June 24, 2010

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Battlefield 2: Bad Company – Onslaught Mode Now Available

Jon was going to write up a quick bit about this, but he is too busy trying to play it to do so. Expect an actual review of this new content at a later date.

Currently, you can only get it from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace right here for 800 MS Points ($10 at standard rates). The in game access to the store does not currently show it.

Expanding the Battlefield: Bad Company™2 online multiplayer experience, Onslaught Mode delivers the first online co-op Battlefield action to Xbox 360! Up to 4 players can team up and put their squad skills to the test across 4 enhanced multiplayer maps, fighting against enemy land, sea, and air forces such as the new Mark V SPECACT boat. Work together to secure and hold a series of capture points in the quickest time possible and compare your stats on the Onslaught Leaderboards against your friends and other players across the community. With 4 different levels of difficulty, including Hardcore, Onslaught is the ideal battle ground for Battlefield: Bad Company™2 players, whether new or seasoned veterans, to perfect their squad play skills!

Enjoy!

Thanks to @MajorNelson for the head’s up.

Oh, if you are short on points, you can go to Amazon and get an online code for 1600 points immediately.

UPDATE: At this moment, Jon cannot find “Onslaught” in the Game Mode selections, either on Quick Match or Play with friends. It is possible that it requires having at least one other squad member and since it is 11am, Jon has no Xbox Friends online, so he cannot test this theory.  Twitter reveals that Jon is not alone in his problem “lack of Onslaught” problem.

UPDATE 2: Jon now has it working. The fix is as follows:

  1. Clear your system cache — My Xbox, System Tab, Memory, select your Hard Drive and press Y
  2. Reboot
  3. Start Bad Company 2 and it will provide a 2nd Xbox LIVE Update (for the day)
  4. After that, when you go to Multiplayer it’ll offer you “Multiplayer Update 2”, an additional update of 467 MB (you can also queue it up on the marketplace)
  5. After the update is downloaded, you will need to restart Bad Company 2 — the console will prompt you to do so.
  6. Once you have restarted you will see Onslaught in the Main Menu
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Bad Company 2: Easy ‘Demolish Part 2' Achievement

March 30, 2010

I’ve been playing Battlefield: Bad Company 2 quite a bit. In fact, I’m getting close to 100%ing the achievements. Normally, I’m not an achievement whore like some of my game playing compatriots, but BC2 makes it fairly easy (and enjoyable). This past evening I was working on finishing ‘Communication Issues’ and ‘Complete Blackout’ (destroy the M-Com/Satellite boxes) and I found a really good guide to the locations. During that I figured I’d try and finished ‘Demolish Part 2’ which is the achievement for destroying 50 houses, I found a really easy way.

How To install an Xbox 360 Game onto your Harddrive

March 18, 2010

Since I’m an avid 360 gamer it might come as a surprise to some, but I’ve never bothered to install a game to my Xbox 360 hard drive previously. Frankly I’m running an old (basically launch edition) console with a 10 GB hard drive, I don’t really have that much space for game installs. I figured I’d give it a try though. Here’s the steps: Boot up your console and put the game in Get to the main menu Go to My Xbox Go right and select Game Library Wait for Recent Games to populate Press A on your game (should be top one in the list) Select Install game to hard drive and hit A Wait At this point, god willing, your game will have installed.

Review: Battlefield: Bad Company 2

March 8, 2010

As you may well know (perhaps from our earlier entry), Battlefield: Bad Company 2 came out last week. I’ve devoted most of my game playing time since then to playing the game and thought it was about time to do a review. Now some of this review of Bad Company 2 (BC2) will be a comparison to how it stands up against Modern Warfare 2 (MW2). It isn’t that I believe the games are in anyway the exact same kettle of fish, but MW2 is the undeniable “big shooter” of the moment, so it is that which all other new shooters will be compared against (until something undeniably better comes out). Let me give you the ultra short version: It is definitely an improvement over Bad Company 1. My major complaints for BC1 single player were addressed in BC2. The single player campaign of BC2 isn’t long, but it is enjoyable and longer than MW2 was. The online multiplayer is also quite enjoyable and mostly major bug free (so far that I’ve seen). BC2’s multiplayer is much different than MW2 and personally I prefer BC2. If you enjoy shooters in general and haven’t bought BC2, you’re missing out. Now we get on to the long version of the review. First I’m going to cover the single player game and then I’ll get into the online play.