Comedic Screenshot of the...day? - Auto Assault

[schild]

Wtf? Cars fighting spiders? I don't even have words to describe the stupid my eyes see.

Edit: So I was looking for some quote whoring to post with the screenshots. Came across this gem:

Auto Assault busts out of the formula with something that looks like a total blast. The action is super fast, the graphics are great, and it might just be the next mainstream MMO hit. Keep your eyes on this one.

Also, here's the NetDevil description on the web page:

Auto Assault is a Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) that combines vehicular combat with role-playing elements. You explore a Post-Apocalyptic future in customizable cars, motorcycles, semis, and even tanks.

Three surviving factions — Humans, Mutants, and Biomeks — battle each other for control of the world, using tricked out vehicles as their primary weapons.

Everquest in a Honda Accord with a rack of spikes on the front? Pass the peace pipe, Chief Hit-By-Car, I want whatever it is your smoking.

Seriously. I wanted some sort of hybrid Car Wars and Death Race 2000. This is just...........way too silly to be a real game. This is a running gag from NCSoft, am i rite?

[Tebonas]

Mad Max Online is more ridiculous than Superheroes-in-tights why exactly?

[NewGuy]

Ohhh...the thing ALL MMOGS MUST HAVE: PvE levelling content!

That sounds like tremendous fun - camping the spider spawn in your newb compact car to be able to get driving+1 and afford a slightly larger car.

I don't really like the graphics design either. I wish they had done it in a more "realistic" hightech/lowtech style. More SF than fantasy. The car in the screenshot looks like it could be an orc car from Warcraft if there had been such a thing.

Unfortunately, I forsee another flop from NetDevil as they try to fit a cool concept (autoduelling) into a tired old mold (Everquest style MMOG).

[Ironwood]

Can I have a Dodge Interceptor ?

[Alluvian]

The thing that bugs me is that their cityscape is actually pretty cool looking.  The environment is nice and gritty but then you see the cars and they just stick out like a sore thumb.  Then I look at the other environments and realize the city is the fluke with the rest of them being overly colorful warcraft like environments.

If it has an open beta I will surely check that out to see how the controls are.  If it is FUN I can overlook it being silly looking.  But I will most likely burn out a lot faster being forced to drive those silly vehicles.

[eldaec]

I assume there are car classes that broadly resolve to tanks, ambulances, MRLS vehicles, and gimped stealth-cars?

/sigh

[NewGuy]

I assume there are car classes that broadly resolve to tanks, ambulances, MRLS vehicles, and gimped stealth-cars?

/sigh

You think your are kidding, right?

Well:

...Each of the 4 classes represents a combat archetype which we boiled down to the tank (commando) role, the support (engineer) role, the commander (officer) role, and the special ops (ranger) role.

From an interview at MMORPG.com:

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm?sw=1280&sh=1024&setview=features&loadFeature=1&gameID=149/

Congratulations to NetDevil for pissing away a good idea.

Edit: The quote above was in reference to character classes, not car classes. I suspect the effect will be the same however. Sigh.

[Nebu]

Now I can't get this out of my head.

Thanks A LOT!

[HaemishM]

Wooga.

I haven't liked the car styles at all since the first screenshot, and this looks even worse. Add in the typical class archtypes from MMOG's and leveling 2 crush, and you pretty much lost me at hello.

[WayAbvPar]

They need to scrap this silly shit and just make Autoduel Online. Wasn't Dave Rickey a candidate to work on AA? Anyone hear if he is there?

[Bunk]

Maybe you take your car to the nearest mechanic to get buffs?

[Alluvian]

Ugh.  The only leveling I would accept in a game like this would parallel the planetside certification system.  And that is exactly how it should be done.  This game just sounds bizaare.

I still want to beta, but now it is more likely I will use that beta to mock it.  We will see.

[AOFanboi]

They need to scrap this silly shit and just make Autoduel Online.

You should tell these guys. Note: I have no idea if "other online games" include either Car Wars or Autoduel, but they might appreciate a hint that it is desired.

[Zetleft]

Lets go back and just make Interstate '76 Online, plz to be forgetting the horrid sequel I 82 though.

[Big Gulp]

Why exactly does the car look like it's the size of a friggin' fern?  Did they get hotwheels to sponsor the game or something?

Why do people needlessly complicate simple ideas?  All they need to do is recreate Mad Max/Autoduel in the MMOG genre.  It's not that friggin' difficult, people.

[Sky]

I'd love to play an action-oriented car wars type game, with all kinds of fun (carmageddonish) powerups. I76 online would rock, too.

EQ has done so much massive damage to persistant online gaming design I get a little sick thinking about it, though.

[NewGuy]

This gameplay video actually looks ok:

ftp://ftp.autoassault.com/AA_GameMovie_320.mov

Although it does contain gigant spiders. The physics looks a bit wonky too and the lack of shadows makes cars etc look strange.

[Nebu]

I think they'd make more money bringing this one back.

Inspired by a really bad Sly Stallone/David Carradine movie.  The gameplay section is a must read!

[schild]

I think they'd make more money bringing this one back.

Perhaps spice it up with a little bit of flavor, a la Paul Bartel?

Damn, Nebu just pwned me in an edit.

[WayAbvPar]

I think they'd make more money bringing this one back.

I totally forgot that existed! That game was fuggin' hard. Maybe it was the top-down steering- I was only 6 when it was released, so I was at a disadvantage.

[daveNYC]

Why exactly does the car look like it's the size of a friggin' fern?

Radiation makes everything bigger.

[lariac]

Wonder if you can kite those spiders?

Wonder if there is a zone called the Middle East where you got to camp for your petro supply.

I heard the majority of the camp spots involve self-destructing mobs and camels.

[Comstar]

Real Men play Daytona 500 from first person perspective, not this 3rd person console crap.

Oh well, Car Wars Online might still come out, as it'll be completly different I hope.

[Mesozoic]

Isn't that car from Doom 3?