First of all, I missed the Beta drop, I was out being social. But for this I'm happy. I downloaded within an hour, at roughly 1.3MB/s. So I guess coming in a little later paid off, also people already had gotten into it, so I was lucky enough to poke around people for tips etc.
Initially, I crashed, several times - this made me laugh more than anything, not in a bad way, just in a "this brings back memories of every other beta I've been in" way.
The server browser is laggy, this can be overlooked with some patience and understanding, it's a beta, 1900+ people seem to be online at any given time, so yeah, I can overlook it.
So here I am, in game, now, I don't really like the role selection, map, or any of those, I just can't get on with them, but again, a little patience will probably help me to overlook these things too. Well, not overlook but get used too.
After some tweaking I was happy with my aiming, I've heard a lot about the Zoom, with a little tweaking, I honestly don't find it a problem.
Now, the sound, and the voices, are the one thing that get me down, they just don't feel right, and the gun sounds down sound as, beafy, as they did in the original title. Which is a shame. The one thing I loved most about my Kar in Ostfront, was the crack when I fired it. It feels somewhat dull now. But again, mods will come, and they will surely bring back the old sounds, who knows. I do not like my character chuckling to himself, etc, it ruins my atmosphere. I feel less immersed. But I'm usually too busy watching for targets!
I'm one for talking in game, and helping people who may not be getting into the game so well, for example, one player was getting frustrated about not being able to kill anything, so I told him, hit up smaller servers, get used to the mpas, weapons, etc, and then try larger servers later - but I was disapointed at the amount of comments "L2p noob" "u suxx" - we're testing a game, guys, work together, help people understand things, it all benefits TWI who worked so hard to give you this beta, so don't be rude to your fellow testers, share your knowledge and opinions. Obviously this is nothing to do directly with the beta, rather an opinion I wanted to include.
I'm already a bit saddened by the amount of SMGs, Machine Guns, Semi Autos out there, no one seems to take the bolt because there's so many better roles out there, I've personally been handeling myself just fine with my Kar, up against most things. But I'd like to see more bolts around.
Overall, I'm impressed, but I'm struggling to get used to a lot of changes, and I feel this is the core for a fair few complaints, just give it time, hit up small/empty servers and have a run around, gather some friends, try shooting them through different types of cover etc, try things!
THanks to anyone who reads this, feels good to get an opinion out there.
Good luck on the field, guys!