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Too much recoil and sway little to no control whats so ever on the guns

Sucks - crashed - lost server - thanks for nothing - also just looked at equipment options eneded in loops trying to get rid of something I just clicked on. Too much trouble. Need click and play, not click and crash

I just downloaded and started playing this game yesterday. I currently own bf 1942, bf2, b2142, bfbc2.
First impressions:
1. The game mechanics are good, running is a bit slow but I assume that can be upgraded later. I dislike they took out prone.
2. Graphics are nice.
3. I like the upgradable features that were added.
4. The guns seem quite nice, and better balanced than bfbc2. Although a medic running around with a heavy machine gun still makes 0 sense and it a massive reality breaker.
5. (probably the most important to me) No Squads or Friends list, I hope this will be added or I will never play this game. I play all the battlefield games because of the squad based combat. I have friends and I like to play with them in a team instead of some place else on the map.
6. maps : I love all the ladders on all the buildings it really opens up the combat.

Battlefield 2 with a boost in graphics and a bad company vibe.

seems like an excellent follow up that uses a pre-existing engine on the BF2 series. Love the new weapons and unlock system. I would really like to be able to pick my own server as i ran into an aimbotter today (hacking the BETA, what a loser troll) and i could do nothing but stop playing because every time i tried to get into a server the autojoin would just put me right back into the hacks server. Also i am having extreme lag issues but from what i see that is happening to a lot of people. All in all a bit more work needed but good job EA.

I like this game. However, seasoned battlefield veterans like myself have problems with this game. One, you cannot go prone. This is a vital tool in combat, and as long as there are protections from dolphin diving, I don't see why prone is taken out. Secondly, I am annoyed at the lack of graphics options. All you can do is set the overall graphics level, instead of being able to tailor the graphics to your computer. I can run it on full, but then I have to deal with the film grain, which you cannot turn off for some reason. I really like this game, but a lot of the players do not give team assistance, like ammo and medkits. It also annoys me that you cannot switch classes in battle. That was the best thing about battlefield games, is that everyone had a purpose, and if a situation arose that required a different style of play, then you could switch classes accordingly to deal with the situation. The battlefield evolves, but not you with it, which makes me angry when I am assault, and a tank rolls up. I have a dear want to switch to engineer, but I cannot due to them being different soldiers. If these problems are addressed, my impression with become much more favorable.

yes, its bf2 scaled back.. Its a console type game for that crowd.. I did not find the game as fun as bf2 mostly due to the lag which made the game not playing.. Ticket bleed is too fast... The spawn out of bounds kills are an major issue.. The kill time for walking OB is too short... Overall not my type of game and I will not be testing further.. Thank you for the look see.

If you want to finally patch bf2 add the ladders that got added to this game that made the map way more fun to play..

No ragdolls and sound (positioning) is terrible. Distant shots sound like they would be right next to me. But I guess they are last on todo-list?

I think it might be a little better if it ran for more than 5 minutes at a time... Also, my cursor doesn't load in properly, if at all, when I start it in full screen. And my game expands beyond the visible window when it's not in full screen. So when all the basic glitches are taken care of, I may consider playing it again... Also, how did crouch toggle get overlooked?

No potential for teamwork at all. I don't care if its F2P, if everyone just runs around with their head cut off the game will be bad. At least with hero's there wasn't as big a need for teamwork. With this, it just feels bad... Maybe it will get better.

(15-01-2011 09:07 PM)romrah_p Wrote: [ -> ]I did not find the game as fun as bf2 mostly due to the lag which made the game not playing.. Ticket bleed is too fast... The spawn out of bounds kills are an major issue.. The kill time for walking OB is too short...

These, as well as the glitch where you can't switch away from the RPG to the SMG (on Engineer) sometimes, are my biggest complaints and concerns.

Still, BFP4F shows a lot of potential. I'm hoping the lag issue is due to beta-only scanning processes or some such, and looking forward to the day when the bugs are fixed.

Keep on truckin', dev team! You get a thumbs-up from me.
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I like the customization and attributes and hope they show up in the Battlefield for consoles.

