Beta starts soon, provided you can drag yourselves off MW2- http://chud.com/articles/articles/21...ETA/Page1.html
Poor DICE. It looks pretty, too! It’s just a case of terrible timing.
The timing is that bad. Games isn’t supposed to be released until March. And while a lot of time will be spent on MW2, where else can you get your vehicular carnage fix from?
This is on my list of buys, so I might as well drop the $5 and preorder for the beta key. The LE edition is the same price and comes with some extra unlocks for the MP game. They have a pretty cool video for it on the Battlefield.com site.
Beta hits when the PS3 store updates today (whenever that happens). I’m working on getting codes for you folks!
I’d send an email if I thought I’d play at all … but as can be seen from my involvement in the MAG beta that would not happen. Better off giving it to someone who’d appreciate it.
All gone! I might have more next week.
Sweet! I played like five minutes at SDCC and it felt like it was going to be an awesome game. Now I have to try and remember what my PSN username is.
Really wish I could get in this. Loved the hell out of the first one and actually got crazy good at it. I’ve got a beta key so just PM me if you want it.
I went to Best Buy to preorder this and get the key but they told me that they didn’t have this available for preorder yet. I’ll give Gamestop a check to see if I catch any luck.
Here are a few gameplay videos that are giving me the itch.
I’m so damn excited for this, more so than I was MW2. I don’t care about the vehicles, I just can’t wait to play with the destructible environments.
Well, thanks to Zombiefever, I was able to get the beta and somehow pull myself away from MW2 for a few hours.
Basically it is more of the same, but I don’t think that is a bad thing. I like BC1 for the gameplay.
So far, based on this beta they have paired it down to four classes. I think that there were five in BC1. They also rearranged some of the weapon load outs.
I think everyone’s favorite must be the Recon/Sniper class, because that’s what most people tended to play on this map. The fuckers were everywhere. They have added the C4 to this class, as well as allowing the player to press the “select” button on the controller and “spot” and enemy, giving them that little red triangle on the map. If one of your teammates gets them, you get a XP bump as a “spot assist”. I like playing a sniper in this game, as it is much easier then in MW. I just can’t hit a damn thing in MW, but I can do well here. I do wish you could lay prone here, but I guess you can’t have everything.
The medic has the big gun and then medicine and call also bring you back from the dead.
The engineer has the silenced weapon, the tank mines, and the RPG.
The assault class has his AR and can also give extra ammo to himself or his squad. I do miss that injector they had, as I pulled my ass out of the fire a few times with it before.
You basically start out with a weapon load out that is the basics. As you progress in levels and points, you can upgrade to better weapon, or add “gadgets”. These are items like scopes and attachments depending upon what gun you use. I like the idea of a scope or red dot sight on the ARs, as I don’t like the iron sites much.
You can also unlock items that can be used by any class such as upgraded handguns or even grab a shotgun.
They added “specializations”, much like a perk system. As you gain points you can add things like carrying extra ammo, running faster and longer, items for vehicles.
There are a few new vehicles like a quad and a drone helicopter. You can pilot the little drone above the battlefield and guide missiles into the objectives without having to leave your base. There are also a few inplaced HMG and missiles like before.
I guess we’ll see how everything works in the final release, but with these extras, this is going to be a lot of fun, and with the teamwork dynamic changing almost every round, there is a ton of replay value.
They don’t still limit the voice chat to the 3 guys in your squad do they?
I’m not sure. I don’t have a mic, and so far I have only heard one guy talking, and he was bitching the whole time about no one talking back to him between the time he spent yelling at his kids or talking to someone else that was in the room with him.
I rarely heard anyone talking during my BC1 gameplay either, and I was usually in a squad when I played that. Maybe no one in my squad had mics either.
I’ve actually just started playing the first game regularly online, even though I’ve had it for a while. Really enjoying that multiplayer, in some ways more than I enjoyed Modern Warfare’s. If they can build on that for the sequel, it’s pretty much a day one purchase for me.
Yeah, I had it for awhile before I tried it too. Once I did I was hooked. Sometimes I have a better time than I do with MW. Both are pretty fun.
I’m honestly (pleasantly) surprised that the first game is still so active on Live. I have a friend in town that kept trying to get me to play it, because it’s like the only game he does play, but now that I finally gave it a shot I’m pretty hooked.
What I like about it more than Modern Warfare is that as a latecomer, there’s not that early onset frustration where everyone who’s been playing for longer than you can shoot rockets from their eyeballs and shit grenades on a whim while you’re relegated to a pistol and a dream of someday being able to score a point. It’s a lot more newbie friendly. Really miss that killcam, though. All FPS games should have the killcam.
Second one’s got a killcam!