Frontlines, Fuel of war Options

[Kleerance]

http://www.frontlines.com/



It's predicted to be one of the best FPS multiplayer games ever - where teamwork is essential. It's a THQ game - same as Company of heroes. Anybody heard of it?

[Bargod]

Is there a demo for pc for this. I'm having a hard time finding one.

[HammaTime]

Ha!! Wish I could hide from my personal matters. But, it has been pretty hard to avoid the divorce attorney and the funeral director. sigh.

As I understand it, they removed the demo when they released the final version. I had downloaded and played the beta versions (they only had the multiplayer working with the demo) before the final was released.

If you've got time to game, I'd strongly recommend you download this game, Chris. It is worth every penny for the single player experience alone, and I can only guess how we'll feel about the multiplayer when a bunch of us can play together.

The MP allows you to form squads, these squads all respawn near the squad leader, so a group of friends can play together as a cohesive unit without having to wait for a respawner to hoof it all the way back to the squad. That is a terrific addition to any MP game. Remember how pissed people got playing some of the custom UO maps when you'd respawn and then have to spend 20 minutes trying to thumb a ride to the frontlines. That doesn't happen if you are a member of a squad.

If you aren't a member of a squad, you can pick your spawn points, but you are restricted to picking points that haven't been captured by the enemy (you can't spawn behind an enemy line, for instance), but you can certainly opt to respawn at a site that is under attack, spawn raping be damned ... your choice.

The rearmost spawn points on most maps is where you will find the heavy armored tanks and fun toys like helicopters and jets. Those are also the fun points to try to get to as a lone, spawn raper, as most spawners coming alive there have one thing in mind and that is to climb aboard a heli, jet or tank. They make for easy sniping as they run oblivious to enemy presence.

One aspect of the game that I haven't liked is the concept that the futuristic HUD enables you to see enemy from the satellite's perspective. This makes it pretty hard to sneak around anywhere, unless you can find suitable cover from the all-seeing eye in the sky.

Gee, writing this is making me want to fire up the game, and I can't cause I have too much work tonight. Boooo hooo!

Get the game, you won't regret it!

[HammaTime]

I'm actually going to try to do some gaming this weekend. Anyone up for some FrontLines Friday or Saturday night?