F.E.A.R. Closed Beta Signups!

[Nyana]

http://www.fileplanet.com/betacenter/fear/signup/

Here's your link gentlemen, now get some First Encounter Assault Rabbits/Rintintin/Religion, whatever the R stands for... :D

For those that came crawling from underneatheh the stones-eh, FEAR is a fps game blended with a good horror movie á la The Ring (or whatever that little girl appeared in), cruelty á la Soldier of Fortune, and smashing gfx á la Doom 3 (without the plastic monsters ofcourse).

Going to try this out while being bored and waiting for my new pc to arrive :D

[One Armed Scissor]

my pc prob wotn play it :(

[Vasquez]

"Your computer does not meet the requirments"

*back*

*edit*

"Congratulations, your computer meets the requirments!"

:D

[One Armed Scissor]

?

[Vasquez]

To sign up you have to enter your PC specs. If you enter specs that are too low (like my system) it blocks you from getting a beta key. But you can just click back and edit what you selected, retry and get a beta key :D

Downloading now...

[One Armed Scissor]

I hate they way PC games are so high spec. What about us poor people. It pisses me off the way you need to be minted to play all the good PC games.

[MiMaRz]

*downloadin* :D

[GuardianAnge1]

meh, been playing it for a while (2 weeks). Visaully, its a cool game with the slowmo and the cool explosions, but it gets boring very quickly.

[Hovis]

It's just a beta. Word is it'll be bigger than jesus when the real version ships.

Also bear in mind a large amount of what the game wants to do graphically will require a G70 chipset. If your PC is to old to run it then up yours, no offence but I want cutting edge to be good, I don't see why I should suffer because some folks can't afford to keep up. :cool:

[GuardianAnge1]

the gfx are beautiful, the gameplay is not original, thats all.

[Hovis]

Wait until the ghosts start coming for you :D

Multiplayer is nice but it's the single player that FEAR is all about and to be honest, from what I've seen, it looks bona fide shitscary. I mean proper brown pants.

[JojoTheSlayer]

I dont want to play a beta of a SP game, but just wodering what is the beta min specs?

[One Armed Scissor]

It's just a beta. Word is it'll be bigger than jesus when the real version ships.

Also bear in mind a large amount of what the game wants to do graphically will require a G70 chipset. If your PC is to old to run it then up yours, no offence but I want cutting edge to be good, I don't see why I should suffer because some folks can't afford to keep up. :cool:

Not everyoen can frok out £300 when a net chip coems out, they should make games so they can run on low end systems yet have the eye candy of the new cards.

[Vasquez]

Indeed. High end users should get a game that looks like FEAR on high settings, low end users should get a game that looks like BF2 or something and mid end users should get a game that looks like HL2/D3/FarCry.

Unfortunately, this means more content such as lighting effects and textures which means more time and mnoey spent on the game. However, more people will buy the game so it should pay off...

[Hovis]

Problem is that FEAR will be using a lot of new technology. I think that when it arrives it will be more backwards compatible but the beta is naturally going to be rough as fook around the edges. Some of the lighting effects and shaders are going to pretty much demand G70 spec PCs and this is the stuff that the developers will be most anxious to test.

[Nyana]

hmmm... 2x6600GTI Eye candy... hubba hubba hubba

[Ludicrouse]

SLi.... pffffffft

CrossFire Dongle ftw!!!!!!!!!

[Hovis]

If ATI can ever manufacture the fuckers. There's a reason they aren't releasing their cards at the same time as the G70 and it's not because they don't want to.

[Ludicrouse]

Ive saw the dongles m8.... They have one HUGE advantage over the SLi... U dont need identical cards :D

Oh and current MoBos are compatible too :p

[Hovis]

That's true for all PCI-E cards. And the dongles aren't the scary part, it's the making the cards themselves. I'm not sure how good they'll be but it does look like ATI might have prioritised the Xbox 360 higher than the PC market.

[Ludicrouse]

That's true for all PCI-E cards.

But for SLi you need special SLi mobos. For CrossFire you dont, it can be absolutley any PCI-E Mobo. Now THATS a huge advantage!

[One Armed Scissor]

That's true for all PCI-E cards.

But for SLi you need special SLi mobos. For CrossFire you dont, it can be absolutley any PCI-E Mobo. Now THATS a huge advantage!

