Global Conflict

Lots of small things:
deploy map is not oriented to North

The server browser needs some love:
It don't remember your settings after restarting
Can't filter on advanced stuff like FF and kill cam
sorting is reset after switching from servers to resent and back

Missing quality of life settings to:
Disable new squad on friend joining, and perhaps change it to not pull you out of squads with only friends?
Disable context orders, it is better then in bf3/4 but I still give random orders when spotting.
Lock vehicle to squad only, lost many AC vs AC becous some random spawns in my AC and starts driving away
Can't rebind bipod

and tanks are a bit OP

But I'm having fun pubbing, don't know how it will play out on GC.

cairdazar wrote:
and tanks are a bit OP

I am totally okay with this

After a couple of hours in the pre-alpha and now testing out the beta I can't wait to play this organized. Feels like a blend of BC2 and the older BF games. I love the different setups for the planes, flying around in the attack plane with a friend in the back handling anti-air and going ham with tank shells for the ground is pretty sick.

The overall atmosphere and sound is also so much better than BF3 and BF4.

Played a little bit and thought it was pretty fun too! Think they will probably work out better the weapon balance, but sniping is pretty fun right now. Got killed quite a few times by the bomber. Can't wait to play this in GC, hopefully all the server options are there for us.

Ps. Has anyone found the toggle aim option?

mrBLUE9 wrote:Ps. Has anyone found the toggle aim option?

Yeah, obviously it's in the Gameplay/Advanced screen, duh. Best interface evah!

My thoughts TL;DR - more hyphy than the alpha, buggier than the alpha.

Technical Notes:
Hold to drive vehicles no matter what side you're on. Tap to seat in the position you're closest to.
Newly binded buttons for opening/zooming map in land vehicles doesn't work for me.
Repair binding only allowed to stay on X?
Vehicle HUD for seats stays on screen even after bailing from planes.
Comms circle should really just be a circle instead of a 2-step mouse movement. Especially when you can't go back to select left/right once you've gone to one side - you have to release Q and press it again to correct yourself. And even then, the movement/response is really clunky.
Should be able to request an order on a flag/objective - not just a blank request for any order. We had this in BF4, why wasn't it just copy+pasted?!
Blatant hackers. I see them in chat and on killfeed but actually haven't died to one yet.
Progress bar for deploying needs better contrast. Can barely tell how much time you have until you can respawn.
Can't edit safe-space for HUD more.

Gameplay Notes:
Not sure why the recoil does seem to be nerfed. In the alpha it felt just right.
Everything else is basically what cairdazar mentioned. Why the heck haven't they just ported over the BF4 advanced settings they worked 3 years to perfect?

Róka wrote:Why the heck haven't they just ported over the BF4 advanced settings they worked 3 years to perfect?

Because when it comes to UI and balance, they like to start every game from scratch. Their buggy engine is just fine tho.

What was pointed out on mus1ck's stream last night is that conquest is totally fraked right now.

You can have the most points, the most kills and hold the most flags

and lose the round.

Bock wrote:

Róka wrote:Why the heck haven't they just ported over the BF4 advanced settings they worked 3 years to perfect?

Because when it comes to UI and balance, they like to start every game from scratch. Their buggy engine is just fine tho.

got on to a server. started spawning in with only my primary weapon and maybe one gadget. whole server complaining about spawning in with nothing and not being able to interact with anything. started spawning in T-posed with nothing, no interaction available.

gun glitch lives baby.

matsif wrote: gun glitch lives baby.

Gun glitch confirmed

If you want to watch a cinematic movie, this is a good game. If you want to play a better BF4, this is not it. Well, okay, I've only played the one map, and maybe Sinai Desert is horrible and the others are better. But Sinai sucks.

These remarks are the opinion of the author and do not reflect yada yada yada.

This is an EA game. Expect EA quality.

matsif wrote:got on to a server. started spawning in with only my primary weapon and maybe one gadget. whole server complaining about spawning in with nothing and not being able to interact with anything. started spawning in T-posed with nothing, no interaction available.

gun glitch lives baby.

EA got DDoS attacked and the "gun glitch" appeared during/after that attack together with all sorts of connection issues, no stats/progress, all players lvl 0, not able to join servers and so on. Hopefully it is not a real concrete gun glitch, but just related to stressed/server outage on EA backend caused by the DDoS attack.

how long is the beta? Can only play on the weekend...
Played the alpha, though.