20 salvaged fasteners.... go to sleep.... wake up to over 4k xp. Granted I do have a PVE character running missions with him there is alot of potential for crafter xp. I heard dune buggies give an entire level!? Can someone clarify?

Originally posted by reaperuk

I've seen someone with a crawler pet and I read someone else saying there were spiders too. The one I saw just followed the owner around. It didn't do any fighting.

Yes that's true, there are a few missions that give out reward items which spawn out pets. They usually don't have many charges and aren't too useful atm so as it stands it's more of a gimmick. Who knows what will come in the future though.

I dunno... has it been long enough that the WoW crowd can consider themselves veteran MMO gamers? I really don't know what the minimum standard here is.

I got my characters created on both my accounts! Just can't get in-game now.

(yes two accounts in unnecessary but after so long with SWG and EVE I feel naked with only one 0_0 )

Originally posted by sa1yaman

I have manage to create a char! But now it says "name in use" when i try to log in  >.>

That's because I stole your name! Mwa!

Originally posted by twhint

The forums aren't down, they're just swamped.

I got to the character selection screen, was able to customize him and such, but unable to hit confirm. Now I just get a blank character select screen with no buttons to press and no characters created. About what I expected, though it did get my hopes up when I was customizing the first time.

 

Same story, on par with most other MMO launches so not peeved :P... Especially since this is essentially extra free play time we get here.

I'm sitting at the customization screen hitting confirm every once in awhile, I got my guy just how I want him!

Originally posted by Smilex0311

Do I detect sarcasm? 

 

The forums have been down for about an hour now.  Or at least I cant get in....

Really? I was on the forum like 5min before server up. No, no sarcasm.

Originally posted by Smilex0311

Whew, thought it was only me.

Cant get any answers because their forums are overloaded right now.

Which gives you a good hint that no one can get in yet, otherwise who would be on the forums?

Can't create a character... lol. But still really excited that the server is up.

Frankly I thought $50 was alot upfront as well, but it's hard to hate them for it because this is an indy company and they have been working on it since like 2003...

I'm sure they really need the income.

I have the same sorta issues also, just for perspective I have pre-orders from both the FE website and D2D so I'm definitely playing it no matter what.

Theres a pretty long thread about economy issues going on in the official forum, seems to be a pretty popular notion that items should have a breaking point much like SWG and thus provide a continous market for new weapons and armor. With the ease of acquiring these items it shouldn't be game breaking, but in fact be the other way around. Creating a more lucrative economy especially for the determined crafters. I was L20 at the end of OB but didn't bother to go to S2(saving it for release), and I had more money than I could ever figure out how to spend.

As for player-made items, I'm sure you've seen the "Improved Knives 1" or similar recipes, but with the recipe requirements both skill and item wise it's going to take a higher level crafter to make advanced weapons for the lower level combatants. So you'll really never be making your own improved items unless you're really really gimp on your combat skill, or you trade with the higher level guys for the proper materials. IMO I think its a good thing, makes the improved item availability more of a community effort than individual.

My eyes burn from reading all of this :P. Least it entertained me though.

OP, you even have the naysayers telling you that you're the one in the wrong here, is it so hard to take a deep breath and admit that maybe you just went a little overboard with all this and you should've thought things through a bit better?

Admitting ones fault seems to be a rare skill, but if you can develop it you'll be a better person because of it. Isn't it a little illogical to think you're supperior to 90% of everyone else and they're the ones who don't get it?

Originally posted by Mahlo

Im going to play Earth Rise

me too!

 

Maybe it's just me but Earthrise graphics look the same but with a glow effect on it? :P

You also have to consider that Fallen Earth began initial design in 2003... So kinda makes sense that the graphics look 2004ish, were you not able to play games in 2004 because graphics weren't cool enough yet? :P

As far as fear of Fallen Earth closing it's servers.... This is an indy company on par with CCP and EVE. When EVE first came out it didn't have anything near the potential audience as MMOs have now. It's only going to take a tiny chunk of a dedicated playerbase to keep Fallen Earth aloft and improving. Being successful doesn't mean you have to have all of china's gold farmers at your doorstep, just that you do good enough with what you have to turn a profit, and maybe even expand.

