I was looking forward to Face Of Mankind..... for the last 3 hours i've been attempting to play the open beta..... I'm still left thinking "What the hell" couldn't really figure out what I was supposed to do, even after reading the guides in the forum still left with the feeling that it's a pretty poor game, graphics are bad.... gameplay is awful and confusing.... I really hope they do some MAJOR improvements on the game, because it really needs it.

This isn't the worst open beta ever, I do remember the Ultima Online open beta crashing like every 10 minutes for like the first week. So in that regard this isn't the worst open beta I've ever played. However I must say this is the worst open beta game I have ever played. I've played some pretty lame games in my day (Underlight, and Neocron) to name a few and this one takes the cake. Well maybe it ties with Underlight, but in all fairnesss to that game I did play it in Alpha. There is just simply nothing to do. I don't wanna hear that free-form RPG nonsense that the people who made this game are spewing either, because this game is devoid of RP. If you are looking for some Free-Form RPG action go join a MUSH and save yourself the d/l time.

 

Well. Not 100 % correct. Atm you drop everything except Weapons and Implants.

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Yeah I was going to come back and correct what I had said so that I wouldn't be "that guy" lying about some game function so peopel would not play the game.

Losing anything when you die sucks...  Losing items that you spent money on sucks..  If this is the case why would anyone wear armor just to lose it if they die?   Its just discourages me from playing.

Neocron at least made you lose whatever was in your first quickslot and a chance to lose somethign in your inventory.  And when that happened the "looter" had to hack the belt to get it.  Thats giving the player a chance to at least get his crap back.

Yeah I know this is not the finished game.. I have only played so far a few hours and I am going to give the game a chance.. All I have to do is figure out how to delete my charactar and start over.. Or Can I in Beta?

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Originally posted by Malicus
I played open-beta for approximately 4 hours before uninstall. Really poor graphics i thought. Overall very boring and uninspired. Perhaps an ingame tutorial will be implemented before release. Would give a better understanding of gameplay dynamics.  However I wouldnt say it was worst open-beta. RYL: POTE wins that distinction.

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I made it about 2 days of sparse play, had to take it off. It just wasn't appealing to me and it didn't seem ready for open beta to me. It also seems like a game that probably won't make it and if they do, they will just tread water.

Don't get me wrong, I am not flat out saying its a horrible game, I mean anything with that much development time has to have potential, it just didnt' scream at me or get my attention and I just don't feel its gonna be a winner.

I think one of the big conceptual problems they've had with the game so far is the lack of any RPing going on in the game. On the website the game is touted as being a very roleplay-centric venture, where the players run pretty much all aspects of it.

Sadly, it appears to have turned into World of Counterstrike. Don't get me wrong--this game has some great ideas and vision behind it's design; I just think the developers misjudged how many pure griefers were going to jump aboard.

It also doesn't really help that you're left absolutely clueless at the onset of the game--wondering what the heck to do =)

Worst open beta is perhaps a bit extreme but i was left wondering what the closed beta people actually did. So many things that could - and should - have been fixed before it opened were left in, and the whole thing just feels...lacking in someway. I know there's much more due to be added but i can't help feeling that i'm going to be disappointed after quite a while following the progress of FoMk. Still, fingers crossed eh?

Not the worst open Beta, but possibly poor design decisions overall will lead to the quick failure of this game.

Seemed to function fairly well, it wasn't like I couldn't do anything. it's just that I didn't want to.

FYI folks, beta testers are at-will testers and can quit at any time, for those of you who were confused that we are somehow being paid. If we don't enjoy it enough to test it, it's our repsonsibility only to never log in again and leave room for someone who does.

Now back to the "game".

The mechanics all felt fake. Pasted on. Everything's a terminal. Harvesting, healing, market, quite frankly I expected combat to take place in terminals as well by the time I got to it. Walk up to terminal, type in players name, push Kill button, bam, combat over. Ok that's pretty much the only part of the game that isn't a terminal, but you get my drift.

That contrived feeling took the soul of teh game out for me, and gave me no compelling reason to want to continue. I went to several different areas hoping to explore. Ostensibly they all looked about the same, constructed the same as well. I finally found an outdoor area on Mars and promptly fell through the world. Exit, Uninstall, delete folder, done.

Three year old graphics don't help either.

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Originally posted by inig0
I was left wondering what the closed beta people actually did.

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Left.

Or the ones I knew did at least.

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Originally posted by Noubourne
Not the worst open Beta, but possibly poor design decisions overall will lead to the quick failure of this game.

Seemed to function fairly well, it wasn't like I couldn't do anything. it's just that I didn't want to.

FYI folks, beta testers are at-will testers and can quit at any time, for those of you who were confused that we are somehow being paid. If we don't enjoy it enough to test it, it's our repsonsibility only to never log in again and leave room for someone who does.

Now back to the "game".

The mechanics all felt fake. Pasted on. Everything's a terminal. Harvesting, healing, market, quite frankly I expected combat to take place in terminals as well by the time I got to it. Walk up to terminal, type in players name, push Kill button, bam, combat over. Ok that's pretty much the only part of the game that isn't a terminal, but you get my drift.

That contrived feeling took the soul of teh game out for me, and gave me no compelling reason to want to continue. I went to several different areas hoping to explore. Ostensibly they all looked about the same, constructed the same as well. I finally found an outdoor area on Mars and promptly fell through the world. Exit, Uninstall, delete folder, done.

Three year old graphics don't help either.

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That pretty much sums up why I uninstalled it about 3 weeks ago.

I liked the concept of FOM but the problems are relay anoing ... :-(