In case Anyone Wants some multiplayer Action

[schild]

That isn't playing the other 100 console games coming out this week:

uran Games, Gamecock Media Group and Codemasters Online have jointly announced the world's first Open Beta event for their upcoming PvP MMO, FURY. The event, called FURY Challenge, is billed as the richest prize pool ever for an online role-playing event with more than USD$1,000,000 in prizes available.

"We believe that FURY will be the start of a PvP revolution, so why not create a revolutionary Open Beta event to show the world that we have arrived," stated Tony Hilliam, Auran CEO. "Last week we announced our unique business model of free to play with free content updates and an optional subscription. This week, we're pleased to announce a landmark in gaming with a total prize pool valued at over one million dollars. In late September, hundreds of thousands of players will compete to kick-start their Fury careers by winning Fury Game Cards, Fury Subscriptions and lots of other cool loot too."

"We've lined up a huge array of prizes from our sponsors including NVidia, Dell, IGN, GameStop, Harvey Norman, FHM, Logitech and ZBoard," said Brian Cooke, Auran Marketing Director. "More sponsors are lining up to get their brand message on the FURY Challenge website, on in-store advertising and also on the in-game loading screens (which will be present for FURY Challenge only). The full list of sponsors and prizes will be continually updated via the www.furychallenge.com website."

FURY Challenge officially kicks off on September 14th and runs over 3 consecutive weekends. The first weekend is set aside for practice and to give players a chance to unlock abilities and experiment with their Incarnations. The next two weekends are the competition weekends where players will compete in 3 game types on 7 different Ladders. Prizes are awarded to the top players and Clans. Most importantly, it is not the most wins that counts, but the players' Best 10 results in each Ladder. This means that even casual players have a chance of winning. Full Rules and Conditions of Entry can be found at www.FuryChallenge.com/Rules.

So, there's some time before it. But if anyone wants to make some Bat Country groups, I would probably join one myself. If only to see the game since I haven't for just about a year. Part of me wishes the prizes were more laid out as I'm a loot whore. Though, my main reason for wanting to participate is the pretty much guaranteed opponents so there shouldn't be much downtime. So, uhm, yea, that's that.

[Slayerik]

I must say its an interesting way to bring some attention to beta game. Makes me kinda wanna check it out as well :)

[Murgos]

Gamecock Media Group

I gotta finish this coffee.  I read that as Woodcock Media Group and was extremely disturbed for a few moments.

[Miasma]

What was the last game that promised a million dollars and then folded up into ash once their much hyped but awful game came out?  It had a nice, flashy name.

[MrHat]

Thanks for the heads up.

[Slayerik]

Gamecock Media Group

I gotta finish this coffee.  I read that as Woodcock Media Group and was extremely disturbed for a few moments.

There is a Brit doctor here at my work with the last name of Woodcock. If it wasn't for the fact that he makes mad loot I'd feel sorry for the guy.

[Yegolev]

What was the last game that promised a million dollars and then folded up into ash once their much hyped but awful game came out?  It had a nice, flashy name.

Advent Rising, which I felt mostly stank because it ran like shit on the Xbox.

[Hoax]

RyL promised a ton of money also.

[schild]

I don't think Auran is promising any actual money.

[Merusk]

What was the last game that promised a million dollars and then folded up into ash once their much hyped but awful game came out?  It had a nice, flashy name.

I can attest there's an actual game here already.  It's good fun and it plays like a Fantasy FPS (with advancement!).  The killer will be if they hose advancement and skill purchase between now and release in the name of "omg it's too fast!."

[Adam_Carpenter]

What was the last game that promised a million dollars and then folded up into ash once their much hyped but awful game came out?  It had a nice, flashy name.

I can attest there's an actual game here already.  It's good fun and it plays like a Fantasy FPS (with advancement!).  The killer will be if they hose advancement and skill purchase between now and release in the name of "omg it's too fast!."

We're not going to do that.  I'm actually looking at making the trial completion/unlock time faster.

[Merusk]

Awesome.  :-D  It's speedy already, but I'm also an MMO gamer, so my timescales are off. 

[Shavnir]

As a sidenote is there another mirror for the beta client than fileplanet?  The university internet I'd like to pull it from blocks the site.

[Adam_Carpenter]

As a sidenote is there another mirror for the beta client than fileplanet?  The university internet I'd like to pull it from blocks the site.

Try either of these links:
http://games.internode.on.net/filelist.php?filedetails=10753
ftp://69.80.215.250/furyclient/FuryClientSetup23251.exe

[Viin]

Only 4 hours to go!

[Merusk]

Only 4 hours to go!

You went with internode, didn't you.   The other site went faster for me.

[Tale]

Internode (despite its URL) is my ISP in Australia. Not the greatest choice for a download from overseas.

[Viin]

Damn Aussies. (I forgot Auran was in Australia).

