Comments on: The Men Who Fell To Earth: Section 8 Diary

By: Spectre-7

Spectre-7 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:24:32 +0000

Strange. I’m in the beta as well, but have had very little trouble joining games. I’d be lying if I said it never glitched, but any problems I’ve encountered have easily been less than 1/10th of the time.

Also, the friendly-fire issues with tanks are being addressed. Check the newest patch if you haven’t already.

By: eyemessiah

eyemessiah — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:02:45 +0000

I want a sniper rifle and a shotgun. The lack of persistence and unlocks is actually I draw for me. As is the tribes2yness.

By: Forak

Forak — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:00:28 +0000

They really copied everything I see in that trailer directly from Planetside. From the way load outs are done to the whole concept of burn-in. Even the graphical style is similar. They copied all that but failed to make it an MMO, have a progression system or even epic scale in the fights? rather disappointing..

By: Bret

Bret — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:59:49 +0000

Dangit.

Whenever I hear section 8, my first thought is “Bueno. Bueno…”

Folowed by the yipping of welded dogs. This is not a pleasant series of mental image

By: autogunner

autogunner — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:47:58 +0000

@CogDissident – thats why they are ahving the beta right? so they can find out these issues? shame about the netcode though

By: Messiah Complex

Messiah Complex — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:45:44 +0000

I still don’t know what I’m doing, but it seems to take forever to put enough lead in someone to kill them. Overall, it plays a lot like ET:QW.

By: CMaster

CMaster — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:26:20 +0000

The drop in ability, the flying armoured suits, the brightly-coloured sci-fi yet millitary tactics setup. It looks very Planetside. Not that this is a bad thing necessarily.

By: CJohnson03

CJohnson03 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:23:42 +0000

It’s alright. Might get old pretty fast though, there’s no persistant anything, no unlocks, every match resets your “money” that you use to buy tanks and structures. It’s fun for a little while, but there’s only two vehicles, no flying, simple weapons… I’m not terribly impressed so far.

By: CogDissident

CogDissident — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:23:34 +0000

Also, driving a tank is basically how you get yourself kicked from a server. 5 instances of team-damaging over a period of time and you get kicked. If you “bump” into a single player, its quite likely that you’ll bump them 2-3 times. If you hit a player with one of the tank-cannon’s large shells, thats another one. So bump one player, and get one player cought in the blast radius, and you’re an inch away from being booted from the server.

By: Jim Rossignol

Jim Rossignol — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:20:55 +0000

Man, how are people still get netcode wrong now? I mean come on.

By: BobbyBob

BobbyBob — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:19:00 +0000

@Jim: As far as I can tell, no. There always seem to be multiple completely empty servers there, and there are rarely ones that are completely full when I go on, always 27/32 or thereabouts. Looks like its just poor netcode.

By: Jim Rossignol

Jim Rossignol — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:14:13 +0000

Did they totally oversubscribe the beta or something?