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Of course the timing of this leak has nothing to do with Bad Company 2 hitting the shelves...

of course the video went down about 20 seconds after I posted it, screenies still exist though

I think this chap has...

BC2's teething issues continue:

We are sending out new servers to our providers called "R5". They will be testing them out and changing over the servers by tomorrow evening. This server contains some fixes for the "Connection to the server has been lost" message that a lot of you will have seen.

We are also working on making another new server over the weekend as EA has set up some dedicated front-end boxes just for Battlefield Bad Company 2 which we will update the server to use and should work to improve the stability of connections to EA for everyone.

The good news is at least they offer feedback unlike MW2...

The season is a week away, so a timely reminder for your calendars, smart phones and so on and handily enough, no typing required...

Dowload F1 2010 Outlook Calendar

I've been using KeePass for a couple of years now and it makes generating secure passwords and retaining them safely very simple.  Additionally it stores the web pages they may refer to as hyper-links.  You can also run it from a USB memory stick and have all you details encrypted and to hand on the road.

Lots of improvements in the new version, which I heartily recommend.

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Installed last night just before we went out for a meal - so this is just the initial impression.  It looks like Crysis, MW2 looks better IMHO.  It comes with punkbuster, which I had to manually update, and the EA login server fell over last night preventing multiplay. It crashed my graphics card twice.   Oh, the server bowser won't break any speed records either.

On the plus side, it has protection against cheats, it has dedicated servers and potentially a rosy future given the huge size of maps.  Here are some tips on faster server browsing

To help speed up your server browsing these tips can help you get results quicker.

• Use Favourites/History when possible

If you use the server browser then

Use the server browser
When it starts to search click CANCEL

Select the options:

• Ranked
• Not Full
• Not Empty
• No Password
• Leave Punkbuster checked
• Hit Refresh

You can use your friends list in game to connect on them without accessing the server browser.  Sadly the friends list was not functioning yesterday either.

TL:DR:

Buggy, cue version 1.1.

Personally, I'm pretty good, though the ridiculous amount of cheating douchebags means I will cease playing it this week once Bad Company 2 goes live.  In the meantime, this is nice montage for those who fail...

I've been using it for several months and am pleased to report it is the best torrent programme I have laid my hands on..

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Changes at the back end seem to have affected the website databases in the last day or so.  I received word from our hosts last night that the move was complete, so things should settle back down...