FREE GAME! ANARCHY ONLINE! WOO!

Post by **Joose** » December 16th, 2004, 8:57

As you are probably aware, im quite the MMO fan.

Even more so when im not paying for them (i love beta's!)

But ive just discovered one better than that. If you sign up for anarchy online before jan 15th, you get it for free. For a year. The whole thing.

woo!

/goes off to download

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » December 16th, 2004, 9:22

Really? I have noticed another 5punker play on this all the time, and wondered what it was.

Seeing as I've never played a MMO game before, I may give this a try, just to see what it's all about.

Have you got a link, I'm "googled out" after yesterday

Post by **Joose** » December 16th, 2004, 9:41

ooh, that was rather bumgayish of me, i completely forgot the link. Here tis:

http://www.anarchy-online.com/free/ad_c ... ecampaign/

I would advise going for the torrent, as the direct download seems to have collapsed. Its only 800 meg, so shouldnt take too long.

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » December 16th, 2004, 10:18

Wow that's awesome, will definitely get torrenting tonight, the most important question is: Is it actually any good?

I guess we'll find out soon enough!. Check this out from the beginners guide:

Anarchy Online is a science fiction MMONG

and

Anarchy Online is also different from other games in the genre by offering random missions and dungeons

Sci-fi dungeons?!? confusing... yet intriguing

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » December 16th, 2004, 10:27

mrbobbins wrote:Sci-fi dungeons?!? confusing... yet intriguing

Release the magical nuclear dwarf lasers :twisted:

Post by **Joose** » December 16th, 2004, 10:29

They kept calling the deadzone complexes in EVE "dungeons" for ages. That made me laugh.

As far as i can tell, AO is your basic RPG, just with nanotechnology instead of magic, and its set on a colony in the future, rather than a mystic land of faries and dragons. It'll probably be fairly recognisable to anyone whos ever played an RPG before.

Is it any good? buggered if i know. But its free, so at least we will be getting value for money :D

EDIT: ive just realised that the download finishing will coincide almost exactly with my girlfriend arriving for the weekend. Bumclouds.

EDIT OF THE EDIT: hurrah! she has overslept, and is therefore going to be late! i may have time for an hour or so in it. Faster, bittorrent, faster!

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » December 16th, 2004, 10:56

ooh, this looks fun, always considered playing with one of these jobbies.

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » December 16th, 2004, 11:34

Post by **Joose** » December 16th, 2004, 11:43

ah-hahahaha!

looks cerrrrazzzzzy.

is that big fella on the left waving a maggot around?

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » December 16th, 2004, 12:13

It's a crazy sci-fi disco nano-dungeon/brothel!!!!

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » December 16th, 2004, 13:09

Oooooh, shiny!

*finds downlaod codez*

Post by **Joose** » December 16th, 2004, 14:14

hmm, well, ive had a bit of a go, and here are my first impressions:

Its not bad. Feels nicer than EQ did. Not as slick as WoW though.
Its pretty bloody generic. Get stuff, kill things, get better stuff. Rinse and repeat.
The initial graphics settings on mine were a bit....odd. The draw distance was set at "0 feet", and the textures looked like they had been drawn on with crayon. I recommend fiddling with the settings before you try and do anything else.

Not really had time to explore properly, but it could be fun if we get a few of us together on it.

StickFigureNinja · Post by **StickFigureNinja** » December 16th, 2004, 14:47

I played it when it first came out, and I thought it was pretty cool. Especially because you could play as an engineer and when you go to a high enough level you could get a "Slayer Droid" that was double your size with big nasty spikey arms to tear the shit out of things.

StickFigureNinja · Post by **StickFigureNinja** » December 16th, 2004, 14:50

the maggot is atually a "leet" which is the weakest creature in the game, and it goes around shouting all the standard twatty lines you'd expect people who use l33t speak to say.

StickFigureNinja · Post by **StickFigureNinja** » December 16th, 2004, 15:07

Oh, and you can Dual Wield shotguns.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » December 16th, 2004, 15:52

StickFigureNinja wrote:Oh, and you can Dual Wield shotguns.

I've just made a mess.

many times.

Nickface · Post by **Nickface** » December 16th, 2004, 15:53

Interesting. My curiousity is piqued.

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » December 16th, 2004, 16:06

This bit torrent download is really fucking me off now, I have uploaded 1600MB yet I have only downloaded 416MB and it's been runnign all afternoon!

I know Bit Torrent users are supposed to "help seed the download" but this is fucking ridiculous

It's probably because I'm downloading it at work

StickFigureNinja · Post by **StickFigureNinja** » December 16th, 2004, 16:07

I've installed my very very old copy of the game so i just have to downlod a 100mb update.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » December 16th, 2004, 16:18

This Children, is a demonstration of why a system such as Steam can be good in these situations