Makers of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 wise up!

ParaDOX — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:46:34 GMT

Finally some good news!!! For those of you who know me, you know I refuse to infect my system with SecuROM DRM. I was considering getting this game on Steam until I realized it had the dreaded SuckuROM! I was dissapointed, expecially after the massive let down that was (is) Call of Duty: Modern Warfail 2. I have been looking for a new FPS to let my frustration out on and this might be the one!

They have released a patch that removes SuckuROM from the Steam version!!!!!!!! Let me repeat that for the hard of hearing....

They have released a patch that removes SuckuROM from the Steam version!!!!!!!!

Can you believe this? this is too good to be true!

Don't believe me? Ok I'll show you:

Single Player -
Fixed: Graphical issues on some systems on SP_03 (at start and when displaying background mountains at “Up river”)
Fixed: Character voice issue during cut scenes in SP_03b (only affected Spanish)
Fixed: Hang when killed using TOW Launchers in SP_05
Fixed: Graphical issue on some systems on SP_05 (displaying background mountains)
Fixed: Voice volume in cut scenes on SP_06
Fixed: Unexpected dialog at start of SP_08 (only affected Italian)
Fixed: Random crash in SP_09 cut scenes

Multi Player -
Fixed: Server Browser - Joining a password protected server results in a connection timeout
Fixed: Server Browser auto updating server list when reopened causing a timeout issue
Fixed: Password issue during Friend invites
Fixed: Password text field issue on joining a password protected server
Fixed: “Flickering” ship on Arica Harbor
Fixed: Clan tags that use numbers in them displaying a “0” on the Select Spawn Point screen
Fixed: Display issue on long server names
Fixed: Mortar Strike icon not updating (Beta issue)
Fixed: No “Exit Game” menu option appearing at the end of some rounds.
Fixed: Flickering user rank icon (appeared as an animated gif) when user reaches rank 10.
Fixed: Flickering trees and “Red Box” on Laguna Presa
Fixed: User is logged out when failing to create a new soldier
Fixed: Zeus stationary weapon not appearing in stats
Fixed: Zu23 not appearing in stats
Fixed: BMD3 AA not appearing in stats
Fixed: Friend request displaying incorrect Veteran stats
Fixed: End of Round screen displayed incorrect “UAV_Station” – now displays correct localized text.
Fixed: K/D ratio displays in the Front End
Fixed: K/D ratio displays correctly when “comparing”
Change: Server browser now defaults to list via Ping first
Change: News Ticker font support for Spanish, Polish, Russian and Japanese
Change: New message for server full (reported as “I get no message when I try and join a server, it does nothing”)
Change: New message displayed for attempting to join a password protected server without providing a password (reported as “I get no message when I try and join a server, it does nothing”)
Change: Displays version number on Front End Legal Screen
Change: Display of weapon icon during loading screen
Change: All clan tags will automatically be preceeded by [ and closed off with ] to prevent impersonating other players.

STEAM
Change: The STEAM version of Battlefield Bad Company 2 will no longer have SecuROM on the exe file. Instead it will use Valves own DRM instead.

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This is very good news for the PC gaming community. The companies are wising up to the loss of sales that their DRM is costing them and I don't mean through piracy...

It's a start. However, Read on:

Now if only they had TRUE dedicated server support. Currently you have to pay to rent a server from one of the "Official" hosters... Screw that! Looks like they too dropped the Dedicated server ball...

I guess it's Anarchy Online forever for me...