Medal of Honor Airborne alpha version

[a Silly Person]

I actually got to try it out

Playing in the single-player mode I didn't really see much improvement regarding the digital soldiers' movements and such. They seemed to be running around like Hunch-backs or something. Didn't seem to be a normal looking crouch.

Many different weapons lay all around (after you kill a few enemies) and are available for 'swapping-out' during play. Aiming these weapons is another thing though. The cross hairs were the default MOH ones, but, you can fit a quarter inside of it. Until you hold your right-clicker and AIM your weapon, you won't be hitting much (this may be the most realistic aspect of games like these). So, you need to press and hold your right clicker to aim, slide the mouse around and shoot with the left clicker. That wasn't so easy but I am sure that you could bind these functions with another key maybe?

Running/walking was completely different too. while running your weapon was totally turned to the side. I guess I didn't even try to shoot while I was running because of this. I could only lean around corners if I was holding the right clicker and using the 'careful-aim' thingy.

I did manage to win some marksman awards which did allow me to shoot/reload faster than default. That part I liked a lot because when you were informed of winning this merit, the game-play went into slo-mo but let me keep plinking off my victims with the Mauser. That was real fun and also let me take a breather from all the confusion

Gained access to many roofs and interiors of buildings but didn't experience any operating doors or other moving map parts. The map seemed big but very cluttered. Lots of trash to get hung-up-on. It was a night-time scenario with the demo so it was of course, dark. Real hard to see anything and I didn't really have time to look for the 'brightness adjustment' nor did I want to start a new game again.

Adjusting the settings, like the mouse sensitivity, from the main menu was really odd and I had to "save and exit" to a brand new game start.

The background images and the sounds were epic although they come with a price.

Lag. Way too much stuff happening in this game to be anything but Laggy. What is the point of having all of this great digital artwork and background if we all need to adjust all of our settings way low in order to produce less lag? It is similar to playing the map 'Snowy Park' when you turn from side to side its like a time-delay for the action to happen.

Are they expecting us to buy top-of-the-line computers just for the purpose of playing their game?

I am guessing... yes?

If you guys are able to try this demo out, let me know if you experienced anything other than what I did. I am just curious.

(correction, I guess it might have been the Kar rifle instead of the Mauser? I don't know for sure but it had about the same power)

[AIGAD]

Wow, its going to take awhile to get used to this game. I couldn't hit the broad side of a barn!

I don't like the expanding crosshairs. Lamron, thats first on your list of mods to do

There's also motion blur when you pan left to right. (puke)

[Death's Shadow]

wonder if some one will come up with a hack for that like they did cod2. so the xhairs will not change with movement.

[Lamron]

The stupid expanding crosshairs where very annoying in COD2. I quickly put an end to that. From what I'm hearing from TMT, it looks like the game will be easy to mod. The scripts are written in English and can be opened with a text editor. No special decompiling/recompiling necessary (unlike Monolith games!). It should be no problem to fix the inaccuracy and damage values. Iron sight movement, leaning, etc. should all be adjustable. All we really need from EA GAMES is a stable game engine. The modding community will fix all the gameplay issues. From the screenshots I can already tell that there needs to be an Airborne version of "Lamron's Clean Hud".

Other than that, how was the gameplay and graphics?

[Lamron]

aigad said:

I don't like the expanding crosshairs. Lamron, thats first on your list of mods to do

Here you go! (not mine)

www.modtheater.com/forum/showthread.php?t=33111

[Death's Shadow]

Lam.. what are your mod community friends saying about the stability of the new game engine? Are they thinking this is going to be a hit or a flop from EA? Just curious. Thanks

Just trying to get a feel for this before I commit to a preorder of the game. (wont be anyway until I play the demo when my new vid card gets here)

[Lamron]

We won't know anything for sure until the actual game gets released and reviewed. Very little is known about how the multiplayer game works. That's what will make or break this game.

[AIGAD]

admin said:

Other than that, how was the gameplay and graphics?

