BC2 Review, opinions so far... Options

[Magik5]

From last nights experience of trying to connect to servers, i pretty much gave up and went to bed as the game would either CTD on the server browser or say the connection to the server has been lost after each attempt at connecting. But hey, its beta - tried again when got home this afternoon and gave it another shot:

Not had one crash to desktop as of yet today, the server list populated as it should - even tho the server browser is a little slow to sort itself out.

Trying to add friends to the friends list didnt seem to work - you could successfuly search and find who you wanted to add but upon them accepting the friends request they still did not appear in the list - however when this gets working itll be a handy "quick connect" tool to join the server your mates are on.

When in the game, its very pretty to look at and runs fine at custom high settings for me (Q6600, 4870 1gb, 8gb pc6400) and not so far run into any tearing issues or the like (6 tells me he has this on his 8800gts sometimes). The weather effects and explosions etc are fun to watch, as well as watching a wall being blown out or a few trees being crumpled.

Movement takes a little getting used to, e.g. you cant move left or right when sprinting, but this i can get used to.

It doesnt feel consoley to me, however i think theyve tried to be clever with the movement to mimic a real life soldier, e.g. when you jump the camera moves along with the soldier to make you almost feel like your jumping with him. When knifing someone (managed 2 in a row because i accidentally spawned in as a sniper as was so disgusted i went on a knifing spree ) you see the soldiers arm come flying out with the stab and the camera wobbles a little along with it. I like these touch's because they connect you with the soldier your playing with an bring you that little bit closer to the game.

The pace of the game so far seems good, you can get a few good kills in before you die, or you can end up getting slaughtered a few seconds after spawning - pretty much the same as bf2 as it depends where the current action is.

The weapons are good so far, the sounds are great and the recoil animation are more realistic and lean more towards say PR then they do bf2. Monkey will be happy to know its still possible to n00btube people from a fair distance as i luckily managed this today playing as assault class.

The last game i played i got dropped from the server at exactly the same time 6 did - even though we were both playing on different servers which was rather odd.

So far so good - i have high hopes for the final release with the extra game modes and single player aspect - however its not quite polished yet and there are many bugs yet to fix before itll be a smooth ride.

[MonkeyFiend]

in the brief few hours between arising from bed at 4pm and going to work at 6pm (including washing/dinner etc.,) I managed to get a few games in. Still can't seem to get the mouse movement verying between laggy or over-sensitive making aiming at longer ranges hard.

M9 pistol still seems ridiculously overpowered. On a noobtube perspective, the use of the ammo box means I can hang and somewhere and infinitely resupply my noobtube. The downside is after firing a noobtube, if you've missed it takes a very long time to switch toanother weapon; usually meaning you die. The noobtube is much less powerful than bf2 - althougth the range/deviation are good, there's very little splash damage so you need to hit people almost perfectly.

Have still yet to see a game where a squad works together. Not a fan of the assault iron sights, however the unlocks seem to have better aim and sights. I've also noticed you can change graphics settings in the config files that you cant change in game; such as turning off bloom effects etc., might be handy for decluttering the view or for performance tweaks