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Played it yet?
Yeah I did.. I thought the intro was kinda cool -- plays like devil may cry. But then when I got into the actual server.. it reminded me too much like all the rest of the F2P asian mmorpg's out there.. down to the text and everything.
Some people might like it though, the combat is kinda cool.
Some people might like it though, the combat is kinda cool.
WarningFromSpace
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I had a good bit of fun in Global Agenda
Snappshoota
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Ive played Alliance of Valiant Arms and War Inc
War inc was not to bad while i was playing it. 3rd person shooter, worked pretty good.
A.V.A Basically just another Free FPS just like the rest of em. Not saying its horrible but, its a pretty shallow game..
War inc was not to bad while i was playing it. 3rd person shooter, worked pretty good.
A.V.A Basically just another Free FPS just like the rest of em. Not saying its horrible but, its a pretty shallow game..
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Is TrackMania free on steam still? That's a cool racing game with trillions of user made maps.
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Here's my overlook....
Perfect World - Absolutely Beauuuuuuuutiful WoW-like + Korean Grinder MMORPG. (Sexy) Vampire is a CLASS. Its not a horrible post-WoW RPG but Perfect World's monitization is over the top: you have to pay for a widget to get access to "zone/global" chat. Most "Free2Play" Korean localized games have the same problem. Not worth my time - RIFT and WoW are better values and have more content, for ultimately less investment.
Rusty Hearts - Not all that different from Vindictus : you play a "character" more than a class. Customization is more or less okay and combat is decent, but it runs into the same Perfect World Korean Monetization problem as listed above. If you REALLY love it and want to pay at LEAST the same amount of money as you'd spend on a typical MMO subscription and play it as your solo MMO, its cool. If you want to rarely log in, bash a few demons in a nice anime style, its cool. Anything between however, not a very good value.
Crimecraft Bleedout / Valient Arms / WAR - these are typical "We're going to copy either Counterstrike or recent 3rd person shooters and make you pay weekly to "unlock" guns. Oh by the way, it costs SEVENTY FUCKING DOLLARS to unlock a SINGLE HIGH END GUN for LIFE. A Single. Gun. (I believe this is in Crimecraft, but the issue is the same all along). Korean monetization at work.
Spiral Knights - Made by the people who made YoHoHo Puzzle Pirates around a decade ago, which is STILL the only MMORPG I ever played that actually did "owning a ship" right. Spiral Knights plays like The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventure in a neat top-down, colorful style. The monitization strategy is actually not half bad. Basically, free play is 100 "Liquid Energy" per 24 hour real world period. Zoning into a dungeon takes 10 Energy, coming out is free. So you can basically run 10 dungeons per day for free, and pick up loot. Pay real cash for "Crystal Energy" which only vanishes as you spend it. You'll need to spend crystal energy for say, buying 30 day unlocks for additional equipment slots (it comes to about 50c per unlock and you'll need a maximum of 5) as well as crafting, and buying items with energy. Typically you can buy items for "a little" relative energy or "a lot" of in game credits. However, all items are just about accessible for free if you find someone willing to craft what you want for game coins. There's a thriving player economy including being able to offer Energy For Credits and Credits for Energy, so in theory you could buy Energy without having to spend any actual money. Overall, Spiral Knights is fun and enjoyable for both casual and frequent players and a pretty good value I've found. Buying $20 of Energy (which last I checked was the sweetspot for bonus energy per cash invested) can last you a few months depending on how you play, being able to do anything you want to do. Spiral Knights also runs in Java so Mac and Linux users can enjoy too without any problem! I think its one of the best free to play games and the partnership of Sega and Three Rings seems to be going well; I'm pretty critical and never feel gouged for money.
