Inspired by real life operations, players team-up in pairs using the game’s unique co-op Fireteam system for a competitive advantage on the battlefield.
Navy SEALs, and more.Īs the official press release states, "The Medal of Honor Warfighter beta will feature a brand new multiplayer mode called HotSpot, where players attack and defend randomly-selected locations on the Sarajevo Stadium map in Bosnia. This worldwide event gives players access to soldiers from ten different nations, including twelve Tier 1 units including the British SAS, German KSK, Russian Spetsnaz Alfa Group, Korean UDT, U.S. Medal of Honor: Warfighter launches for the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 on October 23.Danger Close Games is releasing an open multiplatyer beta for the upcoming Medal of Honor: Warfighter this October. I just wish I had access to all of the classes right away so I could have seen the feature's potential much sooner. While at first glance Medal of Honor: Warfighter may seem like it doesn't do much to differentiate itself from other military shooters, the fire team mechanic is interesting enough to help it stand out. Functionally and mechanically it's a very viable system. Getting one pal to play online versus finding an entire squad to coordinate is a simpler, and more realistic scenario as well. Medal of Honor: Warfighter features a lot of the same elements found in other multiplayer shooters, but the fire team mechanic adds a new wrinkle that makes it easier to excel. The integration includes some standard features, too, such as forming a clan and scouring stats and leaderboards. Along with Battlelog integration, you can unlock Warfighter Tokens in-game, which can be spent on the web portal to give you XP boosts within the game. Medal of Honor: Warfighter multiplayer creative director Kristoffer Bergqvist told me it'd take 60 hours to unlock everything included in multiplayer, but adds that progress never really reaches a ceiling. Note: The reason the game kept defaulting to the Sniper class was due to a bug in this preview build. It's also much easier to unlock your class-specific bonus weapons: get a kill streak and you may choose between two different bonuses, like a grenade launcher, mobile radar jammer or unmanned drones. Team actions in Medal of Honor: Warfighter like securing objectives, assisting in kills and taking down enemies yields greater rewards as well. Doing anything while in proximity of your pal increases earned points, for example. Let them go into a room and you can flank. In the situation where you're paired with a stranger who doesn't use their headset, it's a handy tool allowing for tactical maneuvering. Your team mate is highlighted in green and when engaged by the enemy, flashes red. In addition to having a pal in battle, fire teams provide an added benefit of sharing ammo and being able to see your teammate through walls. The demolitions class has a visor that can be lowered for even greater defense, making for a great mobile shield the other player can hide behind. There are tons of different combinations for different situations – a particularly effective combo involved the demolitions class, a walking tank with extra body armor and an automatic shotgun. %Gallery-168105%After a few hours, I had several classes unlocked and was familiar with each, bringing out the true power of the fire team mechanic. For someone like myself who has played tons of shooters and is well-versed in class-based multiplayer, it was an unnecessary stopgap and only served to invalidate the single best feature in multiplayer: fire teams. The initial barriers to other classes is a very odd design decision, meant to ease you into the experience. (You can sample the multiplayer now in an exclusive Xbox Live beta.) It takes a few hours before you have them all unlocked, as I experienced during a recent private multiplayer event. There are six different classes in total that can pair up to form interesting compliments to each other however, from the first moments of Medal of Honor: Warfighter multiplayer, Danger Close oddly chose to have one class unlocked.
At the heart of Medal of Honor: Warfighter is an interesting co-op dynamic, where two players are paired together into a fire team. The US government may tell us all it's an army of one, but Danger Close games is making a good case for the buddy system.