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I said come in!
Jun 22, 2004

Their vanguard launcher is getting hammered or something, the download speed is too slow to get the client for me.

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Brutor Fartknocker
Jun 18, 2013


Libluini posted:

Are there even other players? I tried a little bit, and my experience so far was:

-Walking up an incline I suddenly got a warning to turn back to the mission area, but I got killed before I could even turn around, yikes
-Second try, walking into a different direction, enemies with names like "Grunt 69" showed up, I assume bots. I killed two of them by simply slowly walking towards them and firing my dinky little gun. Then an invisible enemy somewhere behind me killed me again.

Then I called it a day because the game runs like poo poo on my PC.

My personal review: It doesn't play like DUST at all, it runs bad, it is a confusing mess and I had no idea what I was supposed to do. Also whoever thought it was a good idea to force you to press and hold a key to make your map show up should be shot like Grunt 69. Also no lasers so far. 0/10, try again CCP.

Yeah, on the death screen it tells you the names of the players who you dealt damage to/took damage from. The ai are all the grunt_69 and soldier_32's. Holding tab is the minimap, tapping m brings up the big map. I didn't realize there was a minimap the first few rounds so I kept stopping to stare at the map and reorient.

All the menus except for the minimap are tap button and they stay open, which threw me as I kept thinking I had to hold the button which quickly opens and closes the menu.

bozwell
Feb 14, 2009

Kazinsal posted:

There's no option for PTT in the game yet from what I've heard.

Here I was wondering "how they gently caress it up" and just assuming the option to disable PTT actually existed in the game. Damnit CCP.

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

Cool and good.

Brutor Fartknocker posted:

Well, vanguard is barely an alpha content wise. There isn't anything there other than the most basic barebones of an extraction shooter with nothing interesting going on.

Yeah, I was very disappointed with it..I've played it a decent bit today, but I expected a lot more.

The shooting doesn't even feel that good. There's no point in completing missions, looting stuff doesn't carry over etc.

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

Cool and good.

bozwell posted:

I think there's promise and it's not "bad", but it's definitely very early in the development cycle and it's hard to even say what the game will be like in terms of replayability, progression, and so on. Getting matched with random pubbies who weren't using PTT made it less of a survival game and more of a "kill me now" experience; I had one guy slurping out of a big gulp the entire match and the other guy was carrying on a conversation on discord that I got to hear half of. I can't see myself playing it more than a few rounds in the present state but interested to see what they do with it and how they gently caress it up.

There's no PTT function, so I just muted everyone when I came across my first mouth breather. Literally too. All I heard was nasal breathing. I noped out of that pretty quickly.

Nyan Bread
Mar 17, 2006

There's barely anything to gently caress up in CCP's Vanyard shooter in its present state. It looks like it was developed by two unpaid interns during their evening overtime as just another one of Hilmar's minimum viable product attempts - like VR, like crypto, to squeeze out more won out of Pearl Abyss fentanyl money laundering empire. It'll never reach a fraction of gameplay complexity of Dust420 and will be buried in Hilmar's pet-project cemetery at the end of next year.

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

Cool and good.
But, correct me if Im wrong. Project Legion didn't die per se. They just killed the codename, so I assume this is the exact same loving project they've been working on for years now and it doesn't feel like it at all....

Dust had more to do and more engaging content too.. I genuinely don't get how they've got so little to show.

Nyan Bread
Mar 17, 2006

It's like they invoked the ghost of Chris Roberts and it told them the best way to grift the existing EVE playerbase is to make an FPS Arena mode.

evvv: Pearl Abyss runs Black Desert so you can believe the only development Vanman will get will be bitcoining your wallet with microtransactions.

Nyan Bread fucked around with this message at 02:45 on Dec 8, 2023

Elukka
Feb 18, 2011

For All Mankind
What's grifty about a game you get with the same subscription you're paying anyway?

floppyspud
Jul 21, 2022

Elukka posted:

What's grifty about a game you get with the same subscription you're paying anyway?

Yeah, you can’t be that mad when nobody actually paid for it.

Although I was kinda hoping it could add some value to an omega subscription since the price increase, which it hasn’t. Can only get better from here, right?

Dieting Hippo
Jan 5, 2006

THIS IS NOT A PROPER DIET FOR A HIPPO
there's not a lot, but it's also an alpha build so i wasn't expecting too much going in. basic gameplay loop, one gun to shoot other people with, i wouldn't be too surprised if part of this release was also to stress-test servers for gameplay.

Nyan Bread
Mar 17, 2006

We need to make a CSM for Vabgruad pronto so it becomes the best drat space sim shooter in the Everse.

I said come in!
Jun 22, 2004

lol the vanguard launcher is still downloading the game, I dont think i'm gonna get to play it during this short test period.

Cease to Hope
Dec 12, 2011

Nyan Bread posted:

We need to make a CSM for Vabgruad pronto so it becomes the best drat space sim shooter in the Everse.

oh that's why they tolerated xenuria for so long. they confused CSM for CSAM

hailthefish
Oct 24, 2010

Cease to Hope posted:

oh that's why they tolerated xenuria for so long. they confused CSM for CSAM

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

Cool and good.

Nyan Bread posted:

We need to make a CSM for Vabgruad pronto so it becomes the best drat space sim shooter in the Everse.

Don't forget they did that with the last shooter. I think there was a bunch of them..

