Airsoft-Ed

Battlefield manages it to a much greater degree than CoD though. You don't have to sprint all the time because it's possible to kill people from a distance, so everyone slows down and acts more alert and everyone's more careful. You don't have to worry so much about people coming up from behind you every 5 seconds, despite having a map that marks where everyone is, because the maps are huge and there are a limited number of spawn points set at opposite ends of each map that even further reduce the chance. It's actually hard to sneak up on people because they can hear you, there's vehicles, that's realistic, there are squads, people don't have bright pink guns because they think it signifies their brilliance. It's just better in every way. I could go on, but I cba. Also, before anyone says. I never said CoD wasn't fun. I base a game's value, or at least a shooter's value, on how closely it mimics real life because that's what I want from a shooter. Battlefield does it far better than CoD, which is why I prefer Battlefield. There is no argument to be had. Each to their own.

Everyone liking CoD and saying it's "realistic" is what makes me angry. Ok, yes, you can shoot through walls. But everyone's tactic is sprint around until you see someone, pull the trigger and then do it all over again. It's just a case of who sees who first and it's utterly bollocks. Also, why are the maps all like having a fire fight in a pantry? They're so goddamn small, yet they still put snipers in the game... WHY?!

I'm ready to order a hit on my brother; I ordered a tightbore for my sniper the other day and it was due to arrive today. I wasn't in, typically, so they left a note through the door. On the way home I rang my brother to ask him if it'd been delivered, or if there'd been a note etc and he said yes, so I told him to take it upstairs so my mum wouldn't ask me any annoying questions about it. I was expecting to have to wait until there was another failed delivery tomorrow before I could ring and have them deliver it when I'm actually in, next monday. But what do I discover when I come to bed? Oh, only a note on my bed from Parcelforce saying that my tightbore is 15 f*cking cm down the goddamn road at the local postoffice, where no one ever leaves anything!! How much of a blind, retarded nob can my brother seriously be, to not have actually read what it said on a piece of paper that he was holding for a good 15 or more seconds. I mean wer ter ferfeddey fer?!

I got the UMP, it's the most rapey weapon ever. I wanna get the M40 really bad but I kinda cba with the beta since I read that your stats don't carry to the full game.

Fair enough, I finally got all the achievements about a month ago and I'm still not at the highest rank yet lol. Arica Harbour is an awesome map though, you can shoot from original attacker spawn to final defenders position on rush, maxes out the headshot bonus points but it is a bitch to spot someone who stays still long enough to hit, but it's still cool lol. I think AH is like, the Oasis equivalent map from BC1, but then they made Oasis for BFBC2... That was a good day. I hope that EA and DICE keep continually adding things to BF3 and not just leave it after a while like Codemasters did with Flashpoint.

I'm glad it's not just me that feels quite so put about when people make mistakes like that, I wasn't going to mention it, but then Dev had a go at Hubert for something similar, so I thought it needed addressing lol.

It's almost as bad as Marksman saying "Africa Harbour" when it's "Arica Harbour" =\

L96 and L85, awesome additions, but I hope the weapons are for console too...

IMO, material additions to any game are utterly pointless, all I want is the disk and the downloadable expansions.

The beta is only to test the servers etc, the full game will be better. From what I've heard it's basically the same as the Alpha at the moment. And yes you can prone. After playing Bad Company for so long it's really annoying, I keeping thinking people are dead when they're just prone lol.

Completely agree as well, couldn't have said it better myself. My dog has partially disabled back legs and she still goes crazy happy when I get home, dogs are so full of character. But yeah, she hates cats, but obviously because of her legs, she can never get near enough to tear them apart, she can't even climb stairs Poor Molly. Lol I could almost be talking about my own child or something.

It's down on the d-pad, which wasn't used in BFBC2 and up is to switch on lasers and torches etc. So the controls are exactly the same as bad company just with the added functions of up and down. To deploy bipods you just press the aim button briefly to mount it to any flat surface and then you can move it around about a 90 degree section and just aim as usual. Oh also, snipers are no longer super human, you have to hold your breath to take accurate shots at range if you don't have a bipod and you do that by holding down the movement stick (sprint button) whilst scoped in.

US have the M16A3, M4A1, Mk11/10, I forget which but I think it's an M110 either way and an M29 for support. SMAW is the US anti tank, though there's no vehicles in the beta unfortunately. Side arm is M9, but I've also unlocked the Glock 17C and the M9 tac, which is the same as the M9 + a flashlight. You can change firemode and switch attachments on an off etc. The Russians have the AK74M, AKS74u, RPK and Dragunov to start with, the Grach being their side arm and the RPG7 their anti tank. I've also unlocked the PP2000 for all classes, it counts as a primary though, and the M870 shotgun. Then obviously I also have the SV98. All the listed starting weapons are allocated per team, the US can't spawn with the Russian starting weapons, but unlocks can be used across the board. It's seriously good. I wish I could play it on PC though, having more players would be good, though the beta map might seem a little crowded, especially once you get into the metro tunnels.

My tag is Bullet4MyEnemy. 32 for 2 is my best game so far, I'm level 12 and I'm totally loving the SV98 with 12x scope and bipod and the M16. It's such a damn awesome game and it's not even in the final stage yet, I can't wait for Oct 29th. On another note, the straight pull bolt thing seems to just increase aiming stability and general accuracy a bit, but you can't use it in conjunction with the bipod, so I've more or less totally disregarded it lol.

What do you think I am? Vietnamese? I don't think me doing that would go down all that well...

I'm downloading the beta now =D

I'm more sad than angry because I got my KJW M700 the other day and I think it's stock performance is beastly so far, but I digress, I went to buy a scope today from my local gunsmiths and he didn't have the right scope mounts! So I'm stuck with mother feffing iron sights for an indefinite amount of time. Also, my girlfriend has decided that's she's giving me her cats (and I hate cats) because she's moving out of the country side, to a busy main road and doesn't want them to get hit by a car...

Just ordered my new gun =D KJW M700 Police version. Still having trouble finding mags though...

Open beta just announced, starts on September 29th.

Yeah, I'd like to actually play it... But at least Gears 3 and my new Uni course won't be neglected quite so much if there's no beta lol.

Anyone have any news on the beta yet? I'd have thought it'd be out this week, otherwise it's getting a bit close to the release date for the feedback to really be acted upon. I've not heard anything yet. I kinda expected the scroller on BFBC2's main screen to have posted some info by now.

I think it's an open beta and my guess would be that it'll just appear on the Market place/PSN Store/Internet and be available to everyone. I don't expect it to be out until after the 20th though.

Do you know how you get access to the Beta? Alpha testers get early access so it might just be you that can get it next week. You lucky arse >:-(

It's not that far away now. I heard a while ago that there's an open Beta due out on consoles around the release time of Gears of War 3. So that's about 3 or so weeks away.

Straight pull bolt? What's one of those when its at home? And quick reloads? They'd better not be killing the realism with retarded "slight of hand" type crap.