Medal of Honor - Beta thoughts

[Volstag9]

wait can anyone participate? Cause i thought you had to go through all the pre order crap.

No, I think if you preodered it you got the beta earlier...

And I haven't played the beta myself, but I'll try and bring myself to it, since I loved Medal of Honor.

well thanks for the response anyway.

 

[DEgaurdian]

How, exactly, do you get the Xbox beta?
Do you have to pre-order the game itself?

I'm pretty sure its pre-order only...

I'm confused as to what you mean.
I understand that you can only pre-order Medal of Honor, because it doesn't come out for a few months. I'm asking how you get the beta.
Sorry if I'm misinterpreting your response, it's just very confusing because the way you worded it makes it seem as if I'm supposed to know how to get it already.

As in you have to pre-order the game to get a code to download the beta.

 

[Radeonx]

How, exactly, do you get the Xbox beta?
Do you have to pre-order the game itself?

I'm pretty sure its pre-order only...

I'm confused as to what you mean.
I understand that you can only pre-order Medal of Honor, because it doesn't come out for a few months. I'm asking how you get the beta.
Sorry if I'm misinterpreting your response, it's just very confusing because the way you worded it makes it seem as if I'm supposed to know how to get it already.

As in you have to pre-order the game to get a code to download the beta.

Very well, thanks.

 

[Jasper Jeffs]

I played it on the PC. In my opinion, it's a generic piece of shit and I hope it fails miserably. FPS's are so fucking stale now, it's depressing.. oh well, back to TF2 and UT..

 

[Nomanslander]

The Beta finally arrived on XBOX Live last night, our PC and Sony brethren have been enjoying it for a while now.

Personally, I think there's no way in hell this will topple COD. The fundamental elements feel a little clumsily crafted in some areas.

For example, the controls are not nearly as fluid and satisfying as COD. It feels a bit clunky and awkward to aim and the hit detection seems to be very dodgy.

The game in its current form seems to be very laggy and keeps stuttering and getting stuck, teleporting my guy around corners and things. Definitely something that will need fixing.

It's not as good looking as Bad Company 2 either in my opinion, which is surprising to me. They've gone down the 'grey and brown' route, so to speak.

On the plus side, the classes seem well balanced, none of the guns feel overpowered and there are no stupid perks making a mess of things.

Anyone got any thoughts on it?

Well, it's beta, but that's pretty much summed up what I felt back when I played it on my PS3.
Clunky controls, awkward aim, lag up the yin yang on my part.

Plus I wasn't too fond of the sniper rifles, if EA/Dice really wants this game to compete with MW2 they got some work cut out for them.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I didn't realise either but it's modern warfare.
Not like modern warfare.
It is modern warfare.
Same game with a different name.

I have to disagree.

It feels and plays very differently from MW, unless you mean thematically which is also untrue as Dice were making modern day shooters before Infinity Ward.

I don't know how this "feels" different to you than modern warfare but IN MY FUCKING OPINION the game is too similar to the above mentioned game.

Untie that panty knot there, man. Calm yourself.

It's ok to disagree with eachother, y'know? No need to get all pissy over it.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

ahhh, there is your problem right there.

Beta: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle#Beta

Hence why I said 'in its current form'.

Also, the problems I pointed out such as control fluidity and artistic design choices are very unlikely to be changed in the main game.

So don't be such a fucking smartass.

 

[fozzy360]

Dunno about anybody else, but I'm having a good time with the beta. I've experienced little lag and no crashes. Granted, BFBC2 is still better, but I enjoy this much more than I do either of the MW games. Eh, maybe I'm just easy, but I think it's very fun.

 

[Valdsator]

After seeing how sloppy MOH Airborne was, I can never bring myself to play their games.

After playing MoH Airborne, I was extremely disappointed they didn't make a second one. D: Once I heard of the new MoH, and saw the trailer, I already thought it was going to be trying to beat Modern Warfare and blah blah blah. I did give it a bit of a chance though, but the gameplay doesn't look like Medal of Honor anymore. While I haven't tried the beta, some gameplay I've seen just seems way too generic.

Honestly...I want another WWII game. :]

 

[Anah'ya]

I shall just say one thing:

I launched the BETA and the first thing I thought was.. "He-He, look they even included a huge lettering scrolling at the bottom of the screen telling you this is a Beta. Why? Because people will just rage at it otherwise. Oh. Wait. They will anyway. Never-mind. Points for trying though."

 

[vonjibble]

I've been playing the pc beta a fair bit and I am enjoying it (after turning the mouse sensitivity way up).
I like how the point streak awards are set up and so far I like it better then BFBC2 and much more than MW2.
my only problem is that the shotgun with slug rounds is just a bad version of the bolt action rifle and its pump action takes way too long (under powered shotgun wtf?).

 

[shadow skill]

I didn't like it at all. I saw no reason to keep playing it when I have BC2 already.

 

[ThePlasmatizer]

I played the PC beta and I had to ask myself why anyone would play MoH when BC2 is in most cases an upgrade of it.

I don't think mixing Modern Warfare and Battlefield has worked at all for this game.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I played the PC beta and I had to ask myself why anyone would play MoH when BC2 is in most cases an upgrade of it.

I don't think mixing Modern Warfare and Battlefield has worked at all for this game.

Yeah I definately prefer Bad Company 2, but who knows, the finished game might be a huge improvement.

I shall just say one thing:

I launched the BETA and the first thing I thought was.. "He-He, look they even included a huge lettering scrolling at the bottom of the screen telling you this is a Beta. Why? Because people will just rage at it otherwise. Oh. Wait. They will anyway. Never-mind. Points for trying though."

I don't think anyone's raging on this thread, merely pointing out what we feel are the pros and cons of the Beta.

 

[Anah'ya]

I don't think anyone's raging on this thread, merely pointing out what we feel are the pros and cons of the Beta.

Noes, there's no raging going on here. But then again the Escapist is more civilized than most places and I've witnessed great rage wars already about it

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I don't think anyone's raging on this thread, merely pointing out what we feel are the pros and cons of the Beta.

Noes, there's no raging going on here. But then again the Escapist is more civilized than most places and I've witnessed great rage wars already about it

True true... every so often we get to see some funny rage wars around these parts... they're usually cracked down on fairly fast though.

As for me, I found myself getting frustrated with the game after a few minutes which for me was a sign that I should not play it for a long time. If I go 'rrrghgh' of 'fuck' in my first few minutes of a game, I know I'm in for a bumpy ride!

I'll go back in a week and see how much stuff has been updated, might be more fun then!

 

[Googenstien]

Game really adds nothing to the genre from the demo that theyve released

 

[Ironic Pirate]

I don't have it because stupid fucking EA refuses to acknowledge that Vet thing from BFBC2, and they won't let me have any of the stuff they promised they would.

Fuck you, EA.

 

[shaboinkin]

Besides some minor annoyances of the controls not working for my setup
I think it's suffering from an identity crisis. It has the effects of call of duty with the whole "+10 points! Killed an enemy" and all the other crap that call of duty does, while looking like (and sounding like) and playing like a small scale battlefield game. Usually games try to distinguish themselves from other games. I can't see that in this game.