Comments on: Section 8: Footage And Glimpse Of Story

By: Stalker

Stalker — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:40:39 +0000

Hey guys, I checked few minutes Fileplanet page and now everybody can grab his open beta key! You don’t have to be subscriber to join open beta :)

By: DK

DK — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:14:47 +0000

Yes, Steam would be the better alternative to GFWL. But for a multiplatform game, it’s not an option.

By: Malibu Stacey

Malibu Stacey — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:37:17 +0000

GFWL is bullshit for singleplayer. It does however work flawlessly for multiplayer – atleast compared to all other systems. (Gamespy, ugh…)
http://www.steampowered.com/

By: Azhrarn

Azhrarn — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:06:55 +0000

Depending on how the game implements it, GfWL will generally save profiles off-line anyway, achievements are tracked on-line though.
As for being intrusive, a small bar during launch indicating you’ve logged on, and invisible for the rest of the time isn’t intrusive. You can call it out at any time by pressing “home” but that’s all. It won’t show or interfere otherwise.

Fallout 3 works fine with GfWL disabled, saving games in the base savegame folder rather than in a profile specific one.
And should you decide to turn of GfWL later (for instance for the DLC) you can move your saves to your profile folder and it’ll load them just fine.

Dawn of War 2 works in a similar fashion, if it can’t log on, it’ll just run in off-line mode. It won’t update achievements until it can get on-line again, but it will work. Saving works fine off-line too.

Universe at War: Earth Assault functions in a similar fashion to DoW2, working just fine if it can’t connect to GfWL, but not updating achievement data.

As verification systems go, GfWL isn’t giving me any headaches. :) There are far nastier ones out there, this is almost Steam-overlay type quiet.

By: DK

DK — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:42:42 +0000

GFWL is bullshit for singleplayer. It does however work flawlessly for multiplayer – atleast compared to all other systems. (Gamespy, ugh…)

By: Tei

Tei — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:37:01 +0000

GFWL seems designed to be intrusive. To use games to advertise himself. This will not change. Also, will be a component on windows severlly tied to other components like .NET. If you have a problem somewhere, It will rapidly grown to games with GFWL not working. Say whatever you want to GameSpy or Steam, but are standalones and may work even on a system half-broken.
GFWL is not minor, because is not a minor main, is a mayor pain. You don’ t hate it enough.

By: Lars Westergren

Lars Westergren — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:13:51 +0000

@Shadow Aspect

Maybe GFWL has improved. I got a very negative first impression of it with Gears of War for PC. If you lost your online connection (happened very often), your progress wasn’t saved. And finally it managed to corrupt my save on the remote server when I was 75% through the game. Since you can’t save the game locally and you only get one save slot, I would have had to restart the whole game from the tutorial…
Also don’t like the huge “made for TV” fonts and menus, and that it assumes that everyone uses a 360 controller. Consolitis.

By: Shadow Aspect

Shadow Aspect — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:07:44 +0000

I for one am not bothered they’ve gone GFWL.

By: Melf_Himself

Melf_Himself — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:19:37 +0000

“I really hope there’s some wider access to this, or a demo, or it’s going to be shooting itself in the foot on PC.”

I thought only the MMO-o-philes complained about this stuff. Seriously, they can open their beta to whoever they want to.

By: Jim Rossignol

Jim Rossignol — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:54:38 +0000

Yeah, I had no idea, obviously. I loathe Fileplanet promotions.

By: Owen

Owen — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:48:57 +0000

Jim’s previous article got my attention, thus I signed up for the beta. I’m also not impressed that it’s Fileplanet subs only AND the fact it doesn’t mention this on sign-up.

By: Lars Westergren

Lars Westergren — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:22:47 +0000

Something the devs said – he is going to have two sergeants who helps him transition into more of a leader figure.

So he is going to have to military father figures who teaches him about killing, sacrifice, and other things important to Become a Real Man. That does sound vaguely familiar. If one of them betrays him, I want everyone to know I called it.