I'll pull speculation out of my ass and dare to say, with the news of Fallen Earth placing high on D2D sells, I doubt Icarus is going to have any problems with maintaining good standings for some time to come.

I must say I'm a bit biased, because I want Fallen Earth and Icarus to get every chance they deserve.

You know alot of us come from the UO/EQ era, we just didn't bother with MMORPG websites since we didn't really have as broad of a selection in the market as we do now :).

PS: Now I never actually played past the basic EQ/UO trials back then lol, since I wasn't old enough to have my own credit card :P.

Who wouldn't like having their grandma pay for all their stuff :P

Looks like alot of fun, sad I missed it.

Originally posted by darksider27

I've posted my impressions of this game elsewhere, I don't think it has any longevity and my initial impressions upon beta testing were that it would fail, especially considering the popularity of Champions and Aion, which also release in Sept.  Fact is, that if the vehicle physics were any good, I could enjoy this game just by driving around like some MMO-Motorstorm, but instead the focus was on making the game more mmo-like, which has ultimately destroyed the game's promise...

If Fallen Earth was more FPS, and less MMO, it'd be more like Borderlands and would stand a much better chance...as is, its nothing special, except regarding its setting and (at times) crafting.

Well honestly there are alot of SWG refugees out there who've finally found a Sandbox game to fit their style out of FE, and those same people really wouldn't bother with WoW with flying(Aion) and another superhero MMO(Champions).  It's not as if FE is competiing against something utterly awe inspiring. FE manages to appeal to a niche market that's been left in the dust for a very long time, and with that they may very well succeed indy or not.

Originally posted by Khalathwyr

Fair second review though I'm surprised you didn't work in a derogatory Obama reference, lol.

But seriously, fair review. Some of the things like player housing the devs have said are a high priority on their list so hopefully we will see them within the first year. The issues with certain graphics cards, which seem to be mostly of nVidia make, aren't across the board. Some folks have them, some don't (I have a 9600 GT 512mb and rarely experience issues that stop game-play). As far as the cross crafting dependency I can see where it may be a slight issue for those that solo and don't make any friends whatsoever. If you know 2-3 other people, then you shouldn't have an issue getting what you need.

Quests are what they are just like in every other MMO out there. I can't apologize for that, heh. PvP is an area I'm hoping to see the game grow with respect to meaningful reasons to engage in it (we keep talking about adding 0.0 EvE-like sectors down the road). As far as the making up your own story, that will become increasingly easy to facilitate when more systems (Player housing, controllable land space (hopefully)) come into play. As to the why? Because it's fun. I understand it may not float certain folk's boats, but the answer to "why" is that it's fun. Most people are more vested in something they create/help create than something that they have no real say in.

As I've said before, if anything Icarus have a really good foundation of a game concept wise laid out. It'll be interesting to what it grow and from a personal standpoint, listening to how they talk about nurturing it, I'm very interested. For those on the fence, I'd say it's certainly worth keeping an eye on for the first year to see where they take it and if you find it more appealing.

 

I have the same attitude. Traditionally alot of the best gameplay features in MMOs didn't make it in until post-release. Examples that come to mind are SWG mounts/player cities and WoW battlegrounds. Got some pretty good devs in FE, so I think we can expect some pretty good things.

Originally posted by Tyrranosaur

Originally posted by Varny

I couldn't get past the horrible 90's graphics myself.

 

Clearly written by someone who did not suffer through the nineties. Now, if you had said, "This game is soooo 2006" I would have been totally with you on that.

 

Lol :D/

Kinda like how an 8 year old would think a 25 year old is "REALLY OLD". It's a perspective thing :P. Either that or exageration.

Originally posted by Mrbloodworth

Not sure how you could call it a fallout knock off, unless fallout if your ONLY point of reference for post-apocalyptic settings. Because it feels like, a post-apocalyptic world, that has its own take on that setting.

 

 

Fallout is just a knock off of Mad Max :P lol