Yeah but you would still need a mobo with 2 16x PCI-e slots. So you would have to buy a special motherboard in a way.

[Ludicrouse]

no paul.... they are becoming standard.... u tard

[One Armed Scissor]

Random brummie babbleing

I never knew that.

Ludi is a fanboy la la la la la.

[Hovis]

All motherboards that feature two PCI-E ports are SLI compatible. If you can find me one that isn't I'll show you a green dog.

[Ludicrouse]

All motherboards that feature two PCI-E ports are SLI compatible. If you can find me one that isn't I'll show you a green dog.


No thnxs... I have a green dog :D

Left over from a BBQ that i didnt fancy eating so i left it on a plate for 2 months :p

[Ludicrouse]

CrossFire needs no fancy shit to make it work. You dont have to use identical cards all you need is the Dongle and away you go! No software/drivers or patches!!!! SLi will only work with games that support it yet CrossFire is backwards compatible so will work with pretty much anygame u chuck at it from your shelf! The only thing you need is a Master RADEON card, which comes with the special dongle... Then all you do is connect your second RADEON as a slave and bobs your fathers brother.

According to early benchmarks its easily levels with SLi and in some cases Exceeds it.

Ofcourse it will prolly be a month or two before we get super accurate benchmarks for both

[Nyana]

All motherboards that feature two PCI-E ports are SLI compatible. If you can find me one that isn't I'll show you a green dog.

I can show you one, that IS NOT SLI compatible, its the one they put in my case before the nVidia chipset board, the thing is called the: Asus P5WD2 Prem. (SK775, PCIX ATX, 955x, DDR2, SATA, RAID, etc etc)

This mobo has 2 PCI-e slots yes, BUT it isnt SLI compatible, ONLY to power 2 videocards for 2 screens but no SLI :)

The actual SLI compatible one is Asus P5WD2 Prem. SLI

[Vasquez]

Damn, it's a multiplayer :( I thought it was singleplayer :(

I really want more really GOOD single player FPS games. This sounds very good but I'm worried it will get boring, what with the somewhat limited indoor office/warehosue locations (from screens and videos anyway).

[Vasquez]

WTF?

I go to multiplayer, click find servers and I get a lsit of servers. I click on one. I get a laoding screen but the loading bar dosn't move. I alt tab out and find the game is not responding. I go end the game through ctrl alt del and restart it, hoping it was an issue with the server. I find another server, get a loading menu and same thing...except I can't alt tab out. So I restart my PC. I give FEAR all access rights in zonealarm (this has happened with PS and Halo because it is asking for access but I can't tab out, giving full access solved this for both games) and still the same thing happens.

WTF?

[Hovis]

The word is the next drivers will remove the need for matching cards on Nvidia machines. I got to be honest though much as ATI seem to have a better idea for all I know it's Vaporware. I've had what was the only G70 card in Europe in my hands, I've benchmarked the motherfucker, I know it beats the shit out of dual 6800 ultras and it's a single slot which means it'll SLI with aplomb (fuck the NDA we've safely bagged our exclusive now). SLI is not great and crossfire should be better with existing games, but long term SLI is going to get the support because Nvidia are big and scary and will twist arms. Fact is though if the new ATI is in the same league as the G70 for speed you just plain won't need two of them, ever. Far Cry, 1600x1200 resolution, 4x anti aliasing, 8x anisotropic filtering, over 80 frames per second and that was bottlenecked by the rest of the test system and by the fact that the drivers were unfinished.

ATI's new card is a fucking no show and you can bet your balls that it isn't deliberate. -Something- is rotten in the state of ATI because they need these cards to be on the shelves almost immediately and it's not happening.

Now I heard a lot of gubbins from the Nvidia PR about why the ATI might not be out yet, but this guy is naturally a professional fanbwoi of the highest order, so a lot of it is probably bollocks, but some of it made sense. What ATI are doing with all the pipelines and shit requires a hugely complicated and difficult fabrication process, the fail rate on making the boards could be too high for them to be commercially viable which is going to take a lot of fixing. Also Micro$oft are going to be breaking their balls for the tech in the new Xbox. That's a lot of pressure for a relatively small company to be under.

So in other words don't believe the hype, believe the Bread. Cos the Bread has the knowing of many things. :cool:

When ATI puts a crossfire card in my hands and I test it, then we'll know if it's good.