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Off-Topic Discussion => Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: Descenter on September 03, 2006, 02:07:39 am

Title: Auto Assault
Post by: Descenter on September 03, 2006, 02:07:39 am
So... Who here's have played, or currently playing,  Auto Assault?

I did, up until about 2 weeks ago when my sub ran out.  On top of that I have college in about 2 weeks so i can't play much anymore,......unles i develope sleep apthenia.
Title: Re: Auto Assault
Post by: Colonol Dekker on September 05, 2006, 07:15:09 am
I've never heard of it before, I assume no-one else likes it for some reason :confused:
Title: Re: Auto Assault
Post by: aldo_14 on September 05, 2006, 07:53:31 am
It's an MMORPG set in a Mad-Max style apocalyptic wasteland where you drive a car rather than run around as a little peep.  It's flopped horribly.
Title: Re: Auto Assault
Post by: Colonol Dekker on September 05, 2006, 08:04:46 am
The Mad Max bit made me check the site out, (www.autoassault.com) and it looks ok, I would always play a demo before buying a game at any point, I'd give AA a try. :)
Title: Re: Auto Assault
Post by: Wobble73 on September 05, 2006, 08:09:42 am
Hmmmm, online Carmageddon TDR.................Without the zombies??
Title: Re: Auto Assault
Post by: Descenter on September 06, 2006, 12:15:31 am
The Mad Max bit made me check the site out, (www.autoassault.com) and it looks ok, I would always play a demo before buying a game at any point, I'd give AA a try. :)

For anybody interested heres the 14 day trial area:
https://secure.plaync.com/cgi-bin/free_trial.pl?partner=10 (https://secure.plaync.com/cgi-bin/free_trial.pl?partner=10)

And here's the download area (WARNING** 2 GB download; Requires 10 GB free space on computer):
ftp://ftp.autoassault.com/client (http://ftp://ftp.autoassault.com/client)

Optional: if you do get this and join the game, And want to be in a good clan, AND are playing Human race, ask for a person by the alias of Vang, mention me (Descenter) and he'll let you into our clan we're running.
Title: Re: Auto Assault
Post by: NGTM-1R on September 06, 2006, 02:00:00 am
10 GB?

FFS, what the hell are they doing with all that?
Title: Re: Auto Assault
Post by: Descenter on September 06, 2006, 02:39:58 am
Well I can give you the file size for all files in my directory.

(everything that does not have a ".*" is a folder)

http://www.geocities.com/deacenter6/fsreport.html (http://www.geocities.com/deacenter6/fsreport.html)
Title: Re: Auto Assault
Post by: IPAndrews on September 06, 2006, 03:17:31 am
Oh it's Road Wars renamed :). I always liked the idea. Actually my favourite post-apocolyptic universe is probably Twilight 2000 if anyone remembers that. I don't think anyone ever made a decent game out of that one. Not surprised. We had to wait a bazillion years for a decent Call of Cthulhu game.
Title: Re: Auto Assault
Post by: Ferret on September 07, 2006, 12:28:25 am
I was really really hyped for this and managed to jump in the beta.
It was the worst thing I had ever played, the whole endeavour was dull as hell. I was expecting MMO Interstate '76. You sholud be bloody lucky. The combat consists of pointing in the general direction of something and holding left mouse, then let the algorithms do thier work.

It plays more like a fantasy RPG in cars, the quests are totally un-fun. Even the settings are dull. There's only one, sparse and slightly apocalyptic.

Let's not mention the down right ridiculousless of the slowdown, not latency, like the hugest performance problems I have ever witnessed in a game.

I hated it, played it for hours and hours trying to get to something good throughout the whole weekend. It was awful.

Avoid Auto Assaut like the ****ing plague.
Title: Re: Auto Assault
Post by: Descenter on September 07, 2006, 03:08:10 am
Dude, they have changed the game dynamics, physics, gameplay, and feel of the game since beta.  I know because I played in beta.  And if you only played it for on weekend, you totally didn't even begin to see how the game is.
Title: Re: Auto Assault
Post by: NGTM-1R on September 07, 2006, 03:35:29 am
Dude, they have changed the game dynamics, physics, gameplay, and feel of the game since beta.

That begs the question of what the point of the beta was, then, doesn't it?
Title: Re: Auto Assault
Post by: Wobble73 on September 07, 2006, 03:53:20 am

That begs the question of what the point of the beta was, then, doesn't it?

Erm, to find out what was crap and fix it before final release??
Title: Re: Auto Assault
Post by: Ferret on September 08, 2006, 12:08:00 am

That begs the question of what the point of the beta was, then, doesn't it?

Erm, to find out what was crap and fix it before final release??
Bollocks, betas are more to get people hyped for the game before release, it was terrible at beta so FLOP.
Most bugs should have been fixed by that point. If they have truely changed the entire game since that then the beta was more of a alpha and the boxed release was the beta.
Title: Re: Auto Assault
Post by: Descenter on September 08, 2006, 03:29:50 am
Or....it's just what Wobble said in the first place, and was literally a true beta game at that point, to find and fix bugs the public found before the release.  BTW they just released "update 2" for the game, which fixed ALOT of bugs they have found, and given me a 7 day free play, so if anyone here is actually playing the game, look for me in there the next couple of days.
Title: Re: Auto Assault
Post by: aldo_14 on September 08, 2006, 03:34:48 am
I would have thought alpha was the stage to change game mechanics....... beta is - in proper theory - when you find and fix bugs, not introduce more by changing the fundamentals of it.
Title: Re: Auto Assault
Post by: Descenter on September 08, 2006, 03:36:09 am
Meh, it works, and it somehow appeals to me so I really don't care. :D