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Medal of Honor Open BETA

Dragon — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:55:41 +0000

Yea, this confirms a “not playing” for me. I forced myself to keep playing open BETA (the second BETA open to everyone) last night just thinking that it was new and I had to get used to it – but I can’t. This is my opinion but I think it is ridiculously horrible. A little better than the first BETA but still horrible.

The environment is pretty and well detailed but there are so many trip hazards that just seem to hang me up and why is it so difficult to jump onto objects that are allowed to be jumped on – and then once on top of objects die from a falling death of only jumping down 6 feet. The player avatar movement is still garbage and the 2 ton grenades and 2 ton sandbags around my ankles are just pathetic. Still no lean and no prone.

The main reason it is impossible for me to enjoy this game is because the game is too Hardcore; it is 1 kill and then multiple deaths. It’s like the whole game is Hardcore and there is no option for Softcore – or a normal style of game play. There was a tremendous amount of camping in the games I played last night and for the type of player that I am always rushing objectives hard I that got me KDRs of 34/22, 26/19, 25/36 and so on. It’s not enjoyable to play the game when you are forced to camp and hide and move inch by inch. Sure I like realism but I also want to freedom to be able to play the game as I would any other game and have the option of different playing styles and not being penalized.

If this is the competition for COD:Black Ops I feel it is going to lose easily. I know people are getting tired of the same old maps in Battlefield BC2 so some players might venture away from BC2 to the new MOH but I wonder how long people will play it. Now depending on what happens with BC2:Vietnam that could be a bit a different story. If bugs from BC2 get fixed for BC2:Vietnam then it might hold some of the COD players that left from COD:MW2 but as for this COD player – I will stick it out in BC2 until COD:Black Ops releases. I do enjoy BC2 but my dedication belongs to COD. I have always enjoyed the MOH series for great single player game play but feeling shafted by MOH:Pacific Assault and then even worse with MOH:Airborne and now the icing on the cake that is the MOH Reboot – the MOH series is officially DEAD to me. We will just have to wait a little while longer and see what COD:Black Ops will bring to the table.

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COD:MW2 Player Count Still Dropping

Dragon — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:53:45 +0000

Well I have still been watching the COD:MW2 player counts on the Steam’s stats page every now and then but lately as I check the stats it seems that the MW2 peak is dropping little by little. Before Christmas the peak for the day was almost consecutively right around 100,000 and with gifts of MW2 for Christmas that number surged to 120,000 and even up as high as 124,682 in mid January however it seems that the numbers are on a steady decline now. Well the Battlefield BC2 BETA is out now and there seems to be a pretty big interest in that; including myself, but I think there are definitely some other games affecting that total as well. Whatever the reason over the last three weeks the peak player count has steadily declined down to where it is now averaging a peak just over 110,000 this week so far so there is a decent number of people that are sick of playing MW2 already or they are defiantly shopping around for something else to get into.

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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Public BETA

Dragon — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:31:30 +0000

Well the time is here. The game that so many put their hope in to “kill” COD:MW2 or at least give them something else to play instead of COD:MW2 or just play because they are already sick of the sub-par COD:MW2. Today marks the start of the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 public BETA and if you pre-ordered your game through a number of different websites then you should have been eligible for a public BETA key to play the game. I was a little late on getting up-to-date on all of the BETA info so I actually pre-ordered through GameStop yesterday (yes, the day of the BETA!) but surprisingly I received my BETA key late last night from GameStop and during the wait I manged to find a good torrent link to download the whopping 1.42GB installer so everything was ready for my normal half day of work on Fridays.

I got home just after noon today; grabbed some lunch and by 2:00PM I had BC2 installed and running. Wow. Totally not what I was expecting and going into a Battlefield game trying to play it like a Call of Duty game A) does not work very well, B) is not very fun and C) gets you killed A LOT. I haven’t played a Battlefield game since Battlefield 1942 and that was quite a while ago so as you can imagine I didn’t do very well first time around. Coming out of a few hours of game play tonight I found the game to be pretty decent in terms of actual fluid game play and definitely excellent in terms of graphics (although with the BETA there seems to be some minor performance issues) but it was rough. There were some frustrating times had since I have been playing COD games for nearly 7 years straight and this is a totally different game. I will need some more time and testing but the game really does look promising. Is it enough to pull me away from COD? Well that is yet to be known but I am anxious to get some more game play time in over the next few days.

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