Bored after 1 month

Phallas · February 2010

Ok so after one month these are my reasons for leaving.
 
Population, not only is the player population small, but what makes it worse is that, players are never in the same place.
 
You see travel is painfully slow, the average vehicle has a max speed of 32 kmph, which is slower than a professional cyclist 
So traveling is painfully slow, and to boot the pvp areas are so distant, as a player you would have to go out of your way to arrive at one, probably why you will see no one there and travel back. 
 
Any time there are more than 50 people in a single "barter" town, the place is trashed with mounts that block the vendors. 
And it starts to lag like a mofo. 
The graphics engine itself is horribly power hungry with little visual return. 
PVP is nonexistent, as I said people would need to go out of their way to arrive at a pvp area. 
 
Even when you find a handful of players at pvp, you are either insta gibbed by a high levels’ sniper from 100 meters 
Or you are ganked by a bunch of low level players, that you can’t touch because you will get a debuff if you kill them.
 
All in all pvp isn't worth the bullets spent on it literally there is no reward for killing a guy 10 levels higher then you 
Besides some meager "death toll" points used to buy things from a special vendor that supplies ordinary crap. 
For a "HARDCORE" no elves, tight pants, or crystals slogan , it should be more like, hey if you want to 
 
Kill other players at distant locations for little return go ahead! woo! we have that here!
 
It costs fuel and bullets to kill someone, in any case, go into pvp and you will come out with less then you went it with.
 
MAD MAX, FALLOUT 3. 
This game does not resemble these by any stretch of the imagination, The most expensive car, A V8 CAMARO, “Interceptor” 
tops off at 48 km/ph not even 32 mph.
 
I was looking forward to, high speed car chases, being pwned by a gang of player bandits, alas what I received was 
a "pussy" game, where players are restricted from swearing at each other. 
When it comes to quests, the term " quantity not quality comes to mind" 
 
I became one of the richest crafters in S1, I dropped a shit load of chips and I bought a buggy, and found it was only slightly faster than my previous free car.
 
Don't get me started on the bugs, I mean it’s the small bugs that eat away at you form the very start but.
 
One of them is, You switch to your melee weapon after shooting a rifle, and the reload animation plays on the melee weapon so 
you have to wait until the rifle is reloaded before you can start swinging. 
 
The GFX bugs, don’t fully load textures that are in your immediate for about 10 mins after entering the game, so your gun your car, are blurs.
 
Overall this game is too cutesy on its pvp restrictions, Too many bugs, Slow ass boring v8's that can’t go faster than a moped. 
I'd like to say something good about this game, and there are a few good things about it, but I feel I would be grasping at straws
. 
And not to seem one sided, there are more bad points I left out, in respect for the good points. 
 
Please forgive any spelding dong mistakes, i'm sure there are many english instructors that will cream over this post given the chance, 

damn this sites text editor sucks

Reklaw · February 2010

Originally posted by Phallas

Ok so after one month these are my reasons for leaving.
Population, not only is the player population small, but what makes it worse is that, players are never in the same place.
You see travel is painfully slow, the average vehicle has a max speed of 32 kmph, which is slower than a professional cyclist.So traveling is painfully slow, and to boot the pvp areas are so distant, as a player you would have to go out of your way to arrive at one, probably why you will see no one there and travel back.

Any time there are more than 50 people in a single "barter" town, the place is trashed with mounts that block the vendors. And it starts to lag like a mofo.

The graphics engine itself is horribly power hungry with little visual return.
PVP is nonexistent, as I said people would need to go out of their way to arrive at a pvp area.

Even when you find a handful of players at pvp, you are either insta gibbed by a high levels’ sniper from 100 meters

Or you are ganked by a bunch of low level players, that you can’t touch because you will get a debuff if you kill them.

All in all pvp isn't worth the bullets spent on it literally there is no reward for killing a guy 10 levels higher then you
Besides some meager "death toll" points used to buy things from a special vendor that supplies ordinary crap.

For a "HARDCORE" no elves, tight pants, or crystals slogan , it should be more like, hey if you want to

Kill other players at distant locations for little return go ahead! woo! we have that here!

It costs fuel and bullets to kill someone, in any case, go into pvp and you will come out with less then you went it with.

MAD MAX, FALLOUT 3.

