Fray: what like?

[ColOfNature]

I remember seeing this (http://www.fray-game.com/) announced and thinking it might be a larf, but then heard nothing until a few minutes ago when I noticed it's been released on Steam (http://store.steampowered.com/app/210490/) to little fanfare. Is this a bad sign? Has anyone played it? Has anyone bought it? I crave details.

[Fumarole]

Do I see a future RPS league game? Looks like something I might be into. Surely someone here has played it and can share their views.

[Rauten]

Also waiting for impressions on this one; Looks like the kind of game TotalBiscuit would take a look into, maybe he'll give us some proper gameplay footage with luck.

[TailSwallower]

Cool. Didn't realise it had graduated from beta. Will patiently await some forum-goer opinions, or a WIT.

[apricotsoup]

I'm hoping for something a bit necromunda-y. Disappointed by the seeming lack of single player though.

[DevinSmoth]

Just so that you're all aware... this game really hasn't come out of beta yet. There are TONS of issues with this game, because it was released early. I think it will be a great game eventually... but not yet. ;P

[Spider Jerusalem]

i too am disappointing by the lack of single player. real people scare me, and i like my frozen synapse-alikes with bots in them.

[ColOfNature]

You should join our Frozen Synapse league, then. There's not a real person among us.

[Space Indaver]

Just so that you're all aware... this game really hasn't come out of beta yet. There are TONS of issues with this game, because it was released early. I think it will be a great game eventually... but not yet. ;P
You're not thinking of Giant Bomb talking about Krater are you? Or is it just a coincidence that two betas have been released on Steam this week?

[DevinSmoth]

It's just a coincidence ;P Krater was pretty sad as well, though I think it will be a good game once it's done too!

[Space Indaver]

It's just a coincidence ;P Krater was pretty sad as well, though I think it will be a good game once it's done too!
Yeesh. I guess they usually give you 10% off in the first couple of weeks, but they really should make a big deal out of these things being Minecraft-esque "early adopter" discounts. If you go to the Steam store they just look like new releases, rather than (realistically) betas.

[DevinSmoth]

The Fray game website said something about it being a bit closer to a beta release, but you're right... Steam didn't say anything and people are really upset about it. Personally, I still think the game is going to be really good... you just got access to the beta. ;P

I think both companies ran into financial trouble and had to release early, to be honest.

[Space Indaver]

I'm very interested in the game itself, but it's pretty steep. Am I being cheap? Or am I justified in thinking something like this should be about $10 to begin with? I'm probably being cheap. I guess if this is your favourite genre and whatnot, that price doesn't seem too bad. I just have no idea whether I'll like it.

[Fumarole]

You should join our Frozen Synapse league, then. There's not a real person among us.
I can confirm that ColOfNature is simply a spambot in (a rather poor) disguise. So come on in, the water's fine! You can't do worse than me, I didn't win a single game in season 9!

;)

[hal9000]

Right now looks totally unfinished. I wasn't able to play a single match during beta. Yesterday I started my first match. For 10 minutes it all worked ok. It started getting progressively slower to the point the UI was unresponsive and I had to shutdown process from task manager. I'm waiting for a response from devs but it seems they are still having serious issues with their server.

Unfinished, but looks promising. I have a second key to give to any of you guys, PM me if you are interested. But get ready for bug reporting and login problems.

EDIT : KEY GONE

[TailSwallower]

RISE FROM THE PITS MY PRETTY!

Ahem, sorry for the necro.

So, apparently this game launched a few weeks ago on Steam, but it was something of a rocky launch... Anyone bought it? Anyone been playing it before and/or after the tweaks they just announced?

I'm still really interested in it as a prettier Frozen Synapse, but if it's a bit crap and/or it hasn't picked up any traction in regards to a multiplayer community then I guess I'll stick to FS.

Also, apparently it only runs on 64-bit OSes at the moment. Which will be fine for me once I'm back on my real laptop, but just mentioning it FYI.

[ColOfNature]

I got half a game in before it crashed, and then they decided to give 32bit the bum's rush. No news for over a month, but hopefully that just means they're beavering away. I too have high hopes for this, but Frozen Synapse is still going strong. You should join us. Jooooin uussssss (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/forums/showthread.php?5936-Frozen-Synapse-League-Season-12)! (New season each month, we normally play Extermination but we're doing Charge this time for a change, all skill levels welcome, you know you want to. :)

[TailSwallower]

I too have high hopes for this, but Frozen Synapse is still going strong. You should join us. Jooooin uussssss (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/forums/showthread.php?5936-Frozen-Synapse-League-Season-12)! (New season each month, we normally play Extermination but we're doing Charge this time for a change, all skill levels welcome, you know you want to. :)


I played in one season a little while back, but I've been traveling with a netbook these past 9 months. Will likely get back into the League once I'm back in Australia (next week), depending on how completely other games take up my time.

[baby snot]

For a multiplayer turn based strategy game I was more disappointed that there was no play by email then say lack of a sp campaign. The turns can be quite involving and time consuming, especially for newcomers. I understand the devs had no choice to release when they did as they were out of dough.