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Alright, part 2. I’ve put a little more time into this game than Cod and consider myself to be somewhere between half decent and pretty good, if I don’t mind saying so.

Cons: Still has noob tubes. Also have the gustav anti-infantry rocket launcher. And grenades. However, unlike cod, the explosive power of them is greatly reduced, both in AOE and the damage bleed off. You have to be pretty much spot on to kill someone on full HP, less so for the gustav, more so for nades. Grenades are basically a finishing move to finish someone off who might have just found some cover after you lit them up moment before. Spamming them rarely gets kills, which is why we often call it out on vent when it happens.

Also, hate to admit it, but hard core mode doesn't work what so ever in BC2. In standard mode a sniper round isn't enough to kill in one shot unless they are already damaged or you get them in the head. But in Hardcore mode a simple body shot is all that’s required to kill someone. It basically means half your team will camp spawn and fire at the enemy at range. Makes trying to play Rush mode useless, and often conquest mode isn’t much better.

Speaking of Rush, although it is mostly a good mode, there are some serious faults with it; mostly to do with destroying MCOM’s. In some areas it’s far too easy and unbalanced to simply destroy the building housing the MCOM in it using explosives, mortar strikes and vehicles. Other issues are that some MCOM’s can be armed from glitched areas. On top of this some maps suffer from unnecessary choke points that slow things down to a halt, which never favours the attacking team.

One last thing: the choppers. I don’t think they are unbalanced and too easy to use like the Cod chopper can be. It takes actual people to fly a chopper, which reduces that team’s foot presence. But also due to the size of the maps, it’s hard for a chopper to own the enemy team due to concentration, or lack there of, of the enemy in single areas. On top of this you can’t discount the amount of anti-air/vehicles weapons available either.

So that’s the (not all) bad, what about the good?

The basics work very well, arguable better than Cod IMO. The weapons are all fairly balanced with exception to shotgun slugs and the accuracy bleed out means using your weapon correctly works far better than holding the trigger down. Firing in bursts or even single round tap firing works amazingly good. I can often get over 30% accuracy using the M416 including the usual amount of spamming at objects (like fences), just by using my tap fire method.

Both accuracy and health work under the same basic principle: they will regen constantly at a set rate and will bleed off at a set rate, except for taking damage obviously. This allows you to control your fire so that the accuracy regen nearly keeps up, allowing you to retain decent accuracy, enough to kill someone before it gets too bad. Or if you’re like me, aim down three people before needing to think about accuracy :p

The health regen also works much better than Cods way because it is fairly slow and consistent, which means if you shoot someone to 10% health, and then meet them on the other side of a building, they won’t be back at 100% after a few seconds. Rather, they should be somewhere just over 20% health most likely.

I think, in general, Dice have done a lot to balance and rebalance BC2. Vehicles aren’t stupidly overpowered, and compared to how you would think they should be, could even be considered under powered. But it keeps BC2 a foot soldier game with vehicles rather than the other way around.

Overall, BC2 works as a foot soldier game in similar ways to Cod, but with more emphasis on team based play with no DM game types in sight. And it has balanced vehicles.

But with BF3 so near, if you don’t play BC2 now then there is no point starting. Just wait for BF3.