First impression was decent, though there were a lot of bugs and quite a lot of lag it's expected at this stage.
Was curious as why the sniper isn't 1 shot kill? I mean,understandable hitting someone in the arm or leg and them not dying, but in upper torso and the neck? No one survives that kind of shot except in extremely lucky chances. Was frustrated by that because the person you just shot then just runs away and as a sniper you can't run out in the open after them.
The tanks were a bit overpowered in my opinion, or atleast most players didnt have anything that could blow them up which meant that which ever side's tank survives the opening rush that player can just bang all the walls where players usually hide.
My first impression was...oh noes, so many cheaters laughing at Punk Busters face...hope this changes soon.
The sound is absolutely amazing, it makes 50% of this game in my eyes ( and ears ).
My first impression is that it is a buggy mess. It is a fun buggy mess, but still a mess. I wish that there were more frequent updates.
FIRST IMPRESSIOS: My first impression is that I like the game alot, the maps feel big and realy lends to snipers being useful aswell as transportaion. Vehicles can be a pain if there are to few engineers on the field to deal with them (I'm sure once more gets put in it will get better). Graphics are top notch for a FTP title and sounds arn't to bad although I belive the "I need a medic" spam in audio needs to be toned down quite a bit as thats all I ever hear when playing and detracts from the game. And one last thing I love is that the game realy feels 3d to me as there are people in buildings on roofs and in the streets fighting and feels like guirilla warfare.
CLASSES: From my time playing I'v tried the sniper, assault, and the engineer class. My first class I tried was the sniper, and playing him is a hard life at times and very lack luster most the time I'm off in the distance trying to pick people off spoting armor or if I chance it try to get in close to take a flag with just a pistol, now I have heard they will in the future be getting C4 and mortar strike. I just feel like snipers need more utility then they currently do.
Next is the assault class, now I like the assault class alot he feels very useful with his ammo resupply for himself and his team, not a whole lot to say a very balenced class in my opinion.
Last but now least for me is the engineer class, now he is deff my fav No1 class to play with right now, has it all in the beta atm from one of if not the best main weapons to repairing vehicles and raining down destuction on tanks and armord units. Currently I'v been trying him out with the shotgun and he is fairly addapted at doing this but still feels like there is room for improvement in this department (more later).
BUGS: The following is a list of some of the Glitches/Bugs I'v thus far encounterd while playing the game.
1)Disconnects from the server while clicking the play button ie..failing to join a game (going to weapons loadout as suggested on a different thread does alliviate this problem currently)
2)Mouse dissapearing upon loading the game in full screen mode ( I can "tab" through the menus but cannot get the mouse pointer to come up)
3)Game hard-locking up my computer while full screen, now when I start the game in full screen mode I don't get this only when I "alt+enter" into fullscreen do I run the risk of hardlocking up also when Alt+enter fullscreening the screen experiances a "tearing" effect.
4)Rocket launcher not reloading additional ammo, this is a well known bug as it appears and I'm deffinatly not immune to its effects.
5)Sound sometimes stutters/loops (I'm not sure as to why so am un-able to elborate on it further)
These are the biggist and off the top of my head problems I have delt with and realy need to be addressed before full launch I think.
SUGGESTIONS:Here are but a few of the things I feel the game would benifit from having in/done to make the game on the whole better (now I know there alot more things to come I'v heard of atleast 2 additional maps and also jets comming in at some point)
1)Attachments, now I know theres a good chance they will be there but I'll voice my opinion and say there a deff must for long term, scopes, bigger mags all that good stuff.
2)Gear/equipment, now I know we currently have the "clothing" ingame but I would like to see some utility put on them, like how about Kevlar or thermal goggles (you know to go with those smoke grenades I would like too). There are many other games to pull inspiration from like CoD, MoH ect.. wouldn't mind seeing as said smoke grenades, incindeary grenades (think napalm), placeable turrets or camras.
3)Operational buildings at capture points, like a repair bay for armor units, ammo depot/weapon loadout.
4)General decrease in weapon damage, now I only say this because I feel currently that the shotgun has no real reason to be a primary I feel in it's current iteration its more like a good secondary. What would bring it into a primary role would be bringing down other weapons damage so you can get
i was so happy i was like Wow this looks awesome
I remember my first kill also some one was trying to steal our flag and he was hiding where every one can see him i ran and shot 3 shots and then dead.
i really like this game, much better then Battlefield Heroes because this game is so balanced , and Better graphics and gameplay and sound
and we are even going to get HEli's and JETS , i can't believe it , JETS ! xD awesome and i still cannot believe that i am one of those lucky players to play in Beta
Keep going EA u are making so much good games
I got my beta key just before Christmas and played a few times (up to level 5) and gave up.
