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Mirror's Edge: Catalyst - new previews/videos - Closed Beta begins April 22-26th
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They did that for Battlefield 4's beta and CTE for a while, it's annoying but nothing that will detract.
Nyteshade517
Member
can't even finish the first Dead Drop delivery type mission because there's nowhere near enough time...IGN showed the same mission yesterday and it had 43 seconds to complete...in mine it had 42...IGN's destination was different and I haven't even gotten close to seeing the delivery point for mine
geeze...and that's with no messing up and keeping the speed up as fast as possible
geeze...and that's with no messing up and keeping the speed up as fast as possible
DOWN
Banned
It's a closed beta. They aren't about that hidden identity deal.
GavinUK86
Member
Nah it's definitely not final build it's plain to see.
Fair enough. I do.
Don't do what shit? Calm yourself down. I'm comparing the two, and I know fully well how betas work, I'm not some stupid fanboy.
GavinUK86
Member
The takedowns are canned but the hand to hand are done by button presses. The way the enemies move is really funky looking, like it physics based, but it's not.
OdysseusVA
Banned
What are peoples best times on Birdmans route? 34.22 and can only scrape off time little by little. No clue how the top person has 26.72
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
Codes already gone out? I swear I only ever get the luck to get codes for the games I'm not actually 100% sold on.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Got a code from Ajmal! Thanks for posting that tweet Theorry!
GavinUK86
Member
I can't get anywhere near 26 seconds either.
StrikeFirst117
Banned
Anyone able to get me a Europe pc key? PM me if you can, thanks.
Plus when are the codes supposed to be getting sent out?
Plus when are the codes supposed to be getting sent out?
thanks. what is the combat like then, simple buttons combos or dpad as well? can you choose to throw for example
For real. Whats worse is that everyone is getting codes for this xD
GavinUK86
Member
There's light and heavy attacks and you can modify them by pushing left, right or forward on the left stick. You can defeat the basic baton wielding enemies by bashing the light attack button but others you may have to dodge with the trigger to get behind them and whack 'em.
Garrett Hawke
Member
Some 4K downsampled shots, and even then IQ isn't all that great tbh :/
runs at like... 6fps with everything on max at 4k on a 970 LOL
Garrett Hawke
Member
It's cus it's loading the game, goes straight into gameplay
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Is it okay to stream or is that off limits for this beta?
GavinUK86
Member
It'll be interesting to compare them with the retail release, if you can find the same location.
JumPeRJumPzZ
Banned
The Beta features the beginning of the game^^
GavinUK86
Member
Indeed it does.
Seeing as the game broadcasts our name at a moving image, I'm going with a safe no
JumPeRJumPzZ
Banned
You are allowed to stream.
Like I said: JackBlackSTOP.gif
The graphics here are compressed and not in any way near final. This is to help download size for the sake of the beta. Comparing it and the final (and between platforms in general) is stupid because there's so many up-in-the-air variables along with non-representative graphics.
You're able to Stream. Similar to CTE's watermark. It's only there to know who recorded or just a left-over byproduct of internal testing.
GavinUK86
Member
I'm streaming right now, it's fine.
No one is posting shots and saying it's the final build.
I'm not actually seeing much (or any) HDD activity. Even the EA/Dice logo is all laggy and shit.
And the game runs like ass anyway. I got an easy 60fps on Battlefront, and this looks much worse.
This is really disappointing.
Garrett Hawke
Member
Relax, I wasn't saying it look scrappy. I actually think it looks quite good, IQ being a weak point.
GavinUK86
Member
You haven't got DSR (if you use Nvidia) on have you? The game automatically chose the highest resolution on my system, which was 4K and was stuck at 10fps for a while until it gave me control.
Risk Breaker
Member
The beta runs pretty well on PS4.
Must say its a pretty big beta. Alot to do.
Only think some people really are not gonna like the open world thing. And all that comes with open world games like missions etc. Also something like break a antenne and then get out of the searching circle on the mini map.
Also really curious how the game looks on final release with all the textures. Because now its a big blur but underneath you really see a nice looking game.
Only think some people really are not gonna like the open world thing. And all that comes with open world games like missions etc. Also something like break a antenne and then get out of the searching circle on the mini map.
Also really curious how the game looks on final release with all the textures. Because now its a big blur but underneath you really see a nice looking game.
GavinUK86
Member
I don't think it runs very well at all. I'm constantly noticing drops. If I had to guess I would say 40ish FPS. Definitely doesn't hold the 60FPS. Even though it's Frostbite I'm surprised it's not 30-locked considering it's open world.
Risk Breaker
Member
LunaticLMD
Member
Man, I'm whoring myself out, following everyone, trying to get a beta code for the ps4.
Did they say beta textures aren't final yet or anything?
therealminime
Member
Played a bit. I can't quite put my finger on it but the visuals feel like they've lost the ultra clean, easy to read look of the original game.
(via DET)
vs.
Well that seems like an easy answer, most of the screens in this thread look blurry as fuck, IQ doesn't seem good at all.
I'd be somewhat surprised by that, visuals seemed like the last thing they would fuck up. Let's wait for the final PC version though.
therealminime
Member
Playing on the PC and it's definitely not there. I think you're right about anti-aliasing, but also lens flare and other things like bloom and rain. Definitely reserving judgment for the final game of course, but I'm a bit bummed right now. The visual style and design of the original is still spectacular to this day.
Garrett Hawke
Member
Contrary to above I feel like it's quite easy to see how it is a continuation of the other aesthetic 
also my lighting bugged out at the end there LOL, white lights were appearing as green.
Dat feeling when you realize the first game had better combat.
Dat feeling when you realize this game has unskippable cutscenes, and you'd rather have the flash-trash of the first game over this shit anyway.
This game feels like shit. The controls feel slow, laggy and unresponsive, and not helped by a garbage framerate.
Why am I getting these numbers when I'm starting straight at a wall or at an empty hallway?
And this is just offensive. I can't deal with this. How can you lock such a basic and essential move? I'm quickly losing any interest I had in a Mirror's Edge sequel. Are the original developers even involved with this game? The tutorial was a really, REALLY awful thing to play through, treating us as if we're all idiots, and you can't disable the constant marker telling you where you need to go (no, not runner vision). It's really intrusive to me. I'd rather play ME1 again than this thing.
Dat feeling when you realize this game has unskippable cutscenes, and you'd rather have the flash-trash of the first game over this shit anyway.
This game feels like shit. The controls feel slow, laggy and unresponsive, and not helped by a garbage framerate.
Why am I getting these numbers when I'm starting straight at a wall or at an empty hallway?
And this is just offensive. I can't deal with this. How can you lock such a basic and essential move? I'm quickly losing any interest I had in a Mirror's Edge sequel. Are the original developers even involved with this game? The tutorial was a really, REALLY awful thing to play through, treating us as if we're all idiots, and you can't disable the constant marker telling you where you need to go (no, not runner vision). It's really intrusive to me. I'd rather play ME1 again than this thing.
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