This game does not resemble these by any stretch of the imagination, The most expensive car, A V8 CAMARO, “Interceptor”tops off at 48 km/ph not even 32 mph.

I was looking forward to, high speed car chases, being pwned by a gang of player bandits, alas what I received was

a "pussy" game, where players are restricted from swearing at each other.

When it comes to quests, the term " quantity not quality comes to mind"

I became one of the richest crafters in S1, I dropped a shit load of chips and I bought a buggy, and found it was only slightly faster than my previous free car.

Don't get me started on the bugs, I mean it’s the small bugs that eat away at you form the very start but.

One of them is, You switch to your melee weapon after shooting a rifle, and the reload animation plays on the melee weapon so

you have to wait until the rifle is reloaded before you can start swinging.

The GFX bugs, don’t fully load textures that are in your immediate for about 10 mins after entering the game, so your gun your car, are blurs.

Overall this game is too cutesy on its pvp restrictions, Too many bugs, Slow ass boring v8's that can’t go faster than a moped.

I'd like to say something good about this game, and there are a few good things about it, but I feel I would be grasping at straws

And not to seem one sided, there are more bad points I left out, in respect for the good points.

Please forgive any spelding dong mistakes, i'm sure there are many english instructors that will cream over this post given the chance,

Fixed for you so people actually can read it, but how would people actually read this if you can't even find something as simply like the EDIT button

Reklaw · February 2010

Originally posted by PostLarval

Originally posted by Reklaw

Originally posted by Phallas

Ok so after one month these are my reasons for leaving.
Population, not only is the player population small, but what makes it worse is that, players are never in the same place.
You see travel is painfully slow, the average vehicle has a max speed of 32 kmph, which is slower than a professional cyclist.So traveling is painfully slow, and to boot the pvp areas are so distant, as a player you would have to go out of your way to arrive at one, probably why you will see no one there and travel back.

Any time there are more than 50 people in a single "barter" town, the place is trashed with mounts that block the vendors. And it starts to lag like a mofo.

The graphics engine itself is horribly power hungry with little visual return.
PVP is nonexistent, as I said people would need to go out of their way to arrive at a pvp area.

Even when you find a handful of players at pvp, you are either insta gibbed by a high levels’ sniper from 100 meters

Or you are ganked by a bunch of low level players, that you can’t touch because you will get a debuff if you kill them.

All in all pvp isn't worth the bullets spent on it literally there is no reward for killing a guy 10 levels higher then you
Besides some meager "death toll" points used to buy things from a special vendor that supplies ordinary crap.

For a "HARDCORE" no elves, tight pants, or crystals slogan , it should be more like, hey if you want to

Kill other players at distant locations for little return go ahead! woo! we have that here!

It costs fuel and bullets to kill someone, in any case, go into pvp and you will come out with less then you went it with.

MAD MAX, FALLOUT 3.

This game does not resemble these by any stretch of the imagination, The most expensive car, A V8 CAMARO, “Interceptor”tops off at 48 km/ph not even 32 mph.

I was looking forward to, high speed car chases, being pwned by a gang of player bandits, alas what I received was

a "pussy" game, where players are restricted from swearing at each other.

When it comes to quests, the term " quantity not quality comes to mind"

I became one of the richest crafters in S1, I dropped a shit load of chips and I bought a buggy, and found it was only slightly faster than my previous free car.

Don't get me started on the bugs, I mean it’s the small bugs that eat away at you form the very start but.

One of them is, You switch to your melee weapon after shooting a rifle, and the reload animation plays on the melee weapon so

you have to wait until the rifle is reloaded before you can start swinging.

The GFX bugs, don’t fully load textures that are in your immediate for about 10 mins after entering the game, so your gun your car, are blurs.

Overall this game is too cutesy on its pvp restrictions, Too many bugs, Slow ass boring v8's that can’t go faster than a moped.

I'd like to say something good about this game, and there are a few good things about it, but I feel I would be grasping at straws

And not to seem one sided, there are more bad points I left out, in respect for the good points.

Please forgive any spelding dong mistakes, i'm sure there are many english instructors that will cream over this post given the chance,

Fixed for you so people actually can read it, but how would people actually read this if you can't even find something simply like the EDIT button

I'm not sure which makes less sense -- his HTML tag-ridden rambling or your bastardization of English grammar and sentence structure.

I am not English

Reklaw · February 2010

Originally posted by PostLarval

Obviously.

