Anyone playing the Neocron Beta?

[Don Quixote]

(Looks pointedly at Wumpus). Neocron is a FPS-style MMORPG. It actually plays similar to Deus Ex- it's a 'skill and stat based FPS' as you use your skills, they level up. Supposedly there's lots of mini-games, too, for all the other skills (the only one I've run into so far is hacking/lockpicking- it opens up a minigame that's distinctly similar to Paradriod, an old C64 game- a great one, too, I might add). What all this biols down to is that the game requires a certain amount of player skill- when you do something, you actually have to do it. I only played for an hour or so last night, but I found it veriy involving. Open beta here in the states starts tomorrow, but if you look around a bit, you can find a copy right now and log onto their servers...
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[deanco]

I tried the 'offline demo'. It was headed for critical negative mass* when I had to assemble the rocket launcher. But not only did I have to assemble the parts, I had to wait while the little bar filled up. 47% complete. 48% complete. Yawn. It reached critical negative mass* with me when I hit the hacking part. Totally incomprehensible. Plus, to paraphrase the famous Quake quote, "It looks so green". Yawn.

*the moment when you decide to uninstall and never, ever, play a game again, ever, for as long as you live.

DeanCo--

[Anonymous]

NCM: great concept. I hit that moment quite distinctly sometimes. I'm nearing it with America's Army, and I think the clincher will be the ninja like stealth ability of everybody, including grenades. Ninja grenades are ridiculous. The sound effects are ok in general, but you never hear people walking and you never hear a grenade bounce or clang. I hate to compare because they are so different in style, but these sounds are key to playing well in MOHAA. One more" *poof*, oh a grenade must have been thrown at me", moment, and that's it! NCM!!!

[Qenan]

Necron is a test of the FPS MMOG idea. I'm pretty skeptical.

[Brandon Clements]

Neocron is a FPS-style MMORPG. It actually plays similar to Deus Ex

I'm suprised Tom Chick hasen't already said it sucks
(Just kidding Tom :D )

[Brad Grenz]

It reached critical negative mass* with me when I hit the hacking part. Totally incomprehensible.

Me too, I couldn't figure out what the fuck I was supposed to be doing.

[neofit]

It reached critical negative mass* with me when I hit the hacking part. Totally incomprehensible.

Me too, I couldn't figure out what the fuck I was supposed to be doing.
pfff, piece of cake! :wink:

See, the left pane is your half of the hacking device. You move a thingy up and down with your movement keys, and left-click when this cursor is on strategic spots. If you left-click on the right spot you will illuminate a lot of cyan wires, if you don't you will activate none or very few. If you do it many many many times you will notice a pattern. To increase the challenge (?), the number of times you can left-click to highlight wires is limited.

Now on the right pane, security or something moves another cursor thingy down, and sometimes highlights an orange wire, which seems to kill your cyan wires.

At some point you win, or lose. The more cyan wires are left at the end of the hacking session (whatever triggers it) the better. I think.

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