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How DICE is Pushing Their Luck

3 August 2008 1,526 Comments
Image courtesy of IGN

By now, Battlefield fans have heard that Conquest will be released in a couple of weeks. Before I read about it on IGN, I was really excited about Conquest Mode finally making it’s appearance in Bad Company. Not so much anymore.

There are entirely too many things that DICE has done to aggravate us gamers, so I’m not going to draw this out and mention every little thing. Instead, I’m going to give you a list, because everyone loves lists.

Yay! Conque…FOUR MAPS?!
So, let me get this straight; you don’t include the heart-and-soul of Battlefield, Conquest Mode, upon launch and when you do, you think that including it with only four playable maps is going to make up for it?

I really don’t understand this. How can you possibly keep us waiting and expect to satisfy everyone with only four maps? There better be a map pack coming soon, and it better be free. Of course, we’ll probably have to wait a millenium for that, too.

I bought the game, I should be able to use everything that came with it.
In the game there is a certain sniper rifle only attainable by pre-ordering your copy of Battlefield: Bad Company. So, how do you get that unlock if you didn’t pre-order? You don’t. You paid for the game and that sniper rifle is on the disc. It’s down in there, somewhere. You bought it, but you can’t use it.

Sorry, man, I’ve already got four friends I like better than you.
Squads are stupid. There are twelve players to a team and your squad can only have four players in it. And guess what? The only people on your team that you can talk to are in your squad! Don’t bother asking that other teammate if he needs a health pack. He can’t hear you. Let’s just assume he’s too busy talking to his squad.

Another thing that sucks about the squad feature is the fact that I have more than three friends. I mostly play Xbox Live with friends I know in real life; if it were all people I’d met online, of course my real friends would have priority over them. Anyway, If I’m in a party with three friends already, my two other friends asking for invites aren’t going to get one, no matter how much I want to play with them.

Private rooms
Are we getting these? Ever? A lobby system would be nice, too.

The sad part about all this is the fact that Bad Company is just too much fun to stop playing. Endless hours of frustration don’t even come close to shadowing the feeling you get when you and your (three) squadmates are working together in perfect harmony, always finding yourselves at the top of the scoreboard, game after game.

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