Frontlines: Fuel of War £3.74 on Steam
Schrodinger
beers...
Mr Rob
>No idea if it's any good, but I'll take a risk for the price of a couple of
>beers...
I bought a retail copy of this when it first came out. For some reason
I've never even gotten around to installing it, let alone playing it.
I think it might be down to the fact that I am heartily sick of
conventional war based FPS.
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Rob
Schrodinger
"Mr Rob" <noemail...@jsjsaiiowppw.com> wrote in message
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I did wonder if I'd bought it at some time, but I didn't recognise the
screenshots. I'll have to wait until tomorrow as will have to install
overnight.
Andrew
>No idea if it's any good, but I'll take a risk for the price of a couple of
>beers...
I played through it on the 360 and quite enjoyed it. Getting to
control remote control helicopters with missiles is great fun.
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m3thod
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> No idea if it's any good, but I'll take a risk for the price of a couple
> of beers...
Created by the same team that developed BF2 (and desert combat) Trauma
Studios who were all 'released' when BF2 was launched.
Frontlines tanked though.
Unknown
>No idea if it's any good, but I'll take a risk for the price of a couple of
>beers...
Do you work for Valve, in some way?
Mr Rob
>On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:48:23 +0000, Mr Rob
><noemail...@jsjsaiiowppw.com> wrote:
>>I bought a retail copy of this when it first came out. For some reason
>>I've never even gotten around to installing it, let alone playing it.
>>
>>I think it might be down to the fact that I am heartily sick of
>>conventional war based FPS.
>
> A very good AAA game.
>Gave me chills to see the intro, very possible outcome of future oil
>shortage and war to control the last of the oil fields.
> Really fun remote control minie flying and ground remote
>controled exploding dodads.
>Great sniper rifle!
I've installed it and downloaded the patches. I'll give it a whirl
this weekend. It's mildly annoying that there doesn't seem to be an
aggregate patch, but never mind.
GRAW2 had some enjoyable drone flying aspects to it. I don't think
anything will beat Project Eden for that kind of thing though. Now
there's an underrated game that really should have been the subject of
a sequel.
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Rob
Mr Rob
>On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:18:22 -0000, "Schrodinger" <n...@way.com> wrote:
>
>>No idea if it's any good, but I'll take a risk for the price of a couple of
>>beers...
>
> You will not be disappointed!
>
>Legion
Be warned that there is around 2GB of patches for this game. It
appears that you have to install them in the right sequence (oldest to
newest) rather than there being just one combined patch.
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Rob
Andrew
<noemail...@jsjsaiiowppw.com> wrote:
>Be warned that there is around 2GB of patches for this game. It
>appears that you have to install them in the right sequence (oldest to
>newest) rather than there being just one combined patch.
Shirley Steam does all that for you?
Mr Rob
>On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:11:17 +0000, Mr Rob
><noemail...@jsjsaiiowppw.com> wrote:
>
>>Be warned that there is around 2GB of patches for this game. It
>>appears that you have to install them in the right sequence (oldest to
>>newest) rather than there being just one combined patch.
>
>Shirley Steam does all that for you?
It shirley does.
The retail game is on 2 DVD's so presumably the digital version is a
hefty download. On top of that I'm assuming that there will be an
equally hefty patching process once the game is installed.
My version is still being patched from 1.0 to 1.10 using the
downloaded patches. That's been going for a good 5 minutes now and
it's only at 53%. There are 3 more patches to apply after that (69MB,
959MB and 929MB respectively).
In fact, given that the first patch was 920MB that makes the total
patch size nearer the 3GB mark.
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Rob
Wile E. Coyote
> I bought a retail copy of this when it first came out. For some reason
> I've never even gotten around to installing it, let alone playing it.
>
> I think it might be down to the fact that I am heartily sick of
> conventional war based FPS.
You're not missing much. I never bought it but played a friends copy for
a bit and it's average quality at best.
Schrodinger
<gnomon> wrote in message news:qu5cg5ha2b3rp2lpj...@4ax.com...
Are you a cock in some way?
Tim O
>Created by the same team that developed BF2 (and desert combat) Trauma
>Studios who were all 'released' when BF2 was launched.
>
>Frontlines tanked though.
This game suffered from Shit Title Syndrome. Even if it was good, it
got mixed in with other horribly named games that also happened to be
bad. Turning Point: Fall Of Liberty, I'm looking at you!
If you're going to spend 2 years making a game, it'd be wise to spend
more than half an hour to come up with a catchy name.
Antonio Huerta
> No idea if it's any good, but I'll take a risk for the price of a couple of
> beers...
Gee, for me, it's $3.75 in local dollars, which could be US$3 ! But
still, I am not buying it... I still have lots of unfinished games,
and some of them are unplayed !
I took a vow not to buy the new games (e.g. Brink, Borderlands, CoD6,
Bioshock 2) without finishing them first.
Mr Rob
wrote:
The fact that I quite enjoyed Turning Point should give a clear
indication of its quality and likely wider appeal.
It was a craptastic shooter that ticked all of the craptastic boxes
that indicate craptasticness. It was even more craptastic than
Legendary: The Box which was pretty craptastic as well.
I would expect that FFOW would be in a different league to those two
games.
--
Rob
Spalls Hurgenson
>No idea if it's any good, but I'll take a risk for the price of a couple of
>beers...
