Auto Assault delayed until 2006.

[Shockeye]

To the Auto Assault Community,

We started beta testing earlier this year and here is an update on our progress.

The beta testing period has spawned some great ideas that we want to include before launch. NetDevil and NCsoft are both companies with a strong commitment to releasing “only when it’s ready,” so we want to extend the beta into the spring of 2006. Over this time, we are going to continue tuning, tweaking, and adding to Auto Assault.

There is a lot that we will be changing over the next few months; here is a quick look at some of the items that we will be addressing.

Content for all the races: The core goal is to work on giving things a more diverse feel. The vision we are shooting for is that particular locations will have a specific feel and that the enemies located there have abilities that change up the standard gameplay.

Client performance: More optimizations to increase performance.

Level progression: Level progression will be faster paced and have more levels overall.

Character creation: There will be more details for making a character look unique, as well as customizing your first car.

New Items: More than a thousand new items are going into the game to help balance out the loot system.

Chassis: There are quite a few chassis in the game that people haven’t seen yet, but we are going to add even more.

The list that we have is literally full of hundreds of other things. Keep an eye out – the scope of changes you’ve inspired us to make over the next few months is amazing!

We will not be adding any more testers for North America a little while, but more invites will go out once the next round of content revisions is published later this fall. European beta invites will continue to be sent, but the majority will be issued to coincide with the roll-out of the new content.

We were all excited about a 2005 release, but these changes – and ones to come in the future – will make Auto Assault the best it can be.

Steven Snow
Producer – Auto Assault
NCsoft

Maybe they shouldn't have sent out all those pre-order boxes...

[Krakrok]

More levels? Lame. Most beta tester ideas are self serving crap. I hope they are taking them with a grain of salt. More like Guild Wars and less like City of Heroes, kthxbye.

[MrHat]

Wish I was still in Denver, would've beta tested that for them in house.

[Strazos]

I haven't bothered to log into my Beta account since late July. It was just too painful to play at the time.

[Margalis]

Faster level progression...and more levels!

[Samwise]

Maybe they could just change the label on the XP bar from "Experience" to "Levels"!

[Signe]

Green is sarcasm, but what's teal?  I forget.  Pity?

[stray]

More stupid than WWIIOL

[MrHat]

Green is sarcasm, but what's teal?  I forget.  Pity?

Hahhahaha.

[Margalis]

To be fair, there is some difference between having 30 levels and having 60 levels that go at twice the rate. Or at least, there can be, if at each level you get new skill points or new abilities or something like that. But overall it seems kind of silly.

[Morfiend]

To be fair, there is some difference between having 30 levels and having 60 levels that go at twice the rate. Or at least, there can be, if at each level you get new skill points or new abilities or something like that. But overall it seems kind of silly.

I agree. More abilities to play with quicker. I like it. And umm... I think it need the extra time in development.

[Hoax]

So does that mean if you pre-order you get to beta from now till 06?  Or have they not let pre-orders into the beta yet.


\/\/\/\/\/\/  ah I was kinda thinking it'd be fun to play, err I mean test the game..   

[Trippy]

So does that mean if you pre-order you get to beta from now till 06?  Or have they not let pre-orders into the beta yet.

They haven't let in pre-order people yet.

[Signe]

This is, AT LEAST, six months of beta testing... that's longer than I've played most games. 

[shiznitz]

The only comment I will make is that the game needed more than firing a machine gun constantly for 2 hours and it sounds like they got the message.

[Nija]

I played up to level 6 on saturday, and .... Can someone tell me when it gets interesting? all i did was drive around and right click in the general direction of slide-show bad guys. I don't remember anything that stood out.

No shit they're delaying it, they don't even have a GAME yet. ( games are fun right? )

[Signe]

Whoosh! goes another NDA.  This has GOT to be the game with the most NDA breaks in the shortest amount of time... ever.

[Nija]

What NDA? Don't you lurk in an irc channel full of bitter people who share accounts in various games?

I'm like the 10th person to play this acct!

NDAs and beta tests are wastes of time. They are great for me though, cause the idea sounds pretty cool. The execution and direction kinda suck.

It's also great to look through patch notes and see what stupid shit they're wasting their time fixing, while broken gameplay mechanics flap in the breeze.

[Llava]

Green is sarcasm, but what's teal?  I forget.  Pity?

Not meant to be taken seriously, but doesn't fit in the definition of sarcasm.

Like when I say "I'm not having kids, I don't like poopy diapers."

I'm really not having kids, and I really don't like poopy diapers, but that particular sentence isn't meant to be taken seriously.

As for Auto Assault... I can neither confirm nor deny the above, as I have agreed to a Non-Disclosure Agreement.

[stray]

You need a one word descriptor (i.e. "Green = Sarcasm").

[Llava]

Teal=facetious

[Signe]

Thanks for the info.


I'm assuming beige means sincere.

[stray]

All of my posts will be in beige from now on then.

[Morfiend]

All of my posts will be in beige from now on then.

Well then, mine shall be Orange, becasue I am a unique butterfly.

[Strazos]

NOOOO, Orange is supposed to be my color....

 

[Hoax]

Thought pandas were to summon the bruce?

[stray]

Thought pandas were to summon the bruce?

No, the panda's just signify sadness (Then again, they're probably just sad because somebody always has to associate them with Bruce...So you're half-correct, I guess).

[Signe]

Are they pandas?  I thought they were funny little skeleton faces!

[Furiously]

They're laughing at me....

[WayAbvPar]

I hope they take the extra time to take a good hard look at the core design. I will be over here, holding my breath until they make it Car Wars Online. 

[HaemishM]

You mean the design theory of EQ with cars isn't fun?

Of course, I have no idea if it was EQ with cars, but I got that vibe.

[MahrinSkel]

It wasn't at E3 last year.  Then it was just what you could have hoped for, beat-up cars with giant guns running around blowing each other and much of the environment to smithereens.  As soon as I heard about the combat change, my interest and expectations dropped through the floor.  Embrace your niche, people see cars with guns, they expect to be able to point those guns themselves, not just drive around while waving their mouse a bit.

--Dave

[schild]

Truth

Just got an email about the speakers at AGC, why aren't you giving a speech on niches? You should. Put people in their place. All that.

[Shockeye]

Truth

Just got an email about the speakers at AGC, why aren't you giving a speech on niches? You should. Put people in their place. All that.

They can't handle the truth.

[Llava]

It has potential.  But yes, combat needs to be much better than it is.