But OP could atleast have taken out the p/ things to make it more pleasant to read it, sorry for trying to help in my not perfect English way.

Haegemon · February 2010

S1 PvP does pretty much suck. Haven't had time to play since 1.3 hit, but I'm pretty sure S1 will just suck in general for a while.

But I'm cool with that personally, though it does prevent the idea of leveling efficently through PvP at all ranges, which does still suck.

Now, S2/S3 PvP, when that gets going, its a bit more fun. Sure, there's some quest-grind needed to flip the towns, but managing that control, fighting off attacks from rival factions, guild v guild fights that just happen. While it's not all it could be, for an Indie game that decided to take a lot of risks in a single game, they have a great mid/high-end foundation, and are progressivly working on it.

If you did cancel, but since you still have your account, I'd also say give it another month or two when the PvP update patch is released in a few months.

For population size, meh, it's "dense" enough for a wasteland environment. If you want super hustle-bustle, not many games can really offer that consistently, EVE/WoW probably being the 2 major exceptions. It definitely helps to try and find a guild or make some friends early on just for the whisper chats, but it can get lonely at points.

For the high-speed chase scenarios, I'm right there with you, I'd love to see them, but can appreciate the fact that they're probably not even working with the same level of resources that a number of already canceled games had (AutoAssault for genre, Tabula Rasa for lord crazy.) I'm sure they want them in there to.

But they had to either start earning money and continually add/update, or keep working towards the holistically fictional, will-never-exist "Perfect Game thats Pefectly Balanaced; Rhetoric, Rhetoric, Rhetoric". They went with money, they've added a good chunk of content, they've posted their plans and acted on them for a down-the-road layout.

I still see this game pulling an EVE down the long road of time. It'll never be a juggernaught, but it's updates will get it a well known, dedicated playerbase that's playing the game because of what it offers and appeals to in them as players. It's not for everyone, but if you've got some semblemance of "roots" set and your characters skills are a mess, it's going to be a game worth checking in on every 6 months just to see what they've done.

triprunner · February 2010

as it is painful to read the OP, its the same feeling as playing FE. games should be fun from the get go, not S2 or S3...

OP has a few points that i agree on but the biggest one: its a PvE grinder with crafting is never mentioned. FE is a WoW style quest avalanche, with poorly designed areas with plenty (!) of resources in the middle of the post apocalyptic desert.

I know this was to be Fallout/Mad Max MMO but it fails to do that. It's not full of road warriors/bandits but tailors, cooks, pot makers, etc.

So if you want to feel how it is to mend pots and make salads (!) in a post apocalypse please enjoy FE, otherwise i recommend Fallout.

Darkholme · February 2010

Your opinions are noted, bye...

Einherjar_LC · February 2010

I was going to take the time to respond to the OP but it's plainly obvious he/she simply doesn't like the game.

There are reasons for moderating the speed of vehicles, balance issues in place for the reload animations, etc but the OP really seems more interested in tearing the game down and spouting mis-information than learning why these things are in place .

As for the graphics, maybe your box just isn't up to running FE, or you just don't know how to tweak your computer. I say this as someone that is running the game smoothly on medium settings with a computer that is significantly below minimum specs. I have experienced none of the graphical issues you comment on. Taking a few minutes to read the official forums would supply you with what setting you should try to get the most out of the game graphically if you are having problems.

Enjoy your next game OP.

Fuggo · February 2010

1.5 patch will be about combat and PvP, factions, more levels etc. But it will take time until that one is out...

Yesterday I was done with my 10 days trail and now I got the full game. I enjoy it, but I also agree with you at some points.

I don't know how easy it is for them to change this game, but it need more bandits and less crafting. I didn't buy this game to walk around and make food. I like the old Fallout games and I'm a fan of the Mad Max movies. If only this game could have more of that. Add motorcycle gangs at random places or NPC raids against towns.

The PvP zone also need to be bigger or make a servers that are PvE, PvP and RP.

And vehicles need more speed. Make it even harder to make the best ones, but make them also much better. I like the idea of Gas and Food, but it runs out so fast...

I hope they can fix this game or I'm not going to stay that long.

maji · February 2010

Originally posted by Phallas

Population, not only is the player population small, but what makes it worse is that, players are never in the same place.

