PC Bad Company 2 beta dated

By Robert Purchese Published 11 January, 2010

Begins later this month.

EA's DICE studio has announced a start date for the PC beta of Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

Doors open on Thursday, 28th January, and close a month later on Thursday, 25th February.

One map, Port Valdez, will be available, and it support 32 players in game mode Rush. The focus of this snowy map is the Russians' attempt to bombard Alaskan oil supplies.

To take part, pre-order a copy of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 from the EA Store, where the game releases a day early on 4th March.

A Steam beta is in the works but not confirmed, DICE added on its blog. Also, no mod tools or public server files will be released for the game.

There will be dedicated servers, though. Wink.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (10) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • Teamallstar #1 2 years ago

    I wonder when the 360 version will be available?

  • LiveForever #2 2 years ago

    After the MW2 multiplayer glitch fest on 360 they really need a beta for this.
    Edited by 1 at 11/01/10 @ 09:54

  • roz123 #3 2 years ago

    Of course it will have dedicated servers, this is battlefield. If the beta is on steam i will be tempted to pre-order.

  • Apostle #4 2 years ago

    Interesting. I'm torn whether to go back to PC gaming, but my pc is very outdated by today's standards. Wonder what the minimum specs are?

  • neems #5 2 years ago

    Well I wanted to get in on this, but there is no way in hell that I would pre-order anything from the EA Store.

  • sneetch #6 2 years ago

    Yes please. Really looking forwards to this, looks fantastic, however I'm not pre-ordering anything from the EA store, if it reaches Steam then sure, but not EA's one.

  • sneetch #7 2 years ago

    @Apostle

    Wonder no more:

    Minimum Frostbite PC Specifications for BFBC2 & BF1943
    Processor: Core 2 Duo @ 2.0GHz
    Main memory: 2GB
    Graphics card: GeForce 7800 GT / ATI X1900
    Graphics memory: 256MB
    OS: Windows XP
    Free HDD space: 15GB for Digital Version, 10GB for Disc Version (BFBC2)
    10GB for Digital Version, 4GB for Disc Version (BF1943)

    Recommended Frostbite PC Specifications for BFBC2 & BF1943
    Processor: Quadcore
    Main memory: 2GB
    Graphics card: GeForce GTX 260
    Graphics memory: 512MB
    OS: Windows Vista or Windows 7
    Free HDD space: 15GB for Digital Version, 10GB for Disc Version (BFBC2)
    10GB for Digital Version, 4GB for Disc Version (BF1943)

  • christourlord #8 2 years ago

    I don't like all this "pre-order for beta access" bullshit, but I'm fairly excited for this game. My PC should eat up the minimum specs too :)

  • stoopidgreg #9 2 years ago

    10 quid cheaper on play.com and you still get beta access. can't wait.

  • Nomgle #10 2 years ago

    As above, you can pre-order from Play.com for Beta Access !