the beta is always open to all. It comes out the 1st week of September.
Im glad to hear the beta will be open since Im not planning on pre-ordering at this point. I would really like to play a different map with more vehicles to see if that makes a difference in my perception of the game.
You know the sounds did seem different. I played with a decent headset this time compared to my desktop speakers and I can see what you mean. The first day of the second alpha I had no issues with the laggy hits but the second day I played I saw that a lot actually. I initially thought nothing of it and figured it's the servers. But I definitely missed out on some kills because it was clear I was shooting at people even medium range body shot and it didn't register.
What I really missed out on was battlefield 2042, never actually played that one but I heard so many great things.
Same here. The first day I played the second alpha it played very smooth for me but lots of people were complaining about laggy hits and I thought it must just be their connection or PC issues, but after the next two days I saw what they were complaining about. Issues like that are expected in an alpha, but what concerns me is the fact that I loved playing all the BF3,4, and 1 alphas and betas. I remember that I couldn't wait to get home to play those even with all their crazy bugs and issues, but I feel none of that with this game. All I felt was aggravation the entire time I was playing it, even when I was tearing up the scoreboard.
2042 was definitely different from what we have now, it was okay even though the futuristic stuff wasn't really my cup of tea. I really liked BFBC2 Vietnam.