New DLC

**Pino** · 03-13-2010, 10:22 PM

Even though EA is working feverishly to keep their master servers online and DICE is busy working on patching some issues in the game, the team that brought you BFBC2 found the time to send this information out the other day:

While the core of the dev team here at DICE as well as all the back-end teams at EA are 110% focused on stabilizing the game experience we do have some other, great news to reveal. Today we’re happy to announce the release date of the second VIP map package for Battlefield: Bad Company 2! It will be made available on the 30th of March on all platforms at no extra cost to all of you who’ve got your VIP codes entered in the game. VIP Map Pack 2 contains the following:

Arica Harbor Conquest mode - US Command launches a break through action directly at the Russian base. Collateral damage is of no consequence. Capture and secure tactical positions in Conquest Mode across the vast Arica Harbor map.

Laguna Presa Rush mode - The valley and surrounding mountains possess a strategic value in the battle for South America, and an infantry assault supported by light armor vehicles is likely by both armies as US forces defend the nearby Dam.

For the PC gamers all the VIP this, VIP that talk is moot. You will be getting this through an update. In fact, the maps aren't new, only the gametype unlocks for those specific maps are.

Does that qualify as DLC? Well, let's face it, DICE is really speaking to the XBox/PS3 crowd here.

DICE set the tone on the first DLC: "PC players will get the content as a game update." - Battlefield Blog (Battlefield Blog). Those maps came to us free as well and I suspect this gametype unlock will be as well.

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**taliban** · 03-14-2010, 08:37 AM

yeh just changes in the maps, thats bull...

**Sol73** · 03-14-2010, 11:17 AM

The game don't even work right as it is! They should be more focused on fixing the issues then releasing more content. Only for it not to work either. So far I have been fairly disappointed with this game thus far. and btw if they did a beta then why did they not work out the kinks then?

**SnakeDoctor** · 03-14-2010, 12:42 PM

Sol the troubles they are having could not have been for sen in beta. Because in beta they only release so many keys. They also could have not have known how many people would have ran out and bought the game on the release day due to the countless COD players that decided to switch over to BF instead of COD. The game has been out for 2 weeks now and they are working on it. I mean just look at CODMW2 they had troubles with connection, steam going down. They had all types of things the first month they released it. These are the types of things that happen to all games that have in game log in accounts instead of just start can connect games like COD2 or CODMW I did make a post showing how many logs in the master server's data base the first week.
Yes they should have did over kill on the master servers but who knew that the game was going to sell as well as it did. The only thing they could have went by was the first release of BF2 or BC1 and neither of those games flow off the shelf like this game did.
I guess I am just the devil's advocate here but the game it self runs just fine the troubles lye in the master servers and the log ins.

**SnakeDoctor** · 03-14-2010, 12:47 PM

Sorry about that Pino made the post not me i just read it and was going to post it he just bet me to the punch

The 4 different soldier types have gathered a score of more than 34 Billion.
There's been more than 400M kills made.
1.3M roadkills
Squads and Teams have assisted each other to 6.2 Billion points.
Now we are adding more capacity to let you smash those numbers multiple times over in the weeks to come.

Any game out there that has them many logs in the data base's would have cause any master server to crash