Global Agenda - Just going into patch 1.5, I've been a long-term off and on GA player since its launch as a boxed product. Its a nicely varied MMOFPS that has everything from "Borderlands" style open PvE areas, all sorts of PVP missions like a traditional FPS, Crafting, Agency vs Agency (guild vs guild) wars that are bit of Planetside, and a ton more. Free players get access to most all content, but the real value is in buying Elite Agent which is a ONE TIME $20 upgrade. I actually have coupon codes that can give anyone 30% off any purchase in the GA store (note, NOT through Steam itself). Elite Agents basically get their rate of experience and loot drop increased and full access to the Auction/Mail system, you get to create an Agency if you wish (anyone can be a member) and a bunch of other perks. Anyone who bought the game when it was pay to play is automatically Elite Agent. There are also boosters for purchase which further increase you exp and loot X2; a 90 day one is $30 and again coupon codes can take 30% off. Another of the best free to play games around and one without any requirement for recurrent payment at all, without feeling gimped. If you like the gameplay I highly suggest you go Elite for a one time fee, even if you never buy a Booster or anything else. The developers have said since going Free to Play in this manner they've had a 500% increase in players and as such have rolled out a ton of new enhancements. Oh, and there's "Tribes style" Jetpack skiing!
Perfect World - Absolutely Beauuuuuuuutiful WoW-like + Korean Grinder MMORPG. (Sexy) Vampire is a CLASS. Its not a horrible post-WoW RPG but Perfect World's monitization is over the top: you have to pay for a widget to get access to "zone/global" chat. Most "Free2Play" Korean localized games have the same problem. Not worth my time - RIFT and WoW are better values and have more content, for ultimately less investment.
Rusty Hearts - Not all that different from Vindictus : you play a "character" more than a class. Customization is more or less okay and combat is decent, but it runs into the same Perfect World Korean Monetization problem as listed above. If you REALLY love it and want to pay at LEAST the same amount of money as you'd spend on a typical MMO subscription and play it as your solo MMO, its cool. If you want to rarely log in, bash a few demons in a nice anime style, its cool. Anything between however, not a very good value.
Crimecraft Bleedout / Valient Arms / WAR - these are typical "We're going to copy either Counterstrike or recent 3rd person shooters and make you pay weekly to "unlock" guns. Oh by the way, it costs SEVENTY FUCKING DOLLARS to unlock a SINGLE HIGH END GUN for LIFE. A Single. Gun. (I believe this is in Crimecraft, but the issue is the same all along). Korean monetization at work.
Spiral Knights - Made by the people who made YoHoHo Puzzle Pirates around a decade ago, which is STILL the only MMORPG I ever played that actually did "owning a ship" right. Spiral Knights plays like The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventure in a neat top-down, colorful style. The monitization strategy is actually not half bad. Basically, free play is 100 "Liquid Energy" per 24 hour real world period. Zoning into a dungeon takes 10 Energy, coming out is free. So you can basically run 10 dungeons per day for free, and pick up loot. Pay real cash for "Crystal Energy" which only vanishes as you spend it. You'll need to spend crystal energy for say, buying 30 day unlocks for additional equipment slots (it comes to about 50c per unlock and you'll need a maximum of 5) as well as crafting, and buying items with energy. Typically you can buy items for "a little" relative energy or "a lot" of in game credits. However, all items are just about accessible for free if you find someone willing to craft what you want for game coins. There's a thriving player economy including being able to offer Energy For Credits and Credits for Energy, so in theory you could buy Energy without having to spend any actual money. Overall, Spiral Knights is fun and enjoyable for both casual and frequent players and a pretty good value I've found. Buying $20 of Energy (which last I checked was the sweetspot for bonus energy per cash invested) can last you a few months depending on how you play, being able to do anything you want to do. Spiral Knights also runs in Java so Mac and Linux users can enjoy too without any problem! I think its one of the best free to play games and the partnership of Sega and Three Rings seems to be going well; I'm pretty critical and never feel gouged for money.
Global Agenda - Just going into patch 1.5, I've been a long-term off and on GA player since its launch as a boxed product. Its a nicely varied MMOFPS that has everything from "Borderlands" style open PvE areas, all sorts of PVP missions like a traditional FPS, Crafting, Agency vs Agency (guild vs guild) wars that are bit of Planetside, and a ton more. Free players get access to most all content, but the real value is in buying Elite Agent which is a ONE TIME $20 upgrade. I actually have coupon codes that can give anyone 30% off any purchase in the GA store (note, NOT through Steam itself). Elite Agents basically get their rate of experience and loot drop increased and full access to the Auction/Mail system, you get to create an Agency if you wish (anyone can be a member) and a bunch of other perks. Anyone who bought the game when it was pay to play is automatically Elite Agent. There are also boosters for purchase which further increase you exp and loot X2; a 90 day one is $30 and again coupon codes can take 30% off. Another of the best free to play games around and one without any requirement for recurrent payment at all, without feeling gimped. If you like the gameplay I highly suggest you go Elite for a one time fee, even if you never buy a Booster or anything else. The developers have said since going Free to Play in this manner they've had a 500% increase in players and as such have rolled out a ton of new enhancements. Oh, and there's "Tribes style" Jetpack skiing!
