Battleforge - Modern TCG (Yes) by EA (NOOOOOO)

[Ghambit]

Aw crap.  Just when I was in the market for a MMO I come across this.  I'll download the demo tonight and give it a try.  I'm a huge RTS junkie.  I played Saga for awhile.  Hell... I still play it.

A common quote in chat is "... it's like Saga, only without the suck"

[Salamok]

only did like 2 PvE scenarios but it's pretty cool.

[Chinchilla]

Aw crap.  Just when I was in the market for a MMO I come across this.  I'll download the demo tonight and give it a try.  I'm a huge RTS junkie.  I played Saga for awhile.  Hell... I still play it.

A common quote in chat is "... it's like Saga, only without the suck"

Oh ouch!  What's wrong with Saga?  I do think some of the scenarios are tough as hell, but not too bad overall.

[Ingmar]

Finally got around to trying this. Not what I wanted, even a little, at all. Mostly an RTS, not mostly a card game.   

[Trouble]

Oh god oh god oh god. How did I miss ever reading this thread? I should have kept on missing it, I think I'm fucked if this is as good as everyone's saying it is.

[Aez]

It's not.

[Hindenburg]

Battleforge is now free.

[schild]

As far as I know, it's always been "Free." When you made an account, you got a random starter deck of 8ish cards. Now it just looks like they give you all 4 starter decks when you make an account.

Edit:

The BattleForge Play4Free Client, which you can download here, offers you complete access to all areas and functionality of the game, including all content updates (new PvP maps, Renegade Campaign) made available since release.

Along with all functionality of the game, BattleForge Play4Free includes two decks consisting of 32 cards. You can play any scenario in the game, including the Renegade Campaign. With BattleForge Play4Free, you are also able to purchase Booster Pack and bid on cards in the Auction House.

However, you can only offer a card in the Auction House once you have reached level 4 in PvE and level 10 in PvP. Direct trades and sending in-game mail with attachments are also blocked until you reach this experience level.

Ok, not quite the same thing, and I wouldn't really call it free, but it's a good way to get people hooked.

[Salamok]

Well this will get me playing again. I thought the demo was fun just not fun enough to spend money on. 

[Falconeer]

This seems good.
It's not that succesful yet, am I right? What's wrong with it?

[Ghambit]

This seems good.
It's not that succesful yet, am I right? What's wrong with it?

no guild UI, crappy chat UI, and no VOIP. 
They've designed many of the coop maps around this issue by making it so you dont really have to interact heavily with more than 4 people at a time, but there's only so far that'll take you.
The other issue is many people who play dont (or choose not to) speak English and since this is a global release that can get rather annoying.  They've added language specific channels recently, but I'm not sure how that's going.

Seems like the game is growing now though... servers are pretty full and they've had to add a 3rd one.  This Free2Play thing (which shouldve been active from day 1) should bring in a lot of new players.  But, since there's no real organized way to interact with them it kinda doesnt matter.

[Hoax]

This game isn't that bad, I can see the fun but I'm not much of a RTS gamer these days.  If you had a group of 4 to play it with just going through the single player might be pretty cool.  I need to turn up the graphics some though it feels really "soft" for some reason.

The CCG elements are pretty understated though which is too bad.  If there was a draw mechanism or more of a limit to how many units you could get out of a given card...

Also NECRO!?

Anyone want to work through the newb maps with me I think I might fool around with it for a week or two see if it grabs me.

[IainC]

I just (re)started playing this. If anyone else is up for some multiplayer or mutually educational PvP then my character name is Requiel. The game has improved a lot since I played it just after release, also you can get cheap BFPs by buying the game on Ebay (typically <$10) and applying the licence code as a scratch card ingame. That gets you 3000 BFPs and 32 random additional cards (as opposed to $9.99 for 1000 BFPs from the official store). It also unlocks the full game if you are still on the Play4Free deal.

[Hoax]

You can look for me Ghambit and Tsalrioth on Steam and yell at us.  I don't have special cards though and those other two do.  It is sort of fun but the whole you can't let another person play a map unless every party member has unlocked it was annoying as balls since I had only done single player noob difficulty maps.