Friday Night Fights: Bad Company 2 edition

I’ve said about all I have to say when it comes to Battlefield: Bad Company 2, so this will be a quick one. I’m really glad it exists, mostly because it’s one of those near-universal games where most of my friends can be seen playing it.

Really now, there’s little greater in life than bitching at your television after you realize your whole team is playing as the sniper class even though they know damn well they’re supposed to be moving forward and arming M-COM stations. Sheesh!

If for no other reason, this is why you should participate in Friday Night Fights.

New to FNF? Read this: Each week, a bunch of Destructoid readers and usually an editor or two get together to play some videogames online. Basically, this is what Friday Night Fights are all about.

The planning for FNF takes place in the forums, where community members volunteer to host by posting their information (gamertag, time to meet up, game, etc.) in the forum post corresponding to the system they’re interested in playing on.

Then, every Friday, reminder posts for those who don’t read the forums regularly go up in the community blogs section all thanks to a dedicated group of cool individuals. And for everyone who wants their info all in one place, they have got my weekly recap posts to look forward to between 4:30 – 5:30 PM EST.

Now that you’re here, just scan the list below and find a game you want to play. All that’s left to do after that is to join the match by contacting the host below using any means necessary. For Wii, you might have to be a little creative, but for 360/PS3 a simple “invite me” message will be fine.

The names on the left are our Destructoid handles, while the ones on the right are our online handles (PSN IDs, for example). Don’t see a game you want to play? Feel free to post a comment offering to take up hosting duties yourself.

Tonight’s Hosts (more info from EuroFNF):
• Subenu – 5285-2857-6193 (Tatsunoku vs. Capcom @ 8:00 GMT)
• Gibbo – JGibbo08 (Left 4 Dead 2 @ 10:00 GMT)

Tonight’s Hosts (more info from the forums):
• InfraredChimera – InfraredChimera (Bad Company 2 @ 9:00 EST)
• SuperMonk4Ever – SuperMonk4Ever (RE5 Mercs Reunion/MW2/Gears 2/L4D @ 9:00 EST)
• usedtabe – Us3d ta b3 (Gears of War @ 10:00 EST)
• 007 – salman707 (Gears of War 2/Halo 3 @ 11:00 EST)

Tonight’s Hosts (more info from Y0j1mb0):
• Qraze – qraze (White Knight Chronicles @ 7:00 EST)
• SantanaClaus – Moosehole (Uncharted 2 @ 8:00 EST)
• Black Nexus – Nexus14 (General Knoxx @ 9:00 EST)
• Takeshi – JohanHin (Modern Warfare 2 @ 10:00 EST)
• Elsa – Elsa (MAG @ 10:00 EST)
• Y0j1mb0 – k0wb0y-b33b0p (SOCOM: Confrontation @ 12:00 EST)

Tonight’s Games (more info from SPNKr):
• The Ship
  IP: 72.233.56.10:27017
  Gametype: Elimination
  Play Time: Whenever (Official start time is 6:00 EST)
• Team Fortress 2
  IP: 63.209.35.100:27015
  Map rotation: Stock only rotation with customs in Rock The Vote.
  Play Time: Whenever (Official start time is 6:00 EST)
• Counter-Strike: Source
  IP: 64.69.39.176:27015
  Map rotation: de_dust2 and cs_office
  Play Time: Whenever (Official start time is 6:00 EST)
  (Thanks to TewDee for the server)

• Minecraft
  Play Time: 6:00 EST
  Analoge’s blog post

Beyond FNF:
• The Steam group
• The WoW guild