Hi All,
I’m Gordon Van Dyke and I’m the Associate Producer for Battlefield: Battlefield Bad Company 2 here at EA’s DICE studio in Stockholm.
Today we’re excited to announce that our forthcoming multiplayer beta is coming exclusively to PS3, so you’ll have a chance to experience all the action, destruction and vehicular warfare ahead of our full release on the March 2010.
Starting on November 19th the beta will feature the huge ‘Arica Harbour’ map where up to 24 players compete to secure valuable crates in the ‘Rush’ game mode as the action moves across a variety of different locations. From an initial vehicle assault on a military outpost the war winds through streets of a deserted town to an intense final fire-fight in an industrial harbour.
Check out our announcement video. For a preview on the beta itself click here
Getting access to the beta will differ from country to country but here are a few specific ways of getting hold of a key…
- We’ll be holding a special limited giveaway right here on the Playstation Blog
- Pre-ordering the game at participating retailers
- Checking out selected gaming sites such as IGN or Gamespot in North America.
That’s it for now…although if you have any questions then let me know. Be sure to check back here tomorrow when we have a brand new trailer.
//GvD













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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 2:53 am by hevane
Awesome! Game is awesome and it’s awesome twice because I can play russian army
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 4:55 am by JHips
Howdy Kristoffer!
Just a quick question, will Aussie players be getting some love for the BETA? i’v played some 250 hours online on Bad Company and can’t wait for the sequel!
Brutal Legend, for example had a pre-order for early demo access at EB (Our equivilent of Game Stop). This was a promotion in Australia based on communication between EA/Double Fine and some Australian websites i.e. Game.net.
HOWEVER
when it came time to Pre-order the game EB did’nt know anything about the promotion and did’nt have the early access codes to give.
I guess what i am saying, is if this is going to be a promotion for Australia, and it doesn’t have to be mind you, we would love for it to actually happen, rather then being promised pre-order bonuses that never eventuate.
The only reason for posting this is because i really love Bad Company and can’t wait to play as soon as possible!
Thanks
JHips
Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 1:55 pm by Kristoffer Bergqvist
Howdy! It’s a worldwide beta, so yes it will include Australia!
We will post further details on the blog as soon as we got confirmation on the retailers involved.
The blog is here -> http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 5:09 am by Halomoe
Hey BF crew,
Are the codes gonna be released on this blog or somewhere else?
Thanks,
Halomoe
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 5:31 am by Ivan_Krazy
Sweet sounds like a good game!
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 6:22 am by GTR34mh
Looks awesome, I would definately choose BC2 over that MW2 tripe
. Hopefully I win a code from the beta giveaway
.
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 7:02 am by muzzar69
sweet!
will this be supporting DTS surround sound?
its a shame most developers seem to ignore the sound effects in games these days, to me there the most important part.
when a air strike goes off i want to be able to feel the glass vibrating.
bad company still has the best sound effects to date, just the sound off especially the machine guns was brilliant.
Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 2:45 pm by Kristoffer Bergqvist
Yes, as long as your hardware supports DTS the game will too.
I could write tons about our sound, it’s absolutely stunning, but I ask you to experience it for yourselves in the Beta. Glass will vibrate, for sure.
Hopefully we’ll see something from our brilliant sound team on the blog as well later on, stay tuned.
http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 7:05 am by JodokusFlax
whut up gordon.. do u remember me ^^?
I could be better but im still under the best 300 #
so.. gimme one of that beta keys , pls
dedicated servers is the right way ..
now, esl and psl will open the gates for bfbc2 so we r allready able to build tournaments .
but dice should create his own bf championship l remember there was money to win on bf2
50000$ or more
support the geeks pls gimme a beta code .. l’ll support dice
peAce
JodokusFLax
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 7:22 am by arakouftaian
nice, dont forget about me
i will like to be in the beta.
my email
akouftaian@yahoo.com
i will be checking this blog every day
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 7:33 am by Noisepurge
Sweet, cant wait to get my hands on this. Veteran rank 3!