The game looks really nice. I think the gameplay will workout pretty good with multiplayer. Its definitely a drastic change from what we're used to. I love the fact that you can peak over and under things. Its not just a quick shot around the corner anymore though. If you want to peak over or around a wall you go through a 3 sec animation where the camera is all over the place and you can't really shoot anything! You pretty much feel every motion you make in the camera along with all the environment effects etc...
Like Silly said, there is a lot going on in the game, but I didn't experience any drops in frame-rate.

You CAN shoot while sprinting. It kind of looks weird because you zoom-in about 2 feet everytime you pull the trigger in this mode.

The new crosshair definitely helped out a lot, but sometimes it doesn't show up. I haven't figured out why.

The only things that I would like to see changed, atm, would be the mouse and the lean controls. Theres no option (in the demo) to turn off the acceleration on the mouse. Also, the whole 'zoom-before-you-peak-around-a-corner' thing doesn't really feel right.

[Rubble]

The most important question of all:

Is there a "bash" button?

[AIGAD]

rubble said:

The most important question of all:

Is there a "bash" button?

Bash AND Zoom!

[Rubble]

aigad said:

rubble said:

The most important question of all:

Is there a "bash" button?

Bash AND Zoom!

Sweeeeet, LOL.

[a Silly Person]

aigad said:

admin said:

Other than that, how was the gameplay and graphics?

The game looks really nice. I think the gameplay will workout pretty good with multiplayer. Its definitely a drastic change from what we're used to. I love the fact that you can peak over and under things. Its not just a quick shot around the corner anymore though. If you want to peak over or around a wall you go through a 3 sec animation where the camera is all over the place and you can't really shoot anything! You pretty much feel every motion you make in the camera along with all the environment effects etc...
Like Silly said, there is a lot going on in the game, but I didn't experience any drops in frame-rate.

You CAN shoot while sprinting. It kind of looks weird because you zoom-in about 2 feet everytime you pull the trigger in this mode.

The new crosshair definitely helped out a lot, but sometimes it doesn't show up. I haven't figured out why.

The only things that I would like to see changed, atm, would be the mouse and the lean controls. Theres no option (in the demo) to turn off the acceleration on the mouse. Also, the whole 'zoom-before-you-peak-around-a-corner' thing doesn't really feel right.

Wow, I never tried the Peeking thing, sounds really interesting. I had to laugh at Rubbles bashing inquiry. I forgot to tell about that part because I didn't figure it out myself till almost the end of the game when I started to hit lots of buttons just to see what would happen, .

Maybe I just need some more tweaking with this system in order to get the game to play a bit more solid for me. The controls seemed to be so loose that it was like lagging.

[desmo2]

admin said:

The stupid expanding crosshairs where very annoying in COD2. I quickly put an end to that.

Are you talking about the crosshairs expanding when moving to simulate less accurate fire? If so, why are you opposed to it? I think it adds a touch of realism. Since I do a lot of shooting as a member of our SWAT team, I know how tough it is to shoot accurately while moving in the real world. I think the expanding crosshairs attempt to address that, but it is STILL too easy.

Is it just me, or do the Airborne teaser videos show many of the same maps we have all been playing for years?

[Lamron]

COD2 made the shots way too inaccurate. Head bobing screen motion while running would have worked better. Weapons don't become less accurate when you're running, they're just much harder to hold on target. If I can line up my crosshairs and correctly time the trigger to shoot as they cross the target, I should get the hit. Making bullets shoot randomly just because I'm moving is too much.

Sometimes too much realism takes away from the fun of the game. Many of the shots we make in the game are impossible in real life. Like jumping off a building and sniping someone across the map while in mid-air. We also can't spin 180 degrees at the twitch of a mouse. 100% reality simulation definately would be an interesting challenge, but that's not the gameplay style that made the MOH series so popular.

[Sgt_Blueberry]

Man I am still sad that my cpu wouldn't even let me see the demo.......it looks like the 360 version for me