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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 to have 40-player multiplayer

  • Posted April 26th, 2009 at 00:41 EDT by Eric Blattberg
  • 38 Comments

OXM UK's latest issue delivers an interesting tidbit of info about Battlefield: Bad Company 2. The game's online mode, which was capped at 24 players in the original game, will be expanded to include up to 40 players per match.

A scan with this information was posted on EA's Battlefield: Bad Company 2 forum. OXM's blurb reads:

FORTY-FIED MULTIPLAYER
EA hasn't yet made any announcements about the multiplayer side of the game. The only thing we know for certain is that 40 people will be able to duke it out on to servers when the sequel hits rather than Bad Company's previous player cap of 24. New game modes and plenty of maps a shoo-in however, that's what sequels are made for after all.

So are you ready to hop onto the battlefield again, or would you rather look for better company?

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  1. kora5551

    • 7:47pm EDT - April 25th, 2009
    • 1

     OK, BFBC was one the best shooters I played online, and i can NOT wait for BFBC2!!!

  2. Ninja-KiLLR

    • 7:51pm EDT - April 25th, 2009
    • 2

    i hope this is fun and dosnt lag like bc did. i miss modern combat that game was super fun excpet for all the glitchers which i was kinda part of

  3. iberianpower

    • 8:00pm EDT - April 25th, 2009
    • 3

    40 player ?

    Thats great .Less that Resistence 2 and MAG but good anyway.

     

    I have serious doubts the 360 can handle this .

  4. Aramil_Caelan

    • 8:12pm EDT - April 25th, 2009
    • 4

    BFBC was definately a well-made game, but it just wasn't much fun

  5. -CroatianMetalMan-

    • 8:21pm EDT - April 25th, 2009
    • 5

    Battlefield and Warhawk are best multyplayer games I played so far and I CAN'T WAIT for this game to come.

  6. Charl3z523

    • 8:38pm EDT - April 25th, 2009
    • 6

    40 players?

    Lmao.

    I'll take my 64 player players from the original Battlefield in 2002 instead.

  7. 1solidsnake | solid1snake67

    • 10:06pm EDT - April 25th, 2009
    • 7

    i need to buy the first one, on thursday.  40 player wowo, that will be insane for that game

  8. hagr_182

    • 10:12pm EDT - April 25th, 2009
    • 8

    well i loved bc tough I only rented it

  9. masonmcglasson

    • 11:01pm EDT - April 25th, 2009
    • 9

     360 can't handle the amount of players on screen or over xbl that ps3/psn does

  10. J1gs4w

    • 11:17pm EDT - April 25th, 2009
    • 10

    I miss the PC battlefields, 60 player online, that was pandemonium.

  11. chomperbull

    • 11:50pm EDT - April 25th, 2009
    • 11

    the first was good that demo must have lasted me a month

  12. HARDCOREPS3

    • 12:43am EDT - April 26th, 2009
    • 12

     WOW, 40 PLAYERS! THATS ALOT OF PEOPLE IN MP! ITS VERY GOOD! 

  13. DragonWraith

    • 1:25am EDT - April 26th, 2009
    • 13

    Charl3z523: Yes, because hugher numbers do make a game more enjoyable.

     

    'Face palm'

  14. supamariobrotha

    • 2:19am EDT - April 26th, 2009
    • 14

    the first game was ok i just couldn't get into it i'll try this when the demo comes out.

  15. higgos22

    • 2:45am EDT - April 26th, 2009
    • 15

    360 servers will lag from this wont they, imagine how much bandwidth that would use atleast with ps3 we know it can be done from resistance 1 and2 now mag and even kz hits 32

  16. existenz1

    • 5:00am EDT - April 26th, 2009
    • 16

    360 wont  cope with 40 player online. PS3 can. This is going to fail so hard

  17. zakruz

    • 5:01am EDT - April 26th, 2009
    • 17

    Bad Company 1 is one of my favorite games, its so great <3

  18. DragonWraith

    • 5:06am EDT - April 26th, 2009
    • 18

    Who wants to bet that DICE will later announce that they cannot withold 40 players in multiplayer, and will have to be down-sized due to the Xbox 360?

  19. liquidus118

    • 5:55am EDT - April 26th, 2009
    • 19

    Not really impressive when we have 60 player games and soon to be 256 player games.

    Still, is quite good for a multi-platform console game.

    Hope this one has the 100% destructability that was promised from BC, since Red Faction Guerilla showed its entirely possible.

  20. DigitalBeast

    • 7:19am EDT - April 26th, 2009
    • 20

     @3 Why wouldn't 360 be able to handle it if it has been confirmed that it is? Do you even think before posting? O.o 360 may be a bit less powerful than the PS3, but it is no PS2 :) Cheers.

