I Guess Battlefield Heroes is Live...

[modeps]

http://evavhost.com/i/news/Battlefield_Heroes.jpg

It looks like Battlefield Heroes has officially gone live (http://www.battlefieldheroes.com/), without as much as a mention from Electronic Arts. Maybe they're hoping to lessen the server load explosion? Who knows... anyways, its live. Go play it.

Thanks Ruumis.

[ShankTheChicken]

The beta never really felt like a beta to me. They were handing out the invites 50,000 at a time, and the microtransactions were already in place. It seems to me that if I had actually been beta testing the game, everything would have been free so it could have been, well, tested, I suspect the whole thing was just a way to keep the servers from doing a bellyflop.

As for the game, its fun for an afternoon. You won't find any deep strategy, but characters can invest experience in multiple abilities that can affect the outcome of a fight, such as a damage absorbing shield or the ability to consume nearby grenades for health. Experience can also purchase new weapons, though they are usually just modified versions of the starting weapons, giving you the option to fire faster at the expense of range, or vice-versa.

Like most games of this sort, the microtransactions are for things that don't directly affect combat, such as new clothes or temporary boosts to experience gain rate.

[Illuminus]

What the heck? I have been waiting for this for quite sometime... whats up with the whole ninja release?

[Earth Djinn]

I'll have to try this out sometime over the weekend.

[Frag-L-Rock]

Thanks for the heads-up! Played for about 1/2 hour - was a real blast.

[Zander]

And here I am at work.

Son of a BITCH.

[MasterEvilAce]

I played in the 'beta'... It wasn't that awesome to me. It felt too much like an mmo. Either pay or invest a lot of time to get awesome weapons (which have a duration). I really expected something like BF 1942.. but it's really not. It's entirely a new game, and it looked good but felt weird. Stiff character animations and what not. Not really my cup of tea.

I also hope they make the game easier to access. Just finding the website to load the game was near impossible. I don't know why you even need to go to the website to play it when it practically loads a stand-alone app full screen. Quake Live I can understand because it is VERY integrated into their site. BF Heroes just... isn't.

[brandonjclark]

And here I am at work.

Son of a BITCH.

Sounds to me like someone needs to learn how to proxy a connection!

Also, I read in an issue of PC Gamer that for this to be profitable, said one of the devs, it'd have to be the most successful Battlefield game ever.

I'm jumping in as soon as this post is over! Woo-HOO!

[brandonjclark]

I also hope they make the game easier to access. Just finding the website to load the game was near impossible.


Yup, real hard! What are you blind?

Go to BattefieldHeroes.com and click on the FRIGGIN HUGE, FLASHING PLAY NOW BUTTON!

[MasterEvilAce]

Yup, real hard! What are you blind?

Go to BattefieldHeroes.com and click on the FRIGGIN HUGE, FLASHING PLAY NOW BUTTON!

During the beta it was an almost impossible scavenger hunt, sir.

[brandonjclark]

During the beta it was an almost impossible scavenger hunt, sir.


Then it seems your wish has come true, Allah Akhbar!

[HillTribe]

Now if only it can find "a suitable server"...

[Amalor]

Is this one of the Gearbox games we were bitching about yesterday? j/k ;)

[Mozgus]

Doesnt install. After EULA it says could not find build.

[blackzc]

Um, i cant find the play it now button. Did they turn it off again? I already have an account.

[Sarconix]

Doesnt install. After EULA it says could not find build.

Same here, at least using Firefox. Anybody got this working today?

[blackzc]

http://play.battlefield-heroes.com/


Here, and evil ace, this was not out in the open, i had to do a search and browse a couple different boards. But it seems like some sort of cookies issue.

[Mozgus]

Same here, at least using Firefox. Anybody got this working today?

Oh it turns out thats just aka for "Register an account first".

Anyway, the game is still very rough. Especially in terms of controls and camera.

[brandonjclark]

Oh it turns out thats just aka for "Register an account first".

Anyway, the game is still very rough. Especially in terms of controls and camera.

I disagree, it feels to me like it's actually very polished, for what it's trying to be.

I wish I could run faster than someone with eighty pounds of tar stuck to their feet!

[sgtslappy]

I guess I'm just not used to the third person camera. I didn't like it that much.

[Chimpbot]

Then it seems your wish has come true, Allah Akhbar!

...It's a TRAP!

[WpnX]

Word to the wise - I could not find a game when I loaded the client with Firefox. I had to load the client with IE. It needed authorization for Active X, but didn't have to download anything major over again.