I got into the closed BETA about two weeks ago but haven’t gotten around to play that much, so my first impressions about the game. The graphics are good and there are lots of details on every model, the lighting effects are great and they adds a lot of realism to the game. I was daunted by the amount of glare, smoke and debris that where flying all around.
First I have only tried one map, the only map I think that’s available at the moment. I haven’t played the other Bad Company game and the last Battlefield series game I played was the 2142 one and before that I played Battlefield 2 for a long time. But I got away from that while playing World of Warcraft and other MMO’s for a few years but I don’t have the energy to put down the amount of hours that’s needed to actually be somewhat competitive and stay active within a guild, so I have not been playing much computer games the last couple of years.
Only fours classes this time Assault, Medic, Engineer and Recon they are pretty self-explanatory and if you have been playing these kinds of FPS before you know what you get. There are lost of unlocks and ways to customize your class, which is good, and you get points that counts towards each class unlocks individually. Even the vehicles have their own unlocks which is new to me at least, so if you camp tanks for entire games you don’t get all the assault unlocks which is a nice feature in my opinion. You also have a general ranking that gives you generic weapon unlocks that will be available to all the classes.
There is a major Recon overload happening on the BETA servers, and lots of complaints and trolling on the forums. I tried playing Recon after playing a few games as Assault, so my impressions after playing Recon. The sniping is harder in this game than I’m used to in the earlier games. You cant go prone in this game so you have much more scope movement while trying to get the head-shot in. The guns you start out with in this game as Recon isnt to powerful and its bolt action so you only have one shot than you need to reload. So with me being a crappy shot and the guns being weak equals not many kills. So I’m slowly working my way up to get the .50 Sniper rifle unlocked and some better scopes so maybe just maybe I can get one shot one kill. But I have heard that its really difficult getting a clean kill, because of the difficulty aiming on the PC and the amount of damage each shot does compared to the overall health of the enemy soldiers.
More about the destroyable terrain (spoiler: Which I love) and my though on the other classes in the game at a later time.
“Time to light these m*therf*ckers up!”
