5punk

As you are probably aware, im quite the MMO fan.

Even more so when im not paying for them (i love beta's!)

But ive just discovered one better than that. If you sign up for anarchy online before jan 15th, you get it for free. For a year. The whole thing.

woo!


/goes off to download

Really? I have noticed another 5punker play on this all the time, and wondered what it was.

Seeing as I've never played a MMO game before, I may give this a try, just to see what it's all about.

Have you got a link, I'm "googled out" after yesterday

ooh, that was rather bumgayish of me, i completely forgot the link. Here tis:

http://www.anarchy-online.com/free/ad_c ... ecampaign/

I would advise going for the torrent, as the direct download seems to have collapsed. Its only 800 meg, so shouldnt take too long.

Wow that's awesome, will definitely get torrenting tonight, the most important question is: Is it actually any good?

I guess we'll find out soon enough!. Check this out from the beginners guide:

Anarchy Online is a science fiction MMONG

and

Anarchy Online is also different from other games in the genre by offering random missions and dungeons

Sci-fi dungeons?!? confusing... yet intriguing

mrbobbins wrote:Sci-fi dungeons?!? confusing... yet intriguing

Release the magical nuclear dwarf lasers :twisted:

They kept calling the deadzone complexes in EVE "dungeons" for ages. That made me laugh.

As far as i can tell, AO is your basic RPG, just with nanotechnology instead of magic, and its set on a colony in the future, rather than a mystic land of faries and dragons. It'll probably be fairly recognisable to anyone whos ever played an RPG before.

Is it any good? buggered if i know. But its free, so at least we will be getting value for money :D


EDIT: ive just realised that the download finishing will coincide almost exactly with my girlfriend arriving for the weekend. Bumclouds.

EDIT OF THE EDIT: hurrah! she has overslept, and is therefore going to be late! i may have time for an hour or so in it. Faster, bittorrent, faster!

ooh, this looks fun, always considered playing with one of these jobbies.

ah-hahahaha!

looks cerrrrazzzzzy.


is that big fella on the left waving a maggot around?

It's a crazy sci-fi disco nano-dungeon/brothel!!!!

Oooooh, shiny!

*finds downlaod codez*

hmm, well, ive had a bit of a go, and here are my first impressions:


Its not bad. Feels nicer than EQ did. Not as slick as WoW though.
Its pretty bloody generic. Get stuff, kill things, get better stuff. Rinse and repeat.
The initial graphics settings on mine were a bit....odd. The draw distance was set at "0 feet", and the textures looked like they had been drawn on with crayon. I recommend fiddling with the settings before you try and do anything else.

Not really had time to explore properly, but it could be fun if we get a few of us together on it.

I played it when it first came out, and I thought it was pretty cool. Especially because you could play as an engineer and when you go to a high enough level you could get a "Slayer Droid" that was double your size with big nasty spikey arms to tear the shit out of things.

the maggot is atually a "leet" which is the weakest creature in the game, and it goes around shouting all the standard twatty lines you'd expect people who use l33t speak to say.

Oh, and you can Dual Wield shotguns.

StickFigureNinja wrote:Oh, and you can Dual Wield shotguns.

I've just made a mess.

many times.

Interesting. My curiousity is piqued.

This bit torrent download is really fucking me off now, I have uploaded 1600MB yet I have only downloaded 416MB and it's been runnign all afternoon!

I know Bit Torrent users are supposed to "help seed the download" but this is fucking ridiculous

It's probably because I'm downloading it at work

I've installed my very very old copy of the game so i just have to downlod a 100mb update.

This Children, is a demonstration of why a system such as Steam can be good in these situations