I'm half and half on this beta. It's fun, but not exactly addicting. It was the same problem with UC2 for me. I think the main issue is the competition on PSN is a joke. I swear on my life in the month me and my buddy played UC2 non stop there was not one game where he or I didn't get first place and the other got second. The trend continues here, and it makes the game boring as shit to me when I can roll my face across the controller and get first.
I don't know how to feel about the power plays either. A forced sense of tension to reward people for doing poorly? Not my thing. Hardcore team death match on the other hand just suffers from being boring.
The teleport kickback is broken as fuck. I use it, and the fact you can stack them up is ridiculous. I can easily get 10+ kills without dying thanks to it.
The maps are fantastic and well designed, but with how big something like airfield is, it seems like only 40-60% of the map actually gets played. Chateau doesn't have this problem and I feel like 80+% of the map gets played out.
Customization is another thing I'm pleased by. Emblems, guns, clothes, etc is fun stuff to tweak. I would like to see more color choices, and while the beta of course is limited in how much stuff we can unlock to dress our characters up in, I hope to see DLC later on for more of this stuff.
Did they take out screenshots from replays? I couldn't figure out what button takes screenshots.
Melee sucks and is broken before I forget. I've had a gajillion moments where I come up behind someone and hold square, and get a regular melee instead of a stealth kill. I've also had tons of moments where I swing my arm through someones body more than once and it doesn't effect them at all. I've also had moments where I'm 10 feet away and they swing at air and it hits me. I feel this all because of the lack of dedicated servers. Seems fixing this won't happen on peer to peer.
It's hard to come away impressed from the beta, but it's not bad by any means. I just don't think I'm the primary target----the competitive multiplayer shooter guy. This is more about play for 20 minutes, dick around, and more of a casual online time. I felt the same way about UC2. It's a shame Battlefield 3 comes out before this, and that will be taking up all my multiplayer shooting time, otherwise I would have bought this day one until BF3 drops.
Yemen looks real purty.