Had a play this morning. Can confirm the settings advice in the video is great for the most part. The only thing I switched back was alternate controls for soldier. Crouch and prone on O and melee on R3 works better with my muscle memory and panic presses for melee.
Recommend running the initiation breakthrough for a couple of rounds to get your eye in and level up. Be prepared for a significant jump up in difficulty when you jump into a proper game though, the training is padded with a decent sprinkling of bots to help.
Overall it feels great to play. Going to be a bit of a painful catch up with the rest of the community, and a few balance passes, but the core is really good. Current map select, that I played, is on the smaller side. There are other big maps I’ve not tried yet and in the full game though.
On the closed weapon question, need more time and to see how people exploit the options to decide. I do feel a bit like the need to make a decision and roll with it, but the beta should help collect some of the data they need. Gadgets and skills help keep the classes feeling distinct, so I’m not as anti-open weapons as I was before playing. Just depends more on how other people try to exploit it.
