Xbox Live has been down all day for me, so haven’t played this yet.

This sounds OK. I might have to give it a try.

If they are adamant that they are not going to show shooters on the mini map, they could at least have it flash a rough area where the shot came from (like a visual representation of an audio signature), with it getting more and more accurate with successive shots from the same area, meaning people couldn't camp out indefinitely.

Rotterdam is a good map.

I thought you could play this early with EA Access??

I did. That's how I installed

I installed from Ian's link. 
Booted it up yesterday and chose the GET EARLY ACCESS option, it gives you options to buy EA Access or preorder the game, I cancelled that screen (because I have EA Access) and just loaded it up this morning and it was fine.

Managed to get on. Seems pretty rotten. Battlefield 1 2. Might try more tomorrow but it's left me pretty cold. Zero flow to the battles, just either shooting enemies in the back or being shot in the back yourself. No fun.

Played conquest. There just didn't seem the usual flow.

Taking out spotting and having a map full of dark interiors seems like an invitation to camp.

Couldn't agree more. 
It's ok to be different, might even attract your own audience. 

As far as I remember there hasn't been a flow to conquest since...BF3 I think.
Played most of today and it's how I remember it. But if you want to live you have to be incredibly cagey. Reckless gung ho will get you killed and frustrated.

Well, it kind of went a bit more arcadey with every iteration - which is not what I wanted btw. 
You could lone wolf and capture an objective, rinsing three plus bookoh bad guys, or arm a crate in BF3/4 - I don't know about BF1 I didn't play it enough.
But, in this because of the gun accuracy and the lack of situational awareness, I.e. spotting, ramboing by yourself will get you murdered quick. 
I'm only playing Conquest and you have to move in numbers, large numbers, and you really have to make use of cover and move smart. 

I played a bit of grand ops and the lack of spotting and playing with randoms was an utter nightmare.
But I don't think we'll ever get the glory days of BC2 back now.

BTW, don't get me wrong its not great. It has issues and I wish it was different.
In fact I wish it was bad company 3 or a modern bfv with cool sandbox gadgets. 
But I've not played a shooter for two years because I hated the feel of bf1 and I'm never going to play COD again, so it's as good as I'm going to get by the looks of it.

Oh, just remembered, I consciously tried to get some tanking in today, that shit is tricky!
I like the change to the tanks ammo stock. Now you start with a fixed amount of ammo and have to find ammo supply stations dotted about the map and then actively reload your stocks a few rounds at a time - a bit like repairing a vehicle in BF1 - a progress metre stops you using your main guns and if you interrupt it you lose the progress/that restock, at least this means you can't tank camp indefinitely like other bf games.
The two maps suddenly turn bit CQB as soon as you jump in a tank and panic mode can sink in if you are getting attacked by multiple infantry. They are slow and cumbersome, befitting the period I guess.

I'm ok with the soldier health changes I'm not so keen on the soldier ammo change. On spawn you only have the ammo in your current mag and 1 reload, the ammo stations will give you one more reload and that's it. So a total of three mags only. You get a small amount of ammo from running over dead bodies but the ammo dropped by them is universal, if someone else runs over it first then it's gone. This is very, very restrictive. Especially in guns with small magazines, I think one of the rifles only holds 5 shots, so that's 15 total shots, not enough in my opinion. It can sometimes feel like you are constantly hunting for an ammo station.
Decent support players will be essential.

Doesn't one of the classes drop ammo crates?

Anyway, I'll be on this from 8 tonight into the early hours, foolishly looking forward to it. I'm actually liking the sound of the "slow and stead with a team" stuff from Panty's posts.

Not so far, there's one health and one ammo station at every objective they are not always sitting next to each other, people are drawn towards them and as a sniper it would be a good idea to get them in line of sight but most of them are situated in and around cover and you the to grab a pack of each resource after you've captured a flag and it only takes a split second to do it. 
Think BC1 ammo stations, they act in exactly the same way.

There's a change to the flag capture indicator as well, which I like and dislike, you know when there's an enemy presence the bat under the time would show a red portion that differs in size depending on the amount of enemies present? Now the flag capture depends on A how many people present and B how many of each team are closer to the flag itself, two people hiding in the very edge of the flag zone wing capture it if one opposing team member is next to the flag pole. The size of the colours on the bar represent how many are there and how many are close to the flag. It's kind of tricky to gauge by looking at the bar the actual ratio of friendlies to enemies there is present.