[cmlancas]

I have fury d/led and installed. Just let me know what time you guys want to get together for some practice runs. If this game is anything like DoTA, I'll hopefully be decent ;)

[Shavnir]

As someone with a pitifully small C drive the fact your installer self-extracts there annoys me.  WinRAR seems to open it up just fine though.

[Shavnir]

If you're going to spend a chunk of the weekend VIP-only (whatever that entails) please put it in the login screen.

[Merusk]

If you're going to spend a chunk of the weekend VIP-only (whatever that entails) please put it in the login screen.

Yeah the VIP stuff is from the open test a few weeks ago and the private invites before that.  Anyone who hit Adept+ during the fileplanet trial and the private invites get to play during the week when (if) it's up.  I don't think it was the original plan to have it be only VIPs this weekend.

[Amaron]

I've been playing for a while and the game is really fun.   I'm a bit worried about how the ladder hasn't been pushed into the beta client yet though.  With little more than a month till the supposed release and no system in sight to rank competitive play it seems worrisome.   The game is fun but the competitive community could lose interest quickly if they have no way to even organize themselves into tournaments or competitions.

[Adam_Carpenter]

I've been playing for a while and the game is really fun.   I'm a bit worried about how the ladder hasn't been pushed into the beta client yet though.  With little more than a month till the supposed release and no system in sight to rank competitive play it seems worrisome.   The game is fun but the competitive community could lose interest quickly if they have no way to even organize themselves into tournaments or competitions.

Ladders are working now and the website visualization is in its final stages of completion.  I’ll also be doing a series of blogs soon detailing just what we’re tracking for ladders.

Also, beta/Fury Challenge keys are available now from www.furychallenge.com.

[pxib]

Success!

Thank you, Shannon, for registering with Fury.

Any other information they want to put in here.

You can manage your account using the "My Account" tool.

That's adorable.

[Merusk]

Sign up!  We need more people so the queues go faster.  This whole waiting 10-12 minutes for a match thing is getting old.

Also, don't sweat not knowing wtf you're doing in the beginning.  You don't have enough equip points or depth of abilities to do much beyond spamming attacks to build charges then blow the high-damage attacks anyway.. so spam away.

[schild]

What the hell server are you people on?

[Merusk]

I'm on caldain (or whatever) w/ the LOTD group, same name.

[pxib]

I'm apparently one of the people with a dual-core processor who can't play this game, even on low graphics mode, if there are any other players on the screen.

Ah well. It was a fun download.

What I was able to see before I dropped below 1 FPS seemed inferior to Guildwars. The abilities lacked complexity, originality, and variety... three or four basic CC, debuffs, and damage spells with about thirty different names because they use different elemental charges. Or something. Plus without a tangible backstory (the memories related to skills were cute, but I started skipping them pretty quick), everything felt meaningless.

Also incredibly highend graphics in a genre, multi-player deathmatch, that depends upon high performance? Hm.

[Trippy]

Did you not try running the game with only one core?

[pxib]

I tried all sorts of things. I installed all sorts of things. I deactivated all sorts of things.

Some things in my computer do not react well to Fury.

[Merusk]

I dunno, I like it a lot more than Guild Wars because I don't have to slog through the horrible PvE crap, nor worry about mana.   It's much more fantasy-fps than GW as well.  Personal pref, I guess.

Here is a flash applet that will show the skill trees so you know what abilities unlock others, and can see all of them in one spot.   

[schild]

Yea, apparently there's a large group of dual core owners with 8000 series Nvidia's that get <5 FPS.

I was getting above 50 all the time, going above 100 sometimes. So uhm, yea. It seems to be a hard bug to track down.

[Chenghiz]

I have a dual core and a nvidia 8800 and I got a fine framerate but then had intermittent graphical hangups that made it virtually unplayable.

[pxib]

Yup.. it varies from person to person. My framerate is fantastic after it loads for an area for a minute or two. It only drops when players appear. You know... while fighting. I could occasionally survive an Elimination match long enough to actually give it a try... but Vortex and Bloodbath were just freeze-fests. I also crash to the desktop ("Unknown Error) on my way to new areas roughly 20% of the time.

Having played Elimination, however, I stick to my point. The PvP is uninspired... it's fast-paced, certainly, but every ability is basically the same. I can see how there might be an endgame involving messing around with other people's charges, but the basic gameplay is nuke and run. Some nukes require melee-range, some running is hampered by debuffs. The hex/stance/enchantment chess game I loved in Guildwars is nowhere to be seen.

I'll give it the benefit of the doubt: The game may be a lot of fantastic fun if your computer doesn't choke on it. It's not tactically deep, but the relentless pew pew may be truly exciting when it is, in fact, relentless and not tripping or halting or crashing. Right now I'm not seeing much behind the bugs that looks worth waiting for.