Fallen Earth (video) if for no other reason to play

 

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My first days in Fallen Earth

Model:  ASUS Notebook K40IJ Series

Processor: Pentium(R) Duel-Core CPU T4200 @ 2.00GHz  2.00GHz

Memory (RAM): 3.00GB

System type: 64-bit Operating System

NO VIDEO CARD

So that is what I am playing on. I do have a G15 and G5 keyboard and mouse. I am only playing on my K50 notebook till I can get my big rig back up and running.

The game is laggy as hell for me in the starter towns, As this game is played only on one server, There are a lot of people in any one of the starter towns. I think there is like 6 starter towns you can start from. As I move away from the towns my fps(frames per sec) goes up, and if I am by myself fighting, My fps can be as high as 24fps. Now for some of you that may sound bad, but remember, I don’t have a video card, and my laptop takes over some of my ram to make the video for me. So for me to have 24fps while I fight, Granted I am by myself, I think it’s do very well. Also I want you to remember that this is a new MMO and it’s does not matter how big or small the MMO co is, It is allways is going to have to be worked on at the first. FE is working hard to make the game play even better, and even on my laptop I can see how my fps is going up, Yes it’s going up only a little each day as they work on it, But it is going up.

OK let me get past that little part and start telling you how I started playing Fallen Earth (also goes by FE). I had seen very little about the game, and even in the two days I was looking hard at what I wanted to play next, I had past over FE without even thinking about. Then after I did my last posting about how I had no idea what I wanted to do next, I had a few people tell me about some games they thought I may like, and this(FE) was on the list. I was at work, and about all I could do was read a little about the game on there home site, and there just was not really any blogs about the game at all. I had no idea that the game had just went live a week before. It was the you-tube video’s that got me. There was only a few, but when I found that I was watching them over and over, and not really looking up any of the other games, I started thinking that this has a good hook to it. So that night I went home and spent a little money and started downloading it, I think the download only took about 2 hours and some change.

I was not looking foward to a FPS(First person shooter) game, and I didn’t find that when I got in game. Sure I do fight in first person, but that is the way I found it to work best for me. You can fight in 3rd person view if you wish, and you can turn the view any way you want, even if you are fighting, you may not hit a dang thing, but you can do that if you want. I come from games that you click on the mob, and it does not matter if you are facing them are not, So with FE I am having to learn that I wish to fight something I better be watching, or I am going to get my ass handed to me. The aiming is a new thing to me, and I think I am making my way around the learning curve OK.

Fallen Earth does have PvP in it, but it’s not like most games. There is no zone to log into, Or a sever to make a toon on. It’s in the one and only sever. The thing is that it’s only in a few area’s of the game. You will get a pop up msg telling you that you about to enter the pvp area. So if you are like me, you don’t have to go there. Also if you do keep going and get killed, you don’t have all your stuff looted from you. You loose your life and thats about it. You don’t even have to worry about them re-spawning back and getting killed again. You will respawn out of the PvP area, and have to go back to it, If you wish to PvP more. I have not did any PvP in this game, but I hear that there are towns that you can fight for. and when you have the town, the NPC’s that work there, start giving the quest and things for your people(faction). So that very cool, I may have to look for a faction guild, That is when I know who I want to be when I grow up, and maybe do a little PvP. If nothing more, I could be bait.

Crafting, Is nothing like what I have been doing for years now. I hear it’s a lot like EvE’s crafting, Where you set it up to start crafting then you can log on off, or go start doing what ever. I have did very little crafting in the game, I have did a little and it’s cool, It seems I can load it up with a lot of things to craft, and as long as I have what it needs to make it on me, then it comes out OK. No more hoping that with the last of your mat’s you make what you need. Are if you can fail, I have not done it yet. Oh I all most forgot to say that 95% of every thing in the game is player made. That’s right, If you want the best of the best, you got to buy it, make it yourself, or have a friend make it for you. I can see how when I get to the upper level’s of the game, and the times get longer and longer, It will start to be a pain in the ass. For now I like it, As soon as I have what I need, I can start crafting it. I don’t even have to run back to a crafting area if I don’t want to.

I was not looking for this game when I came across it, and even as I hit the buy button, I was not sure I would like it. That night when I had it all downloaded, I went to log in and, the damn game had crashed just a little before I tried to log in. As this was one of the reasons I left EQ2 I had to LOL. It was just to funny that I left a game for crashing, and started a new MMO that had just went live a week before. It’s going to crash a few times till they get it all worked out. By the way that was the last time it has crashed as far as I know. When I start any new MMO, I solo it, I like to find my own way around. I find if I group with people that know the game better than I do, I just follow them around and in the end, I will have learned nothing. I need to get lost, and find my way home to learn the land. That is one thing I have been doing, I have also learned more about fighting, harvesting, and crafting alone the way. I have been having a lot of fun in the world, and I would have never thought I would be playing a game like FE. But I am and having a blast as I am doing it.

