Darwoth wrote:is this the new fonline 2238? last i heard it got shut down and the source code was made public.
was a fun game to mess around in, i played it a bit prior to salem. and yeah, like all free games you had about a 500 to 1 ratio of russian hackers/cheaters/scripters/zergers vs normal players.
was definitely not a fan of how you could not find people in the "wild" except by random encounter triggers, because of that all pvp was done at the towns unless you randomly triggered a pve spawn that someone else was already in. first week after a reset was always fun for me, most retards were still running around with crappy weapons but by the end of the first few hours on the first day i was pick pocketing the good stuff off of mutant patrols then annihilating entire groups of people in town
New fonline 2238 would be FO: Reloaded. FO2 was being developed in secret and was released after 2238 got closed. They did get source code too which is giving them ability to finish their dev plan for their serv faster.
FO2 had bigger player base than Reloaded(FO2 was released faster than Reloaded so that might be the case too). That changed after some time and now, Reloaded have more players at peak times. People were saying that they'll be back after wipe etc. I guess soon enough we will see which serv will be the last one standing ;p
What I like in FO2 is that there ain't any secure mining camp/private mines. You want stuff? Go scavenge it in wasteland from junk and stuff you get from npcs(hence its much easier to meet someone). There is 'scavenge' skill which in last session did nothing. I suppose that now after wipe we might see it being fully working skill(as in: higher skill=more stuff found). Changelog should be posted 2nd or 3rd November.(they just said: pre-wipe).
To say the truth I do not remember 2238 being so easy as Reloaded is atm. Might be my memory as it was long time ago when I played there but.. I played -at max- 6h on Reloaded. Got my private mine, like 8 blueprints, combat armors, and 150+k caps left in bank. (not to mention getting 1 char to 22 level and 2 to 16(those 2 with just mining and crafting random crap). Shop camping/selling worst stuff possible gave me all that caps. (i was tripple clienting through
). Hence why I decided that Reloaded is too easy.
Oh yeah if you remember crafting: Reloaded is the same as 2238 was. No crafting in bulk. FO2 have that feature. (dissasembling stuff is still done by hand).
There is some feature that they added recently in Reloaded. You can see names of players that are on same map grid as you are. Althrough you can't force them into encounter(maybe they'll change it later? would be cool).
Lots of people is playing on Reloaded so probably it's not as bad as I see it. Personal preferences I guess.
Darwoth wrote: first week after a reset was always fun for me
I agree. Lots of players coming back, everyone on field trying to exp/get gear. Fun.
Dunno about Reloaded but on FO2 sneak is crappy skill. Even with stealth boy and max stealth you are still visible from a lot of tiles. (not to mention that weight is making you much less stealthly). Stealing in towns is kinda non existant too as guards seems to have 50% chance to spot you even if you succed in stealing..losing karma cause of that is painfull.(at least I heard so).
Surely I won't be playing it as often as I played salem but hopefully I'll get some fun after wipe.(that depends if people are going to come back from Reloaded now or wait 1 month more. We will see I guess.)
ZtyX wrote:Well, you really shouldn't be trying to steal members from this community. It's not like Salem is a big game anyway with people to spare. Why don't you go and advertise somewhere else? Maybe a game that you hate. That way you'll have a win-win situation
Lol
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As for MMOs made by big companies. I'm always afraid that they'll just turn it into another typical mmo-clone for easy and fast profit. Hence I'm not holding my breath for that real Fallout Online. Ofcouse I would love to be pleasantly suprised. (trying not to read anything related to it so I won't be dissapointed later on)
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