I played it last night for an hour. It looks pretty especially the indoor places, but for some reason the engine wasn't smooth like WoW. I thought it was lags, but it was still not smooth even at 6 AM PST. Taverns (those are cool -- better than WoW's inns) are so laggy for me. Solo instances(?) are smoother, but not that smooth. Outdoor areas lag too for me. I had turn things down like use billinear, distance view lowered, etc.
I did not like its GUI. I think it was just too big especially when my maximum screen resolution is 1152x864. I prefer WoW's.
I loved the character setup. I made a hot chick with red long hair [grin]. Its setup reminds me of City of Heroes and City of Villain's. I also like the video clips (I wonder how much disk space these took up) showing each player class. I played as a barbarian since I like meelee fightings. I only got off the second boat after training. I will play more later hopefully. A lot of commands are similiar if you know WoW like:/laugh,/dance,/p for party talk, etc.
Note that it it is only until THIS Saturday! Yep, it's a short test! Then, it's over. Downloading takes a while (1.6 GB for the standard client). You can apply for an account before installing. Note you need to be subscriber on those download sites to get the high quality package. The game was choppy for me with everything ON and without antialias on my XFX NVIDIA GeForce 6800 (128 MB), Athlon 64 3200+, and 1.5 GB of RAM.
Other notes/FYI:
FYI from FAQ: # Monday at 9:00am PST registration servers go live # Tuesday at 11:59am PST game servers go live. If you received a key and created your stress test event account you can begin playing the game # Friday night player event starting at 3:00pm PST and ending at 7:00pm PST. Everyone in the stress test will have the opportunity to win a closed beta account # Saturday at 11:59pm PST game servers close
To compare, I still like WoW more so far. Check out other posters' comments on Blue's News.
Alias The Horizon (New) 12/14/2005 10:00 PM, 1 hr Syd is reunited with Vaughn after being kidnapped and hypnotized by a familiar face, who has a vested interest in her future---and in her unborn child. Cast & Credits: Jennifer Garner, Ron Rifkin, Victor Garber, Michael Vartan, Carl Lumbly Drama/Action TV14, English, 2005 HDTV - presented in 720p (Dolby Digital)
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The Late Show with David Letterman
(New) 12/14/2005 11:35 PM, 1 hr Stephen Colbert; a holiday toy demonstration. Talk/Other TVPG, English, 2005 HDTV - presented in 1080i
I wonder if that means it will work under Mac OS X 10.2? I am still running 10.2.8 on my old PowerBook G4 (1 Ghz; 512 MB of RAM). I am just cheap and lazy to upgrade.:)
Didn't id Software say it was going to do distributed parts of the 3D game FPS with its engine? Basically, each server would be run by an operator. Then, player can jump into portals to another server. This idea was like a decade ago I think.
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Wow. I didn't know that. I can understand of not supporting 9x anymore, but 2K? 2K is a good OS.
How big is that one? Standard one looks good for me, but my computer choked. :(
I noticed no Windows 2000 in this stress test! See the requirements.
I played it last night for an hour. It looks pretty especially the indoor places, but for some reason the engine wasn't smooth like WoW. I thought it was lags, but it was still not smooth even at 6 AM PST. Taverns (those are cool -- better than WoW's inns) are so laggy for me. Solo instances(?) are smoother, but not that smooth. Outdoor areas lag too for me. I had turn things down like use billinear, distance view lowered, etc.
/laugh, /dance, /p for party talk, etc.
I did not like its GUI. I think it was just too big especially when my maximum screen resolution is 1152x864. I prefer WoW's.
I loved the character setup. I made a hot chick with red long hair [grin]. Its setup reminds me of City of Heroes and City of Villain's. I also like the video clips (I wonder how much disk space these took up) showing each player class. I played as a barbarian since I like meelee fightings. I only got off the second boat after training. I will play more later hopefully. A lot of commands are similiar if you know WoW like:
Note that it it is only until THIS Saturday! Yep, it's a short test! Then, it's over. Downloading takes a while (1.6 GB for the standard client). You can apply for an account before installing. Note you need to be subscriber on those download sites to get the high quality package. The game was choppy for me with everything ON and without antialias on my XFX NVIDIA GeForce 6800 (128 MB), Athlon 64 3200+, and 1.5 GB of RAM.
Other notes/FYI:
FYI from FAQ:
# Monday at 9:00am PST registration servers go live
# Tuesday at 11:59am PST game servers go live. If you received a key and created your stress test event account you can begin playing the game
# Friday night player event starting at 3:00pm PST and ending at 7:00pm PST. Everyone in the stress test will have the opportunity to win a closed beta account
# Saturday at 11:59pm PST game servers close
To compare, I still like WoW more so far. Check out other posters' comments on Blue's News.
I (Uppercased I) and l (lowercase L) look the same. :( I prefer not to use that font.
Go!
Is he from Blue Man Group or something? [grin]
Viral Videos & Ads site has one (Metamorphosis) of the AXE commercials. Are there any more out there?
Or this head or this head. [grin]
What was these shootings about? I haven't seen/heard this on the news at all, but then I don't watch news a lot.
TitanTV gives me details.
Examples in L.A. area:
Alias
The Horizon (New) 12/14/2005 10:00 PM, 1 hr
Syd is reunited with Vaughn after being kidnapped and hypnotized by a familiar face, who has a vested interest in her future---and in her unborn child.
Cast & Credits: Jennifer Garner, Ron Rifkin, Victor Garber, Michael Vartan, Carl Lumbly
Drama/Action
TV14, English, 2005
HDTV - presented in 720p (Dolby Digital)
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The Late Show with David Letterman
(New) 12/14/2005 11:35 PM, 1 hr
Stephen Colbert; a holiday toy demonstration.
Talk/Other
TVPG, English, 2005
HDTV - presented in 1080i
I wonder if that means it will work under Mac OS X 10.2? I am still running 10.2.8 on my old PowerBook G4 (1 Ghz; 512 MB of RAM). I am just cheap and lazy to upgrade. :)
Do older versions of Firefox and Mozilla have this problem?
Folks on Broadband Reports' security forum are raving over NOD32 over AVG, AntiVir, KAV, etc.
Notes 6.5 is awesome. Earlier versions sucked (buggy, crashes, no tabs). Too bad, my workplace is migrating to Outlook 2003. :(
What's wrong with Notes?
Probably looks decent on a small 20" TV. How abou 50"?
Also, here. Very popular in demos scene.
Maybe a cluster can fly the space shuttle?
Didn't id Software say it was going to do distributed parts of the 3D game FPS with its engine? Basically, each server would be run by an operator. Then, player can jump into portals to another server. This idea was like a decade ago I think.
It's New York Times. CNET posted NYT's story on their Web site.
Heh, that's funny! How about ants? Any funny stories on them? :)
Good find. I liked the other video and the podcast audio.
See the cool video at Compfused or Stupid Videos.
look for sales during the first week like at Fry's Electronics. Check those ads! Some Best Buy has sales too. Check them!
Yahoo! Messenger can do offline messages too.