Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PC Patch Removes SecuRom DRM from Steam
March 16, 2010 at 11:29 pm by Ruibo
DICE is releasing a patch with an enormous amounts of bug fixes and improvements, but one most noticeable for players on Steam is that the SecuROM DRM will be removed. There is an extent to how much DRM protection your loyal customers are willing to take and Ubisoft needs to take some notes on this subject. DICE is moving in the right direction and I could not be anymore happier to see SecuROM removed completely from the Steam client.
You can find the rest of the patch notes below for those interested.
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 scenesMulti 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
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And when are they gonna fix the damn team balance?
and what the fuck about the damn black screen of death? thats the most important of all!!!
second the team balance.
Why dont they shut down torrents and start arresting people? I think that will stop piracy and stop putting game developers out of a job.
Shut down torrents and arrest people?
Learn a bit about torrents and then revel in your own stupidity.
What a fucking idiot.
Maybe if game developers made games worth a shit and stopped trying to punish LEGIT game owners, you'd find that the rate of piracy would lessen greatly. There's no way in hell I'm going to pay $60 for a PC game RENTAL in which I can only install the game a set number of times.
If you think piracy is what's killing game development, you couldn't be more wrong. Use your brain before you try to jump on the anti-piracy bandwagon, "bob."
Why would anyone pay $60 for a PC game RENTAL if it's only $35 for an unused brand new copy? Crooked reasoning.
There are hundreds of thousands of game buying people, if not more, that are completely ignorant of torrents, rar and par files, cracked servers, setting up Tunngle or Hamachi or whatever, and so on. They simply double-click icons but never go into configuring. Some panic when AutoPlay isn't enabled and return their copies because they think there is something wrong with the disc. You know the type.
Of all those people, most I'm convinced buy the game not because they are honest or fair-hearted, but because they can't be bothered with all the hassle and technical know-how of doing it the illegal way. The moment anti-piracy measures are removed they, too, will happily start copying games or having them copied for a small price.