Battlefield beta release thread

Might be a bit premature. I think you'll need to bump it. Not sure if sticky is an option. (happy to delete this if I'm proven wrong)

@infantrypeasant There's no need to sticky this just yet as we don't know if there will be a Beta feedback forum section yet since the Beta date hasn't been formally announced yet.

IF THERE IS A BETA!

Beginning to think there is a discrepancy between our interpretation of what Beta testing might be and how Dice see it.

If the launch is 15th October  that's pretty well five weeks from today to complete Beta testing. Its not going to happen for a week as we would have heard. So lets say its the week after next and lasts a week. That leaves less than three weeks between close of Beta and Launch. 

I'd say confidence in the game must be pretty high if they are leaving only two weeks to address  any bugs revealed. I don't think its as critical a phase was we might traditionally expect Beta testing to be. I think it is closer to an open release test.

Its probably just as valuable to them as collateral for their marketing/promotion campaign as we head towards launch?

Lets face it, it's a demo, not a beta.  It'll have "beta" on it as a way to explain away any bugs.  All this "beta" talk literally weeks from launch is comical, they know its not a beta, we know its not a beta. 

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@TAYTER-GUN wrote:

Lets face it, it's a demo, not a beta.  It'll have "beta" on it as a way to explain away any bugs.  All this "beta" talk literally weeks from launch is comical, they know its not a beta, we know its not a beta. 

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Agreed. There's more in it for Dice to have a "beta test" than not having one in terms of testing the reception and building the anticipation. Technical need is minimal I expect.

@TAYTER-GUNI agree mostly on what you say.

But they can still get some useful data from this, like running the game on live servers, on a scale they haven't done before.

And there will probably be found new bugs as well, again a matter of scale and combinations of different hardware, players 'abusing' the game etc.

Game-play wise it will not matter much, they will not have time for doing anything else than perhaps getting a few more minor fixes in the 'Day-one-patch'.

Too soon but Im down. What do you guys want to see in the beta?

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@GrizzGolf wrote:

Too soon but Im down. What do you guys want to see in the beta?

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I really want to see what they have to offer with coms. Hoping for no more PTT on the PC. Apart from sussing out the gunplay, I watched those leaked Alpha trial videos and didn't see any squad play anywhere, not a lot of aggressive playing the flag and not a lot of squad action. The Orbital map didn't really have the atmosphere we saw in the trailers. Lots of running around grassed areas and pretty standard industrial buildings. Want to know what it feels like with everything switched on and a competitive squad. The bots worry me, hoping they will support the squad. Saw some being easy targets standing in the open. Ok if they are on the other side, but hope they will support squad objectives properly.