fullfat said:
i dont think its at all hard to get into/hang of.
its very simplistic in a great way. nothing major to 'learn', the maps can be learnt within a few rounds if that. and you can get your fair share of kills.
its basically kill other people and defend/take flags to win the round. the maps arent huge either.
i found it was one of the most new user friendly games ive played in a while, as long as you know how a team based fps game then youll crack it no worries.
the weekend is just to give people a chance to see the game in action instead of reading all the lame reviews of it im sure.
My friend never played DOD before a few weeks back, I got him into it as a sniper and he is many orders of magnitude better than me with the sniper now.
He also picked up on the spots to be in and defend really quickly as well as being handy with the other weapons should we need to take flags
The younger counterstrike players from my experience have the most difficulty with DOD they simply can't get their head round tactics, from tactical less public (yes public is skillless imo in counterstrike where as clan/wars are incredibly tactical) games, they simply don't know what it means to hold a flank or wait till two teammembers are in position near the last two nme flags.
Or use of grenades, they simply throw them away, where a more tactically experienced player will wait till their grenades will be most effective (like throwing them over the wall from the allies section down the alley on the right flank which timed right will kill the first three people rushing that area.
I digress
it's an easy game to get into for killing people, but it's a much harder game to get into for tactics imo.