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 7:59 am by TheZeb
Hi BadCompany crew,
i’m a loyal customer of your games since battlefield 1942.
May i have a beta code ? It wuold be great!
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 8:02 am by Redh3lix
I just hope the competitive scene is well accomodated with this game. I’m looking forward to this moreso than MW2.
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 8:37 am by highimhigh420
been waiting ever so patiently for BC2 to finally come out and the time is here, would be very appreciative if i received a code.
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 8:37 am by thijzzy
can’t believe BETA is coming to PS3 !!! i’d like to join the beta (never got in a beta
) The first bad company have i bought on release and i still playing it (finished the game for the third time and got highest rank!)
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 8:44 am by Marce-
Hi, i would like to know how do can we europeans win the beta?
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 8:59 am by xKillerMonkeyx
Wooo cant wait, hope i get lucky.
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 9:05 am by killing-stare
Excellent stuff Gordon – hopefully it will help you guys conquer the VOIP gremlins from the previous games.
I take it DICE staff are participating also? I want to stab you.
In the game that is. XD
Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 2:06 pm by Kristoffer Bergqvist
We’ll be in there for sure. If you want my dogtag come and claim it, I look forward to see you trying. Mwahahaha.
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 9:13 am by Ninja-Welshman
Can’t wait for this!! Hopefully we’ll find out how us Europeans can get this Beta soon.
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 10:00 am by Lee_and_Nomi
I never bought the first but have always heard really good things about it. The trailer that was put up for it yesterday was dam good. There should be more videos showing what the games will actuallu look like for us when we sit down to play. It was the 360 verseion though :S
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 10:01 am by patokite91
hi^^
will this game have dedicated servers?
Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 2:10 pm by Kristoffer Bergqvist
Short answer: Yes.
Long answer in Gordon’s post in the Battlefield blog: http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/battlefield_bad_company/archive/2009/1 0/26/dedicated-to-our-pc-players.aspx
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 10:14 am by reakt
re: preordering to get in the Beta. The main benefit of a beta to the end user is to try out the game in order to decide if it’s worth buying.
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 10:37 am by fifaguys
I really really need a beta code! Please give me one!
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 10:54 am by Smegal
i been watching this game but sofar MAG has impressed me alot playing the beta i would like to compair the 2
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 10:56 am by Ninja-Welshman
As far as I know, yes, BC2 will have dedicated servers.
Also the main benefit of a Beta is not to decide wether or not you want to buy the game. It is to identify issuses and problems and report them to the Devs so the same bugs don’t make it into the final game.
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 11:03 am by Yannick
Hi Gordon,
can’t wait for bad company 2, don’t forget to send me a beta redeem code right, i’ll make good use of it.
by the way what was this news message displayed on battlefield 1943? i’ve skipped it without reading because i thought it was about the PSN online agreement, but i’ve noticed the BFBC2 beta rolling message on the online menu, so what was this message about?
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 11:05 am by vanace
hi, Krsitoffer
a code please..;)
thanks
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 11:13 am by mcwildcard
Will those who achieved top ranking on the first one get any special unlocks for being so great? ;o)
I think it’d be be cool to give all those people a beta code, not that I’m biased or anything. *ahem*
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 11:28 am by sentry-23
Looking very nice, though I’m not really an FPS fan, not an expert on BF:BC.
Is it possible in the game to be dedicated flyboy/threadhead instead of just running to the nearest vehicle ?
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 11:28 am by Ante_SWE
Proud to be Swedish:)
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 11:48 am by Lalaland
So it’s ‘tomorrow’ gimme details! Need to ensure I beat the mob to the designated pre-order stores
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 12:13 pm by Hicks15
Is the Beta available in Australia??????
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 12:18 pm by kugelis
Damn I would love to get a beta Im a veteran of BattleField but I live in europe so there aren’t many chances of getting it
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 12:35 pm by TheZeb
I’d like to know where european players can make a preorder of BC2.
