Caporegime
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Kill - do me a favour, when this starts getting a better experience, let me know - tempted to pick it up, but honestly dont want to be annoyed by yet another EA release that has been badly supported/thought-out. Kinda already had enough of it from FIFA 12...
Something like an FPS lives and breathes on server support - really would like to smash my tiny PS3 keyboard into EAs face...
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Wall of text ahoy.
It's still an enjoyable experience, but only with friends. If I had to play this on my own for any length of time I'd probably end up sticking the disk in the microwave or something, the bugs, glitches and crap servers are so annoying. I'm not sure what the general consensus is on this game, I've only read the last few pages but my thoughts based on around 7 hours of online, completion of the first two campaign missions on Hard and completion of the first 5 co-op missions on Hard:
- Graphics
The graphics seem to vary wildly, the smoke effects are jaw dropping, probably the best I've seen on a console but then the game falls arse backwards in other simple areas. The textures aren't particularly great and the models seem to be really low detail. I know you have to make some sacrifices in this department when you have a game of this scale on a console but the difference in quality between the PC and the consoles is massive, absolutely massive, it looks like a completely different game on PC and this might be overly harsh but the quality and the detail in this game feels like a step BACKWARD from BFBC2.
- Destructible Environments
Where are they? Honestly, in BFBC2 if someone is hiding in a building I blow the walls off, if I'm stuck inside and need to escape I can blow the door up, or blow a hole in the wall, it seemed like the vast majority of buildings and other man made objects can be destroyed. In this it feels like there's a few random houses and sheds that can be blown up and that's it. I guess that there has to be some buildings which need to be left standing, but at least let us blow the walls off, even if you won't let us level the building completely.
- Sound
Fair play, the sound is great, the voices are fantastic and add a bit of urgency when you're fighting, losing and need to start capping control points the game does a good job of making that urgency felt. The yells from other players are pretty good too, the guns sound great, the vehicle engines sound decent enough as well. The sound is probably the best thing about this game so far for me.
- Servers
The servers are pretty pathetic at the moment it has to be said. Now I now somebody will come in and say that they don't have any problems with lag, well that's great for you but so far the lag has ranged from slightly problematic to annoying as ****. There's nothing worse than knowing you've hit someone numerous times, only for them to shoot you once and drop you. It just feels totally unfair, as if you're shooting Smarties at them and they've got 50.cal rounds. Like I said earlier, throwing the medi packs and the ammo boxes is one of the most infuriating things, watching it leave your hands like 3 or 4 times before it finally hits the floor, or watching someone fly past you at 200mph and then come to a standstill before appearing behind you.
- Bugs/glitches
There's quite a few of them, I can't remember all the ones I've experienced right now, but I'm sure I will later on. I've had one where I've been unable to spawn, I've chosen a class and a spawn point but pressing X on any of them never lets me spawn, I had to leave the game and join another one.
I've had another bug where my crosshair kept disappearing, if I switched from my primary to my secondary it would briefly appear but then quickly disappear, switching guns would bring it back again but only for a second or so before disappearing.
Half the time I can't get into the "My Soldier" to check my stats or customize my loadouts, sometimes I press start to bring up my friends from the main menu and the game just hangs for a while until I press start again and it just disappears.
Tanks and other vehicles get stuck on seemingly innocuous objects, I had my T-90 get stuck on a fallen tree branch for instance, I mean what the ****, seriously?
That said the game is still fun to play with friends, there's nothing better than seeing you and your mate at the top of the leaderboard knowing that it's because you worked as a team, or turning your teams fortunes around after going and taking all of the control points and holding them from the enemy. I'd hate to play it by myself for any length of time though, not until they iron the bugs out and make the servers better. Fun with friends but I'd probably avoid it for the time being if I had no other people to play it with.
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