Played the beta yesterday, extremely unimpressed, it gonna be a fanboi game, the rest of the gaming population not all but I'm guessing a large chunk will not really like this game...pre-order will be canceled me thinks

Edited by deleted (Fri 30-Sep-11 11:27:34)

The first impressions are not very good, to put it mildly.

As a PC gamer, I started with BF:1942 and have played all the games right through to BFBC2. So far I am very impressed, the gfx are excellent and gameplay very much in the Battlefield tradition.

Edited by nelix01 (Fri 30-Sep-11 15:23:56)

For the first time in ages I'm actually considering going to a Midnight launch of the game in my local Blockbuster store which is 5 minutes away.

But that means cancelling my order from shopto.net which is the hardened edition even though Blockbusters insist that they are doing the same editions.

Only 3 weeks ago they told me that they would only be having basic editions in so I'm on the fence at present and i am not desperate to play the game a few hours early just curious as to what a midnight launch of a game would be like.

Suppose one of the reasons i don't do Midnight launches is the amount of drunks in the vicinity of the area and something i could well do without,besides i don't want to get mugged for my hardened edition

Mugged by drunks? In Tewkesbury?

More danger of being accosted by geeks and bored to death with tales of gaming and hardware.

That was my thought too, something like a 570 to be on the safe side I was thinking. But for me, my trusty 5870 seems perfectly adequate so I'll bide my time and won't upgrade unless they release of Crysis 2 style graphics upgrade.

I don't think the graphics were all that mindblowing to be honest. Far from it really but that could partially be down to the map. But with Battlefield graphics was never the most important thing. I'm liking the general map layout - I think it's inspired really. DICE ought to be given credit for that. So far all the attention is on the graphics and the engine and destructibility it seems, which is sad.

The marketing hype creates an expectation graphically, and this is likely down to the movie-esque trailers that were likely cut together by marketing boys who have sod all to do with the game development. As FPS players we all know it's the gameplay mechanics that count. I'd much rather have great gameplay elements than beautiful vistas though I wouldn't complain too much if we had both!

Yeah, overclock that CPU! What did you go for btw?

Succinctly put. Couldn't agree more.

Logged on to the PC Beta this pm... spent some time being stabbed in the bushes

It looks very nice, but not sure if all the motion blur adds anything apart from a 'whoa look at thaaat!' The sniper sight-glint is cool, got my two kills by spotting that. The Squad system seems to work well...

...but the whole thing is v. laggy and not very responsive. By the time I spot an enemy, it's already too late (apart from those two...)

Edited by deleted (Fri 30-Sep-11 17:45:59)

Yeah the sniper glint. Fantastic idea really. I've been spending a lot of time in the bushes too but mostly hiding. I'm learning new lingo like 'bush wookies'. Like that!

I've done loads of crawling too. Loads and loads. I've practically crawled the entire length of the map almost. The animation is pretty cool. Plus it seemed safer at first to slither along, hiding in the bushes and behind walls and rocks and things until I got my bearings.

My trouble is I can't work out why other people can see me when in the tunnels and I cannot see them. I think I have a bit of an eyesight problem as it's not my monitor or anything like that. Plus I can't get the mouse movement smooth so that's my excuse for getting shot a lot.

It was meant to be Humorous mate as Tewkesbury is a nice historic hamlet and wherever you go you get the odd person that has had a few to many.

That was me just trying to find a reason not to go to a midnight launch,besides that i can wait another 12 hours because i have waited 2 years.