Amazon.co.uk? play.com? I don’t spend more money in italian shops… too expensives.
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 1:27 pm by vherostar
I hope I can get a key I loved the first game. This is a pre-order for me definitely. I just hope there are no problems like with the first game like 1 game mode and audio issues with mics. It completly ruined the first game experience.
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 1:53 pm by Ezzonz1
This is great!! I would really want to be a part of this beta!
Dice ni äger verkligen ! Förresten så skulle jag också vara intresserad av prao på dice
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 2:03 pm by sjoerdjed
great i want it
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 2:23 pm by geddesmond2
Yeah I really want to play this beta. But I’m going to wait for full retail. Don’t want the beta spoiling the game on me like other betas have done in the past
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 2:32 pm by dalaan88
Dice, Sveriges stolthet!
Hej Kristoffer, en liten fråga. Det står att man har chans att få en beta nyckel via den här bloggen, när och hur går man till väga för att ha chans att få en just härifrån denna blogg?
Kommer du/ni från Dice vara inne någonting under betan och spela? Tänkte om man skulle förbereda sig på att samla på sig några speciella dogtags
Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 3:42 pm by Kristoffer Bergqvist
Hej! Det enda säkra sättet att få en betanyckel är som sagt att förboka hos någon av de återförsäljare som är med i kampanjen. Exakt vilka det är kommer snart att publiceras på bloggen.
http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/
Exat hur betanyckeldistributionen här kommer att gå till är ännu inte kommunicerat.
DICE kommer att spela betan så mycket vi orkar. Ser du en DICECrazyCow så är det jag, och är jag inte på ditt lag så råder jag dig att ducka.
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 2:32 pm by vicheous
Quote: “Be sure to check back here tomorrow when we have a brand new trailer.”
When? I wanna see….
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 2:51 pm by Sj_inobi
gimme gimme… im definetly getting this game:)
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 2:52 pm by JHips
Thanks for the heads up Kristoffer, watch your tags
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 3:05 pm by Romain29
i play every day online on BBC1,i think i merit a code…
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 3:05 pm by Spurvugle
I love you DICE !
Still playing bf2 on my pc, I really want a beta for BFC2 XD
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 3:09 pm by jamiepeemie
I’m looking forward to this big time!
love the battlefield series
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 3:20 pm by konoko1
is there a way to get about 5 keys, we wonna test clan suporrt in the game and so…
http://nofriendlyfire.ucoz.com/
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 3:22 pm by RICH318i
i hope to get a key never been part of a beta before
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 3:41 pm by FallenAngel1191
i love this game ;P
want to have a key xD plz plz plz ^^
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 3:44 pm by Triku25
Where can i get a key?
Give me a Key Plz!!!!!!!
please i want this beta
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 3:46 pm by tsandler777
i hope to be on this beta
i cant wait for this game
the first BC is peeeeeeeerfect!!!!
and iam sure BC2 will be more badass
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 3:48 pm by dalaan88
Tack för svaret!
Haha DICECrazyCow, fiffigt namn
Om vi inte är i samma lag så är det nog lika bra för dig att ta en liten lunchrast
En till fråga, när ni väl är inne och spelar är det då från morgon till eftermiddag eller eftermiddag till kväll alt. hela dagar?
PS. Lägg Dalaan88 på minnet, och om du inte minns mig om vi möts så kommer du nog bli varse om att det är att föredra och vara i samma lag som mig
DS.
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Posted on 6 November, 2009 at 3:52 pm by dalaan88
En till fråga! haha.
Den länken du gav till battlefield bloggen så kommer man direkt till betan, så min fråga är följande; Kommer detta
“For Europe and Asia – Keep your eyes open for local opportunities!”
Ändras i samma meddelande som länken hänvisar en till? Alltså så istället för “Keep your eyes open for local opportunities!”?
Tack igen.
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