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First impressions of this were good, i started my own server and had a run about messing around with different weapons. After a 3 player multi i entered a pub server with about 16 players. The game seems to play a bit differently from the original allied assault, i noticed straight away that the rifles now seem more dominant in the 2 maps that are included. I spent most of my time using the mosin nagant and was happily picking people off from every direction.

At the minute in the game there seems to be a good balance, no longer do snipers and mg whores dominate every map, i was using the ppsh for a while and was out gunning mg lamers with ease. Snipers now have to contend with more recoil but for some reason or other the recoil on the springfield is minimal compared to the soviet rifle or the g-43, though i assume this may have been a demo oversight. Other glitches included the lee enfield and the mosin nagant having reload animations but an aparant invisible magazine was being inserted into these rifles. eek: Also the portable mg-42 always seems to be floating above ground when deployed.


The demo played well and i didn't encounter many frame rate dips that some freak on the official forums was predicting.


Even though the allies have more weapons with the axis having the grenade launcher it sorta evens it out. There is a chance this could be whored though i would hope someone brings out a mod which sets limits to how many of a certain weapons each team can have,


My only real gripes with the demo are centered on the shoddy weapons models. You compare these to the original allied assault weapons and imo only the mg-42 and the lee enfield and possibly the sten are up to scratch. The mosin nagant looks very basic and has the wrong bolt on it, the g-43 just has a dire skin, the ppsh is ok aside from the fact that it has a hexagonal magazine instead of a drum mag, that and the hand holding it near the barrell looks freakishly like some kind of mutated claw.

Ea is one of if not THE biggest games publishers on the planet and thye have their own in house development teams. Now in my opinion it doesn't really make a shining example of their reputation if weapons models from a half life mod like day of defeat generally look a lot better than models done by supposed "professional moddelers".

The moddelers either (a) can't be arsed researching the models properly, (b) Havn't the time, or (c) they just make something that looks kind of similar to what theyre making and slap that ingame.

They went to the trouble of adding new useless animations to the characters in the multiplayer skin select screen but obviously couldn't take the time to research weapons properly and model them accurately. People might say weapons models are a small point but when you're playing the game the weapon is constantly on your screen and inaccurate\basic looking models become very obvious very quickly.



Id really like to see some improved models in a patch in the enar future, chris shelton said himself that the moddelling proccess is very in depth so maybe it would be better if eala made better models and released them rather than the community dtruggling to make them.


Overall im pleased enough with the enhancements to multiplayer and hopeflly no "realism" mods come out to balls up which is so far a good balance. The weapons models on the other hand leave a lot to be desired. eek:

[img]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gerald.marley/spearhead/g-43.jpg[/img]
Very basic looking model.

[img]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gerald.marley/spearhead/nagant.jpg[/img]
Not too bad but the bolts all wrong and the skin leaves a LOT to be desired.

[img]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gerald.marley/spearhead/ppsh.jpg[/img]
Hexagon shaped drum mag instead of it being more circular, and fear the massive claw holding it. ed:

[img]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gerald.marley/spearhead/sten.jpg[/img]
Looks ok but lets be honest, how hard can it possibly be to model a cylinder with a rectangle sticking out of it?

[img]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gerald.marley/spearhead/lee.jpg[/img]
One of the best models in the game

[img]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gerald.marley/spearhead/mg-42.jpg[/img]
Probably the best model in the game.