Fallen Earth trial

[Mabs]

15 day keys, get em before they evaporate:

Fallen Earth - Days of the Dead | Ten Ton Hammer

 

[Mauness]

ahh nice one.

been looking at this game for a while now

 

[Bahumat]

ooh gonna try it

 

[Turamber]

Definitely should. Admittedly I don't play any MMOG like I used to (chained to the keyboard for hours morning and night), but it is a really fun game. With the latest patch they've introduced a better new player experience too, so you are taught about such things as mounts and crafting in more detail.

 

[Tallen]

It's a good game, it's nothing genre-defining or mould-breaking, but it is NOT another WoW clone.

If i were to compare it to another game, only pre-CU SWG comes close. FE is not a true sandbox, but it is sandboxish.

I'm having a blast playing it, levelling is incidental, playing a month and only level 13 so far, it's just a fun game to play, instead of just another game where your striving for max level to begin enjoying the content.

The community is second to none, great playerbase, unfortunately with any trial expect to see some asshats in the channels while the trial is live. However, the GM's are always around to moderate and ban persistent offenders, one of the few games i have ever played where the GM's are visually active almost all the time and monitor most things.

If you do decide to try it, be careful how you spend those AP's, there is no respec in FE and no defined classes

 

[Ctuchik]

If you do decide to try it, be careful how you spend those AP's, there is no respec in FE and no defined classes

so as with CO, you need to spend a week just reading up on shit before even creating the character?

 

[Tallen]

so as with CO, you need to spend a week just reading up on shit before even creating the character?

Nope, the tutorial explains some of it. You just have to look and see what skills and stats affect what. The AP spend page is full of hints and tips for different builds. Pretty standard for any mmo tbh but unlike most mmo's there is no respec (yet). There is a lerning curve, but again thats the same with all mmo's, the only difference is there are no defined classes in FE.

Character creation is only looks, all characters begin with the same stats, so no need to spend a whole week (lol) reading up on it

 

[Ctuchik]

The AP spend page is full of hints and tips for different builds.

who's giving the hints? devs that only see things on paper or players that actually test the builds?

never had any luck following any devs hints. it usually make me end up hitting like a spitwad...

 

[Tallen]

who's giving the hints? devs that only see things on paper or players that actually test the builds?

never had any luck following any devs hints. it usually make me end up hitting like a spitwad...

Combination of both, the builds are quite simple. For example, if you want to be a rifleman and a crafter it'll have that as an option so will list the stats and skills you need to raise for that style of character to be able to hit max damage with the rifle and be able to craft the top items.

Each skill is based on two stats. A primary and a secondary.

Each stat has multiple uses, for example, Perception is required for both Rifle and crafting, but as a secondary stat for both. Rifle has Dexterity as a primary and crafting has intelligence as a primary, but both stats also provide other bonuses for other skills. I forget how it breaks down, but a primary raises the % for a skill more than a secondary and you need a certain combination of primary and secondary stats to max out a skill.

It's always going to be generic, but it's a guide more than a walkthrough.

It's a bit mute as to the perfect builds at the moment as lots of the AP gains come from quests, even though most come from simply levelling-up. Also the max level is only 45 atm, it'll be raised much higher as time goes by (think i read 150 is the current target).

 

[Fast]

Bah, out of keys ><

 

[Tallen]

Bah, out of keys ><

Several other sites have/had trial keys Days of the Dead: Trial Keys for Zombie Hunters | Fallen Earth

Massively

http://www.mmorpg.com/index.cfm?bhcp=1

The Escapist

 

[Fast]

Several other sites have/had trial keys Days of the Dead: Trial Keys for Zombie Hunters | Fallen Earth

Massively

http://www.mmorpg.com/index.cfm?bhcp=1

The Escapist

Thanks

 

[Fafnir]

Only good about the game is the realtime crafting, you stack up your stuff go to bed, a week later the items are ready. and you can start over.

 

[LordjOX]

I played the beta for a fair while. Think it was pretty fun and one of those mmos I actually reported a heap of bugs for.

But it still doesn't beat EVE, else I would be playing FE

 

[old.Tohtori]

Is the content really THAT much better to excuse the outlook of a 90s FPS and the vast empty nothing that is the world?

 

[Ctuchik]

its a MMO toht, nothing else when it comes to content.

tried it on a mates account and while parts of it looks rather interesting its still just another MMO.

personally i wont pay any attention to it.

/edit: its as far as i could see a bad mix between planetside and SWG.

 

[Tallen]

Is the content really THAT much better to excuse the outlook of a 90s FPS and the vast empty nothing that is the world?

Depends what you like.

It's post-apocalyptic, wouldn't really be in keeping with the setting to have mobs everywhere and people all over. It's a wasteland after all

I wouldn't say the content is wonderful, i like it, but i like games with engaging interraction and games which encourage me to make my own way, instead of spoon-feeding you every step of the way like WoW, WAR, AoC etc.

