Another First Impressions Post

(Cmore) #1

Hey Guys,

Just jumped into the alpha and after 2 hours of playing. I must say that after an hour or so I really started to get into this game. I just wanted to share and discuss my first experience with this game if you guys don’t mind.

  1. General Gameplay

    I was trying to play this game as if I was playing call of duty or battlefield as such. Using controlled bursts of fire, crouching without moving, always using the iron sights to fire, etc. To be honest, it wasn’t really working. I was getting torn apart and I really wasn’t feeling Dirtybomb at all.

    I then remembered reading that the game plays exactly like ET. At which point the penny dropped and I thought “What am I doing?! I need to play this as if I’m playing ET” Straight after my sudden brainwave and I started to play as if I was playing ET. My god, everything just clicked right into place and I really started to get into it. It really does feel like ET.

    [li]ET Style In Game Experience
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    I do apologise if this has already been discussed. I did have a quick search around and couldn’t really find an answer to my question.

    Are there any plans to add an in match experience/unlock system, similar to what is in ET? Whether it be a global experience/unlock or in game experience/unlocks that reset at the end of the match/campaign?

    [li]3 Map Campaign Mode
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    This kinda ties in with the previous question. Are there any plans to add either a 3 or 6 map campaign mode similar to ET?

    [li]Field Ops Airstrike
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    I feel like the airstrike is a little underwhelming at the moment, both visually and damage wise. Pretty much every time I threw an airstrike marker right on top of a group of enemies, I struggled to kill anyone with it.

    [li]Objectives
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    Apart from the training video for Waterloo, I have no idea what I am mean’t to be doing on any of the other maps. Is there anywhere I can find an objective walkthrough for the other maps?

    [li]Launcher/Barracks
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    Changing through the menus in the game launcher seems really slow at the moment. I under this is an alpha so I appreciate this will improve other time.

    I don’t really understand the barracks, can you guys help explain what its there for?

Hopefully you guys can enlighten me a little. Thanks for reading!

(Protekt1) #2

The barracks lets you choose the loadouts you want to bring. Right now there are 2 different loadouts per class. In the future you can switch between loadouts between maps but for right now you have to leave the server to change loadouts.

As far as exp stuff, I believe that is where ultimates are coming into play. You earn up for I think a 1 time use ultimate. They haven’t revealed all of them afaik but for one example is the soldier having a RPG.

(Dormamu) #3

This is a great advertising quote :smiley:

(en2ie) #4

I did the same :smiley:

As the game is currently - ironsights are only really needed at long range. I actually had to unbind ironsights to stop myself from automatically using them all the time! :mad:

(acQu) #5

Yes, i would also want to have ironsights stronger, since this game has it. I feel ironsight is too unhandy atm. There should be some mechanism making it advantageous at mid to long range. I am not sure about the damage falloff, that is, over distance bullets do less damage? Maybe over distance and ironsighted there is no damage falloff, but hipfire has one? Seems odd, but would make it balanced. I also always tried to use it at the beginning, but now not so often anymore.