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No dev console confirmed for Bad Company 2 PC |
Listed in: PC Gaming Tags: battlefield: bad company 2, DICE, EA, games for windows
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will not have access to a developer console at all. How sure are we about this? As sure as game dev Johan Anderson's tweet is: "No Console."
This message was tweeted some hours ago on (where else) Twitter, which then led to some fiery exchange over at the official EA forums. It was so heated taht DICE had to say something about it officially and join in on the thread.
"We have not removed a console from BC2. The simple reason is that BC1 and BC2 never have had an in-game console. Which also means that the game won't be possible to hack in this regard."
It's not surprising at all whythe game's followers reacted so shocked upon hearing the news. After all, this is the first time in the Battlefield series to not have a dev console on PC. It's not really a must-have per se, but fans do have it on their sure-want. The game devs, however, are saying that they're doing this to avoid the proliferation of cheating in the game.
Via [Aperture Games]
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But no, I never use consoles so it's not a problem.
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i dont get that u cant hack it ether as only cheats that they build in work so if they removed wireframe there wouldent be any console hacks other than FOV but that can be changed in a config typically
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I guess the reason to avoid cheating is what you can only say as their reason. As for kicking and voting, some games either map this to keys/buttons or just put the commands at the pause menu. And there are also some developer's console that does not do anything all except logging messages from game events.
Personally, it does not bother me(especially if the developers are going to put a useless console). What I do want though, is a way to tweak a game(FOV, bobcycle, display refresh rates). I don't care if they all throw it in a pause menu or some other method.
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Dice already cinfirmed that we won't be hosting our own servers and the server files will not be made public, so there's another reason why the console won't be available on PC.
I'm pretty sure custom mods/content have been ruled out of the PC version too.
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Any options will hopefully be tweakable in a ini or simply through an in game menu. That'd be fine with me.
If not, then we have some issues. I'd rather not that Activision-style neuter a game for no reason.
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The devs can easily prevent console cheats by using a cheats enabled command for the host.
People are upset is because the console is considered a basic along with dedicated servers and mods.
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Seriously, what the hell "Big Game Companies"?
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In Battlefield 2, the console was the most useful thing ever. Now it's gone.
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