Day 1 Feedback

8/24/2010 – aprx 7:30pm:
-- Start download of ßeta from PSN Store. It was not listed towards the front so I had to use the search feature to find it.
-- Download goes rather fine till about 10:30pm, where it proceeds to hang on 99% complete. I let it go for a few hours before exiting and restarting several times. Nothing works so I let it run till aprx 3:30am when I go to bed.

8/25/2010 – aprx 12:30pm
-- Wake up and immediately turn on PS3 to see if I can get that last 1% to finish downloading.
-- Finally it finishes downloading and begins the install process

8/25/2010 – 12:40pm
-- Install process complete the ßeta starts. I am now 1 hour and 41 minutes into Session 1 for today, so this session will be more about exploration of the new layout.
-- Read though the Disclaimer as well as the “Welcome” message.
-- No Music? I guess that’s by design to keep the filesize down.
-- Notice that my character is back to level 50, instead of the level 54 I currently am in the retail game, I guess the characters don’t load off of the retail game but a pre 1.07 copy that you guys did of them?
-- Player rotation is set back to default I see. Time to change that.

8/25/2010 - 12:45pm
-- “The connection to the Game was lost, Please check your Internet connection or try again later (3:4)”
-- Hit X a few times, load character again and get another error message.

8/25/2010 – 12:47pm
-- An error occurred during this operation (11:1)
-- Well lets try this again… X, X, X, X….
-- An error occurred during this operation (11:1)
-- Now I guess time to see if starting a new character makes a difference.

8/25/2010 – 12:50pm
-- X, X, X, Down, X
-- Ok now to pick my PMC.. Well I’m currently Valor so I’ll make guy #2 back home at SVER
-- I find the head I have on the first one, I pick voice #4 and then continue.
-- Yay I made it to the main screen, now to the options to change player rotation.

8/25/2010 -12:53pm
-- I notice that the happy-hour thing continues here too, that’s neat.
-- Now looking into the new Armory menu.
-- The credit system looks like purely a cosmetic change so far, just got rid of some 0’s
-- What the hell it won’t let me save my edited loadout?

8/25/2010 – 12:58pm
-- Ok looking into the “Supply Depot”
-- Wow some of the level caps seem really high
-- Just noticed that it gives you $0 to start off with as a new character… That should be changed to at least $250 or something.
-- Wait just realized it’s not money, but it’s EXP… ok

8/25/2010 – 1:02pm
-- Fucking Aye another Disconnect,
-- “The connection to the Game was lost, Please check your Internet connection or try again later (3:4)”
-- X, X, X, X….

8/25/2010 – 1:04pm
-- Trying to get in with my valor guy
-- Yeah another disconnect…..
-- “The connection to the Game universe was lost. Please check your internet connection or try again later (10:4)”
-- X…. PS Button… “Turn off the System”
-- So 20 minutes in and still haven’t even been able to really look at anything. Look I know it’s a ßeta, but that’s not an excuse for shitty quality.
-- Done for awhile, maybe I’ll hop back on before session 1 ends.

8/25/2010 – 1:57pm
-- Starting the ßeta back up to see if I can connect without all the errors now.
-- Connected to server, but the Welcome message didn’t come up, just a blank screen like where it should be
-- Gonna try my Valor guy first.

8/25/2010 – 2:00pm
-- Click on Valor character
-- Loaded
-- Checking out the new skill tree

8/25/2010 – 2:03pm
-- Went to buy Improved Healing 1…. FROZE when I clicked “Yes”
-- Had to bring up PS menu and quit the game.
-- Decided to hop into regular mag and hope that over your 4 hour break you improve the stability of the beta greatly before session 2.

8/25/2010 – 2:11pm
-- Decided to restart ßeta as regular MAG had low queue numbers
-- Clicked on Valor dude
-- 11:1 error

8/25/2010 2:13pm
-- Noticed the Welcome screen is now back
-- Crap another 11:1 error

8/25/2010 – 2:14pm
-- Restarted and got met with another 11:1 error

8/25/2010 – 2:15pm
-- Restarted, this time got into menu.. Still my Valor due
-- Decided to launch training… All going well so far

8/25/2010 – 2:19pm
-- Training went well, until I activated objective A….
-- About 15 seconds after I activated objective A I got another 11:1 error
-- I did notice the new look around feature when re-supplying and setting a charge though, that was cool

8/25/2010 – 2:20pm
-- Restarted again.
-- This time I joined the Queue for Escalation, there were about 10 other people in there
-- No music isn’t really a problem up until this point. At this point waiting in a Queue in the Deploy section the random radio chatter/noise is really loud and annoying

8/25/2010 – 2:22pm
-- Decide to check out Skill Tree
-- Went into the Medical section.
-- It says I have improved healing one, which I tried to buy earlier (froze when I bought it, not sure it went through, but I guess it did)
-- Bought up to Improved Healing 3, including the Resurrection stuff
-- When I click on Improved Healing 3 it froze at the “Yes/No prompt”
-- I can still bring up the Escalation queue by pressing Triangle… So I left the queue to see if it would un-freeze the prompt. Didn’t work.

8/25/2010 – 2:25pm
-- Still froze on that prompt so I’m leaving the game
-- Since this session is almost over I’ll just wait it out to the 2nd session.

