I tried FOMK

With high anticipation i downloaded the client, installed it.

I had to restart the game before the logon screen worked right. Then i got a network error. Restart again.

Ah.. now i get to make a char. Standard customisation, not too many options but it at least looks like a person.

I end up in my appy, with a toilet etc... Funny.
I try clicking stuff for a full 5 minutes and end up out of my appartement.

Then run around another 30 minutes, without seeing anyone else.
By now i'm lost and i haven't seen a single thing to do.

I log off, get into neocron and kill the first red i see to shed the bad feeling i have :-)

I saw like.... 40 people all spamming chat at once. No one knew what to do and everyone was asking the same questions. It was madness.

At least in NC2 open beta you either got an answer or got shot in plaza1 :-)

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Originally Posted by Bugs Gunny

With high anticipation i downloaded the client, installed it.

I had to restart the game before the logon screen worked right. Then i got a network error. Restart again.

Ah.. now i get to make a char. Standard customisation, not too many options but it at least looks like a person.

I end up in my appy, with a toilet etc... Funny.
I try clicking stuff for a full 5 minutes and end up out of my appartement.

Then run around another 30 minutes, without seeing anyone else.
By now i'm lost and i haven't seen a single thing to do.

I log off, get into neocron and kill the first red i see to shed the bad feeling i have :-)

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Apart from the toilet that could be a newbies first day in NC.

Funny that ;).



/edit - If Nid reads this : Can we now discuss this game or do we have to wait for it to go retail? Knowing some of the history I understand why it may still be a sore point at KK but it would be nice to know if the forum policy has changed now it's in public beta.

i tried it out a while ago like most here .. it felt empty in there but thats some time ago now, i wouldnt have a clue how it would be now .. being openbeta and all ..

i do know i got a mail yesterday (im still in the list it seems) to appologize for the inconvenience with the start of the betaservers .. all mmorpg's seem to be doomed to have troubles the first day .. they said they where gonna upgrade servers ..

thats all i know tough :)

Same thing happened to me.

Eventually after looking around for a few mins (graphics aren't bad) I logged off and went straight onto NC to research, which was far more interesting and rewarding.

me i don't found weapons ... i understand nothing ! (sry my english :p )

but it's a beta and... :confused: Network : Socket 100215 :confused:

oups fatal version F**

Yup certainly to me it seems empty...too big and too many coriddors of nothnig...no nav ray type tool. The noob emails don't explain much about the interface only the crafting etc...which is all well and good but probably no good to me if I a) Cannot find anyone b)cannot buy anything.

Sorry to say at least neocron had a cool community, items to start off with, a half decent noobie area. Doesn't seem like anyone in that game is willing to talk to you...maybe they are as lost as I am I dunno lol...and ain't worked out the chat key yet.

Atm it blows...I aint seen the lag etc they saying they gonna fix...seen nothing to lag me out yet.

(assuming its ok to discuss now)

Funny story;

The devs upped the starting credits to 50k per person, to see how the economy would flow and if any changes were nesscary.

1 hour+ of running around the only place I found to place to buy stuff, their version of an auction house/ssystem.

The funny part was a dude was selling a ton of different items, ALL at 50k. So you could buy a gun, for 50k. But then you'd need bullets, which also would cost 50k. (basically just ripping offf the newb market thats there atm).

Other than that it doesnt look fun.

- None of the NPC's work atm
- Theres no way to navigate to an actual store to purchase say, armor or a weapon.
- The "stamina" system is quite lame. The fact you have to pay 5 creds per second of replishment of stamina at a Med station was rather dumb (about 1-3% rejuvinated during that time so like 300+ credits to recharge stamina).
- The gui is rather burdening. Its simplistic yet its controls require rebinding too much.
- There is no auto walk, or auto run button to be bound. You can bind a toggle for switching between run and walk but thats nothing special. (friends say I'm lazy, I just hate having to constantly hold several buttons to move when I just hit 1 and direct with my mouse)
- Text is EXTREMELY small. If you have 20/20 or better vision, expect some eye soreness or headaces after playing for several hours trying to read the damn ingame fonts.


Overall it blows. I never played NC1, but the NC2 open beta hooked me in like a fish (strangely enough another term for noobs). This open beta, was a waste of 800 megs bandwidth and HDD space

I was in 5 min after the servers opened up so maybe thats why i saw so many people. After 10 min everyone dispersed and i thought it was as server problem becouse i never saw anyone after that.

Acualy i found these panels where i could buy stuff. I wasent sure if i was looking at weapons for some of the stuff. So i loggedo ut of it for a bit, reconnected becouse of a bug, and when i connected again i couldent use the thing.

well the reason your not seeing many people is probably because thier in a different city, you can go to nyc tokyo paris and a couple of different planets.

and each city is easily the size of nc it'self, so quite big.

I got an idea for the ads of FoM:

"FoM, the game that will make you love Neocron again and so much more !"

:lol:

Didn't like the game, gameplay was awful.
I managed to get a gun after 30min of mindless wandering, and shot someone, and logged. I never felt that bad when shooting someone.

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well the reason your not seeing many people is probably because thier in a different city, you can go to nyc tokyo paris and a couple of different planets.

and each city is easily the size of nc it'self, so quite big.

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Yeah the problem is with the size...I mean apart from dungeons who likes wandering around what seems like endless corridors and getting lost...I can only do that for so long I'm afriad until it gets old and boring...telling me I need to goto another place...having a bigger area doesn't make it better than Nc if all you do is effectively make a timesync out of getting anywhere...also depending on poplutions you gonna see problems meeting and communicating with others as everyone is spread out too thin.

Sorry just dont get this game and it's dare I say it more noob unfriendly than nc ever was at least you get some starter items in nc...

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