Battlefield Heroes Beta Keys given out

[Veho Nex]

I got lucky, and it deleted my BF 2 and 2142 accounts. .... I've been trying to get them back for like 2 weeks now...

[Adrian II]

Got it. My beta key.

But I have to work all day today.

Tomorrow though, around noon, I will lock myself in my study with a cup of steaming hot coffee, a chicken sandwich, a pack of ciggies and my beta key.

[Husar]

I was about to say nahssing but apparently it was good that i signed up shortly after you, because I also received my beta key....

[pevergreen]

Havent got one, and I'm not to dissapointed. With L4D and ETW...why I dont have enough time to play it anyway.

[Husar]

It's not that great anyway I must say, could be fun, but could also use more players per server if you ask me, maybe they just handed out keys and that's why it wasn't really full yet, but uhm, well...more later maybe.

[Adrian II]

I like it so far. The basic scenario is similar to that Battlefield 1942 and BF2. Two sides, three classes (soldier, heavy gunner and commando) that level up through kills and caps. The feel of the whole thing is very cartoonesque as could be expected. The tanks are funny and the planes are a delight to fly, the fights are as intense as they can get despite all the 'whoosh!' and 'eeeee!" sounds, and I think team and clan tactics will certainly pay off.

On the downside the characters move slowly -- too slowly to my taste -- and I've already had the dreaded BF screen several times: 'There is a problem with your connection'. So many online games get this right, even free and open source games like Wolfenstein ET have no connections issues. Why, oh why can't Electronic Arts?

EDIT
Another thing I like is that I haven't yet encountered the usual 'OMFG u n00b!' comments in the chatbox. The atmosphere is relaxed and - dare I say it - adult.

2nd EDIT
I take back the remark about movement. They have introduced Hero Points which you earn during gameplay and which you can spend on special abilities such as running (yes, that takes care of the slow movement), frenzied firing or self-healing. So if you spawn in an isolated spot you can press the 'whoosh' button and move quickly to where the action is. When others do that, you actually see a trail of smoke behind them. It's all very well done, and there is much more to the dynamics of the game than first meets the eye.

Speaking of which, meet my main character: Baron von Knirpshoff, aka 'Ze Blue Baron', flying ace, known to his friends (and in-game) as "Knirps".


3rd EDIT!!
Nice to be playing together with Husar/KarlKarolinger. Hallo! Jahaa!

This game is best played with real teams. We should really try to put together a national Battalion of orgahs as soon as other members have keys.

If we can have only a small team, it could be a Panzerjäger unit, consisting of two heavy gunners and one soldier in a jeep. All similarly dressed in black, I would say, with the WWII pisspot helmets, revolver belts, etcetera. The soldier can heal, the gunners can repair, together they concentrate on eliminating Royal tanks.

I really hope they will introduce the squad spawn like they had in BF2, where if you die you can span on your squad leader. It helps teamplay in a big way. Now if we could also chose our map of preference ..

[Husar]

So yes, was fun today, I experienced more teamplay than before, usually I would end up alone vs 2 or so up until today.

My game restarted when Vista had to restore my video driver (it's called BSoD in XP and is followed by a mandatory restart of the whole system ).
The driver apparently likes doing that and I'm certainly not going to buy an MSI notebook again, but for now it will have to do. Well, that's why I left, and then I had a chat with a girl.

I need to get a bit into those gestures and special abilities, haven't really changed any so far and am just using the starting config, which is a bit hard to kill with IMO, the weapon damage is rather low and it can lag quite a bit when there is a full-screen explosion so I get confused for a second, heh.

Otherwise it's fun.