Fajita Queen
Jun 21, 2012

Cease to Hope posted:

oh that's why they tolerated xenuria for so long. they confused CSM for CSAM

I'm mad that I laughed at this

The Claptain
May 11, 2014

Grimey Drawer

bozwell posted:

Here I was wondering "how they gently caress it up" and just assuming the option to disable PTT actually existed in the game. Damnit CCP.

It's even worse, there is a checkbox to enable voice, which is turned off by default, and does nothing, as in, voice will be enabled regardless of the setting. You can only mute yourself by clicking the mute mic checkbox. :ccp:

ClCADA
Nov 16, 2023

Nyan Bread posted:

There's barely anything to gently caress up in CCP's Vanyard shooter in its present state. It looks like it was developed by two unpaid interns during their evening overtime as just another one of Hilmar's minimum viable product attempts - like VR, like crypto, to squeeze out more won out of Pearl Abyss fentanyl money laundering empire. It'll never reach a fraction of gameplay complexity of Dust420 and will be buried in Hilmar's pet-project cemetery at the end of next year.

Have to agree with this

Johnny Five-Jaces
Jan 21, 2009


Cease to Hope posted:

oh that's why they tolerated xenuria for so long. they confused CSM for CSAM

psilocybin laden
Jul 29, 2022

Cease to Hope posted:

oh that's why they tolerated xenuria for so long. they confused CSM for CSAM

ragnarokette
Oct 7, 2021

Cease to Hope posted:

oh that's why they tolerated xenuria for so long. they confused CSM for CSAM

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011


Cease to Hope posted:

oh that's why they tolerated xenuria for so long. they confused CSM for CSAM

Rudeboy Detective
Apr 28, 2011


Cease to Hope posted:

oh that's why they tolerated xenuria for so long. they confused CSM for CSAM

Furnok Dorn
Mar 30, 2004
SOCIALLY WORTHLESS SHUT-IN NERD
what about beav online and its just pornography

Dalmuti
Apr 8, 2007
beavis online and all the characters are soime variation of cornholio

salartarium
Sep 7, 2021
Anyone want to loan me an Azariel BPC? Just About has a $12 bounty.

Johnny Five-Jaces
Jan 21, 2009


What about Steve online and you play as an embattled stevedore union leader trying to dredge the canal next to the grain pier

Dalmuti
Apr 8, 2007
Folks our celestial lord in heaven has blessed me with a vision that it is now adam and steve and not adam and EVE because eve online the second genesis sucks so much rear end

Furnok Dorn
Mar 30, 2004
SOCIALLY WORTHLESS SHUT-IN NERD

Johnny Five-Jaces posted:

What about Steve online and you play as an embattled stevedore union leader trying to dredge the canal next to the grain pier

give this man 25m in VC money to build the game in VR

psilocybin laden
Jul 29, 2022

Furnok Dorn posted:

give this man 25m in VC money to build the game in VR

Elukka
Feb 18, 2011

For All Mankind
I swear Eve has the biggest population of players and hangers on who hate the game but just refuse to disengage.

WilWheaton
Oct 11, 2006

It'd be hard to get bored on this ship!

Furnok Dorn posted:

give this man 25m in VC money to build the game in VR

Full of micro transactions!

Elchimpster
Mar 22, 2012

Elukka posted:

I swear Eve has the biggest population of players and hangers on who hate the game but just refuse to disengage.

Yes it has always reminded me of the proverbial toxic ex you dont like too much anymore but yall still press each others buttons better than anyone else

Furnok Dorn
Mar 30, 2004
SOCIALLY WORTHLESS SHUT-IN NERD

Elukka posted:

I swear Eve has the biggest population of players and hangers on who hate the game but just refuse to disengage.

eve isnt a game, its a Situation we put ourselves in that we commiserate over

ShaneMacGowansTeeth
May 22, 2007



I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

Elukka posted:

I swear Eve has the biggest population of players and hangers on who hate the game but just refuse to disengage.

I am very much in the "won eve" camp, but I'll still keep reading this thread because Goonswarm is always only one day away from some sort of scandal which leadership will ignore or sweep under the rug and I live for the drama

Cast_No_Shadow
Jun 8, 2010

The Republic of Luna Equestria is a huge, socially progressive nation, notable for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, cynical population of 714m are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich.

No one actually wins eve.

You might think you have.

You might be 100% sure you're never playing again.

It's a lie. One day you will think about it, wonder what's happening, log in, actually enjoy yourself and then, gently caress, you have 5 accounts subbed and it's too late

Furnok Dorn
Mar 30, 2004
SOCIALLY WORTHLESS SHUT-IN NERD

Cast_No_Shadow posted:

No one actually wins eve.

You might think you have.

You might be 100% sure you're never playing again.

It's a lie. One day you will think about it, wonder what's happening, log in, actually enjoy yourself and then, gently caress, you have 5 accounts subbed and it's too late

i can assure you that my coming back to this game was 100% related to there being a global pandemic and fuckall else to do

Elchimpster
Mar 22, 2012

Furnok Dorn posted:

i can assure you that my coming back to this game was 100% related to there being a global pandemic and fuckall else to do

I think my subscription coincides with deppression

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ShaneMacGowansTeeth
May 22, 2007



I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

Cast_No_Shadow posted:

No one actually wins eve.

You might think you have.

You might be 100% sure you're never playing again.

It's a lie. One day you will think about it, wonder what's happening, log in, actually enjoy yourself and then, gently caress, you have 5 accounts subbed and it's too late

I don't even think all my poo poo has come out of asset safety yet, nor do I think I have the ISK to get it out of asset safety

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