BFBC2 PC Beta Starting

[Ming]

will see you guys on line when this mofo comes out as I can't abide the piece of crap that is MW2....

As promised here is the PC Blog on the Beta & a few other things, yes some people, places, and things may have leaked a little something, but we are here to clarify everything and make it all official since we can now commit to the listed dates! :-)

BETA Details:
Beta Begins/Ends
Jan 28th/Feb 25th
Map Name
Port Valdez
Players
32
Game Mode
Rush
Environment
Snow
Theme
Vehicle and Infantry
Back Story
The battle for Port Valdez is fought alongside the waterline towards a great oil industrial landscape in the Alaskan mountains. Using basically everything they've got the Russian forces are launching an airborne assault to knock out the oil industries in the area. In their arsenal there are Main Battle Tanks as well as fast-moving Quad Bikes and mobile armored AA. It's a vehicle focused battle, but with plenty of infantry combat.


How to Download: Check back to the Battlefield Bad Company 2 Beta Page closer to beta launch date for download instructions.
How To Get Access: Reserve Battlefield Bad Company 2 is the most sure fire way and right now we are still finalizing which Retailers & e-Tailers will participate (it's up to them). If you're eager to ensure you get in confirmed distributors to Pre-Order consumers are the EA Store and at GameStop.com. We'll have another Blog to update new retailers & e-Tailers that have teamed up with us as well as alternate channels to obtain a Closed Beta Key.

Misc. Details

Steam Beta: Yes there was a leaked image of a Package file we propped on Steam. People with illegal accounts can see games in this environment, but this is not a Beta in the term of Public Test Beta, but a real development Beta installer client for the Steam version of the full game. We are however working with Steam to have the Public PC Beta available on Steam, but can't confirm this quite yet so cross your fingers Steam users. :-)
Anti Cheat: We're going with PunkBuster supporting the same options BF2 and BF2142 had to run unranked without PunkBuster.
Mod Tools: There will not be mod tools for BFBC2. However a majority of the the games logic is controlled by the server and there will be Serverside control options for the dedicated servers.
Public Server Files: We will not distribute these publicly. There are many factors for why we have decided this with the biggest factor being security & integrity of our game & Dedicated Servers.

[Trigger]

cool! i won't be getting the beta demo, i'll just hear the feedback from you guys; i trust your judgments :) If its good then i'll be playing it alot more than MW2 which i just can't seem to bring myself to play lately :(

[Wanapint]

It does sounds good, not sure what they are doing with the dedi servers, and if they going to alow us to use our own.... I think they will eventually allow some modding but maybe once the game has beeen out a year...

[FlatLiner]

If we want to run a ranked bf2 server there will be no mods or fook all on it it has to be stock

and they will be out at release

[Busa]

You should beable to run the beta ok on our box cause it won't be ranked.

[FlatLiner]

Public Server Files: We will not distribute these publicly.
There are many factors for why we have decided this with the biggest factor being security & integrity of our game & Dedicated Servers.