroy anything that gets in their way. Total destruction is the name of the game, delivered as only the DICE next generation Frostbite engine can. Either online or offline, enemies will soon learn there is nowhere to hide.
Using the same Frostbite engine, Battlefield 1943 takes players back to WWII. The game offers endless hours of 24 player multiplayer action over three classic and tropic locations; Wake Island, Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima. Delivering the award-winning through-the-gun and vehicle warfare online experience DICE is best recognized for, Battlefield 1943 will have players battling in ruthless aerial dog fights and intense trench combat. Players can see the game in action at New York Comic Con (Booth #1441) from February 6th-8th.
Bad Company 2 takes everything that players liked in the original and ups the ante - more vehicles, more destruction and more team play,” said Karl Magnus Troedsson, Executive Producer Battlefield Franchise, DICE. “Battlefield 1943 is a new take on a blast from the past classic coming to life with brand new technology that we’re eager to get into players hands.
