Unless I am missing something this game is not F2P. I don't see any option when creating an account to NOT buy one of their game packs to be able to join.

All in all I was pretty disappointed. There was a bit too much tomb raidery jumping puzzles, and looking for buttons with no clear direction instead of non stop combat like the old ones to me. Just felt a little over board. That plus the lack of deathmatch and their slayer vs monsters that feels more like it should be a side game mode then their only MP game mode just felt kind of bleh, like they just forgot what made doom doom and tried to reinvent it or something I don't know. I preferred the 2016 one much better myself.

I hope they at least give refunds to the folks who suddenly won't be able to play. Not everyone can go out and drop money on a new card even if it is only 200$. You do this on a new game, not a game that's already out that people have paid you money for to play. If I'd dropped 50-60$ on a game and suddenly a year later wasn't able to play it because a company did this they'd be on my permanent crap list from then on out unless they gave refunds.

A small percentage probably were banned unfairly, but I doubt most are. I have a fellow who plays solely in my house with me, doesn't even own his own PC and he somehow got banned for botting. Guy couldn't set up a bot if you paid him to. Possible his account was hacked but I doubt it. Never can tell though.

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I can definitely see eye strain being an issue but honestly when I got to demo this at a convention it surprised the hell out of me just how light it actually was. Unless someone is prone to neck injuries I don't see weight being an issue for many continuous hours of use.

I think people should wait to buy this until the price drops significantly. The game costing more on PC now then it does on console despite having been out so long on consoles already, all the crashes that make the game hard as hell to get through currently that they didn't even bother to address in this patch, and the instability some are getting with the online play makes me think I'd have been smarter to wait and pick this up when it goes on sale. No sense paying someone full price for a half way working product. As long as we keep doing that they'll keep shipping out half finished work.

Now if they will just have a normal beta instead of this weekend only crap it'll be perfect.

Generally when folks are really hacking it's fairly obvious. I've seen people enter a server and knife everyone in it in seconds including those inside of vehicles. Or killing people from their spawn base at ours with a shotgun or pistol a second after the round starts. Generally when people use the aiming bot parts of these hacks on the death cam their character will appear VERY twitchy as the hack targets people.

Trouble is the "smart" hackers don't use all of those. They can easily use the no recoil option of most of the hacks to give them an edge and that's much harder to detect for a player who just got killed. Same goes with the options that allow you to see through walls like ...http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dAOvNRA3G7c#! that. You can't really tell if the person is using that or if you were just spotted by someone and they knew you were there. =P I worry more about the number of people using those that you just can't tell then the folks who teleport an entire team onto a stick of C4 and detonate it or knife people in tanks. They are usually dealt with fairly quickly.

Every night if I play for 3-4 hours across a half dozen servers I will usually see at least 1 person blatantly hacking. But I daresay the actual number is a good bit higher and the people using them just aren't as obvious.

Bah no mention of the DirectX errors people are getting like the ...

Direct3DDevice9::Present failed: Ran out of memory (-2147024882)
OR
Direct3DDevice9::Present failed: Driver internal error

Lovely. =P So the stuttering will be fixed but the total and complete crashes won't be for awhile longer.

Anyone else miss back in the day when games were released actually working for more then 10% of everyone who bought it on PC? Geez.

I played with it a bit in the PC version last night when I got disgusted with the lag. I've always wanted a game that had a decent theater mode. Battlefield 2's was ok but hardly any servers seem to use Battlerecorder so most of the time it wasn't viable. And Teamfortress 2's version was fairly crappy and tended to crash a lot for me. My only wish was that they had put a slow motion ability in, which if they did I haven't been able to find. Being able to use the mouse to look around the interface in theater mode would be nice too. Still though it's nice they have the ability in game. Few PC versions seem to have that feature that I've seen. It's going to make video editing a lot easier.

I'm surprised people can even play SP. Right now the game has some serious issues. Tons of people are having a strange hitch/freeze lag constantly because of Steam using so many resources in the background. Like you'll walk around a corner, and suddenly freeze and warp back 5-6 steps or just freeze until you're dead. That's with a 20 ping. =( There are various fixes for it like setting steam to only use 1 core etc though. But SP also totally freezes the game for a lot of folks. I haven't made it passed level 1 without the game freezing. =P Tried about 10 times now. SP also has that wierd hitch lag. Hopefully they'll get it fixed soon as it's nearly unplayable now, least in with any sort of entertainment value hehe.

Those of you who don't have it yet you are not missing much. The game is laggy as all hell right now. Nearly everyone is getting some god awful hitching lag while playing, and there is alot of directx related crashes for everyone I played with tonight. =P So they got some bugs to work out for sure.

They aren't releasing mod tools cause they plan to make folks pay for the maps in expansion packs, ala Bad Company 2: Vietnam which has already been announced. If they release mod tools most will just play custom maps made by the community and less will give the developers more money by buying the expansions. Annoying? Yes. But what can ya do?

Would be nice if their accounting system actually worked so you could get your code. Tried to sign up 3 times with 3 different emails. First 1 went through and after validating the email it told me the product key was already in use. Second one my login/pass didn't work to login to the game after I went through the full process and validated the account via email. Third and final time I tried the validation email didn't even come through and it's been 6 hours and yes I checked the spam folder. =D

Guess they don't realize VOIP doesn't even work half the time on servers I've seen at least, not to mention everyone nowadays uses Vent/Teamspeak anyways to do the same thing so it won't exactly stop that much at all.

I don't care as much about not receiving credit for stuff you've done after you died because ...well you DID die. Why should you get rewards after your dead? It's easy enough to level and get all the unlocks in very short time even without those points so I don't see a problem myself. I've been playing 2 hours a night since release and I'm already like level 27 with every unlock possible for awhile now.

EQ is still going strong surprisingly enough. Especially with more modern games like Wow out I'm very surprised to see it. However it was/is a great a game for it's time. So it doesn't surprise me a lot of folks still play it. I go back myself once in awhile for old times sake.

Just goes to show if you make a quality game with good MP even a lot of pirates will buy it to play it online with friends. =D

Server issues aside when the game has been up and easy to find games in I've enjoyed the hell out of it thus far. It's not as hardcore as something like BF2 although it's not very far off imo. I can't wait to see what they do with BF3 down the road.

ldonyo wrote on Feb 21, 2010, 12:16:
The only protest that publishers will recognize is when gamers stop buying games that do not have the features they want. If sales stop, dropping of features will stop.

Exactly. Blame the lemmings who keep buying games that leave off lan play and/or dedicated servers although I don't see the lack of a dedicated server being an issue for a game like this. Lack of lan play is unforgivable though. Yet another game I won't bother with. And another developer added to my black list.

I'd much rather have an FPS SG game then an MMO myself, especially since what I've seen of the MMO looks too much like Battlefield Heroes gameplay wise to me. =P And this game is just a 3rd person FPS version of the MMO from what it looks like. It's a shame such a great IP hasn't been treated to more quality games. The only real FPS for it was canceled sadly. Maybe with the success of Stargate Universe we'll get to see some more enthusiasm from developers into making some good solid SG games.

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