The Cerebellum

Okay so I went to add the Vietnam DLC to my installation of Battlefield Bad Company 2, both of which I had bought and downloaded through Steam. Well first off the key code is not easily located nor mentioned except in game when it asks, then you can’t simply copy then paste into the field, even though Steam gives the option to copy to clipboard and if that wasn’t crappy enough EA decides that it would be best to not save the code field if you enter it incorrectly the first try, so you have to re-enter the entire key string.

After that aggravation, I then check key bindings and none of the settings I have for the main game show in the Vietnam mod… The only thing the same is that all the aircraft bindings are cleared from my workaround to fix the broken BFBC2 control settings.

So not even the Steam Cloud nor the friking game can share the control settings…

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 for the PC is a mess, the shipped product had issues that were pointed out in the Beta, but alas…

Update: I think the only item that needs to be removed to fix the spinning and not being able to move left right, is the mouse look right, left and look up, down. It appears that there is a conflict with the mouse action and the shared joystick command.

My focus here is about removing the Joystick input from game options. I had originally dug through the files in the beta trying enable the throttle and trigger for my Logitek 2.4 wireless joystick, since there is apparently no way to remove (or add some joystick buttons) from the in-game option, I started digging through the input files to add or remove unwanted lines. The problem seems to be caused by the controls being designed for console game pads.

Then when I went to play the retail version, my player would not strafe or turn right or left in vehicles, (and I could type in game using those keys). I was messing with the mouse axis “look left, right” and the “look up, down” I think I switched them and the problem went away, so I was able to play. My clan-mate would go in game and spin in circles uncontrollably, with no joystick ever have been installed on the machine. He was also unable to set or unbind keys in game. This procedure fixed his problem. Continue reading

I noticed this on my DirecTv guide, it looks like the copy editor for the guide is not a football fan. Besides the fact that the subject does not match the title.

Well I am now following suit of a few sites that I frequent like Slash Film, Film School Rejects, and Collider in removing the Intense Debate comment system (although without any commenters here it was only helpful in limiting the spam). I wonder if they got too big to fast and they couldn’t handle the increased demand and what that did to their code.

It seems that numerous problems have arisen, starting with the slow page loads, on my site I just though it was the large files that I have that was causing this site to load slowly. Another problem is comments not showing in the blog, and even worse for me, I had made a comment on another blog, which 24 hours later still doesn’t show, but I get emails whenever someone else replies to the post. Even though I had email notification uncheck in my preferences, somehow ID has me following the post (I just had to go and delete another that makes 20). Now I went and made a comment and made sure that the subscription item was set to none, as there is no way in the control panel to see what I might be subscribed to I hope that works, as the next step will be to delete the account. Well I guess I should have looked at one of those emails last night, it had an unsubscribe link, that should work…

Now that I have disabled the Intense Debate plug-in the pages load much faster. It really hasn’t increased the load times for me on Slash Film, as most of the wait is from the variety of ad servers that the site makes requests of. With the recent down-time of ID the page loads would hang on Slash Film (so at least that isn’t dragging their site down more). And to Frosty over at Collider, I realize that you might have followed my advice to add the ID plugin to your WordPress blog, sorry. When I had referred it they weren’t having the problems they are having now.

/Film and FSR have switched over to the Disqus comment system, which at this point doesn’t seem all that bad the multiple ways to login is nice, you can register an account with Disqus use Facebook connect, Twitter, or just comment as a guest.