Thought I would give it a go today to see if I like it any more. I did not like it at all!!
It is very laggy on my PC - to the extent that I don't really feel in control.
As soon as I see someone I am dead, two/three shots to die is too fast - this coming from Heroes where your fights last a good few seconds.
I played as medic but could not tell who needed med packs so just spammed them everywhere.
On the training upgrades there was no indication of what benefit level 3 health woud give over level 2 - confusing.
Also guns seem far too big, why would a medic have such a huge gun?
I know its only beta,my main problem is with soldier movement it seems slower than BC2,would be awesome if you could control the soldier more like BF2.
Weapons handle way better than BC2, but only after 2 full games, I've already encountered a hacker.
BFH was riddled with them.
I am SO SICK AND TIRED of this Invisible cursor crap on startup! I mean come ON EA... You've KNOWN about this for weeks or more!
I mean yeah I can Tab Tab Tab Tab to Play and start a game, but I am SICK of this crap. It would be nice to be able to purchase some NON-Default gear
I like the game so far,seems very balanced
the emotes are too hard to select, it should be like BF2 where you can just swing the mouse in that direction.
Why do I have to click for weapon scrolling, why cant the weps just flip through my hands, it makes it so confusing some times.
no crouching, ughhh.
snipers are op
(21-01-2011 01:02 AM)skeetskeet Wrote: [ -> ]the emotes are too hard to select, it should be like BF2 where you can just swing the mouse in that direction.
Why do I have to click for weapon scrolling, why cant the weps just flip through my hands, it makes it so confusing some times.
no crouching, ughhh.
snipers are op
no crouching wut?
You mean no prone?
First Impressions? Okay, you asked for it...
What the hell? Are these graphics from 2001?
Wow this game's kinda fun, but the graphics are terrible.
Why does it take all 20 shots from my AR to kill this fool?
Why does it take more than one shot from my sniper rifle to kill this fool?
Wow these graphics are horrible.
Hmm. this game is actually kinda fun.
These colors are horribly drab and uninteresting.
Those were the thoughts running through my head upon first play.
This has got to be one of the worst games ever.
I know that its free and i should be grateful but there are a lot of better free games out there.
I do also know that this is a beta and a lot of the problems are going to be solved in the final but considering this is based on Battlefield 2 you did a very bad job.
The game is really laggy for me at very bad graphics. Now I know that I cant play on maximum on my netbook but other games like CoD 6(dont judge me), but also BFBC2 were playable on better graphics and without lag.
The result of playing on super low settings is a decreased visual range. This makes me extremely vulnerable to, well, everything.
Another thing are the classes. A vital part to a good game is the ability to change classes. You have to be able to adapt to certain situations. I get torn apart by tanks all the time does that mean I should always play as engineer?
Im not saying this cant change but by now I think the game is unplayable.
Graphics don't look too good, it's true. I feel lost simply because the game browser is missing, but i'm sure they will add it eventually. As for the rest of it, i think the game is great.
When i first loaded the game up yesterday i thought it was going to be awful. I didnt even manage to get the game loaded. However it suddenly worked this afternoon and it looks good.
A few things:
- Needs Chrome support or possibly the ability to launch from the desktop
- The store is not working yet, whenever i click to buy the screen goes dark and nothing can be selected
- the severs are also unreliable, whenever i log in it takes 2 or 3 attempts to join the game
Im looking forward to new updates and it looks promising. But when its finally released you
must be able to buy weapons and upgrades and be able to keep them rather than renting them
Not so good.
I don't like that your automatically put in a server, only to find out connection was lost or server is full. Give us, the players, the ability to pick the servers we want to play on.
The GUI is slow. REALLY slow. The character is fine, no problems, but when switching around buttons or dragging items off the appearance bar, it's annoying.
I don't like having to launch it from the website, give us the ability to launch it from our desktop.
More video options. "Low, Medium, High" Really? That's all? I want to select what I want off and what I want really cranked up.
Not very impressed, I'm not going to keep pressing "Play Now" and HOPE to get a server that connects or isn't full.
Edit:
I can't launch the game anymore. Whenever I press "Play Now" at the top of the website, it doesn't launch.
It would be nice if the rounds were a bit longer mabye 2000, or 1500 point games.
Also a game/server broswer would be great. I keep joining the same game over and over again
