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Face of Mankind:
- Nice Graphics.
- VERY VERY POOR user interface.
- Can't find NPC's to buy items.
Some ass kills me in less than 2 minutes after I finally exit my apartment. There is absolutely NO skill required to kill an UNARMED new character.
Get put in the cloning facility and have to waste my money just to get healed.
Can't seem to find for a place to get buy items and armor.
You should spawn with at least a beginner set of armor and weapons.
Perhaps the developers should look at a REAL World user interface for a MMORPG and see how a real one works.
This game NEEDS a real help file and in game instructions.
Deleted from my system.
Don't have time to learn this VERY unintuitive and unintelligent user interface.
I'd suggest that you play something else.
DOH!
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Actually, I found this game quite enjoyable. I do admit at the beginning can be a bit hard but once you get past it it's quite nice. I had quite enjoyable moment today when there was a riot in the prison and the FDC(my faction) went there to put it down.
Anyway, it's true that the learning curve is huge( especially since there's basially no tutorial) but that do not mean the game is bad. Remember, this is a beta, not a free test, it's normal for the game to have problems.
I think you should play more than 5 minutes before telling people to play something else.
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"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
-- Ken Olson, chairman of Digital Equipment Corp, 1977
You have to remember that this game is still in Beta friend, so it's really not up to its par on what it will be. But about what you said..
(edited for chat goofups, sorry)
It's a good day to beleive
huh, i found the user interface to be pretty much ok. Cant see why you would complain about that.
Also, i find it strange that you find time to download the client - but you dont have the time to find information on how to locate merchant stations...
Yes, i also got ganked within the first 5 minutes of the game. But then again, i had done my research, and this was totally expected due to the nature of the game and the fact that it is OB.
maybe that's why it's called....dun dun dun... BETA?
Ya i find the interface to be fine, I dont know what problem your having with it. Ive seen worse in retail games.
It's getting off a good start as of now. When the forums open back up, I hope to see people giving out suggestions, instead of bashing the game that is in beta. People don't seem to understand that the open beta is for stress test and finding bugs, they tell you that on their website.
If you don't fancy playing it then why don't you test it.
BETA BETA BETA BETA!
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Don't jump off the roof Dad
You'll make a hole in the yard
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The game is pretty damned fun. It can get laggy when theres like 100 people in one spot. Its an mmorpg with FPS combat. Its complete and total chaos. Im a police officer in the game (LED) and we gotta go around catching all the bad guys criminals and murderers and such and theres so damned many of them. Tons of people saying PIGS MUST DIE and stuff and blasting you and all your LED buddies rushing in to fight its a ton of fun. Really enjoying it theyre supposedly gonna double the power of the server cluster so that should help the lag.
Of course its beta and definitly a few bugs ive run into but honestly i really like this game its different fun and chaotic. Basically player run everything. The only bad part is the complete lack of tutorial instructions so the first hour or 2 you gotta ask a lot of dumb noob questions to get anywhere.
I definitly reccomend everyone try this game if they get the chance to me its unique as its got the FPS twitch combat and the player run entire world. Very fun.
----ITS A TRAP!!!----
Yeah, hehe that is true... Game is funny.
I saw that there lags when I got 100 leds on my ass... Sitting in jail is pretty funny, lol.
When a game enters open beta, you are looking at 99% of the features and playability that it will have going live.
exactly what I have said several times over, yet people keep coming back with "its beta people" over and over again. So, IF the game is as many say, then I would say they plan on releasing it with the intent to "add content ( a new term for finish the game ) after its released to the public. Which means its in final alpha now and the paying public will beta test all the "content" they get in after it goes live. Thats the acceptable norm now for MMO's unfortunately.
- Scaris
"What happened to you, Star Wars Galaxies? You used to look like Leia. Not quite gold bikini Leia (more like bad-British-accent-and-cinnamon-bun-hair Leia), but still Leia nonetheless. Now you look like Chewbacca." - Computer Gaming World
I also found the UI to be clunky. It wasnt terribly unintuitive, but I just didn't like the whole pressing escape thing to switch back and forth, etc.
I found the graphics to be pretty bland. There's just not much detail.
However, what stopped me from playing after only a few hours and had me uninstalling was the transparency of the mechanics. Crafting: done at a terminal. Mining: terminal. Purchasing: terminal. Banking: terminal. Healing: terminal. Insurance: terminal. And all the terminals look very much the same. It feels very contrived.
I'm sorry, but there's just no immersion factor for me. All of their game systems seem propped up by these terminals that are purposely placed X distance apart to require you to use the 3d interface. Take out the combat, and I don't see a need for the 3d interface at all. I realize similar mechanics are a part of every MMO, but at least in SWG mining you have to go survey to find a good spot out in the beautifully crafted environment. In other games you talk to NPCs, who often have odd personalities, interesting lore, or cool armor. In other games you craft things by standing in front of a crafting machine, and the ways you interact with the world are actually varied. They all "feel" different.
If I want quality FPS action, I'll go play UT2k4. No MMO can hold a torch to the excitement brought on by a good round of Onslaught. As far as the roleplaying and whatever aspect, the mechanics are too transparent to get me immersed in the game at all. Personal preference, 100%, but I feel very strongly about it.
Habit is not to be flung out the window by any man, but coaxed down the stairs one step at a time. - Mark Twain
Oh and to the guy who posted the whole manual: Lame.
Delete it and put up a link. That's just rude man. We shouldn't have to scroll a mile for this page unless someone actually put that much time and thought into a post. Don't just copy/paste 15 pages of instructions. Very lame.
Habit is not to be flung out the window by any man, but coaxed down the stairs one step at a time. - Mark Twain
Face of Mankind is pretty disappointing. I expected a lot more quality in the product due to all of the trash-talking the devs have done in interviews and on the forum. But, I guess Europeans have different standards.
The game is far worse than Wish and it is supposed to be released commercially withi nthe next three months. I am not even a programmer and I understand the concepts behind the amount of time it takes to code anything for a game, especially a MMO. The game will flop and flop even harder than Neocron did. And sooner.
The game is in BETA ! its free atm so what you can expect ? people are just lazy read a guide or go on IRC.
i can hardly call this beta, it's more like... alpha. they shouldn't have made it ob
Banzai!
Beta is no excuse for the lack of tutorials, NPCs, etc.
Look at betas of other games. I don't think I've seen any game in beta where it takes 3 hours of screwing around before you figure out what the hell you're doing.
Amend that to say "open beta" and I say Amen.
i get tickled hearing all those folks say its beta get over it..........
Well swg still has sit down slide cross the floor, proffesions still broke,
master smugglers box empty
Eq2 invisable mobs in burrows thats fun trying to fight invisable bugs....
Griffen dumping rider off of platform or screen turning black
basicaly they stress test the servers, it goes gold and a good deal what you see in open beta is how the game usualy looks on release.
So those bugs still in beta appear in live version anyway...........
I miss DAoC
well thats just great i had hopes for this one.
I just ignore people like this:) They obviously are on the short end of the IQ stick.