Microsoft Allegience
noelephant
Join Date: 2003-02-13 Member: 13518Members
Join Date: 2003-02-13 Member: 13518Members
in Off-Topic
I was wondering how many of you still play Allegiance. (It was discussed quite some time ago on these forums.)
I know some of you still do! I was playing Allegiance yesterday and someone on my team proposed resigning. Someone replied, "F4!" :-D
I just started playing it recently - it has gotten quite a bit of publicity as of late and they have a great newbie server up and running.
For those of you that aren’t familiar with it, it is a FPS / RTS game set in space. Your team collects resources and you fly fighters, scouts, capital ships, etc. (www.Alleg.net)
I know some of you still do! I was playing Allegiance yesterday and someone on my team proposed resigning. Someone replied, "F4!" :-D
I just started playing it recently - it has gotten quite a bit of publicity as of late and they have a great newbie server up and running.
For those of you that aren’t familiar with it, it is a FPS / RTS game set in space. Your team collects resources and you fly fighters, scouts, capital ships, etc. (www.Alleg.net)
Comments
*Edit* Note for Demiguise
The guys over at Free Allegiance implemented a new authentication system to keep out disruptive players. In order to play you have to sign up with a user name / password.
A bit of information on the topic can be found here.
<a href='http://www.freeallegiance.org/login.shtml/' target='_blank'>http://www.freeallegiance.org/login.shtml/</a>
F4! F4! <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I used to ply, but i cant connect to any Texas servers which are the ones that they play
DON'T... GO... TO... THEIR... LINKED... MANUAL...
ARG MY EYES...
They burn!!!!
As do I. Man, that thing was insane sometimes...I remember once having a HUGE 3 full bomber(15 people) with a 23 fighter escort squadron. We all worked together, and made it "The Final Stand" We went STRAIGHT at their main, and obliterated it, wholly. Not to say it was easy...but it was incredible. We need to start just playing randomly, together, all of us <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I can't play it online because my firewall is stupid. I'm working to rectify that. I've been playing the "explore tech" training a lot, and can't wait to play it properly <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
They're screenshots <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I downloaded about a zillon things, registered an account. Now I have like a billion methods of connecting (ASGS, SVCLogin, SVCRoute, or something like that...), but either way, going to 'FREE GAMES' asks me for my callsign, then says I need to login. What the hell? No wonder no one played this stupid thing. You can't even launch the 7th training mission.
I downloaded about a zillon things, registered an account. Now I have like a billion methods of connecting (ASGS, SVCLogin, SVCRoute, or something like that...), but either way, going to 'FREE GAMES' asks me for my callsign, then says I need to login. What the hell? No wonder no one played this stupid thing. You can't even launch the 7th training mission. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->New to Allegiance? Click on the <a href='http://www.freeallegiance.org/login.shtml/' target='_blank'>Play</a> button above<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
If you don't read the documentation, you can't get into the game. Probably unintentional, but it certainly gets you to read the manual <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I fell for i completely, and even met a fellow NS:er, uranium-235. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Tried it again after reading this thread, and still didn't like it because I was stuck using the same keyboard and mouse. While I <i>really</i> like the concepts and ideas used in the game, I just can't get into it because my lack of joystick completely ruins the playability. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Tried it again after reading this thread, and still didn't like it because I was stuck using the same keyboard and mouse. While I <i>really</i> like the concepts and ideas used in the game, I just can't get into it because my lack of joystick completely ruins the playability. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
You oughta try getting really good at commander. That only requires a mouse <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Few things I've seen them work on:
Getting a consistent stats server back up.
Getting a Tool to customize the hud.
Provide a easier way to model things for the game.
And generally think about Allegiance 2(which will be in dev once their satisfied with alleg 1)
<3