I see constantly other players, in the cities anyway and also in the wild. Sure you can also ride for 5mins through the desert without seeing another person, but otherwise it wouldn't be a desert I guess. Also since the game is international it's to some degree time-zone dependant. I guess when it's early evening for USA and late night for Europe there might be more going on, than when you play (since you are in Australia).

You see travel is painfully slow, the average vehicle has a max speed of 32 kmph, which is slower than a professional cyclist. So traveling is painfully slow, and to boot the pvp areas are so distant, as a player you would have to go out of your way to arrive at one, probably why you will see no one there and travel back.

I personally think the speed of the mounts is alright. The faster the mount the smaller the world seems. It might be convenient to move 90% of the time by directly teleporting to your target location (like in WoW) but that clusters up the population, having cities clumped and the rest empty while also destroying the immersion. Why should a company put effort into designing a huge world if you travel through it in 30 seconds anyway?

Any time there are more than 50 people in a single "barter" town, the place is trashed with mounts that block the vendors. And it starts to lag like a mofo.

I think you mean FPS instead of lag? They're two different things. That there are mounts around when players are around is normal. I prefer to see a dozen mounts standing in front of a bank, than knowing that each player magically made their horse vanish into their backpacks. I personally never saw an NPC completly blocked so far, could always reach them.
The graphics engine itself is horribly power hungry with little visual return.

Yep, the graphics engine is demanding, that's why there is a tool on their website where you can check if your computer is strong enough to handle the game. If your computer is too slow, reduce the details. The visuals are fantastic, I know now MMORPG going for a realistic look that has better visuals. If you don't think so it might not be your style. Or maybe you didn't enable hardware-anti-aliasing. Without it the graphics look pixelated, but when turned on they're awesome.

PVP is nonexistent, as I said people would need to go out of their way to arrive at a pvp area. Even when you find a handful of players at pvp, you are either insta gibbed by a high levels’ sniper from 100 meters.

I didn't play PvP yet because I prefer TF2 or League of Legends for PvP and play MMORPGs for PvE, so I can't judge that. That you can get shot over a long distance... well why else should there be sniper rifles? As said I don't know anything about PvP in FE, but maybe increasing your protection against such firearms would have helped, like using a military helmet. Did you try that?
It costs fuel and bullets to kill someone, in any case, go into pvp and you will come out with less then you went it with.

I personally enjoy it that the number of bullets are limited. Having an unlimited amount of bullets would make absolutely no sense in a game with that much crafting, and where the weight you can carry depends on your strength. Also it would be kinda unbalancing and remove any possible thought you could put into the type of ranged weapons you have with you. Also it's fun to stand in a dungeon, fighting your way out, trying to aim carefully to headshot everything because you are running low on ammo and have only crappy backup weapons.

Same with fuel and horse feed. Crafting is a large part of the game, so you have to craft that stuff or buy it. If there'd be an unlimited amount of fuel available, there'd be no need for different mounts with different fuel efficiency. Also I thought it was fun when I once didn't check my fuel and ran nearly out of it before reaching a gas station.

MAD MAX, FALLOUT 3.

This game does not resemble these by any stretch of the imagination, The most expensive car, A V8 CAMARO, “Interceptor” tops off at 48 km/ph not even 32 mph.

No FE players would say it's Fallout. People who never played it say "it's a bad Fallout" and people who expect it to be Fallout and play it say "but it's no Fallout!". Of course it's not. Why should it be? And it has some resemblences to Mad Max, but it's not Mad Max. So if you expect it to be Mad Max then it's your personal decision to do so.

I was looking forward to, high speed car chases, being pwned by a gang of player bandits, alas what I received was

a "pussy" game, where players are restricted from swearing at each other.

You are restricted from swearing at each other? I didn't notice that. On the one hand noone ever sweared at me in the game and I saw no reason yet to do so at others, because I think it's dumb and immature. If "swearing" is an improtant aspect of an MMORPG for you then FE is really not for you. And if people who don't swear are "pussies" for you, then... well... you are just 19, there is still hope that you become more mature. The game is also aiming at mature people, so maybe you are not ready yet for a game without people screaming and swearing at each other constantly.
When it comes to quests, the term " quantity not quality comes to mind".

