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PC Open Beta | Medal of Honor - Coming October 12, 2010

Start Date: October 4 | End Date: October 7, 11:59 PDT
Grab your MREs and prepare to spend four days playing two new maps and modes for the multiplayer version of Medal of Honor. Anyone can download and play. All that is required is an EA Account when you launch the game and to accept the beta agreement.

Recommended System Requirements
Operating System: Windows Vista (SP2), Windows 7. Processor: QuadCore 2.0Ghz. Memory: 2GB RAM+. Video Card: A video card with 512MB of VRAM and one of the following chipsets: NVIDIA GeForce GTX260; ATI Raedeon 4870. HDD Space: 2GB. Soundcard: Soundcard with DirectX 10 compatibility. DirectX: DirectX 10. Disc Drive: 16X CD/DVD Drive.

It appears that the beta will showcase a new Multiplayer Game-type similar to Domination.

Fandom Ruck

Sweet. But its kind of odd they aren't testing it over a weekend.

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Voodoo

Agreed. Well I'll probably try and get it, it'll be a change of scene for me

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Serval

Was probably going to get this anyway, but now I can test it first - I just hope Internode host the file so I can get an unmetered download.

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Voodoo

gotta love Australian isps -__-

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Fandom Ruck

I've got 1 week to use 160 GB quota. :3

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Voodoo

I used 90 last month :\

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Naga

Does this one work? I tried the last beta, but said "fuck it" when it crashed for the third time in about 10 minutes. Twice during the menu.

At least I killed 3 people before the third crash.

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OzballO

Hmm it didn't crash on Xbox unless you did the pull up scoreboard right when you die. But yeah the PC and PS3 betas were quite faulty. From what I understand this one is to test server capacity, I would assume that everything else is fixed since the game debuts Oct. 12

oneinchwunda

Cringed at the system requirements.

Be playing on low settings methinks.

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Dante

4870 recommended? WAT?!

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MoleMania

Isn't it a bit late to be called a beta?

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oneinchwunda

^ What would you call it?

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MoleMania

Demo? By now it should be the complete version of multiplayer, minus a few bugs.

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Nibbles

From the beta page:

Load testing is hardly what I'd call a "Beta" if the code is complete for release (and it's not going to change in the 4 days between testing and release) but if they called it a Demo, people would probably be far less tolerant of performance issues.

Meh, not that it makes a difference - free play-time is free play-time. I'm just annoyed I wont be around next week to try it out.

Colts23

Is it free?

EDIT: Fuck, it PC.. never mind...

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Releasing another BETA a few days before the final game is released is a little risky but it does show that they are happy with the game and want those put off by the first BETA to try it and hopefully buy it

I have read that there is a day one patch and i know that a good deal of the original game has been rewritten as for system specs for the PC they are only the recommended specs the lowest will again be something inline with the consoles so even a low end older gaming rig should run it on low to medium

The beta can be downloaded now ready for the 4th

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oneinchwunda

Just finished my second stint of playing the open beta.

I actually thoroughly enjoyed it. It was very difficult at first, and there is definitely a learning curve. It can't be played like COD, which all-in-all is a very good thing. However, the controls/movement are definitely not as fluid/smooth/refined as they are in MW2.

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SgtJoo

It won't connect for me.

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Platy

I noticed this playing it, albeit briefly, at Eurogamer Expo yesterday. It's promising tbh.

Definately felt that there was a learning curve and the controls felt wrong. Maybe the controller layout being like MW2 but the game looking like BC2 threw me off a little.

This was the console version btw.

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oneinchwunda

Just played another 45 minutes or so, and I'm really growing towards it. Once you learn how each class should be used properly, and you know the maps well enough, you start doing better.

The movement I still think is pretty awful, however. Jumping onto things can be so difficult, and you often slide off some surfaces. I found this particularly annoying after finding good cover, but couldn't move without falling off the ledge on which I was perching.

Not being able to strafe while sprinting also is getting on my nerves, I've gotten so used to being able to sprint in a straight line, while being able to scan a wider FOV by strafing and looking to the side at the same time.

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Fandom Ruck

Having the same engine as Bad Company 2 it isn't surprising that it shares many of the same issues.

I've only had time to play it for half an hour so far (unfortunately). I found the spawns very easy to take advantage of.

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Serval

I've found it quite easy to do well, the killstreaks just chain and chain (so far I've gone twice on the "rush" map with just over 40 kills & no deaths sniping). At long range burst firing weapons makes them still very fast at killing people (and that's with the recoil increase from hollow point ammo) and the snipers with hollow point are ohk in most places (I don't think the arm and maybe lower leg count) with minimal aiming needed.

I do find the small maps with such fast games can make the lack of maps very apparent.

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^ I haven't done a gametype with killstreaks yet. Or maybe I haven't unlocked any...
I get OHK footshots.

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Voodoo

they need to cap the snipers in rush game mode. Its lots of fun spawning into a bullet with little to no cover around. then again it's pub so w/e. what is with that though. In every single fucking fps people is seem to want to snipe. fucking boring. It's fun though, a nice change from mw2. The chains can get lulzy though.

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