-White dot on the lower right corner.
What in the world is that there for?
-I can't join the TPU server unless a friend is playing. Or else it's grayed out and unselectable
Haven't tried my clan's server or TPU's server, but beyond that there are other server issues that need dealt with. Though tonight was the most stable night yet...well since beta that is!
-Crappy dynamic ranges for audio. Someone who is 15' away sound like they are right next to you. Noise near some builds echoes when it shouldn't, etc
Damn audiophiles! While I can't disagree, I also think this game features much better sound all around than pretty much any shooter from the last few years that I can recall, both in direction (at least for me) and tuning. Sure the sound has been more hollywooded up than most, it also somehow adds to the excitement of gameplay, which to me makes up for a lto of the directional mess...generally there's so much going on in servers I play, if you even hear a guy's footsteps that far away, you're on a boring, 1/4-stocked server (imo). This game's much more fun with more people at least that's how I enjoy it, and for me the sound pays off quite well for audio enjoyment overall. Some games might have better placement, but this game's more about the arcadish-fps experience, so effects are priority, at least to me that's what seems obvious.
-Haven't received my vet status and they've taken down "My Solider" or whatever it's called. No ETA when it will be back up. I was going to use it to make sure my vet status is associated with my account. However, I can't do that because "My Solider" website was taken down.
I did this back when Beta was still on, and it took instantly..though I went from 4 in beta to 2, it seems add-ons don't count. Now in the official release I'm just counted for 2 and 2142.
-Both PB enabled and PB disabled servers are ALL RANKED
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I hope it get's fixed, but not the end of the world yet. But as I've said many times, for the total ignorant screw ups this game features, it's a damn good thing DICE has made this game fun as hell to play, or stuff like this and the rest of your list would denote it as crap in gaming history. It's amazing what the small things like dedicated servers can do...
-Extremely long wait times when refreshing server browser. But if you stop it after 5 seconds all the servers will show up 2 seconds later. Thus negating the unusual long wait.
This and the long load times when loading a map either when joining a server or between matches is annoying...didn't notice this with my 260 and Beta...
-You need a low ping in order to be competitive or else you're just cannon fodder
Sorry man, but it's an FPS...NO SH!T?!?!!?!?! I'm fine with 120 or less ping, above that and it's rough. Seems normal to me on that aspect.
-Things like med pads, shocks, ammo box need to be unlocked which is unnecessary and convolute the unlock process.
Yeah, I do agree here, it's kind of annoying, but really doesn't take much to get to the point of unlocking them in any class...so at the same time kind of a moot point, generally the first round or two and you got it, though then you gotta wait to equip it so at least a theoretical 2-3 rounds before you have med pack, ammo, repair tool, etc.
-The 55 FOV is a complete joke and although you can change it via settings.ini file it should be a slider from within the game with a small window showing you how your FOV will change.
Agreed, I found 70 in .ini much better for my 24" 1920x1080 setup and personal preference, but there should be a slider in-game for damn sure, especially by now...as much as I've seen it requested, it would be a nice token to have taken care of this issue already.
I think I'll stop here for now I don't want to nitpick.
You definitely have some solid points for arguments, and while I could nitpick too...even when I'm fighting the game to play, it's been worth it when I can play. At this point I think AvP is less buggy and as much as I forced myself to play that game which I have few issues with, I'd rather deal with the issues to play this game. I skipped MW2, can't play CoD4 or WaW anymore, and really for a modern FPS, this game has promise...but DICE delivered as expected, and while somewhat dissapointing, it's also VERY refreshing in my mind on quite a few aspects that have needed to have been executed for a while and it's kinda sad some of those took this long to happen. So yeah, plenty of good and bad, hell some parts where the Beta was waaaay more stable or enjoyable, and other parts where the official release kept it's word, even so, I'd give the game a solid 8-8.5 overall. And while I've yet to see the perfect game, no such single game will be that "perfect" game for each and every player, this one is the next most enjoyable one for me since BF2 and CoD4 for MP in all honesty.