John Smedley is doing an IAMA on reddit (You can ask him anything)

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Originally Posted by poofph [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

that start yet? How is it? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I had fun with ps1

I'm under NDA and very paranoid, so I won't do a full run down [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] . But I am very impressed with it. Right now the tech test is little more than run, shoot, and capture bases, but I'm still really impressed. I'll be fascinated when they add certs for testing.

When you're playing you can really tell SOE is putting a lot of eggs into this basket. Smed is online practically every night sending out messages, assuring us the bugs/balance issues players mention on the forums are being addressed. And the devs are playing too.

Since it's a tech test, I can't go away without mentioning that the game has been surprisingly stable with hundreds of players on screen. This is on high settings too. The potential for huge open scale battles is here. In fact I've already been part of a few. It's quite a scene to be running over a hill with a squad only to see a battlefield in a valley with tanks on both sides blowing everything to hell.

If they stay true to what's been promised so far, they should have one hell of a game come release. I was hugely addicted to Battlefield 2, and right now without the certs/outfits its a much nicer looking/larger scale version of that. Keep an eye out for this one if you like FPS's.