By Jim Rossignol on May 8th, 2009 at 1:55 pm.
The beta sign up for long-awaited MMOFPS Huxley has appeared on the game’s homepage. It sits alongside some swirly number things that you can hover over to reveal impressive video-splendor. Space armour dudes look angry. Sadly, you can only currently sign up to the beta if you are a resident of the North American continent. I’ve posted the now-ancient trailers for the game below. They’re probably not representative of how the Unreal-powered shooter currently looks. In fact, few details are known about the game, although the most notable aspects are that it will play something like Unreal Tournament, and support up to 100 vs 100 battles on servers of around 5000 players. Needless to say, I’m fairly excited.
08/05/2009 at 14:01 The Poisoned Sponge says:
Phooey. I’ve been reservedly looking forward to this for a while. Why no Europe love?
08/05/2009 at 14:05 Dain says:
That lass on the bike must be freezing!
08/05/2009 at 14:07 Nutkins Victory Otter says:
To the proxies!
08/05/2009 at 14:16 Surgeon says:
I’m hoping it will fit into the Planetside shaped hole in my heart.
08/05/2009 at 14:27 Rabbitsoup says:
ijji.com? don’t they host free to play micro transaction stuff?
(checks)
yes they do, hmmmm I hope this is ad supported not pay for gear, I’d rather pay for a level field or just watch adds. Made right this could be revolutionary anyone know if it will be any good or just a lag fest
08/05/2009 at 14:28 Jim Rossignol says:
Rabbitsoup: I believe this will be full-on subs based, but I could be mistaken.
08/05/2009 at 14:29 angelessme says:
some vids of huxley pvp from the koreans
http://blip.tv/file/694412
UT in a persistent world is cool i guess
08/05/2009 at 14:36 Rabbitsoup says:
Thanks for the Jim, I wonder if subs are good for games this fast packed because fatigue is much more of issue than in say WoW.
edit> that said i play a hell of a lot of tf2
08/05/2009 at 14:55 Dave says:
Those videos would have been improved about 27% if they had just left off the “HUXLEY.” voice over at the end.
08/05/2009 at 15:11 jonfitt says:
Argh. Most of the way through signing up, but I’m not at my gaming PC and therefore can’t get a dxdiag.txt.
How annoying.
08/05/2009 at 15:43 Tei says:
I play games where there are infantry mixed with vehicles, because I like vehicles. But If your enemy has powerarmors, and can kill your vehicle in two shots, then vehicles is not much fun. :-I
08/05/2009 at 15:48 Senethro says:
Tei is the reason the only vehicles game I played was Quake Wars – EMP grenades were fun. I dislike the idea of vehicles as Easy Mode.
As its one of the possible futures of Deathmatch I’m interested in Huxley. I doubt Koreans can make an MMO that isn’t a grindfest but if its successful, who knows what it’ll lead to.
08/05/2009 at 16:09 Finn says:
Lots of screenshots:
http://huxley-evolved.com/screenshots/?g2_itemId=23
A shame they left us Euros behind. :/
08/05/2009 at 16:21 Masterdog says:
Just out of interest, where does it say on the website it’s for North Americaners only?
08/05/2009 at 17:17 Alex N. says:
This would be greatly improved by the addition of gibs and one or eleven shotguns.
08/05/2009 at 17:29 Senethro says:
Gibs. Theres always one who can’t live without them.
08/05/2009 at 19:34 l1ddl3monkey says:
@ Senethro: If it don’t gib, it aint dead :)
08/05/2009 at 20:59 JayeRandom says:
I don’t want UT, I want science fictiony combined arms simulation. PLANETSIDE 2 OR BUST!
08/05/2009 at 21:04 Kanakotka says:
KEEP THIS IN MIND;
We’re talking of ijji here, who utilize rootkits and trojan horses as commonplace ”game protection”, have never harbored a game that works well, without little scriptkiddies knowing how to cheat in them, and offer absolutely no support whatsoever for their games. I have nothing but bad to say about this particular company, but i’ll likely test the game anyway, but for your own sanity, please, don’t expect anything good or great with anything that is affiliated with ijji.
08/05/2009 at 22:34 Meatloaf says:
Hmmm… I don’t know, I never have liked the UT-style combat of Really Fast Strafing While Shooting Rockets.
I’m more excited about Global Agenda, but that’s just me.
08/05/2009 at 22:46 Sonic Goo says:
I was hoping they’d spent the extra time on giving it a bit more personality, art wise. It’s a shame that they haven’t.
09/05/2009 at 04:24 Marcin says:
@Meatloaf
I was going to say something similar, but you summed it up better than I would have, I think. :)
09/05/2009 at 09:11 Inanimotion says:
I like how the beta sign up has a “check all that apply” type section that allows you to only chose one…
09/05/2009 at 10:37 joncfc says:
how do you know the beta is only allowing septics to join? its let me sign up and im from the midlands :-/
09/05/2009 at 16:15 Rudolfo says:
so it’s Bugs: the game, with an unreal tournament voice?Didn’t know they licenced the voices to go with the engine…
10/05/2009 at 12:48 Batolemaeus says:
Great, had to read it several times, and everytime i read that i had to be a president of the North American continent.
14/05/2009 at 21:15 plant42 says:
Eek… those graphics are pretty bad – the individual art assets look ok, but there’s so much tiling and empty space that it ends up looking all UT2002. I’m sure there are tech reasons, like having to support 100 people, but bleh.
The gameplay looks like standard decade-old FPS style fair. Adding MMO elements to this wouldn’t do anything for me. Grinding in an MMO is bad enough – grinding in a twitch shooter is a recipe for carpal tunnel.
On the bright side – running a spaceship into a players seems to be an integral part of combat.