I am sure you will be reading more from me, when it comes to Fallen Earth. Till then, Watch your back side.

Alik Steel

The Gulf of Despair

The best laid schemes of Mice and Men oft go awry,
And leave us nothing but grief and pain, for promised joy!
      — Robert Burns, To a Mouse (Poem, November, 1785)

 

I know, I know, It’s only been a day now, and I am talking of Despair. Well, when I got to work this morning and got the office open and ready for the day, I started looking around at what I may want to jump into next. Thinking there is got to be some MMO that was going to pop out at me, and I would be bouncing on my toes, waiting to get home and check this new(to me) MMO out. That did not happen!

 I have two MMO’s that I am playing around with, but not seeing them being any thing like a main MMOG for me. DDO and Wurm both are fun and I do enjoy my time in them, but it’s not like I had a month ago. When I could not wait to get home and get into EQ2. I have been looking at Darkfall, But I am not a big PvP player. There is a few more MMO’s that will be coming out soon, That look good, but I think they will be a lot like DDO, or Wurm. They will be fun to log in and hang out for a bit, but nothing like a mian  game.

The biggest problem for me, Is that I don’t really know what I want next. I am so sick of quest, I know I want something that I can do, Without having to deal with them. I could deal with playing a game that had quest in it, As I have done this for many years in a game that had the word quest right in the name. I just don’t want to find myself in a mmog that makes you do them to level, or skill up. Right now there just not any thing out there that would be a AAA MMORPG that fit’s what I am looking for. This is why I feel that I am swimming in the gulf of despair.

This is the first time since I started playing MMO’s that I have no idea what I want to play next, And it’s scary not knowing where I will end up.

 

Alik Steel

The end of the EQ2 era

Sad day in the life of Alik Steel the gamer. I am walking away from a game that I have played from Beta. EverQuest II has been my home for 5 years (counting beta) and I have enjoyed it for the most part. I have talked about how when you have the amount of content that EQ2 puts in the game, Your going to get bugs. When they started adding code into the game, for TSO things start getting bugged  up on the AB sever. I can not speak for any other sever, But for 11 months the players of the AB sever has had to deal with crash after crash. Then for a few months it did get better, but then they added the $25.00 character transfer. And ton’s of players came to AB sever. Thinking that with such large sever population that it was going to add to there gaming fun. I am sure it may have for some, But to most, I am sure it was the same as the way I was feeling about it. Frustrated for the most part, Frustrated that with a game as old as EQ2 is that they can not keep the biggest sever up and running, after doing this last Game Update. We have had 3 big crashes. Forget about all the othere times that the game, or just AB sever would go daown for no reason what so ever.. We have had three big Game Updates, And they can not keep the AB sever up  at the peck playing times. Sure the first part of the day is fine with lowwer population on the sever. Then at peck playing times, It crashes, not just once, but at lest 2 times that night. the the other two updates it came down 3 time on the update day.

Tonight is the next day after the game update and it’s still crashing, Oh what fun I am having, and I’m not even a raider, I would hate to think what is going through there minds about this. For me it’s done and over with, I am not saying I will never come back to eq2, But for now, I am done with EQ2. I have 21 days till my money runs out, and then no more.

To all my friends in EQ2 I thank you for making my time in the game as fun as you have made it, and I look foward to when we play again.

As for my Guild I have left it up and in my friend Gulmuth’s and in my brother’s hands.

Alik Steel

Who really wants a persistent MMO world?

When you could have a dynamic MMO world!

 

I think I am getting done with the same ol same ol, yes expantions are great but they don’t come out but once a year, most times.

 

I don’t want a world that “THE PLAYER MAKES A DIFFERENCE” I want it to chang around me as I play. I want time to move in the game. Maybe quest are not the way MMO’s need to fill the time sinks. When you add quest, that tie’s a NPC down, or what ever you have set for people to get the quest from. So if you want a world that is all ways on the go, then we will have to come up with a way to stop the quest!

I want to return to that cave that I killed them 10 rats in, and find out the rats are gone and it’s nothing but a wild cat, or something in it. I want to see NPC’s having a life, and not just standing in that one spot, for the next 10 years of the game. I want him to have a life in the game, at night he goes home, after some time he my grow old, and even die.

 

I think this is why I have been having a hard time playing my games, it’s all ways the same. Same quest giver, Same ol mob to kill, Same ol loot. Just not that fun any more, and it’s not just EQ2. If I was to log into any MMO, It would be the same. Hoping 38 Studios is going to chang things, but I am not hold my breath.

 

 

Alik Steel

EQ2 GU53 Release Date

Been getting a lot of hits wanting to know when GU53 will be coming out. So I went looking around and found what was being said. Kiara deals with the EQ2 forums and this is what she said.

 

Kiara Dark Elfness Joined: Jul 14, 2008 Messages: 3343 Offline

FYI all! Shards of Destiny has been pushed back one day to the 23rd.  Other than that, it is on track and we don’t anticipate any issues.

