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If you have been playing the new Battlefield Bad Company 2 beta, you probably know all about the horrible server browser. You are probably looking for a way to get rid of all the servers from other countries especially. Well, now there is a way (thanks to a big tip from dardf over at NFC, he deserves full credit for this :P).

How to do it:

1. Open the BFBC2Beta folder in your documents folder. If you are on windows 7, it will be located here -> C:\Users\[username]\Documents\BFBC2Beta
2. Open GameSettings.ini in notepad or some text editing software.
3. Scroll to the very bottom of the file and replace the line that starts with FavoriteGames= with FavoriteGames=Chicago;Virginia;Cali;Texas;Denver;San Jose;Atlanta;Dallas;NY;New York;Seattle;Quebec;Montreal;LA;WA;WDC;
4. Save the file
5. Boot into the game and in the bottom right corner there is a servers tab, use that instead of the one under multiplayer at the top.

All that does is search for any server that have the string "Chicago", "Virginia", "Cali", etc.. in their server name. So, it can also have many other uses such as if you wanted only hardcore servers, you could add "hardcore;" to the end of the semi-colon separated list and it would return only hardcore servers.

Note for users outside of North America, You can use the same trick but replace the string of North American cities with cities from around you. So, for example if you are in the UK you might use FavoriteGames=uk or if you are in Israel you might use FavoriteGames=Israel.

Hopefully that helps people, because as of now the beta has a fairly poor server browser and it is fairly time consuming to find servers.

Oh, and remember to check out the lizard lounge BC2 server when the game goes retail!