Steam: Frontlines fuel of war

If interested, if you tear yourself away from DDO they are having a this weekend only sale.
(11-20-09 / 11-22-09) price drop from $29.99 to $7.49

I know nothing of the game, but reviews are take it or leave it.


http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/...tlinesfuelofwar

Duck wrote:If interested, if you tear yourself away from DDO they are having a this weekend only sale.
(11-20-09 / 11-22-09) price drop from $29.99 to $7.49

I know nothing of the game, but reviews are take it or leave it.


http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/...tlinesfuelofwar

I'm tempted. . .

We (tried to) beta test this game. The weapons and ground combat are pretty good iirc but it had some fatal flaws that said "don't buy this" at the time. I can't remember what those flaws were, but I'm guessing that having been out a year, they've been resolved. One problem I do remember was that spawn camping was rampant.

The guys that made this game were the original Desert Combat modders from BF42 btw...

I am going to get this. How can you not for $8?
I also hear it has been patched a lot and is much better now. I guess we will see. 🙂

I finally downloaded it in full, its hugh with the extra DLC and patches included.

Single play mode kinda reminds me of QW:ET or 2142 for the action. If a concerted group effort is made by everyone, this could be a damn good game...

It still is resource heavy imho. At mid settings it seemed to lag a bit here and there. For only $8 its not bad at all though. At least it works and all the key assignments held, and we've been looking for a MW2 replacement in the cartel so this and/or Crysis Warhead are being discussed.

Contrast wise, it doesn't appear to have any screen blur so perhaps it may be something Atomm can stomach ;p

I think when we were beta testing this game made me really dizzy. But it had a lot of issues then, I am not sure I spent more than 1 or 2 times checking it out before I gave up on it.

I could play it in short bursts on certain maps. Visually, I really liked it. I had fun, but the spawn camping was so bad, I gave up on it.

I'll have to pass on this one...

Atomm wrote:I could play it in short bursts on certain maps. Visually, I really liked it. I had fun, but the spawn camping was so bad, I gave up on it.

I'll have to pass on this one...

http://xboxlive.ign.com/articles/883/883163p1.html

I assume they did it on the PC as well.

* Fixed - Ranked servers not completing countdown when reaching min player count at times.
* Fixed - Ranked servers not allowing some players to join before match begins in some cases.
* Fixed- some ranked sessions will load players directly to end-of-match scoreboard.
Leaderboards:
* Fixed - Player statistics are missing from the overview Leaderboard when at least 2 open NAT clients quit after a ranked match begins.
* Fixed - Stalemate statistics are missing from the player overview in the Ranked Leaderboards.
* Fixed - Stats fail to be accessible when there is a Stalemate in a Ranked match in the Leaderboards when player uses new profile.
* Fixed – Air Support Time Played to be misrepresented in the Ranked Leaderboards
* Fixed - The stats fail to be recorded when a Ranked match ends by forfeit in the Leaderboards.
* Fixed - The client's total time played is doubled on the Leaderboards after exiting and re-entering a match in the same round in some instances.
* Fixed - Suicides count as kills in the Leaderboards.
Multiplayer Gameplay:
* New Feature! Spawn Protection: Players will spawn with a few seconds of invulnerability that will end if they perform an action to prevent spawn camping.
* Fixed - Auto Balance The user is unable to switch teams in any listen or XLSP server after hosting a match with Auto Balance on in multiplayer. We also improved the auto balance process.
* Sentry guns take less damage to destroy.
* Sentry guns will cause slightly less damage.
* Grenade launcher damage vs infantry has been slightly reduced.
* Fixed – deploying drone while weapon pie HUD is button mashed leaves a headless soldier.
* Fixed - Vehicles fail to take damage after colliding with explosive barrels, causing them to explode, during MP Gameplay.
* Fixed - Players can fly to top of maps by standing on turrets, while drones fly the turrets into the air.
* Fixed - The Red Star Light Armor Vehicle machinegun fires continuously non-stop when switching from the gunner position while firing.
* Fixed - The host's controller fails to vibrate while damaged in the gunner seats of transport helicopters and the light armor vehicles in multiplayer matches.
* Fixed: We will now receive vibration reaction from your controller when getting hit when inside a vehicle ( driver or passenger)

Here's a blurb on the PC patch:

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53021

THQ has released a new Frontlines: Fuel of War patch, updating the PC version of Kaos Studios' shooter to version 1.1.0. The patch offers PunkBuster anti-cheat support, spawn camping prevention, a new server browser, gameplay fixes and much more. Full release notes follow after the break

New Features

* PunkBuster anti-cheat has been added
* Spawn Protection – To prevent spawn camping, players will spawn with a few seconds of invulnerability that will end if they perform an action

New Server Browser

* Phase 1 of the NEW Server Browser
o New streamlined design with easy to use layout
o Added text filters for the following categories: Server Name, Player Count, Ping, Map Name & Version Number
+ Server Name filter will search entire through entire server names for matching criteria
+ Player filter will default to the minimum number entered. This field also accepts ranges such as 10-40
+ Ping filter will take the number entered as the max ping allowed. This field also accepts ranges as well
o Server Information Box
+ Added server IP display
+ Added server name display
+ Added text clan/server company/message of the day support
o Added ability to cancel server search and the server browser will continue to display already pulled servers
+ Can apply filters to pulled servers
o Server browser no longer refreshes when coming back from the server info screens
o Enter IP address can now use IP’s with ports and can use alpha characters

