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Why this game has no hype at all?
I come back to closed beta after months cause I didnt had any time and I was pretty disappointed of how, few days from open beta, so few player were online. I mean like 25 players....
The forums are close to be empty.
Do you think this game will have no future at all?
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This game is like the Darkfall of the Mech world. Simply awful graphics and gameplay for a game that is coming out in 2010/2011.
Well gameplay isn't that great atm, but graphic is not awful, not the best, but Darkfall had a way worst graphic IMHO
I belive that solo play is incredible boring ATM, wish to try few missions in a group, but too few ppl online
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The game is developed by about 10 people which not all of them work full time on the game.
Spending more resources on marketing is mostly likely something they 'cannot afford'...
The games graphics are horrid and it looked like they were trying to copy eve online with the market system , wasnt my cup of tea.
Graphics got very decent update few days back.
Just because the market interface has tree structure it is copied from EVE Online? I bet I have seen it somewhere before...
This game will be great with time.
Only a few ppl around ingame nowadays thats true... mainly becouse all gets wiped eventually (after open beta).
I expect much more online ppl when the real thing begins.
SexuaLobster's Grease Portal
I just heard of this game today, joined the beta and Im HOOKED!
Really wish there was some more hype cause it would be sad to see this awesome go down because of that.
Well aside from the UI being a straight clone of EVE Online, it suffers from allot of the problems EVE had at launch that they flushed out over the years. Aside from moving around the terrain in a mech vs moving from point to point in a ship there's little differance. Even outfitting your mech requires the same balance of CPU, Energy Grid.. etc.. just renamed.
Missions are the same.. I think it's hard for people to get hyped up about a game which basicly is EVE 1.0 in robots vs space ships. We already have EVE and it's polished goodness and depth, but it's like an indi studio played WOW and said, "hey we can do that.. lets just copy everything tWoW does but without the art style".. so we get Perpetuum, which is muddy grey textures over everything. The same giant buildings and alien flowers repeated ad-nausem and everything else is just a busy interface with 4 windows to do 1 thing.. a target window, an overview, a targeting window (seperate from the actuall target), a weapons window, and your ship window.. 5 windows to track for combat? Why?
Anyways, I was a bit hyped about it being more mech-warrior-esq, but after playing it for a few hours it just had all the same crude issues EVE had at launch. It's still beta but I think anyone who's played a beta knows that what you play in open beta is very indicidive of what release will be like. Sure some stability and lag can change, but nothing drastic.
Arioc Murkwood
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Sad but true.
I think it's too much like eve in the aspects it should not be, while combat is much better it's still quite simplistic compared to what it could have been but will definitely draw some people in while I don't think it's interesting enough to be successful in terms of actual game play, but those that like to play excel(tm) will be amused by the game.
Someone already did that with WoW its called Runes of Magic, the difference is that RoM is f2p where as Perpetuum isn't.
DF graphics were not that bad. Not the best and not the worst.
Judgement based on first impressions... /yawn
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Waiting on: GW2, BP
Quick reply to OP:
Because it's a shameless rip-off of EVE.
Played the beta, its the same gameplay, interface and concept only with 'bots'.
Better to be crazy, provided you know what sane is...
Er, I think you just summed it up pretty well here.
1) Gameplay isn't that great (the most important thing in any MMO IMO)
2) Graphics are average, well, that's going to turn some folks off.
3) Solo play is incredbily boring. Since most players solo, again, not a great sign.
4) Too few people online to really group up, well, lack of players is a deathknell to MMO's, but I think you were still in the closed beta, I think now that its going to open status things will improve in that regard.
I got into closed beta, but nothing really thrilled me about the game at the time, perhaps I'll give it another go now that there's more players around.
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err..that is one of the major differences between EVE and Perpetuum.
Perpetuum has indeed got 'twitch' control and as such along with other things it has totally different pace, game play and concept.
Playing: Rift, LotRO
Waiting on: GW2, BP
err..that is one of the major differences between EVE and Perpetuum.
Perpetuum has indeed got 'twitch' control and as such along with other things it has totally different pace, game play and concept.
Twitch as In Mechwarrior and free lancer. Perpetuum may let you move with Wasd keys and navigate terrain but it's basically the same as eve.Playing: Rift, LotRO
Waiting on: GW2, BP
downloaded and got in to take a quick peek last night and there were an awful lot of noobs running around - OB should help with the grouping thing
didn't have time to play as i spent way to much time screwing around attempting to get high screen resolution and still read the tiny font/print on screen - definitly does not scale well
No, sir it isn't. It has totally different pace, different strategy and approach.
I have admitted it may seem like that on first look but once you learn more about the game, it isn't.
No, sir it isn't. It has totally different pace, different strategy and approach.
I have admitted it may seem like that on first look but once you learn more about the game, it isn't.
It's so similar that a player from eve can log into Perpetuum and within a minute fully understand basic combat mechanics. But that wasnt the point I was trying to make. I was saying their only similarity was the expectation of new players thinking both games should have twitch combat ala Mechwarrior. You could already see newbs giving the game shit for not going that route.Playing: Rift, LotRO
Waiting on: GW2, BP
So far that pace you speak of seems to be an even slower pace than Eve's pace except that the combat is very slightly faster but still auto lock target turn on auto gun run around target till its dead.As far as the pace goes at least in Eve you could take on more than 1 mission at a time here so far I can only take 1 mission then have to run back to base to get another mission rinse and repeat, I dont play Eve because the pace is slow this is making Eve look fast paced.
It's been mentioned, but I am going to add to the pile: Perpetuum is a ripoff of EVE. I don't wish the developers any ill will, but you cannot expect your game to be very successful when it has stolen most of its gameplay elements from another VERY distinct and recognizable game. Ripping off EVE was probably one of the worst ideas in game development history. How did they think that people weren't going to notice that?
I won't comment on the rest since this little piece speaks for how little you know about the game...
No, you can and indeed should take more missions at the same in Perpetuum.
wow really cuz funny the terminal told me i couldnt maybe I am in a different game named perpetuum
and I am basing this on the same amount of time that I was in Eve