I like MAG and I'm really lookin forward to it this month but I just wished the graphics were better. Remember the first video of MAG at E3 (2008)?

I know that was a video but I just wish the graphics wouldn't be as cartoony as the BETA.

So what are your thoughts?

Will the graphics be better or the BETA's graphics are the final?

The graphics were not on the scale of games right now, but it was ok..considering the fact that it's 256players online( and damn the matchmaking is a freaking pain)...I wish to play it again now that I got a HDTV but the servers for the public beta won't be available until Jan 4...

I wasn't really dissappointed with the graphics in the Beta version.  I don't think that we can expect graphics comparable to Uncharted 2 with everything going on.  When it comes to having 256 players on large maps I'm not expecting miracles.  I'm just glad that the game is fun and I'm looking forward to buying it on day one.

Don't know. To be honest though... I don't really care. The only thing that annoys me about the graphics are some pretty bad smoke affects. Other than that, the games great. The animation could be improved [didn't care but it was pointed out alot and I can see how someone could complain] but even if they don't it's fine with me.

i hope they are

the graphics you are going to see are the graphics that is going to be on this last beta, since the game went gold, this beta is just a test of connection and stability , aswell as free marketing.

edit: i mean't the public beta that is going to start at 4th of jan

I wouldn't expect anything like Uncharted 2 or Killzone 2 out of it, but I would agree that I'd like to see some improvement from the beta's. We'll have to see what changes have been made once the final product comes out. Right now, however, I'm more interested in seeing gameplay and balance tweaks more than graphics. Still, even if the graphics never improve, I hope that at least the character animations are improved so that the other players and your arms in first person don't look as stiff.

Also, it'd be great if enough people get into this final beta so that joining 256 player matches will be as quick as the 64 player ones. With both balancing issues versus SVER and a low number of players, playing in the 256 player matches was quite pointless as a Raven soldier in this recently ended beta phase.

Probably.

Probably, though I suspect that in this game they have to prioritise bug fixing and gameplay tweaks than optimisation. I wouldn't say that the graphics in the beta are representative of the final game although they should be close.

They'll probably be tweaked a little nicer, but the focus with 256 players has got to be netcode and gameplay over graphics, so I don't think there will be some huge jump from the Beta.