I think the quests are among the most diverse I saw in an MMORPG. Which other MMORPG has more different quest types than FE? I know none. Slowly I get the feeling you are just raging instead of trying to be part of a mature discussion. Especially since you just claim that stuff is like this or that without ever going into any detail why it seems to be that way for you. You can't expect people to take you serious when you behave like that.
I became one of the richest crafters in S1, I dropped a shit load of chips and I bought a buggy, and found it was only slightly faster than my previous free car.

Just wondering: if you were such a superb crafter why didn't you craft a buggy?
The GFX bugs, don’t fully load textures that are in your immediate for about 10 mins after entering the game, so your gun your car, are blurs.

It's no bug but your computer. It's definately too weak. On my computer, which is just average, it takes 5 to 15 seconds tops to bring the textures to optimum quality once I enter the game. If you play a game that demands a good computer, and you play it obviously on high settings, and your computer can't handle it, then don't blame that on the game but on your inability to judge which setting is correct or to check beforehand if your computer is able to handle the game at all.

Reklaw · February 2010

Originally posted by Fuggo

1.5 patch will be about combat and PvP, factions, more levels etc. But it will take time until that one is out...
Will indeed add some good stuff.
Yesterday I was done with my 10 days trail and now I got the full game. I enjoy it, but I also agree with you at some points.
Welcome Fuggo to the waistlands
I don't know how easy it is for them to change this game, but it need more bandits and less crafting. I didn't buy this game to walk around and make food. I like the old Fallout games and I'm a fan of the Mad Max movies. If only this game could have more of that. Add motorcycle gangs at random places or NPC raids against towns.
I definitly don't hope they gonna change the game but add to the game. And you don't have to walk and there is ALLOT more then to craft food, actually my main stopped completely with making food, tho I placed that duty onto my alt, since my pack, all 3 horses parked and 3 vaults are full of mats I need for my Science, Weaponry, Armorcraft, Nature, Mutaginic, Ballistics, Medicine, Constructions crafting. For the first time sine years finaly a MMORPG that has allot for those of us craving for more craft in it.
Would agree on liking to see mounted or vehicle using mobs every now and then.
The PvP zone also need to be bigger or make a servers that are PvE, PvP and RP.
PvP bigger, nah don't think so, think they are big enough already as they are. I can only speak for myself but I really don't want seperate servers for this, one server I what I really want instead of what these A-Title MMO's already deliver with their seperate RP/PVP/PVE servers
And vehicles need more speed. Make it even harder to make the best ones, but make them also much better. I like the idea of Gas and Food, but it runs out so fast...
Perphas alittle more speed could be done, but not so much as it would eliminate the whole world feel to it.
I hope they can fix this game or I'm not going to stay that long.
Aslong they don't "change" the game and keep try to the core game and expand on it I am in for the long ride, it has already beat'n the time spend towards other MMORPG I played or tried the last few years in this genre where every other MMORPG was far to easy and no so enjoyeble to play towards my playstyle I want from my MMORPG experiance. FE has allot of it RIGHT, else I wouldn't be playing the game since release.

Fuggo · February 2010

Originally posted by Reklaw

Originally posted by Fuggo

1.5 patch will be about combat and PvP, factions, more levels etc. But it will take time until that one is out...
Will indeed add some good stuff.
Sure sounds nice.
Yesterday I was done with my 10 days trail and now I got the full game. I enjoy it, but I also agree with you at some points.
Welcome Fuggo to the waistlands
Thank you!
I don't know how easy it is for them to change this game, but it need more bandits and less crafting. I didn't buy this game to walk around and make food. I like the old Fallout games and I'm a fan of the Mad Max movies. If only this game could have more of that. Add motorcycle gangs at random places or NPC raids against towns.
I definitly don't hope they gonna change the game but add to the game. And you don't have to walk and there is ALLOT more then to craft food, actually my main stopped completely with making food, tho I placed that duty onto my alt, since my pack, all 3 horses parked and 3 vaults are full of mats I need for my Science, Weaponry, Armorcraft, Nature, Mutaginic, Ballistics, Medicine, Constructions crafting. For the first time sine years finaly a MMORPG that has allot for those of us craving for more craft in it.
Would agree on liking to see mounted or vehicle using mobs every now and then.
I also hope they can do somthing to the "mission spawns" or what you call it. It's a little wierd when mobs just pop out infront of you.
The PvP zone also need to be bigger or make a servers that are PvE, PvP and RP.
PvP bigger, nah don't think so, think they are big enough already as they are. I can only speak for myself but I really don't want seperate servers for this, one server I what I really want instead of what these A-Title MMO's already deliver with their seperate RP/PVP/PVE servers
And vehicles need more speed. Make it even harder to make the best ones, but make them also much better. I like the idea of Gas and Food, but it runs out so fast...
Perphas alittle more speed could be done, but not so much as it would eliminate the whole world feel to it.
Yes, just a little bit more. Not too much or it will be silly.
I hope they can fix this game or I'm not going to stay that long.
Aslong they don't "change" the game and keep try to the core game and expand on it I am in for the long ride, it has already beat'n the time spend towards other MMORPG I played or tried the last few years in this genre where every other MMORPG was far to easy and no so enjoyeble to play towards my playstyle I want from my MMORPG experiance. FE has allot of it RIGHT, else I wouldn't be playing the game since release.

