Comments on: Return of The Battefield Heroes Beta

By: blindpsychic

blindpsychic — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:11:07 +0000

@Helio

Its pretty much what playing Red Orchestra now is like. Everyone is yelling at you in German or Russian FOR REAL

By: pkt-zer0

pkt-zer0 — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:30:53 +0000

I wish it was possible to keep people making big budget FPS games designed purely for the PC :(
Isn’t that where Valve gets its money from?

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:17:29 +0000

Nowhere near the swarming masses that play bf2, but you can always john a full with decent ping, but they might not speak english.

To me it adds the colour when i figure out the word my squad leader is shouting is a polish(or something) word for “tank”! And when i get on a ukrainian server i get stalker flashbacks.

By: nakke

nakke — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:58:06 +0000

This game really seemed awesome in the pre-beta footage/info, and the team seemed really into developing the game (which isn’t always the case). Too bad at least the beta I played a (long) while ago wasn’t anything special. Still a nifty little game, but quite uninteresting and shallow. Hopefully they can make it work.

By: MA6200

MA6200 — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:44:13 +0000

Heliocentric,

The Project Reality mod sounds interesting – is there a decent number of people playing it?

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:37:49 +0000

Remaining a decent online game doesnt get annual sales though. They abandoned BF2 to scrape together BF2142, and added quite a few interesting ideas to it. But people already had that game, 2142 was just a mod and people saw it that way.

On any system if you intend to milk a franchise as EA inevitably will you need to keep people coming back, supporting BF2 wasnt a breadwinner but heroes could be, because they’ll never need to drop it for BF:heroes 2.

They get their steady stream of money from adverts and microtransactions and we get our game, but if they dont support it we leave. So they bloody well support it.

A retail box can never get that kind of support unless the developers are masochists or the game has an insane tail. relic seem plan to work with COH patches by selling expansions, Blizzard seem to have customers building houses with WC3 boxes so WC3 gets patched to perfection.

By: cliffski

cliffski — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:40:05 +0000

I think its sad this has happened to the battlefield series. if they had just employed decent coders to do the server browser, and fixed all the cheaters, BF2 would have remained an awesome online game.
I don’t mind paying for decent games. I don’t see the problem with selling downloadable games that people buy. I wish it was possible to keep people making big budget FPS games designed purely for the PC :(

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:37:38 +0000

Anyone interested in getting into Project Reality, not a new release is due out shortly(tomorrow in theory) and at 3.2Gb thats alot of peggles so you wanna be sure to get the right files.

http://www.realitymod.com/forum/f10-pr-general-discussion/52534-project-reality-v0-856-torrents.html

If you can be bothered downloading the torrents its available now though.

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:09:09 +0000

Actualy, both, unless you turn off items, smash brothers without items is much more interesting.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:01:18 +0000

Hey, there is still skill in mariokart wii you meant to say smash brothers melee ¬_¬

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:44:34 +0000

I’m in the beta, not sure what i’m even allowed to say.

But its a perfectly enjoyable Q3, thats kinda a full description.

By: Jockel

Jockel — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:26:07 +0000

While on the topic of free online shooters, maybe the RPS guys can do some digging and try to find out what’s up with Quake Live? Wasn’t it supposed to be released last year?