I rather enjoyed it. It was a good mix of "realistic" combat versus
the usual run-n-gun action standard to FPS games, something I find
very few games achieve. The maps are interesting and the weapons
-especially the drones- are a lot of fun. I never tried the
multiplayer, but it looked like it would be quite enjoyable too.
The big problem was a dearth of content. The single-player campaign
was a tad on the short side, but not so much you felt ripped off.
Unfortunately, the developers never got around to releasing the SDK in
a timely manner; this, this, coupled with the limited number of
multiplayer maps, meant that the game quickly fell off the radar. It's
a shame, too; I think the community really could have enhanced this
title.
I recommended it to fans of the genre when it was full price (more
casual gamers I suggested wait until it drops in price a bit); for $6
US it's definitely worth picking up.
Gamer Goo
So if you only had one word to describe turning point, what would it
be?
MetalGuru
> Mr Rob wrote:
>>It was a craptastic shooter that ticked all of the craptastic
>>boxes that indicate craptasticness. It was even more craptastic
>
> So if you only had one word to describe turning point, what
> would it be?
Shitomenal.
MetalGuru
> Tim O <timo56...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>This game suffered from Shit Title Syndrome. Even if it was good, it
>>it got mixed in with other horribly named games that also happened
>>to be bad. Turning Point: Fall Of Liberty, I'm looking at you!
>>
>>If you're going to spend 2 years making a game, it'd be wise to
>>spend more than half an hour to come up with a catchy name.
>
> Frontlines: Fuel of War was nothing like TP.
That's not even close to what he said, try reading again.
Mr Rob
wrote:
>On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:29:47 -0000, "m3thod" <n...@no.com> wrote:
>
>>Created by the same team that developed BF2 (and desert combat) Trauma
>>Studios who were all 'released' when BF2 was launched.
>>
>>Frontlines tanked though.
>
>This game suffered from Shit Title Syndrome. Even if it was good, it
>got mixed in with other horribly named games that also happened to be
>bad. Turning Point: Fall Of Liberty, I'm looking at you!
I played about 45 minutes of this game. It's not a bad game although
it is the type of game that I would only play in small doses.
There are a few issues with it that stick out for me.
Firstly, some of the weapons are ridiculously overpowered. The rocket
launcher and grenade launcher immediately spring to mind.
Secondly, the game runs like absolute shit for me with frequent
pockets of severe frame rate loss and lots of (what seems like) very
fleeting freezes. Considering that the graphics are hardly stellar,
this is a little surprising. I'm guessing that this is caused by the
large maps.
One other thing, there is no support for 1440 x 900 resolution which
was also a bit craptastic considering it's a fairly new game.
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Rob
Shawk
>
> Secondly, the game runs like absolute shit for me with frequent
> pockets of severe frame rate loss and lots of (what seems like) very
> fleeting freezes. Considering that the graphics are hardly stellar,
> this is a little surprising. I'm guessing that this is caused by the
> large maps.
This is ruining it for me. I play crysis with everything on high but I
have to drop the rez for this?? I'm guessing open space and NVidias
physics incompatibility with my ATI card. Just started trawling around
and there is some suggestion that PowerDVD is also an issue... what?
One of the most popular programs on a PC that has been around for many.
many years is causing the problem? Arseholes
Mr Rob
wrote:
>Mr Rob wrote:
>
>>
>> Secondly, the game runs like absolute shit for me with frequent
>> pockets of severe frame rate loss and lots of (what seems like) very
>> fleeting freezes. Considering that the graphics are hardly stellar,
>> this is a little surprising. I'm guessing that this is caused by the
>> large maps.
>
>
>This is ruining it for me. I play crysis with everything on high but I
>have to drop the rez for this?? I'm guessing open space and NVidias
>physics incompatibility with my ATI card.
Same here. It's not a sufficiently good game for me to accept having
to tolerate lower graphical detail and resolution just for it to be
playable.
I've uninstalled it and put the DVD's back in the case and on the
shelf with all the other games that I probably won't ever touch again.
Schrodinger
"Legion" <Leg...@Invalid.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:48:23 +0000, Mr Rob
> <noemail...@jsjsaiiowppw.com> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:18:22 -0000, "Schrodinger" <n...@way.com> wrote:
>>
>>>No idea if it's any good, but I'll take a risk for the price of a couple
>>>of
>>>beers...
>>
>>I bought a retail copy of this when it first came out. For some reason
>>I've never even gotten around to installing it, let alone playing it.
>>
>>I think it might be down to the fact that I am heartily sick of
>>conventional war based FPS.
>
> A very good AAA game.
> Gave me chills to see the intro, very possible outcome of future oil
> shortage and war to control the last of the oil fields.
> Really fun remote control minie flying and ground remote
> controled exploding dodads.
> Great sniper rifle!
>
> Legion
>
True about the intro - makes you wonder when, not if, this will happen.
Finished the game in one day, although I've played it for 11.3 hours (isn't
Steam great!) against less than 8 for COD MW2.
The graphics aren't as good as COD, but it was more fun in some ways. It
could have stood another few hours for sure, but I'm looking forward to the
multiplayer - hopefully the servers will be populated after the recent
offer.
Overall, I would have been happy to pay �20 for this game and for �3.74 it
was a genuine bargain.
Anyway, back to L4D2, which I am absolutely loving.
Shawk
Shitload of issues with my ATI4870... I just can't find that balance of
acceptable framerate against quality.
m3thod
> One other thing, there is no support for 1440 x 900 resolution which
> was also a bit craptastic considering it's a fairly new game.
> --
> Rob
Not the case
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