ryan1285 · February 2010

there are a lot of realy great things about this game but there are some really really sucky points that pretty much make it a pain to play. It feels like a crappy version of Fallout 3 with an in built instant messenger. Even after you join a guild you wont see them much at all just help with mats and have ppl to talk to other than those in help channel. The main problems i have is the Quest Grind and not only that the quests are all pretty much identical. Another big problem is the faction grind which completely sucks nuts too. The developers obviously think content = grind because once pl get to max lvl and do their factions there is nothing to do and getting to that point is so tiresome it takes the fun out of the game.

Reklaw · February 2010

Originally posted by ryan1285

there are a lot of realy great things about this game but there are some really really sucky points that pretty much make it a pain to play.
There is so much more to this game then many other MMO deliver.
It feels like a crappy version of Fallout 3 with an in built instant messenger.
Love Fallout, but love Fallen Earth even more as there is so much more to it, and Fallout is great due to it being a singleplayer game so please people for once if you want to compare games do so in the same genre instead of trying to compare a MMORPG against a Singleplayer game.
Even after you join a guild you wont see them much at all just help with mats and have ppl to talk to other than those in help channel.
You joined guild? Perhaps those you might have joined forgot to mention you actually joined a clan, anyway seems you have chosen the wrong clan then. Probably random invite one?
The main problems i have is the Quest Grind and not only that the quests are all pretty much identical.
It truly helps to actually read them and there is no grind, when oh when do people understand that it is their playstyle and not the game. Also there are no quest, they are called MISSIONS. You couldn't even get that right.
Another big problem is the faction grind which completely sucks nuts too.
Again you blaming a game on your own playstyle?, there is NO GRIND other then what YOU force upon yourself.
The developers obviously think content = grind because once pl get to max lvl and do their factions there is nothing to do and getting to that point is so tiresome it takes the fun out of the game.
Nope there is allot of content, but the problem is certain people trying to play these games look at these games with a very limited view of what they actually can do.
Wish there would come a time people could be honost again and see things the way they are and judge those things instead of blaming things that are caused by their own playstyle. But I know by now these individuals will not get that nor understand that and instead will blame the game for it.
And you definitly don't need to like the game, that's perfectly alright for not liking it, but then mention things other then your playstyle that actually have to do with the game itself .

mCalvert · February 2010

I pretty much agree with the OP, except I was bored 5 days into my 10 day retrial. I played FE in beta and a couple months after launch, then decided to give it another shot with the 10 day come back trial Level 29 hanging aournd north sector 2. Im still kind of bored. Missions are repetitive (kill ten rats/chota or collect 10 questionable meat). PVE AI is still dumb as rocks. I wet into a conflict town looking for some challege, missions there are the same, there was no actual conflict going on, didnt see a soul. Theres no gloabl chat, and no one talks in regional so there nothing social to do. Made myself a new gun, its got 3dps more, whoopie. Made some ammo, ran around on my moto a bit. Fell asleep, no reason to play really.

Solution? A zone just for free for all pvp with full looting and meaningful territory control. IE, you can live there and never have a reason to leave. Survivial depends on thinking smart and grouping up to control your own safety. Sandbox basically.

Fedacorr · February 2010

Vehicle speeds, besides being balance related, are limited by the minimum system specs. Anything past 49 kph would require higher minimum specs, according to the devs.

