I know the Beta is month old code and mostly just meant to stress test the servers and stuff but this is underwhelming to the extreme. Currently playing the PC beta
First the much hyped graphics are all over the place, I am only running on high and I know they said that graphics would be better at launch but this game is all over the place. Some elements look great like the sky and sun lighting and some of the textures. But it's inconsistent you will see a great high resolution uniform texture and then sticking out like a sore thumb will be a low resolution watch but then some watches are detailed it's random. Trees look like crap for the most part when they are not in the sweet spot, up close the low res 2D branches and leaves look like crap to far away and they mostly disappear. Lighting is all over the place, fire sometimes looks good and other times has weird over saturation effect. And don't look straight down whatever you do. Ground texture looks barely as good Crysis 1's and you spend a lot of time looking at it. There is only one death animation when you die and after a few dozen deaths I was pretty sick of the outstretched hand falling limp. All in all the much hyped graphics look like Crysis 1 with crappier trees and better lighting and added destruction, tho I don't remember downed trees dissapearing so fast in crysis. If it wasn't for the scope of the levels and the quick load times I would call it an utter fail. I am leaving out the flickering textures, weird white splotches around one of the character model's eyes etc as they are most likely driver related.
Physics and animation are good when it's not glitched, tho seeing someone you just killed fly across the map is funny.
Gameplay is ok as long as there is at least a little teamwork otherwise it's camp or die and teamwork with randoms is rare. Guns feel ok and movement is generally good when it doesn't decide you can't jump over a shin high wall but you can't walk over it ether.
Sound design is top notch.
And it's glitchy as fk
But still manages to be fun occasionally, when the server isn't kicking me for no apparent reason anyway.