I think one of the main draws is that it's different to the usual wow-clones and it's very reminiscent of pre-CU SWG. IMO the SWG was the best mmo ever made by a country mile simply for the great social aspect it bred....until they humped it ofc

Community makes the game and FE has a good community. It's an indie game and i hope it stays that way, it won't appeal to mainstream mmo gamers and to me, thats a HUGE appeal. I despise the current mainstream mmo design and player mentality and find no commonality with it, FE breaks from that there is that old-skool feel of a community where players are more interrested in having fun by interracting with each other instead of whinging about bugs and content and lack of things to do at top level.

I enjoy playing, but it is not a truly innovative or earth-shatteringly brilliant game. It's nothing special, it's just different.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Depends what you like.

It's post-apocalyptic, wouldn't really be in keeping with the setting to have mobs everywhere and people all over. It's a wasteland after all

Well, fallout 3 had it quite right.

I tried it though, and while it had some new things that bigger MMOs could use, the cons just don't get compensated by the pros.

The jump nailed the coffin shut though :lol:

 

[Tallen]

Well, fallout 3 had it quite right.

I tried it though, and while it had some new things that bigger MMOs could use, the cons just don't get compensated by the pros.

The jump nailed the coffin shut though :lol:

A fallout mmo would be great, Fallout has developed a really cool lore which FE had to carefully avoid replicating.

Fallout 3 > FE imo, but Fallout 3 isn't an mmo

 

[Raven]

Is it worth the £29 though?

Can't find any trial keys anywhere

 

[Tallen]

Is it worth the £29 though?

Can't find any trial keys anywhere

Keys are probably all gone now, i did link 4 sites giving them out, but that was a while ago.

Is it worth £29? I guess that depends on what you want from an mmo.

Best bet is to take some time to read up on the game if your undecided, it's definitely not for everyone and im sure many who try it don't stick around.

Definitely a niche' game.

 

[Genedril]

Fallout 3 > FE imo, but Fallout 3 isn't an mmo

Fallout 3 wasn't even a Fallout game :9.

But yes, a proper Fallout game would rock.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Fallout 3 wasn't even a Fallout game :9.

But yes, a proper Fallout game would rock.

I'd say fallout 3 is a new genre of fallout, much like the new batmans, the new terminator etc.

As such it's fallout enough, the world still works.

A fallout mmo would be fun, but it would have a humangous budget to make it work well.

And if they did a fallout mmo, i'd say it has to be from fallout 1&2 world with the locations and all that, with the variation of scenery from WOW and the gameplay from fallout 2.

How you integrate turn-base into an MMO, different story

 

[Mabs]

they ARE doing a Fallout MMO
once the lawyers have finished buggering about

Bethesda bought the rights from interplay when they went bankrupt, with the exception that interplay can make an MMO if they have viable proof of progress being made by, er, next year ?
theyre claiming they have, bethesda are saying they havent...

watch this space frankly

either way its on the cards

 

[Fafnir]

I'd say fallout 3 is a new genre of fallout, much like the new batmans, the new terminator etc.

As such it's fallout enough, the world still works.

Agree it still had that Fallout feelinging for me. If they had made it like 1 and 2 today it would never have worked, Fallout 1 and 2 still works cause they are older games.

When beta testing Fallen Earth the biggest gripe was the travel time. More people had the same problem on the beta forums, and gave ideas of that players could repair the "railways" and use them to travel around longer distances.

Have they fixed the bugged respawning?

 

[Genedril]

I'd say fallout 3 is a new genre of fallout, much like the new batmans, the new terminator etc.

As such it's fallout enough, the world still works.

A fallout mmo would be fun, but it would have a humangous budget to make it work well.

And if they did a fallout mmo, i'd say it has to be from fallout 1&2 world with the locations and all that, with the variation of scenery from WOW and the gameplay from fallout 2.

How you integrate turn-base into an MMO, different story

It's Post Apocalypse game that happens to use some of the Fallout names but not really the lore. I'm not saying it's a bad game (well it was with all the bugs which I got bored trying to sort out & then stopped), and it works in a kind of 'Deus Ex style FPS pretending to be RPG' sort of way.

The Fallout MMO is something I've kept an eye on for ages. Hope to god that Interplay really can get the cash together to do it as I'm not keen on Beths at all.

{edit} On topic.... Beta'd FE & liked the idea but.... well it just didn't 'catch' me . Travel was indeed a bugger in beta too.

 

[Raven]

£15ish on steam. Rude not to really

 

[Raven]

uff. Not sure what to say really. Controls are dreadful, i mean the worst I have ever used and the graphics look like something from a playstation game.

1 evening is more than enough on it.

 

[Ctuchik]

gave it a peoper go myself with my own account here.

and they must have REALLY looked at SWG when they made this game. sometimes it feels like a complete ripoff.

even the combat seems familiar from that game, the mobs even "lag" around the same way making it near impossible to hit them with the shitty crossbow i have now..

gonna give it until the free month end tho to really give it a shot.

but tbh, i could just aswell be playing SWG

 

[Ctuchik]

have one question tho.

how the hell do you get more skills for your weapons?

i have one for pistols and one for melee but nothing for my so called rifle.

and lol at the crafting. had my first go just now making my own vest, and it took 10 minutes?!?

and i'm also running out of ammo because i cant get enough income to pay for both that and the retarded horse feed. think i'm gonna ditch that horse. its costing more then its worth.