Lost Colony - Page 3

I Hate Pants · 2006-12-13, 11:58 AM

Another directionless mod designed by wannabe game developers. Pretty much like 90***37; of the Battlefield mods.

Hamma · 2006-12-13, 12:23 PM

Wait hold on, isn't that what battlefield itself is?

GreyFlcn · 2006-12-14, 03:49 AM

Peacemaker · 2006-12-14, 02:08 PM

doesnt look that bad, like Tribes 2 sorta

GreyFlcn · 2006-12-14, 03:17 PM

Lost Colony is moving right along as most of you know from the new screenshots we've posted this week. Some of you even asked us for the floor plan to the bases, but unfortunately we've been really too busy to provide that.

We will be hosting a small playtest this weekend. We don't know which day yet. NOTE: This is not the BETA. This test will be:

A simple test to check our networking code
Account process module
For clients to test their video cards
Server tests to find out how many people we can fit on one continent
This will not be the full game. The new female and male player models will be available. One vehicle will be available. You will also get a chance to see your homebase and its designed floor plan.

http://www.lostcolonygame.com/forums...read.php?t=629

Heavygain · 2006-12-15, 07:54 PM

I think I will give it a shot for shits and giggles

GreyFlcn · 2006-12-16, 03:13 PM

The test is tomorrow, Sunday. We are going to run it at around 3pm ET (I think that's 8pm UK, 2pm CT, 12pm PT). We will keep it running for the entire evening. There will be plenty of time to get in there.

Hamma · 2006-12-16, 08:30 PM

I will go if they make me a GM

heheh perhaps i will check it out.

Hamma · 2006-12-16, 11:48 PM

Wait a second here, they are making it so you have to pay/preorder to beta test?

Rayder · 2006-12-17, 12:10 AM

After spending about 20 minutes filtering through ugly color schemes and horribly butchered spelling I have concluded, Hamma, that this "play test" is free to any registered person on their forums. They just haven't given a link to download it yet. If such a link were to exist, that is.

Diviant · 2006-12-17, 12:41 AM

Hah, I got an email asking me to pre-order this game (I signed up for the forums). I will most definately not be paying money for something that hasn't even enter alpha, and little to show for it.

OneManArmy · 2006-12-17, 02:17 AM

Wow talk about a scam.

Now it is coming out on PS3 I guess (or was it always?) and they are taking pre-orders via PayPal.

HAHAHA

Hamma · 2006-12-17, 10:38 AM

Yea a little shady.. if the "test" today is free I may try it otherwise.. no I don't think so.

tbdsamman · 2006-12-17, 10:33 PM

This "game" seems very fishy to me. They keep making excuses after excuses.

I was looking around and found a post from one of their staff.

We are able to do this because the majority of the game will be run off of the server and not on your rig. You'll have about 20Mb or so of files on your system and the rest is server-side. You will notice a difference in how the game looks if you compare it form a lower spec to a higher spec computer. And the better the rig the better the frame-rate. And we are focusing on getting you the highest frame-rate possible first. Does that make sense?

Now, this really scares me. If this guy thinks you can run a moderate game off of 20 megabytes (assuming thats what he meant), he's bonkers. Since he said 20 megabits that means the game will from 2.5 megabytes.

And apparently they host their game server on the same server as their website.

And they say all of their content is original; they directly reference PlanetSide in regards to the lattice links.

OneManArmy · 2006-12-17, 11:29 PM

original? thats why they bought the player models (shitty models to boot) and the terrain generator... fuck them. fuck thier shitty scheme to make money.