Comments on: Now Battling: Battlefield Heroes

By: Nemolom

Nemolom — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:43:11 +0000

I play TF2 still and love it. I’ve taken my first steps with Arma2, after playing the demo for a while – and loving it. I also like Battlefield Heroes – for its simplicity, accessibility and the general usefulness of everything you can carry, throw, drive, climb upon and hide behind. Its solutions to classes, levels and achievements are interesting.

What I don’t like: Finding your friends and actually be able to hook up with them is still not easy enough (why not just copy steam’s method?) I also think there are too few maps, and I don’t have any clue to how points are calculated – maybe they should show the formula on the screen or something?

Yet, it’s easy to drop into, play a couple of rounds and leave. It fills a use for me.

By: Rivo75

Rivo75 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:55:21 +0000

I see a lot of you people did sign up for beta but never played it again… you should have recieved some mails from them with codes for 200 BF and some badges… if any1 has the code but doesn’t use it, i would really like it if you forwarded the mail this account erollero111@gmail.com

Thanks in advance

By: Theo

Theo — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:34:34 +0000

@ – A-Scale says: – You can only have 4 max heroes (without paying for more slots), and you can’t delete any of them. That fact is completely hidden until it’s too late.

you mean the writen warning when yuo CREATE any hero? (including your first one?). way to go with the reading there.

/Theo

By: Theo

Theo — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:45:58 +0000

Have to admit, i am loving this game. its excellent fun. i love the casual nature of it, and have to admit i have genuinely nearly pissed my pants at some of the things that happen.

sniper issues are over stated if you ask me, its just a case of using your noggin and not standing out in the open. and yes sometimes you will get sniped no matter what you do, but i play a soldier and at first i was frustrated by snipers, once i figured how to play my class, i rarely find them a issue now. also once you have been playing for a few hours, you get used to the places that people snipe from and its easy to counter.

the games great fun though , very much love it.

stupid thing is i have NEVER liked BF games, but this i love. much more than i like TF2 (i fell out with TF2 pretty much at launch, not enough CTF and the “checkpoints” game mode on such small maps just turns in to choke point zergs imo.

/Theo

By: whalleywhat

whalleywhat — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:40:27 +0000

I just made a character but couldn’t find a server after trying for a little while. I’ll probably try again tomorrow.
I don’t think the RPS crowd is really the target audience for this game, so a lot of criticisms of the game not being deep enough seem to miss the point. It’ll be interesting to see how this reviews in the MSM.

By: paddytehpyro

paddytehpyro — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:26:34 +0000

I like both serious army sims and the silly stuff. I play about 50/50 BF:H and TF2 now for my silly fun. Mainly as most of TF2 is micspam and idiots screaming n00b if you dont uber uber them in the microsecond a crit sticky lands in thier face and they pop.

By: Doctor Doc

Doctor Doc — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:35:28 +0000

I had very low expectations but what the heck was that I just just played… oh my, what a terrible, terrible game, I see now why it’s free.

By: A-Scale

A-Scale — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:34:35 +0000

You can only have 4 max heroes (without paying for more slots), and you can’t delete any of them. That fact is completely hidden until it’s too late.

Also I can’t seem to find a server but once every hour or two, and it was the same way last night. I once saw a count that there were only 120 people in the game last night. Is the issue a lack of players, or a lack of servers?

By: Burny

Burny — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:41:26 +0000

You can bookmark the server you’re playing on once youre in a game. Just hit TAB + F5. When you’re in the client and haven’t started a game go to options and look for the server-tab. I believe you can try to connect to bookmarked servers. Haven’t tested this so far. Can anyone confirm this?

It seems I have been fortunate as I always found a server when I wanted to play.

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:10:18 +0000

I had a crack at this last night. I’m not much of a third-person shooter guy on the PC, so free/casual is fine, but the server finding thingy is broken. I got in a handful of games (maybe 5 or 6) and was having fun, but then it wouldn’t/couldn’t find me a game. I’ll have another crack at it tonight, but if I spend more time looking for a game than actually playing, well, that’s a recipe for uninstalling.

By: Serondal

Serondal — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:10:10 +0000

Finally got it working. I have to say I enjoy it. I was driving a tank when some guy ran up to put a bomb on the back of it so I just backed up over him and killed him ;P He didn’t see that comin.

By: Razor

Razor — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:11:02 +0000

Didn’t take more than an hour of restling with bad servers, bad connections and bad gameplay to have me uninstall this. As unique_identifier said the lack of a server browser is a deal-breaker.

I love the art direction, but for those worried about this taking any market share from TF2… don’t. DICE and EA should have really worked on bug fixes before this release.