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Help I'm desperat for a good Sci Fi Mmo !
After the sad demise of Tabula Rasa and the appalling mess that is Earthrise , is ther any hope on the horizon of a good Sci Fi skill based shooter Mmo ?. I really liked Tabula Rasa and was disapointed when it got canned , also I just bought Earthrise from D2D after hearing here on this forum that there had been a miracle patch ( which I have found out is no miracle at all ) but it is basically unplayable ( in my experience so far that is ) , thank goodness I only paid 8 pounds for it !
So help I'm desperat for a good Sci Fi Mmo .. any ideas ?
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we have Global agenda , were u can lvl up till 50 and play the following classes.
Medic , Recon , Assault , Engineer. you get tallents points you can go different buils with them.
You have pvp and pve also a small outside world.
Same here. I liked Tabula Rasa minus the bugs, but at least it was more playable then earthrise. If that supposed miracle patch for earthrise was there idea of a fix, its going to be a many patches later before its going to be playable at that rate.
But anyway, about other Sci-fi mmos, I think the best bet is to wait until SWTOR comes out. I havent found any others, but maybe Anarchy Online.
You could check out Fallen Earth, but TBH the recent combat revamp has made the game rather boring.
There really isn't anything out there right now, sadly.
Waiting on SWTOR.
maybe try out Black Prophecy.. last time i played it it was fairly decent, and they just released a new content patch.. thinking about giving it a go again. and its F2P btw.
thus the problem, and why I didn't even mention Global Agenda.
"oh you want a new gun?? you gotta pay $5 in the cash shop. You want to enter that zone so you can complete that mission? That will be another $5. Oh, you want to be able to use a vehicle in town?? That will be $15 for the vehicle, and another $19.99 to be able to use it in town...."
F2P games =
If you can deal with Dated graphics and Dated UI then Anarchy Online is pretty good.
Spent some of my best years in that game.
Anarchy Online
http://www.anarchy-online.com
Anarchy Online free version, if you haven't tried AO or haven't in a long time than I'd try it free, you might even want to play the full version but it's not worth paying to play anymore to me but as a free game it's good and would be better if more people would play it.
If you don't know anything about Anarchy Online you might want to look into it.
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If you're into three faction PvP (RvR), you could check out http://www.primeonline.com/. Its definetly got me interested, and "supposedly' due out this year
I'm surprised a avatar-spaceship Sci-Fi MMO has not come out where players can spend time as chars or shapeships equally...
Star Trek
Jumpgate (vaporware?)
Planetside 2?
SWTOR
Star Legends (mmobile rel: 20th July)
Global Agenda
SWG
EvE
Black Prophesy
Perpetuum
Firefall
Dust 514
a few random selections...
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I've played Anarchy Online since 2005, and its a great MMO if you have the time and patience to get into it. (Though i'm probably really biased for it because it was my first MMO.) The game currently is unbalanced, the graphics are old and the community is small. However, what it lacks in those categories it makes up for in a great and very friendly community, devs who know and understand the players (I've even played minecraft with one of the game devs there), an enriching storyline with its own book (Read: A prophet without honour), and a fantastic environment to run around in. Plus, (date unknown) there is a jesus patch that will eventually hit the game that will upgrade the graphics, improve all the classes, and the company will start advertising it again. The game is not dead yet, and if everything goes right, could grow and live for another 10+ years. (The game just celebrated its 10th birthday) and yes, like others have said, the original game itself is entirely F2P, with expansions costing money+sub.
Now, if AO isn't your cup of tea, here are a few MMOs I will suggest taking a look at/waiting for:
Planetside 2: I never got to play planetside 1, but from what i've heard, think Battlefield with GIANT maps(its a persistant territory war) with vehicles, classes, and just because someone is a higher rank then you doesnt mean they have the ability to instapwn you. The orignal planetside even featured real commanders who were the top ranked players on that server that would tell their faction where to go/when to defend etc. PS2 just got announced, so keep an eye on it, but don't expect it for some time.
Firefall: similar to planetside from what i've seen, except it will be a war over resources against other players/Alien NPCs. There will be arenas for specific types of PvP and clan matches and whatnot, as well as the regular island war.
Tribes: Ascended: i have seen the trailer for this one, and it looks interesting. The same guys that did Global Agenda (Which i'm not reccommending at all due to the fact that its just Team Fortress 2 with lasers) bought the rights to Tribes and are making Tribes Ascended, which (I belive) will also feature big maps, however I don't know much beyond the big maps.
End of Nations: This one could be considered sci-fi, it is from Trion Worlds, the same guys that did Rift, however its going to be an MMORTS. You will control your armies in a persistant territory war on (I think) one server in a battle for dominance. If you are a fan of RTS's, definitely look this bad boy up.
LOL, The Community is crap, yeah the dev team of 6 people know their paying customers are a bunch of veteran elitist with a lot of time on their hands who like to grind the same content over and over and pay for 2 or more accounts a month or more so they can feel special and call anyone who isn't as special as them a cry baby. So yeah the dev team just does what it can to keep the paid players feeling like they are elite, with expansions that take away from what the core game was all about and turns the game into just another cookie cutter mmorpg.
The game used to be great but right now all the expansions turned the game into just a grind fest, if people think the player base is good now then they probably haven't been playing since 2003 or 2004 they probably only started after the lost eden expansion that made the game more like was, and to me lost eden almost ruined ao like NGE ruined swg.
Free version of AO is vanilla AO, before the game turned into just about grinding for multiple types of experience and took away your choices to make your toon unique instead it's just about getting that specific endgame item for your "class" like every other game.
Free version kind of sucks right now though since the population is low, but since you're not spending cash all you risk losing is your time spent. And people might decide to upgrade and go a year or more before they realize they wasted their time and money, at least you had that year, i don't regret the 6 months i spent in wotlk even though i'll probably never play wow again at least i had those 6 months.
And the GFX ain't that bad on a hd monitor 1920x1080 with max settings, back in 2005 my pc was so bad the game really looked like crap and i couldn't even do raids unless i used script commands to lower my settings even more, and i wasn't the only one, wasn't until like 2007 or 2008 i had a good enough pc to turn everything to max, i went dual core in 2008 and the game was fully playable. So maybe since i played the game for years where it looked like crap i am biased.
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Actually there was a kinda an Avatar-Spaceship MMO that did come out in the past then closed its servers. It was Earth and Beyond developed by Westwood Studios, published by Electronic Arts.
It was not equally spent as avatar and spaceship, but when you docked onto a space station you went into avatar mode and this is where you would Auction House, Craft, Dance, Interacted with other players. Well you could interact out in space with your spaceship with other players to. This was probably more like 75% in Spaceshipe and 25% in Avatar, but nonetheless there was an MMO that tried it.
There is also an emulator server for Earth and Beyond but I don't know if they are still working on it, or if its closed too.