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I hope to compose a full review as I did with Beta 2, in the fullness of time. For now, here are my initial impressions.
The Good
The FG42 is my new love. Fires kinda like the BAR, but with what feels like slightly more recoil. You are given the option of selecting a scoped '42, or one with a bipod. I only tried the scoped one, but it was sweet J .
The Grease Gun is great, too. Slower ROF than the Thompson, and feels like the rounds have more impact. Certainly the current weapon of choice among the Allied paratroopers, but that may be because of novelty value.
The para style maps are actually more fun than I expected, although I do feel that the similarities between this and CS have already drawn in a lot of CS players. Not necessarily a bad thing … except for the time last night when I joined a Jolt serer, nailed the WHOLE of the allied team, and was then accused of cheating. 8-0 is nothing big, really, and I've been playing this game since beta 1.0 back in January 2001. These guys who have never played before have a lot of cheek, but then again, being called a cheat is a back-handed compliment.
The Bad
The waiting-out time is boring as hell, and really quite infuriating. When you join a server, you may have to wait up to 4 mins to get into a game. AAARGH!!
Whilst PIU has done some great work on the player animations, I don't think it's really necessary to see the allied paratrooper extend the stock of the Grease Gun every time you change to it.
The Ugly
If you go prone, you actually bounce up and down a short distance, constantly. Very scruffy. Don't know whether this is intentional or not yet, but it looks stupid.
There also appear to be some problems with sound. Occasionally you will not hear any bullet sounds when firing. I think this is related to the netcode
There also appears to be a serious problem with the netcode .. again. Looks like the same issue as with the first release of 2.0. I'll be chasing this one down.
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