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The many aspects for why this game fails
Teran1987
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I used to play this game before it died and the devs had to rebuild it to a smaller compact version, back then it was a fun exhilarating game worth the $10/m. Today, that is no longer true, and there are quite a few reasons for it.
Audio
7/10
The music in the game is nice, but extremely repetitive, that and if someone hits you or anyone near you with a heal-gun, your combat music suddenly starts.
Graphics
6/10
The graphics get a relatively low score because they have quite a few problems, the lightning in the game looks like a 9 year old crayola'd a book, the shadows are horrendous for static objects, and there's quite a few glitches that can get you stuck, forcing you to relog.
Gameplay
The gameplay starts off alright, but once you get into it you see what's really happening, by definition this can't even be considered a game, OR an rpg, it is in fact a political simulator, the FPS system sucks and killing people in a world filled with crime, drugs, and hate doesn't get you anything except penalties.
That, and there are a few elitist groups that are ruining it for the entire game. The Freedom Defense Corps for one, currently run by Dietrich, is really a ganking force unwatched by the police of the game or anyone else. Their leader, Dietrich, will have his faction act out personal killings of people he doesn't like, and is about as incompetent as George W Bush, There's a faction called the Mercenaries of the Blood who were put onto the FDC kill-on-sight list because Dietrich got stabbed.
The other policing faction is the LED, Law Enforcement agency, both the LED and FDC don't even have to work to get UC, they can run patrols all day in circles and gain UC while every other faction on the other hand has to fight for it, so for them they can farm it like the Chinese farm rice.
In the end, it is my personal opinion that this game needs to be scrapped again, it's not even worth the $10/m no matter how cheap.
"Life is not judged by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
Comments
It is worth $9.99 per month and I pay it, happily. What else ya going play? WoW, Planetside? Pullease. There is an amazing amount of $49.99/$14.99 per mo., crap out there; and, while Face of Mankind might not be perfect or polished to a high sheen -- It's pretty darn good.
I agree that LED and FDC is run by and largely populated by the idiots. And even though they are supposed to enforce the law, most laws end up getting broken most often by these two groups. It's also craptastic that the President is a GM who never does anything. And don't even get me started on the stupid speed buffs that can have people running 90 miles an hour....but whatever. I still have fun. The game doesn't fail. It succeeds daily, for me.
I'd like to see more simulation type combat and less arcade style stuff. More roleplaying stuff (emotes, clothes, chat interface improvements etc) and definately NO MORE COLONIES. Good golly. Stop making colonies that sit dark and empty. There isn't enough people, so stop.
Would you rather have a law enforcement agency get paid on the amount of arrests they get, or would you rather just pay them to be a presence to stop, whatever they stop.
It's already both, actually. They get FC and xp for arrests and they still get paid for normal objectives like guard duty and scout runs.