Shot at 100 meters - Really? There might be one rifle with 80 meter range, most are maxed out at 70 meters. Exaggeration. Designed this way so that melee players have a chance, though there are still some balance problems. Rifle players claim that they are owned by melee players, so this 'I was slaughtered at long range' claim is... suspect.

Swearing - Yes, suprise suprise, this game actually requires you to obey the rules, which are the same as pretty much all other MMO's... no obscenity/profanity/hate language.

Unlike those other MMO's, this one has a large GM staff, which is always on, always monitoring, and not afraid to come down on rule breakers.

Several of the OP's stated graphics problems sound more like 'insufficient computer' than anything else. I've seen all too many folks complaining on the FE forums that the game plays terribly, and when gotten to tell what their system is like, have computers with less than half the MINIMUM requirements.

It's an MMO. It takes a very powerful computer to get 'good' framerates. If you don't meet the 'recommended' requirements, it's not going to run well. RAM especially is in high demand, the game executable by itself takes 1.8 GB of RAM. The textures loading into your Video Card will reach 7-800 MB, if you have that much.

TJ_420 · February 2010

I agree with everything you said but the swearing issue....Its a Mature game AND the NPC's swear. Its really stupid you can get your hand slapped for saying a word that NPCs in the game say. Period.

Reklaw · February 2010

Originally posted by TJ_420

I agree with everything you said but the swearing issue....Its a Mature game AND the NPC's swear. Its really stupid you can get your hand slapped for saying a word that NPCs in the game say. Period.

Swear in /region or /local, no worries, do you see NPC's swear in the /helpchannel? So is it really that hard to understand you simply can not swear in the /help channel, and why do people asume that mature means swearing, swearing is kinda inmature but hey......

Fedacorr · February 2010

In fact, yes, the rules about language apply to all chat channels.

It's simply far more likely that you'll be CAUGHT on the Help Channel.

The GM's will enforce the rules on region, local, auction, and clan, too. Mostly, that would happen only if someone complained, but be aware that all chat is logged, and available to the GM's, so a complaint with time of occurance can be checked, and dealt with.

The game's rating covers what the Devs program in, under their complete control. The chat channels are not under dev control as to exactly what is said, and fall under the game's Code of Conduct.

//\//\oo · February 2010

I'd have to sadly agree with nearly everything he posted, but the thing that most strongly affects me is the PvP:

The PvP in FE is very bad due to it's limitations, crappy rewards, difficulty of access and balancing issues.

Fuggo · February 2010

Yes Melee have too much power and it looks like it's going to take time for the Devs to fix that...

Patch 1.5 will add more PvP content.

dagon3 · February 2010

Same for me AGREE , the trial will pull you in i subbed after only 2 days on trial i loved it so much .

THEN its starts to slowly get to you until you start thinking man , i hate grinders but this game isnt a grinder but im grinding mats non stop instead of mobs (farming grinding) and then it hits you after you get to the next town (are you kidding me ? i just crafted and farmed for days to make my gear and now i have to do it all over again?)

I unsubbed after 2 weeks out of utter boredom this is my opinion and it had potential but as for now ( repetitive as a japanese grinder) They just need more things to do in game .(something). crafting is great but it only keeps ya glued for so long.. I even posted a positive msg on the forums when i first started because i liked it so much but then it went downhill fast for me..

THESE ARE ALL PERSONAL OPINIONS..

8)

This game to me was like a hot chick that looks so good and then when you finally kiss her she has no teeth.. (uggh)

Einherjar_LC · February 2010

Originally posted by dagon3

Same for me AGREE , the trial will pull you in i subbed after only 2 days on trial i loved it so much .
THEN its starts to slowly get to you until you start thinking man , i hate grinders but this game isnt a grinder but im grinding mats non stop instead of mobs (farming grinding) and then it hits you after you get to the next town (are you kidding me ? i just crafted and farmed for days to make my gear and now i have to do it all over again?)
I unsubbed after 2 weeks out of utter boredom this is my opinion and it had potential but as for now ( repetitive as a japanese grinder) They just need more things to do in game .(something). crafting is great but it only keeps ya glued for so long.. I even posted a positive msg on the forums when i first started because i liked it so much but then it went downhill fast for me..
THESE ARE ALL PERSONAL OPINIONS..
8)
This game to me was like a hot chick that looks so good and then when you finally kiss her she has no teeth.. (uggh)

Farm while you adventure, craft while you are logged off.

