MAG Beta Thoughts

[drbrock]

Firts off I love FPS's and I thought have 256 people playing on one map would be amazing.
It is pretty cool for the first 2 or 3 hours. Then you start to realize all the games flaws.
Even though it is beta version I don't know how they will correct all the issues by the time the game releases.

First off some of the maps are horribly designed. Making it very diffucult to win or lose the game. There is one level in particular I forget the name but after you secure the first two areas you must try and secure C. Everytime you respawn you are parachuted down a few hundred yards in front of the objective. I have never seen anyone actually win this board ever. One guy in our clan said he seen it happen once. And they have been playing the beta non stop.

Another gripe I had is the boring weapon system and how unbalanced things are. When you begin the game you get such crappy weapons good luck going up against guys that leveled up at all. I play MWF2 and I like the level system but you also have a solid chance of killing a level 70 even if you are a level 1.

The balancing is so horrible I am a sniper guy and I have upgraded it to the max, still only 50/50 one shot kills. I found there is no benefit to having an awesome sniper rifle becuase a light machine gun has equal power from the same distance with nearly the same accuracy. I don't know how many times I have been taken out a 100 or 200 yards away by a LMG.

Final gripe is that no one has microphones for the game. It is based on strategy and I will be in battlalions where the commander can not tell the troops what to do so it turns into a mess.

Overall I think the game has potential and it is cool with the amount of people playing. It just has so many issues are far as gameplay is concerned. Maybe the finished product will be completely different who knows.

I am hoping Bad Company 2 will leap frog MAG as a game.

 

[R Nilla]

I tried the MAG beta a while back and couldn't be bothered to play more than a few minutes. I didn't give it a fair try but I didn't like anything about it.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

i think they should leave such a massive scale FPS to a PC developer to figure out. Then the console people can refine it and make it for their system.

 

[Abius]

I played it hoping the best. But in the end, I found it a horrible game, and I mean horrible. The lag is so bad, registration, the aiming, the levels.

You cant even jump and toss a grenade at the same time. Like, what the ef. The grenade is around you icon is horrible too.

Ah man, its just so bad.

 

[drbrock]

i forgot to mention the grenade thing and aiming. you are right it is just horrible...

 

[erwos]

Yeah, it's not that great. I liked Warhawk much, much better.

 

[biggestmuff]

I had a beta code for it, but by the time I entered it, the code had expired or become invalid.

I too thought the game would be cool. From the sound of everyone's input, it's pure garbage. The graphics are said to look like a PS2 game.

A game like this would be so much better if a microphone was bundled with a PS3 purchase. I like Sony's "open" philosophy with regard to the bluetooth mic, but at least include an inexpensive one.

I can't imagine how bad it would be to play MAG with everyone owning a mic, though. Imagine all of the "camper", "bullshit", "lag" and other complaints. It would be 8 times worse than MW2.