Auto Assault beta weekend

[ReNo]

Anybody else here been taking part in the Auto Assault beta weekend? If so, how you found it? I downloaded it mostly on a whim - an MMO with vehicular combat was a sufficient enough a pull for me It's not perfect but there is a whole lot I like about the game, and I may well pick it up when it hits the shops in a few months.

I seem to recall a mapcorian is working on this at Netdevil, so whoever it was, my congratulations on making a cool game. If you guys can improve performance a bit (I've turned the LOD distances down loads, shadow detail to low, and texture detail to medium, and my computer which plays most things near full settings without trouble is struggling!) and work out some of the graphical niggles (almost every time I come across a tall ruined building, the top of the building gets rendered way earlier than the bottom of it, leading to floating parts) it will be great. Good luck getting it finished off

[st0lve]

Its Kedhrin I think who is working on AA.

I never played it, I don't really like MMOs, but I love apocalyptic stuff!

[curman]

It's alright, I mean it's enjoyable, but I agree with St0lve. I'm not a big fan of MMOs, so I'd doubt I'd go out and buy it.

[von*ferret]

So is it like Mad Mike or what ever?

[curman]

WHAT THE FUCK FERRET?

MAD MAX

[curman]

Well okay, I pretty much spent the majority of the day trying this out again. I think theres a ton of potentional and interest in the game, but theres a few flaws.

Pros:

-I think the characters look badass! They're something right out of the movie Mad Max, very cyberpunk and apocalyptic, the only trouble is I never.. see my character. Just his vechile. Or atleast for what I've gotten to.

-It's alot like Red Faction, everything is just about breakable and can shoot down buildings and guardrails and everything. It makes the environment a lot more interactive for the player.

-It's original. Atleast for what I can remember there hasn't been any such MMO like this in the past.

Cons:

(These all might be because of the demo?)

-I can't turn in quests a lot of the time. I get them, and I collected 4 oils and when I return to the person it doesn't allow me to turn them in. It says press to talk. I do. Nothing happeans. Kinda led me to a few stops and wasted time.

-Where exactly is all the upgrades? I've reached level 5 and all the merchants and sales people I've discovered only sell level 2 items. Maybe I'm not searchin' high enough areas?

-A lot of times, I might get disconnected from the server, dont' know why. But when I return it resets all my quests, yet still I remain with the cash I've already earned from them before.

-I just don't get the whole NPC talking thing still. A bunch keep saying Press to talk to this guy. And nothing works when you do press X.

Overall, I mightttttt consider getting the game if it's free. (Monthly cost, not the game itself).

[ReNo]

You see your characters quite a bit actually man - there are town areas and action areas, and I'm guessing you haven't seen a town area yet.

I only had trouble with a couple of the quests, but maybe the area I was in had less issues than your area. I never tried pressing x to talk to people - just click on them with the mouse if they have a big huge white glow expanding into the sky from them The objective marker does a pretty good job of pointing out what you should be doing I found - so if it is pointing somewhere on the map rather than at the person who gave you the quest, you've still something to do! Only people who you are currently doing a quest for (those with a white question mark icon over them), those who can offer a quest to you / you've completed a quest for (those with the white tower over them), or those who can trade/teach you (the cog wheel icon) can be talked to - nothing happens on non-iconed characters when you try and talk to them.

I found that you level pretty quick in the game (I reached level 17 over the weekend), so I wasn't too bothered about not switching kit every level or anything. Once you get into the towns you will probably find it easier to pick up extra weapons, armour and equipment. What pissed me off at first was the sheer amount of broken equipment I'd pick up from combat and destroying the environment, but the apparent difficulty of learning the crafting skills necessary to fix anything up. Eventually I figured the crafting system out and got quite good with mending and building power supplies, but it was far from made obvious how to go about it.

Sounds like you suffered a whole lot more from bugs than I did to be honest. I kept all my quest completion info whenever I logged off, and I only crashed to desktop once through the whole weekend. Only a few quests seemed bugged to me - finding the "halon gas actuator", which was about a level 10 quest I think, was taking people hours of mindless slaughter against helpless scavs in order to get for very little exp/money reward, and a few missions had the title "(null)" with no description or objective - everything else seemed to work pretty much as expected.

Bad news - the chance of it being a free game are pretty much nil, or at least everything I've heard about it point to it being a monthly fee game. I'm still interested in it, but there are definately aspects of it that could use improvement.

How did it run for you btw curman?

And seriously, WTF FERRET?!

[curman]

It ran perfect on mine, all full high-settings, but I have a fairly good computer. Once in awhile during transitions into different areas (I guess zones of the entire place) I'd get a quit lag spike then it'd change. But other than that it was great.

And ferret sucks, mad mike.. wow.. just wow.

[user]

-I can't turn in quests a lot of the time. I get them, and I collected 4 oils and when I return to the person it doesn't allow me to turn them in. It says press to talk. I do. Nothing happeans. Kinda led me to a few stops and wasted time.

This is a known bug, sometimes rezoning helps.

-Where exactly is all the upgrades? I've reached level 5 and all the merchants and sales people I've discovered only sell level 2 items. Maybe I'm not searchin' high enough areas?

the shops are global, that is, what you see, so does the other person, so during busy weekends, all the good stuff may be sold out.

-A lot of times, I might get disconnected from the server, dont' know why. But when I return it resets all my quests, yet still I remain with the cash I've already earned from them before.

Beta. Shit happens.

[D3ads]

Mad Mike

Oh man, I laughed a lot at that