Auto Assault NDA lifted

[Shockeye]

Welcome to the Auto Assault beta chat.

[WayAbvPar]

Last time I played it, it blew. Big time. Someone else try it out and tell me if I should bother logging in again...been a couple of months.

[Shockeye]

I have blowing chunks to look forward to when I get home. Woo!

[Yoru]

Last time I tried it was a month ago. As far as I could tell, I was doing random kill stuff and get stuff missions by holding down the right mouse button and driving around like an idiot. I haven't been inclined to return since then.

[Strazos]

I tried in early August.

It was laggy, looked like shit, and had shitty shit shit gameplay.

[Llava]

Ditto to Strazos.

Fedex missions.  So many Fedex missions.

[Rasix]

Patcher crashes the game on my laptop!  Woot woot.

[HaemishM]

I had no issues with the game technically, other than my computer is going through its bimonthly lockup fits, so I had to download it like 20 times. When I finally got to play it, it was completely underwhelming. The damn car slides around too fast, the fighting against people on foot was beyond retarded, and driving up to someone standing on the side of the road to get a mission felt extremely silly. The graphics were underwhelming as well. They need a lot more time on this game or it's going to flop.

Also, that testing schedule is entirely too small a window to get a good testing base. Either that's because the server isn't stable enough, at which point, it needs to stay in alpha, or they just don't want to put in the time to make sure the thing's up 24 hours. Either way, that's going to stretch the beta process a lot more than it needs to be.

[Strazos]

Yeah, I didn't understand that either; First game I can remember that had such a limited beta.

[Sky]

Also, that testing schedule is entirely too small a window to get a good testing base

Yes. Haven't bothered to dload the client, since it looks like the windows are unfriendly to my playing times, which are sorely restricted these days.

[schild]

This thread made me not want to play the game.

Amazing.

[HaemishM]

Playing the game will make you not want to play the game.

[Strazos]

Playing CoH makes me not want to play AA.

Explain that one.

[Sky]

Ouch. Beta?

My main impression: it's very bad CoH. Have you ever done fedex and kill quests? Have you ever done fedex and kill quests...in a car? /johnstewart

The driving physics suck. Good thing there is a lot of destructible terrain. Maybe it's my newbism, but the turret was a wildly swinging pea shooter (well, it was a newbie gun) that just never gave me the feeling of a real turret. Planetside kinda raises my expectation for combat. Combat was just stupid, drive around in circles until the mmo mobs die, running them down didn't seem to do much, I can't really explain it other than it felt stupid. The one mission where you have to put a bomb in this camp was pretty much the end for me, psychologically. Completely surrounded by guys with rocket launchers landing their shots at will, while I tried to drive in circles and target them with my limp noodle cannon, it felt in no way like I had much in the way of control.

While it did support widescreen at 720p, the text was tiny. Finally, I got tired of reading the miniscules, and it was just basic mmo quests I've seen a gazillion times, so it really didn't matter. Just follow the waypoints.

There might be some cool crafting stuff later on, but I got tired of the game before the tutorial stage was over, though I did finish the instance.

I don't like mmogs much, but I know an alpha that's better than this beta. Where's the board for that one? :P

That said, I did think my green spiky mohawk avenger in a shiny gold suit was pretty cool-looking.

[Sky]

Forgot to mention - there is joystick support....but you can't reconfigure the controller. So I had driving controls, turret control, and shoot. About a dozen buttons unused, so I really couldn't play with the controller. The gamepad didn't make the driving experience much better, though it was slightly better than the digital contol of the keyboard.

[schild]

So, DDO is better? Color me surprised.

[Sky]

Like sex in Alabama, it's all relative.

[Llava]

I will say that I sort of enjoyed planting the bomb in the enemy camp, because I had fun running over the little people.  Gunning them down, however, was not fun.

Hey, can we get a City of Villains beta board?

[Llava]

Hey, can we get a City of Villains beta board?

So, "No" then?

[schild]

The problem with making beta boards is that we wait until the administrators are in because they can see it and seeing it breaks NDA. You know, playing nice with companies and all that.

We're not in the CoV beta yet. Hell, we're regularly thrashing CoV in the forum that the devs read. I don't think we'll be in any time soon. I know for a fact - because I've been told - that the @f13.net email addresses get held off in big betas because we're known as "press." Sort of like @gamespot.com, etc. Except we aren't pole smokers named Tor.

[HaemishM]

I rarely ever use my f13.net email for a beta, because I figured somewhere along the way, someone would mistake us for journalists or something. Of course, that should mean we get offered coke and whores from every publisher available, but I can only assume since I haven't been given coke and whores, that they actually read our site and know better.

Oh, and I still can't muster up any energy to login to Auto Assault at the prescribed times.

[Sky]

Oh, and I still can't muster up any energy to login to Auto Assault at the prescribed times.

Ditto.

[Strazos]

Thirded.

[Llava]

The problem with making beta boards is that we wait until the administrators are in because they can see it and seeing it breaks NDA. You know, playing nice with companies and all that.

We're not in the CoV beta yet. Hell, we're regularly thrashing CoV in the forum that the devs read. I don't think we'll be in any time soon. I know for a fact - because I've been told - that the @f13.net email addresses get held off in big betas because we're known as "press." Sort of like @gamespot.com, etc. Except we aren't pole smokers named Tor.

That makes sense.

[schild]

I think we're just going to delete this forum instead of making it public. The game got delayed, they'll no doubt have another huge beta round when they think it's fun.

Le sigh. The premise was decent. The execution was not. Story of my gaming life.

[Sky]

[WayAbvPar]

Heh. I had forgotten I was even in this beta. Maybe I should check it out again...

[Strazos]

A few weeks ago I recieved a message about the new client.

Has anyone bothered to grab it, has the game changed in any significant matter, and is it worth the hassle?

[Strazos]

that should mean we get offered coke and whores from every publisher available

How are the coke and whores coming along? I don't do coke, but whores sound like a good deal.

[WayAbvPar]

The coke is for the whores, n00b. 

[NiX]

It still sucks.

[schild]

This is almost sad. Almost.

MMORPGs don't make me sad anymore. I think it's time to make this forum go POOF.

Edit: Still haven't installed the beta, but then I've only played DDO for 5 minutes too.

[Strazos]

I would have liked to play DDO, but the installer screws up.

[HaemishM]

I still haven't installed the beta. It was so bad last time that I haevn't made the time out of my crazy schedule of late to care.

[NiX]

Give me DDO beta. I demand it.