Medal of Honor (Modern Era version) revealed

Gravey wrote:

It's not just the spray or the sight or the gun, it's all of it and more combined. Three games with identical goals, structure, and aesthetic, that would be indistinguishable from each other by someone not already deep down the rabbit hole.

I love shooters as much as the next guy, but when the differences start getting this minute, it does make me take stock of how much I need to be paying attention to each individual one. But if you love this stuff then it's not an issue. And if you can take a step back and look at it, the ridiculousness of it is good for a chuckle.

I'm feeling serious army man fatigue lately. Which is why a game like Borderlands was such a breath of fresh air, and upcoming games like Brink or the new X-Com really interest me. There is so much that can be done with a FPS aside from military semi-realism.

iaintgotnopants wrote:

If you guys are having trouble getting the beta you can just play some battlefield instead. It's fun.

I was going to do that anyway, but it sucks that some folks didnt found out till the last minute they cant play today.

ranalin wrote:
iaintgotnopants wrote:

If you guys are having trouble getting the beta you can just play some battlefield instead. It's fun.

I was going to do that anyway, but it sucks that some folks didnt found out till the last minute they cant play today.

With the way Steam usually works, I'm not all that surprised. Though, it makes me feel a little better knowing no one can play due to servers being down.

Kerplunk wrote:

It seems like you need to own the Steam version of BFBC2 in order to get into the early access beta.

Steam wrote:

Pre-purchase and get early access to the beta, starting Jun 21st. Also own Battlefield Bad Company 2 on Steam? Get beta access starting on the 17th!

That's lame. I was already unsure if I wanted to play the demo. Looks like steam made the decision for me.

It does seem like EA can't keep the site up. You would think they would know how to do that whole 'big demand' thing.

edit: RECORD SCRATCH noise goes here. It almost worked.

IS there a place to pre-order the PC version, that isn't steam Steam. I don't really think it's a "pre-order" if I have to shell out $50, that's just an order where I wait a long time for the game.

i38warhawk wrote:

IS there a place to pre-order the PC version, that isn't steam Steam. I don't really think it's a "pre-order" if I have to shell out $50, that's just an order where I wait a long time for the game.

EA's online store

ranalin wrote:
i38warhawk wrote:

IS there a place to pre-order the PC version, that isn't steam Steam. I don't really think it's a "pre-order" if I have to shell out $50, that's just an order where I wait a long time for the game.

EA's online store

Or Amazon for the physical disc version.

It is looking like it should be a fun game. I know a lot of people are tired of MW2 so this looks to be good way out of the boredom.

For you lucky b*stards who who may have the beta key for the demo...

via Twitter

"If you can't see your beta key after redeeming, can you please try logging out of your EA account completely and then log back in. After logging back in, go to www.medalofhonor.com/beta and see if you can view your key."

Got in and played a couple hours. It feels more arcady than BC2, but the environment is pretty amazing.

Have you been able to customize your weapon yet? That's something I've been looking forward to seeing in action.

This is fun. I don't think I've ever spent so long trying to register game codes and reading errors. This game's going to be fantastic, right?

Kerplunk wrote:

Have you been able to customize your weapon yet? That's something I've been looking forward to seeing in action.

Yea i leveled up my spec ops and recon up to level 4. Upgraded sites and magazine size and another weapon to choose from if i wanted.

So I have no willpower, caved, and bought it because I desperately wanted a replacement for CoD4 that isn't MW2.

And... so far this feels like what I wanted.

I really like that the weapons seem to do more damage than they do in CoD.

Is anyone else experiencing random CTDs? I keep trying to play but within ten minutes of any given match I seem to crash out.

The only problem I had was trying to use text chat, seeing the chat window popup, and then having my keyboard stop responding in the game. It still worked fine sending messages in the steam overlay, but I couldn't do anything in the game except aim and shoot.

Was having issues with my wireless keyboard. Switch to wired and everything worked.

Anyone figure out what the scoring in Team assault is? Every match ends at a random time and i've been on winning teams even if every score they post is lower than the other teams.

Definitely tell its beta though. Still fun but they need to clean up a bunch. Which they have plenty of time to do.

Oh whats everyones name in game?

Free beta keys!!

Get your key from http://www.gamespot.com/event/codes/..., I know it says the key is for C&C4 but the code works for MoH.

Then go to http://www.medalofhonor.com/beta and enter the key that they gave you.

Then download and play the beta!!

i38warhawk wrote:

Free beta keys!!

Get your key from http://www.gamespot.com/event/codes/..., I know it says the key is for C&C4 but the code works for MoH.

Then go to http://www.medalofhonor.com/beta and enter the key that they gave you.

Then download and play the beta!!

Damn, that actually worked. Thanks a bunch man!

It looks like the Beta is only for the PS3 and the PC do we know if it will be on any other platforms?

i38warhawk wrote:

Free beta keys!!

Get your key from http://www.gamespot.com/event/codes/..., I know it says the key is for C&C4 but the code works for MoH.

Then go to http://www.medalofhonor.com/beta and enter the key that they gave you.

Then download and play the beta!!

Hahah that worked. Nice!

It'll keep working until gamespot runs out of C&C4 beta keys, but it was an open beta so?

That'll teach EA to use the same algorithm to generate beta keys.

Awesome! Worked for me too-- downloading now!

Didn't work for me.

Edit: Oh, worked now. Weird.

We should see about friending each other up for this. Hopefully the system won't be as broken as in Bad Company 2. I'm "Gunner [GWJ]".

My very limited impressions thus far that its quite fun, but feels much more tame and clinical than BC2. Definitely worth putting some more time into.

Maybe, I've just had my 5th crash, FYI do not try to use the into game chat (T,U by defualt) the game locks you in place with no movement. Gunner I'll friend you up, I already sent a request to ranalin(his name is ranalin). It still won't save my custom key bindings, in fact last game I spawned in with fire mapped to Axis Y.

I guess DICE is taking the term beta literally. This isn't a "marketing beta" sh*t is rough.

I'm Titanis in the game as well.

Thanks for the beta key website Titanis.

I played around a bit after getting it installed. I'm not super impressed. The movement is nice and I like the feel of the shooting more than BC2. But, it looks kind of cheap (like a BC2 knockoff) and I didn't like the map I played. I'm not sure what mode I played but it was and objective based mode on a desert map. Is that the only map in the beta? Somehow, I managed to finish first or second on my team in a three rounds I played. That's crazy.

I had some major issues controls. I could bind reload to one of my mouse buttons and rebound grenade to F but then I couldn't bind enter/exit (which was F) to anything. And, somehow binding grenade to F bound it to mouse 3 so I didn't have any melee. I had to press the reload button 3-4 times to get it to actually reload.

Is there anyway to quit once you are in a game? There was no option to at the respawn screen and escape didn't do anything. I tried to alt-tab out to close the window but it didn't recognize the alt key apparently so I was just bringing up the scoreboard. I had to bring up the task manager to get out of the damn game.

Managed to play two matches on a server without crashing; I'm not sure how, but I'll attribute it to luck. Overall, I think I like it. My first observation is that higher level players shoot a burst or two to kill me (at level 1) while I need to expend almost a half a magazine to do the same to others.

Second, having to set my mouse sensitivity each time I enter a server is annoying.

Third, maybe I haven't played long enough, but I haven't felt that sense of recoil yet.

As others have said, this game is rough around the edges, but I'm excited to get back into the thick of it.

Hope to see you guys in there. My handle is also Kerplunk in MoH.