  21. teevanator

    • 7:20am EDT - April 26th, 2009
    • 21

    i like bc 1 it kept me busy last summer

  22. posas

    • 8:21am EDT - April 26th, 2009
    • 22

    AMAZING!!!!   ALL I WANT NOW IS "SOUTHPAW" AND WEAPONG DAMAGE TO BE A LITTLE MORE REALISTIC AS IN CALL OF DUTY'S "HARDCORE MODE"!!!!!!  I BOUGHT THE PREVIOUS ONE FOR PS3 AND HAD TO RETURN IT ONLY BECAUSE THERE WAS NO "SOUTHPAW"...  THE TANKS AND OTHER VEHICLES WERE SPECTACULAR AND FUN!!!!

  23. andysw

    • 9:01am EDT - April 26th, 2009
    • 23

    40 players? How's that possible for a multiplatform game? Do they mean 40 players on the playstation 3 version and 24 on the xbox 360 version?

  24. zarajoe

    • 11:08am EDT - April 26th, 2009
    • 24

    No please don't make another one the first battlefield: bad company was so incredibly bad.  I kept trying to convince myself that the game would get better but it never did; and the ending could it have been any worse?  How does a man survive a explosive helicopter crash which was shot down with a rocket to begin with.

    battlefield bad company = two big thumbs down

  25. Rapture

    • 12:41pm EDT - April 26th, 2009
    • 25

    Look at all the 360 downplaying. lol

     

    Black Hawk Down on the first xboix had 50+ player Multiplayer battles. Or so I hear.

  26. ttech10

    • 4:28pm EDT - April 26th, 2009
    • 26

    @4: Same here. It was a good game but I just couldn't get into it much. The only reason I enjoyed it was because I could snipe long distances and not have to worry about killcam, and after a while that got really boring. I think I still have it but I haven't played it since about a month after it was out.

     

    @3, 9, 15, 16, 18, 23: Why do all you think the 360 CAN'T handle this? What evidence do you have that it can't? You'd think that since 360 owners pay for their online service it would be able to better run this, so why do you think the PS3 will be perfect and the 360 will be horrible? Is there a game out right now for the 360 that has this many people and always lags?

     

    I'm not a 360 fanboy, or anything. I only have a PS3 but your statements are just making PS3 people look like we have no idea what we're talking about. Either give examples of it's past failure with big online games or stop making extremely biased, out of nowhere claims.

  27. BaardA

    • 5:17pm EDT - April 26th, 2009
    • 27

    sounds awesom. Loved the first so this game I'll deffinetly buy.

  28. Brokentusk81

    • 6:19pm EDT - April 26th, 2009
    • 28

    Thats true, Black Hawk Down on original xbox did top out at 50 players. I wish the PS3 could handle as much as the original xbox. That would be awesome with that many people. The bigger the better is what I say. .

  29. DigitalBeast

    • 10:10pm EDT - April 26th, 2009
    • 29

    @28 MAG is supposed to top out at 256...  What's with these dumb posts? O.o

  30. zakruz

    • 5:21am EDT - April 27th, 2009
    • 30

    @29... Yeah, but mag doesnt look that great either, does it?

  31. supamariobrotha

    • 6:04am EDT - April 27th, 2009
    • 31

    @30 if you doubt the visual of M.A.G then you dont need a ps3

  32. DigitalBeast

    • 8:58am EDT - April 27th, 2009
    • 32

    @ 30 He said it like the number of players is very important. 1000 pac-men on screen isn't as impressive as 256 character models from MAG. Exaggerating, but I think you should get the point. Comparing PS3 to XBOX, like he did, is stupid.

  33. MAJOR1234

    • 3:13pm EDT - April 27th, 2009
    • 33

     This sounds like mayhem. Cant wait!

  34. Grim_Dicer

    • 5:23pm EDT - April 27th, 2009
    • 34

    360 can handle up too 40 players online :D

  35. pizzamonkio

    • 11:32pm EDT - April 27th, 2009
    • 35

    This is the best, most fun and frustrating fps I have ever played. I cant wait for this game! I really hope they get dedicated servers this time around though because for me the lag was its only achilles heal. A lil' blood wouldn't hurt either and maybe more than one chopper available at a time for some epic air battles. I heard one of the devs say that they wanted to but, couldnt have bigger squads because the xbox 360 couldnt handle it. So I wonder if they have to compensate with the graphics/framerate or maybe they optimized the engine?

  36. Bigdoggy

    • 3:33pm EDT - May 2nd, 2009
    • 36

    @24, please don't taint the comment section with your rubbish, go play your call of duty  aka beefed up counter-strike :x

    BF:BC2 and MAG will both be awesome games, I can't wait to buy them. 1st day purchase for sure.

  37. chargerwr

    • 1:53pm EDT - August 20th, 2009
    • 37

    i think 40 player multiplayer is better than 256

    and battlefield games are amazing

  38. billagroom

    • 11:54am EDT - August 25th, 2009
    • 38

    40 players is this for real. Just think of the sniper tags I can colect now.

    Bill

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