i suppose people may like it if they've never played any real online shooters such as Cs, Tfc, tf2, bf2 etc. etc.
the game is dreadful in my opinion, the beta could barely hold my attention.
to sum it up...the whole time i played i was thinking "why would i play this when i could play tf2?"
w0lfbreeder
You're playing the wrong game if you're looking for action along the lines of TF2. This game is a totally different animal. Also, your comment about having played "real" online shooters is fairly comical and biased. I've played every multiplayer shooter from Doom (deathmatch) to Counter-Strike to Battlefield 1942 to Team Fortress 2 (my favorite online game, by far), and I still find that BF Heroes holds up well and offers much more depth than most other online shooters.
The BF Heroes beta has, overall, been very enjoyable up to this point. It takes a bit to get used to, but once you start leveling up and earning new abilities (and unlocking new weapons), the game just keeps getting better and better. I can still remember being at the very low levels, having the most basic of abilities and being frustrated when tossed into servers with guys who had higher-level characters, allowing them to absolutely dominate me. I've noticed that as the levels increase, however, the playing field becomes more even and the number of levels is not so much important as your choice of weapons and how you use your abilities in the thick of combat.
In my role as a Gunner (aka heavy weapons guy), for example, I can go into battle and throw explosive dynamite kegs, activate a shield that protects me from damage, use a sprint ability to get a temporary speed boost, activate my "focus fire" ability to make my MG more accurate, whip out my shotgun to do major damage up close, and even whip out my bazooka to pop tanks and infantry from afar and launch myself up onto rooftops, giving me an extreme advantage over most other players. As you can imagine, with so many options available, it can be a little overwhelming if you don't have your abilities assigned to convenient shortcut keys and if you aren't familiar with what the abilities do and when to use them.
Each of the three classes has separate abilities that make each one unique. I think the Soldier's "grenade spam" ability is neat, for example, and of course the Commandoes have the ability to cloak, snipe with great accuracy, etc. When you combine the different classes with the XP system (almost like an MMO) and character customization, you've got yourself quite an in-depth shooter, even if that may not seem true from the outside.
The three maps are pretty good overall. Victory Village is purely focused on close-quarters infantry combat, with the most intense action taking place at the center of the map where the fountain is located. Seaside Skirmish is heavily focused on vehicles, with large, open fields, tanks popping out from behind every corner, and planes swooping overhead, battling it out, wing-clipping infantry, and shooting up vehicles. Buccaneer Bay is sort of a mixture of the two, with a big wrecked pirate ship in the middle that serves as an excellent place for snipers to garrison and infantry to counter tanks that try and drive in to cap the flag. The town, located just above where the pirate ship sits, actually completely blocks off vehicles, making sure to put the focus on infantry combat and flag capturing.
The visuals look great and the game runs very well - much better than TF2 and other highly-stylized, cartoonish games. The netcode seems to be acceptable, despite some lag spikes here and there. I understand that most of these spikes are caused by beta maintenance, howevers, as the developers have posted updates about them and are constantly working to fix networking (and performance) issues.
The only gripes I have about the beta are that there is no voice chat, you can't pick your spawn point, and you must use match-making (there is currently no server-browser), meaning that you can sometimes end up playing on maps you don't enjoy or getting stuck in servers with zero or too few players to have an enjoyable match (which has happened every now and then).
If I had to rate the beta out of 10, I would give it a 7.5 or 8. It's definitely worth your time and is an excellent alternative to other free shooters such as Combat Arms. There's quite simply nothing like it.
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