Anyone else playin' the beta for BFBC 2 on PS3? If not you're missin' out big time for now. This game is damn near perfect, graphics aside. Not sure what is up with the graphics but instead of being to grainy this time it is too damn bright. When you lower your contrast to subdue to brightness the overall graphics take a hit. Hopefully it'll be spruced up a bit before March.
The "killcam" is kind of retarded, being a BF fan, but if you're smart about it you can make it so it doesn't show you or a very good picture of your location. I say "killcam" because it's not really a killcam. It doesn't show the kill it just shows who killed you. In a game with maps this big it's also worth noting it's not really in the recently departed's best interest to seek you out. With so much goin' on they're likely to get killed before they reach you or give you a chance to spot them out.
The decrease in armor totally blew me away. I was expecting the damage system to be like CoD MW 2's but it's no where near it. It's probably the best damage system in a game I've played to date. It's somewhere between BFBC and CoD 4.
The vehicle perks are kind of lame but they give infantry that can deal with them enough rockets and stuff to make up for it. The vehicles also don't seem to do as much splash damage with their explosive weapons as they did in BFBC either.
Something I really like but I'm not to sure if it was random or what, but in BFBC you could go back to previous bases and camp or work a flank. I have a habit of goin' back to a base once we get a new one and clearin' out those goons who do that, they're annoyin' as hell. When I went back to far, to our last base, I got a message on my screen that read, "Epic Fail", and I died. So it looks like once you progress on a map you have to move forward after a set amount of time or you die.
Dice has also done a lot to discourage those campfire snipers. If you're to far back you'll have a nice time tryin' to get kills when your bullets. After a certain distance, they grow a mind of their own and start dipping, going up, or moving left and right. In BFBC sniper shots went straight and only straight until they either reached their limit (disappear) or hit something.
There are tons of unlocks as well. They have perks, scopes, and none scope attachments this time around. I don't believe there is anything like stopping power or perks like that, but it's more around things like increased sprint speed, slugs instead of buckshot for shotguns, more ammo, and things of that nature. Their is one that has an emblem of a shield on it which I guess will give an increase to your HP but that may be the closest thing to a CoD perk there is, if that is even what it is.
Unlocking things this time around is goin' to be a chore. Each class has 3 perk slots. You open those slots based on points you score while using that class. Same goes for unlocking the weapons, except sidearms. So the only way to unlock the M95 sniper is to build up your points up on your Recon class to the designated amount. The perks and sidearms unlock as you rank up (i.e. sergeant, major, etc.).
Overall it's just what any BFBC fan could want. Pretty much the same with a lot of unlocks and only necessary changes, killcam aside. They've fleshed out the issue of consuming way to much ammo at times to get a kill with automatic weapons and pistols, but it's balanced still so that if I run up on some using an SMG and I have an assault rifle, they get the advantage since their weapon is for close quarters combat, just like in BFBC. The film grain is gone, thankfully, and while the graphics now are kind of low quality, it still looks 100% better than BFBC and gives you a way better long range view. The health system is also a lot better. When you get low your screen doesn't gray out until you die. As a matter of fact, your screen goes back to normal after you run off and sit for a while. Your HP also regens but it takes a good bit of time for that to kick in and heals you up slow as balls when it gets going. So it's not as bad as in CoD or 1943 PSN/XBLA edition. To be put simply, it wont save you but if you won the gunfight it'll keep you in the game for another round.
For those of you that are playing, I think the best damn weapon in the game is the pistol from BF 1943. It can snipe and rip a turd at close and medium range. I was figurin' the 1943 weapons would pale in comparison to modern weapons but this baby is a beast. If you're runnin' with the Engineer class, the Specialist class of BFBC with tool tweaks, it's your best bet for long and medium ranged kills until you unlock the AK74u and their version of the ACOG.
