I’m really surprised that they’ve already used the frostbite engine based on the issues and glitches in the game. Xbox players losing stats, PunkBuster issues on the PC, horrible support for the veteran program and general glitches. I’ve been playing through single player and jumping in late on multiplayer in hopes that the reduced load means I can get some decent games but the decent games I was getting before the latest patches have been plagued with Punkbuster issues.
Single player is a lot fun, I finished a map that was sniper heavy and it was great getting the hell kicked out of me trying to find where the snipers were. In this same map, I ran into an issue where I picked up a gun that didn’t give me the credit for finding it, not a big deal really but it also started showing no ammo for my other guns but I could fire. The crew just kind of sat around while I was waiting for them to move forward and finally I ended up moving along on my own, found the objective and finished it. Things were fine after the cut scene. My big grip with SP is that they have quite a few that have too much intensity to not have an extra save. In particular, you take out the ground forces and face 2 helicopters at the end. It would be nice to have a save before facing somewhat of a “boss” challenge. Instead I died a few times trying to take out the heli’s and I had to respawn and go through the same ground troops again. Annoying as hell.
Nelson Bay on the Rush mode is probably my favorite right now. There was another in conquest that I really liked that had close action in buildings but I don’t recall the map name. Not too heavy on the armor and reminded me of Strike on BF2 with regards to the infantry fights.
Overall, it’s another DICE release which usually means it’s dicey at launch which I don’t really understand. 1942 was their entry and I could see the issues occuring but they’re using an engine that ran the first Bad Company and they have 4 FPS games under their belt, I’d think they’d be ready for this crap. As far as I remember 2142 was a decent release and an extension of BF2 much like Vietnam was an extension of 1942 but had more issues. They had finally gotten a lot of issues out of the way with BF2 / 2142 and I would think things like saving your default guns for each class would be there from the beginning but I have to choose every class again from game to game.
It’s frustrating but I’ve been down the road before, the game play is incredible and there’s no doubt they’ll get things worked out but I only hope it’s not after a year or more like BF2.
