Don't ruin my dreams just yet. Yes its a present-future game, where you fight with modern weapons in some fictional World War 3 scenario, but you know what. Hinging on their experiences with Bad Company 2 and others, the actual quality of there balancing, and overall feeling to the games has been improving.
Every time I play Bad Company 2, I never feel like I can't hit my target, which was the feeling that Vanilla BF2 gave me because in order to fire accurately in that, its a lot of wait around and fire short bursts. So overall, the level to which they make weapons inaccurate and vehicles perform has vastly improved and made for a much more intense game-play experience.
Quite frankly I have no reason to doubt the 64 player idea, because I believe that things like BF2's promised 128 player limit were more victim to corporate pressure than the developers not wanting them.
Besides, some of the alleged features by many magazines and others sound great. It sounds like DICE is trying to work with EA's marketing strategy of making fun of Call Of Duty for its unrealistic representation of combat, it sounds to me that DICE is trying to make their game semi-realistic and fun at the same time, to finally put the nail in the coffin on the Call of Duty crowd. I think there's going to be some hilarious ads for this game that hint on that marketing strategy. I also believe there is going to be some good follow through on it too. BF:BC2 was a great leap up from ridiculousness of COD, despite the fact that there were still lots of snipers.