Comments on: Fallen Earth Open Beta, Now, Er, Open

By: Jayt

Jayt — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:25:27 +0000

The problem is that any game thats post-apocalyptic setting in gaming post-fallout is now deemed a fallout clone.

By: CMaster

CMaster — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:33:56 +0000

If you think FE is a Fallout 3 copy, then you didn’t really get what either game was about.

One of the underlying concepts of the FO universe is that is is “as if the 50s never ended” – this drives the characters, history, graphical styles, music, locations and technology throughout.

FE, if anything has something of an 80′s style going on. The humour in both games is very different too.

It’s not just style either – the gameplay, while revolving in both cases around questing and shooting things differs pretty strongly, especially with the way the two combat systems work and FE’s big, big focus on crafting.

That said, FE is of course far from entirely original and is packed full of references to other things. Also, while I had fun in the beta for a couple of months, the game does have plenty of flaws. One thing I would say is – play the game with a friend (or group thereof) and stick to doing things together. It’s much better and much more manageable that way. Also, realise you will have to figure a lot of things out yourself. For various reasons, I won’t be buying (at least not at launch) but a lot of people don’t seem to give the game a fair chance (of course, if they improved their newbie experience…)

By: fuckoff

fuckoff — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:21:37 +0000

i played the fallen earth beta open and closed
steer far away, its simply a fallout 3 clone, online, and its done poorly
champions online however, is an excellent coh replacement.
but as luck would have it, i’m not interested in half finished crappy titles that would be better off left in the recycle bin on my desktop, should i ever feel the need to use it.. i just shift delete :P but seriously section 8 is dirt, just a ut3 clone, champions online is just a hero clone, and fallen earth is just a fallout 3 clone with bio-hazards thrown in
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DAYS OF ORIGINALITY, WHY ARE WE BEING GIVEN GARBAGE?
this is kinda disconcerting for me, i was expected semi polished software with a few glitches that would need beta testing to get out
instead,
i was treated to the biggest pile of grab age full of 1′s and 0′s that i have ever had the misfortune to install on my hard drive.
both the champions online and the fallen earth betas are complete failures..
the only compelling point t hat champions has is the fact if you buy at least 6 months you’ll get the star trek online beta.. BUT SINCE I AM A FILE PLANET SUBSCRIBER, WHY WOULD I EVER DO THAT?
i’m waiting, with baited breath, on the savior of mmo’s Star Trek online, but i know it will probably end up being garbage too..
its a sad time to be a pc gamer. seroiusly.

By: matte_k

matte_k — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:25:24 +0000

@Paul: Ok, giving it a shot tonight, i’ll see how it goes. Ta for the tip!

By: ZIGS

ZIGS — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:44:13 +0000

Well, after playing this game for about an hour, I can safely say this sucks behind

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:19:30 +0000

matte – I would suggest you try the latest version of 7-Zip to extract the zip file. They did say it had to be the latest version of Winzip (but 7-Zip is totally free, open source and way better – worked fine here). As you’ve had it with 3 downloads I’m thinking your version of winzip / archive program is the problem.

By: matte_k

matte_k — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:04:04 +0000

Anybody else have problems with downloading the client? Spent ages waiting for the download to finish, only to discover that the zip file is incomplete or corrupted. Tried it again overnight, same thing. And the torrent version does it too. Would really like to try it, but i’ll be buggered if i’m wasting any more time on a broken download…

By: neofit

neofit — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:28:15 +0000

And I like hearing all the negative opinions. Means that for once I won’t have to deal with overcrowded newbie areas on release day.

By: neofit

neofit — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:25:00 +0000

“LMFAO at the lifenet ’so you died’ bit :D”
There are quite a few humorous bits throughout the game. I remember one of the things I saw in the tutorial, you loot a helmet and the description says: “Combat Helmet. Makes headbutting all the more enjoyable”.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:29:12 +0000

FilePlanet 0/10…. Pathetic download speed but got there eventually.

Game looks interesting – LMFAO at the lifenet ‘so you died’ bit :D

By: superking208

superking208 — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:09:55 +0000

Ha ha, I’m glad I’m not the only one who hates FilePlanet…

By: Tei

Tei — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:30:47 +0000

Map is big. Crafting is complex.

You can mount a horse (horses work much like in Oblivium, are separated entities, with his health bar), set it to autorun, and go to watch a movie.

S1 graphics have a tendency of repeating the same props.
You lost any hope to see grass in the game Lots of quest in S1.

S2 has grass. And for that, is awesome. Have new more varied enemyes, and seems designed for gruild vs guild combat and faction grinding.

I don’t remenber S3, but Is probably more of S2.

Also, Imagine crafting a horse, while you travel in a horse. Crafting can be done anywhere, but needs resources and time. So you probably move while you craft, with a eye to avoid any dangerous mob.

The game feels like Anarchy Online.