I purchased the Battalion 1944 early access ("First To Fight" bundle) today. US$24.90
First off, the game is very slow in loading.
Click the steam link to play and about five seconds later that screen disappears and you are staring at the desktop for about 30 seconds wondering if anything is happening.
You select your location and of course checkout the key binding controls.
There's a training mode where you shoot at cardboard cutouts, bottles and shooting range type targets.
No single player campaign.
The servers listed take forever to log into then it says that the server has expired. Why list them then?
All servers list a ping of "0" regardless of which continent you attempt to connect to. Pfft
My third attempt to connect to a server actually crashed the game and I gave up. These were supposedly Australian servers.
I returned after an hour or so and a fresh reboot then selected the American servers.
The first American server I selected said that there were 9 out of 16 players on it, yet after even more waiting I was kicked with the game saying that the server was full. Work that one out.
Maybe five others were waiting to connect before me.
Finally I got in to a different server.
The eye candy is simply beautiful however I found it very laggy. It may be due to my system as I didn't check the required system specs for the game.
I started off well and killed someone a few seconds into spawning for my first time. Besides that happy accident (both of us met running around a corner) they absolutely creamed me. lol
Then I was getting killed upon spawning (3 times) which took me back to the time I tried MOH after many years absent from the game and everyone was running hacks and cheats of all sorts.
I stuck it out for 36 minutes (I think 26 minutes was spent waiting for shit to load) but it was way too laggy for me to continue.
I know its only an early access version but I think that even so it is way too premature.
No editing tools have been released and there's no word on when that will happen.