It's still quite rough and with 1 Month left before they plan on releasing this game, I'm a bit set back.
-The animations look like they've been ripped directly from other Dice games, namely Mirror's Edge, where every small ledge you try to jump over results in a full-out joust over said ledge (most of the times, sometimes the collisions do register and make you climb over it).
-Collisions still feel a bit odd and the destruction 2.0 is rather a step back from BC2, the scripted bits falling off of walls and stiff tree physics are more apparent than ever before.
- Textures are ok, but (IMHO) you can see that the details were toned down to run on the consoles. (I'm playing with everything on high and it still looks a bit worse than BC2 (which is strange, as that was also made with Consoles in mind)
- The gameplay feels like BC2 on speed which is almost too fast for my taste.
- Origin.... oh my god Origin... now DICE is innocent on this part, but by god, how can you fuck around and produce a program like this? It is everything but consumer friendly... You have to start Origin, then press start BF3 there, then your browser opens and you can choose a server via battlelog, then Origin starts again and loads up BF3 and then the browser tells you that the game is ready to play and you can finally join up the game from there (if it doesn't decide to drop you into some Queue in the last second.
- Oh and the worst bit of BC2 is back for more... you still can't open the score tab and the options while being dead! I like to change my keys and view my score while being dead, not while someone can still shoot at me. Also you can't exit the game, you always have to wait to respawn to disconnect... come on people! ^^
- As Yustax said, the Deathcam is bad... plain and simple. Like above, I want to view my score when dead and not stare at the ugly face of my killer from 5" away. It's especially painful when you see the errors in the animations from that distance. Who thought that this was a good game-mechanic?! ^^
Other than that, finding a server isn't as bad as it was with BC2s beta... that's good, although the amount of servers available is quite conservative, hope they up that number by another x thousand for Friday. ^^
Ah well, let's say it's still the beta, so all will be well in 1 month.
Yeah right...^^