XBOX 360 Demo is up!

First impression - this game could do with some anti-aliasing badly. It's jaggy as ****.

Other than that though it's awesome. For the first time in a BF game I actually think the infantry combat feels great - and the sounds are just utterly orgasmic. I just had a pretty epic game holding the last two points, managed to rack up 4900 points. Seems a little unfair on the attackers, because we had a TOW and a heavy MG emplacement on a building which could see all the way down the road to their spawn, I was just looping tracer rounds down the road picking people off, and blowing up their vehicles before they could even reach our base. All the while I was spamming the shit out the 'spot' button and picking up tons of assists while the heli just raped everything else coming down the road.

Can't wait to try it out on PC.
 
I'm guessing it's jaggy to keep the space as low as possible for downloading. Same thing on the PS3 beta. I wonder how it will be on the PC beta.
 
Times like these I'm glad I got a 360, sucks for that to just sit there and collect dust all the time. Don't get why they can't release a demo for the PC though, I hate FPS on consoles.
 
Is the demo the same map as the PC beta? What else is different? Does the PC beta get a different gamemode or something?

And yeah the AA in the PS3 beta was horrid. Was hoping the 360 would atleast have 2aa.
 
jimbo118 said:
Is the demo the same map as the PC beta? What else is different? Does the PC beta get a different gamemode or something?
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Yeah it's the same map, and probably the same gametype. The PC beta will probably have all the weapon/gadget unlocks though, the 360 demo only lets you unlock one alternate weapon for each class and only lets you get up to level 2.
 
****.

this is the one time i'm going to miss not having a 360 and live at uni. i'd like to play mass effect 2 year sure but i can wait but fuuuuck i wan't to play this so much. i had such great fun in the last BC demo.
 
Is it just me or does the xbox 360 version look worse than the PS3? I only tried one match, which seemed to lag like hell. On the PS3 beta I don't recall it being laggy.
 
Awesome, might download in a bit. The only thing I'm really concerned about with this game is the music. BC1 had an amazing orchestral soundtrack coupled with the surf rock, soul music, and the awesome The Beast by Milt Buckner as the main theme. I hope they don't dump the crazy surf rock.
 
played it on PS3, but I'm going to rent this game or get it cheap
 
I don't like how the specialist is now an engineer and no longer has C4, I used to main them in BFBC1.
 
Just played a few rounds.

360 demo has less jaggies then the PS3 beta from what I can see. Prolly helps that the 360 demo supports 1080p whereas the PS3 beta only went to 720p. Colours seem slighlty darker too.

One thing I don't like is there is no ability to actually choose what squad to join (unless you join a friend's squad). Kept getting stuck with a squad of 3 snipers on offence :| Also, you can't manually make a squad either. The game just generates 4 squads with 4 vacant spaces each at the round's start. Still, you can make squads private and invite only so it's fine with friends.

Weapon balancing is very good imo. Assault rifles could be nerfed to have more recoil but overall I think it's great.

Another thing that I didn't like was the default land vehicle controls(RT to accelarate, LB to fire).

Also, I hope they implement some kinda manual voice comm. Dunno why they couldn't use one of the thumbsticks for this. R3/L3 to bring up the comm wheel like with mouse 3 in BF2.

My liveid is: Jimbo11885

Add me plox. Would like to play with guys who wanna use teamwork more as with random pubs it's hard.
 
wow, this game looks terrible on console compared to PC
night and day
and i'm only running it on medium!
 
B_MAN said:
wow, this game looks terrible on console compared to PC
night and day
and i'm only running it on medium!
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If I'm not mistaken, the console download is less than 1 gig while the PC is 1.5 gig.

Right?
 
I definitely expected it to look better in terms of graphics. Either way it's a pretty fun game. Hopefully the environments are pretty varied. I got tired of looking at the snow already.
 
Considering the PS3 beta = desert, I think it's rather varied.
 
Plus one of the previews featured a jungle environment so I think we're set on locations.
 
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(PC pics)

Maybe I'm doing it wrong but I don't see the option to switch teams and create squads in the console versions.
 
I'm assuming that the console versions do squad creation automatically, and that if you and your friends are playing, it automatically puts you on the same squad/team.

That would be the smart way to do it, so hopefully I'm not wrong here.
 
Currently the extent of the squad selection and what not on the console is "Leave squad" or "Find me a squad". If you leave a squad then do the "Find me a squad' you're put right back into the one you left. I've been in agreement with those thinking the console needs more diverse squad management options.
 
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