I found it really confusing at first but it is the spawning on your squad mates (so random places) when you are struggling with new game mechanics and a new map. I remember thinking that I was really bad at the game and getting a bit depressed but once you get past that it gets easier!

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Guess your right mate as they are not exactly going to say there game does not look very good on consoles compared to a high end PC now are they.

I know its a beta but its full of glitches on xbox and it really does not look very good at all on xbox .
I was hoping for so much more , very disappoint but going to go see it on a friends high end PC at the weekend and see what all the fuss is about .

I can't see the visuals improving. I am seriously considering cancelling my pre order and picking RAGE up instead.

MW3 looks better by a long way. I think BFBC2 was about the same as BF3 to look at on PS3. It almost feels like I've been scammed.
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MW3 worried that it will be game, plus extra's, almost like a subscription game.

BF3 have downloaded and played XBox, better levels than Black Ops, in terms of variation in design, some glitching, but fixable.

Gameplay, you die very quickly, Black Ops if not doing well you have chance to turn and at least fire in general direction, in games I played, if spotted I was dead, but then did same to others. Maybe lethality may be rebalanced.

Almost tempted to not buy either, and buy the odd bargain from XBox live (like Toy Soldiers which is fun to play), and have a more varied game time.

Guys don't spawn on your teammates, you are brand new to the game, you have no idea where to expect the enemy, so you will just twitch shoot and die.

Go recon for areas you don't know, and sit at the back, push forward when you get a feel for it. Once you've done that, go whatever class you want and start unlocking those accessories! Acog x4 yum.

After playing it for an hour...I'll stick with modern warfare

Downloaded it this morning and spent 30 minutes with a message can not connect to EA servers,time and time again year in year out we have one of the most anticipated games of the year,millions of people dying to play it and we have server issues because so many people want to test the game out.

Now this is not rocket science and EA and Dice would have been fully aware of the amount of load server side so why does this keep continuing to happen

Basically i gave up and went back to Gears 3...........Oh and I'm not hating on this game as i would have made the same remarks if MW3 had a beta and this was the end result

And Swanny you my friend were the last person on here who i thought would make a comment like that regarding this Battlefield as i know you are a Fan of this game.

Not dishing the dirt on the game but i have seen many negative things regarding this game and i expect many of the same for MW3, personally the most disappointed are those with consoles and it fails big time on a graphical level and its not even close to a bog standard PC.

Im seriously thinking of not buying this made by the comments alone on this forum from people in general that like Battlefield games.

I thought there was room in my gaming world for 2 first class shooters but i think I'm going to go with my hunch and stick with what i know and love MW.

Will try it out but my inner self knows that i wont like this much as i was never a avid fan in the first place and the more i read the less impressed the thing feels.

Yeah i think i will follow suit even though i have yet to play it,with MW3, Uncharted 3 and I'm so in love with Gears 3 then i think i will leave this for a rainy day next year.

I just hope that MW3 does not disappoint also and I'm hoping it wont

I mean i know i am going to play MW3 to death so even if Battlefields was a good game then quite frankly i can not spend the same amount of time with it.

Still i would actually get it for the single player experience that i think will be really good based on the previews but minus those drop dead gorgeous PC graphics.

If ever there was a reason for a next generation console then this is the time.

Anyway matey Shadow and Ico hit the streets tomorrow..........

Edited by time2die (Fri 30-Sep-11 00:35:56)

Don't know about you but I'm quite enjoying it. I'm not enjoying being killed all the time by people I can't even fecking see mind but it's really not a bad update to BF2 and maintains the spirit of the game somewhat as far as I can see.

I wish the map was better though. I am always getting lost and don't know where the enemy is coming from most of the time (when in the tunnels of course). The A/B markers need to be more prominent and properly displayed on the map also. A larger map overview would be good too.

Overall, I'd say DICE have done a pretty good job. There's plenty I don't like but enough attention to gameplay mechanics and little details (improvements over BF2) that make me feel they care enough about providing a good game for the sake of playing rather than simply awing people with some fancy update that is completely hollow.

I'd like to see how the vehicles handle on larger map sizes as that's the mode (Conquest) that most appeals to me.

Surprises for me were how smoothly the game ran considering the scare mongering about hardware requirements. I was getting 60 FPS much of the time when I looked. Also, stability - I didn't crash once or get stuck. No disconnections for me either. Weird!

You'd have to write a 10,000 word report at least to really cover this game. And so far, it's just a beta. To those who fear the finalised form will be much the same sans improvements, I think from my past gaming experience, something tells me there are often huge improvements made and a great deal of polish added to games that are in beta and have been released just weeks later.

I guess the beta is quite a world away from the actual retail product and only meant for testing. I expect it's far away from the finished product. That said, it's hard to see how console versions will greatly improve graphics wise as you can see they are going to have to sacrifice quite a bit to maintain large map sizes. Still, I bet both the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions will still be a world away from this mere beta release in looks. I'm not sure how the patching regime works out for console games but I know there's a hell of a lot of work to be done as far as the PC version goes if the graphics geometry and textures are representative of the kind of quality we can expect on release.

Edited by deleted (Fri 30-Sep-11 06:31:05)