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A Tale in the Desert II Goes Open Beta

Posted by simoniker on from the tres-amusant dept.

Teppy writes "Yesterday afternoon, A Tale in the Desert II launched its open beta. Sometimes called 'a strange psychology experiment', ATITD is a competitive, independently developed PC MMO game, previously covered on Slashdot, based on socialization. Windows and Linux clients are available for download from the official website. If Slashdot readers use the special code 'farmertaco' and visit a school of Art and Music, special goodies await." We've previously covered the first iteration of this unique, combat-free MMO.

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  1. Boo. Hiss. by Apiakun · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Ok guys, if you can get a linux client out, how about one for OS X? In the meantime, I'll keep playing Kingdom of Loathing.

  2. Re:Boo. Hiss. by floamy · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Why do you act like a OS X port would be smarter? More gamers use Linux than OS X, and OS X is a lot harder to port to, with the byte order and all.

  3. Re:The problems with ATITD by Talrias · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't see why I have to go through all the boring stuff to get to the good bits though - this is a game, it's supposed to be entertaining the whole way through.

    Chris

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    aterr - an open source threaded discussion board.
  4. Re:The problems with ATITD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Of course, for some players, any time at all not spent fragging n00bs will be intolerably boring, and those people will never see the draw of this sort of game.

    He suggests shortening some of the early game tedium, and you react like that? Excellent. You might as well edit your sig to say, "Don't play ATITD-- we're all dicks.".

    I rarely enjoy PvP in MMOGs, but if it's full of popele like you, I'd find a lack of PvP intolerable.