INFANTRY,

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<b>To our Valued Station Pass subscribers:</b>
Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) is pleased to announce that beginning on June 26, 2007, the full versions of Tanarus®, Cosmic Rift™ Online and Infantry Online™ (what is currently known collectively as the Station Pass subscription package) will be free to play for gamers with Station accounts in good standing! These three casual, action-based strategy games will be added to www.station.com, SOE's portal for gamers, adding even more hours of entertainment to gamers around the globe.

Commencing on May 26, 2007, SOE will no longer bill existing Station Pass subscribers a monthly subscription fee. Station Pass subscribers currently in a paid billing cycle will continue to have full access to the Station Pass games while non-subscribers will continue to have limited, guest-pass access to the games until June 26, 2007, at which point the games will be free to all. After June 26, www.stationpass.com will cease to exist, and you will find each game in the Casual Games section on www.station.com.



Then here:

<a href="http://infantry.station.sony.com/en/main.jsp" target="_blank">http://infantry.station.sony.com/en/main.jsp</a>


Pretty much, Infantry is going to be free. Hopefully it's player database will get back up again. It's usually 50-70, but mostly everybody is playing the CTF setting.

I myself am going to be playing on the Eol server setting. Been playing that one ever since beta and when I play off and on.

Hopefully I'll be forming squads with some of ya guys and gals soon!

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<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/asrifle.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::asrifle::" border="0" alt="asrifle.gif" />
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/marine.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::marine::" border="0" alt="marine.gif" />
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  • RobRob Unknown Enemy Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 25Members, NS1 Playtester
    edited June 2007
    YES!

    [edit]Now that I'm over the shock of awesome. I'm totally in on this.
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  • GeminosityGeminosity :3 Join Date: 2003-09-08 Member: 20667Members
    looks like I'll have to make a new station pass then because I'll be darned if I remember what mine was, let alone what the password for it was XD
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    Woot. Back when this was free (or free-ish I can't remember) I'd get in an APC and tell a bunch of teammates to get in. Then I'd drive up to the edge of the map where nobody ever is and sneak around the enemy base. All my passengers would be like "haha awesome" or something and when we got there we'd pour out like it was D-Day or something and attack everyone. Good times.
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  • ScytheScythe Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 46NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation, Reinforced - Silver
    When I played this a few years ago it was a laggy, buggy, unfun pile of crap. Has it improved?

    --Scythe--
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  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi&#33; Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    Um SOE. Aren't they the guys that ruined SWG? And are responsible for the steaming pile of dung known as The Matrix Online?
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  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    Infantry was not made by SOE.
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  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    Harmless Games Developed Infantry (basicly as an homage to subspace). They had an awsome logo (cute teddy bear with a zippo in one hand and a stick of dynomite in the other <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />).

    They were bought by SOE, who promptly began to ruin the game, and then start to charge for it. I am dead serious about this btw, shortly after soE bought them, the game started to suck, shortly after that the game went P2P.

    I havn't palyed it in a long time, either on the SOE server ($$) or the Private Server (anoyign players).

    I will probably come back and try it out again once it is free. But it is SOE, and they do suck horribly, but I will with hold judgment.
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  • RedfordRedford Monorailcatfjord Join Date: 2002-04-28 Member: 528Members, NS1 Playtester
    There is going to be a catch. There is always a catch with sony.

    Also, tanarus is pretty fun, though it certainly isn't worth a monthly fee (polygonz lol).


    Also, thansal, there is no anti-hack in effect on the free server. Considering the behavior of the players, I have every reason to believe that many of them use aimbots.
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  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    My bet on the catch is gona be add banners. Possibly with the ability to pay to turn them off.....


    And lol at the lack of hackprevention on the free server, I didn't know about that <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />

    Though tbh, I don't see how aimbots would help that much with Inf...

    Most of the weapons are not Hitscan, and moving is honestly the harder part of the game, not aiming. Also, aim bot can't make you turn faster. Thoguh I assume that they could remove the fog of war effect. That would be anoying...
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  • RedfordRedford Monorailcatfjord Join Date: 2002-04-28 Member: 528Members, NS1 Playtester
    You know how the turrets in Infantry track your movement and then lead shots over where you are going to be? I don't think it would take much effort to transmute that code into an aimbot. And I'm willing to bet the first Infantry aimbots were created just like that.
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  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1631204:date=Jun 4 2007, 03:06 PM:name=Redford)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Redford @ Jun 4 2007, 03:06 PM) [snapback]1631204[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    You know how the turrets in Infantry track your movement and then lead shots over where you are going to be? I don't think it would take much effort to transmute that code into an aimbot. And I'm willing to bet the first Infantry aimbots were created just like that.
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    mm, I guess.....

    You could probably write something up ala Overwatch Mode, but what about for when you move? (after all, standing still is one of the best ways to die in that game)
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  • Paranoia2MBParanoia2MB Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7832Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1631206:date=Jun 4 2007, 02:12 PM:name=Thansal)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Thansal @ Jun 4 2007, 02:12 PM) [snapback]1631206[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    mm, I guess.....

    You could probably write something up ala Overwatch Mode, but what about for when you move? (after all, standing still is one of the best ways to die in that game)
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    *infil pops up with melee*
    you die.


    I used to do that all the time as a Squad Leader/Serg. Or grapeshot mine ladyofthenight.
    lol

    There are still some hackers but report 'em by going:
    ?help playername is blah blah blahing
    ?help my epeen is huge. whatever
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  • SmoodCrooznSmoodCroozn Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22310Members
    <!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->* No Credit Card Necessary to PLAY FREE<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->This must be from that guy who called the Wii a gimmick and then introduced tilt detection on the PS3 the next day.
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  • Nil_IQNil_IQ Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15520Members
    Ah yes, <i>proper</i> Infantry. But where oh where did mechanized skirmish go? That was the best one!
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  • DrfuzzyDrfuzzy FEW... MORE.... INCHES... Join Date: 2003-09-21 Member: 21094Members
    Man SOE reminds me of planetside, i miss it <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
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  • Nil_IQNil_IQ Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15520Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1631413:date=Jun 5 2007, 09:04 AM:name=Drfuzzy)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Drfuzzy @ Jun 5 2007, 09:04 AM) [snapback]1631413[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Man SOE reminds me of planetside, i miss it <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
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    You're not the only one. They didn't just leave the game to die, they drove it into the ground with big hammers.
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  • RobRob Unknown Enemy Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 25Members, NS1 Playtester
    <!--quoteo(post=1631417:date=Jun 5 2007, 10:26 AM:name=Nil_IQ)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Nil_IQ @ Jun 5 2007, 10:26 AM) [snapback]1631417[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    You're not the only one. They didn't just leave the game to die, they drove it into the ground with big hammers.
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    <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" /> I remember in the last days of the beta, knowing it was very much undone. But they released it anyway.
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