 

Alik Steel

My Own Personal MMO Tug-a-War

I have all ways just played one MMO at a time, Even a few years ago when I wanted to play Vanguard and EverQest II at the same time, I could not do it.  I started out my MMO life with Everquest so maybe thats why I stayed with everquest2 and let vanguard drop away.

 

I have aways enjoyed the way I have played, Logging into the same game day after day, Playing with the same people night after night. It’s a blast to know who and what you are going to be doing every week.

 

Till this last week, I have picked up two new games, Giving me three games to play. The surprisingly thing about it is, I am having fun just doning a little in each game. I didn’t know I could have fun with only putting an hour or so into a game. When it has come to EQ2, I have allways put hours into it each day.

 

I blame Beau Turkey for this, Who is this Beau? He and his wife Leala run a little site called MMOvoices, they allso do many podcast shows. Now why do I blame Beau for this, because I have all ways been happy with the way I play, and then he has to come along and talk about how great these othere games are. So I have to try them, No big deal there, I do that all the time. Down load something, log in, and play for an hour or less. Then trash the game and head back to my main MMO. But NO, not now, Now I am getting into the little mmo browser games, Not even sure if they are mmo’s, but tons of people play them all at the same time, So yea, It’s a MMO, I think? Any way at this website MMOvoices there are othere people, And they are starting to be as bad as Beau is. And that does not help me at all. Every one talking about this game and that. They even went as far as putting in a real time chat on this site, So now you see it in real time when some one finds a new game that they want every one to know about. So yea, I blame Beau for this!!!

 

So now I am in a tug-a-war with my gaming style. I do not plan of making up my mind, I want to see how this will play out. Will I play like this for a week or two and then find myself back in EQ2 full time again, Or will I find myself doing hit and runs on all the games out there.

 

 

Alik Steel

Does going mainstream, Make MMO’s go dumb?

As our MMO’s go more mainstream, I see the MMO’s change more and more. It seems to me that in order for games to make a stand in the mainstream.

1) They must be made for people to jump in and out of with out a thought.

2) They have to make it where you are not tied down to doing any thing for more than a few minutes at a time.

3) The player must be able to get to any area of the game in a moments time.

4) The mob’s or what ever you are dealing with, Must be something that is not to hard to deal with.

5) And new to the line up is, That you must be able to pay real money for in-game items.

 

Most of the stuff on the list you can find on any console games.

To me this a dumbing down of MMO’s.

 

Look at most of the new MMO’s coming out and I am sure you will find most of the things on the list, or look at some of the older games out there and see how they are working on making the MMO’s fit the list. Are they maybe done with the list and now looking for new ways to fit into the mainstream area.

 

I am not bitching, Well yes I am, But I understand why all the MMO’s are going to this. MONEY!!! Thats right, dirty, greedy, money, and don’t you dare get on your soap box, Every MMO is made to make money, and YOU know it. Knowing why they are doing it, and understanding, Does not mean I like it. I am a old school MMO player, So I want to have to use my brain, and think my way through something. If it takes hours, so be it.

 

 

Alik Steel

Invited to do a Recruit-A-Friend to …

WOW! Yep, I have a friend that I worked with a long time ago that sent it to me.

I work at the Delta cargo center here in Mobile, So I see a lot of people. Some of them, like the othere day, Are friends from times past. After we took care of his cargo, We sat and talked of the good ol’ days. At some point our gaming came up, I found out that way back when, He was playing EQ when it first came out and now he is playing WOW. After I poked at him for playing WOW, We started to really talk MMO’s and where we saw them going. As close as we could figger-it. WOW is starting to push there game play in the direction that EQ2 is at. I was also telling him how it looked to me, EQ2 seems (and this is just me talking here) to be pushing in the direction of WOW with there game play.

Note: I’m not going to get into what I think they are doing to EQ2, Trying to not to all ways talk ill of the MMO I call home.

 

By the end we had given each othere our Email’s. and have sent out the recruit a friend’s to each other.

Will WOW be my new main MMO, Never, But if I have fun with them in WOW and I have the money for the sub, sure I would pay to play with good friends. Will he change his main to EQ2, I would think never for him as well. But it will be something to see how I like WOW when I have people to go hunting with.

 

Oh and you may have seen that I made sure I did not put WOW or World of Warcraft in the name. I did not want people thinking I was trying for numbers. That is after my two post I did to see if having the name in the title would really work or not.

 

Now to find the time to play the dang thing.

 

Alik Steel

(EQ2)How to copy your character to test sever

/copytest add thats it, just make sure you put a space between /copytest and add

 

Now wait, this can take as little as a few hours or up to a day.

There is also a hich in the copying, for what ever reason I have all ways had to make a new toon on test for my copy to show up. I all ways just do my /testcopy add and wait a day befor I even try to log into test.

 

Alik Steel