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Thankfully the beta for BFBC2 is easily joinable with free keys floating about left right and centre…But I have to say thanks to 28thMB|Morph for giving me a heads up on where to get them from GPForums.

First things first…I KNOW THIS IS A BETA AND I KNOW I SHOULDN’T BE JUDGING IT UNTIL RELEASE! Seriously, there’s always someone that points out the obvious…and to that someone I need to say that because I am aware of the Beta status, I am also able to predict somewhat what will be seen in the final edition…so stfu.

Im gonna keep this simple by simply listing what I like and dislike:

Pros:

• Intense and fast paced gameplay. The rush mode (only one available in the beta) is super intense and requires strategic attacks and retreats.
• The voice acting while I didnt really like the “quality” of voice acting, I really liked its placement. I mean you could be walking along and your teammate gets sniped next to you, your character will instantly yell out: “OH SHIT THERE’S A SHOOTER OUT THERE!” or something similar…its wonderful and frequent without the same voice saying the same thing over and over.
• One button to rule them all. Pressing Q will do a vast host of things…at least most of the time. If you’re looking at an enemy it will declare his location for your teammates, if you’re looking at an objective it will declare that objective as a priority target…and so on.
• Bullet fall. You shoot a bullet over distance and it will fall…you shoot a rocket over distance and it will most likely land about 20m short of your target…this makes for a challenging experience.
• Shit blows up yo! If some asshat sniper is camping in a room with a tiny window, shoot a rocket at the wall…et viola…larger window.
• Anyone can blow up the objectives by planting a timed charge on it, however a scout class can dump hordes of C4 on it and take it out in one go (seriously no one realises this).
• Vehicle gameplay…in most games that you have tanks, you use it as a tank. In this game if you charge your tank in, you will lose it…You need to play it strategically.
• No Prone! I HATE proners with a passion…so this is one thing I am supremely happy to see gone
• Upgrades. You know how you love to upgrade and get new guns in the Modern Warfare series? Well BC2 has you well covered with a vast array of perks, weapons and gadgets for you to use.

Cons:

• Upgrades. You know how you hate those assholes in Modern Warfare that had all the awesome guns that you didnt? Well BC2 does exactly the same…but I believe it does it worse. The initial gun for engineer (my preferred class) has 20 rounds…and due to the useless hitreg in this game those 20 rounds will not be enough to kill anything…which is just plain stupid.
• Lag. While this issue is being sorted out its still a raging nuisance that apparently only occurs on PC’s. Put it this way, I play all my games on 1920×1200 on full AA and I still manage about 60fps which I am happy with. In BC2Beta, I have to put all my graphics settings to low to be able to get a managable FPS from the game…so retarded.
• Hitreg. As stated before, the hitreg in this game (the beta at least) is beyond shocking…You will waste entire clips to kill someone and god forbid if they are any sort of distance away from you…cause NOTHING will hurt them. Rockets can go off right next to you and you will stand unharmed…knifing is next to useless unless the enemy is standing dead still because if they even flinch…you’ll miss. It’s frustrating and annoying and a game killer if the dev’s are not careful.
• Adding to the above point, ‘double-KO’ scenarios are annoying…when I’m right in front of an enemy and I blast him with my shotgun and he retaliates with a few rounds of his rifle…only one of us should die. I will shoot him clean off his feet yet somehow even though he is dead, his bullets magically lodge themselves into my chest post mortem. Ugh
• Knife. It has no reg, its slow, its autoaim sucks. Useless.
• No tap out…I am not a fan of suiciding, if I run out of ammo I will charge the enemy in hopes to do as much damage as I can before I respawn…when I die however I do not have the option to “tap out” and wait for spawn…so if some maniacal medic charges in to rez me when I only have 3 pistol rounds left, I have no choice…I have to fight on…and die again.
• Helicopters are back! I love piloting helicopters and all…but when you simply cant shoot one out of the sky, it starts getting ridiculous. At one point, 2 guys in a chopper simply flew around our spawn killing our tanks and antiair weapons before we could use them…and unless you have a high level engineer with targeting optics or w/e they are, you cant use homing missles on the damned thing. SO YOU CANT KILL IT! Rockets travel too slow to hit such a small target in the air. Annoying.
• No “aim down sights”. You can “toggle” iron sights as with Modern Warfare…but you cant opt to simply look down sights when you right click…which is hellishly frustrating because you constantly have to slam right click as well as left click to get the correct firing mode in a close quarters firefight.

Anyway there are a few more Pros and cons but I shall leave it there…I love the gameplay but theres just too much left to be desired. EA did their typical thing of focusing on fancy bits and pieces and less on core gameplay which is annoying…but I still have hopes for this game as if they fix a few little niggles then it would be largely playable.

That said however, I doubt it will be fixed in time for its March release…so expect to run into trouble