Abyss

I’d like to add my System Specifications as a guide in my Beta testing report:

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.8GHz
Memory: 4094MB Corsair Dominator RAM
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
Monitor: SAMSUNG SyncMaster 2232GW 22" LCD
Sound Card: Creative SB Audigy
Speakers/Headphones: 5.1 Logitech Home Theatre System / ZALMAN 5.1 Headphones
Keyboard: Genius SlimMate 300
Mouse: Logitech MX™518 Optical Gaming Mouse
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate
Motherboard: ASUS N7
Computer Case: Limited Edition Custom Battlefield 2, Thermaltake Soprano

Battlelog bugs and suggestions:

• Only the platoon founder can invite and accept member applications. I think it'll be better to have the founder assign officers in the platoon that can help with invites and applications.
• Party invite doesn't always work. Extremely annoying!
• Joining a server with your party doesn’t' always send the invite to the party to connect, forcing them to leave the party join to then manually join solo.
• One has to refresh the Battlelog tab manually many times to update things like party, how many is in a party, invites, friends online etc.

Game bugs (Operation Métro):

• Without latest mouse drivers, mouse was not smooth at all. Jittery aiming. Installing Logitech latest drivers solved the problem.
• Alt-tabbing and returning to the game is not smooth at all. Lags for few seconds before going back to normal.
• Squad options suck! You can only leave and auto search. But I see it will be addressed.
• Setting load out to MP443 Tact. pistol on any and/or all kits. At the start of a new round it changes it back to M9 Tact on all kits.
• Players running horizontally and half inside the floor. Major problem when trying to see or shoot the player due to hit boxes not where they are suppose to be.
• Mounting a weapon with bipod doesn't always appear to be mounted, but is. I’ve also seen players run with bipod spread out like wings.
• Dip/foxhole at bomb site A, get stuck or struggle greatly to get out. Also some to most times you appear to be below the texture, and can't be seen but can shoot from there. Players took advantage from this.
• Artifacts! Textures close or far away getting pulled by crosshair.
• Random white frames/screens when looking at something or direction.
• Rubberbanding!
• Semi-Auto Sniper rifles from such low level, are you kidding me!?
• Sometimes an enemy player can't be seen, so you get killed and the kill-cam shows you were killed by nothing.
• Many times magazines from gun float in mid air parented to gun (same with some attachments).
• At times one spawns with death gray screen. Have to press escape and resume game to get rid of it.
• Sometimes after reloading weapon, one can't aim down sights or through scope. Quickly switching weapons is a work-around, but nonetheless, a bug.
• Being spotted then hiding behind cover, like a huge rock or concrete structure, and still getting hit when it's not suppose to be possible due to complete cover and out of line of sight (unless that's lag, but I doubt it).
• Sometimes after shooting a few shots, one can't reload, and have to switch weapons to do so.
• One or more random branches in trees are going crazy as if a massive wind or explosion is causing its wild reaction, but the rest of the tree branches act normal.
• When an ally player is being killed via an enemy’s knife, shooting at that enemy has no effect as if he gets invulnerability from the knife action, until the knife action is complete. Not always, but has happened quite often.
• Using AT mines at bomb site for protection doesn't get detonated by the enemy soldiers. It's a pressure sensitive explosive, and should work on soldiers as well as vehicles. Unless there are AP mines we unlock later?
• Hiding in a bush, throw a grenade from within the bush (cover), the grenade doesn't really gets thrown, instead it falls right in front of me.
• Sometimes my health is on 0% indicated by HUD, but I'm still alive.
• Detonating C4 from behind safe cover results in suicide. Not always, but sometimes.
• Once spawned, and couldn't move, jump, reload... all I could do was shoot and look around. Escape didn't even work. Had to Alt+F4. It was the first time this happened, and it could be a result of me typing in chat, when the previous round ended while I was typing.
• Once when bringing up the scope for the SVD, the game froze with my scope semi open on the bottom right hand corner, and the rest of the screen was black.
• Spawning on friendly in the action and you can't see anything for a second or two grants the enemy time to spot/shoot you (disadvantage!).
• Extremely annoying not being able to customize your kits while waiting for the next round.
• Also annoying not being able to skip your rewards, unlocks and ribbons show to customize your kit or read about the item that was unlocked.
• Suggestion: Let's be real, spawn camping is pathetic and unfair. It shows bad sportsmanship not to give the opposing team a fighting chance to get anywhere, and many players not giving a damn, I think it should be enforced. I feel the least that can be done, is for the defenders not to be able to go further than half way between the attacking team's spawn areas and the objectives. Pass that half-way-mark and the red “out-of-area count-down” message appears.
• Also the fact that you can't adjust your kits for the next spawn even when still alive is not cool. Should be added please.

Game bugs (Caspian Border):

• Camera bumping the whole time in plane as if getting hit or something.
• Anti-Tank turrets, display on the mini map as a tank icon. This is confusing. Anti-tank turret mini map icon should be changed to something more identifiable.
• Can't look straight upward. Extremely annoying when at base of tower and can’t look up, or down for that matter. This was not really an issue on Operation Métro as one hardly ever needed to, but one must be able to look straight up or down. Not being able to is just stupid.
• Many times the kill-cam is below the map, so one can't establish where your killer was. Unfair.
• Can't open a map to see what spawn point is closer to where you want to go. I’ve found the “M” button to enlarge your mini-map, and to zoom between 3 levels with “N”. But it’s lame not to have a proper map you can open to establish where you are, and where you can or should go to.
• Looking at flag-points (A, B or whichever) and not having a distance indicator with it, makes it difficult to justify which point from your current location is closer. And can’t even open a map to work around this problem either.
• AA Turret at US spawn has a sound bug. The sound is that of the gun being fired continuously, even when not shooting it or no one occupying the turret. Like the sound is stuck on loop.
• I’ve noticed at times that I couldn’t spot/target enemies from inside buildings, looking out at them.
• In BF:BC2, one could spot your friendly vehicle and it would informing that player that you’d like to hop in. This is now crap without that function! You can't target/spot a friendly vehicle and request a lift/ride/pick-up. Pathetic. It MUST be added!
• Camera goes crazy when trying to climb back down the ladder at Antenna tower.
• Can't pan around with the camera while climbing the ladder to see if an enemy is climbing up behind you, or waiting at the top. Suggestion: It would also be awesome is to be able to hold on to the ladder with one arm, and whip out your pistol by pressing right-mouse (aim) to aim around and shoot potential enemies chasing you on the ladder. And be stationary on the ladder while doing so.
• AA guns do very little damage to air units! As an explosive/incendiary round battery to counter air units, its damage should be pumped it a lot! Receiving hit-blips like mad when shooting at air units, and it hardly ever sets the plane on fire even, is just ridiculous.
• Bailing out from a plane or chopper, too high or not that far from a flag area sets you out of the battlefield, and after ten seconds you die!? Come on!
• Also, adding sliding down ladders would be nice. Without it makes me feel tied down on this lengthy ladder.
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It might seem that I’ve played more Métro than Caspian Border due to the number of points in each, but that’s because Caspian Border was unlocked VERY late in the Beta on our South African servers. I basically played 2 days on Caspian, the rest was on Métro.

I’m sure many other players have experienced these bugs and issues. I’m also not a professional bug tester, and I’ve probably missed some. I just felt it’s my duty to report these issues to better the game, and some suggestions I felt was necessary, to improve the game more.

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