Releasing a whole host of DLC map packs is not support.
- Fixing the god awful hit detection, seriously the game is much worse than any of the previous Battlefield games and TDM highlights just how bad it really is. You can easily duck behind a container and a good second and a half later be killed by a guy who was shooting at you r location when you where standing to the side of the container. It is very obvious that what you see on screen is not what the other player is seeing.
- The awful client side system, in the past you found a server usually based on ping, players and game style you joined you played and unless something was wrong you knew the next time you played your connection and as a direct result the lag and ping would be pretty much the same. The system they use now combined with the high turn over players means that lag and hit detection is based on how good your connection to another player is and if they have a rubbish connection YOU suffer for it. I am playing on a 30meg fibre optic system and suffering hit detection and lag issues because the guy I am shooting at is on some shitty 1meg broadband, nice. Add to this the fact that the new system allows for some extra ordinary cheats. BF2 commander hack, BFBC2 some aim botters, BF3 getting knifed while in a tank and being killed by ammo and media packs, nice!
- Talking of which the rampant cheaters, yeah their are the obvious ones but the game has a lot more cheaters than the previous ones, I am thankful I don't admin a BF3 server, I used to admin both BF2 and BFBC2 ones and had a 100% hit rate for cheater bans so believe me when I say BF3 has a lot of them, some are stupidly obvious a lot of them are very subtle but they are there. What's worse though is Ea have given them the method to hide thier cheating from their automated stats banning by giving them the opportunity to reset their stats if they pay for the premium service, double nice!
- The game is flawed, it is all about quick decisions, move from one place to another, split second reactions meaning the difference between kill or be killed. Why the fuck they added these stupid context sensitive animations in is beyond me. If you aren't in exactly the right place at the right time you are
1). Left jumping up and down on the spot like an idiot with a shoot me tag on your head, just because all you wanted to do was jump over a fence or object
2). Left standing with nothing more than knife in your hand because you aren't in the right place to get the stab animation running, bringing a knife to a gun fight, BF3 will show just what this means.
3). Jumping up and down like an idiot just to get from one end of the map to the other, Try just walking across Battle at Karkand after the game has been running for five or ten minutes. You can't every bit of debris, damage, even kerbs you need to jump to get over something a normal person would just STEP over.
I know it was small and console-exclusive, but that game got me into BF and imho is much better than BC2 and BF3 (the only other BF games I played.)