I just played Champions Online last night and got through the intro to the game.
So far seems cool, but already is getting repetitive repetitive repetitive. I just hit level6 and I am just about to unlock my first skill as soon as I find a trainer or something. Also seems to have some issues with auto-attack I believe but maybe that is just me.
A bunch of the items for buying include custom parts, additional missions (have a feeling this is going to bite you in the ass like it did in DDO), and your own hideout. 2 of those seem unnecessary but the missions might be qame breaker and probably will be.
So far seems cool, but already is getting repetitive repetitive repetitive. I just hit level6 and I am just about to unlock my first skill as soon as I find a trainer or something. Also seems to have some issues with auto-attack I believe but maybe that is just me.
A bunch of the items for buying include custom parts, additional missions (have a feeling this is going to bite you in the ass like it did in DDO), and your own hideout. 2 of those seem unnecessary but the missions might be qame breaker and probably will be.
djoye
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I had some fun hacking away in Spiral Knights but the game is incompatible with Linksys WRT54G routers! I guess because of the number of connections it needs to make, the router won't meet the demand. I tried ddwrt but my router couldn't handle it (seriously, it would become overloaded and I lowered connection #'s) so I reverted to stock firmware and just gave up playing the game.
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AVA is fun if you like counter-strike and by like I mean are an overly competitive asshole.
As opposed to the original G, you may want to consider some of the G *clones* (including Linksys' WRT54GS), or, if you are familiar with it and your router supports it, third-party firmware (created to address weaknesses originally of the G's own firmware). I moved from the WRT54GS (which I third-partied via DD-WRT) to an Netgear original WNR3500V1 (the mistake was the Marvell TopDog chipset, which doesn't support third-party firmware at all). I'm hoping to soon replace the V1 with either a WNR3500 V2 or WNR3500-L (both routers have the same Broadcom chipset and support the same third-party firmware; like the V1, it's also single-band N). The one difference between them (the L supports NAS) is a non-issue (no USB drives or SAN).
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Yes on Crimecraft No on Valiant Arms.
Crimecraft is heavily heavily dependent on real world money. All character customization requires real world money. Additionally there's literally only about 5 maps to play reskinned gameplay types from UT3. It's fun for about the first 10-20 levels then it just kinda gets repetitive. Honestly I did some blockbuster free trial thing that earned me enough money for deluxe loot and XP for a couple months and some other toys but like I said there's really not much to the game it's boring. It's a kinda mmo with UT3 matches as XP gaining combat.
Valiant Arms is an interesting Beast. It's styled on counter-strike but shooting mechanics are like CoD.
There's quite a few game types with several maps a piece.
for PVP
Team Deathmatch
Defuse
Escape
Convoy
Zombie Panic
Escort
and a couple others that escape me.
For Co-Op
Escape
Survival
Defuse AI
and a couple others that escape me.
Theres somewhere around 20 maps. Though new ones are added regularly. Anything I've found so far can be earned in game. I haven't found anything that can only be bought with real world money. RWM just makes it easier. I've played 136 hours according to steam and I've got all my personal favorite guns and armor. I seem to be medium tiered skill wise. There's some interesting aspects like anyone can be votekicked easily. No admins needed. It's not always fair but if you dont like somebody or think theyre cheating it only takes 3 or so votes to kick them off the server. I've seen only maybe 2 obvious hackers since I started. The only thing that sucks is once you get lv10 or above youre locked out of the newbie channels. The public channels are tough. If you ever been on that one Counter-strike server where some clanner pubstar is going 27-3? Thats everyone that plays AVA. Thankfully I've been playing this long enough to pull my weight but mark my words it's all S.Americans and S.Koreans here and these guys have obviously got nothing better to do than Scrim all day.
Did you try using any of the tomato firmware? UPnP help? I found DD-wrt to be a lot slower for me on my routers.