Loadout: Deserving of a Romp?

I'm getting into it too : http://loadout.com/account/create/?bro=68815

...seems it's by the same people who made Monday Night Combat & SuperMNC.

Now that you can actually play the damn thing it's actually worthwhile if you enjoy FPS tournament games. Theres something available in the game for most people who like particular style of play. It's a decent mashup of different games from the past like UT and TF2.

I've heard good things from friends, going to give it a whizz next week. My only issue with it is that it's free to play (aka free to pay).

I'm playing a bit each day. good game, i'm liking it, though lots of work is still being done on it even though it's gone live.

Join me: http://loadout.com/account/create/?bro=68815

ambershee said:

I've heard good things from friends, going to give it a whizz next week. My only issue with it is that it's free to play (aka free to pay).

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You don't have to buy anything as long as you don't care about changing outfits and other unimportant things. You can upgrade weapons for free. It's based on performance, not money.

Big-Al said:

I'm getting into it too : http://loadout.com/account/create/?bro=68815

...seems it's by the same people who made Monday Night Combat & SuperMNC.

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Neh, as far as I know, Uber's only involvement is giving EoR a license to use UberNet

DeathBooger said:

You don't have to buy anything as long as you don't care about changing outfits and other unimportant things. You can upgrade weapons for free. It's based on performance, not money.

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Sure, if you want to grind - otherwise you can buy boosters to earn that "performance based currency" twice as quickly. Typical free to play FPS

I just think it'd be nice if you could buy more loadout/gun slots with absurdly large amounts of blut. Something like 500k Blut for a loadout slot, 250k for weapon slot
If you snatch the Absolute Badass bundle, 32k Spacebux, 2 week of XP/Blut boosts, and some skins. That 32k SB can also get you the 4 loadout + 8 gunslot bundle

We don't appear to have that bundle. We can only get 20k SpaceBux, and it costs £15 ($25), which is a lot for the nothing that gives you.

Internet soon followed suite:

NSFW...

Somewhere out there, a video game developer was paid good money to make that animation.

Fun so far. I felt like I had an advantage with my UT experience. First match was pretty easy. Add me: TheWhiteDragon

ambershee said:

We don't appear to have that bundle. We can only get 20k SpaceBux, and it costs £15 ($25), which is a lot for the nothing that gives you.

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Ingame store

ambershee said:

...Typical free to play FPS

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It's 3rd person not FPS

The game is great fun!

Other that the initial server issues that are being worked on and actively fixed, i don't see how anyone can bash this awesomely fun yet simple game. Developers seems very active and have lots of plans too! :tup:

I gave it a proper spin last night. It's an entertaining game that has a reasonable amount of polish. My main issues with it were that:
a) It has no depth at all; it's too simple. I think I'd get bored of this game quite quickly as I'm already beginning to feel like I've seen all it has to offer in a coupe of hours of gameplay.
b) The game modes don't work very well, except for the deathmatch spinoff where you have to pick up the vial to score/deny points for the kill. This lets down the game a lot, because if the base rules don't work, the game doesn't work.
c) Balance is fucked due to the weapon system and made worse by the free to play system (YAY, PAY TO WIN). I'm level 2, played against a level 6 player - we weren't evenly matched. He explained how he was better equipped in the lobby between games: The guy had a recharging shield giving him a massive advantage over me in terms of hit points and had pumped all his earned currency into a rifle, putting it all into damage and a spooling mechanism. He'd bought a bloot booster but not an XP booster, so even though he was level 6, he had the kind of equipment that I wouldn't earn as a free player until level 12. Result? He has more hitpoints, which regenerate over time, higher rate of fire, and a each shot does quite a bit more damage as mine :/

The CTF and control point variants are nice, although in Annihilation it becomes pretty obvious from the beginning who is going to win (especially after the health/shield/slayer upgrades start getting stacked).

The Deathmatch variants are pretty boring.

Shield adds 33 health and takes 1.75x damage from Tesla rounds. The only time I use my shielded loadout is for that initial mexican standoff, after that it's the tesla launcher and grenades.
Also, the boosters don't make Loadout p2w, just like every other f2p game that has boosters, they're "pay to progress faster"