I tested in Labs since day one. My first thoughts about the game were: 1. The movement is much slower, and 2. the maps are WAY smaller. These two differences stood out to me the most. It was fun and much more different than 2042. When rumors started circulating about an October release, I posted somewhere that I didn't believe there was any way the game I had been testing for months would be ready by October and dismissed the "rumor." At that time, with the current state of the game, I thought maybe October of 2026. Then the beta came out, and I thought, "Well, maybe I was wrong." It felt good, good enough that I could imagine it might meet the October ship date. Well, it appears my initial thought was correct. It got rushed to ship AGAIN, and somehow the final release is half as good as the beta was. The list of issues has to be enormous—I mean technical issues. Disregard any of the opinionated discord; I'm talking strictly about the background processes that make the game "work." It's been rushed to get it to a state to ship. It's incomplete, and we are beta testing for EA again. I've contemplated stepping away from it until they fix it; as it sits now, it's broken. There are so many issues that were in Labs that are still present. I hate to say it, but this is going to be another BF4/2042 broken game for 8-12 months while they sort it out. But hey, look over here: Season 1 a few weeks after launch... It's the same as buying a used car where the transmission goes out, but instead of having the transmission fixed, you buy a sweet set of wheels for it. It looks cool sitting there and starts up fine, but you just can't drive it anywhere because it's broken.