8/25/2010 – 7:00pm
-- Entered ßeta for the start of session number 2

8/25/2010 – 7:03pm

-- No Welcome screen

-- Characters not appearing to select

-- Exit & Restart

8/25/2010 – 7:05pm

-- No Welcome Screen

-- Characters not appearing

-- Exit & Check forums
-- Dunham has posted a message at 7:05pm confirming that the session is delayed a bit for server fixes. So we’re in a holding pattern

8/25/2010 – 7:49pm
-- Server fixes have been installed now I’m logging into the Beta
-- Fixes are supposed to increase stability lets see how this goes
-- Still no welcome screen, but Characters are back

8/25/2010 – 7:51pm
-- Picking my Valor Guy, everything is good so far

8/25/2010 – 7:55pm
-- Outfitted my guy
-- Doing Training again

8/25/2010 – 7:59pm
-- Training went well, no errors, glitches, or freezes

8/25/2010 – 8:oopm
-- Joined directives, it puts me in DOM

8/25/2010 – 8:05pm
-- After 5 minutes of sitting in the Queue I left to try Suppression

8/25/2010 – 8:10pm
-- After 5 minutes being the only one in the Suppression Queue I leave to go back to Dom

8/25/2010 – 8:11pm
-- I’m attacking Raven in the 3rd Platoon. Not really any major clans or well known names in my platoon

8/25/2010 – 8:42pm
-- Well we lost
-- My tally was 18/18/14/3
-- I got the Med ribbon for healing 250 units of health

-- Match was rather laggy, nobody used Mics, and most people DID NOT have Med-kits, the few that did didn’t use them on other people much.

-- Overall a decent match, my first time on the new Raven Dom match and I didn’t notice much of a difference… but I rarely played on their old map so yeah.

8/25/2010 – 8:47pm
-- I upgraded some Skills
-- I bought the Shotty
-- I created a Shotty Loadout

8/25/2010 – 8:48pm
-- Escalation is the only mode unlocked
-- Joined the Queue

-- Once again that radio chatter is really annoying, I actually backed out to the main menu to wait for the game to start so I wouldn’t have to hear it

8/25/2010 – 8:50pm
-- While waiting in the Queue I was checking the medals and noticed there are several new medals/ribbons for Escalation

8/25/2010 – 8:52pm to 9:12pm
-- Match loading
-- Hmm no real big clans in this one either, also none of the bigger names from the forums (well atleast on Valor)
-- This is the map that’s like a Tropical Island with a  beach and some mountains.
-- The mode is really confusing, the people with Mics think so too.
-- Rush to A.. no wait B… no wait C… now back to A… People scattered everywhere. This mode will only produce good games with tons of clans IMHO.

-- Didn’t notice how long the match was, but it seemed too quick

-- People blend in with the environment well

-- Got knifed when I’ve seen nobody around, seen people get Rezed with nobody around

-- Seen a Raven guy walk into the side wall of the Tunnel under objective A, assuming LAG as I was not able to test if it was a glitch because I got killed before I could

-- The match seemed kinda boring, but maybe that’s because it was with Randoms and very confusing.
-- Not really people communicated over the mics, if they did it was about how they disliked the mode

-- A guy got stuck in the bunker not sure if he ever got out

-- Personally I would like to see better spawn buildings then the Tanks… Maybe some sort of portable looking building.
-- We lost the match
-- My tally was 8/11/22/3
-- I got two ribbons, the 250medical one and the Purple Sidekick one
-- I was the 3rd MVP of my Platoon.
-- Now I’m taking a break from play.

8/25/2010 10:00pm
-- Starting back up
-- Still as Valor

8/25/2010 – 10:02pm
-- Escalation is the only mode, so I joined a Queue
-- Valors Map, so I guess technically we are defending

8/25/2010 - 10:04pm to 10:24pm
-- Match starts, nobody has mics, hardly anybody has med kits… this is gonna be fun.. NOT!
-- The map looks good, everybody spends a few seconds shooting into one of the little ponds by the spawn
-- By the way the Heli Spawn is kinda cool, but if this is our home map shouldn’t our team have a Permanent spawn building?
-- Ok so I rush into a group of Red Dots trying to be Superman… It didn’t work out well.
-- I notice it still takes more bullets to kill them then it does for them to kill me. Most people are using LMG’s as well

-- WTF..? I just got knifed but there is NOBODY around me, no blue dots or red dots.

-- Hey cool my gun is invisible… But it can still shoot, well that is till I switch to something else then the gun can no longer shoot.. Well I’m with my pistol till I get killed again.
-- Well killed again this time by a sniper, fricken campers… I didn’t even see where the dude could have gotten a line of site on me to shoot. Maybe it was a lucky shot

-- The game overall seems very laggy

-- This game mode is very boring.. Spawn, run a half mile, die, repeat but instead of dying kill somebody then get shot and spawn again
-- I haven’t seen any Blue Dots (or red ones) that actually work as a unit it all seems everybody is lone wolfing.
-- Note to fellow teammates.. when you yell “hey Blue dot over here”… It’d help if you told them where “Over Here” is.

-- Speaking of that I rez’d somebody but I never even saw them… It gave me points and stuff I just never saw anybody on the ground nor did I see them after I rezed them.

-- On the topic of Rezing I’ve seen Red dots get Rezed when no other Redd ots are around… Does that “extended” thing extend it out 500+m through walls? Because it doesn’t for me.
-- Yeah my gun disappeared again, but I can still shoot…. Just as I cross the top of the ridge… BANG Headshot… Fricken Sniper, probably the same camping SOB that got me before.
-- So they are all at D I’ll go check out B quick… Hey a Red Dot… 5 shots to the head from a shotty within 1m and yet he doesn’t die… but he knifes me from halfway across the room while running away from me..
-- Well Raven won the match, here is my tally. 3/9/5/2
-- I’m done with the ßeta for tonight. I might try out another character tomorrow.