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Well a few NC players on the THN have looked at it, and judging by the response, it's been given a thumbs down.
Now unfortunatly in this world, first impressions count. With the limited time I had this week, I wasn't impressed. It's been said many times you can't judge a MMORPG in 15 minutes, so I wont pass final judgement on it yet.
I have heard the mission system is excellent, and I do intend to give it a good look over before throwing it out or welcoming it to my hard disc.
its quite crap tbh
scenery looks shit hot engine is miles ahead of nc engine but thats where its bonus's end.
combats slow and laggy bullets dont always reg animations are as gay as nc's new cast anim.
its generally just not nice
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Originally Posted by hinch
I always loved your honesty :p
Well it's easy to have a "good" beta test if the game has been retail for months before.;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ascention
Personally I don't think the words "Lineage 2" and "good" have any place in the same sentence though.
din't read every reply.. but on another forum and on a few more places i'v seen nothing but bad reviews of fomk.. gfx being crap on some points.. not knowing what to do. seeing nobody.. etc..
i played in closed beta even before nc2 open beta got out :p already made up my mind to give up on fomk back then. din't like it.
[edit] just saw brammers already mentioned the "other forum" being the THN :p [/edit]
lets be honest. death means next to notheing in NC.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr Strange
when i die in NC i pay over 1k to get my backpack back...Quote:
Now in FoMK when it comes down to the game mechanics themselves preventing a user from playing from a decent chunk of real life time that they ARE PAYING FOR, well thats a whole new ballgame there. You won't start with the 50k creds like we are now in its open beta, I'm guessing maybe 5k or less. A clone is what 1000+? To be completely safe from many of the CS kiddies that people have mentioned, that ARE running around ganking anyone and everything, you'd need to waste almost all 5k of your starting cred on new clones. Lose your clones, no new character for 24 hours.
once again... theres a timer on makin chars in NC too...Quote:
As said that is fucking ridiculous. It's like buying a new car but the first week you drive it, if you run out of gas you aren't allowed to fill the tank up for 24 hours. It's not good business pratice. I'm not saying it sucks cause of the idea or method, but from the fact that in that manner its done it WILL drive customers away and I'll bet ANYTHING if its that way or that harsh come retail their servers will be less populated than NC2's servers atm.
you think its 15 mins in NC to remake? try it.Quote:
If it was die (all 3 times or however many clones you can afford) and wait say 24 hours in-game time, which could translate to maybe 15 minutes real world time (kinda like NC's) then that is doable.
damn right killing isnt greiefin, no matter how many times. you have the choice to defend yourself or go elsewhere in the game worlds. and CS kiddies will invade? nothing new. you said it hapopens all over. they can hardly ban people known to play CS...Quote:
You say its aimed at roleplayers? How long do you think its going to be before say a large group does roleplay but 5 minutes into doing whatever their doing a small group of teenage/pre-teen CS style players come in and just shoot any player that moves? It happens in ALL mmo's; the player type who doesnt give a shit about RP'ing and kills whatever he/she wants. Its heavily shown in NC (hence I play a ppu), and it'll be WORSE in FOMK since theres Perma Death, you'll have people hell even Clans made just for the sake of fucking up your day by killing all your clones (asuming they can track you down after each death). And the best part is from what I've read constant killing in FOMK is not griefing or aganist game rules.
if you dont wanna die play pokemon.Quote:
You'll be thinking the same the first day you play and some 12 year old who thinks he's GOD because he wallhacks in CS:S decides to gank you then proceed to voice taunt spam for the time it takes your body to fade. And then do it again 3 more times if he can.
There's a HUGE difference - NC doesn't have permadeath.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jesterthegreat
To me permadeath is the biggest turn-off from the things I've heard about FoM. Most of the other criticisms (gfx, content, stability, balance, etc) can be fixed in time but terrible design decisions at such a fundamental level are hard to correct later. I want to see first-hand how it's dealt with as there do seem to be mechanisms to prevent/circumvent it but if that's the case I don't see what purpose it serves at all.
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Originally Posted by jernau
perma death is one of the reasons im playin it.
be more careful, make allies and if you cant defend yourself... bail when you see an enemy :p
i perma deathed myself to create anLED char on my closed beta account (as a closed beta account makes you a higher rank than a new one) and RP's a copper.
walked around brooklyn, grabbed a few cops and started patrolling.
found a "clan" player, surrounded him and used the "dont move" emote
told him to type ./arrestme (this surrenders and allows an LED to check your record).
the players that accepted that i used the search/ arrest button and arrested the guilties and let the innocents go.
of course some people bailed, but i made sure my patrol was equipped with non-lethal rubber bullets... we incapasitated the run away as soon as he entered an open area and busted him :D
hella fun :p