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[Karthus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bP8_Dmfbe0

[discordance]

http://mp1st.com/2011/10/02/leaked-weapon-list-for-battlefield-3-back-to-karkand-dlc/

[Karthus]

http://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield3/comments/l0ng1/ingame_squad_menu_will_be_in_retail_version/

Who knew...

[Brahms]

My thorts:

Although the game looks the same as BC2 it feels a lot different. Metro is purely infantry, so perhaps isn't the best way to judge the overall product, but the actual infantry combat feels to me a lot like COD4:MW in hardcore mode, but without the ludicrous bullet penetration that game had. I'm not really sure if this promotes a slower rate of play though, accuracy is very tight on most of the guns (mainly been using assault rifles) meaning spraying people at close range is very easy, from the hip or using sights. As I said, it feels a lot like COD, especially on this infantry only map.

Class choices seem a bit more in line with what I'd want, even though they're ostensibly the same as 2142, they seem a bit more like BF2. Although assault is meant to be a medic, if you take a grenade launcher it replaces the medkit and I'm hoping you can take another item (smoke grenade? Heavy armour?) to replace the defib. BF2 veterans will realise this would be the same loadout as the assault class in that game.

The customisation on the guns is nice. Each gun having it's own upgrade path makes it feel like there's more to do, more reason to stick with learning a gun rather than just unlocking stars. It's pleasant switching accessories depending on what point I'm attacking/defending. I don't think I'm just imagining the differences they make. If I'm defending the first point I might put an acog, bipod and heavy barrel on my AK, which is a nice defensive loadout, but attacking the second points (inside, close quarters) I might switch to a holo, foregrip and tactical light on the M16. Also, switchable firemodes are back, which adds another pleasant level of tactical choice.

Although there's meant to be a new destruction engine, I haven't noticed anything amazing, but I only just unlocked the grenade launcher so that may change.

Lag and hit detection are as terrible as they've ever been. You can sometimes shoot people in the head over and over and have them not die, going prone doesn't laways protect you from death even when you go prone behind cover and sometimes your health just ratchets down instantly from 100 to 0 before you can do anything aobut it, probably due to lag.

Overall, it's battlefield, if you enjoyed the other ones you'll probably enjoy this, I CBA with waiting around for sales and whatever on multiplayer games, because unlike singleplayer games, the experience will change as more people unlock things and learn the maps.

[discordance]

The destructible terrain on metro doesn't go much beyond boxes, glass, and a few thin walls. And trees.

[Karthus]

That is because they temporarily disabled it because it caused the falling-under-map-glitch.

[Berath]

Who needs PC Gamer reviews 

[DeadlyAvenger]

EA gave me a 15% off voucher for the origin store because they suck. Brilliantly, the code seemingly doesn't do anything.

[discordance]

what else used to blow up? the rocks?

[Berath]

EA gave me a 15% off voucher for the origin store because they suck. Brilliantly, the code seemingly doesn't do anything.

I'm wondering if my birthday discount voucher is still valid from May.

[Karthus]

what else used to blow up? the rocks?

lol no but you were able to create little holes in the ground with explosives. They could be used for the glitch do so they disabled it.

[CruelCow]

Tanks. Well, on a more serious note:

Walls were easier to destroy. The concrete walls at the beginning of metro seem near indestructible, compare that to the concrete walls in the BC2 beta map (forgot name), those were almost always gone by the time the mcoms went down.

Also, pretty much every building wall and most buildings, but BC2 didn't have an indoor map.

Can you still blow holes in the ground?

[Brahms]

I've seen a video where someone throws tonnes of C4 on the ground and makes a  hole.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKnihf8N_bs

Seems like it was in BC2.

[discordance]

woo

"If you are familiar with this game mode from Battlefield: Bad Company 2, you might want to know we are refining it for Battlefield 3 in a number of ways, based on player feedback. Some of the gameplay tweaks we are bringing to Rush are:
* You cannot use explosives or shoot at the M-COM to take it out. Only arm and disarm.


* If the attacking team arms the M-COM but runs out of tickets, the match will continue until the M-COM detonates or defenders disarm it


* If the defenders start disarming an M-COM just before it’s about to blow, the explosion is prevented until the disarm is accomplished. If the defender gets killed during the disarm process, the M-COM will instantly blow"

So its just broken atm? Usually seems to end up with the attackers losing once it explodes but once this is working will be massive improvement to rush

[DeadlyAvenger]

'If the defender gets killed during the disarm process, the M-COM will instantly blow' - is that any time it's armed? or just if someone disarms it just as it's about to blow anyway?