Unfortunately I thought the Gamestop pre-orders gave you early beta, but meh. I'll just wait it out for another two days
I'm pretty sure a majority of the people in the beta aren't there for "beta testing". More like playing a demo. Should have been called that.
Everything I've been reading seems to be saying the beta is pretty much a disaster. Looks terrible, plays terrible. I'm not sure what they were thinking. Sounds like they released an Alpha, not a beta. I wonder if they are going to lose pre-orders over it? Mind you, I haven't tried it yet. I don't have early access yet. Also I'm just talking about the 360 version. I'm not sure if the PS3 or PC betas are any better (or if they even exist yet).
Quite frankly to me the graphics on xbox aren't to great... multiple glitches that are small and I'm starting to think they're to lazy to fix
I played the beta on my PS3 today and while the graphics aren't bad, the gameplay isn't as good as I was expecting it to be. There are still many serious bugs like falling through the ground, not being able to aim down the sights, not being able to knife other players etc. The game just feels janky and as though as it's still in alpha. I know they're calling it a beta but it's really more of a demo that will pretty much resemble the final game. I'm much more exited about Skyrim.
All the serious bugs you've listed I've experienced except falling through the map lol... It could have been Lag from the Host though and I'm on xbox
Im pretty disappointed by it, all the videos made the graphics look awesome but they look really shoddy, i am really unsure about getting this now and before i was really excited lol-getting mw3 for xmas and wanted this for the 2 months gap but looks like ill stick with gears of war-shame as its been hyped up so much and pretty much fails miserably
Did you see the videos I posted the graphics are great?! As for the bugs, yea there's a lot, but it's come a long way from alpha so I'm sure they'll get ironed out before launch. Caspian border is great and feels just like battlefield should, not sure about the player limit on console but 64 players doesn't even feel like enough for the PC version, the map is just insanely huge! I'm enjoying the hell out of the beta so far and can't wait for the 25th. Shame the console players don't seem too happy with it so far but I've been sayin since the beginning the hype is all on the PC version, the console versions are ports. Which is fine with me as BF started on PC anyways and has never really translated well to the consoles ever. If anyone played 1942 then tried modern combat on the original Xbox you'd know exactly what I'm talking about. Remember though a lot of the bugs are from server errors and an update is coming this week to adress most of the bugs. As for graphics I know they have said these aren't the final version graphics as a lot of shaders and stuff has been disabled.
I play on the ps3 and the graphics are f*****g great. I've nit had the chance to play the caspian border map yet but even without the vehicles this game is brilliant. The shear amount of customization to your class is awesome. The way you can blind a sniper from 200 yards away with your laser sight is pure genius. The tactical flashlight can blind foes in close quarters but will get you spotted in log distances if you forget to turn it off. From the support class, to the engineer class, recon, and whatever mixture in between, everything just works so fluently together that I am amazed. Every soldier has a job and if your not executing that job to it's potential you run the risk of making the whole team suffer because of it. Even on the consoles this game is done do well. I'll say it again, the graphics, even on consoles, are f*****g amazing.
Well put madman, I agree 100%! The kits and teamwork aspect is what makes this game so great, I'm also super glad the console graphics aren't as bad as some people are making them out to be. Plus this is just the beta, there's still a lot of final polish being added up to release. So far playing every battlefield since 1942 and a heavy Bf2/2142 player for the last few years I can easily say this game is a most true and worthy successor to the franchise.
I don't know about you guys but I played 4 games on the PS3 and haven't come across some of the bugs before. I'm pretty sure knifing doesn't lock on anymore until it's executed. My only complaint so far is the FPS. It's kind of choppy. Edit: So apparently DICE toned down the video in the console beta so that they could focus more on other stuff such as the server and stuff.