I do wish that you tone down the medic class though. I understand LMG's are very strong and can plow through enemies but my experience in this game along with BF2 has shown that these enemies are able to move and still shoot with incredibly accuracy. I think a realistic amount of recoil is necessary to balance out the class.

A lot of people use it thanks to its ability to revive enemies so you tend to vs a lot of medics so making it where they can't run and gun is necessary.

I like the customization and attributes and hope they show up in the Battlefield for consoles.

I do wish that you tone down the medic class though. I understand LMG's are very strong and can plow through enemies but my experience in this game along with BF2 has shown that these enemies are able to move and still shoot with incredibly accuracy. I think a realistic amount of recoil is necessary to balance out the class.

A lot of people use it thanks to its ability to revive enemies so you tend to vs a lot of medics so making it where they can't run and gun is necessary.

Lag makes the game unplayable, it freezes on critical moments, I'll to my dear console, though I'm still gonna play it (or try to) everyday.
Waiting eagerly for the BF3 beta though.

Worst user interface out of any game (including free ones) that I have ever encountered.

ok the lag isnt as much as an issue as I trned off most my other applications I forgot I had some big RAM eater up but still the classes are not balanced and the GUI sucks and why the hell does a medic with health packs get a damn machine gun? And still it is a bit laggy nonetheless or glitechy it semes like but yeah thats why its a beta...

But the classes just don't feeel right and I want to be able to use grenades and I gotta play games to buy them? weak and if i accidenly drag something over it wont let me start game because i dont have that item it happens on accident and the first time i played i tried to use the other stuff ofc just jump in so thats a bit frustrating it should have the preview option and just a WAY BETTER GUI for one and battlefield is not battlefield without the choppers and all imo tho but its not so bad and imma play some more and give some input just need to read up more on the forums because sometimes its sick or i swear people are hacking they go 30/0 in a game or etc or ill spawn and be killed almost instantly.

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also i as the poster above said the ability to change classes is frustrating i wanna be a medic because i want the machine gun and health and when tanks or Humvees come you'd think if you are dead or alive you could set your next class to spawn as so i could be an engineer and use my RPG but no gotta play the whole game as one class and the team doesn't help at all with tracers really or give you ammo or med-packs there should be a call for medic button and voice speech would help if you are playing in the heat of battle you do not have time to talk.

After playing for about 30min of game time, I have these thoughts.

#1 I would rather pay for a Bad Company 3 or the like instead of playing a mindless game.
#2 Even though it is still in Beta, there are a lot of fun aspects about it including the bugs.

Now the bugs did test me at times. I don't like the fact that looking down iron sights on a G3 and lining up the perfect shot, to see my bullets go over the guys head. I had to aim at the chest to get a head shot. Also found that aiming down the sights is far more inaccurate that just pointing the gun at the enemy and firing.

The mouse disappearing at the main menu forcing you to manually change the setting for full screen in the con file is irritating.

I guess I am not really used to playing a beta.

It's really difficult to use the menus, it's a little laggy in-game, there's LOTS of bugs, but it's really fun since it's only in Closed BETA...

Overall I am very impressed ESP considering it was easier and quicker to get up and running than bf2142 (the only other bf version I have played on a pc).

Some thoughts:

1: sound positioning - this needs to be addressed as it is currently very disoriented. Not know where medic help is needed and where shots are coming from

2: full prone - this would be nice.

3: longer games

Other than that, I assume the little bugs will at be addressed.

Bug question. Why is this free? How is EA making $$?

Rich

It is cool and all, but on my computer, its a bit laggy, and the graphics are good, but I don't like how you can't change classes. I only made one soldier so far and I made him a sniper in order to be able to snipe because its my favorite thing to do on these kind of games, but the distance that you can see is kind of upsetting, although it may have just been the map i was using. I was sniping but could only see a short distance and people were using tanks and mortars and just firing like crazy in my direction. Plus, i headshot some guy and I only got an assist?! All in all, its a good game, just a little disappointed, but very happy that I can be a part of closed beta