Just what we needed, more VIP maps for Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Today marks the release of the fifth set of these, if you can believe that. As always, the maps themselves aren't new per se, but they have been tinkered with to work with alternate multiplayer modes.
"White Pass" in Rush mode and "Nelson Bay" in Conquest mode (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360) are what you're getting for free this time, assuming you still have one of those nifty VIP codes that are packed in with every new copy of Bad Company 2.
At this point, I have to wonder how many more of these quick-and-dirty VIP maps DICE can pump out before we get something substantial -- like the upcoming Vietnam expansion. Because really, I'd much rather play (and pay for) that than download the current free offerings.
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5:40 PM on 07.28.2010
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Still, the free Mass Effect 2 DLC was mostly worthless, and to get the big stuff (Kasumi and Overlord) you still had to fork over more money.
At least the supposedly free DLC is shite so I don't have that much to cry about.
So.... PLEASE DO THIS DICE. I don't want to have to wait for the (surely excellent) BFBC2:Vietnam expansion to play some new maps. Though I'm hella psyched for some completely new multiplayer XP ladders :D
White Pass is great for Conquest, but not so much for Rush.
I'm still getting acclimated to Nelson Bay Conquest...it's pretty nuts since the terrain makes it nearly impossible to tell where people are hiding.
i may end up destroying them if no one wants em
"They are free. Stop complaining."
Weird, I could have sworn I paid $60 for this game which would have given me a voice to how I want this game supported. Apparently I didn't though?
Your $60 bought you a game, not the right to say jack about how anything the developers did with the DLC would go. Their is a disturbing trend of self entitlement among gamers this generation when it comes to DLC, extras, and special editions.
Their was a time when a game was just a damn game ,take it or leave it and nobody wondered when the next batch of downloads was coming 5 mins after release. Gamers are frikin spoiled now. I blame the internet.
If you aren't going to support your game with new content then at least give us some fucking mod tools.
No offense, man, but the fact is this, they backed up the game with VIP, a choice that would alienate the fans who bought the game new or old. They basically told us "You scratch our backs, we scratch yours" with that choice.
Cut to this bullshit here.
Just make crap like call of duty, etc.
Leave large scale games to PC, where they can flourish..
I'm not one to look FREE stuff in the mouth.
Yay!
you can have mass effect 2 and all expansions for FREE on pc, it works really well, i know cause i have them all, why would you pay for that?
"Your $60 bought you a game, not the right to say jack about how anything the developers did with the DLC would go"
mmmmm, no.. you are definitely wrong about that. I have the right to say whatever I want.
But despite whatever my rights may or may not be, if they don't want to alienate a customer base, you would think being smart about DLC would still be a good thing, right?
"So get off your high horse and stop ruining getting free content for the rest of us."
Really? Because from where I'm sitting it looks like you're acting that your horse is higher then mine. I mean you even just tried to tell me I don't have rights. lol.