La beta para PC estará disponible a partir del 27 de Enero.  Y por cierto, los servidores dedicados estan confirmados, parece que ha habido un pequeño malentendido estos dias por la red.  Y es que como podéis comprobar en el extracto del comunicado oficial en el blog de EA, lo que no habrá serán herramientas de modding, y al final del mismo se dice que no se publicarán los archivos para servidores dedicados, esto es, que no todo el mundo se podrá montar su server dedicado, solo las empresas partners de EA, precisamente para preservar la integridad de los servidores dedicados.

Aquí tenéis los detalles de la BETA:

BETA Details:

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.