Gameplay

* Players can no longer stick landmines onto their legs
* Invert controls for land vehicles has been fixed
* Turrets will no longer continue firing when squad menu is raised
* All passengers in a vehicle will see hit notifications
* Sentry guns take slightly less damage to destroy
* Sentry guns will cause slightly less damage
* Sentry guns will no longer respawn after being destroyed (single-player game)
* Grenade launcher damage vs infantry has been slightly reduced
* Railgun rounds, clips, fire speed and damage radius have been modified, increasing the effectiveness of the weapon
* Character Movement Changes
o Forced pause which prevented the player from moving when recovering from a jump has been removed
o Player will be prevented from jumping immediately after landing for 0.5 seconds (stops the bouncing bunny syndrome)
o Multiple fixes should result is much less visible “sliding”, “worming” and “Dolphin” effects from transitioning between crouch to standing, crouch to prone and prone to standing
o Sprinting while crouched or prone has been removed
o Jumping from and to prone should now be impossible
o A minimum timer has been set in between changing positions. (This will prevent crouch/prone spamming)
o Character ground speed has been slightly increased, this includes strafe speed
o Free fall speed has increased for a more realistic feeling
* Single Player: Graveyard – Destroying all tanks will now always advance the frontline properly

User Interface

* Action key (E) can now be changed to any key. This key is also used for “Exit Vehicle” functionality and is listed under Infantry controls.
* Scoreboard bugs related to double entries and zero point entries fixed
* Scoreboard now displays server name, server IP and personal ping
* Player can now paste text longer then the max characters set for a text box

Crashes

* Fix for reported ATI X800/X850 user crashes on start up
* Vsync default setting is now turned to off, solving some crashes for lower end cards (this is the Maximize Framerate option in the Video- Advanced tab)
* Added NULL check to stop players from inputting illegal characters and crashing the game
* Systems with the Ageia PhysX card will no longer result in game crashes
* Server crash caused by PhysX issue has been addressed

Localization

* Polish language fixes to load screens and gameplay text

Miscellaneous

* Registry fix to document the running version number and installed SKU (EFIS, E, EG etc). This will allow for improved patch installation detection

Known Issues (to be addressed in a hotfix coming shortly)

* Changing keys in the Control options will not check to see if a key is already bound. This is planned to be fixed in a future patch
* Punkbuster will kick you off the server if you use the following special characters in your display name: comma, forward slash, or backslash
* Effective melee distance to be reduced
* When using the pipe character in a server name, text after the pipe will not be shown in the upper right server information window

Here's the patches they put out. If you DL it from Steam you won't have to worry about patching of course.
http://www.gamesradar.com/pc/frontlines-fu...042015134864091

$8 I guess why not.

QUESTION.

If you interrupt a Steam download - does it pick up at the point left off?

I'm at 57% downloaded and my ass wipe cable company throttles back downloads after 5G
Rat Bastards at CableOne.

Will leave on and downloading at the moment - until someone knows otherwise.

Thanks.

Duck wrote:QUESTION.

If you interrupt a Steam download - does it pick up at the point left off?

Thanks.

Most definitely, yes it does.

Cool good to know for next time.
My shit ISP cuts my DL speed on half after 3GB (mine was cut at the 5GB mark) and according to tech support will stay at half speed until 12 noon the day after it was slowed.

IE: They slowed me on Sunday ~4pm I will stay slow until Monday Noon.
Go CableOne!

I can understand a throttle (don't like it), ISPs have to do something to try and discourage P2P hogs, but to make the throttle stay on for 24 hours seems excessive. :-(

Atomm wrote:I could play it in short bursts on certain maps. Visually, I really liked it. I had fun, but the spawn camping was so bad, I gave up on it.

I'll have to pass on this one...

I should just use Atomm as my litmus test - if his head goes woozy I should pass also and vice-versa.

I get that swimmy head HL2 sick feeling if I play it too long.

Meh $7. is better than $30.

did you do COD4 or COD W@W? Did they work for you Duck?

No issues with them Bubba, just a little straining with FLFoW.

I bought the game for $50 when it came out. The short version: had tons of potential but was released before it was ready for primetime. It was so buggy when it came out, that it bascially got swept aside by COD4 and never recovered.

It seems much better now. It wouldn't be the big, killer recruiting tool we'd like to have - it looks like we'll be waiting for BF1943 and Bad Company 2 for that. With a bunch of us it could be a total blast though.

Several of -=NC=- guys picked it up. We could play it this Friday if anyone would like. I'd be willing to play it right now.

For the record..... still nothing but a spawn campO-rama online.

Duck wrote:For the record..... still nothing but a spawn campO-rama online.

Thanks for the info. I've been unable to get it to work on two operating systems now.

Duck wrote:For the record..... still nothing but a spawn campO-rama online.

That's one of the reasons I hate pubbing in general. Pubbers can make the funnest game as fun as an orgy with porcupines.

If we got 8 of us and hopped onto an empty server with decent pings, I guarantee we could make a good time of it. But then again, you could say that about a lot of games. It's more about who you game with then it is the game you actually choose to play.

110% correct.
I've been meaning to stop by and play on one of your weekday nights.
Sooner or later I'll make my way out of my cave.