Overly Chatty Penguins
The Ready Room => Off Topic => Topic started by: Uranium - 235 on February 19, 2004, 04:25:21 AM
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http://www.freeallegiance.org (http://www.freeallegiance.org)
Play it
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Pretty good game , I will download it when I get home to see how it is.
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Wow... innnnteresting.
a dedicated commander position with 3D RTS interface and gameplay that demands coordinated teamwork to accomplish anything
Remind you of anything? So are we going to try and get an LM server thrown together, or just all meet somewhere? I'll definitely have to try this when I get home.
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tried this a while ago, very hard to learn.
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Remind you of anything?
Trying to be the only person on his team who knows what's going on, is onos, has a nub comm with a team of heavies and they are sieging sewer and nobody cares?
Yeah. :blink:
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Ack! Mien Videokarduben ist tuu Olde forest dis Videogamen!
Sixteenien Megabieten wiilunt cut it!
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wow, this look uber awesome.
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It is hard to learn. I played for a few hours and STILL have no idea what's going on :)
BTW watch out for mines, they're insanely overpowered (A scout drops a pack of mines, can kill a bomber with them, or even a bunch of fighters...)
Oh, it's also a bitch to get working correctly...
Anyway, it's a bit like Homeworld the fighter sim.
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Ack! Mien Videokarduben ist tuu Olde forest dis Videogamen!
Sixteenien Megabieten wiilunt cut it!
I'll sell you my old GF4 TI 4600.. not the best but still midline.
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i could of upgraded my video card any time, but heres the make or break question that always ends my upgrading negotiations.
Is it PCI? :D
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Is there a manual for this game? I look at the forum and only things I see is something about a commander :blink:
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the game is abandonware and no longer supported, its run by fans now, and all of them are "elite" so you pretty much have to figure it out yourself.
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anyone else get tubgirl when you try to get the nubmanual?
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uh, yeah.. i did.. not cool.
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I don't think it will be worth it to get this, what with the steep learning curve and the lack of help with it, and now tubgirl. I don't want to take any chances on that...
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I didn't get any tubgirl for the manual v_v, I think http://web123.s1.okayspace.de/MyAcademy/index.htm (http://web123.s1.okayspace.de/MyAcademy/index.htm) this is the manual? Don't know if it's outdated since I never played this game.
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Nope, GF4 is AGP.... seriously, get a new computer if you need a PCI slot :p
Okay, the game.
Play the training. Training 7 never works for me so don't try. Also, if you don't have a joystick this'll be very hard for you. So get a cheap one at the very least. Force Feedback is muy funo.
Anyway, the training will tell you enough to get started. Join the newbie server (it's really damn hard to get the game actually connected. Lots of stupid things to download. I'll post my instructions if you need it) and tell them your a newbie. If you have a good commander (which I've gotten several times) they'll tell you what you need to do. Then you just follow his orders, he'll buy you bombers, destroyers, etc, and shoot stuff :)
I love it.
Oh and one more reason to play: Look at their 'links' page.
Natural Selection The kickass half-life mod. If you have Half Life, don't miss it!
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I don't have a joystick, nor do I have enough joystick-needy games to warrant the purchase of even a cheap one. If I start to play the game, I'll learn to adjust with mouse and keyboard.
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yes, it works fine with the KB, but a nifty MS whatevermaster would be cool to use.
yes,the tutorials are pretty thorough, altho i'm not done, and have yet to play an actual game. nice break from NS :D
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The training wasn't bad, and i finaly got the controols almost down... but the online game isn't working. I'm not able to connect to anything. did the server die?
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I don't have a joystick, nor do I have enough joystick-needy games to warrant the purchase of even a cheap one. If I start to play the game, I'll learn to adjust with mouse and keyboard.
Mechwarrior is every reason in the world to fork out for a Force Feedback Pro. Evidently you've never played Mechwarrior.
I pity you...
Anyway, connection: First of all, you can't be behind a firewall, NAT thinger, whatever. Be open, be free, like a fat man with his fly open.
1) Install Allegiance.
2) Install patch.
3) Grab ASGS. Update ASGS.
4) Reboot.
5) Run ASGS and get an account. Then click the 'UPDATE ASGS' at the bottom of that window. Close. Reopen. Login. It'll then run SOVLogin, and your name will have (1) after it (indicating level of nubcaekness). Then it should connect and run Allegiance. Join a public game, probably the newbie server.
Watch out for vets whoring the newbie server though :(
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I played like 20 minutes and I still don't get this game , only thing I know is how to go to waypoints , attacking and moving. Other things I'm confused
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Mechwarrior is every reason in the world to fork out for a Force Feedback Pro. Evidently you've never played Mechwarrior.
I pity you...
I adjusted to Mechwarrior just fine with mouse and keyboard, but its not quite my style of game. And even one game isn't enough for me to warrant the purchase of a luxury like the Force Feedback Pro.
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I remember trying this game awhile back, alls I can say is it has the worst space physics/controlling I have ever seen in a space game :|, now unless that has been changed I am not touching this game again.
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I remember trying this game awhile back, alls I can say is it has the worst space physics/controlling I have ever seen in a space game :|, now unless that has been changed I am not touching this game again.
Physics? Um, what? Unless you think that 'ship inertia' is unrealistic... (When you turn, you have to wait for the ship itself to actually begin flying in that direction because of the inertia from where you were originally traveling)
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I remember trying this game awhile back, alls I can say is it has the worst space physics/controlling I have ever seen in a space game :|, now unless that has been changed I am not touching this game again.
Physics? Um, what? Unless you think that 'ship inertia' is unrealistic... (When you turn, you have to wait for the ship itself to actually begin flying in that direction because of the inertia from where you were originally traveling)
I gave no details, what I am talking about is the god damn ship would turn so god damn slow but move so damn fast that youd have to just go in big loops last time I played it, and I didn't say it was the most unrealistic, because good != realism, and unrealism != good either :p, alls that I am saying is that it is shat to move in that game.
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Just finger your throttle a lot (;)) Like in a normal fighter, flying around at full blast isn't going to be too healthy for turns. Finally, there's this neato feature that if you press 'L' you can freely rotate around while still going the same diretion (a la freelancer), allowing you to make 180 and tighter turns.
I mean hell it's better then those games that allow you to turn on a dime, and dogfighting is nothing more then just strafing past each other taking potshots, instead of one guy getting into tactical position behind the other and lacing his ass.
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This game owns me in every way, meaning that all I can do in it is move around and fire my weapon :o.
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:) That's all you'll need to know for now.
When the game starts, get in a scout, load up with probes, and find the warp hole (alephs). Find as many as you can, go through them, and scout out even more. Then when the game advances, get in fighters and stuff, and blow up more crap. Escort the bombers (If they say 'nan', it's like 'weld'. Get a scout, and equip the nanogun thing and shoot the bomber to repair hull damage), and... yeah, not too hard.