Yea AT mines are ace. On a lot of maps it is easy to get mines placed and a lot of people don't spot them. Quite often I will play engi for the first 5 minutes of a map and then swap out to medic once I have left a few presents around It is not uncommon to be running around 5 mins later and suddenly find you have killed 2 or at least disabled another vehicle!

My playing time is actually 8 hours so that means you have 8 seconds to like it

its crashes when trying to join a server, not while actually playing.

I think it has lived up to the hype, it's absolutely brilliant, 7 of my mates have it now and we played 2 x 4 man squads on Sunday (took a while to get into a game together) but it was fantastic! I have converted quite a few friends to it now and they have all said they have never experienced a game with such fun online play. MW3 will be better for the campaign I reckon but for the online play I think BF will reign supreme this year, it just has so much more to offer and the team play is second to none.

At the end of the Day matey if your happy and your mates all enjoy it thats what matters,i have no problems with people preferring Battlefield over MW and Visa versa .

Yea that's it mate I agree, I will probably still get COD further down the line just not on release day unless I fancy a bit of a change to BF. I don't really like playing BF by myself online, but COD that is the best way to play as teamwork goes out the window so I may pick it up as a solo game. Only thing is I live with my best mate and we have the 2 xboxes setup in our living room so 99% of the time we play together so not sure if I will have chance!

Well i've given it some time now on the 360 and i absolutely love the gameplay, it feels way smoother and faster than either of the bad company's and the visuals are really something else when you consider everything that's going on!!! I've always played both battlefield and cod and i believe it's horses for courses, if you wanna run around getting your killstreaks on your own lonewolf style then it's cod all the way but if you want to become completely immersed in the battlezone with your team mates then it's battlefield. I do think that bf3 has taken a step towards cod purely on the pace of the game and if you ask me it's about time because as much as i loved bf bc2 it were'nt half slow. I've only played 2 or 3 campaign missions so far but i'm liking that too, and i truely believe t2d is missing out here!!!!
My only gripe so far and it is a big gripe is the server issues crashing out and struggling to get into games with 2 or 3 mates, takes way too long and 75% of the time you lose your connection, and if ea had addressed these issues sooner i think mw3 would have had a serious contender to it's throne but i'm afraid it may be too late.
Overall the gameplay/visuals have gone above my expectations (the beta really was poor)and as long as the server issues get sorted then i'll be playing this for a long while yet!!!

I think "Q spam" is a real problem for this game.

It's becoming more obvious that some people in the game basically run around relentlessly hitting Q in the hope of randomly spotting people and getting bonus points from it. I admit i've been lucky and managed to do it myself. Randomly spying some sniper a few miles away in a hedge somewhere. Not exactly fair really.

The nasty side effect is that even if you've spawned far back from the action, been relatively hidden and not actually engaged in any of the fight, that you'll be fired upon and killed.

Tactical light seems misconceived to me. I use it, but what a faff. Totally blinds everyone near it. It's like the tactical knife in MW2 where you can quick stab people from many metres away and be essentially invulnerable once you hit the button for it.

I'm now up to about 17 hours game time.

It's an enjoyable game and I'm by no means a terrible player. My K/D ratio is just above 1 and I tend to prefer Engineer class so I also consider myself to be a "contributing player" helping out with repairs and the like.

I'm definitely finding myself favouring a specific map type. Close quarters maps like Seine Crossing, Grand Bazaar and Tehran Highway are my favourites. They have lots of streets, buildings and windows. It's up close and personal and you need some forward thinking and tactics with your squad/team to progress very far or achieve your objectives.

The bigger/open maps like Firestorm, Caspian Border and Canals are very irritating. I essentially avoid them. It's just full of the aforementioned god like helicopter/jet pilots and the German kids with no life who has now attained Rank 50 with his EPIC SNIPER rifle which now has a 12x scope so he can see your nostril hair from several miles distance.

There are already hackers getting in on the act. Lots are being detected by Punkbuster (it helpfully informs everyone when it bans someone from the server you're on) but anyone who has played FPS games online will know that for every detected hacker there is likely to be another one who hasn't had his cheats caught yet. I've already had my fair share of 180 degree insto headshots from the sniper who is still gliding in on his parachute.

On the close quarters maps I mentioned there is a definite advantage to squad play. My mates will join up on a ventrilo server so we can talk amongst ourselves. Quite often this can be used to good effect with vehicles with some people driving, others repairing and spotting. If you're on your own the communication is harder. Very few people seem to use the limited in-game radio commands and even fewer use text chat from what I've seen. As a result, if you're on a team on your own you'll find it's basically a free for all with campers, idiots driving away in empty vehicles and general lack of tactics or support which weakens the game a lot.

Also the M249 is possibly the most overpowered gun in the game. The Battlelog itself lists it as a Medium range weapon but i've seen plenty of people using it like a fully automatic sniper rifle and hitting people at very long range with high accuracy. I'd imagine it will be balanced soon as plenty of other people seem to have similar thoughts.

Overall I'd probably rate the game as somewhere around 7/10. I don't regret the £40 spent on it. I'll likely continue to play it for many months unless MW3 is spectacularly epic or the game gets over run by hackers like BF2 did. I find it enjoyable on the whole and I feel it's been executed pretty well from a technical point of view. As mentioned the game modes offer variety. The maps have different scales and character with some small, some large, some open country, some city-scape. Some day, some night. There are probably millions of gun/accessory/kit combinations. The vehicles add an extra layer over Modern Warfare games. All that said I just always have these niggling thoughts in the back of my head that the flaws I've mentioned in my other posts just take the shine off it and sometimes lead to an infuriating session.

I have high hopes for MW3. Having watched many videos about it, including those from the developers, I can see that they're at least trying to address many of the problems I had with MW2. And trust me, despite MW2 receiving a solid 2 years of game play and many hundreds of hours of my time, I had plenty of issues with it. I believe the way they're addressing the "killstreaks" into various types of "point streaks" will add a very subtle but important element of strategy missing from the previous titles. The return of servers for the PC is welcome. Ditching stuff like commando, nukes and that sort of thing will be good for the game. If they pull off the fixes and changes that have been talked about then it'll easily replace BF3 for me.

Edited by orly (Wed 02-Nov-11 03:40:06)

I've had no "crashes" but do get quite a lot of "Connection timed out" messages. Annoying if you're half way through a game and have accumulated a few thousand points or some ranks/unlocks as they all disappear if you get disconnected before the end.

Seems to be a widespread issue too. Seen some "fixes" involving stopping SSDP discovery service and UPNP Device host in services.msc but they only seem to "alleviate" rather than cure in my instance.