If you found the game grindy, maybe that's because you made it as such? Nothing in this game takes days to make unless you are making a vehicle. You can craft new armor and new weapons for you character in about 1-2 hours, which can take place while you adventure, or while you're logged off....hardly grindy IMO.

*shrug* To each their own I suppose. I have been in FE for about 4 months now and absolutely enjoying myself. I have so many materials for crafting in my vaults I'm trying to make crap up to craft when I log off just to burn some of them up.

jamigre · February 2010

Ok, I don't get how you say its grindy? You honestly don't need to make anything if you don't want to, you can go adventure, team up with people, run group missions, and then buy whatever you would need in the AH. I've been selling excess iron / wool on the AH, and have been making a pretty penny - and like the guy above me said, crafting when I'm offline. I set up a chain of 10-20 items and I'm out.

Now in relation to the OP, here goes...

Population, not only is the player population small, but what makes it worse is that, players are never in the same place.

Player pop is healthy, there's always people in towns, there's usually people in the wild, and it's growing. And why do you want all players in the same place... The world is large, there's more than just 1 major hub.

You see travel is painfully slow, the average vehicle has a max speed of 32 kmph, which is slower than a professional cyclist.So traveling is painfully slow, and to boot the pvp areas are so distant, as a player you would have to go out of your way to arrive at one, probably why you will see no one there and travel back.

PvP areas distant? there's one a stones throw away from Depot 66, you ca run there in 2 minutes. Will there be people PvPing, dunno, prob not, its S1, and the PvP starts later on, but if you want why not hold an event, not too complicated. Ya know. And travelling slow? It seems perfectly fine to me, for one I'm glad I cant teleport around the entire place in 25 seconds takes away from the immersion, and if you want to talk about slow travel, try EVE

Any time there are more than 50 people in a single "barter" town, the place is trashed with mounts that block the vendors. And it starts to lag like a mofo.

That's your comp's fault amigo, I'm on a laptop, play with mid settings and never see my FPS lower than 15-20 in towns, not great, but manageable. Outside 40-60 fps.

The graphics engine itself is horribly power hungry with little visual return.

Like I said, could be your comp, if you put all settings on high/very high, the game looks brill.

PVP is nonexistent, as I said people would need to go out of their way to arrive at a pvp area.

S2? S3? And really, not that far out of the way.

Even when you find a handful of players at pvp, you are either insta gibbed by a high levels’ sniper from 100 meters

Or you are ganked by a bunch of low level players, that you can’t touch because you will get a debuff if you kill them.

All in all pvp isn't worth the bullets spent on it literally there is no reward for killing a guy 10 levels higher then you

Besides some meager "death toll" points used to buy things from a special vendor that supplies ordinary crap.

For a "HARDCORE" no elves, tight pants, or crystals slogan , it should be more like, hey if you want to Kill other players at distant locations for little return go ahead! woo! we have that here!

It costs fuel and bullets to kill someone, in any case, go into pvp and you will come out with less then you went it with.

OMG firing a gun uses bullets? No! driving a car uses fluel.... the audacity of the development team. I sewar. and how about pvp being fun for well, pvp' sake, theyre putting in an achievement system in a bit, and I dunno about you, but i like killing people for the fun of it. why must it always be about "getting something in return"

MAD MAX, FALLOUT 3.

This game does not resemble these by any stretch of the imagination, The most expensive car, A V8 CAMARO, “Interceptor”tops off at 48 km/ph not even 32 mph.

this isn't falout, this isn't mad max, it's fallen earth, it's a different intellectual property, you might as well say, it's not "a boy and his dog", or it's not "solarbabies". Waaah. It's not supposed to be - do you see mad max, or fallout anywhere in the title, no, so please... stop comparing them.

I was looking forward to, high speed car chases, being pwned by a gang of player bandits, alas what I received was

a "pussy" game, where players are restricted from swearing at each other.

When it comes to quests, the term " quantity not quality comes to mind"

this is the only game in about 5 years where I'm actually reading the quests because they're so funny, and engaging. Apparently you didn't really care to do that.

I became one of the richest crafters in S1, I dropped a shit load of chips and I bought a buggy, and found it was only slightly faster than my previous free car.

Why didn't you just make one if you were an über crafter? and why do people always pick out some miniscule minute details and say its game breaking, i mean wtf.... chill enjoy the game, and take it easy.

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