As a sniper lover, this is a bad thing for me. As a sniper, prone is your best friend....i don't get it, lean, and now prone, why are developers doing this?

It wasnt in the first game, Dice made up for this by putting a crap load of waist high bushes for them to crouch in, it works really well to be honest.

@Damnation02: A good sniper always changes position, so you shouldn't be in one place long enough to prone anyway; and you get all the accuracy you need from crouching. If you could prone you would just get completely fucked on because of the pace of the battlefield. Seriously.

Prone is good for some games, but this game is perfect without it.

Can you please fix the shitty melee then?

Who wants prone? It's completely not needed, unless if you're a fucking camper. Plus, there is plenty of cover and grass in these games.

Prone is laying on the ground to snipe. I'd prefer they offer gamers as much as possible, but its their choice I guess. I'll still buy BC2 anyway.

I can't say I've missed it much in the original BC. I still done okay crouching when I played as a sniper. However I find being an assault class is better, more hands on fun.

BC= dumb downed Battlefield, yeah I said it!
Bring on BF3!

@ Skribble

Usually i hide, prone (takes about one sec<--wouldn't consider that long) take my shot, and move because enemies will be all over the place soon. Still, everyone can notice you much easier if you're crouching or simply standing.

Every developer straves for perfection, and wants his game to sell good. But leaving out basic things won't help. MW2 was picked on because it didn't have lean, and now BC2 will be picked on because it won't have prone. It's not THAT of a big deal, but still, if a game used lean+prone in 2001, why can't games in 2010 use both?

the first one didnt have, so i guess it wont make a difference for console users, however i think it will affect pc gamers :o

Prone = pretending to be dead = gay. Thank you DICE for not requiring that I stare at the ground while I walk.

Ugh, this is a joke. If a prone guy ever kills me, I blame myself for being stupid, not the person who has gone prone.

Hell, that's one of my major beefs with Killzone. You can't go prone in that game either and it just bothers the hell out of me. There's no excuse for it.

People who bitch about prone in Bc fall into one of three catagories.

1) Jump shotters

2) People who can't use camo effectively while crouching

3) People who want Bc to become Modern Warfare

I'm just glad they reimplemented parachutes and made the tracer easier to follow. I don't like how they gimped the shotgun. Overall seems like a better game.

Murumasa123
Demo completely didn't sell me on the game. After playing MAG i found my perfect style of shooting and the destructible environments that they said was better than the original were the same. ALL that was different was when you blew up every bloody wall (apart from a few indestructible pillars) the houses fell down. Meh.

- Seconded. I enjoyed the BC2 beta, but I played way more of the MAG beta.

My book goes...

MAG > BFBC2 > MW2

Destructable environments are nice, a welcome addition to the genre, but not all that much better than the clunky destructable environments in BFBC1.

I love BFBC2 so far and removing the prone is great, it add more balance to the game. I have tried the Mag beta and did not like and can't stand COD any more. BFBC2 forces you to work as a team and not just camp and run around shoot people them repeat.

The graphics are the best I have seen so far.

Have you even played the game. In the beta I was surprised by how well the camouflage worked. You dont need prone. Just go near some tall grass and you magically disappear. Sometimes I didnt even know where the enemy was until I saw bullets flying out of a bush.

Let's all boycott Bad Company 2 for charging for Dedicated Servers in the PC version and not having prone!

Just kidding, quit whining. The developers are doing what they feel is going to make for the best game experience. Just because a previous game had something, doesn't mean it needs to be in every game. Developers cut useless features out of sequels all the time.

Seriously? No prone in a military shooter? lol.

I'm with Chronic Logic on this one. Dolphin diving bullshit has got to go. If you have to remove prone to make it happen, so be it. If it encourages the attackers to get off their asses and actually fucking attack, instead of sit on the goddamned mountain and snipe the whole match, I'm all for it.

yeah 'cause, it's not like thats a position you have to qualify in on a military rifle range. right???

Well as someone who has been playing the demo for some time now, I have to say, I'm glad there is no prone. There's plenty of places to snipe so complaining is pretty retarded. I don't understand how people have fun sitting in one spot prone anyways in a game like this. Hell even in TF2 there's no prone and it still makes Sniper a fun class. It really doesn't matter to me, because snipers in 90% of military games are just pussys who get stabbed in the neck by my knife as I go John Rambo. All my dogtags are from snipers, and I'm gonna keep it that way. The only thing I wish they would fix is the melee cause at times I'll stab someone in the face 3 times before it lets me kill them, and the fact that they should let you customize your characters outfitting like Rainbow 6 Las Vegas 2.

but seriously, lets all camp while everyone else is running around having fun. Sounds like a splendid time for me. I think I'll bring some Teen BOP magazines while I sit on the hill and read them waiting to shoot someone before Johnny Badass comes up from behind and stabs me to death. Sounds like a FANTASTIC PLAN. Keep up the good work snipers, I'll keep on killing you.

in MW2 the prone dind't do nothing to increase the sniper accuracy, EVEN with the snipers like the intervention having those tripods to stabilize it when you are prone, so why so much cry about this? a good sniper won't rely on go prone to kill a lot or be stealed, seriusly ppl chill the fuck out........

@Ghost125

MW2 isn't anywhere near being a realistic or tactical shooter, but the prone position is just as much about cover as it is accuracy. Again, snipers are vulnerable, as some of the posters here have been quick to point out. They sit out on their own with their face in a scope. This is why they should be able to go prone.

I'm glad there's no prone. Prone equals more damn snipers camping in the game.

[i]People who bitch about prone in Bc fall into one of three catagories.
1) Jump shotters
2) People who can't use camo effectively while crouching
3) People who want Bc to become Modern Warfare[/i]

Ding ding ding... we have a winner.