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Tag: Fallen Earth
Fallen Earth Actually Coming Back
Fallen Earth WIP Screenshots Posted
Fallen Earth Is Dead, But May Return
Fallen Earth is celebrating its ten year anniversary with the announcement that the servers are coming down. It isn’t the way most companies want to celebrate their game growing old, but the unfortunate reality is that the game is just unsustainable in its current form. As Matt Scott, CEO of Little Orbit stated:
I’m sad to announce that effective 10/2 (or there about based on when the event goes live), we will be taking the Fallen Earth servers offline. Unfortunately after weeks of monitoring things and getting players feedback, I have determined the current state of Fallen Earth just isn’t sustainable in its current form. You guys have been very tolerant, but the player experience is terrible right now. It’s laggy and buggy. Servers crash quite often, and stacking is still disabled due to exploits. I don’t blame the player base for the low concurrency numbers. You need a better game to play.
The silver lining on this cloud is that Little Orbit would like to update and bring Fallen Earth back online at some point.
Source: Fallen Earth Forums
GamersFirst Now Owned By Little Orbit
GamersFirst announced this week that it has been acquired by developer Little Orbit, with new CEO Matt Scott addressing the communities of APB and Fallen Earth to detail their plans for the future.
“There’s been a lot of speculation over the last couple months about who would be crazy enough to take on this game. And I’m not going to try and sugarcoat it, we know that the confidence in this game is at an all time low, and odds are you haven’t heard of us at Little Orbit. But that’s OK. There’s a lot of work to do, and I’m not writing this letter to make unrealistic promises or layout a grand roadmap. Instead, I’m going to ask for your patience as we get organized and that you give us a chance to show you that we are sincere in our efforts to make APB Reloaded the game we all know it can be.”
Scott lays out a roadmap for All Points Bulletin for the months ahead, including a new mode, maps, challenges, clothes, vehicles, and the much awaited move to the Unreal 4 Engine. The Fallen Earth post doesn’t go into detail on any planned updates, but Scott does wax nostalgia of his days playing the title.
“Nothing is going to happen overnight with Fallen Earth. But it’s clear to me that there is something special here worth rebuilding. We need to spend more time mapping out exactly what that looks like.”
(Source: APB: Reloaded, Fallen Earth)
MMOrning Shot: Driving In Style
Today’s MMOrning Shot comes from Fallen Earth, showing off the upcoming Vandal Hatchback vehicle. Players will be able to get their hands one one soon™.
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GamersFirst Takes A Hard Stance on Scrubs In Fallen Earth
Everyone hates scrubs in their video games, and while GamersFirst isn’t exactly sure what a “scrub” is, they have the power of Merriam Webster’s dictionary. In a post on Facebook, Tee Affo has announced a new dedication to removing scrubs, no matter their definition, from Fallen Earth.
Tee Affo with a special report –
We’ve had numerous complaints in-game about “scrubs”, and we’re taking a hard stance against scrub playing.
However, I realized that I had no idea what the word meant, so I took to the internet to hunt down the definition. I’m not sure which one our players are complaining about, so be on the lookout for any of the following:
1. a large area covered with low trees and shrubs, as the Australian bush.
We want it to be known that Fallen Earth is NOT a game where you pretend to be an empty field with low-lying ground cover. NOT AT ALL. In Fallen Earth, you are actually a clone or something. Probably a clone. Is that right? Listen, I don’t have time for RESEARCH, READING, or DOING MY JOB.
2. to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
Ew. Yeah, don’t do that. Nobody do that in our game. Do…do we have a problem with this? Ew. If I see anyone vigorously rubbing anything in Fallen Earth, I’m going to be upset.
3. A fella can’t get no love from you.
This definition comes from noted ThinkTank TLC, which I think stands for “The Learning Center”. Dr. Lefteye (I assume he’s a doctor) describes this scrub as “Leanin’ out the passenger side of his best friend’s ride, trying to holla at me.” If you see someone in the wasteland yelling at you from the wrong side of their borrowed Interceptor, please report them to the mods immediately, as we DO NOT want no scrub.
Thank you, with your diligence we can remove all “scrubs” from the game. Please focus on “n00b” playing instead.
If you do see a scrub in Fallen Earth, especially one trying to holla at you, make sure you use the appropriate reporting tools.
(Source: Facebook)
Gamersfirst Focusing On In-House IP, Some Titles To Transfer
Thankfully the news this week isn’t all bad. Massively.com is reporting that Gamers First is restructuring in order to bring more focus on the company’s in-house IPs. As part of this move, a couple of titles are moving services, and the publisher announced that the contractors working on Fallen Earth have been removed in favor of in-house development.
We had a large contractor crew on FE and we are focusing on creating our own employee pool to manage the game.
In addition, Gamers First will be losing some of its games in the coming months. Announced earlier this month, MMO shooter War Rock will transition to Dream Execution on May 29th, while Knight Online will transition to Mgame on June 1st.
Hopefully this means plenty of good things in store for Fallen Earth, All Points Bulletin, and Gamersfirst’s other titles.
(Source: Massively.com)
Fallen Earth Free to Play Today
About an hour and a half ago, Fallen Earth came down to begin the process if integrating a new patch. On a less relevant note, today also marks the transition of Fallen Earth to free to play. GamersFirst predicts five hours of downtime, although players should anticipate heavy server load once the game comes back online. G1 acknowledges this inevitable issue, and has delayed world events until server stability can be dealt with. You can check out the announcement at Fallen Eath’s website, as well as read the patch notes and get acquainted with the new facets of free playing.
The server went down around 8am PST, or 11am EST, or 4pm GMT. Until then, you can make sure that your Fallen Earth account has been properly merged to GamersFirst service. You can do so by following this page.
More Fallen Earth Free To Play Information
GamersFirst has a good year ahead for it, with the upcoming transition of Fallen Earth to a free to play medium. In a recent dev blog, G1 goes over some information regarding what free players, subscribers, and past customers can expect when the game makes its official move on October 12th, and there is a whole laundry list of items that will annoy free players and delight past customers alike.
Foremost, GamersFirst seems to have taken note of the community reaction to the free to play matrix released, including the surprise many felt that the developers would allow unfettered access to the mail system, auction house, and trading. While G1 hopes that the chip limit will do its job in holding back gold farming on a massive scale, they acknowledge that these freedoms may be taken away from free players at any time if the bots get out of control. The chip limit is ten red chips for free players.
But for now, some good news. Players who are subscribed to Fallen Earth when the transition goes into effect will find that their remaining time has been converted to Commander Premium level, the highest tier ($30 a month). Furthermore, G1 has also mentioned that anyone who has ever bought a Fallen Earth key in the past will be offered a premium discount to Commander tier, $20 a month, a thirty three percent saving and just a little more than the Wastelander cost.
More information as it appears.
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